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Wrestling Meccas is a series of features at Last Word on Pro Wrestling that looks at the history of some of professional wrestling’s most iconic venues, from large stadiums to small indie havens. This edition looks at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, New York, and its wrestling history from the original home of Monday Night […] READ MORE
Wrestling Meccas is a series of features at Last Word on Pro Wrestling that looks at the history of some of professional wrestling’s most iconic venues, from large stadiums to small indie havens. Today we head to the Chicago suburb of Rosemont to look at the Allstate Arena. The Allstate Arena is frequently home to […] READ MORE
Wrestling Meccas is a series of features at Last Word on Pro Wrestling that looks at the history of some of professional wrestling’s most iconic venues, from large stadiums to small indie havens. Today we travel to the Chicago suburbs to look at the Sears Centre. The Sears Centre is notorious for hosting the independent […] READ MORE
Wrestling Meccas is a series of features at Last Word on Pro Wrestling that looks at the history of some of professional wrestling’s most iconic venues, from large stadiums to small indie havens. Our second edition heads to Tokyo, Japan to look at what many consider the “Madison Square Garden of Japan”, the famed Kōrakuen […] READ MORE
Wrestling Meccas is a series of features at Last Word on Pro Wrestling that looks at the history of some of professional wrestling’s most iconic venues, from large stadiums to small indie havens. Our first edition kicks off with arguably the world’s most famous wrestling venue, New York City’s Madison Square Garden. When Cornelius Vanderbilt […] READ MORE
AEW All Out 2021 – scheduled at the NOW Arena, Illinois – brings another opportunity for the promotion to continue hitting the right notes; just as they have been doing lately. With Punk’s highly anticipated in-ring debut, a Steel Cage tag team title clash, MJF striving to end Jericho’s career, and a 21-Women Casino Battle […] READ MORE
Match Point is an ongoing series at Last Word on Pro Wrestling, where we look at intriguing matchups in indie wrestling and beyond. They may be dream matches, first-time matchups, or hotly anticipated rematches. This edition looks at AEW World Champion Kenny Omega vs Christian Cage at All Out 2021 this Sunday. All Out returns to […] READ MORE
Regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time by many, Bret “Hitman” Hart boasts a legendary career. From his professional debut in 1978 to his retirement from in-ring competition in 2000, “storied” doesn’t even begin to describe his legacy. Rewind to the summer of 1991, however, and it was easy to regard Hart […] READ MORE
A Brief History of WWE at Madison Square Garden WWE returns to Madison Square Garden for the first time in two years on Friday, September 10, 2021. The show, being called Friday Night Super SmackDown, will feature stars from both Smackdown and Raw, and is expected to be the final match of John Cena’s current […] READ MORE
While his name has been rightfully tarnished over the past decade, there’s simply no denying the monumental seismic shift in the landscape of pro wrestling that Hulk Hogan created with the rise of Hulkamania in the early 1980s. It originally started in the tail end of his run with the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and […] READ MORE