{"id":11400,"date":"2019-02-24T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T19:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2019-02-24T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:40:41","slug":"my-week-in-wrestling-week-ending-24th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/24\/my-week-in-wrestling-week-ending-24th-february\/","title":{"rendered":"My Week in Wrestling (week ending 24th February)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>@WynterStorm24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really enjoyed Elimination Chamber; I\nalmost cried when the Boss and Hug Connection won and I almost cried again when\nthey had the belts on Monday Night Raw. The women\u2019s tag team chamber match and\nseeing Bayley and Sasha hold the belts was just so moving, especially after\nseeing some of the most awful takes on Twitter. I can\u2019t believe there\u2019s still\nmen out there who want women\u2019s wrestling to go back to bikini catfights. I\nmean\u2026I can, but it\u2019s still annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had an absolute blast with the hashtag\n#ThingsLouderThanThisCrowd that trended all throughout Raw. I cannot believe we\nactually got that to be a worldwide trend. But also, the crowd\u2019s lack of\nresponse brought to light a new issue: the lack of recognition for NXT stars.\nIt\u2019ll be interesting to see how WWE moves forward with its promotion of NXT\nafter the rather lackluster welcome some of the biggest NXT names received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I officially bought tickets for Dolph\nZiggler\u2019s standup show and meet and greet. Hopefully he\u2019s actually funny, but\nenough alcohol will make anyone funny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was announced that Roman Reigns will be\non Monday Night Raw to talk about his cancer battle. While I\u2019m happy we\u2019ll get\nto see him on WWE television after 18 weeks without him, I really hope that\nthis is something he wanted to do instead of a way to get a cheap boost in\nratings. Maybe he\u2019ll tell us a little bit about his experience with filming.\nSpeaking of Roman\u2019s cancer battle, my friend has just started going through\nhers and she\u2019s really drawing some strength from the Big Dog. She had her first\ntreatment on Tuesday and then we sat and watched Smackdown Live together. She\nwas definitely tired, but still into it. We\u2019re queuing up some matches of our\nfavorite wrestlers to watch at her chemo induction next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>@IwanMack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this week took me to two live shows as I\nwent down the South Coast for Riptide&#8217;s 1st show of 2019 &#8216;Deep Six&#8217; and to the\nDome in Tufnell Park for ATTACK! Pro, if you want my full thoughts on both\nshows then explore the website for both reviews but something I did take away\nfrom both shows was that Cara Noir is one of the best wrestlers in Europe right\nnow.<br>\n<br>\nHe faced Ashmore at Riptide and Kyle Fletcher at ATTACK! and both matches were completely\ndifferent but both were awesome none the less.<br>\n<br>\nIn non-live stuff, I decided to explore some of the Australian wrestling scene courtesy\nof some advice of my friend Jordan of AussieWrestlingGifs. My main takeaways\nfrom this was that Robbie Eagles is incredible and I want to meet him to tell\nhim how incredible he is, Caveman Ugg is pretty damn cool as well and I watched\nKyle Fletcher vs Trent Seven from PROGRESS which was a fantastic strong style\ncontest that could have taken place on Japan, it was that good.<br>\n<br>\nI also took in some wrestling from Hungary as the Arrows of Hungary faced Tyler\nBate and Pete Dunne in a really good match as well as Senza Volto vs ELP from\nGermany which was great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>@RoxBlackburn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finn Balor won the Intercontinental\nChampionship. I have fangirled and I can&#8217;t get up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>@twf87<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest event of this week was the\nGiant Baba 20th Memorial Show from Ryogoku Sumo Hall, which involved wrestlers\nfrom almost all the major Japanese companies coming together to celebrate the\nlife of a literal giant of Japanese wrestling. Baba made his debut in 1960, and\nestablished All Japan Pro Wrestling in 1972. He was both a wrestler and booker\nof the promotion until his death in 1999, and he oversaw a huge boom period for\nwrestling in Japan. 8,800 fans turned out for his memorial show, and also the\nretirement ceremony of Abdullah the Butcher, which saw an array of legends come\nto the ring including Satoru Sayama, Stan Hansen, and Dory Funk Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The matches on the show were an amazing\nmixture of nostalgia and showing off some of the current top talent in Japan.