Welcome to the 2025 WrestlePurists Awards, our annual tradition where we celebrate the very best of the last 12 months of professional wrestling. This year marks our fourth set of awards as we combine the opinions of fans and input from wrestling media outlets to recognise those who stood out in 2025. How Are The […]
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Welcome to the fourth edition of the WrestlePurists Annual Awards! These awards celebrate the very best that professional wrestling has offered in 2025. The winners will be determined by a combination of votes from wrestling media, critics, and most importantly, you the fans. 🗳️ How to Vote:Voting is now open! You can find the polls
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What happens when you have everything and it isn’t enough? At its core, pro wrestling is a simple game. It’s about competing for championships, for money, and for fame. Of course, as we watch it play out on-screen, it’s much more complicated as characters develop and chase individual goals, but when it’s all broken down,
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On August 17, 2024, Dream Star Fighting Marigold announced that Seri Yamaoka had joined the promotion as a trainee and would make her in-ring debut at Marigold First Dream on January 3, 2025. At just 17 years old, Yamaoka entered the scene with an impressive freestyle amateur wrestling background, having placed second in the 54
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Pro-Wrestling: EVE is one of the most successful promotions in the UK and beyond with regards to its spotlight on female talent and focus on high-quality in-ring competition. In an industry that has for so long been male-dominated and centred on a certain kind of individual as the target audience, it is promotions like EVE
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The dust seems to have finally settled on what was a divisive reaction to Konosuke Takeshita’s 2025 G1 Climax victory. Whether it was his Ring of Honor World Championship match against Bandido, his match against Kenny Omega for the AEW International Championship, or his many clashes over the NEVER Openweight Championship, 2025 has certainly been
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On September 7th, 2024, Jon Moxley brought an uncomfortable level of violence to AEW. It wasn’t a flaming table, a barbed wire bat, or any other of wrestling’s usual extremities, but one of the most squirm-inducing moments saw one Blackpool Combat Club member betray another with nothing more than a plastic bag in hand. Ambushed
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STARDOM is presenting its biggest show of the year, All Star Grand Queendom 2025, on April 27 in the legendary Yokohama Arena, which marks the promotion’s second show there after 2023. The show is headlined by the major Career vs. Career match for the World of Stardom Championship between Saya Kamitani and Tam Nakano, as
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Ryogoku Sumo Hall, home to many previous G1 Climax finals, and now Sakura Genesis. On the last stop before Windy City Riot and Wrestling Dontaku, New Japan’s finest battled it out, with six championship matches among the contested bouts. Following Junior Genesis in Korakuen Hall the night before, the main card had to follow what
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Beyond its imperfections, it is truly remarkable that AEW even exists. For a certain generation of fans, the idea of the emergence of a true alternative, or dare I say competition, to WWE seemed impossible, and it is now simply the reality we live in. Beyond all the tremendous wrestling they’ve put on over the
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