{"id":11629,"date":"2019-03-10T16:41:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T20:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=11629"},"modified":"2019-03-10T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T20:41:20","slug":"my-week-in-wrestling-week-ending-10th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/10\/my-week-in-wrestling-week-ending-10th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"My Week in Wrestling (week ending 10th March)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

@RoxBlackburn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just when I thought I couldn’t hate Ronda Rousey any more\nthan I did, she goes and releases that video. Have you seen it? The one where\nshe’s effin and jeffin, sounding more ridiculously amateur than ever. It’s not\neffective heel work Ronda, it makes you sound like a dick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we have the NXTUK guys putting in instant classics. For those who haven’t seen this week\u2019s installment, check it out. Jordan Devlin and Travis Banks’ last man standing match was incredible and showcases the best of the UK brand. The gap between NXT UK and the likes of Raw and Smackdown sometimes feels vast but whilst you have the likes of Rousey embarrassing herself, I say the NXT and NXT UK guys need to just keep doing what they’re doing, because people are starting to see through the shallowness of the supposed ‘top stars’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speculation has surfaced this week about Gallows and\nAnderson as their contract apparently isn’t far away from being up and the\nrumour is, they’ll jump ship. Where to? Who knows? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am I excited for Fastlane? Not massively. Having a PPV at\nthis time seems so forced, especially when they have SO much to do to build\ncredible storylines in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@twf87<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four words: Momo Watanabe. \nJungle Kyona.  My favourite match\nof the year took place in Nagoya on March 3rd, as Jungle Kyona challenged the\nWonder of Stardom champion Momo Watanabe in her hometown of Nagoya.  Kyona was Momo’s first opponent on her record\nsetting title run, so this match had nine months of buildup between the two\nchallenges.  More than that, Momo was\nKyona’s first ever opponent in Stardom when she debuted in 2015, and the two\nwere a tag team together until Momo turned on Kyona to join Io Shirai’s new\nunit Queen’s Quest.  Add in the fact that\nKyona had lost every singles title match she had participated in, and you had\nthe perfect storm of a match.  The match\nitself was an absolute war, and Kyona threw everything she had at Momo,\nincluding a brand new muscle buster. \nUltimately though, it wasn’t enough to overcome Watanabe, who pinned her\nafter a Peach Sunrise to set a new defence record for the Wonder of Stardom\ntitle (breaking Io Shirai’s previous record of 10 defences in one reign.)  It’s worth getting a Stardom World subscription\nfor one month just to watch this match, that’s how good it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also saw some live wrestling this week in the form of Pro\nWrestling Revolution in San Francisco. \nThis show featured the US debut of Jun Akiyama, who teamed with Ultimo\nDragon in the main event.  The crowd\nloved Akiyama, and the veteran All Japan wrestler looked like he was enjoying\nperforming in the US.  The show also had\na Tajiri vs. Super Crazy rematch from ECW, and both men can still go at a good\nlevel.  Overall, a really fun, lucha libre\ninspired show that was well worth the $20 ticket price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@Iwanmack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well after a quiet week last week with no live graps to go\nto. I took in two live wrestling shows with Saturday evening’s Southside ‘Allie\nAlone: Lost in London’ and Sunday Afternoon’s TIDAL ‘Johnny 5 is Alive: Your\nMomma was a Snowblower’. Two shows that I have fully reviewed on this very\nwebsite, two shows that I had very different opinions on as well. What was nice\nwas seeing talents on both shows that I have never seen or don’t see that often\nlike Brady Phillips, Rickey Knight Jr, Will Kroos etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as online, I’ve watched the latest PROGRESS show\nwhich has a decent first half but is really saved by the excellent second half\nfeaturing a great match with The Swords of Essex against Aussie Open. It made\nme happy with my purchase of a ticket for the next Electric Ballroom PROGRESS\nShow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

@WynterStorm24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My week in wrestling was a little emotional. The\nShield officially reunited on Monday Night Raw, Roman\u2019s second week back after\nbeating cancer. Lots of people are over the Shield reunions, but not me. It\nmeans a lot to me, beyond just the actual wrestling. I even wrote an emotional\npiece about those feelings, which was\u2026cathartic in a way. I talk a lot about\nmental health but that was one of the first times I\u2019ve really acknowledged my\nown struggles in depth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WWE officially announced that WrestleMania 36 will be\nin Tampa Bay, Florida. I\u2019ve committed myself to going as well as to going to\nRoyal Rumble 2020. Time to get the coins up! I\u2019m also trying to go to Extreme\nRules this year and take my friend to her first pay-per-view. She\u2019s hoping to\nbeat cancer quickly just like Roman. Things are going well for her, minus a\nlittle bit of nausea here and there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tommaso Ciampa has a neck injury and now he\u2019s out for\na fairly long period of time. I definitely wish him the speediest of\nrecoveries, but now Gargano\u2019s basically fallen off my radar since Ciampa was\n85% of the reason I even cared about him. I just got done watching the yard for\nRoman and now I have to protect Goldie while Tommaso\u2019s away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure everyone saw that video of Ronda Rousey\ncalling wrestling fake and saying \u201cEff the WWE Universe.\u201d And admittedly, it\u2019s\nfairly effective heel work as it\u2019s making everyone talk about and hate her. But\nat the same time to me, she just seems like she can\u2019t handle the heat. Just\nlike she lost twice and gave up UFC, she\u2019s gotten booed for a few weeks and now\nshe\u2019s over wrestling. She\u2019s wasting her time, our time, and the company\u2019s time.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@tvtimelimit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was always going to come sooner rather than later, but\nJushin Liger officially announced his retirement will happen after the Tokyo\nDome show in 2020. He isn\u2019t getting any younger and has wrestled for an\noutrageous number of years, yet it will still be sad knowing that Liger won\u2019t\nlace up the boots in less than a year. Having grown up watching New Japan via\nEurosport, Liger was one of the first wrestlers I absolutely fell in love with\nwhen I was younger and he has remained my favourite wrestler ever since. Luckily\nfor me, I managed to see him live at a Revolution Pro show around half a decade\nago, which included me getting a photo with him. Just an absolute legend and\nsomeone who will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I sit here on Sunday, I eagerly await the next few days\nof wXw watching. Due to some judicious muting of hashtags and accounts, I\u2019ve\nmanaged to avoid too many spoilers, though I haven\u2019t been completely\nspoiler-free. Inner Circle should drop tonight, whilst I should know who is the\nwXw Unified World Heavyweight Champion and the winner of 16 Carat by the tail\nend of next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel that \u2013 having enjoyed how many events I caught last\nyear \u2013 I will put down some money on the Fite Collection on Fite.tv when it\ncomes to the shows at this year\u2019s Wrestlemania Weekend. With my Brighton\nmarathon run the weekend after, a relaxing week watching wrestling with my feet\nup sounds like it is definitely in order!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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