Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of substitute Graps and Claps, Andrew Gibney here filling in for The Man with the Massive Clap, Andy Ogden, as FutureShock Wrestling moves down from the Guild Hall to Stockport Town Hall for Uproar 105. In true Graps and Claps fashion, and not like the last time when […]

Ah, a PROGRESS Sunday. The perfect combination of wrestling, Travelodges and overpriced but delicious Domino’s pizza. Sounds great on paper, and it normally is – but this time Network Rail had decided to inform Transport for Wales that their maintenance work would overrun and all trains would subsequently be cancelled, conveniently five minutes before my […]

The wrestling world is a complicated place right now. There is more product that probably ever before, and with so much of it available at the click of a button, it can be an absolute nightmare to keep up with sometimes. In fact, I currently have a backlog of about 5 shows I need to get […]

It started off as merely an experiment, Excalibur said during his opening monologue. A group of southern California wrestlers decided to scrounge up some money to put on a small indie show in 2003. They called it Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Nearly 16 years later, PWG hosted its 200th show, Two Hundred, leaving a trail of […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps taking me to the nation’s Capital of London and the New Cross district to be exact to see Tidal Wrestling’s return to London after 6 years away. This very much felt like a football away day going to support your local team 200 miles […]

Hello and welcome back to the Fantabulous Adventures of #GrimsbyGraps. Friday March 1st saw British Wrestling Revolution’s return to Cleethorpes Memorial Hall for No Gods No Masters 2. It’s already been a year since BWR’s debut here – a genuinely impressive show in which they booked WWE UK champion Pete Dunne and Jimmy Havoc in […]

One year ago, I ventured down to London for my very first independent wrestling show. Now being a PROGRESS regular, it’s fair to say that Chapter 64 exceeded all expectations and made a cracking first impression, despite a flying baking tray colliding with my forehead during the Thunderbastard match – I never seem to leave […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps taking me this time to Prestwich once again for Futureshock Wrestling Underground 31 to see the appearance of former WWE star and current Dragon Gate kingpin PAC as he was set to take on one of Futureshocks standouts in the form of Soner Dursun […]

Hello and welcome once again to Graps and Claps, this time taking me on a short trip to Leeds for Tidal Championship Wrestling’s 2nd show of the year and the first in Leeds in 2019 at The Temple of Boom. Setting off on the 415pm train drinking two cans of cheap Doombar which our Geoff […]

Hello and welcome to another edition of Graps and Naps this time taking in the first of PCW’s five shows of the weekend in Pryzm nightclub in Leeds. After picking @oggypart3 up from his and my former place of work Castle Greyskull, it was off to Rochdale for the train. I had a Shepherd Neame […]

On February 17th OTT headed to the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght for Homecoming 2. We’ve got Devlin vs Starr to decide who gets Walter, the Lads From The Flats & Martina are facing KOTN in a steel cage, Will Ospreay is back, and Andrew Everett is making his long awaited debut. Plus many more incredible […]

Hello and welcome to this edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me to Blackpool for PCW’s Road to Glory weekender with what was advertised of being two tournaments taking place with the Singles on Saturday and the Tag Team tournament on the Sunday. However, in a change to the advertised schedule there was […]

Welcome back to #GrimsbyGraps! If you missed my article recapping British Wrestling Revolution (BWR) since October, I recommend you check it out. It explains everything that has happened in the last six months, including why Friday night’s show at Lucarly’s was called King of the Underground Redux. Spoiler: there was another King of the Underground […]

High Stakes was the first York Hall show for Rev-Pro of 2019, and it had sold out extremely quickly due to the announcement of PAC vs Will Ospreay. However aside from this dream match, the card was maybe a bit weak, with notable absences from David Starr and any NJPW talent. Josh Bodom defeated Angelico […]

