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Nov. 30, 2024

WWE Survivor Series Live Coverage | Bloodline Vs. Bloodline

It's time for Survivor Series, which has now become the show in which WarGames happens. Sadly, there are no elimination style tag team matches which was the original gimmick for the event going back to 1987, but the WarGames theme has added interest…

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Nov. 28, 2024

A look back at Survivor Series 1989 | Survivor Series 1989 Review

John LaRocca and I put our special Thanksgiving episode of The Fight Game Podcast up for free on the F4W YouTube channel. We look back at the third ever Survivor Series with all of the information leading up to the show as well as the fallout and…

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Nov. 27, 2024

Were the Costco Guys a success for AEW?

Andrew Zarian, my co-host on We're Live, Pal, and I had a conversation about the Costco Guys; Big Boom AJ, Big Justice, and The Rizzler. They were featured on the Zero Hour at AEW Full Gear. Now that it's all said and done, how did they do and how…

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Nov. 26, 2024

Bronson Reed Vs. Seth Rollins Rematch Earns Match of the Week

In a week where I didn't watch quite as much wrestling as usual, it was the rare occasion where a WWE TV match won match of the week. It was an excellent episode of Monday Night RAW with 2 matches getting 4* or more from me on an episode that was ta…

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Nov. 25, 2024

2025 World Tag League update: It's an open field and anyone can win

After five days of action in the New Japan Pro Wrestling World Tag League, we’ve got a couple of interesting block races to watch along the way and the field is open for anyone to win it all. In the A Block, United Empire’s Jeff Cobb …

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Nov. 18, 2024

NJPW Strong Title match with Gabe Kidd Vs Kosei Fujita is our match of the week

In another busy week of pro wrestling, including catching up on some shows from previous weeks, a match from the the New Japan Fighting Spirit Unleashed show on November 8th topped my personal list of matches watched over the last week. The show too…

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Nov. 16, 2024

UFC 309 Live Coverage | Jones Vs. Miocic

We'll be covering the main card of UFC 309 from Madison Square Garden with Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic in the main event. You can watch our preview above. I'll be on Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Paul Fontaine after the show. …

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Nov. 15, 2024

Jake Paul Vs. Mike Tyson on Netflix Live Coverage

We're going to be live blogging tonight's main event on Fight Game Media. You can check out our live coverage of Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano, which is in a separate article.  Carlos Toro and I will discuss both fights tonight live after th…

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Nov. 15, 2024

Katie Taylor Vs. Amanda Serrano 2 Live Coverage

We're going to be live blogging tonight's semi-main event to the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight in a separate article from the main event. Carlos Toro and I will discuss both fights tonight live after the Netflix broadcast is over. Make sure you fo…

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Nov. 11, 2024

Moose Vs. Speedball Tops A Close Match of the Week Race

It was a great week of wrestling, at least for what I watched. There were at least three matches that would've taken the top spot on most weeks and they came from outside the big two companies, proving that there's great wrestling all over the world…

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Nov. 7, 2024

WWE NXT beats AEW Dynamite head-to-head in latest Wednesday Night War battle

Last night saw the one night return of the Wednesday Night War with WWE NXT airing on Wednesday for the first time since April 2021. Due to the CW Network airing coverage of the 2024 Presidential Election, the show was moved off of Tuesday night for…

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Nov. 7, 2024

Confirmed: Yoshiki Inamura Headed to WWE NXT

PRO WRESTLING NOAH announced on X that Yoshiki Inamura is bound for WWE NXT. /🌏稲村愛輝選手の【 #WWENXT 武者修行 】が決定‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️\稲村選手はすでにWWEパフォーマンスセンターに到着しており、PC最高責任者であるショーン・マイケルズの歓迎も受けました。N-1出場のタビオン・ ハイツやジョシュ・ブリッグスとも再会!稲村選手の活躍にご期待ください!#noah_ghc pic.twitter.c…

