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XWA/Pro Wrestling EVE Announce Card for “Equal Fights”

Two of the UK’s top indie promotions, X Wrestling Alliance (XWA) from London and Pro Wrestling EVE, regarded as the pioneer promotion for Women’s Wrestling in the UK, have announced the card for the Saturday February 17, 2018 co-production, Equal Fights, which pairs off UK indie stars, male and female, in intergender showcases. It will also feature a couple traditional wrestling matches as well. They announced the “random” pairings this afternoon on Twitter and feature some solid male veterans paired up against some of the top rising stars on the UK Women’s scene. Equal Fights is being held at the Resistance Gallery in Bethnal Green, London, England.

Photo: XWA/Pro Wrestling EVE

Starting out with British Empire Wrestling (BEW) in 2014, Nina Samuels saw her star on the rise last year, as she began to work with PROGRESS, RevPro, Preston City Wrestling and Ireland’s OTT, not to mention a regular with Pro Wrestling EVE. She was a participant in the recent tournament to crown RevPro’s inaugural British Women’s Champion. Kaitlin Diemond is just starting out on the British Women’s circuit, but don’t take that as meaning she’s coming in green. This Canadian brawler is a 12-year veteran who worked all over the Canadian indies, such as Smash Wrestling, LuchaTO, Great Canadian Wrestling and Pure Wrestling Alliance, as well as appearing for Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU).

Photo: XWA/Pro Wrestling EVE

As part of KOSS Industries with Malik, Kosta K is part of the current reigning Reloaded Championship Wrestling Alliance (RCWA) Tag Team Champions in the UK and has been a regular with the Knight family’s World Association of Wrestling (WAW) since 2014. Rocky Mac hails from Ireland, where he’s part of the Ward Family faction with Over The Top (OTT) Wrestling. Don’t worry if you don’t know what a “Word of Sport” Match means. While it probably refers to the Admiral-Lord Mountevans rules that traditional British wrestling on World of Sport wrestling went by, at least one of the participants wasn’t exactly sure.

https://twitter.com/RockyMacWD/status/956266562184450049

Photo: XWA/Pro Wrestling EVE

RevPro’s Lord Gideon Grey of the Legion of Lords comes into Equal Fights after a series of battles against Eddie Dennis, CCK and NJPW’s CHAOS. The RevPro original has been wrestling since 2013 and has also been a regular with XWA since 2014. Another newcomer, JAWSolyn is from the East Coast of the US and this Rhode Islander is best known as the mascot/valet for The Sea Stars (sisters Ashley & Delmi Vox) from CHIKARA, Queens of Combat and other indie promotions. She’s recently begun working on the British circuit as well.

Photo: XWA/Pro Wrestling EVE

They don’t come much rougher and tougher than Ireland’s Rhia O’Reilly, a 2x Pro Wrestling EVE Champion – both her reigns were at least 400 days long. O’Reilly only returned to the ring last month following a terrible injury all but wiped out her 2017 year. She’s also spent time in the North American indies, working with SHIMMER and SHINE. She’s faced some tough women in her day, including Manami Toyota, Shayna Baszler, Saraya Knight, Mickie James, Pollyanna, Candice LeRae, Allie, Kay Lee Ray, Nicole Matthews – she’s faced and beat the best. With the explosion of not only Women’s but British Wrestling since she’s been gone, O’Reilly will be looking to make 2018 her best yet. A product of the Knight family’s WAW Academy first in 2013, then onto IPW:UK in 2014 (where he teamed with a young Will Ospreay), Cara Noir originally began as Tom Dawkins. In early 2017, he adopted a new darker and flamboyant persona as Cara Noir, where he’s currently the reigning (and 2x) XWA British Heavyweight Champion.

Photo: XWA/Pro Wrestling EVE

Doug Williams is a veritable legend in British professional wrestling. A 24-year ring veteran, he got his start in the NWA Hammerlock promotion in the mid-90s. In 2003, he headed to Japan for a 6-year run with Pro Wrestling NOAH, before heading to North America to work with TNA/Impact Wrestling for another four years. All the while, wrestling for other indies like Germany’s wXw, Ring of Honor and PWG in the US, IPW:UK and other British indies. He’s had a bit of a well deserved resurgence the past few years, with WCPW (now Defiant Wrestling), ICW and recently starting with PROGRESS. But the former ROH Pure Champion and 2x Impact X-Division Champion has his hands full with one of the UK indie scene’s toughest firecrackers, Cambridge’s Charlie Morgan. Another student of the Knight family, trained by Saraya and a product of WAW, Morgan gained more exposure with a big 2017 when she wrestled for PROGRESS, RevPro and Southside Wrestling Entertainment (SWE), not to mention joining Pro Wrestling EVE.

Photo: XWA/Pro Wrestling EVE

In the main event, an hardcore legend and an iconic UK champion faces off against one of the brightest stars of the UK circuit of 2017. Jimmy Havoc is one of BritWres’ most engaging stories in history – his legendary tale of losing every match in PROGRESS before winning the PROGRESS World Championship and then holding onto it for 609 days is a thing of mythological proportions. Add in a 770-day run as IPW:UK World Champion, the current Defiant Tag Team Champion with Primate, and the 2017 CZW Tournament of Death winner (not to mention an international pedigree of brutality with such promotions as wXw, Smash Wrestling, ICW, SWE, MLW, OTT and more), you’d think that someone like 17-year old Mille McKenzie wouldn’t stand a chance. But this newcomer exploded at the end of 2017 and emerged as one of Britain’s top professional wrestling prospects and by year’s end was working with PROGRESS and RevPro, not to mention Pro Wrestling EVE. And don’t let her youth hide her intensity. She’s recently turned up a whole new aggression level and has become one of England’s fiercest suplex machines. This has all the potential in the world to being one of the darkhorse matches of the year.

https://twitter.com/JimmyHavoc/status/956270566545256448

Tickets are still available (and only 10 pounds!) and can be found here.

 

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