Watching via the new Fight Club: Pro subscription service Unlimited on Vimeo, Wrestle House 2019 opens quickly with the announcer in the ring and we’re straight into the first match as Omari takes on Conor Mills. I’ve been impressed with what I’ve seen from both young men in the past, so I’m keen to see […]

It is not often I want to be up and about at 7am on a Sunday in February but it is not often that my local promotion TCW are running a show out of town in Newcastle, one of my absolute favourite Cities. So to Newcastle it was getting on an 8:30 train from Leeds Station, […]

It’s been a while since we last journeyed into the unexpected hotbed of British professional wrestling: Grimsby and Cleethorpes. British Wrestling Revolution (BWR) held its first show in July 2017 and have built its foundation on local stars, drip-feeding in talent from around the country, production values some prominent promotions on the scene should envy, […]

Liverpoolʼs TNT Extreme Wrestling has always had a strong fanbase. Every show theyʼve ran, no matter the names listed on the card, has always had a strong turnout at their usual home at the Fusion Nightclub. Thatʼs because the fans know that they are going to witness a fantastic (and some times bloody) Thursday nightʼs […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me across the Pennines once again to Sheffield for Breed Pro Wrestling’s debut show taking place at The Abbeydale Picture House, located around a 20/25-minute walk from the Train Station. A very early start for me, deciding to leave my dad […]

OTT was back in Belfast on February 3rd, for Unfinished Business. As always the card is stacked. KOTN are looking for redemption on Ringkampf, Jordan Devlin is looking to continue his winning streak, and Thatcher and Davis have the rematch everyone has been waiting for. So let’s get into the action. More Than Hype (LJ […]

Project Tokyo opens with Humito Kihara addressing the fans in English and Japanese, this crowd is probably 50/50 natives and foreigners flocking about Tokyo on Wrestle Kingdom week, Martin Zaki, FCP Owner comes to the ring accompanied by FCP Champion, Meiko Satomura. Zaki basically is thanking the fans for coming and runs through the card, […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps this time taking me on a short journey to the Piccadilly area of Manchester for Futureshock Wrestling’s Tapped III event at the Fairfield Social Club for what will be in the first in a line of special Wednesday night events which seems a regular […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps, bringing you a review of Fight Club Pro’s first show of 2019 entitled ‘Wrestlehouse’ emanating from The Hangar in Wolverhampton. After finishing work at Noon, it was a relatively early start to make the trip down, but a short delay was had on the […]

Hi everybody and welcome to another edition of Graps and Naps this time taking in Wrestlepro’s Next gen cup show and also in the interests of journalism some pubs on the way. 1st port of call and to meet up with fellow Graps and Claps contributor Andy Campbell was the Beatnixz brewery tap in the […]

This was the much anticipated debut show for new promotion ‘Wrestle Gate Pro’, founded by new promoter Gary Ward, previously in the wrestling business but behind the camera rather than the curtain. As in rather obvious from the name, Gary has said many times that his wrestling preference is heavily influenced by Japanese wrestling, Dragon […]

Well, isn’t this a throwback? I’ve not been to a family-friendly show at Grimsby Auditorium in nearly two decades, since the days of Brian Dixon’s All-Star Wrestling running the venue what seemed like four times a year. Back then I saw wrestlers such as David Flair, a Scotty Too Hotty lookalike named Too Hotty Scotty […]

Dragon Gate had a weekender at Kobe Sambo Hall, the main point of the weekend was the Ashiyanikki Cup 6 Man Tag Team Tournament, round 1 would take place between 6 teams on the 26th with the 3 winners progressing to the finals on the Sunday. The winners would get err.. beef curry or something I […]

OTT were back in the Ringside Club, Dublin, on January 20th. This time with Contenders 13. The card is stacked, so let’s get into the action. Steve Carvel & Curtis Murray vs Club Tropicana (Aiden Epic & Captain Sexsea) With Jose Idle Kicking off Contenders 13 we have Curtis Murray and Steven Carvel taking on […]

