Game Changer Wrestling announced last week that they would be launching an “Indie Wrestling Hall Of Fame” in collaboration with the Orange Crush brand. Three inductees have already been announced: Jerry Lynn, Homicide, and Ruckus. These are three very good nominees to start things off, and I only expect the class to get better from…
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Here’s Match Madness: All the best wrestling from the month of July, from WWE’s Money in the Bank, to NJPW hitting the Tokyo Dome, to the biggest Dragon Gate show of the year and everything in between. WWE Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens (7/2) Generico vs. Steen was one of the pre-eminent indie rivalries in…
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June was all about that newsworthy Utami Hayashishita vs. Syuri match from STARDOM. Other notable events included DDT/TJPW/NOAH’s joint CyberFight Festival, NJPW Dominion, WWE Hell in a Cell, the conclusion of DRAGON GATE’s King of Gate tournament, and the coronation of a new AJPW Triple Crown champion. In Match Madness, I rate them all! WWE…
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Highlights from May included Will Ospreay’s sole IWGP World Heavyweight Championship defense, a fantastic AEW pay-per-view in Double or Nothing, a shockingly spectacular tag match out of Australia, the finals of the AJPW Champion Carnival, and so much more. WWE .@WWECesaro takes to the sky!!!#WMBacklash #UniversalTitle @WWERomanReigns @HeymanHustle pic.twitter.com/RB9S75ixz1 — WWE (@WWE) May 17, 2021…
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The two current hubs for professional wrestling around the world, the United States and Japan, moved in opposite directions in March. While American wrestling took a mild step back with WWE’s incompetent WrestleMania build and the worst AEW pay-per-view so far in Revolution, it seems that every other promotion in Japan knocked it out of…
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NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day, NJPW Castle Attack, and NOAH’s return to Nippon Budokan were February’s most anticipated shows, and while each of them featured fantastic matches, there was a world of great wrestling beyond those three events. In this month’s Match Madness, I break down the month of February and share with you the best…
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Bookended by NJPW Wrestle Kingdom at the start and the WWE Royal Rumble at the end, January is always an exciting month for wrestling fans. But there’s far more great wrestling out there beyond those two events. In this month’s Match Madness, I go through all the best wrestling from January 2021. WWE Safe to…
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This is the last of our 2020 awards. On Monday, we kicked off our awards with the 2020 Fight Game Media Boxing Awards. On Tuesday, we posted our 2020 Fight Game Media MMA Awards. Our pro wrestling awards are dedicated to Jon Huber, aka Brodie Lee. The Panel Duan Greally: Longtime Fight Game Media contributor…
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Coming out of DragonGate’s The Final Gate show this past Sunday in Fukuoka, wrestling pundits have focused on the haphazard finish in the main event Open The Dream Gate title match. The inadvertent elbow from Shun Skywalker that knocked Ben-K unconscious deserves scrutiny. However, the mistake should not be the sole focus of what otherwise…
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On December 20th, in the Fukuoka Kokusai Center, the landscape of DragonGate Pro-Wrestling will change when The Final Gate opens in Fukuoka. As 2020 has fundamentally changed the world, the year also shifted the Kobe-based promotion in various ways as the company heads into its final show of the year. DrangonGate’s fast-paced, high-intensity cards have…
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