It’s been an eventful 2024 for wXw – one that featured three different holders of the Unified World Wrestling championship, the end of a faction, and the rise of another.
Of course, wXw isn’t a stat-heavy promotion – very little stock tends to be put into records, but as always it’s nice to take a medium-term look at how everyone’s 2024 played out.
Looking only at complete shows that were broadcast here (that is, not counting matches that were released from the We Love Wrestling town shows, or anything from the wXw Wrestling Academy or things like ComicCon and FiBo Köln expo shows), wXw used 121 wrestlers across 28 shows.
Kampfen und Siegen
You’d expect anyone in and around the title picture to have done well with wins and losses in 2024, and it’s no surprise who finished in the top five this year.
Despite losing the title at World Tag Team Festival, then a rematch at 24th Anniversary, Laurance Roman ended the year with 14 wins and 7 losses – just ahead of OSKAR’s, whose extra match ended in defeat with a 14-8 record. In OSKAR’s case, I do wonder how things would have been different had Yuto Nakashima not gotten injured early in the year, as half of those eight losses came with unfamiliar tag partners (one with Liam Slater in the AMBITION tag match, and three with Anita Vaughan as they were getting used to each other.)
Peter Tihanyi ended the year with the Unified World Wrestling title, and an impressive 13-5 record, with Aigle Blanc’s 12-4 and Levaniel’s 12-5 records rounding out the top five, just ahead of Axel Tischer, whose losing streak as part of KxS from World Tag Team Festival on dragged him to a 11-9 run.
Staring At The Lights
Among the wXw regulars, there’s two names who’d picked up double digit losses in 2024 – Nick Schreier, whose 6-11 run was bolstered by year-end wins over Sean Legacy and Rob Drake, along with that memorable ECW rules tag team win with Masato Tanaka. Alex Duke’s 4-10 run on the other hand, did come with a year-ending win over Bobby Gunns and Stephanie Maze and a singles win over Aaron Insane.
Elsewhere, Bobby Gunns’ recent change of attitude should arrest a slide that saw him end 2024 with nine losses and six wins, while a surprising number of people were at or around parity – with Robert Dreissker, Elijah Blum, Fast Time Moodo, Stephanie Maze and Maggot all being regulars with even (or near enough) win-loss records.
Imports
Of course, 16 Carat Gold and World Tag Team Festival bring in their fair share of travelling wrestlers – Shigehiro Irie’s runs this year saw him hit that near-even 6-5 record as he came close to regaining the Unified World Wrestling title… while 1 Called Manders’ runs in both festivals saw him do slightly better, ending with a 6-4 record. YOICHI was only in for the first few months of the year, ending 5-3 amid a brief rivalry with Elijah Blum, while Luke Jacobs and Gringo Loco ended the year with surprising losing records of 2-5.