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

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

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

In-ring Statistics for CM Punk vs Satoshi Kojima from AEWxNJPW Forbidden Door. Kojima's 111 strikes and other cool stats.

What a match! To nobody's surprise two of the best wrestlers of all time put on one of the best matches of all time as Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega put on a sequel to their Wrestle Kingdom 17 masterpiece that delivered whilst having an identity of its own. Personally, I was the low guy on their Wrestle Kingdom match. I didn't connect with Omega's very deliberate pace and found the match less satisfying than those claiming it the best match they've seen. Almost seven months l

Presented as the battle of the best in the world but on the night the best performance by a pair of wrestlers came in a different match. Nevertheless, below you will find the In-ring Statistics from Bryan Danielson vs Kazuchika Okada from AEWxNJPW Forbidden Door 2023. Okada and Danielson's ill-fated match that saw Danielson's arm break and the two men perform in an energy sapped crowd; curtesy of Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay. It is currently the 146th best match of 2023 accor

The Numbers Behind Mercedes Varnardo's Debut as Mone in New Japan The long awaited return of wrestling of Mercedes Varardo to wrestling since leaving WWE after being booked poorly delivered. The match is currently outdoing the much lauded 'greatest storyline of all time' finale; Sami Zayn vs Roman Reigns, on Cagematch with an 8.6 rating (8.3 for Sami/Roman). An 8.6 rating is obviously a fine achievement when your last official wrestling happened 10 months ago. In this article

This weekend saw the collision of two of Japan's biggest stars over the last two years. Takagi defeated Okada in 2021 for the IWGP World Championship after Ospreay vacated the title only to drop it that very man, Kazuchika Okada, at Wrestle Kingdom 16. I'm covering this match as part of my Cagematch 9+ in 2023 challenge, it's currently sitting at 9.51 after 157 votes. My quick personal viewpoints don't sit with that Cagematch rating at all. To gain a 9.51 rating you have to g

This article was a joy to put together. 2012-2020 New Japan Pro Wrestling is, in my opinion, the best period of professional wrestling ever. Below you will find the highest rated 25 matches on Cagematch from New Japan. 21/01/23 Update - We are two and a half weeks post Wrestle Kingdom 17 and the Will Ospreay/Kenny Omega match that set the wrestling fandom abuzz. The match currently has 843 votes, therefore it's time to put it into the Top 25. There are three MVPs of this era

Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay, an 11 graphic deep dive into their Wrestle Kingdom 17 match. In-ring Statistics based analysis.

This article was a joy to put together. 2012-2020 New Japan Pro Wrestling is, in my opinion, the best period of professional wrestling ever. Below you will find the highest rated 25 matches on Cagematch from New Japan. There are three MVPs of this era according to Cagematch ratings, arguably four. Here are the totals for the wrestlers that appear on the list more than once: Okada - 12 Omega - 8 Tanahashi - 7 Ibushi - 5 Naito - 3 Ishii - 3 Ospreay - 2 Shibata - 2 Nakamura - 2

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 morning I watched the main event of Summerslam as well as skipping through to see little bits of the rest. The only thing that merits comment out with the main event (I didn't watch Becky/Bianca, I hear its very good.) is the bizarre decision to rename Io Shirai as Iyo Sky. The taking of a Japanese surname and anglicising it seems off to me. Shirai is a great name to say anyway, more than manageable to non-Japanese speakers... The main event was a gigantic spectacle. It