Honestly, for the first time in a while, I’m not sure that it actually is an especially big week for pro wrestling. In fact, this week very much feels like the calm before the storm, with an awful lot of headlines ahead. Even still, we have some matches worth covering, including the 1-2 punch of […]
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The G1 Climax is one of the most wonderful times of the year, well… it usually is. This year’s G1 Climax wasn’t the best experience, to say the least. Reasons ranged from a lot of bloat in the list of participants, to some very questionable booking decisions. While the tournament itself wasn’t that enjoyable, the
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August 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc, a young Jamaican man who moved to the United States when he was 12, hosted a back to school party in the recreation room in his apartment building in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx, New York. There, Kool Herc laid the foundation of hip-hop. With disco being
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There came a time that when you thought about AEW, their focus on tag team wrestling was one of their most clear strengths. During the early days of the company’s existence, Matt and Nick Jackson made it clear that they wanted to have the best division in the world, and there certainly was a period
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STARDOM STARDOM had a packed week last week, holding three 5STAR Grand Prix show, and also the yearly STARDOMxSTARDOM PPV in Osaka on Sunday, with Megan Bayne challenging Tam Nakano. The first of the four shows happened in Kyoto on Tuesday, with four 5STAR Block Matches that all delivered on a high level. This show
Yep, you guessed it, another big week in pro wrestling. This past weekend, the G1 Climax concluded, with Tetsuya Naito rolling back the years for two epics in a row. Elsewhere, other tournaments rolled on, with Stardom’s 5STAR Grand Prix producing another hit while NOAH’s N1 Victory found one of its first. Meanwhile in Gotham,
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It’s that time of year again – New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) are once again the centre of the wrestling world as their prestigious G1 Climax tournament is well and truly underway. As of writing, we now know the talent that have qualified out of each block, and it’s certainly drawn a lot of questions
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The STARDOM 5STAR GP continued with two shows this past weekend. The first night in Ishikawa was main evented by Saori Anou and Maika, while the show on Sunday was main evented by Hazuki facing the World of STARODM Champion, Tam Nakano in a Red Block match. In the first 5STAR match of the weekend,
Another match guide, another newsworthy block of pro wrestling. The “biggest party of the summer” dominates this week’s headlines, with WWE’s SummerSlam being the promotion’s most divisive event since last year’s shift in regime. Elsewhere, Gedo makes his own mess, shocking the world with a controversial conclusion to the G1’s A Block. The best work
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When retelling the story of how WrestleMania came to be, WWE always presents themselves as the underdog. “The World Wrestling Federation struggled to get to where Vince McMahon wanted to be, but then he had a genius idea and saved wrestling.” There, I just saved you the two hours it would’ve taken for you to
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