Ramblings of an Englishman

2025 was a year that wrestling happened. Yeah, that’s an introduction when you’ve done this now for three years are ran out of intros at two. You could say that writing that introduction hook isn’t my forte but what has been is the live attending of wresting shows. As ever the live experience have been fun and with a whole host of matches to choose from ranking a top 5 will be a difficult one. Thankfully this year I actually planned ahead to have everything ranked ahead of time it’s just the writing now. For your consideration, the following events shall be considered and of course spoilers.  22nd August: Revolution Pro Wrestling Global Wars UK 23rd August: Revolution Pro Wrestling 13th Anniversary Show 24th August: AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 5th October: Revolution Pro Wrestling Live in London 100 2nd November: Revolution Pro Wrestling Live in London 101 7th December: Revolution Pro Wrestling Live in London 102 Yes a record number of shows for the lazy, antisocial man that I am whi...

What do we have? Half a year before this show? Look I need to talk and talk now. Next August is the biggest night in British Wrestling History arguably since the pandemic as Revolution Pro Wrestling heads to Wembley Arena for their 14th anniversary show and man it’s already feeling like a big show. Yes, I already have my tickets but Wembley arena is a big venue with a big wrestling history and as such this needs to be a big show. The day before All In and you’d expect a lot of people to already be around Wembley the day RevPro take centre stage and as such they need to bring as many people in as possible. As such we need discuss the major issue for RevPro and that is how to get as many buts in as many seats.  But first, let us break down Wembley Arena for wrestling. A venue in the shadow of Wembley Stadium it has a big history of its own. It’s a unique venue and probably the only one that both Sting & Kurt Angle have won world titles in (WCW & TNA respectively). But not jus...

Man I can’t tell if this has been a quick year or a slow year. On one hand I’m like damn end of November already on the other it’s how is this year still got a month left. Time remains undefeated, but one thing that doesn’t remain undefeated is perception. It’s been a funny old year of remaining steadfast that AEW was the better product over WWE despite people saying how hot WWE was. We end 2025 with people actually looking at the pig slop that company serves and seeing it’s always been bad and that Triple H isn’t the Booker everyone said he was (which was obvious from the get go Ryan Ward did all the good work in NXT). This also flips the switch for people with AEW. 2025 showed a renewed focus for AEW in terms of its shows which have been at a consistent level of good quality even now with weekly shows not having MJF for the last month as well as Swerve and Ospreay for longer. But we aren’t here to bash WWE or people who complain about their disgusting ticket prices but still buy them...

One day I’ll be happy. One day maybe I can think you know by god they did it. One day I’ll go you know maybe Gedo didn’t bungle this one. But then again on that last one there’s no Jr titles on the line as Wrestle Kingdom but instead a number one contender match….. January 4th 2026 is not just one of the biggest days in the history of New Japan Pro Wrestling but in wrestling history. It is very rare you have a talent like Tanahashi a man who carried a company out of the pits and into a golden era (I’d argue it’s twice with Steve Austin) and that day singles his retirement. Not only is that the case but you have the first match (and I guess title win) for Aaron Wolf the Olympic Gold Medalist judoka. These two things combined with Tanahashi’s opponent being his greatest rival Kazuchika Okada the very rivalry a golden era of New Japan was built on has landed a cold product a hot house. By all accounts tickets are flying and I do mean flying with of a legit sell out of 55,000. That is incr...

Back to it after a little while away we are back to draft the first part of the concept for the second Path of Glory series in the third and final series in this triology (and the ninth of ten parts). Where we last left off we saw that youth football in Japan was split in two those behind the Raimon manager and those behind this new antagonist for who should take over the reigns as head of the Japanese Youth Football Federation with battle lines drawn each man will hope for one thing, one of the teams backing them to win The Path To Glory. Should you wish to look through the eight previous parts which cover the start of this season and the previous two please follow the below links: Part One: Story, Main Character & First Episode Concepts:  https://ramblingsofenglishman.blogspot.com/2021/12/inazuma-eleven-anime-concept-part-one.html   Part Two: The Path To Glory Begins:  https://ramblingsofenglishman.blogspot.com/2021/12/inazuma-eleven-anime-concept-part-two.html...

Weren’t we just here? Like a few weeks ago for All Out? Man these PPVs are too close together it really doesn’t give time for things to breath. The sweet spot is 6 a year every other month give time to build and give time to rest my wallet, please. Anywho, as said before 2025 is a good year to great for AEW the perception of wrestling has changed and people stopped believing puff pieces about WWE and that Triple H is a humble man that hates the spotlight. I’ve said it since he took over nothing but a bald fraud. I do find it funny that people who say that hate MAGA and all things associated with it still watch WWE routinely ooooh who am I calling out you’ll never know. Getting back to AEW what can I say I haven’t said what 6/7 times this year? Product is good, local media promotion is bad not everyone is on social media do the work and people come into the building. There’s too many PPVs nothing really has time to build and it’s shown with no real top heel challenger for Hangman so thi...