Hello and welcome everyone, once again to Graps and Claps this time travelling to Hindley for the first time this year for Grand Pro Wrestling ‘Back with a Bang’ with very much a card full of new and established stars in the land of Hindley Graps with the debut of Lucas Steel who has been […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me to Stockport for the first time this year for Futureshock Wrestling’s final show at the Stockport Masonic Guild Hall after well over 15 years of action. Tonight’s show was to be headlined by the big heavyweight clash between Futureshock Champion […]

It had been common knowledge for some time, but PWG veteran Trevor Lee made it official mid-January he was heading to WWE. So PWG’s first event of 2019, Hand of Doom, would also be Lee’s farewell show. A big deal given Lee’s tenure in PWG. Who stood as not just the most consistent heel of […]

Dragon Gate held its first show Korakuen show of the year today, that featured 7 matches, 3 of which were singles contest. The main event being special for the return of Shuji Kondo to the company for the first time in over 14 years, it also finished the 3rd place decision match and the final […]

Hello and welcome everyone to Graps and Claps first trip of 2019 taking me to the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds for RISE Wrestling and their big Rumble spectacular. Now this is my return to see RISE, after a successful viewing of their product back in 2018 for the Ascent Tournament and I think what […]

38,162 fans packed into the Tokyo Dome to watch Wrestle Kingdom 13 live, it was broadcast on NJ World and Fite TV. The event was co-main evented by Chris Jericho vs Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship and Kenny Omega vs Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the only championship not defended was […]

Guess who’s back? Back again. Well im not slim, but im just as shady it’s the second times a charm edition of graps and naps giving @oggypart3 a well earned rest. (And he was working so couldn’t review any pubs). This edition takes us to the not so sunny climbs of Prestwich, Manchester for Futureshock […]

Hello and welcome to another edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me for the final time this year to Camden for Progress Wrestling’s ‘Unboxing 3’ bringing an end to another year where I have reached over 100 shows ending on the total of 102 (two less than last year, but still probably too […]

Hello and welcome to another edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me to Preston for the first time in 4 months for PCW’s year end show entitled ‘End Game’ emanating from Evoque Nightclub due to a venue change from the Guild Hall because of staff shortages. Arriving in Preston for 2pm, me and […]

Pro Wrestling NOAH held ‘Great Voyage in Yokohama’ in front of 2,145 fans, and was shown on the 22.12.2018 on G+. It featured four title matches, the return of Doug Williams to NOAH for the first time in a decade, and main evented by Global League 2018 winner, Kaito Kiyomiya versus the reigning GHC Heavyweight […]

CHIKARA and Beyond have been going up against each other all year. Beyond’s Cam Zamgami won Chikara’s Young Lion Cup and refused to defend it anywhere but Beyond, making it Beyond -1 Chikara-0. Then came Clan Feuds where CHIKARA’s best battled against Beyond’s best in a best of five series. CHIKARA won that 3 to 2 […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps bringing you a review of Tidal Wrestling’s final show of 2018 ‘Silent Nightmare 5 – Night Terrors’ emanating from The Temple of Boom in Leeds. Starting off on a cold Sunday morning in Rochdale, me and our Geoff decided whilst we had an hour […]

All Japan held their annual Tag league over the course of November and December this year, beginning in the Korakuen Hall and ending in the venue on the 19th day of block competition in front of a packed house of over 1,700 spectators on the 11/December. Violence Giants, Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa, entered as last […]

So this time 12 months ago, we were all freezing our bits off watching a weather-emasculated card. Fortunately, a year later there’s about as much sign of snow as there is of Jack Sexsmith’s push. Prior to the show WALTER completely kills kayfabe by getting out of the same cab as Shigehiro Irie. They could at least have dropped […]

