Author: Mark Blake

Last Friday on the Figure Four Daily Podcast, Bryan Alvarez hosted former WCW, ECW, and WWE Superstar Lance Storm. In the interview, Lance spoke about how he has been interpreting the Bray Wyatt “Firefly Fun House” vignettes that have been airing for the past few weeks on WWE TV. Below is a small transcript of Alvarez and Storm’s conversation on the podcast. Remember that these are Lance’s own views – Lance Storm: “Correct me if I’m wrong, aren’t the writers making fun of Vince McMahon right in front of his nose with these segments? The Firefly Funhouse is the WWE.…

News! News! Get your news! Read all about it right here! Welcome one and all and happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! I hope you’ve all had a great relaxing day, and what better way to relax than to read your weekly irrelevant round-up of the weeks hottest stories in pro wrestling. Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 6/16/19. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest and most interesting stories – Lucha Bros Finished With Impact Wrestling First to kick off this Week in Review we an interesting development from…

Earlier this morning, New Japan Pro Wrestling officials announced the entrants and blocks for this years G1 Climax tournament. The hype video below shows the rather extravagant announcement – https://youtu.be/Y6dRpMveSNc Once again the tournament will be held under round robin conditions and will be kicked off in the United States (July 6, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX). The winner usually gets a shot at the IWGP Heavyweight champion at the Wrestle Kingdom event. Next year’s Wrestle Kingdom will be held over the 4 and 5 January next year. The matches will be announced tomorrow (which we will cover right here…

Add two more matches to the AEW vs CEO Fyter Fest later this month. SoCal Uncensored’s Christopher Daniels takes on Strong Hearts CIMA in one on one action. While Nyla Rose will take on Riho and Yuka Sakazaki in a triple threat match. The announcement of the women’s triple threat was revealed in this weeks AEW Road To Fyter Fest episode. All Elite Wrestling’s Chief Branding Officer Brandi Rhodes made the announcement. She said that Yuka and Riho have a craftiness and resilience to them while Nyla is a force they’ll have to survive – https://youtu.be/uEB9CUGMoeo Brandi also mentioned on…

It was reported yesterday that All Elite Wrestling’s next event, Fyter Fest, will air live and for free via the B/R Live platform. AEW’s Executive Vice President Cody Rhodes spoke to ComicBook.com about the reasoning behind airing the event on B/R Live instead of PPV. He pointed out that that this subject was a huge discussion in the company, but he’s thrilled that the show will be streamed for free. “I’m thrilled that we get to do it for free. That was such a huge discussion and I’m so excited. I mean Moxley’s first match in AEW for free. It’s great.…

At a press conference held yesterday, Alberto Del Patron (Del Rio) announced he will be heading a new promotion called Nacion Lucha Libre. Below is a video of the announcement. https://youtu.be/dDvzHzzpzAY The promotion will hold it’s debut event on Thursday, July 11 at Sala De Armas in Mexico City, Mexico. They have also secured a TV deal which will show the debut event and all future shows. They will be aired on the ImageTV network on Saturday nights at 10.30CST to midnight. The first episode (debut show) will air on Saturday, July 13. The poster below shows that former WWE…

A few days ago I wrote about Will Ospreay and the apparent lack of respect that New Japan Pro Wrestling was giving to the Junior Heavyweight division. Well, it seems that Ospreay has upped the ante after winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship from Dragon Lee at Dominion this past Sunday. In his post-match interview, Will declared that his first defense of the title will be against Robbie Eagles at NJPW Southern Showdown in Australia later this month, but that wasn’t all. He declared that he wanted to take part in this years G1 Climax tournament. https://youtu.be/ZEREUR7raL0 “I said from…

On the latest Being The Elite episode, Cody Rhodes, the All Elite Wrestling Executive Vice President, announced the ticket prices and seating chart for this August’s All Out event. He also spoke about the issues regarding ticket sales with past AEW events (All In and Double Or Nothing). Acknowledging the past problems, he wanted to reassure fans that things are different now. The company wants to make sure that the fans have all the information needed ahead of the ticket release. https://youtu.be/-0n-bsYNcFk “Ladies and gentlemen, August 31. Chicago. Sears Centre. The building where it all began. AEW presents All Out,…

This past weekend one of the UK’s brightest talents suffered a severe back injury at an event in the United Kingdom. While wrestling for Pro Wrestling EVE at their “She Rules” event, Loxton took a nasty bump in her match against Nightshade. It was enough for the referee to call a halt to the match as trainers rushed the ring to determine the severity of the injury. Sierra herself tweeted on Sunday saying she was to undergo a CT scan on her back: https://twitter.com/SierraLoxton/status/1137524499757391872 She then followed this tweet up with the results of her CT scan: https://twitter.com/SierraLoxton/status/1137840820298665984 It’s all…

New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Super J Cup returns this August, it was announced today. With three shows taking place in the United States for the very first time in it’s history. Japanese wrestling legend Jushin Thunder Liger himself made the announcement. Talent taking place will come from New Japan Pro Wrestling, Ring Of Honor, CMLL and other companies to be announced. https://youtu.be/PLRt0FouRrs Liger – who created the Super J Cup tournament back in 1994 – will produce this year’s event and made these comments: “I am honored to be the producer of ‘Super J-Cup 2019’. The excitement from Best of…