Hulkamania runs wild in Brantford: The Results

Hulkamania runs wild in Brantford: The Results

BRANTFORD -- It was a night that wrestling fans will remember as the day Hulkamania returned to Brantford. Professional wrestling returned to the Brantford Civic Centre for the first time since 1995 in the form of Championship Wrestling International (CWI) president...

Edge ruffles Ziggler’s feathers in Toronto

Edge ruffles Ziggler’s feathers in Toronto

World heavyweight champion Edge retained his belt Saturday with a victory over challenger Dolph Ziggler in a Toronto street-fight main event of the WWE's Road to Wrestlemania Smackdown house show at Toronto's Ricoh Coliseum. In front of a packed home crowd, The...

Emotional Firestorm Memorial show capped by belt presentation

Emotional Firestorm Memorial show capped by belt presentation

VANCOUVER - There are moments that transcend the politics, ego and character of wrestling, or, put another way, moments that matter. The Adam Firestorm Memorial Show held Friday in North Vancouver was a collection of such moments, a night comprised both of heartache...

Machine Guns headline for first time as TNA delivers in Toledo

Machine Guns headline for first time as TNA delivers in Toledo

TOLEDO, Ohio — Saturday was a big night for TNA. It was the promotion's debut effort in Toledo, and it also marked a first for one of the organization's hottest acts as the Motor City Machine Guns had their first main event match. They did not disappoint an hour away...

Championship calibre matches make PWA Supercard

Championship calibre matches make PWA Supercard

CALGARY - It seems cliched when a big show is referred to as said promotion's Wrestlemania. Even Starrcade, which started before the WWE's event, was often referred to as WCW's Wrestlemania. While PWA's Night of Champions VIII card in Calgary on June 19th may not have...

Resilient Aries outlasts Omega in Mississauga

Resilient Aries outlasts Omega in Mississauga

MISSISSAUGA, ON -- Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries silenced his critics with yet another successful defense against a game Kenny Omega at the International Centre last night. After sizing up the crowd and cheekily noting that Toronto still had...

Montreal’s TOW show features many past WWE stars

Montreal’s TOW show features many past WWE stars

MONTREAL - Friday night in Montreal, the TOW promotion managed to get the longest reigning WWE Intercontinental champion and the very first Intercontinental champion on the same show. Plus add a TNA rising star, a fitness guru and a surprise guest, and it was a major...

Femmes Fatales debut hot in Montreal

Femmes Fatales debut hot in Montreal

MONTREAL -- In a city known for beautiful women, Saturday's NCW Femmes Fatales gala was something altogether different. The gathering of top female wrestlers was a riotous affair, featuring some of the top names in the business and some great matches. At the...

Memories of Bearman McKigney flood back after indy show

Memories of Bearman McKigney flood back after indy show

KESWICK, Ont. -- The memories came flooding back to me Saturday night, as a special card put on by the Great North Wrestling Alliance honoured the one-of-a-kind Canadian wrestling character, Dave "The Bearman" McKigney. The show, billed as the Battle for the Belt, was...

Aries backs up trash talk in Toronto

Aries backs up trash talk in Toronto

TORONTO - Austin Aries successfully defended his Ring of Honour World heavyweight championship in Toronto on a night that featured special appearances by Canadian legends Bret "Hitman" Hart and Lance Storm. Aries, who informed the capacity crowd he was "wrestling...

ROH ends Detroit show with shock and mystery

ROH ends Detroit show with shock and mystery

When Ring of Honor announced Tyler Black vs. Jimmy Jacobs were to wrestle in a cage, fans expected this to be the end of a long feud between the two. When two men could not find a true winner in the ring, a cage was put around so the fans could see one true winner....

AAA conquers America all over again

AAA conquers America all over again

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Mexican wrestling promotion AAA brought a tight, exciting tour to America this past week, including a stop on Sunday at a nearly-packed, enthusiastic HP Pavilion Arena. The second half of AAA's current American tour restarts April 2nd debuting...

Armageddon anything but a downer in Buffalo

Armageddon anything but a downer in Buffalo

BUFFALO -- Google Armageddon and you’ll get everything from an on-line countdown to the end of days, a synopsis of Michael Bay’s asteroid spectacle, and, amongst other things, a recognition that something special happened in Buffalo, New York on Sunday, December 14,...

Small crowd takes in TNA in London

Small crowd takes in TNA in London

LONDON, ON -- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling rolled into John Labatt Centre for the first time Saturday night for seven matches the night before it made its Canadian pay-per-view debut in Oshawa. The building, which seats 9,060 for London Knights' hockey games, was...

PWA entertains in Edmonton

PWA entertains in Edmonton

Fans in attendance at the Prairie Wrestling Alliance’s show at the Extreme Zone in Edmonton knew they were in for something special when the main event was announced. During PWA Champion Chris Steele’s October 9th title defense against Tex Gaines the two men battled...

Indy World champ crowned at inaugural Germanfest tournament

Indy World champ crowned at inaugural Germanfest tournament

"Cowboy" Johnny Mantell's inaugural Germanfest Wringenmiesterschaft Tournament, held April 29-May 1, 2011, in Muenster, Texas, was easily the most ambitious indy show produced over the last few years, and included the crowning of a Indy World Champion in Tim Storm. No...