Hello and welcome everyone to the edition of Graps bringing you a rundown of what went down on a big northern weekender for Progress wrestling in Manchester and Sheffield respectively with two sold out crowds in attendance and also on paper some absolute corking matches it was hoped to provide a great end to 2018 […]

This was my 2nd visit to the Hydro with my first one being in 2016. Having followed ICW for a few years the reboot of the product in the last 14 months got me to head to Glasgow having enjoyed some of the recent developments of the product and the rise of Jackie Polo to […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps, which was supposed to take me on a trip to Bolton for PCW but due to the venue where it was taking place forgot to fill in some very important paperwork thus meaning they couldn’t run the wrestling on Friday night, my plans changed […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps, this time bringing you a visit to what was supposed to be the last ever ‘Tuesday Night Graps’ presented by IPW UK at the Frog and Bucket due to incidents with talcum powder and some of the things happening in the ring that didn’t […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps taking me to Show number 93 of the year in the town named after NXT superstar Keith Lee – Keighley for NGW Collision Course which was my 2nd time watching the promotion this year after an excellent show at Pudsey in February. Now this […]

So as I entered the Portsmouth Guildhall for my 1st ever Rev-Pro show I noticed the merch stands to my left, full with Rev-Pro apparel and NJPW gear. It is so easy to spend so much money at these shows but I kept mine locked tight in my pocket until the obvious arrival of “THE […]

Hello, I always like to say at the beginning of these that I have remembered everything to the best of my ability but I may get the odd bits wrong. On Saturday I ventured over to Low Moor in Bradford for True Grit Wrestling at Low Moor Club. My last trek to True Grit was […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me once again to dirty Leeds for Tidal Wrestling’s second to last show this year at The Temple of Boom, with the return of reigning champion Sugar Dunkerton being the hot topic of conversation in among what pants a certain Mr.Brady […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps. With Andy Ogden knee deep in a vegan curry over in Leeds, I’ve stepped in to take over at the Stockport Masonic Guildhall for FutureShock Uproar 103. As a cold wind swept through the North West, it’s lucky this was the hottest ticket in […]

Game Changer Wrestling kicked off a big wrestling weekend by making its debut in Southern California, providing fans with an entirely different spectacle than they were sure to see the following nights. While a GCW show itself would have sufficed in accomplishing that goal, a step further was taken by establishing it as the fourth […]

A stacked card marks PROGRESS Wrestling’s return up north to Manchester for the first time since May, this time returning to its usual home-from-home in the form of the O2 Ritz – only a two- and-a-half hour journey from my home in North Wales as opposed to the four hours that lies between me and […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me on a short journey to Manchester for PROGRESS Wrestling Chapter 78 ’24 Hour Progress People’ from the Ritz in the first time since a banging show in February at the same venue and the first time since the big Victoria […]

Another four-hour journey down south from a little village in North Wales to the nation’s capital saw my fifth PROGRESS Wrestling show at the Electric Ballroom in Camden. Having somehow scored a pair of front row tickets on less-than-ideal Premier Inn Wi-Fi the day after Wembley, the level of excitement was a tad higher than […]

As Sir David Frost once said “hello, good evening and welcome” to the very 1st edition of Graps and Naps with your host Me the other Ogden brother Geoff. Whilst our Andy was winging his way down to Camden for PROGRESS Wrestling, my wallet was on fumes whilst waiting for payday. Especially after the utter […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me to Camden for PROGRESS Wrestling’s Chapter 77 ‘Pumpkin Spice Progress with the huge main event between PROGRESS champion Walter and the SSS16 Winner for 2018 – Zack Sabre Jr. which was a mouth watering prospect on paper and one I […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me on the monthly jaunt to Hindley for Grand Pro Wrestling and their ‘Friday Night Thriller’ show with the Main Event for the GPW Heavyweight Championship between the Champion Joey Hayes and Liverpool’s No.1 Zack Gibson. Arriving in Hindley for 6 […]

