Mercedes Martinez returns, wins SHIMMER title
BERWYN, ILL. - Mercedes Martinez made a shocking return and won the SHIMMER championship at the conclusion of a marathon three-day DVD taping in Berwyn, Illinois, this weekend. Martinez’ return after a two-year retirement was the culmination of a whirlwind series of...
Freakshow Wrestling a wild trip into Sinn Bodhi’s twisted mind
LAS VEGAS - When Sinn Bodhi is not the strangest person in the room, you must be at Freakshow Wrestling. There he is, tattooed-to-the-gills, his long hair frizzled and free, wearing polka-dot leggings, as well as pants and boots studded with mini-Teddy bears. But over...
Young-Roode patriotic battle rules at HOH in Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS, ON - Tommy Dreamer’s House of Hardcore rumbled into Niagara Falls on Saturday evening as a part of the Mindi O Fitness Extravaganza. The highlight of the evening was the main event featuring future NXT wrestlers Bobby Roode and Eric Young. The fans sang...
Curry Man surprises Detroit lucha show
DETROIT - The crowd was upset when it was announced that Christopher Daniels was unable to make it to "¡Revolucha 3!" Saturday night. When his replacement was announced as Curry Man, the crowd was stunned. Curry Man is the moniker Daniels uses in Japan but rarely, if...
House of Hardcore at ECW Arena good mix of nostalgia and action
PHILADELPHIA -- With the recent passing of ECW original Balls Mahoney fresh in everyone's minds, it was a given that Saturday night's House of Hardcore, held at the old ECW Arena in Philadelphia, would include a tribute to the fallen star. But, as Tommy Dreamer's...
Matt’s Mania Moments: A crazy busy Saturday
DALLAS — There is nothing like WrestleMania Week. A completely crazy wrestling experience with something for everything. Saturday was no exception. Now, if you don’t absolutely love wrestling, this is probably not a schedule of events I’d recommend. If you love all...
Matt’s Mania Moments: Day 1 in Dallas
SLAM! Wrestling's Matt Bishop is in Dallas and will be hitting a ton of shows and events this weekend. Check in here regularly for his reports and details about the things he's seen and experienced while in "The Big D." ENTRY 2 DALLAS — The first day of WrestleMania...
Mysterio at IWS latest in Montreal-Mexico exchange
MONTREAL - Among all the big names to come to town in recent years, Rey Mysterio Jr. is arguably one of the biggest to hit the Montreal independent wrestling scene. Saturday night, at Metropolis, the former WWE World Heavyweight champion was set to face International...
Montreal show brings Vampiro full circle
Thirty years ago, a young kid from Thunder Bay, Ontario, made his pro wrestling debut in Quebec. He later became one of the most popular non-Mexican wrestlers in the history of Lucha Libre. This Saturday, at IWS in Montreal, Vampiro is coming full circle, coming back...
Ottawa cancer fundraiser fights back for Phrank
OTTAWA - Four years ago, a young man passed away way too soon from cancer. Since then, his friends have made a commitment to honour his memory with a fundraising wrestling show every year. Saturday night was the fifth edition, and bolstered by stars Ultimo Dragon,...
Toronto gets extreme for House of Hardcore
TORONTO - While Philadelphia is generally considered the birthplace of extreme wrestling, Toronto should now be considered its adopted home. So says the crowd that attended -- and many of the talent that performed on -- last night's House of Hardcore show in Toronto....
Deathproof provides a twisted family reunion
To the fans and the roster of Deathproof Wrestling, the company doesn't put on shows as much as they host family reunions. Sure, reunions full of beer, blood, and barbed wire -- but family reunions nonetheless. This Sunday, in Etobicoke, Ontario at the company's "Till...
A new/old champion crowned at Femmes Fatales
MONTREAL - The popular NCW Femmes Fatales promotion has undergone some changes in recent months, but the show on Saturday night proved that there's always a chance to come home again. Injuries and absences forced new booker Pat Laprade -- the author and contributor to...
Border City Wrestling’s ‘Excellence’ christens new arena
WINDSOR, Ont. -- Border City Wrestling showed its "excellence" on Saturday night with a big show at St. Clair College's Sportsplex. The card featured the likes of Bret "Hitman" Hart, Jon Bolen, Kongo Kong, Chris Sabin and Scott Steiner. For the report, we turned to...
Courtney Rush new champ as Femmes Fatales delivers again
MONTREAL - So many thought it wouldn't catch and after a few shows that the idea would be abandoned. Well, guess what? Saturday night's Femmes Fatales show was the 15th and not only is it as strong as ever, its popularity keeps growing. Ever since the original show,...
Wrestlefest an interpromotional success
HULL - While the vast majority of wrestling fans in Canada were focused on the WWE's Summer Slam PPV being held in Toronto this past Sunday, a small gathering of the faithful converged onto a small, but significant event in the province of Quebec. Hosted by Hull based...
