One of the stand-out storylines from TNA this year – from a creative perspective, at least – has been the feud between the Hardy brothers. Going in, it’s easy to see how fans would have been cynical, given how badly their prior attempts at a feud bombed. But this time, it was different, and it was glorious.
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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.
Continuing our run-down of WrestleMania weekend shows, is EVOLVE’s show from last Saturday afternoon. Well, this one is almost a week in the making, since I’d been one of the many who’d encountered endless streaming issues that made this show utterly unwatchable. Now that WWN have been able to get the On-Demand version going, its time to see what I missed…
Hidden amongst the glut of independent shows across WrestleMania Weekend was the latest in SHIMMER’s events, as the all-womens group held a one-night tournament to crown its first ever Heart of SHIMMER champion. By the time their Saturday afternoon show ended, they’d also have a fairly high-profile new signing as well.
Independent group EVOLVE had the honour of hosting the first wrestling show on WrestleMania weekend, with a Friday evening event at Eddie Deen’s Ranch – a venue that the WWNlive promotions took over for the weekend. Fortunately, I’d ordered the live show plus the “on demand” offering for all of WWNlive’s events this weekend; as we’ll cover in another article, the group had a lot of issues streaming, leading to the group offering freebies as a make-good. So unless you were present at the ranch, the best way to catch this would have been on-demand, unless you like buffering…