Sunday April 24 saw New Japan complete a double header at Korakuen Hall, with another Road to Wrestling Dontaku card, headlined with another elimination match between the Bullet Club and the rest of New Japan.
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If you’re a fan of video games as well as wrestling, it is fair to say that the genre hasn’t always been well represented. In the early days of home consoles, wrestling games often featured sparse rosters and at worst were unplayable. The first wrestling game I owned was on the Nintendo Entertainment System and whilst it wasn’t licensed, it was perhaps one of the best I’ve ever played.
With the recent earthquake in Kumamoto forcing New Japan to cancel a pay-per-view later this week and shuffle some cards around, New Japan World brought us another Korakuen Hall event this past Saturday, as the Road to Wrestling Dontaku continued!
It feels way too soon to be doing another one of these “in memoriam” specials… last week, Jon Rechner – best known as Balls Mahoney in ECW – passed away at the age of 44. This week, we pay tribute by taking a look at some of his in-ring work.
We’re going back into the Demand-Progress.com catalogue for another show from the company’s past, with July 2014’s brilliantly-titled Thunderbastard.
Well, if I’m going to Brixton in September, I really ought to get up to speed with what PROGRESS is doing, right? And since I’m signed up to Demand-Progress.com, it’s probably time to start doing more than scanning through some shows.
With WrestleMania in the books, it time to go back to basics as we continue our search on the world wide web for the freely available gems of matches as WWE enters it’s annual downward post-WrestleMania spiral. This week, we return to the world of Memphis studio wrestling, and enter the Pacific North West scene for the first time!
We finally close out our reviews of WrestleMania weekend, with the PROGRESS Wrestling title match between Marty Scurll and Will Ospreay. This was held on Saturday April 2nd during the WrestleCon Super show, and was hosted by PROGRESS emcee Glen Joseph, who gets a sizable reaction for merely announcing the name of the company. So, without further ado: