SPW Champions Never Yield 3 Update #5

 

Hello everyone.

 

This coming Friday, January 10th, Singapore Pro Wrestling will hold their first show of 2025, Champions Never Yield 3.  The event takes place at the Foo Chow Building beginning at 7:30pm.  Doors open 30 minutes earlier at 7pm.

 

Here's the lineup of the show.  Please remember that the show is subject to change.

 

Here are the matches currently scheduled, including four championships, on the line. 

 

International Dream Match: Trent Seven, a freelancer currently with Over The Top Wrestling in Ireland vs. "The Statement" Andruew Tang.

 

SPW Southeast Asia Championship Four Way Match: Jake De Leon (PUSO Wrestling - Philippines) vs. Da Butcherman (SPW) (c) vs. Aiden Rex (SPW) vs. Shivam (SETUP Thailand).

 

SPW Queen Of Asia Championship: Yuki Kamifuku (c) vs. Alexis Lee.

 

SPW Tag Team Championship: The Juicy Boyz (The Wonderboy & Miles Karu) (c) (MYPW) vs. Jack N' Cheese (SPW).

 

SPW Singapore Championship: CK Vin (c) vs, Black Arrow.

 

Tag Team Match:  The Midnight Bastards vs. Destroyer Dharma & Mighty Mighty.

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SPW Singapore Championship Number One Contender Gauntlet Match: Dr. Gore vs. Bryson Blade vs. Riky Malek vs. Riz vs. "The Hustler" Ray vs. Emman.

 

Ringside and balcony tickets are sold out as of a few days ago.  For more information, including tickets, please visit the SPW Facebook page.  Also, SPW can be found on You Tube.  Thank you. 

Battle In The Valley 2025

Hello everyone!

 

Coming off an amazing and memorable weekend of wrestling whether it was in Japan or America or anywhere else, 2025 has started out with a bang.

 

A couple of years ago, after a Battle In The Valley show in San Jose, California, this blogger thought about not ever attending another NJPW show.

 

It wasn't because the show was bad....actually, it was pretty good.

 

The problem was with NJPW officials.  I took some photos from the rafters of the San Jose Civic Auditorium and was not only harassed by NJPW officials, but was escorted out of the building.  They thought I was taking videos though I proved to them it wasn't.

 

Well, it's about two years later.  San Jose is very fortunate to have two wrestling shows in the next week.

 

On Monday, January 13th, WWE RAW will take place at the SAP Center.  It will be the second RAW that will be on Netflix.

 

On Saturday (this coming), I just secured a ticket for New Japan Pro Wrestling's Battle In The Valley.  It will be my first wrestling show since last August when I attended the first PUSO Wrestling show in Quezon City, Philippines.

 

When this blogger saw who was appearing on the show, the decision to go to this event was a lot easier.  Here is the show lineup.....

 

Gabe Kidd (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the Strong Openweight Championship.

Zach Sabre Jr. vs. Hechicero.

West Coast Wrecking Crew (Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs) (c) vs. Roppongi Revice (Rocky Romero & ROH) for the Strong Openweight Championship.

Sumai Sakai Retirement Match featuring Team Sakai (Sumai Sakai, Evil and SHO) vs. Team Hiromu (Hiromu Takahashi, Mayu Iwatani and Yuka Sakazaki).

TDMK (Shane Haste & Bad Dude Tito) vs. Fred Rosser & Matt Vandagriff.

 

I'm told that the Main Event has yet to be announced with a few days to go until the show.  Could we possibly see an appearance by Kazuchika Okada or Will Ospreay?  Their battle a couple of years ago was one of the best matches I've eve seen!

 

Looking forward to seeing ZSJ again (2018 was the last time at the G1 Special).

 

I'll have a recap on my blog within 24 hours after the show.

Hammerlock Pure Wrestling

Some of you are wondering about the title of this post, Hammerlock Pure Wrestling.

 

Certainly, it's not a Southeast Asia wrestling promotion.  It's not in Australia either.  It happens to be in Ontario, Canada, northeast of where this blogger lives.

 

Though this blogger focuses on Southeast Asia, Asia and Australia wrestling, I wanted to share something new.   Here is what is leading to this post.