TigerFest delivers international action galore
BRAMPTON, Ont. -- Because of its significant South Asian population, Canada Day celebrations in Brampton, Ontario have a very unique flavour. One of the main ingredients in that flavour is TigerFest, the annual event put on by the legendary Tiger Jeet Singh and his...
Conway regains NWA World title in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS - "Iron Man" Rob Conway became a two-time NWA World champion on Monday, June 2, defeating Satoshi Kojima in the main event of an inter-promotional card held at the Cauliflower Alley Club Reunion. Conway and Kojima wrestled a stiff, hard-hitting bout at the...
New Japan tops Border City in stellar show
WINDSOR — As much as I love watching professional wrestling, sometimes I absolutely dread it. Like last week's Raw, for instance, and the horrible story with Daniel Bryan and Kane. It nearly made me embarrassed to watch it. Fast forward to later in the week. It's...
Updated: Wrestlers rail on Hardcore Roadtrip screw job
In the world of social media, it is easy to vent your thoughts and in the case of the chaos of Hardcore Roadtrip in London, Ontario on Saturday, offer up condemnation of a promoter who walked out without paying the talent for the evening's show or arranging for...
Hardcore Roadtrip comes to dead end
Saturday night’s Hardcore Roadtrip’s show in London was full of violence and mayhem, but the most painful part was the ending – the announcement that the promoter Mark Livingston had screwed over the wrestlers by not paying them and by not arranging transportation for...
New faces shine on SHIMMER weekend
Based on the showings at the recent DVD tapings on April 12-13, a youth movement is under way in SHIMMER, and a new crop of women are establishing themselves as rising stars. Here are six competitors poised to make a major impact in the very near future. Evie (Age:...
Cancer takes a beating thanks to Sixx and friends
TORONTO -- There's wrestling strong and there's real-life strong. Sunday afternoon's Fight! 4 Cancer show in Toronto certainly had evidence of both. The show centered around Ashley Sixx, wrestler and promoter, making his return to the ring after battling cancer. He...
Ricochet comes out on top on amazing Dragon Gate show
NEW ORLEANS - While most wrestling fans in New Orleans this weekend are here to see WrestleMania XXX, that doesn't mean it's the only show in town. Friday night, at Tulane University, Dragon Gate USA hosted Open The Ultimate Gate 2014. And for those who were lucky...
Magical spontaneous moment makes Jarrett vs Deaner match
ORILLIA, Ont. -- Saturday night’s 3A Wrestling show in Orillia was a mixed bag of what’s good and bad about independent wrestling. While overall the night was fun and many of the matches delivered, the ones that didn’t left a very bad taste in the mouth for this...
20 years of Border City Wrestling makes for a great card
WINDSOR, Ont. -- Border City Wrestling turned 20 years old in grand style Saturday night with a card that showcased a ton of new and old talent, and paid tribute to the many, many men and women who have trained in the Can-Am Wrestling school in town. The show was at...
Alumni make All Star night special at Cloverdale
CLOVERDALE, BC - There's a rich history of pro wrestling in British Columbia, and on Friday night at the historic Cloverdale Fair Grounds, All Star Wrestling honoured some of the legends of the past and did its best to present some of the stars of today. It was the...
TigerFest draws massive crowd in Brampton
BRAMPTON, Ont. -- When you mix a beautiful day, a national holiday, and pro wrestling with a good mix of names, the result is a huge turnout at TigerFest. The scene on Sunday was Donald M. Gordon Chinguacousy Park in Brampton, a suburb to the west of Toronto, and the...
Second House of Hardcore show an interesting mix
PHILADELPHIA - Tommy Dreamer called some more of his many friends for a massive show on Saturday night at the National Guard Armory in Philadelphia. The second House of Hardcore show delivered fabulous action, legends, and a nice goodbye. Here's what happened: 1) ?...
Lawler returns to the ring
OCALA, Fla. - In his first match after his shocking heart attack in Montreal in September 2012, Jerry "The King" Lawler returned to the ring in classic form on Saturday night in Ocala, Florida, in an eight-person intergender tag team match. The show was sold out, with...
Retirements, great action highlight PWS supercard
METUCHEN, NJ - If New Jersey is not at the moment the centre of the wrestling universe I dare anyone to find another. The Pro Wrestling Syndicate was presenting its Supercard night two Friday evening, just one of the many WrestleMania-related activities in the New...
Kaiju Big Battel a real head trip, man
SECAUCUS, NJ - Even though I’m a big Grateful Dead fan, I’ve never fully embraced the Dead-head lifestyle. Notably, I’ve never done any form of psychedelic drug. As a result, I’ve never had strange visions of life-sized anthromorphic creatures running around the city,...
AR Fox crowned first EVOLVE Champion
WrestleMania weekend kicked off Friday afternoon with EVOLVE's iPPV event from WrestleCon, featuring a one-night, eight-man tournament to crown the first-ever EVOLVE Champion, featuring the likes of Chuck Taylor, Ricochet, AR Fox and Sami Callihan. Live from the...