WrestleReunion 5 off to a smooth start

WrestleReunion 5 off to a smooth start

LOS ANGELES - A normal hotel Thursday morning, the atmosphere began to change at the LAX Hilton by Thursday night as fans and wrestlers started to check in for WrestleReunion 5. Despite winter storms in the Northeast, talents made it to the hotel with few problems....

Benjamin, Helms, Grenier, Demolition cook up hot T.O.W. show

Benjamin, Helms, Grenier, Demolition cook up hot T.O.W. show

MONTREAL - T.O.W. seems to have found a winning recipe to attract today's wrestling fans, as indicated by the 1,500 or so that showed up at the Centre Pierre Charbonneau Friday night. The recipe is a little like this: Mix in a few of yesterday's stars, sprinkle in...

TNA fan fest a real Hardcore Celebration

TNA fan fest a real Hardcore Celebration

ORLANDO, Florida -- For a company that has long since ceased to exist in its original form, ECW continues to attract a fan following unlike any other in wrestling. Many wrestling companies have capitalized upon this loyal fan-base, the latest being Spike TV's TNA...

Fans and wrestlers connect on day 2 of WrestleReunion 4

Fans and wrestlers connect on day 2 of WrestleReunion 4

LOS ANGELES - When you put legends together, some who haven't seen each other in years, it can be both amazing and distracting. Fans gathered for breakfast early on Saturday morning to listen to a Q&A with Bruno Sammartino, Larry Zbyszko and Stan Hansen and heard...

Kerry Brown tribute show touches family, peers

Kerry Brown tribute show touches family, peers

WINNIPEG -- It was a night of memories and old school wrestling as family, wrestlers, and fans came together at an all-ages tribute show for the late "Pitbull" Kerry Brown two months after his passing. Brown's mother, Bernice Martens, was in attendance at the Skyview...

Toronto puts its own stamp on RAW

Toronto puts its own stamp on RAW

“Hello, Toronto! It’s good to be home!” And with that, seven-time former WWE women’s champion Trish Stratus blessed last night’s RAW. She looked lean and mean, and the capacity crowd responded warmly to her return, despite booing her positive appraisal of previous...

Danielson says his goodbyes at Dragon Gate Chicago

Danielson says his goodbyes at Dragon Gate Chicago

CHICAGO - Two days after making its pay-per-view debut, Dragon Gate USA wrestling made its debut in Chicago this Sunday for its "Open the Untouchable Gate" show. Delivering the hard-hitting, quick-paced style of action that its Japanese counterpart is famed for, DGUSA...

RAW’s Calgary return lacks spark

RAW’s Calgary return lacks spark

CALGARY -- It says a great deal about the current state of the WWE when after four years away, the biggest reactions at last night's Monday Night RAW broadcast was for a 60-year-old wrestler long past his prime, and a local hero who wasn’t even in the building. The...

Rain doesn’t dampen Edmonton supershow

Rain doesn’t dampen Edmonton supershow

EDMONTON - Mother Nature can be the ultimate ribber. While a thunderstorm put a damper, pun intended, on the Prairie Wrestling Alliance's largest show in history, Night of Champions, the end result was incredible matches, death-defying moves, superstar appearances,...

Ouellet makes Nash tap out in grudge match

Ouellet makes Nash tap out in grudge match

MONTREAL - In what was billed as the second biggest grudge match in the history of Quebec wrestling, trailing only behind the 1985 match between the Rougeaus and the Garvins, Pierre-Carl Ouellet and Kevin Nash fought once again on Saturday at the IWS 10th anniversary...

Abdullah the Butcher says adieu to Montreal

Abdullah the Butcher says adieu to Montreal

MONTREAL - Abdullah the Butcher has been the talk of the town for several weeks now, with his supposed final show in Canada taking place this past Saturday. Needless to say, the match -- a loss to Hannibal -- went down in typical Abby fashion. The main event at the...

Jacobs-Aries bloodfest tops ROH in Toronto

Jacobs-Aries bloodfest tops ROH in Toronto

TORONTO - Armed with momentum from its first-ever visit to Montreal the night before, Ring of Honor set up shop at the Markham Fairgrounds last night and while the show lacked the aura of Montreal or its Toronto debut back in late July, it delivered the essential...

The Ring of Honor breaks in Detroit, literally

The Ring of Honor breaks in Detroit, literally

DETROIT - Usually when a wrestling card goes over, they talk about “tearing the house down.” When talking about Ring of Honor’s pay-per-view taping in Detroit last night, you can call it “tearing the ring down.” In a wild spot during the Bryan Danielson and Tyler...

NOAH successfully invades England

NOAH successfully invades England

Pro Wrestling NOAH invaded the United Kingdom on Saturday evening, for what was said to have been one of the greatest wrestling events ever held in Europe. The Coventry Skydome - which has a capacity of 4,200, though significantly less made available for this event -...