 

Back in December 2022, I attended my first wrestling show in Southeast Asia and in the Philippines.  The show was called Noche Buena that was promoted by the Manila Wrestling Federation.

 

One of the wrestlers in the show, Ken Warren, would win back the SETUP Thailand 24/7 wrestling championship in a handicap match in which he defeated three wrestlers.

 

After the show, along with future Filipino Pro Wrestling's LegenDarius, we had the opportunity to meet Ken following a post show press conference.  

 

Ken was not only gracious and professional, but spent time with both of us.  We talked about pro wrestling both on the major scale and independent levels.  Also, we talked about the Philippines great beaches.  It was a memorable moment since he was only the second pro wrestler to AWA legend, Nick Bockwinkel that I met.

 

Early in 2023, Ken decided to move to Canada and over time, would begin wrestling in a North American promotion called Hammerlock Pure Wrestling.  The promotion is based out of London, Ontario.  If you look at a map, the city is nearly between Detroit, Michigan and Toronto, Ontario, two major metropolitan areas.  

 

Hammerlock Pure Wrestling was founded in 2022 with their first show, a year later in February 2023.  Looking at Cagematch, Ken wrestled in his first Hammerlock show in November.

 

As I was preparing to do this, Ken has done a couple of promos.  What I found was the fact that he did wrestle for three promotions in 2024.

 

I'm going to share the latest promo that he did which is the link below.  In the meantime, all the best to Ken in his future endeavors in North America.  I'll post any of his future shows on this blog.

 

   https://fb.watch/wWNAAGdQDj/

Dexcon / WUW Philippines Announcement

Hello everyone!

 

Dexcon and World Underground Wrestling - Philippines have just announced two shows this coming spring.

 

The Dexcon event, DXCN Wrestlestorm 2 will take place on Sunday, March 16th.

 

A few weeks later, on Saturday, April 5th, WUW Philippines will host an event, Master Clash.

 

Both shows will take place at the Brawl Pit Bulusan in Quezon City, Philippines.

 

Details regarding both shows will be happening in the coming weeks.  In the meantime, please visit both the Dexcon and World Underground Wrestling Philippines - WUW Philippines Facebook pages.  Both pages will have information on the show and tickets.  Thank you.   

New Taiwan Wrestling First Show

Haven't written about New Taiwan Wrestling in a little while.  

 

NTW will be hosting their first pro wrestling show in 2025 on Saturday, January 25th.  The venue is the  Zhongguang Dojo :No. 20, Lane 20, Sec. 1, Xingren Road, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City (A 5-minute walk from Neiang Railway Station).  The doors will open at 1:30pm with the first match at 2pm.

 

This blogger will have more information on future matches in the days to come.

 

For more information, including tickets, please visit the NTW Facebook page.  New Taiwan Wrestling can also be found on Facebook.  Thank you.

Congratulations To Middle Kingdom Wrestling

As the first several days of 2025 have gone by, this blogger would like to congratulate Middle Kingdom Wrestling.  The pro wrestling promotion out of China will be celebrating their 10th year of existence.

 

Adrian Gomez has done a phenomenal job of bringing in some of the greatest wrestlers Asia has to offer.  MKW, according to Cagematch, had their first show in July 2015.  Several familiar wrestlers such as The Slam, the current MKW World Title holder, Ash Silva, Big Sam and Wang Junjie took part in the first show.

 

MKW's major event today is the MKW Championship Supercard in which numerous wrestlers in and outside China take part.  It is an event that wrestling fans should pay and see it.  In both shows, at least four championship matches have taken place.

 

Once again, congratulations to Adrian Gomez and Middle Kingdom Wrestling on reaching this milestone!

ROR Experience 3 Update #1

Ring Of Rebirth Singapore will have their first show of 2025 on Sunday, January 19th.

 

The event.....Yam Seng!  ROR Experience 3 will happen at 4pm.  The event will be at the Goldpine Industrial Building but am double checking as this is being posted.  The event is part of the Chinese New Year celebration (the year of the snake) along with an Art Exhibit and a Q & A session.  

 

Several big items have come out of the photo above.  The ROR Championship has been established and there will be several matches over time to determine the inaugural winner.

 

Here is what is lined up for the show so far...

