Well it’s that time again, where I, Callum Owen aka The Wrestling Brain and Colin Hebert aka The Curtain Jerker give our predictions for an upcoming NJPW show. This time round we are discussing the G1 Climax but instead of predicting every match in both brackets, we’re just going to run through the must see matches. …
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Jul 06
New Japan’s First Excursion To U.S. A Success
- By 0215ag3sxa in Editorials, Slider, SLTD Wrestling
This past weekend, New Japan Pro Wrestling fired a shot across the bow of professional wrestling at their top competitor, WWE, by holding their first 2 shows in the United States under the New Japan banner. They held 2 sold out shows in Long Beach, California and are expected to hold 2 more shows late …
Jul 03
Does WWE need more belts?
- By 0215ag3sxa in Editorials, Slider, SLTD Wrestling, WWE
Yes. Despite Tetsuya Naito being one of my favourite wrestlers, unlike him, I don’t believe you can have too many belts. I loved watching him trash the IWGP Intercontinental Championship as much as the next guy and look forward to him doing it to NJPW’s United States Title, but I believe the more belts the better. …
Jun 29
Curtain Jerker & Wrestling Brain Predicts – New Japan G1 Special
New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s G1 Special from Los Angeles is this Saturday and Sunday. NJPW takes over Los Angeles as stars from both ROH and NJPW, compete in the G1 special. The two main focal points over the two day event include a IWGP Heavyweight Championship match between Kazuchika Okada and Cody Rhodes, and an 8 man …
Jun 09
Curtain Jerker / Wrestling Brain – NJPW Dominion
Wrestling Brain: I’ll begin these predictions with admitting, I’m not an NJPW guru, I dip in and out of it now and then, I don’t have NJPW world, mainly because I can’t afford it and I probably wouldn’t have much time to watch even more wrestling. However, considering this PPV is being headlined by the …
May 10
Shinsuke Nakamura’s Future With WWE
- By Tom Robinson in Editorials, Slider, WWE
Shinsuke Nakamura debuted in WWE in an emphatic way, putting on a wrestling clinic with Sami Zayn at NXT TakeOver: Dallas. With the crowd bundled with joy over the battle that they saw, you could tell that Nakamura’s wrestling style would fit just fine and click with a US audience. It’s not like Nakamura has …
Apr 23
Bullet/Balor/Club/Proof
- By 0215ag3sxa in Slider, SLTD Wrestling, WWE
With the emergence of Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson it’s now more or less confirmed that WWE are bringing the new band together. The two former members of NJPW’s most infamous stable the Bullet Club have arrived in McMahonLand and are looking to be the biggest, baddest group since the debut of the NWO in …
Feb 03
Legend on Legends – Big Van Vader
- By 0215ag3sxa in Slider, SLTD Wrestling, WWE
Arguably the greatest super heavyweight in wrestling history, from the AWA, NJPW, WCW, WWF & NOAH, Vader has done it all in his career. He is known as being one of the best big men in the industry, in his 30 year career he has managed to capture multiple heavyweight titles and has earned the …
- NJPW, Triple Crown, Vader, WCW, WWE, WWF
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Jan 28
Letter To The Phenomenal One
- By 0215ag3sxa in Editorials, Slider, WWE
Dear Aj Styles, It has been a very long journey to say the least, you went all around the world and made a name for yourself before entering WWE. Everywhere you went from TNA, NJPW, and even ROH the light always shined brightest on the Phenomenal One, personally I never understood why it took so …
Jan 09
The Phenomenal AJ Styles, Bullet Club & Strong Style
- By 0215ag3sxa in Slider, SLTD Wrestling, WWE
Following NJPW’s very successful Wrestle Kingdom 10 on Monday 4th January, news broke on social media that WWE were on the verge of signing AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & Shinsuke Nakamura. On 5th January, AJ was excommunicated from the Bullet Club and said goodbye to NJPW, WWE published a story on their website …
Nov 18
Can ICW become the number 2 world wrestling promotion?
- By 0215ag3sxa in Editorials, Slider
For those of you who do not know, ICW stands for Insane Championship Wrestling! They are a wrestling promotion that comes from Glasgow, Scotland! However, over the past couple of years they have been expanding at a rapid pace, they have toured the United Kingdom a couple of times and most recently they just completed …
Oct 14
Kimura Kolumn – Brock Lesnar: What’s next?
- By 0215ag3sxa in Editorials, Slider, WWE
Oh it’s me, it’s PWV! I thought that it would be fitting that the first entry of this blog should be about the man who gave obvious inspiration behind the name of the blog, The Beast Incarnate, BROCK LESNAR! Brock Lesnar is a man with many feats, as all of us wrestling fans know, he …
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