Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
Southern Pro Wrestling (SPW) returns this weekend with their annual stadium-sized event Southern Rumble. Whilst last year’s event relied heavily on the presence of Will Ospreay, Bea Priestly and Tenille Dashwood as the major draws for the event this year the event has a much more homegrown feel. The 2019 Southern Rumble will see SPW […] READ MORE
There is just under a month left until PROGRESS Wrestling returns to the United States for a six-city tour in August. It is the company’s largest U.S. tour to date, and it includes stops in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle and Chicago. In order to prep fans for what to expect, last week, PROGRESS […] READ MORE
Today on YouTube and through their Social Media, PROGRESS Wrestling announced plans for a PROGRESS Tag Team Series this summer, leading to a PROGRESS Tag Team Championship Thunderbastard match at their Hello Wembley! event at Wembley Arena in September. PROGRESS co-owner Jim Smallman made the announcement this afternoon. For those not familiar, a Thunderbastard match […] READ MORE
“Travis, our champion!” the PROGRESS Wrestling faithful chant, every time Travis Banks enters the ring and steals the show in the main event for the United Kingdom fans. Banks has been on a roll as the PROGRESS World champion ever since September,when he defeated Pete Dunne at the biggest show in the companies history. Now […] READ MORE
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Before we get going with the 50 Best Of 2017 I thought I would mention that there were several great trilogies this year (Keith Lee vs. Donovan Dijak and Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada for example), so I decided to put them together on the list to fit a better variety of top-level […] READ MORE
Compiled by Jamie Greer; rankings voted on by full LWOPW staff, plus guest panelist Dave Dynasty of “The Dave Dynasty Show” We continue 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 74 down to 50, the […] READ MORE
With SummerSlam weekend, NJPW‘s G1 Climax and WCPW‘s Pro Wrestling World Cup, there was no shortage of wrestling this month. In fact, this has been the best quality of wrestling all year, WrestleMania weekend included. The month started hot with EVOLVE weekend and kept getting better with shows like RevPro Summer Sizzler. Think of this list […] READ MORE
It’s arguably the most prestigious pro wrestling tournament on the independent circuit and one of the top 10 in the industry. California’s Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG)‘s Battle of Los Angeles, a certifiable litmus test of the gold standard of that year in the indie scene in North America. Many Superstars from the WWE earned their […] READ MORE
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) started the Battle Of Los Angeles tournament in 2005 and has had some winners become main event talents in other companies like Kenny Omega and El Generico (Sami Zayn). Some of the best matches of the year come from this tournament like Chris Hero (Kassius Ohno) having incredible matches two years […] READ MORE
The WWE is riding pretty high on the success of their invitational tournaments on the WWE Network. From last summer’s Cruiserweight Classic to this summer’s Mae Young Classic, both have garnered the company praise from around the world. Even if some of the competitors didn’t work out or get showcased as well after (like CWC […] 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.