 

Main Event: A Geylang Street Fight between Varun Khanna and Mr. Geylang.  This blogger will try and get more detail on what and how this match came about.

 

First Round ROR Championship Match between The Eurasian Dragon and CBK.

 

There will be a traditional tag team match along with a few other items that are on the photo.

 

For more information, including tickets to the event, please visit the Ring Of Rebirth Facebook Page.  Also, Ring Of Rebirth can be followed on You Tube.  Please subscribe!  Thank you.

Graveyard Shift Singapore Updated Results

Hello everyone.

 

A special thank you to PUSO Wrestling's Super P for providing updated results for the Graveyard Shift Singapore show on December 21-22.  The show was held at The Glass Dome and was part of a big weekend in the city.

 

Note: Will have an update on the Dark Match soon.

 

   

DAY 1:

 

Dark Match: Terrence vs Pritish.

 

Aiden Rex d. CK Vin.

 

International Four-Way: Jake De Leon d. El Katipunero and Mason and Bryson Blade.

 

International Tag Match: Super P & Super H d. Miss Selina & Riky Malek.

 

Dr. Gore d. Referee Ryan.

 

 

 

DAY 2 

 

Miss Selina d. vs Super P.  The referee was also a woman.  This is the first all women's including referee match in Singapore history!

 

Da Butcherman d. BGJ.

 

Butch Hermann Invitational Battle Royal:  The Statement -  Andruew Tang d. Aiden Rex, CK Vin, CBK, BGJ, Dr. Gore, Mighty Mighty, Riky Malek, Super H, El Katipunero, Jake De Leon, Mason, Bryson Blade and Referee Ryan.

Bitman (HKPWF) Wrestling In Mexico

However, hope all of you will enjoy the following post.

 

In 2023, I had the opportunity to see three Hong Kong Pro Wrestlers in a show in the Philippines.  Bitman, Michael Su and legendary wrestler, Ho Ho Lun were a part of the Manila Wrestling Federation Noche Buena show.  You could say I was in awe of watching all three for the first time.

 

In 2024, Hong Kong Pro Wrestling Federation (or HKPWF) has been working tirelessly to expand the promotion through cooperation with promotions in China, Japan and Mexico (yes Mexico!) as well as Europe and Asia.

 

This weekend, and it is already a huge weekend for pro wrestling worldwide with the NJPW event in Tokyo, Bitman will be in a tag team - three way event which is a main event of the show.  The event is held on Sunday in Veracruz, Mexico beginning at 6:30pm local time.

 

Bitman and El Fiscal will face Cibernetico & Murder Clown along with another team, Texano Jr. and Super Nova.  Cibernetico is a former AAA Mega Champion.  AAA is a major wrestling promotion in Mexico.

 

This blogger will share more of what happened in the show in the upcoming days.  

Graveyard Shift Singapore Results

 

Hello everyone!

My apologies on this being late.  There was a mat-type event in Singapore the weekend of Saturday/Sunday, December 21-22 called Graveyard Shift.  It was held at The Glass Dome in Singapore.  Thanks to a couple of PUSO Wrestling wrestlers, this blogger is able to get some results of the two day event.  

 

Also, the blogger understood that this was a low key event.  However, the organizer said that the focus was to bring new fans into wrestling.  Just saying here...

 

On the Sunday show, Super P and Miss Selina match with a woman referee was the first time that a wrestling show, I believe in Southeast Asia, had three women in the ring.

 

Without any further mention, here are some results (though I know this is still incomplete).  I know that Jake De Leon and El Kapitunero appeared and wrestled in the show.   Thank you to the wrestlers involved.

 

Saturday, December 21st:

Super H and Super P d. Miss Selena and Riky Malek.

 

Sunday, December 22nd:

Miss Selina d. Super P.

ROR Experience 3 Event

Hello everyone!

 

Hopefully, it's okay to post this.  There will be an event coming up on January 19th in Singapore involving Ring Of Rebirth.

 

The event is called Yam Seng!  Looking at the poster, an Art Exhibit, Chinese New Year celebration and Q & A along with pro wrestling, ROR Experience 3 will take place.  The event begins at 4pm.

 

In the coming weeks, this blogger will share more about the event.  In the meantime, please continue to check the Ring Of Rebirth Facebook page for more information.  Thank you.