Whilst the Western Wrestling World is focussed on next weekend’s WrestleMania, New Japan is building up to their own spring special, with April’s Invasion Attack event. As with pretty much every New Japan show, they have a road to get there… and Sunday March 27 was no different, as they returned to Korakuen Hall.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that it’s WrestleMania Season. In the past decade, WrestleMania Weekend has become something of a magnet for independent promotions to “piggyback” on the biggest show of the year.
It’s that time again, as we continue our search on the world wide web for the freely available gems of matches that can provide a quick distraction from what the WWE is currently churning out. This time, we take a look at two women’s matches, some comic book wrestling, and something from the early days of a promotion that seems to be perpetually at death’s door.
Seeing as we’re about to take a few days off for a short break in Spain, now is as good a time as any to take a look back at one of WWE’s attempts to break into the Spanish-speaking market, with a short-lived show called Super Astros.
It’s been too long since I saw a British show live. Not counting WWE or TNA shows, it’s been almost nine years since my last show… Sunday afternoon saw that run come to an end, after I swapped nine British pounds for a standing ticket at PROGRESS Wrestling’s ENDVR 15 show.
Saturday night saw the WWE hold another Network-special, with a house show in Toronto being turned into their first-ever “Roadblock” event. With WrestleMania three weeks away, it was intended to be nothing more than a distraction, but there was some hope going in that this would reshape WrestleMania. In the end, it was just another house show, with a pretty good main event.
New Japan wrapped up their 2016 New Japan Cup tournament on Saturday in Aomori, with a show that featured both sets of semi-finals and the tournament final, along with the usual variety of entertaining undercard bouts as the company set up their next big show – Invasion Attack – coming the week after WrestleMania.
It’s that time again, as we continue our search on the world wide web for the freely available gems of matches that can provide a quick distraction from what the current wrestling scene. This week, most of our action comes from the United Kingdom, featuring a British legend and a former TNA champion.