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…
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.
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…
Apologies for the lateness of this review, but I had a job interview yesterday for a data analysis post and needed to bone up on Excel for the skills test. …
In honour of the much talked-about Roman Reigns vs. Undertaker match at tonight’s Wrestlemania 33 event, we asked our writers to give their thoughts on whether Roman should win. This is…
What ho, chaps. It’s time for another Robot Wars recap on our increasingly things-that-aren’t-wrestling-but-totally-are-centric wrestling website. Let’s hop to it, I’ve got mediocre NXT episodes to digest. “There is no…
Masahiko Kimura is probably the most skilled fighter in the world. Masahiko Kimura is also a pro wrestler. The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Rikidōzan knows all about Kimura. …
Welcome back robo-lovers! After last week’s episode, ably covered by my colleague David Forrest, here I am with my first review of this new Robot Wars series. Turgid celebrity specials…
After a difficult gestation involving lost audio, a re-recording and one of the presenters’ dogs shitting everywhere mid-episode, George, Daniel and David are back with another look at the famous…
Episode 4 sees the hosts begin their first story arc, as they start to explore one of the most famous and most controversial feuds in the history of puroresu –…
Like most followers of Japanese wrestling, I was pleasantly surprised when Stan Hansen was announced for the WWE Hall of Fame last year. Surprised because, aside from a main event…