Coming out of last Friday’s New Japan show, the biggest talking point I was expecting was the debate over how to rate the main event. Granted, at the time I said that the match was easily four stars, but was also below five. That’s just another way of saying “it was a great match”, however the weekend saw the emergence of an entirely different, and divisive train of thought: those who audibly voiced their displeasure at the style of the match itself.
Browsing: Will Ospreay
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but it’s time for some free wrestling goodness from the wide world of YouTube.
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:
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…
As a wrestling fan, one of my personal goals for this year has been to broaden my horizons away from the current-day WWE product. Whilst the in-ring product isn’t bad (and with the quality on the current roster, how can it?), the creative tied to those matches can often be deflating. So, to provide some variety, I’ll be trawling the internet and reviewing random matches from around the world (as opposed to entire shows).