Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
IMPACT No Surrender 2022 is in the books. The night was eventful as a new number one contender was crowned for the X-Division Title, and Miranda Alize returned to IMPACT to answer an open challenge from Deonna Purrazzo. Two stories stand out from the rest, however. No Surrender 2022 was a night of betrayal in […] READ MORE
The “Forbidden Door” has been slammed open quite a couple of times now and this week was a good sign of that. Jay White made his in-ring debut for IMPACT Wrestling and Hiroshi Tanahashi appeared via pre-taped promo in AEW Dynamite to announce he’ll challenge for the IWGP U.S. title soon in the space of […] READ MORE
In the past year, one of the teams to have come up in the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) heavyweight tag scene is the team of Zack Sabre Jr and Taichi. Both are part of the Suzuki-Gun faction and began teaming at the start of 2020. The team, better known as Dangerous Tekkers, became IWGP […] READ MORE
New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) is set to embark on their second tour of Australia. The tour begins this Saturday in Melbourne with Southern Showdown before then heading to Sydney on Sunday. Unlike their previous tour, this weekends tour is being treated as a full-fledged NJPW main roster tour. Saturday’s event emanating from Festival Hall […] READ MORE
Three years ago, on May 22, 2016, Cody Rhodes (then portraying Stardust) was granted his release from the WWE after ten years in the company. And since then, the man known as Cody has simply changed the wrestling business forever. In just three days, All Elite Wrestling will have their first ever show, Double or Nothing which […] READ MORE
Every May 3rd, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) holds it’s annual Wrestling Dontaku, an event that began in 1993. While it was inconsistent in its first decade (running from 1993 through 1995, then again in 2000 and 2001), it’s been an annual tradition since 2009. Dontaku is a Japanese word for “holiday”, taken from the Dutch word “Zondag”, […] READ MORE
On May 3, 2013, five years ago today, at Wrestling Dontaku 2013, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, “The Real Rock N Rolla” Prince Devitt, and his bouncer, “The Underboss” Bad Luck Fale, entered the ring following a match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Karl Anderson, which Tanahashi had won. The duo attacked Tanahashi and were quickly joined in […] READ MORE
The North American expansion of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) continues with a trip to the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California on March 25. Last July’s G1 In USA event was a big success with an attendance of over 2,000 but the company can and will do much bigger numbers in the future. NJPW did […] READ MORE
In a year that’s seen the ROH Bullet Club chapter (and Being The Elite cast) claim all the gold and the headlines in both ROH and NJPW, the Japanese chapter struck gold today at NJPW’s Road To Tokyo Dome event in Tokyo when Bad Luck Fale and the Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) […] READ MORE
Compiled by Jamie Greer; rankings voted on by full LWOPW staff, plus guest panelist Dave Dynasty of “The Dave Dynasty Show” We conclude our look at the best 100 tag teams of the past year with the 1st annual Last Word on Pro Wrestling Hot Tag 100, looking at numbers 24 down to 1. For […] READ MORE
Jamie Greer joined LWOPW in 2015 and was the site's Managing Editor from 2016 through 2020. After handing over ME duties to Alex Richards, he remains a frequent contributor to the site. He's also written for Pro Wrestling Illustrated, WrestleZone, The Windsor Star, and other publications. He lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, with his wife and son.