Browsing: Origins

We last left the newly introduced IWGP Intercontinental Championship belt with MVP who won a grueling tournament in America during…

Despite no longer being an active title, the lineage and prestige behind New Japan’s IWGP Intercontinental Championship, it might be…

Deathmatch Wrestling – The Dawn of the Ultra Violent Era. It’s not a stretch of the imagination to assume that…

Deathmatch Wrestling – An Extreme Revolution Emerges. Despite being formally gone for over 20 years, ECW is perhaps one of…

Deathmatch Wrestling –  The Birth of Bloodshed. Long before the days of pizza cutters and fluorescent light tubes were regular…

World Championship Wrestling Australia. Before it became a poor excuse to share photos of women in bikinis on social media,…

At NJPW’s The New Beginning, Hiroshi Tanahashi was challenged by the most unlikely of people: Kazuchika Okada. And when Okada…

When Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Kurt Angle to unify his championship with the IGF version of the belt, it marked an…

Tadao Yasuda’s first and only reign as IWGP Heavyweight Champion lasted a mere 48 days. On April 5th, 2002, he…

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) had one of its biggest paydays on April 29th, 1996. On that Tokyo Dome Showcard, company…