Author: Mark Blake
I'm a lifelong wrestling fan, announcer and commentator that lives and breathes the wrestling industry. And I am lucky enough to express my thoughts and feelings....RIGHT HERE.... at Pro Wrestling Post!
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. Raw Best Bits Advancing The Mania Main Event Storyline (Part 1) -…
IPW Inside Take with Mark Blake 3/22/19
Welcome to you all! Once again I give to you the Pro Wrestling Post IPW Inside Take with yours truly! As always I am reviewing the IPW:UK show that is featured on The Fight Network UK. It is shown each and every Friday at 9 PM. Now the intro is done, let’s crack on with a great show! Enjoy! Anti Fun Police vs Myles Kayman & The OJMO This is the first match for Deputy Chief Dunne and Los Federales Santos Jr since they lost the IPW Tag Team championship. With Cadet Joe Nelson outside and the crowd behind them,…
New! News! 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. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest, strangest, and most interesting stories. So kick back, put your feet up and feast your eyes on this week’s Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review for 3/24/19! Bully Ray On Why Johnny Gargano Should Be “Double Parked” On NXT On his Busted Open Radio Show earlier this week, WWE & Impact Wrestling Hall Of Famer Bubba Ray spoke openly…
This is it folks, my last ever RIPTIDE Wrestling RETROspective With this event, Deep Six 2019, you are all caught up with the happenings down at The Brighthelm Centre in Brighton. It has honestly been a pleasure looking back at their humble beginnings and charting their insane rise as one of Britain’s very top promotions. Never fear! Just because my RETROspective series with RIPTIDE will be finished, it doesn’t mean that I will stop following their work here at Pro Wrestling Post. Oh no no no! Each and every new show going forward will be covered in full, by…
IPW Inside Take with Mark Blake 3/15/19
Hello, Bonjour, Gutentag, and welcome to all as once again I give to you the Pro Wrestling Post IPW Inside Take with yours truly! As always I am reviewing the IPW:UK show that is featured on The Fight Network UK each and every Friday at 9 PM, and as you know the deets (as the cool kids are saying, so I’m told), let’s crack on with a great show! Enjoy! Stixx vs Rob Lynch If this match wasn’t an advertisement for British Big Boi wrestling then I don’t know what is! This was a really good heavyweight match here made…
Wrestling with Mental Health
Last year I wrote a very personal piece about myself and a battle with mental health. Those that know me, know that I don’t like to talk about my personal life but my wife told me that I needed to let the world know how wrestling helped me in the days after my brother’s death. Over the past few months I’ve seen people get bashed online for saying how wrestling helped their mental health during their personal dark times. Narrow minded individuals saying things like “how can a fake sport help out mental health problems, you know it’s fake right”…
Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 3/17/19
Welcome one and all, to your weekly irrelevant round up of the weeks hottest stories in pro wrestling. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest, strangest, and most interesting stories. So kick back, put your feet up and feast your eyes on this week’s Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 3/17/19! Cody Talks More About The AEW/AAA Partnership At last night’s AAA King Of Kings event in Puebla, Mexico, AEW Executive VP and roster member Cody (don’t call him Rhodes) appeared. He spoke in length about what he wants to happen between the…
Hello again and welcome to another edition of The RIPTIDE Wrestling RETROspective, with me, Mark Blake. Those of you that have followed this series will know that so far I have covered The Storm, Black Water 2017, Deep Six 2018, Spring Break 2018, and the RIPTIDE Rumble 2018. The latest has been nights one and two of the Brighton Championship Tournament. Right now, you’re reading the Night Three of the Brighton Championship Tournament. An epic conclusion to three nights of amazing wrestling. We’re getting to the end of my RIPTIDE Retrospective run here at Pro Wrestling Post. After this piece,…
Hello and welcome to the Pro Wrestling Post preview of Fight Club: Pro’s next event, the aptly named International Tekkers! This event takes place tomorrow night, Friday March 15 at the home from home The Hanger in Wolverhampton. As always with a Fight Club event, the card is stacked top to bottom with some amazing talent. So lets take a closer look at this years International Tekkers! CIMA vs Chris Brookes OOOOOOO! I can’t wait for this match. This is giving me feels already! CIMA is a legend in the Far East. He was one of the Dragon Gate originals…
Hello again and welcome to another edition of The RIPTIDE Wrestling RETROspective, with me, Mark Blake. Those of you that have followed this series will know that so far I have covered The Storm, Black Water 2017, Deep Six 2018, Spring Break 2018, RIPTIDE Rumble 2018, and the first night of the Brighton Championship. You can catch up by clicking the links above to read those reviews. We’re getting to the end of my RIPTIDE Retrospective run here at Pro Wrestling Post. After this piece, I will have two more events left before you’re all caught up! The time has flown by folks I hope…