We’re back to the sparsely-attended warehouse in Newcastle for the fourth episode of the WhatCulture wrestling show, as we entered the “go-home” show for next week’s first special event.
Month: July 2016
Live from Hokkaido, the 26th G1 Climax is underway! With 91 tournament matches spread over 19 shows, the G1 is a notoriously tough tournament to compete in, and this year’s edition is expected to be no different, particularly for guys coming whose injury status is already questionable (cough Hiroshi Tanahashi cough).
Our latest #BACKFILL review looks at a show from over thirteen years ago, as we recap Insurrextion 2003. Held in June, this was one of the two annual UK-only pay-per-views that WWE used to run, back before they replaced it with bi-annual Raw and SmackDown tapings.
Can you believe it? They finally did it… the WWE’s long-rumoured wrestling show dedicated to cruiserweight wrestling (a term that, granted, is dated now, but let’s go with it) debuted this week. It’s no longer vaporware! So… what did we think of it?
This week on Random Reviews, we go back in the time machine to 1997, and find out some of the matches we’d have seen if we were only allowed to watch WCW Worldwide. Originally starting in the 70s, Worldwide was home to the infamous “Disney tapings”, where hours of content were taped in one evening, resulting in dead crowds by the end of it all. Let’s see what we’re in for here…
Three months after their debut, PROGRESS returned to The Garage in Islington, London for their second event, entitled “The March of PROGRESS”. Featuring an increased roster of 18 wrestlers (only four of which appeared on the first show), show two headlined with a best-of-three falls title match between Nathan Cruz and Marty Scurll, and also had the PROGRESS debut of a 19-year-old Will Ospreay.
A few weeks back, we reviewed the first show from the English promotion GOOD Wrestling. It took a while for their second show to emerge, after a late postponement, but their May event, entitled “2 GOOD 2 Glorious” is now up on YouTube, free for everyone to watch. So we did.
This past Sunday, Revolution Pro Wrestling held its annual “Summer Sizzler” spectacular, with a seven match card highlighted by the appearance of two of New Japan’s finest: Tomohiro Ishii and Katsuyori Shibata. We were there live, here’s our full review…