A Look Back At SPW

The other night, this blogger had a chance to watch Dante Chen (formerly Trexxus in SPW) on television in a title match against Ethan Page for the NXT Title.  Dante fared well in the match but fell just a little short.  However, it was exciting to see him on television for the first time though I've been following his matches on Facebook.

 

During the pandemic in 2020, this blogger watched a lot of You Tube videos of Southeast Asia wrestling promotions.  The Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore wrestling shows really caught my eye.  

 

Since watching Dante Chen last week,  this blogger went back and watched several videos of Singapore Pro Wrestling shows over the past several years.  

 

The promotion, I believe, is the oldest in Southeast Asia, began in 2012.  Their first show was an event called SPW Open House in October.  The names, that this fan learned quickly, were "The Statement" Andruew Tang and The Eurasian Dragon.  Soon afterwards, the names of Trexxus. Aiden Rex and Alexis Lee were wrestlers that I enjoyed watching.

 

Singapore Pro Wrestling has been very consistent with the shows over the years.  Not only does the promotion have their local talent in Singapore.  Wrestlers, from other promotions in Southeast Asia and beyond, travel and wrestle in their shows.  Though I've never been to one of their shows live, I've seen You Tube as well as the premium videos.  The organization is very strong.  Andruew has done great work for this promotion in the nearly 12 years!

 

Dante Chen (Trexxus), I believe, began his WWE/NXT career in 2021 when the pandemic eased a bit.  I remembered reading in on a couple of websites.  Definitely, this is a great story, for Dante, SPW and wrestling fans throughout Southeast Asia.

 

When one thinks of pro wrestling in Southeast Asia, whether SPW or any other promotion, the local wrestling scene in the countries are still very young!  

 

Speaking of Singapore Pro Wrestling, their next show, Hardcore Island 2: A Fine City, will take place on Friday, August 16th beginning at 7:30pm.  The venue is the Foo Chow Building.  Please visit SPW on their Facebook page for more information including tickets.  Thank you.

APAC Wrestlelegion Update #4

There has been an added match for APAC Wrestlegion for Saturday night.  This blogger found out about this a couple of hours ago.  Slow response by the promotion, I guess.

 

The Eurasian Dragon from ROR Wrestling in Singapore will team up with Hendo Ramli.  They will take on the team of Joe Louise and K.A.E in a tag team match.

 

APAC Wrestlelegion will be this evening at the WNZ Arena, Spacerubix, Puchong.

 

For more information, please visit the APAC Wrestling Facebook page regarding tickets, if any available.  As always with any wrestling show, the card is subject to change.

The First Kasaysayan Show

The Elements @ Centris In Quezon City, Philippines.

 

This blogger wanted to try something new today unlike ever before on this blog.

 

This year, in 2024, it is the 10th anniversary of the first modern day era wrestling shows in the Philippines.

 

Next month, the Manila Wrestling Federation will be having their first show, MWF Kasaysayan at the UP Film Institute Media Center at UP Dillman.  The show is scheduled for Sunday, April 14th.

 

If my information is correct, and hopefuly this is okay to post, the first Kasaysayan show happened about six years earlier, on Sunday, April 8, 2018.  The location was The Elements @ Centris (photo pictured above) in Quezon City, PH.  The location of the building is still there today.

 

There were six matches on the show that day.  Some familiar names this fan saw in the results were Fabio Makisig, Jomar, Rex Lawin, Robin Sane, Kyle Sison along with The Eurasian Dragon from Ring Of Rebirth and Ho Ho Lun with Dragon Gate.  There is a short video on You Tube with the highlights of the show.

 

According to Cagematch, here are the results from the show (please let me know if any info was left out.  Thanks.)....

Fabio Makisig d. Jomar Liwanag

Aldrin Richards and Hanzello Shilva d. Ashura and Kyle Sison.

Rex Lawin d. Frankie Thurteen by TKO.

Gigz Striker and RG d. The Holdapers.

Ninja Ryujin d. Morgan Vaughn.

The Eurasian Dragon and Mr. Lucha d. Robin Sane and Ho Ho Lun.

 

Fast forwarding to today, the last we checked, there are around 50 general admission tickets left for the upcoming Kasaysayan show.  Please check the Manila Wrestling Federation - MWF page on Facebook for any updates.  For tickets, please visit the ticket2me.net website.  Thank you.

APAC Wrestling's Next Show

APAC Wrestling will be having their next show called Supalapa.  The event will take place next weekend, March 2-3 at the Resorts World Awana Genting Highlands.

