Two weeks in 2025 and Gabe Kidd of New Japan Pro Wrestling has had the best match of the week in both weeks. In the opener of Sunday's Battle in the Valley Show, the New Japan Strong Openweight champion defended his title in a 30 minute draw against…
After fourteen months out of action, Kenny Omega returned to the ring at Wrestle Dynasty and looked like he'd never left. His match with Gabe Kidd in the semi-main event of that show was the easy winner of the match of the week and will finish very …
Over the span of 2024, I watched over 3800 pro wrestling matches. Those matches stretched across AEW, WWE, New Japan, TNA, ROH and many others. Of all those matches, one stood above them all in my opinion and it was the near one hour classic …
A very busy week of professional wrestling closed the way most weeks this year did. Will Ospreay racking up another couple of instant classics. On this particular week, he turned in one of the greatest single days in the sport's history with two 5* …
In mid-2024 word began to get out, almost out of nowhere, that Ricochet's contract with WWE was coming to an end. The company where he had worked for 7 years made him an offer but he was looking for a new challenge and was rumored to be headed to AE…
With no top 10 list last week due to technical difficulties, this week it will be the top 20 matches of the last two weeks. This would be from all the matches I've watched from November 24th through December 8th and would include some shows that air…
There are four nights of World Tag League action left from December 4th through 7th; one night of A Block action, two nights of B block action, and the finals. Three teams are left in contention in the A Block of the World Tag League with eight p…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Photo via AEW For the third time in the four weeks I've been writing this column, Will Ospreay was in my top match of the week. Saturday night's WrestleDream was a very good PPV with several excellent matches that made the list. Topping them all wa…
David Finlay is currently IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion in New Japan Pro Wrestling, and he is set to collide with Hirooki Goto next week at the King of Pro Wrestling event on October 14th for that same title, which you can watch on NJPWWorld. Th…
In one week, Zack Sabre Jr. will take the title-shot prize he earned by winning G1 Climax 34 and challenge current IWGP Champion Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Championship. The suspicion among longtime fans is that Naito will lose to ZSJ on October 14t…
We will be here live with NJPW Windy City Riot live coverage when the main card starts. After the show is over, make sure to join Jeremy Finestone and Steven Conway on Speaking of Strong Style. They will recap the show and have a special guest. &n…