Author: Mark Blake

News! News! Get your news! Read all about it right here! Welcome one and all to your weekly irrelevant round-up of the week’s hottest stories in pro wrestling. Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 9/15/19. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest and most interesting stories. Enough of me lets get into this week’s Week In Review! – WWE Announce Teams Shake-Up With the impending SmackDown move to FOX TV in less than a month, rumors are rife that the broadcast announce teams for RAW and SmackDown will be shaken up. The big rumor…

With NXT preparing to air live on the USA Network next Wednesday, more news about the third WWE brand is released on a daily basis. It was announced yesterday that at next year’s Royal Rumble weekend, held at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, there will be no NXT Takeover. Taking its place will be a Worlds Collide event. The big five WWE PPVs (Rumble, WrestleMania, Money In The Bank, SummerSlam & Survivor Series) have for the past few years, had an NXT Takeover event preceding it. No reason has been given for the change. Worlds Collide was held at…

In the last few hours, Revolution Pro Wrestling (Rev Pro) announced that they have “indefinitely severed ties” with one half of their British Tag Team Champions Josh Bodom. At last weekend’s Summer Sizzler event, an incident took place after a tag team match between Aussie Open and the British Tag Team Champions, Sha Samuels and Josh Bodom. The incident in question was the “botched” finish to the match. The referee, Aaren Wilde, counted the three count as Bodom’s shoulders were on the canvas and he didn’t kick out. Apparently this wasn’t the planned ending of the match, even though Aussie…

News! News! Get your news! Read all about it right here! Welcome one and all to your weekly irrelevant round-up of the week’s hottest stories in pro wrestling. Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 9/8/19. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest and most interesting stories. Enough of me lets get into this week’s Week In Review! – Impact/AXS Talks Resume? I wrote a few months back (click here to refresh your memory) that Impact Wrestling and AXS had given up on talk with each other. But according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, talks…

Over the past few years, New Japan Pro Wrestling has hosted quite a few events in the United Kingdom. All of them have been very successful. From last year’s Strong Style Evolved UK shows to last weekend’s Royal Quest, NJPW has a very significant presence in the United Kingdom. Combine that with its “Global Expansion” strategy that the company is aggressively pursuing, and you get the very strong possibility that New Japan could be building their very own region-specific dojo in the country. Tokyo Sports, one of Japan’s leading news daily newspapers, has reported that nothing is set in stone…

I reported yesterday (see yesterday’s Week In Review to find out more) that All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan held a press conference after their All Out PPV. Below are some more highlights of the press conference: Pyro scaring Pharoah, Cody’s Dog – “Pharaoh’s fine, but I would not do that again. Brandi was not thrilled with Cody. With pyro, I would not put Pharaoh in that situation again. I was not happy about it. By the way, we made sure the horse was well corralled and out of the building before the pyro went off”. Would LAX carry on…

News! News! Get your news! Read all about it right here! Welcome one and all to your weekly irrelevant round-up of the week’s hottest stories in pro wrestling. Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 9/1/19. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest and most interesting stories. Enough of me lets get into this week’s Week In Review! – AEW’s All Out Fallout All Elite Wrestling’s biggest show of the year so far All Out, took place last night. A brand new AEW World Heavyweight champion was crowned (read here for more details), and feuds/storylines…

Hello, one and all! Grab a chair and settle down while I talk you through this past weeks 205 Live with a main event of Oney Lorcan and Humberto Carillo! This week is all about finalizing the number one contender for Drew Gulak’s Cruiserweight title and setting up a possible Lucha House Party split. Enough faff from me, let’s get to it! As the show kicked off, 205 Live GM (and current 24/7 Champion) Drake Maverick is shown backstage talking to Oney Lorcan and Humberto Carillo. As both men hold a victory over Drew Gulak – via last week’s 10…

News! News! Get your news! Read all about it right here! Welcome one and all to your weekly irrelevant round-up of the week’s hottest stories in pro wrestling. Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 8/25/19. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest and most interesting stories. Enough of me lets get into this week’s Week In Review! – Ring Of Honor Heading Back Onto Cable? Ring Of Honor’s parent company, Sinclair Broadcasting, announced this week that they have purchased more than 20 regional cable sports channels from Disney. When Disney bought 20th Century Fox,…

Hello, one and all! Grab a chair and settle down while I talk you through this past weeks 205 Live and this week is a doozy! The whole show is dedicated to just one match. The biggest match in 205 Live history – a ten-man elimination tag match called the “Captain’s Challenge Ten-Man Tag Team Elimination Match”. Just rolls off the tongue don’t it? Now enough of the elocution lessons, let’s get on with the show! Captain’s Challenge Ten-Man Tag Team Elimination Match Oney Lorcan, Akira Tozawa, Jack Gallagher, Humberto Carillo & Isaiah “Swerve” Scott vs Cruiserweight Champion Drew Gulak,…