With New Japan heading into their next big show – Invasion Attack – the company continues with its tradition holding a multi-night tournament to crown a number one contender for their April event. In America, holding such a tournament over more than one show is destined to lead to trouble (just look at how successful TNA’s Bound For Glory Series’ were!), but the tournament format can help to build up an unexpected challenger in just a few shows.
Browsing: Reviews
It’s that time again, as we continue our search on the world wide web for alternatives to the current WWE product. This week, we’ll be changing tack and looking at a few random matches from the wide archives on the WWE Network.
Jake “The Snake” Roberts has had a storied career in wrestling. From his debut in Mid South Wrestling in the mid 70s, it’d be almost a decade later when “The Snake” started to become a household name, wrestling in the WWE, where he would become one of (if not) the greatest wrestlers never to win a single’s title in the company. However, he would also threaten to become just another of wrestling’s tragedies.
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 focus more on the fairer sex, and drop in on the early days of a future WWE diva.
Here on Back Body Drop, we’ve covered the offerings of the WWE Network and New Japan World (amongst others) for those who are looking online for non-pirated wrestling. Another option out there comes from Ring of Honor, who for the last few years have made their weekly television show available for free via their website.
Sunday night saw WWE complete their final pay-per-view before WrestleMania, with a Fast Lane pay-per-view that was notable for… very little, actually. The bookies (or at least, 888sport) had the results right in all-but-one match – and for someone notoriously awful at pay-per-view predictions, I came out 100% with my winners!
In most of the wrestling world, it’s extremely rare for promotions of any size to work together. New Japan seems to be the exception, as in January, they held four shows with the Mexican CMLL promotion, and this weekend they held two shows in Korakuen Hall in league with Ring of Honor.
It’s time for another break away from the current-day WWE product, this time looking at some of the freely available gems that are online. Whilst the in-ring product isn’t bad (and with the quality on the current roster, how can it?), the creative tied to those matches can often be deflating. So, to provide some variety, I’ll be trawling the internet and reviewing random matches from around the world (as opposed to entire shows).