AN UPDATE ON PRESIDENT TANAHASHI AND HOUSE OF TORTURE *Very minor spoiler warning for the undercard tag match earlier today at G1 Climax 34: Night 17 that saw NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champions […]
AEW’s Konosuke Takeshita recently completed his first foray into New Japan’s G1 Climax Tournament. Under the new format this year, he made it to the playoffs of the B Block, losing in the quarterfinals to […]
NJPW: ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS NJPW posted some quotes from new NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi on their website in June about improvements that would be made in the product. “It’s been six months since […]
Though we’ve barely had enough time to digest Summerslam, it’s worth looking ahead to the next major stop on the WWE PLE calendar, which has traditionally been Survivor Series in November. For the last few […]
The possibility of Shane McMahon showing up in AEW has become a hot topic since a picture of McMahon and Khan meeting in an airport was leaked on social media on Wednesday. What had once […]
AEW WOMEN’S DIVISION HEATS UP The AEW women’s divisions has heated up in the last couple of months. It felt like the division was directionless not too long ago, but the return of Britt Baker […]
We go to work every day, not always feeling great, but doing the best we can. And sometimes, our jobs can take a lot out of us, piece by piece, to the point of exhaustion. […]
New Japan’s G1 Climax tournament, the 34th of its kind, is rapidly approaching. The first night of the nearly month-long event takes place on Saturday. This year, NJPW returns the tourney to its more traditional […]
Roman Reigns post-WrestleMania exodus from WWE has seen Solo Sikoa take his place as Head of the Table and in the process he has reformed the stable in his own image after ejecting Jimmy Uso […]
Rarely does NXT take a new talent, especially one without significant name value on a national stage, and vault them to the top of the card. Yet that’s exactly what has happened with Je’Von Evans. […]
The booking of AEW’s Women’s Division has been oft-criticized through the years, and at times rightfully so. At Forbidden Door, however, the women brought in from elsewhere, Mina Shirakawa and Stephanie Vaquer arguably out-performed their […]
Like its U.S. ally, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) is colder than Minneapolis in March right now. The company lost its cornerstone star in Kazuchika Okada, and arguably the best wrestler in the world today […]
The long-awaited return of the Bray-influenced Wyatt storyline occurred two weeks ago, with the newly-dubbed Wyatt Sicks leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Fans groused about the usual problems that come with a […]
The relationship between WWE and TNA has blossomed into more than just TNA sending a wrestler to participate in the Royal Rumble. Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace recently challenged NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez at NXT […]
As I watched New Japan Dominion this past weekend, I was struck by the lack of star power throughout the card. Oh, there was Naito, still there, wrestling in the opener but later challenging Jon […]
PWTorch editor Wade Keller hosts another PWTorch “12 Minute Hot Take” with PWTorch columnist and VIP analyst Rich Fann. They discuss whether this more serious version of Chad Gable has main event potential now that […]
AEW president and booker Tony Khan is known to engage in negative discourse on Twitter/X, especially when it comes to critiques of his booking or other decisions he’s made as the head of AEW. Is […]
WWE house shows don’t often create monumental buzz, but C.M. Punk was the center of attention on social media last night. Punk, who was making his first in-ring appearance for WWE since returning to the […]
C.M. Punk returned to WWE at the end of Survivor Series last Saturday night in Chicago. Punk’s return overshadowed Randy Orton’s return to in-ring action in the main event. It was a moment that many […]
AEW announced the Continental Classic earlier today. While I wrote about how the line-up of participants is below what I was hoping for, it’s still got several intriguing candidates to win and several good subplot […]
My main takeaway from the Continental Classic field of 12 was disappointment. I’m not disappointed in the potential match quality, though. Bryan Danielson vs. Claudio Castagnoli, Andrade vs. Daniel Garcia, Jay White vs. Jon Moxley, […]
For over a decade, there was nobody on the independent wrestling scene as prolific as Chris Hero. From going everywhere he could in North America, not only to get match-time but to learn from whichever […]
Rather than jumping on the MJF-Juice Robinson feud, which I feel has been handled with far better nuance and aplomb on the “Everything with Rich & Wade” podcast than I could have written with my […]
Yesterday, I wrote a Keller’s Take commentary with a list of ten announcements I hoped Tony Khan would make tonight instead of just one. I asked readers to submit their wish lists because, well, not […]
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