Author: Mark Blake

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…

News! News! Get your news! Read all about it right here! Welcome one and all, to your weekly irrelevant round-up of the weeks hottest stories in pro wrestling, Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 6/9/19. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest and most interesting stories. And what a week it’s been! Chris Jericho Gives His Opinions On Headlining Double Or Nothing And Dominion The Painmaker took part in an NJPW press conference yesterday to promote his main event match against Kazuchika Okada at Dominion earlier today. He spoke in length about the history…

At today’s NJPW Dominion event, Japanese wrestling great KENTA (formerly Hideo Itami in WWE) debuted and inserted himself into the G1 Climax in a few weeks time. He was introduced into the arena by wrestling legend Katsuyori Shibata. It’s too soon to understand if there’s an alliance between the two. https://twitter.com/MrLARIATO/status/1137646822472802304 https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1137649492356808704 https://twitter.com/MrLARIATO/status/1137647490461818881 At the beginning of the year, it was announced by WWE that they releasing Itami. It was widely thought that he would return to his former home of Pro Wrestling NOAH where he made his name. WWE officials see NOAH as no competition to themselves In his…

Yesterday Jon Moxley sent a warning to all those in NJPW. After winning the IWGP United States Championship from Juice Robinson, he cut a backstage promo warning against anyone who wanted to challenge him for his title. He also thanks New Japan Pro Wrestling for giving him the chance to wrestle for them. And for giving him the freedom to wrestle as he sees fit: “First and foremost, I want to say thank you to New Japan Pro Wrestling. “Thank you for giving me this opportunity to come over here. thank you for welcoming me with open arms, making me…

Will Ospreay gave his opinion earlier today on the lack of Junior Heavyweights on the 6.9 Dominion poster and a lot-lot more. The poster featuring Chris Jericho vs Kazuchika Okada, Kota Ibushi vs Tetsuya Naito and Taichi vs Tomohiro Ishii, was bemoaned by Ospreay, the two time Battle Of The Super Juniors winner, for the lack of Juniors: “There isn’t a junior heavyweight on the poster, not even the champion. There’s two heavyweights on here that I’ve beaten, but no juniors. It’s time to rectify that. That’s why I’m moving to Japan, to give back. Some people have left—and fair play—take…

In the last hour PROGRESS Wrestling announced that Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling co-founder Meiko Satomura will challenge for the Women’s Championship at Chapter 95. The match will take place on September 15th at the world famous Alexander Palace. https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/status/1136336946903564289 This is huge news as the show will be Meiko’s PROGRESS Wrestling debut. And she’s been inserted into a championship match. Against who remains to be seen. Her reputation has come on in leaps and bounds in the past few years. From co-founding Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling to traveling the world in her 24-year career. Picking up titles in AAAW, Stardom,…

Welcome folks to this week’s Quick Hits Recapatory! Each and every week myself, co-editor Brandi Wagner and editor in chief Marc Madison will take turns on giving you loyal readers what we think are the highlights of the week’s WWE Raw and SmackDown Live. All of us here at Pro Wrestling Post believe that there’s enough negative attention drawn to the WWE and wrestling in general, all over the internet. And because of that, we will only be looking at the positives of the main WWE weekly programming. This week I, Mark Blake, will be stepping into the breach and…