We’re halfway through the year, and my word, what a six months it’s been. January started off with a bang in more ways than one, and in spite of a flat WrestleMania, the first half of 2016 has produced plenty of memorable moments and matches.
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During the interval of this past Monday’s house show, New Japan unveiled the twenty participants for this year’s G1 Climax – and raised several eyebrows in the process.
Last week’s Raw saw WWE enter scarily unfamiliar territory – pulling their lowest rating in almost twenty years. The 2.03 rating was narrowly higher than the 1.9 that WWE drew in February 1997, for a taped episode of Raw from Berlin, Germany – and whilst the excuse of “it was against the NBA finals” holds some water, at some point you have to look at the bigger picture – one that’s showing a longer-term decline.
It’s that time of year again. We’ve had the random promos of people atop ladders, and now it’s time for six of the best to re-learn how to climb up a ladder and grab a briefcase. This Sunday is Money In The Bank time!
Last week, WWE unveiled the names of those taking part in the inaugural Cruiserweight Classic – featuring guys who qualified courtesy of matches in EVOLVE, PROGRESS and Rev Pro Wrestling… and a few familiar faces to boot.
If a promotion has an anniversary and nobody’s around to notice it, did it really happen?
When I first started really following independent wrestling in 2004, the first promotion I started watching was Ring of Honor. Seeing my first show live in the front row (okay, next to the aisle), it was a night-and-day change from the WWE product that I’d been watching for over a decade by that point.
Amid a minefield of uncertainty over the future of what NXT will look like post-brand split, it’s almost time for something we can rely on: a great Takeover special!