18) Review

It’s time for wrestling’s tastiest feast and for me to exhaust myself trying to review it all. I haven’t even started yet, and I’m already behind. If 2000 Trees could not organise their festival at the same time as the G1 in the future, it would be appreciated. Anyway, cards on the table, I’m not going to be doing the undercard. It’s too much. I will, however, be reviewing all of the tournament so bookmark the site and come back. You can generally tell how I’m getting on by how unhinged I come across in the intro. Now, let’s stop dilly-dallying! It’s time for the G1 baby.

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16/07/2018 1

ROH Best In The World 2018 Review

Image result for roh best in the world photos — Our main event. Credit: ROH

Best In The World is an ambitious show name for Ring Of Honor. The days of ROH being a centre of wrestling excellence behind them and you’d struggle to bestow on this show with that title. However, even with their demise, it’s hard to think of a big ROH event that hasn’t delivered. Will this be that time? Let’s find out.

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04/07/2018 0

WWE UK Championship Tournament Night Two (19/6/18) Review

Zack Gibson's big moment has arrived. Liverpool's No. 1 knocked off four opponents en route to claiming the 2018 U.K. Championship Tournament and this U.K. Title Match against Pete Dunne. — Let’s get rowdy. Credit: WWE

Night two of WWE’s stint at Royal Albert Hall could be classed as the first ever episode of NXT UK. Although something tells me that the cards won’t be quite this stacked every week. On paper, it had the potential to make you feel all fuzzy inside. Let’s see if they succeeded.

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29/06/2018 0

Meltzer’s Classics: Manami Toyota vs Toshiyo Yamada, 15/8/92

Meltzer loved 90’s Joshi, didn’t he? We’re back in AJW where Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada are facing off for the IWA World Title with the added stipulation of it being a Hair vs Hair match. It was the blow-off to a long-running feud which grew out of the two having previously teamed together.

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26/06/2018 0

Wrestling Deserves A Chance To Tell Its Stories

At its best, wrestling is a perfect blend of physical excellence and inspired storytelling. It weaves two separate art forms together to create something that thrills and engages at the same time. It can survive with only one of them. PWG usually jettisons stories in the name of in-ring action while WWE is more focused on telling Vince’s tales than putting on five-star matches (even if it is often done poorly). However, at its peak, the two blend to create magic.

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25/06/2018 0

New Japan And The Art Of Subtlety

Moments like this are as important as a hundred V-Triggers. Credit: NJPW

The world of wrestling is one that the phrase over the top isn’t quite big enough for. It’s bright, shiny and packed with characters that would be mocked if you wrote them into any other universe. Take a second and try to imagine explaining Juice Robinson to someone who isn’t in the know? More than one person has compared it to drag, and while I can’t claim to be an expert, on the surface, the similarities are evident.

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22/06/2018 0

NJPW Kizuna Road (17/6/18) Review

Ishii does not respect you. Credit: NJPW

I’ve been going back and forth on reviewing this show as it is headlined by someone I believe to be scum. However, there is a solid undercard to blab about, so I’ve decided to go ahead with it. Just don’t expect me to focus on the piece of shit.

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20/06/2018 1

WWE Money In The Bank 2018

After sending Bálor and Kingston to the canvas below, Strowman unhooks the briefcase to win the match! — We’re going to be hearing the Monster In The Bank line a lot. Credit: WWE

Money In The Bank has become one of WWE’s better shows. A lousy ladder match is still an improvement on most things and even in the confusing storylines of WWE the briefcases add an element of enjoyable chaos. Will it be the show to help them break their recent run of mediocrity? I bloody hope so.

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19/06/2018 1

NXT TakeOver: Chicago 2018 Review

... and a breathtaking dive onto his nemesis! — Here’s… is that too obvious? Credit: WWE

I love a TakeOver. They’re never bad and are usually a hell of a lot better than good. NXT excels at delivering snappy shows that fly along on the back of fantastic wrestling. I wasn’t going to be the one to bet against their latest visit to Chicago doing the same.

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18/06/2018 1

wXw We Love Wrestling Tour: Hamburg (18/5/18) Review

Yup, it’s another horrendously late wXw review for your reading pleasure. This time we join that German lot in Hamburg where we got a rather tasty main event between WALTER and Zack Sabre Jr. In fact, this was one hell of a card. Let’s see if it lived up to that promise.

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