WhatCulture Pro Wrestling held their first “supercard” via YouTube this past Monday night, with the “Built To Destroy” event. It also signaled the start of a series of changes behind the scenes in the promotion, not all of which were for the better.
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In one of our prior commentaries, we talked about one company that is leading the way in British wrestling – at least as far as having a television outlet goes. NGW’s got a weekly television show, produced and commentated on by Alex Shane. The former “Showstealer”, when he was an active wrestler. As for this show, taped as a part of NGW’s 8th anniversary event, is Alex going to steal it, or ruin it?
Six months on from their debut, PROGRESS moved onto their third show back at the Garage in Islington, as the story involving the babyface but conflicted El Ligero PROGRESSed (sorry!)
Running between 1995 and 1998, the television series Father Ted was a British sitcom about three Irish priests who lived together in a remote part of Ireland. Just on that premise, it’s not exactly the first television show you’d expect to be involved in a cross-over with wrestling.
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.
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…