OTT headed to the National Stadium in Dublin on the 13th October. The card is stacked and the main event if going to be epic. Let’s just get straight into it. Scramble Match: OTT Gender Neutral Champion LJ Cleary vs Paddy M, Rocky Romero, Gino ‘Mr Juicy’ Gambino & Raven Creed Kicking off the OTT […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps this time taking me to Leeds once again for a double dose of Tidal Wrestling with the first show being a first time ever type show over here in ‘Grounded’ which was an all no-rope card of all things, so it was to be […]

Another stacked PWG event — and lo and behold, another show which will not soon be forgotten. Likely one match in particular. It is a testament to PWG that only a month after Battle of Los Angeles, not only was another event booked, but an event as stacked as this one. It is also true […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps taking me on a short trip to Prestwich for Futureshock Wrestling’s Underground 29 on a surprisingly sunny October evening. As ever with this blog, the day started a couple of hours earlier visiting the local drinking establishments along the way, which meant a trip […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps, this time taking me to the Brixton Recreation Centre for Rev Pro’s big Global Wars UK show with the main event rematch for the Undisputed British Heavyweight between Minoru Suzuki and Tomohiro Ishii (a proper 2 dads in a car park match). Early start […]

On September 30th, OTT headed to the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin, for a ‘fan appreciation night’. Free beer and pizza, and a stacked wrestling card… You know it’s going to be a good night. Let’s get right into the action. Club Tropicana (Captain Sexsea & Aidan Epic) vs Rough Stuff (Paul Scarfe & CT Flexor) […]

Hello and welcome everyone for a better late than never review of Fight Club Pro’s Project Mayhem Night One and Two which took place on the 28th & 29th September respectively in Wolverhampton, so let’s get into what went down by going through the matches first, then onto the beer and toilets, then the end! […]

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Graps and Claps this time taking on a trip to the biggest show of the English wrestling scene as Progress Wrestling took to Wembley for Chapter 76 ‘Hello Wembley’ in front of a crowd of 4750 at Wembley Arena. Now yours truly might have not been fortunate […]

Hello and welcome everyone to part 2 of this week’s wrestling cavalcade, this time taking me once again to The Frog and Bucket Comedy Club for IPW Tuesday Night Graps for the Hard as Fuck clash sponsored by Fiery Jack between Timothy Thatcher and Chris Ridgeway. As ever with a trip to the Frog and […]

Hello and welcome everyone to the first of 5 editions of Graps and Claps this week, taking me this time on a short trip to Manchester for Futureshock Wrestling’s return to the Fairfield Social Club for Tapped 2 with the main event of our boy Ashton Smith taking on the unstoppable force of Pete Dunne […]

September 16th OTT headed to the Europa Hotel in Belfast. Yet another stacked card, and some seriously great bookings. I imagine this is going to be one hell of a show. Sammy D vs Scotty Davis Kicking off Live in Belfast 2 we have SNAKEY Sammy D vs Scotty Davis. The match starts with the […]

I’m lucky enough to be in a situation where I can afford to travel abroad to watch wrestling. It began 10 years ago with a trip to Orlando for WrestleMania 24. This year I decided to combine a weekend break in Europe with a wrestling show in a different country. My choice was was White […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps taking me this time on a midweek journey to Leeds for Tidal Wrestling’s Flabbergasted where the premise of the show’s matches were all a bit of a mystery apart from one mixed tag team match where the combatants had been announced. Taking the packed […]

The 2018 Battle of Los Angeles was on its way to arguably being the best BOLA in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla’s history. Night 1 and Night 2 before it were two all-time great BOLA shows. It was not just one or two matches that fans could not stop reminiscing about — discussing and dissecting bests and […]

Hello and welcome everyone once again to Graps and Claps, this time taking me on a short trip to Stockport for Futureshock Wrestling Uproar 102 taking place at the Masonic Guildhall. Arriving into Stockport at 3 p.m I made my way to the regular haunt of The Petersgate Tap to meet up with the Graps […]

