{"id":11693,"date":"2019-03-17T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2019-03-17T15:54:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T19:54:43","slug":"my-week-in-wrestling-week-ending-17th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/17\/my-week-in-wrestling-week-ending-17th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"My Week in Wrestling (week ending 17th March)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

The Road to Wrestlemania heats up, especially as the card\nstarts to build. We know we’ve got Becky Lynch v Charlotte v Ronda Rousey for\nthe Raw women’s championship. The debate rages on about whether Rousey has gone\ntoo far with her recent mic work. What do we think? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthering our love of Becky, did you see she stepped in to\nassist a fan during a signing? The fan was having a medical issue and Becky\nwent to her aid and waited with her until the paramedics arrived. Becky is a\nclass act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Randy Orton and AJ\nStyles cut a good ole promo on Smackdown this week. They’re setting up a great\nfeud which pits the WWE made talent against the indie talent. I’m pretty sure\nthese guys are going to give us gold over the next few weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finn, oh Finn. He lost the Intercontinental title this last\nweek on Raw. Two current theories surround this. 1. He’s going to beat Lashley\nfor the title at Wrestlemania but it’ll be Demon Finn. 2. A little more far\nfetched, but are we going to see The Demon v The Deadman? Fingers crossed! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raw this Monday sees Lashley and Rush take on Balor and his\nyet to be named opponent. My 7 year old has predicted a return for Sami Zayn.\nNXT UK saw the underwhelming debut of Kay Lee Ray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question for those who follow the UK indie scene, are WWE\nwatering their UK talent down? I enjoyed the reviews our guys have posted this\nweek. Look out for the content growing even more in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Two shows over the weekend for me this week as I went to my\nlocal promotion Battle Pro on Friday. A really good show overall with the main\nevent of Jordan Breaks and The OJMO being particularly excellent. It\u2019s free to\nview on YouTube as well – I highly recommend it.
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\nOn Saturday I went to day two of the EVE International Women’s Day weekender, I\nhave reviewed the show in full on this illustrious website but the main\ntakeaways were that Command Bolshoi vs Leon may be one of the best live matches\nI’ve ever seen and Kay Lee Ray is the new EVE champ as well, we can all rejoice\nin that news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I’m got going to lie but I really didn’t have time watch\nthat much wrestling this week. I did however manage to tune in to both 205 Live\nand NXT. 205 Live saw the semi-finals of the Cruiserweight Championship\ntournament commence in brilliant fashion. Oney Lorcan and Cedric Alexander had\na hard-hitting affair and Drew Gulak and Tony Nese had their best match\ntogether to date. Excellent show and definitely worth tuning in for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On NXT, the semi finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic\ncommenced with Moustache Mountain battling with The Forgiven Sons and DIY\nimploding after their match with Aleister Black and Ricochet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst I didn’t have time to watch much wrestling this week,\nthe little I did watch was definitely worth my time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

@DriftAway93<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I’ve kept up with RAW, SmackDown, 205 Live, NXT\n& NXT UK as I do every week. But this week I found myself watching some wXw\nstuff, some old ‘Big Daddy’ WALTER matches and catching up on a favourite of\nmine and recent NXT UK signee, Ilja Dragunov.. who is just sublime. I cannot\nwait to see him and Pete Dunne lock up! That would be a modern day dream match\nof mine for sure! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What turned me to wXw was the video that came out this week\nof the surprising and goosebumps inducing appearance of SAnitY’s own Alexander\nWolfe at 16 Carat Gold 2019 to accept the open challenge from current wXw\nShotgun Champion, Marius Al-Ani! I didn’t get to see the match, which was\nannoying, so I went looking and lost myself in a labyrinth of outstanding\nGerman wrestling! Alexander Wolfe (or Axel Tischer as he was known then) vs\nWALTER at 16 Carat Gold 2014 is excellent and the whole 17 minute match is on\nYouTube if you want to see it! Here’s the link – https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=IdCrrF3nw9c \u2026<\/a> – Further driving home\njust how big a waste of fantastic talent SAnitY are at the moment; Because the\nwhole stable are main event level players! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So.. I’d thoroughly recommend checking out wXw! It blew my mind\nthis week. The energy of their crowds is so crazy that you can’t help but get\npumped up watching it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

A lot of My Week in Wrestling has been write large across\nthe site as I spent most of my week catching up with wXw 16 Carat Gold. The Bobby\nGunns\u2019 title win was a great feel good moment on the Saturday, whilst it was\nnice to see the promotion take a chance with Lucky Kid. I wasn\u2019t expecting him\nto win when he was up against WALTER in the final, or at least expected some\nshenanigans, so it felt huge when he managed to make the big man tap. All in\nall, a good selection of shows that perhaps played more to the regular wXw fan\nthan a casual fan who fancied dropping in to check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My most notable other wrestling action has been to start\nchecking out some NWA\/WCW PPVs. I was always a WWF fan first and foremost when\nI was younger, but having listened to some of the Lapsed Fan podcasts on the\nvarious Starrcades, I felt it would be a good time to go back and have a look\nat the well recommended shows from that time period. The first one I have been\nwatching is Chi-Town Rumble 1989 and a fifteen minute opening match between\nMichael Hayes and Russian Assassin #2 didn\u2019t exactly float my boat, but I\u2019m\nsure there is a lot more of interest to come. Should be some fairly guilt free\nwrestling watching as it is the only stuff I\u2019m checking out at the moment that\nI don\u2019t feel like turning into a piece of writing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three weeks until Wrestlemania and there should be some good\npieces hitting the site around that time. I\u2019ve also invested in the Fite\nCollection on fite.tv so shall be trying to catch as much of the action as I\ncan. I enjoyed watching all the stuff last year, so hopefully I\u2019ll get the same\nenjoyment out of it this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

@RoxBlackburn The Road to Wrestlemania heats up, especially as the card starts to build. We know we’ve got Becky Lynch v Charlotte v Ronda Rousey for the Raw women’s championship. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,2],"tags":[386],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-editorials","category-featured","tag-wxw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jnWd-32B","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/build-a-wrestling-ring.jpg?fit=600%2C324&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11694,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions\/11694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}