WrestlePurists Awards are annual awards that have been made to highlight and recognise the very best that the Pro Wrestling World has to offer. We collected votes from Fans & Media, then we combined both %’s to work out the overall winner of each award. We also collected votes from Wrestlers for our “Wrestler’s Wrestler…
Kevin Owens has said that he was unsure last year if he wanted to continue his in-ring career. Kevin Owens eventually went on to re-sign with WWE in December 2021 and since then has had a very strong year which even involved a Main Event at Wrestlemania with none other than Stone Cold Steve Austin….
IMPACT Wrestling’s sales director and former legendary commentator Don West has unfortunately passed away today at the age of 59. West announced on June 16th, 2021, that he had been diagnosed a brain lymphoma and that treatment would begin immediately, however, it has now been confirmed that West has lost his battle with the disease….
Former X Division Champion, ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey has had quite the year in 2022, having numerous notable matches with those such as; KENTA, Will Ospreay, Konosuke Takeshita, and Jon Moxley. Most recently, Bailey would go almost 60 minutes vs Impact World Champion, Josh Alexander. Speedball would sign with Impact Wrestling in October of 2021, hot…
Earlier today the family of pro-wrestling legend Barry Windham shared the sad news that the WWE Hall of Famer had suffered a massive heart attack while traveling through the Atlanta airport on Friday night, and is now in the ICU after undergoing an emergency procedure. Mika Rotunda, the daughter of Windham’s brother-in-law Mike Rotunda and…
Nolan King of MMAJunkie recently reported that former two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez, currently out on $1 million bail after being charged with attempted murder, had requested to compete on AAA’s upcoming show in Tempe, Arizona, although this had initially been requested. King has now provided an update on the situation, reporting that Velasquez’s…
On Novermber 8th earlier this month, former two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez was granted $1 million bail and released the next day, after he was formally charged with one count of attempted first-degree murder, as well as several additional charges including one count of shooting at a motor vehicle, three counts of assault with…
There is an idea of a Maxwell Jacob Friedman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real MJF: only an entity, something illusory. And though he can hide his pain in his sneering, smug, shit-eating grin, and you can kiss the diamond ring on his hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you…
Billy Corgan has provided further insight about his booking strategies going forward for the NWA. NWA’s Hard Times 3, saw Tyrus emerge victorious as the new NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion in a three way match against Matt Cardona and Trevor Murdoch. Billy Corgan was a recent guest of Gerald Brisco and John Bradshaw Layfield on…
Last week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter contained a report noting that the owner of Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, Dorian Roldan, is in discussions over a potential show in the US with a good friend, although it was unknown at that time who Roldan was referring to. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter has now shed…