While she has since found success in AEW, Paige looked to have completely finished wrestling after her last match in WWE. Paige was one of the most important female wrestlers in AEW history. Her match with Emma at NXT Arrival changed women’s wrestling forever, and she was rewarded for that by winning the Divas Championship … Read more
Davey Boy Smith was fired by WCW in 1993, after a series of events soured the relationship between the British Bulldog and Bill Watts. After WWE fired the British Bulldog in 1992, he was brought in as a main event star by WCW booker Bill Watts. He became an ally of Sting, battling Vader and … Read more
The British Bulldog’s break-up and the feud following tore the pair’s family apart in the subsequent years. Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith left the WWE in 1988, following Dynamite Kid’s incident with the Rougeau’s, plus aggrievances over plane tickets. They opted to move back to Canada to work with Stampede Wrestling. During this time, … Read more
Sir Atholl Oakeley presided over the creation of the All-In Wrestling rules. The rules were codified in 1930, after the sport of professional wrestling almost died in the UK. All-In Wrestling had a number of rules in place, with twelve different fouls a wrestler could commit. These could lead to warnings, points deductions or even … Read more
If you go online and search for the earliest depiction of wrestlers ever discovered, one particular cave painting will crop up numerous times. Whether you use Google, Bing or the Chinese-made Baidu (okay, maybe not the last one.), then the answer to your question will be given as the cave paintings found in the Lascaux … Read more
Billy Robinson knocking out Peter Maivia is one of the most infamous street fights in wrestling history, although the truth has been shrouded in mystery…until now. Usually in professional wrestling, the fights in the ring are the second most interesting part of the show. The most exciting is the behind-the-scenes fighting between the wrestling, which … Read more
The United Kingdom, England especially, has a long and storied history of masked wrestlers performing in the ring. Wrestling under a mask, like modern stars such as Rey Mysterio, has been going on for as long as the sport itself. In France, the first mention of a masked wrestler was in 1848 that L’Homme Masque … Read more
Wrestling was in a state of flux in 1987 and Kendo Nagasaki had a slightly faulty vision for how All-Star Wrestling could compete with the glitz and glamour of the WWE. If one word could describe Joint Promotions’s presentation, it might be ‘traditionalist’. Indeed, its conservative approach saw few real characters, white meat goodies take … Read more
Johnny Saint learnt the art of wrestling from the legendary Billy Robinson as a wide-eyed 15-year-old in Manchester. The Man of 1000 Holds is one of the most well-known stars from the early days of British wrestling. While he didn’t have as much success as the likes of Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, Johnny Saint’s … Read more
Hiroshi Tanahashi is one of the all-time greats in Japanese wrestling, but his last match in the United Kingdom should play on his history in the country. While he is a multi-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and the current President of New Japan Pro Wrestling, Tanahashi also had a substantial run in RevPro. The Japanese star … Read more