Hello and welcome everyone to another edition of Graps and Claps taking me on another journey to deepest darkest Hindley for GPW ‘Thunderbrawl’ on a surprisingly sunny Friday evening given the wet weather we have had all week in the North West. Sadly for me not a lot of pub crawling on this evening due […]

Traditionally, Night 2 of the Battle of Los Angeles often results in the best night of the three-day tournament. Night 1 has already passed, creating a foundation for all the performers to propel themselves from, since PWG wrestlers are always in competition with each other to have the best match. And Night 3, wrestlers are […]

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla’s annual Battle of Los Angeles is the main event show fans await all year long. Part WrestleMania, part World Cup — every year PWG’s single elimination, three-day tournament is not only the biggest show of the year, but often host to some of the year’s best matches and most eclectic lineups a […]

Hello and welcome back to Graps and Claps-ish. I’m here to talk about #GrimsbyGraps: British Wrestling Revolution’s Uprising 2 which took place at Cleethorpes Memorial Hall last Friday. As we know in the reporting world, today’s results of yesterday’s shows are tomorrow’s statistics on CAGEMATCH.DE so what does that make something from a week ago? Unfortunately […]

From Markthalle – Hamburg, Germany wXw World Tag Team Champions Monster Consulting vs Jay FK  Jay FK would attack Avalanche and Nero on the entrance ramp prior to the match with Skillet taking his shots at Avalanche despite being deeply afraid of him. Jay FK did an excellent job as the coward weasel heels, taking advantage […]

Day 1 Hallo und wilkommen to this special International edition of Graps and Claps taking yours truly on a trip to Hamburg, Germany for Night 1 of WXW’s Fan Appreciation Night and also the bonus of a midnight PROGRESS wrestling show which on paper sounds like bloody hard work and a case of trying to […]

ZERO HOUR SoCal Uncensored (Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) vs The Briscoes A white hot crowd at the Sears Center added a ton to this match, giving a definitive babyface backing to SCU while being very anti-Briscoe. I wasn’t too sure how that dynamic would work, but kudos to the work done on Being The Elite […]

On August 19th OTT headed to Ringside Club in Dublin for Contenders 11 ‘the hangover show 2’. Yet again it’s a stacked card, and now doubt these matches are going to be incredible. *SPOILERS AHEAD* Before the show begins Jordan Devlin makes his way to the ring, minus the OTT Championship belt. The crowd applaud […]

OTT is at The Arena, Dublin for Wrestlerama 2. The card is stacked, and some surprise returns show up and join in the fun. OTT always brings the hype, so let’s stop wasting time introducing everything, and get to the action. *SPOILERS * obviously. Session Moth Martina & Paddy Morrow vs Rough Stuff (Paul Scarfe […]

The idea of reviewing wrestling events I’ve attended over the past 28 years has always appealed to me, but there’s one major stumbling block to this: I have the worst memory of just about any human walking the face of the earth. That might sound hyperbolic but it effects everything I do, from missing loved […]

Like any movie trilogy, there has got to be an end and here we are folks for Part 3 of PCW’s 7th Anniversary weekender which ended on the evening of Saturday 18th August in front of a good sized crowd, which was promising given that Futureshock and ROH were all running big events that night […]

Hello and welcome everyone to Part 2 of the PCW 7th Anniversary weekender this time moving to Preston from Blackpool via a 20 minute train ride. Leaving the Ruskin hotel at 930 am and after  search for our Geoff’s coat which he had left in the cabaret room the night before luckily enough the good […]

Hello and welcome everyone to a jam packed edition of Graps and Claps focusing on PCW’s 7th Anniversary celebrations in Blackpool and Preston respectively, with a total of 3 shows expect this to be a long and winding road that has probably taken up most of my Sunday afternoon to type whilst stuffing my face […]

