House Sendai vs House Strong Style Chikara King of Trios 2017 Starworks, Wolverhampton 3rd September 2017 The match: Three long days of wrestling are at an end. Everybody is exhausted,…
Author: Sarah Parkin
Sarah never really got over finding out that The Undertaker and Kane aren't really brothers. Now she spends her time telling anyone who will listen that Bull Nakano should be in the Hall of Fame. When she grows up, she wants to be Lita.
Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker Wrestlemania 33, 2nd April 2017 The match: It’s the main event and Jim Ross is commentating, so everyone knows what’s going to happen. Four, five, however…
Alexa Bliss c vs Naomi vs Mickie James vs Becky Lynch vs Carmella vs Natalya Six-Pack Challenge for the Smackdown Women’s Championship Wrestlemania 33, 2nd April 2017 The match: It’s…
Manami Toyota’s Retirement Show Yokohama Osanbashi Hall 3rd November 2017 The match: Here’s a head-scratcher for you: imagine you’re one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time and you’re…
This weekend, Pro Wrestling: EVE hosts its biggest event of the year. Four shows. Two days. She-1: Ace of EVE. Ahead of this epic weekender, we’re introducing you to the…
Ahead of AJW’s landmark reunion show this weekend, here’s why it was the greatest wrestling promotion of all time. We’ve had some dark times as women’s wrestling fans. Even as…
Not so long ago, a rumour doing the rounds suggested that WWE was planning to bring in Ronda Rousey to work towards a singles match at WrestleMania. I wrote that…
I woke up this morning in Wolverhampton. I left my hotel room, got the train back to my corner of northern England and went immediately to work. When I came…
Everyone remembers Daniel Bryan’s win at Wrestlemania 30, or the day Mankind did himself a mischief with a cell. If NXT sticks around, and it’s got a few years yet,…
Thirty-two women competed in the Mae Young Classic. That’s 32 individuals from over a dozen countries, representing some of the wrestling industry’s top talent from 20-year veterans to two-year prodigies.…
Sisterhood of the Squared Circle: The History and Rise of Women’s Wrestling Pat Laprade and Dan Murphy (ECW Press, 2017) History is political. It doesn’t feel that way when you’re…
It feels like a bit of a cliché to describe anyone or anything in pro wrestling as ‘problematic’. It’s not like it’s untrue or unfair, but it’s unoriginal at this…