Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll have heard that WrestleMania weekend was host to a number of high quality matches – even if the event itself led to mixed feelings amongst fans. Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura. Will Ospreay vs. Zack Sabre Jr. Bayley vs. Asuka. – and that’s just three matches. But whilst they all were good matches that captivated the crowds, they were all missing one thing: clearly defined heels.
A lot has been said of TNA’s ongoing woes – hell, it’s been the story of their existence. From their very first show in 2002, there’s always been a millstone around the company’s neck: financial issues, controversy about recent hires (or firings), question marks over the company’s televisual future. Last week, news crept out about how TNA were relocating… to a warehouse?!
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.
The fabled Monday Night Wars changed a lot of things in wrestling. It led to the increased use of “hot-shots” – where a storyline that would have played out over the course of months is told in a matter of weeks. It led to the increase in pay-per-views across the board… and it also led to the assertion that “live matters”.
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?
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…
After the untimely passing of Kris Travis last week, Back Body Drop takes a look back at some of the matches that made him one of Britain’s hottest prospects.