 

Scheduled to appear on the weekend show are the stars from APAC including Shaukat, Nor "Phoenix" Diana, as well as The Eurasian Dragon and Nyc from Ring Of Rebirth - Singapore, Wam Bam Bellows from Wrestle Rampage in Adelaide, Australia and wrestlers from Japan.

 

For more information on the show including tickets, please check the APAC Wrestling page on Facebook.  Thank you.

Enter The Dragon Update

The Eurasian Dragon, from Ring Of Rebirth, defeated NYC and CBK in a Triple Threat Match.  He will now face Shaukat, the champion for the Ambition Wrestling Global Championship.

 

The event is called APAC Wrestling's Enter The Dragon and will take place on Sunday, January 28th.  Bell time is at 8pm and the venue is Spacerubix, Puchong.

 

Also, Nor 'Phoenix' Diana, the undefeated APAC Wrestling Women's Champion, faces off against Japan's powerhouse, Marika Kobashi.

 

For more information on the show and tickets, please check the APAC Wrestling page on Facebook.

APAC Wrestling: Enter The Dragon

APAC Wrestling, a promotion in Malaysia, will be kicking off 2024 with an upcoming event.  It is called Enter The Dragon.  The show will take place on Sunday, January 28th.  The venue is the Spacerubix Puchong and the bell time is 7:30pm.

 

The lineup has not been announced as yet.  However, I've been informed that The Eurasian Dragon from Ring Of Rebirth (Singapore) will wrestle in the show.  Also, Shaukat will defend his title, the Ambition Wrestling Global Championship against an opponent yet to be named.

 

For more on tickets, please check the APAC Wrestling page on Facebook.  Thank you.  

ROR #3 Recap

Here are the results from Ring Of Rebirth Wrestling #3 from a few weeks ago.  For those who haven't seen any of their shows, you can find each match over the past year on You Tube.  Also, please subscribe to the channel.

 

Varun Khanna d. John Day.

Aerial Sniper Nyc d. Brother Bhai.

The Eurasian Dragon d. Ahmad Arif.

The Geylang Gamble hosted by Mr. Geylang.

ROR #2 Recap

Just got done a couple of days ago watching Ring Of Rebirth's latest show.  It is ROR Wrestling #2.  For those wondering, the show can be viewed on You Tube.  You can also subscribe to Ring Of Rebirth by clicking the SUBSCRIBE box.

 

I was impressed by two wrestlers in the segment at the Goldpine Industrial Building.  Aerial Sniper Nyc has impressed me, especially since coming to Ring Of Rebirth.  He took on a larger opponent in Gotham.  The match was happening both in and out of the ring.  Fans need to watch the match for themselves.  Let's just say that Nyc had an impressive match.

 

Speaking of Nyc, he will be representing Ring Of Rebirth at an upcoming TOP Dojo show in Thailand near the end of the month.  Will have more on this in a future post. 

 

The other match on this segment was Varum Khanna and Brother Bhai.  In ROR Wrestling #1, the former tag team partners were not on the same page as The Big Bad Boyz in their title match for the VPW Tag Team Championship.  It led to a singles match to what normally settles the score.

 

Unfortunately it didn't.  Varun, definitely stronger than he was last year, took the match to Brother Bhai.  It ended up a DQ win for him, not exactly the way he would have wanted it.  However, I don't believe the score has nearly been settled yet.  

 

There was an added segment.  Brownie Suplex. a new sponsor, had an eating competition between Ahmad Arif against BGJ w/The Eurasian Dragon.  This took place between the two matches.

 

From what I saw on the video, I believe everyone there had a good time.  If you don't believe me, please check both ROR Wrestling #1 and #2.  ROR Wrestling #3 will be out soon.

APAC Wrestling's Next Show

APAC Wrestling in Malaysia will be having their next show on Sunday, October 29th.  The event is called Let's Go To War and will take place at Spacerubix.

 

Here are the matches I could find on their page on Facebook.

 

 "The Nusantara Menace" Shaukat will put the Ambition Wrestling Global Championship on the line against Zombie Dragon.

M.A. will put the MKW World Championship up against Gotham.

Nor "Phoenix" Diana will put the APAC Women's Championship on the line against Stella Nyx.

 

Also, several other wrestlers such as The Eurasian Dragon will appear and be in action.

 

This fan would like to make one request to APAC Wrestling.  It would be great to see some results. The last show was good for a comeback in the company.  However, there were a lot of mixed signals.  One of them was involving the APAC Women's Championship.

