Our brilliant contributor from the lovely (and wrestling-obsessed) subcontinent of India, Arul Kannan recently brought to our site a brand-new concept that is now ready to launch: an app that allows our readers to select a wrestler's name and automatically generate a "Wrestler Card" – an algorithmically generated scouting report based on stats on match quality, card position, attendance, and wins & losses scraped from CAGEMATCH. Go here for a step-by-step how-to with pictures

Count down with PWM the 100 greatest wrestlers of all time, based on many different stats and criteria. A new wrestler will be added on Mondays and Thursdays

It's that time of the year. The time of the year where we dust down our New Japan World subscription, we look at our screens and wonder why the picture quality is worse than the year before. It's that time of the year when we get our abacus’ out because Dave Meltzer’s recaps and standings calculations didn't make sense and when our friends ask us if you want to go for a drink and you have to tell them you're catching up on the G1 Climax which then gets them asking if you're w

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 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

Hello friends and welcome to the return of our Top Ten series after a real life problems induced absence and with the G1 nearing its conclusion, I thought we should look back at the best matches to take place in New Japan’s yearly extravaganza As per our Top Ten, we have a criteria to separate the Okada classics to EVIL's efforts Cagematch Ratings Dave Meltzer’s ratings Rankings in the Best Match Award in the Wrestling Observer Awards Rankings in Voices of Wrestling Match of

This month fifty years ago NJPW held it's first ever event at the Ota Ward Gymnasium with Karl Gotch facing Antonio Inoki in the main event and in the 50 years since, some of the greatest have gone through one of Japan and the world's greatest wrestling promotions competing in some of wrestling's greatest ever matches. So in our first Historic Top Ten in a few months (darn you writer's block) we rank the Top 10 greatest New Japan wrestlers in it's long and wonderful histo

It's that time of the year. Well, not quite. For the second consecutive year the G1 Climax will take place in September thanks to the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo which was supposed to take place in 2020 but was delayed a year to 2021 thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has seen many potential names that could have taken part end up be missing from the 31st edition of the G1 prompting many takes that this might be the weakest field in G1 history. So instead

Greatest Matches of All Time Series - Okada/Omega 1 Written by Harry Walker Considered by many to be the greatest wrestling match of all time, the fourth instalment of the Omega and Okada rivalry is a match not only defined by exciting, compelling in ring action and a background rich and deliberate in subtle story beats, but also an epic saga which defined the years of professional wrestling surrounding it as a whole. Each encounter between these two men had huge ramification

Greatest Matches of All Time Series - Okada/Omega 4 Written by Huw Jones The ‘big fight feel’ moniker has been tossed around with reckless abandon for too long. Recently, it’s been used to describe affairs ranging from a dull and drab 0-0 bore draw between Manchester United and Leeds to the stupefyingly dismal clash of Godzilla and King Kong. It’s rarely justified, then, and it’s especially rare for these bouts to deliver on the misplaced pomp and bluster. There are, of cours

Greatest Matches of All Time Series - Okada/Omega 3 Written By Gareth Ford-Elliot Oftentimes the most overlooked of the four meetings between Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada, their third meeting on Day 18 of the G1 Climax 27 is arguably the most fascinating. But then I would say that as I’ve just spent 3 days mulling over all the little details. The context in which the match exists is simply fascinating with Okada only needing a draw to progress to the final and Kenny Omega

Greatest Matches of All Time Series - Okada/Omega 1 This review is written by Ryan Dilbert of Voices of Wrestling and Wrestle Inn. Damn was Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega at Wrestle Kingdom 11 marvellous. Whenever your love for the art of pro wrestling wanes thanks to head-scratching booking decisions or the deluge of controversy that regularly hits the industry, return to this match. Return to a backdrop out of the ring and through a table waiting below. Return to a g

Written by Deb (@codenamedeb) 2020 was understandably a weird year for wrestling. I don’t really need to elaborate much on that note (I hope I don’t). The last thing I want this this write-up to be is a recap. There is one match however, that sticks out to me as one I’ve needed to talk about but somehow managed to miss out on, even going so far as to make a 52-minute video essay and somehow still not touching on it. The most bizarre wrestling match of 2020 to me was not

For reasons that I've never entirely understood, wrestling fans get very very upset when it comes to discussing match ratings

We have done this using a performance-based triad of stats. And by that, we mean stats that view wrestling as a literal performance.

I dare you to go and tell Suzuki he’s too old to be winning belts.

NJPW League Standings - Wins and Losses - ZSJ joins Moxley and Naito at the top after his second successful RevPro British Heavyweight Championship defence of the year. - Shingo Takagi and Tomohiro Ishii get their first singles victories of 2020. - Toa Henare and El Phantasmo get decent wins over Young Lions. - Will Ospreay and Kota Ibushi are the unlikely bottom of the barrel at this early stage. - Hirooki Goto normalised by Shingo. Now 1-1 in 2020. - Kazuchika Okada makes t