For years now, in my mind dating back to the Samoa Joe/Finn Balor feud of 2015-2016, the most tedious part of NXT has been the men’s title scene. This is…
Author: Statto
George Thompson, known to his friends as Statto, is one-third of the team that makes up The Puro Pourri Podcast. Following an initial grappling obsession, which ran between 2001 and 2005, he spent large amounts of his time at university distracting himself from work with wrestling, and a smaller number of hours coming up with excuses to discuss the sport in an academic context. He is currently halfway through a novel set in the world of Japanese wrestling after the Second World War, entitled "The Rise and Fall of Rikidōzan", and hopes to finish it sometime in 2017. His man-crush on Katsuyori Shibata continues unabated.
If you’ve not yet read the first two parts of this trilogy, you can find them here and here. Don’t just focus on the attack to the exclusion of all…
If you haven’t yet seen the first part of this series, in which I try to cobble together the Gatoh Move roster into a semblance of a functional football team,…
Football is pro wrestling, as those handsome bastards at the Puro Pourri Podcast observed. It shouldn’t be a surprise. Everything is pro wrestling. But what if pro wrestling was football? …
Brexit has, it is fair to say, completely altered the political landscape of the United Kingdom. Speaking less circumspectly, you might say that it has absolutely fucked it. Everything from…
Team Raw vs Team Smackdown (Live) WWE Survivor Series Toyota Centre, Houston 19th November 2017 The Match We open with the usual pulsating video package, most notable for Shane McMahon…
The Undisputed Era vs Sanity vs The Authors of Pain and Roderick Strong NXT Takeover: War Games Toyota Centre, Houston 18th November 2017 The Match As is standard for WWE,…
Late is the hour, and smoke rises from those holes in the arena floor where that set of spikes used to be. It’s time for Episode 5 of Robot Wars!…
The weekend is getting closer, which means the first matches of Pro Wrestling: EVE’s She-1: Ace of EVE league are just around the corner. We’re introducing you to the 12…
After an episode last week that was more stacked than a Jenga warehouse, Episode 3 of the latest Robot Wars tournament sees a greater number of unknown quantities enter the…
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends (except between 2004 and 2016). It’s time for another series of Robot Wars, and as always myself and my Puro…
I am more aware than anyone that I haven’t been keeping up with this very frequently to say the least, but let’s get back to it. Get some Misawa down…