The card for IPW Rival Turf continues to heat up with the addition of another feature bout. IPW has announced Johnny Idol will clash with Liger at this Saturday’s event. Idol and Liger have an issue with one another dating back to Liger’s post-match attack on Idol at New Heights...
WWE’s biggest event of the American summer is behind us – what sort of legacy did this year’s SummerSlam leave behind? SummerSlam will back its bags and leave California in favour of New Jersey/New York next year, but where else would the Gimme Five team like to see given the...
Seeing as we are still basking in the SummerSlam twilight, this week’s Throwback Thursday takes us back to the 2005 edition of the annual summer spectacular. The event occurred during the midst of what has come to be known as the Ruthless Aggression Era and, as a result, has some...
Brock Lesnar has won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship after a vicious onslaught of 16 German suplexes and two F5s left John Cena incapacitated in the SummerSlam main event. Lesnar powered Cena up for an F5 seconds into the bout but the then-champ was able to kick out of Lesnar’s...
Maniacs United returns to action tomorrow night with its second annual Underground event. Underground 2 promises to be somewhat different from the standard Maniacs United experience, with three unique stipulations announced for tomorrow’s matches. JPE takes on Maniacs United General Manager Adesh Patel in a $500 Cheque on a Pole...
Blake Leitch looks back 15 years to the day when WCW put on their fourth, and ultimately final, edition of the Road Wild pay-per-view in NZPWI’s inaugural edition of Throwback Thursday. *** Before watching the event, I looked at the match card which looked to feature some promising matches: Rey...
After months of waiting, WWE Network is now available in New Zealand as well as 170 other countries and territories throughout the world. The Network went live for audiences outside the United States at 1am this morning, giving Kiwis access to an in-depth video library including every WWE, WCW, and...
The Style Battle is over for James Raideen, who was unable to win the four-man round-robin tournament held over the course of this weekend’s three Evolve iPPV events. Raideen was fired up after losing his first match in the Style Battle, and took the fight to Drew Gulak before the...
Kazuchika Okada won the 24th annual G1 Climax on Sunday night, defeating Shinsuke Nakamura in a back-and-forth battle. A rainstorm raging outside the Seibu Dome seemed to foreshadow a win for Okada, and proved accurate when Okada eventually hammered Nakamura with three Rainmaker lariats in quick succession to take the...
New Zealand’s “Human Bullet” Link Barnett came off second-best at Wrestle Rampage Fallout in Adelaide this past Sunday. Barnett reportedly tapped out to a rear naked choke from “Smashing Machine” Chris Vice. Chris Vice has proven his "Smashing Machine" tag yet again by destroying Link Barnett with a rear naked...