 

This is not to finger point anyone involved with APAC.  However, a day after the show, there was a lot of misinformation from what happened that day.  It confused a number of readers on this blog.  The misinformation caused some people to be upset with this blogger.  Not being there and doing this from another country, this fan depends on people either being there or information that is put on social media for results.

 

Thanks to one observer who appeared at the last show, the misinformation and the problem was smoothed out.  However, it was a total mess and an embarrassment.  This blogger eventually  apologized to a promotion and the wrestler involved.  The promotion and the wrestler totally understood.  It was an embarrassment nevertheless and it could have been avoided with a little communication on both sides! 

 

This blogger wants to promote APAC Wrestling as much as every promotion in Southeast Asia.  I have received the cooperation of the many SEA promotions since this blog started over a year ago.

 

So, I'm only asking this, no more.  Thank you. 

Ring Of Rebirth One Plus Years Later

Last year, when doing the blog, this fan came along a new promotion in Singapore.  Ring Of Rebirth would become the third wrestling promotion in the country.

 

I had an opportunity to message The Eurasian Dragon about the new promotion.  Certainly, there would be challenges getting this started.  Already in the country was Singapore Pro Wrestling and Grapplemax Pro Wrestling Singapore.  However, The Eurasian Dragon had and still has a vision for the company.

 

Doing the shows in a studio format was great!  It reminded this fan of the early days back in The Territory Era.  I remember locally the days of Friday Night Wrestling in a television studio.  A little more recent was Gordon Solie with the NWA out of Atlanta, Georgia with the Superstation TBS when cable television was getting off the ground.

 

The first ROR show was called Press Start that took place in July 2022.  The venue was the Goldpine Industrial Building.  There were four matches including a Passport Match, something very creative.  Ring Of Rebirth has put all of their shows on You Tube.  All that wrestling fans need to do is to subscribe and to watch the shows.

 

Wrestlers from outside the area have appeared on the shows.  Aaron O'Malley, The Wonderboy, Ho Ho Lun and Duncan Solaire are among those.  Also, wrestlers from the other two promotions have appeared.  In fact, several ROR wrestlers have appeared in SPW shows and have helped out there.

 

Early this year, in March, ROR sponsored a two day series of matches with the Dragon Gate promotion going up against the Singapore All Stars with a positive success coming out of it.

 

In June, a team known as The Big Bad Boyz with The Eurasian Dragon and BGJ went to Vietnam and wrestled.  Despite an injury, The Eurasian Dragon competed.  The team won the Vietnam Pro Wrestling tag team championships.  They held the titles for over 120 days and defended it several times.  Though losing it in a fatal four way match in Vietnam last Saturday, the team held the belts with honor.  If it didn't put Ring Of Rebirth on the map before, it did now.

 

The roster has improved in the months since July 2022.  Seeing Aerial Sniper Nyc on video for the first time was great.  Looking forward to seeing him help the promotion. 

 

Early this week, Ring Of Rebirth began their second year with the first of several shows on You Tube.  There is a slight change to the program.  The title of the shows will be called RoR Wrestling.  The first show that is airing now is called RoR Wrestling #1.

 

The Eurasian Dragon has a lot of creativity with the shows right now.  It will be very interesting what we will see in year two.  All this fan can say is please support Ring Of Rebirth and continue watching!         

ROR Raya Results

Here are the results from Ring Of Rebirth's show, ROR Raya.  The event took place on April 16th at the Goldpine Industrial Building in Singapore.

 

The Eurasian Dragon d. Riky Malek.

Erfie and John Day ended up as a no contest.

Caramel Prata and Jacky Ng d. Brother Bhai in a two on one handicap match.

BGJ and The Eurasian Dragon (w/Mehar Singh) d.

Erfie and John Day.

Ring Of Rebirth

Ring Of Rebirth is the newest wrestling promotion in Singapore.  The company was founded by The Eurasian Dragon, a wrestler who performed (and still performs) for Singapore Pro Wrestling in the country.

 

The shows are done in a studio-type format.  Their first show took place on July 9, 2022 with the event known as ROR - Press Start.  It took place at the Goldpine Industrial Building in Singapore with four matches.

 

In the year plus, there have been 13 total shows with the promotion.

 

As the post is being written, there are no Ring Of Rebirth Championships.  However, there is a championship that is with two wrestlers, The Eurasian Dragon and BGJ.  It is the Vietnam Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship.

 

For more on Ring Of Rebirth, please check for the ROR page which can be found on the top and the right hand side of this blog.  Thank you.