Hardcore Roadtrip’s bumps overcome by great action
"There are three sides to every story - yours, mine, and the truth." -- Robert Evans "Card subject to change." -- Various wrestling promoters "I feel like I should be mad, but I'm not." - Anonymous The above quotes pretty much sum up the Hardcore Roadtrip event that...
Action speaks loudly at Hart Legacy Wrestling
CALGARY - On Friday night, the historic Victoria Pavilion in Calgary's Stampede Park hosted professional wrestling for the first time in nearly 15 years. A mix of nostalgia, rising stars, and experienced talent blended together to create the best wrestling show in...
DGUSA vs ROH: When Gargano pinned Steen
TORONTO -- When the indy dream match of the Dragon Gate USA champion, Johnny Gargano, against the Ring of Honor champ, Kevin Steen, was changed at the last minute to a tag team bout on Sunday afternoon, expectations were that two of the newcomers, Tyson Dux (with...
Piper front and centre at TOW Stardom
MONTREAL -- Friday night at the Pierre Charbonneau Center, Rowdy Roddy Piper made Montreal his playground for a night. Along with Abdullah the Butcher, who was present to receive a plaque commemorating his wrestling career, Piper was in every corner of the T.O.W....
Expect tears at tonight’s Montreal ceremony, warns Pat Patterson
Pat Patterson is known as one the best workers of his time and one of the greatest wrestling minds the business has ever seen. Not bad for someone who left his native-Montreal at a young age in 1960 to pursue a pro wrestling career. So it only makes sense that...
Ottawa cancer fundraiser a great success
OTTAWA - Cancer is a disease that affects everyone. Whether it is high profile people like Lance Armstrong or your immediate family, cancer has disrupted everyone's life at some point. For myself, it was losing a grandmother at the age of six. Perhaps that is why more...
SHIMMER tag belts switch hands in Montreal
MONTREAL – For the first time in its history, a SHIMMER title switched hands outside of the company's Berwyn, Illinois headquarters, with tag titles returning to previous champions Saturday night at Montreal's NCW Centre, during the ninth edition of Femmes Fatales....
Charity name of the game at TigerFest
BRAMPTON, Ont. -- Though July 1 is Canada Day, the celebrations in Brampton Ontario also included elements of India, Japan, New Zealand, and even the streets of Harlem, New York. Such is the concept of TigerFest 2012, the fundraiser put on by legendary wrestler Tiger...
Steen gets dream match with Storm in Quebec City
Last Saturday, nothing was going to make Kevin Steen miss his chance to wrestle one of his idols, Lance Storm. "I had a concussion last week so I wasn't in tip top shape," revealed Steen after the match. But even that wasn't enough. Steen, the new Ring of Honor...
Mat Matters: The SHIMMER live experience is unique
Gender is the obvious difference between a men's wrestling promotion and a female one. However, it's worth pointing out the difference in the fans as well. If you have a chance to go to one of SHIMMER Women Athletes DVD tapings, you will not only see some of the best...
Missed flight leads to new ToW main event
MONTREAL -- A ToW show is always full of surprises, good or bad. Sometimes, it's an awesome performance, some other times, it's someone missing his flight. But every time, a ToW show is a very fun and entertaining evening, and ToW 9 was not an exception to that rule....
Extreme Reunion wasn’t all bad
PHILADELPHIA - By now, anyone who has wanted to find out the results of this past weekend’s Extreme Reunion show has probably done so. There are a few reports out there online on other wrestling news sites, and fan feedback is well-documented on the company’s own...
Locals shine among international talent at NCW Femmes Fatales
MONTREAL -- On Saturday night, NCW Femmes Fatales presented its most important show to date, do or die for the local talent, competing against women from around the globe. The winners were not just the wrestlers, but the 200 or so fans in attendance. Word of the...
Already stacked Montreal CRW show gets a Million Dollar bonus
MONTREAL - It's not every day you can see a show with a Hall of Famer, a former WWE tag champion, the ROH World champion, one of the best female wrestler in the country and one of the best talent developed in your province in the past years. Montreal's CRW could claim...
The sweet irony of a charity deathmatch
Barbed wire ensnares and tears through exposed flesh. Rivulets of blood stream from a laceration sliced open by shards of broken glass. A wooden table splinters into toothpicks as a human being is hurled through it. Generous people donate to a deserving charity. That...
CHIKARA shines again in Michigan
TAYLOR, Mich. — CHIKARA made its debut in the Detroit market a year ago with Bryan Danielson on the card fresh off being fired by WWE. From an interest standpoint, that was going to be tough to top. However, when it came to in-ring action, CHIKARA delivered yet again...
Tiger Fest prevails over Mother Nature
MILTON, ON -- Throughout his legendary career, Tiger Jeet Singh faced off against a number of hard opponents. On Saturday, he faced one of his toughest yet in the form of Mother Nature. With help from a number of tag team partners, he was able to come up with another...
