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 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 3/10/19! Japanese Legendary Wrestler To Retire Next January In news that cut straight to mine and many other’s hearts. Jushin Thunder Liger announced this past week that he will be retiring from the squared circle next January after the NJPW Tokyo Dome show…

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As promised I have returned with the second preview of this weekend’s PROGRESS Wrestling weekender with this, the preview of Corrupted Harmony. Yesterday I posted a preview of Chapter 85 Progo.naut which is being held in Bournemouth, and you can find that preview right here. It has the makings of a great show and will have a knock on effect on the card for this chapter, as you’ll see below. This chapter emanates from Birmingham’s O2 Academy and is the first Birmingham show of the year. Now lets dive on into the card! Jody Fleisch vs DJZ I think this…

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PROGRESS Wrestling have a super busy this coming weekend as they’re holding two chapters in two different cities. Chapter 85 – Progro.naut, will be held in Bournemouth this Saturday (the first time the company has visited the south coast) and Sunday they will head back to Birmingham for the first time this year for Chapter 86 – Corrupted Harmony. But lets focus on Chapter 85, as I break down the card and give you the heads up on each and every match. Here we go! Session Moth Martina vs Millie McKenzie I’m pretty sure that these two had a fantastic…

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Welcome folks to the first ever Quick Hits! 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. That’s right highlights… 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. No negative Nelly’s here! This week it’s me, Mark…

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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), here’s Episode 3! Enjoy! Ben Basden vs Maverick Mayhew The former MMA student Basden versus the aerial threat of Mayhew. Both men are still young and very early on their pro wrestling journey. I have a feeling that…

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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 3/3/19! NXT UK Gains New Members Of The Roster Wednesday 27 February, WWE announced that they had formally signed five new wrestlers to join the NXT UK brand. The new additions are – Jay MelroseIlja RukoberOliver SauterJazzy GabertKay Lee Ray WWE.com posted this statement which contains…

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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 and Spring Break 2018 and the RIPTIDE Rumble2018. 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 three more events left before you’re all caught up! The time has flown by folks 🙂 I hope you’ve enjoyed reading them as much…

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Hello one and all, and welcome back to another quick glimpse of what’s to come next month over here in the UK in another edition of You Gotta Know! This is my monthly series where I give you all a heads up about the BIG British wrestling shows that are happening this month. There may be some companies listed here that you may not know, but if they’re on this list then you NEED to check them out. Enough waffling from me, let me tell you about what you GOTTA KNOW and should be looking out for in March 2019!…

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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), here’s Episode 3! Enjoy! The show begins with a very passionate and determined Rob Lynch backstage, talking about his career in the London Riots, how the actions of someone nearly cost him his career, and how 2019 will…

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Welcome one and all, to your weekly irrelevant round-up of the week’s 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 2/24/19! NJPW Announce Stars For UK Event Royal Quest At last month’s Wrestle Kingdom 13 mega show, it was announced that New Japan Pro Wrestling would be holding it’s first solo show in the UK. Royal Quest will be held on Aug 31…

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