It's been a week since All In weekend and you all are missing the wonderment of that weekend aren't you? You're missing the expensive prices that only London can bring (£4 for an apple juice in a bar in Westfield!), the London tube map that made you thankful you weren't colour blind, the queues, the walking and the hanging out with folk from Notting Hill Carnival or Carnival as its known locally at the hotel bar.... actually I don't need to tell that story on a public platfor

31 years after WWE(F) put on a massive show under the twin towers, AEW took advantage of WWE’s decision to go to Cardiff instead of North London for last year's UK stadium show by holding a show which has already exceeded expectations with the amount of tickets sold before bell time. With Adam Cole vs MJF happening under the arch that is now England’s national stadium’s trademark and with memories of that night on Bank Holiday weekend in August 1992 on some minds, I thought

After 45 hours of action in a 4 week span with socialising no longer a thing in that time, the G1 finally felt real again with crowds fully back and fans being able to make noise and not clapping to show appreciation (except for Nagano) While the arguments about fields being too big and formats not working, the final week with 3 knockout rounds was always going to be a great watch and despite EVIL threatening to not make it a great watch, the end of G1 was something to put i

This was the week we've all waiting for mainly because it means 3 hour shows every other day that includes Chase Owens, Tanga Loa and Gabe Kidd every other day are no longer a thing for another 11 months. It also means that we get important decision matches which means the quality of in-ring action goes up big style (well, apart from one match) so let's look at the best from Week Three of the G1 How do you outsmart Gabe Kidd? That question is easier to answer than Is the Pope

With July in the books and most of Britain staying indoors in the rain, saving money for All In weekend, going to Barbieheimer in the cinemas and watching the G1, a lot of wrestling away from wrestling’s top tourney exhilarated those that watched it. So let’s look at the best of the best from July. If you’re wondering where the best G1 matches are on this list, I have done an in-depth look at the first 3 weeks of the G1 Climax which is on the site (and yes I'm going to revi

With three nights making up the third week of the G1, we will doing a shortened version of our latest edition of G1 in Star Ratings and with one rubbish night amongst the three, the amount of matches we will look at is going to be further shortened. It was 15 minutes into the Tonga/Takagi match where I thought “I’m doing this on a Sunday morning?”. Luckily, the next two nights were better with some fun matches and some interesting calls booking-wise. So, let's look at the bes

Week Two of the G1is done and between work, a possible chest infection, Barbieheimer weekend, the FIFA Womens World Cup and 39 matches of G1 (I skipped Loa vs Khan, I'm not a masochist) I'm a very tired man right now. So lets get into the best of the best and a slight reference to Owens vs Loa before I hit my head on the laptop while writing this up While Night Five had a contender for worst match of 2023 (Chase Owens, everybody) there were three worthy matches to go into

So the 33rd edition of the G1 Climax is underway with more wrestlers than ever (any excuse to have Chase Owens in the G1 I guess) in a format change with 4 blocks of 8 with a quarter-final stage added. So with 119 matches on offer. I will watch every one (the majority of them with my dad for reasons) even the EVIL and Chase Owens matches and look at the best on offer with a little homage to Joe Lanza from Voices of Wrestling and his notebook chronicling his 4 star plus matche

Half the year is complete and it's been alright hasn’t it. Nothing has gone completely wrong (knock on wood), all of us got tickets for All In, it feels like New Japan is back and we got two contenders for the Rushmore of wrestling matches. So with June over, we will of course look at the best of June with AEW and NJPW joining forces for Forbidden Door, New Japan’s second biggest show of the year (if we’re discounting the G1) and AEW putting on big Dynamites but as a bonus we

Best of the Super Juniors and Double or Nothing means that it’s gonna be May. But as we say Bye Bye Bye to the fifth month of May, we look at the matches that were Tearing up the Hearts of fans all over the world. That was one too many N*Sync references wasn't it? All Cagematch ratings displayed are as of June 6th 2023 Let's be honest, while Revolution is a contender for Event of The Year, Double or Nothing would have been a contender for Worst Event of The Year so far had i

Welcome to the latest edition of our month in Star Ratings and I’m going to be honest with you. April once Wrestlemania was done and dusted was very meh. With a tag match being the best match in New Japan in April, only a Usos vs Sami/KO match preventing The Miz being in the best match in WWE in the past 4 weeks according to Cagematch and only one match in AEW above 8.00 and above 4 stars from Dave Meltzer, it’s safe to say that you take STARDOM away from the equation, the mo

Welcome to the March edition of the Month In Star Ratings and with Wrestlemania taking place in the first two days of April, I have decided to include WWE’s biggest show of the year in this month’s writings and with two 5-star matches and a controversial end of the main event of Night 2 we have plenty to discuss. AEW Well, that’s Best Major Wrestling Show in the Observer sewn up then. (Note, I wrote this before watching Sakura Genesis) Highest R

The shortest month of the year produced some big matches and some interesting content with opinions all over the place coming out of contests from New Japan, All Japan, TJPW, Pro Wrestling NOAH, AEW and WWE so lets look at the best matches from Japan and the US in the month of February. NJPW Okada vs Takagi Was the best thing to happen to Okada Kaito Kiyomiya kicking him really hard in the head? Okada sneering, using tactics that heels are very happy to use. This is the most

The first month of the year usually sees the wrestling world give us Wrestle Kingdom in the first week of the year and the Royal Rumble in the final weekend of January. But with AEW looking to go big at the start of the year and PWG moving the Battle of Los Angeles to January from its pre-pandemic home of the summer, January has become a big month in the landscape of pro wrestling. So let's wipe away our whiteboards charting our 2022 Match of the Year lists (or is that just

December wasn’t as quiet as I thought it would be then. The run up to Christmas saw some unexpected surprises with the third instalment of the FTR/Briscoes trilogy and expected greatness in the Elite vs Death Triangle Best of 7 series but with so much variance in the quality of pro wrestling in the final month of the year with eight promotions supplying matches with a Meltzer rating of ****¾+/9.00+ on Cagematch this month. It has been one of the most interesting months of the

It was a November to remember in professional wrestling with fans being treated to the once a quarter year occasion of an AEW PPV and one of the “big five” US WWE PPVs in the shape of Full Gear and Survivor Series. Also add the Road to Wrestle Kingdom and many great matches from companies away from the big 3 and November was a busy month for those who rate and observe wrestling matches November would be a weird month regarding the godfather of the star rating himself Dave Mel

Welcome to the second edition of our review of October through the prism of Dave Meltzer's Star Ratings and Cagematch. October was quiet on the main with AEW only producing one match with a Meltzer rating of ****1/2 and none over 8.00 and WWE building up to its November PLE's Crown Jewel and Survivor Series with promotions away from matches away from America grabbing the attention last month. FTR vs Aussie Open- Oct 1st Meltzer- ***** Cagematch- 9.35 On the first day of Octob

Welcome to a new series on PWMusings in which we look at one of the most divisive talking points on wrestling twitter, star ratings. This should be fun If you're reading this, you'll know that the man who has cornered the market on star ratings in wrestling is a man by the name of Dave Meltzer. He is the man behind the Wrestling Observer, a newsletter that in the last 40 years has shaped the discussion of wrestling and has also made famous the star rating system used in pro w