Author: Mark Blake

News! 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 3/31/19! Lucha Underground Lawsuits Settled I wrote a few months back that Lucha Undeground were being sued by five wrestlers on their roster in regards to restricitng them from working for other companies.…

Hey folks! What you’re reading right here is the first in a weekly series where I,”Smart” Mark Blake, will review every single PROGRESS Wrestling chapter. The cunningly called PROGRESS Prerogative! I will cover every chapter and every era in the history of the promotion. From the very first chapter to the very latest, all will be covered by yours truly over the coming months. Now with the intro out the way, let’s crack on with this very first piece all about Chapter One: In The Beginning. Sunday 25th March 2012 will go down not just in British wrestling history but…

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) -…

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…

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…

In 2018, I wrote a very personal piece about myself and a battle with mental health, and how I was wrestling 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…

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,…