\nRikidozan\u2019s 70 year old son, Mitsuo Momota, won the opening battle royale, and\nthe team of 76 year old Mil Mascaras and 68 year old Dos Caras won the semi\nmain event. The main event featured AJPW Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara\nteaming with the BJW Strong Champion Daisuke Sekimoto to take on Hiroshi\nTanahashi and Yoshitatsu. All four men were great in this match, but Miyahara\nin particular looked like a star, wearing the old triple crown belts to the\nring at the start of the match. This show was a real feel good event, and\nhaving so many different companies come together for this crossover harkened\nback to an era when professional wrestling transcended the niche of pop culture\nthat it currently occupies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling ran a good show\nfrom Shinjuku Face on Saturday, with some strong title matches. Miyu Yamashita\nretained the Princess of Princess Title, and Yuka Sakazaki (who will be\nappearing for AEW soon) and Mizuki held on to the Tokyo Princess Tag Titles.\nThe biggest news of the night was that Hyper Misao seemed to have ended her\ncrime fighting days after she cut up her mask in ring and joined the returning\nSaki Sama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The combined ROH and New Japan shows Honor\nRising took place in Japan this week, and while they were fairly average, the\nTakashi Iizuka retirement ceremony in mid week was a highlight. Iizuka went out\nbiting his way to defeat at the hands of a Hiroyoshi Tenzan moonsault, and left\nhis iron glove in the ring for a ten bell salute. A fitting end for a 33 year\ncareer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>@TheCiaranJames<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My week turned out to\u00a0be very personal indeed, on Monday 18th February I published my review of the most recent Pro Wrestling Chaos show which took place on Saturday 16th February. The review was available for public consumption at 7pm @ ProWrestlingJournal, in the first hour there were retweets from my fellow colleagues and site affiliates. Then at around 8pm the first piece of feedback was received, this was from UK professional wrestler Chris Walker, who quoted my tweet and made a few comments, which I was fine with. I replied and we had a brief interaction, he didn&#8217;t agree with the wording I used and that was absolutely fine, there were then a few more who I again replied to, however following that I was then attacked viciously on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of fellow wrestling fans then decided to comment, some of which you could warrant, others were just plain daft. I was accused of being a virgin, branded negative, it was said that I only attended shows to write reviews and then the crowning comment was that my review didn&#8217;t matter because it was written by a c**t. I personally decided not to respond to the more harsh comments, nor was I that bothered, when they were shared with me I just laughed, because after all my review(s) is only my personal opinion. When we publish our content we are not telling people to read it, we are in fact letting them know that the content is there to read at their pleasure, if they love it fantastic, if they don&#8217;t, well that is their prerogative. A few of the twitter community did in fact contact me in disagreement, they did not believe the event was as bad as I had described, and I was absolutely fine with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most interesting part of all of this was the number of people who actually messaged me privately to comment how honest the review was, they respected my decision to not be scared of backlash. They then continued to tell me of their personal issues of why they do not express their opinion online, attend shows or communicate with the wrestling community, it seems that fear is at the centre of all of this. In the last year it seems the quote &#8216;<em>Wrestling is for everyone&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0has been trending and many fans have embraced it, but I wonder to myself does this quote only include those who agree with who shouts the loudest? It seems you can&#8217;t give any type of criticism in any form of sports or entertainment. May I remind people that wrestlers are paid employees, wrestling companies sell a product to the public, and therefore because the customer pays the product is open to criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to\nchallenge my opinion and have an open intellectual discussion great, DM me or\ntweet me. But please refrain from the childish insults and remarks, because if\nnot you&#8217;ve lost the argument already.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@WynterStorm24 I really enjoyed Elimination Chamber; I almost cried when the Boss and Hug Connection won and I almost cried again when they had the belts on Monday Night Raw. 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