Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
There are a lot of moving parts in New Japan Pro Wrestling right now after the NJPW Destruction Tour in September. Tetsuya Naito defeated Minoru Suzuki, the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship tournament started with KUSHIDA getting a victory over BUSHI, Kenny Omega retained the IWGP heavyweight championship against Tomohiro Ishii and Gedo turned his back on Kazuchika […] READ MORE
WWE has searched the globe the past few years and plucked names from such companies as Ring Of Honor (ROH), Impact Wrestling, EVOLVE, wXw, PROGRESS Wrestling, ICW, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), and Stardom, among others, to expand the NXT roster and WWE as a whole, from WWE Champion AJ Styles to newly crowned NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa. The NXT […] READ MORE
Every month, our own Dan Niles compiles his personal 20 Best Matches list from around the world, from North America to Europe to Japan. Some are obvious best matches choices, some are dark horses, but they’re always fun to find some matches you may have missed the previous month! (DISCLAIMER: This list is subjective and […] READ MORE
New Japan Pro Wrestling continues the expansion towards North America with the second G1 Special In USA, this time emanating from San Francisco at the legendary Cow Palace. The G1 Climax tournament is set to get under way this Summer in NJPW with twenty of the companies top stars but first this blockbuster event will […] READ MORE
New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced that A and Blocks for the G1 Climax 28 tournament after the competitors were set last week. The annual tournament is nineteen days long with a Round-Robin style format with a points system. Each Block has ten wrestlers each and the wrestlers with the most victories (points) advance to […] READ MORE
Every month, our own Dan Niles compiles his personal 20 Best Matches list from around the world, from North America to Europe to Japan. Some are obvious best matches choices, some are dark horses, but they’re always fun to find some matches you may have missed the previous month! (DISCLAIMER: This list is subjective and […] READ MORE
Of the course of the past year, Impact Wrestling has worked to create alliances with other promotions around the world. Similar to how WWE works with England’s PROGRESS, Scotland’s Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) and US super indie EVOLVE, Impact has forged alliances with Mexico’s AAA, US indies like DEFY, Wrestle Pro, Destiny and Border City […] READ MORE
Since 1994, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) has been home to one of the world’s most exciting tournaments, Best of the Super Juniors (BOSJ). It’s ranged from the 12-18 competitor range since its inception, but since 2014 it’s seemingly settled on 16 entrants, with this year’s edition following the same standard. While this year marks […] READ MORE
This past weekend at AAW Chaos Theory, “Super” ACH became the new AAW Heavyweight champion defeating Rey Fenix. Full of energy and with the crowd behind him, it’s finally ACH’s time to shine in the main event spotlight. After spending ten years on the Texas wrestling scene and then in companies like Ring Of Honor, “The Glow Of Texas” […] READ MORE
Another great offering from New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) on November 5th with most notably a Wrestle Kingdom worthy championship main event. Kota Ibushi had a fantastic run in this year’s G1 Climax tournament and would love nothing more than to become a champion again in NJPW. Ibushi has previously been the Junior Heavyweight champion but […] READ MORE