E.K’s Wrestling Place

  I would like to begin this article with a bit of background and clarifying information. I created a point system for myself based on my own match ratings for wrestlers of the year ranking purposes, will be using this points system to rank my top 15 every month. These will (try to) come out every first Friday of the month. Now an odd thing that you won't think about is what matches count for the month. For me personally am only counting, matches that happened during the month and aired before the first Friday of said month. My reasoning behind this is matches are taped and aired later all the time and cutting off the air date at the first Friday gives me time to do the math and write this article. Now any matches that do not count for wrestler of the month will of course count for wrestler of the year. Final match count that goes into these rankings is 323 matches. Will list the points break down here before we get into the rankings: 0-2 = -1 (-.75) Point 2-2.5 = 0 Points 2.75 = 1...

 Hi y'all this blog post is an excuse for me to go through my twitter bookmarks (with a handy dandy wheel) and watch some great wrestling. Randy Savage Jerry Lawler vs Rick Rude King Kong Bundy 9/10/1984 Savage and Lawler throw amazing punches, and as they beat up Rude, as the crowd roars. No better punches to be found anywhere in the land. The delayed lock up before Lawler losing the lock up, leading to Savage making the save is incredible pro wrestling. The stalling as Lawler sells the threat of Bundy is a perfect example of doing less but getting so much more out of it. Savage on the apron isn't physically involved in the match until his tag but is fantastic. These four are doing so little and I do not mean that in a bad way. I mean to say that they are getting so much out of every single thing they do, not a moment or an action wasted. The crowd reacts to every single thing they do. All four men have the crowd in the palms of their hands. The pop for Lawler knocking the hea...

This is a show I just saw one day scrolling through luchadb as one does and decided time to watch and review it.   Psycho Kid, Astro Rey Jr, Fulgor I, & Fulgor II vs Rey Apocalipsis, Tony Cisneros, Extreme Fly & Luz Clarita I do not know most people in this match, but I'm giving it a shot and hoping for the best. One of the luchadores is in full Wonder Woman drag, I do not know why, but he is kinda rocking it so will not complain. That's apparently exotico Luz Clarita and I love him already. I quite enjoy the early mat work here between one of the Fulgors and Rey Apocalipsis, it truly is excellent. This opening tag has blown away my expectations of nothing into it being a grand time. The brawling into the crowd rules. A quite fun opener this one. This is a step above your average opening 6 man tag and is quite good. Every wrestler has played their part exceptionally well, and the match's pace has built well from the mat work in the beginning, into massive dives and ...

 This will be a little different then my usual posts. I am going to be talking about my view on wrestling as a medium and also my personal views on things like the history and tradition in professional wrestling. The ideas of how the art form evolves as the decades pass and the newer generation continues to push the boundaries of what is physically possible. To preface I am not saying what once was is better, what I am aiming to say is that some things got lost during the continued innovation that has been, overall, truly great. Some of the things lost were intentional, some were not, nonetheless it was. I am going to choose two matches from a few weekends ago that can show how great a young wrestler desperately clinging to the traditions of the past can be. Xelhua is the focus of this post, and the two matches couldn't be in any more different locations. One was in the main event on a Friday night in Arena Mexico, the cathedral of Lucha Libre, the other was in Terrazza Elma for a...

 This show is the next show to take place in the new Tokyo Dome. The reborn UWF is our next promotion to run the Dome. Maeda had recently left NJPW again after another falling out with Management and continues to push the envelope on what wrestling can be. Tatsuo Nakano vs Shigeo Miyato Really frantic strikes out of a clinch to begin. The mat work is not either mans strength however the strikes out of a standing clinch is quite excellent. This is very much shoot style, two guys going for legitimate techniques centered around pro wrestling ideas and is done quite well. The standing work and grappling whilst standing is definitely the highlight of this match, whilst the grounded work is kinda just there. They do it cause they feel they have to. Miyato knocks downs Nakano but Nakano is able to meet the count but is quickly downed again in a flurry of action; is able to keep fighting through but Miyato finds a nasty variation of a half crab. Miyato is now the one to be knocked down by ...

 This is a card I saw a friend on Twitter mention wanting to find and I saw three of these matches and just knew I needed to watch and review it, boy am I glad I did.  Tengu Barron Tengu Kaiser vs Munenori Sawa Naoki Ueda Quick opening between Ueda and Tengu with holds traded, before the other the other Tengu tags in and is taken down by a shoulder block and a dropkick. This match is quite clipped but what is shown is pretty good all around. Tengus win after a splash by the red one. Get around 2 minutes of a 13 minute match. No rating due to it being that severely clipped. Koji Kanemoto Ryusuke Taguchi vs Shota Takanishi Tatsuhito Takaiwa Taguchi does a taunting dance as he is introduced that got a chuckle from me. Takaiwa and Kanemoto are jawing before the match as the old NJPW Jr. stalwarts begin this match. Incredible mat work, followed by heavy ass chops as expected. The mat work is beyond crisp and I could watch these two wrestle for eternity. Kanemoto is an ultra dick a...