‘Raw’ live in Buffalo: Blue-collar appreciation

‘Raw’ live in Buffalo: Blue-collar appreciation

BUFFALO, NY - A sports-talk radio personality recently pegged sports fans in Buffalo as just a little more down-to-earth than those in other major markets. Buffalo’s economy is understood to be stuck in a dismal state, so when fans fork over their money for the Bills,...

Live report from Raw in Detroit

Live report from Raw in Detroit

DETROIT - After a disappointing showing from the crowd when WWE last made its way to Detroit in September, fans in "The Motor City" came out en masse on a cold winter night as WWE's flagship show, "Monday Night Raw" made its return to the city for the first time since...

Hart-felt return makes lackluster RAW memorable

Hart-felt return makes lackluster RAW memorable

CALGARY - Before Superstars started taping, Bret Hart's music blasted through the Scotiabank Saddledome and the crowd erupted... only to groan when it turned out to be a commercial for RAW vs. Smackdown 2011. As chants of “We want Bret” echoed through the arena it...

Small crowd enjoys self at WWE Detroit taping

Small crowd enjoys self at WWE Detroit taping

DETROIT — Less than two years ago, WWE completely sold out Joe Louis Arena for the Royal Rumble. Tuesday's taping of Smackdown, NXT and Superstars taping was a vast contrast from that January night, as with the exception of a few random rows, the entire upper bowl was...

CHIKARA debuts in Detroit with Danielson in tow

CHIKARA debuts in Detroit with Danielson in tow

CHIKARA's debut foray into Michigan has taken on added sizzle in the last week. Bryan Danielson will make his return to the independent scene when CHIKARA debuts in Metro Detroit at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Taylor Town Trade Center in Taylor, Mich. Danielson, who was...

Giants battle on Rougeau Christmas shows

Giants battle on Rougeau Christmas shows

MONTREAL - It's now a holiday tradition. Each year, Jacques Rougeau's Lutte 2000 promotion runs shows after Christmas. This year, it featured a clash between giants. Essentially, Lutte 2000 shows have been mostly a showcase for Rougeau’s wrestling school students....

Cornette returns to ROH as Danielson, McGuinness depart

Cornette returns to ROH as Danielson, McGuinness depart

NEW YORK - The old saying goes "They come and they go." On Saturday night in a sold-out Manathan Center's Grand Ballroom in New York City, Ring of Honor fans saw two of their favourites leave and one major player come back. Everyone knew the show was a chance to say...

Bob Kapur’s Twitterish WWE tour: Ottawa supershow

Bob Kapur’s Twitterish WWE tour: Ottawa supershow

OTTAWA -- The WWE wrestlers aren't the only ones on a road trip this weekend through Ontario and Quebec. SLAM! Wrestling's "Bloodthirsty" Bob Kapur and photographer Mike Mastrandrea are hitting each town too. Follow Bob's travels here each day. In this installment,...

Rougeau has giant plans for Christmas

Rougeau has giant plans for Christmas

MONTREAL -- Jacques Rougeau Jr. has always had a vision of what wrestling should really be -- a family buying tickets to a Lutte 2000 event, and leaving the arena with satisfied smiles and memories of great matches without any violence. He believes he has achieved...

Storm gets emotional after ROH loss to Hero

Storm gets emotional after ROH loss to Hero

TORONTO - An emotional Lance Storm took to the microphone last night after a loss to Chris Hero in the main event of Ring of Honor's Death Before Dishonor VII: Night 2. And while he started off serious for a minute, his demeanour soon changed, and he tearfully thanked...

Families make up big part of Toronto WWE audience

TORONTO - The holiday season is here, and for many, it’s seen as a wonderful opportunity to spend some quality time with family. Watching a wrestling show seems to be part of that quality time, judging from the number of families in attendance at last night’s WWE...

Marathon matches bring in 3,000 pounds for food bank

Marathon matches bring in 3,000 pounds for food bank

PORT COQUITLAM, BC - It was a particularly rough weekend for Kyle O’Reilly and 19 of his wrestling brethren this past weekend in Port Coquitlam. As a rule, independent professional wrestlers don’t have the easiest schedule on the weekends, but the schedule that 20...

Lynn-Black go to the time-limit in Detroit

Lynn-Black go to the time-limit in Detroit

DETROIT - You can not tell Jerry Lynn that he is too old to have a good match. The 45-year-old stole the Detroit Ring of Honor show on Friday night. Lynn, who has been wrestling full-time for ROH since fall, used old school philosophy in his 20-minute time-limit draw...

Great crowd basks in ROH’s Montreal debut

Great crowd basks in ROH’s Montreal debut

By MICHAEL RYAN - For SLAMWrestling.net MONTREAL - A raucous and capacity crowd jammed the Centre Jean-Claude Malenpart to greet Ring of Honor for their first visit to Montreal. The partisan crowd enthusiastically and quickly picked their favourites, backing them...

PWC debut in Vancouver a success

VANCOUVER - The much-anticipated debut of Pro Wrestling Canada happened this past Friday with a bang! A solid crowd of 380 people attended and, after it was all over ,fans were dancing in the aisles. PWC has brought together wrestlers from ECCW in Vancouver and other...

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