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.
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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.
Monday saw WWE pull the trigger on the brand split, with the announcement of a draft between Raw and SmackDown that’ll take place on the first live episode of SmackDown in four weeks’ time.
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!