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The Samoan Werewolf, Jacob Fatu, has risen to the top of the independent wrestling scene. His growth has led to his emergence as the face of Major League Wrestling. If his last name is familiar, it should be. He is the son of Sam Fatu, who competed as The Tonga Kid or Fatu during his time in the WWF. And he was trained by his uncle, WWE Hall of Famer, Rikishi (real name Junior Fatu). This lineage means he is also related to many members of the Anoa’i family, including The Usos and Roman Reigns from WWE. As a talent…

On Sunday, April 30th, Smash Wrestling presents Put Up or Shut Up from the London Music Hall in London, Ontario. With eight matches slated to take place as part of back-to-back series of shows, Smash is ready to reload and push forward in 2023. With internationally trained talent, Smash Wrestling Championship title, a tag team, four corners, and homegrown talent competing, this show looks to be one to remember. Smash Wrestling Presents Put Up or Shut Up Puma King vs. Carter Mason In a battle between an international talent and a homegrown one, Puma King battles the King of the…

Before a visionary faced an established phenomenal talent, we had two men who didn’t cross paths before making a statement over a decade ago. The match took place on April 28th, 2006, in Muscatine, IA, at an NWA No Limits show. AJ Styles and Seth Rollins (then competing as Tyler Black) took place against one another for the first time. The two men facing each other were current WWE champion AJ Styles and former WWE champion Seth Rollins. We should mention that this match was before there was a ‘Seth Rollins;’ at the time he went under the moniker of…

On Saturday, April 29th, Smash Wrestling presents Live Laugh Lariat from the Franklin Horner Community Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. On the first of two back-to-back shows, Smash Wrestling once again proves to be why it’s one of the hottest promotions on the Canadian independent wrestling scene. Smash Wrestling Presents Live Laugh Lariat Jay Freddie vs. ‘The Driver” Joe DeMaro These two will battle on the first of two nights of action as Smash Wrestling present back to back shows in Toronto and the following night in London. Freddie, who resides in Watertown, New York is a 15-year veteran of…

Everyone has a past. For Dexter Lumis, his past is as much shrouded in who he was as it is who he is and has become. The rather haunting and frightening nature of Lumis appears to be an assembly of the character Dexter Morgan from the television show of the same name and Dr. Loomis that was as integral a part of the Halloween films as Michael Myers himself. However, to know who he is today in NXT, it is crucial to retrace the journey of Lumis and how he is emerging from the ashes of Samuel Shaw. A former…

On April 2nd, 1989 the NWA presented Clash of the Champions VI: Ragin Cajun. The event took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. While the event wasn’t particularly long by pay-per-view standards in the modern era this show was a little over two hours in length. However, one match actually went 60 minutes in length in an astounding two out of three falls. It would pit the World Champion, Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat against the former champion, the ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair. Before the match took place it featured how only a few months earlier, Steamboat would defeat Flair to capture…

The Samoan Dynasty dates back generations. From the origins of Afa and Sika, the Wild Samoans, a number have sat and grown from beneath the learning tree of these two brothers. As the years passed and their sons and nephews had successful careers, only one generation has risen head and shoulders above the rest of the family. With Roman Reigns leading them, The Bloodline has been a focal point of the WWE for nearly three years. But with every great story told, it must have a beginning. On August 23rd, 2020, WWE Universal Champion Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman were…

The title suggests master, as the person with that name is greater than all others. In fact, many different minds hear that monicker and believe it was a strong male behind it. But what if we said that it was Alexandra Ford who was the one that walked with the monicker of master of wrestling behind her? The initial thought was, who is that? If the name Alexandra Ford doesn’t ring about, then the name of a twenty-plus-ring veteran and world-traveled Madison Eagles will. She first began her career training at the age of 17 for International Wrestling Australia in…

As a veteran of the ring for nearly two decades, Candice LeRae has risen steadily in the wrestling industry. She learned her craft while competing for San Bernadino, California’s Empire Wrestling Federation, and NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. During those early days in the promotion, she eventually managed to earn recognition in the area by facing industry veterans like Awesome Kong. As time went on, she got the opportunity to compete on the East Coast for promotions such as Ring of Honor and Insanity Pro Wrestling. Her time in Ring of Honor was brief since their division wasn’t as developed…

With a background in sports, Rhea Ripley had a background in training and strength development consisting of martial arts, rugby, and swimming to build her overall endurance. These qualities would become crucial in what Ripley would later use for her emerging professional wrestling career. That increased flexibility with the diversity in her training was telling about her future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFT-tL2Dtw Days of Demi Bennett Although fans in the WWE have come to know her as the inaugural NXT UK Women’s Champion, Rhea Ripley began to carve a path for herself as early as seventeen. As Demi Bennett, she first began…