The decision from PCW and FutureShock to hold anniversary shows on the same night gave your regular correspondent, Andrew Ogden, a decision to make. With his massive hands deciding to head to Preston, he needed someone to report from Manchester as we needed to make sure both shows got their deserved place in the spotlight. […]

After a 2 week break away from writing about wrestling, Graps and Claps comes back with a bang with a rare Wednesday visit to Leeds for Tidal Wrestling’s ‘Addicted to bad ideas’ emanating from The Temple of Boom. Tidal this year since the move to the Temple has been consistently producing some of the best […]

A 19 day tour for the G1 Climax reached it’s end today as Block A winner, the Ace of the Universe, Hiroshi Tanahashi faced off against the Golden Star, Kota Ibushi. 12,112 people came out to Nippon Budokan to see who would be crowned the G1 Climax 28 winner and would hold the right to […]

Day 2 at the Nippon Budokan is headlined by the meeting of the Golden Lover’s in singles action, Omega vs Ibushi and Naito must defeat ZSJ to have a chance to make the final of the G1. Today was around double yesterday’s attendance with 12,023 reported to be in the crowd. David Finlay & Michael […]

As explained in last week’s entry for Match of the Week, Tomohiro Ishii has a legitimate claim to being one of the best wrestlers in the world right now. He has been outstanding in this year’s G1 Climax, having taken part in arguably the two best matches of the tournament so far against Hirooki Goto […]

The first of three shows from the legendary Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, 6,180 reported in attendance. Today saw Block A being determined with White, Tanahashi and Okada still in the running. Jay White would have needed to beat EVIL and Okada to beat Tanahashi. Tanahashi held the most control, only needing a draw against Okada […]

Kota Ibushi and Tomohiro Ishii are two of the most enigmatic wrestlers in the industry. Their paths to the top have been uniquely atypical, especially in the context of Japanese wrestling culture. This, along with the fact that both have a genuine claim to be up there with the best wrestlers in the world, has […]

The last night of the Osaka weekender at Edion Arena saw the return of A Block action, headlined by Okada and EVIL who met last year in this building with EVIL beating then champion Okada. CHAOS (SHO & Tomohiro Ishii) defeat Juice Robinson & Shota Umino Los Ingobernables de Japon (SANADA & Tetsuya Naito) defeat […]

Chikara is a special wrestling promotion. It has an absurd cast of wacky character that makes it a blast to watch but that isn’t all Chikara is about. It tends to get typecast as just a silly wrestling promotion where time stands still and Ice Cream Cones hold the tag team titles. Chikara is much […]

Live on NJPW World from  EDION Arena Osaka with a reported attendance of 5,500. Block A returns tomorrow but it’s B Block here, headlined by Naito vs Ibushi. BULLET CLUB OG (Bad Luck Fale & Tanga Loa) defeat CHAOS (SHO & YOSHI-HASHI) Suzuki-gun (El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki) defeat BULLET CLUB ELITE (Chase Owens & […]

The business end of the G1 starts now with a combined 6 days of block action left before the final of this years tournament takes place at the Budokan. Today’s show is headlined by Kota Ibushi, in his home area vs Hirooki Goto in Kagoshima Arena. BCOGs (Bad Luck Fale & Tanga Loa) def. Michael […]

NJPW are in Takamatsu City for Night 11 as G1 Climax reaches it’s closing stages, 3 more rounds of matches in A Block after tonight, which is headlined my Okada and Elgin. David Finlay & Juice Robinson def. Shota Umino & Toa Henare Tanga Loa & Tama Tonga def. SHO & Tomohiro Ishii SANADA & […]

Hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Graps and Claps this time taking you on a trip to deepest, darkest Salford for Wrestlepro which is a training ground/feeder promotion at the moment for Futureshock Wrestling providing a handful of wrestlers over the last few months on their shows from Alex Boylin, Callum Corrie, Rizwan […]