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!
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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:
WrestleMania weekend’s set of indy shows came to a climax on the Saturday evening, with a near-four hour long supershow called “Mercury Rising”. Featuring mostly talent from the earlier EVOLVE shows, there was also involvement from the SHINE and FIP promotions in a bid to make this the WWN’s version of WrestleMania.
After my last week was dominated by WWE and EVOLVE-esque shows, it’s about time we switched up the diet. New Japan’s Invasion Attack show earlier today came at the right time. As I missed this live, it was the turn of On-Demand viewing for this… and with the counter showing that this show weighed in at just under five hours, the obvious WrestleMania comparisons came into play. Would Invasion Attack be too long at four hours, and would they do anything that would make this show memorable?