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Nov. 5, 2024

Private Party winning the AEW World Tag Team titles from the Young Bucks is Match of the Week

Last Wednesday's episode of AEW Dynamite saw Private Party recreate the massive upset they scored on the second week of the show in 2019 by defeating the Young Bucks. This time they dethroned the champions and won the AEW Tag Team championships for …

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Nov. 4, 2024

NJPW Power Struggle news and notes: Kenny Omega is back | SANADA joins BULLET CLUB | Ricochet attacks ZSJ

Power Struggle was a brisk show and full of noteworthy moments on the way to Wrestle Kingdom 19. Here are some notes from the show: - After EVIL and Ren Narita defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Oleg Boltin, EVIL threatened to cut Tanahashi’s hai…

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Nov. 2, 2024

WWE Crown Jewel Feedback | The Report Card

WWE Crown Jewel seemed like one Premium Live Event too many, but when you get paid as much as WWE does for the show, you force it in. It was a good show according to most, but it also felt fairly unnecessary.  Paul Fontaine Grade: B Very goo…

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Oct. 29, 2024

Bullet Club dominates as Super Junior Tag League rolls on

With two matches to go in each block for each team, the stakes are raised in the Super Junior Tag League tournament. Last week, we discussed the favorites, dark horses and “better luck next time” teams in each block, so let’s see w…

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Oct. 29, 2024

Mike Bailey vs. El Hijo Del Vikingo from TNA's Bound For Glory | Match of the Week

On Saturday night, TNA Wrestling held its traditionally biggest show of the year, Bound for Glory, and for the first time since I started doing this column, TNA Wrestling produced what I consider last week's match of the week. It was a successful ni…

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Oct. 28, 2024

NXT Hallowen Havoc Feedback | The Report Card

We are changing how we do our feedback/reaction piece. Rather than give a thumbs up or thumbs down, we're going to grade the show A through F.  Today, we have Paul Fontaine, myself, and Scott Young and Keila Cash from The WRAP. Paul Fontaine …

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Oct. 26, 2024

Topuria Vs. Holloway | Whittaker Vs. Chimaev | UFC 308 Live Coverage

It's an afternoon of UFC coming from Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.We're covering the PPV portion of the card which features these fights: Ilia Topuria (c) -265 vs. Max Holloway +205, featherweight title Khamzat Chimaev -265 vs…

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Oct. 24, 2024

NJPW Super Junior Tag League predictions

Photo via New Japan Global on TwitterNew Japan Pro Wrestling’s Super Junior Tag League is now here. The format this year is that one winner advances from each of the two blocks to face off at the finals, which will be at Power Struggle. A key …

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Oct. 21, 2024

Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Tetsuya Naito Tops Match of the Week Rankings

For the first time since the debut of this weekly column, New Japan Pro Wrestling has secured the top match of the week. The IWGP Title match from the October 14th King of Pro Wrestling show was head and shoulders above everything else I saw this we…

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Oct. 21, 2024

A look at the teams in the 2024 New Japan Super Junior Tag League

Super Junior Tag League is back and it’s smaller than ever! The annual Junior Heavyweight tag tournament from New Japan will see 12 teams in two blocks. Over ten days starting on October 24th, these teams will compete in round robin format, w…

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Oct. 17, 2024

AEW Dynamite's San Jose debut misses the mark

In 2019, when AEW's debut PPV, Double or Nothing, took place in Las Vegas, I assumed that AEW was going to be coming to the Bay Area often. Going back 40 years, WWE would run at the Oakland Arena where the Warriors played and then the comeback show …

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Oct. 15, 2024

Which AEW wrestler should be the one to eventually dethrone Jon Moxley?

At the end of WrestleDream, the camera panned to two AEW babyfaces who looked exhausted and exasperated after Jon Moxley beat Bryan Danielson to become the new AEW World Heavyweight champion. They had to stave off an attack by the Blackpool Combat C…

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