There is an awful lot of News in wrestling. Some of it is useful, a lot of it boils down to noise. Clickbait headlines or unsourced rumours are sadly all too common. Hopefully, this simple round-up of the week’s happenings can help cut through that. This column isn’t infallible obviously but every effort will be made to capture and cover everything, things will be missed but nobody’s perfect! It’s 7th / 13th February 2022, and a bit of a change from the norm, no WWE or AEW news, unfortunately, the illness got in the way and plenty still happened anyway. Back to normal service next week.
7th / 13th February 2022 | Independents
DEFY wrestling continued their consistently solid form when they crowned a new interim champion in Christopher Daniels, whose opponent Nick Wayne was offered an AEW contract after the match, at just 16 Wayne will be an apprentice for a while but his potential is significant – Warrior Wrestling held another star-packed event, featuring talent from every major North American company apart from WWE, the main event was also the return to action for former WWE star Athena (fka Ember Moon), who wrestled to a 30-minute draw with Thunder Rosa – the NWA title changed hands as Trevor Murdoch had his reign ended by Matt Cardona, who has been reinvigorated by his run on the independent scene and has claimed what was once the world’s premier championship
7th / 13th February 2022 | BritWres
CATCH returned to the Bread Shed for another in a run of great Monday night shows, this one in front of the largest crowd so far, Lizzy Evo defended the Women’s title against NXT UK’s Emilia McKenzie in a great performance before Tom Thelwell defended his CATCHweight title against Scotty Rawk, with a significant assist from Danny Proper – the Lancashire Wrestling Federation (LWF) crowned their first-ever women’s champion in Jennie B, they continue to be a hidden gem of the UK scene – FutureShock paid tribute to Adam Turek, who was part of their backstage crew and died earlier that week aged just 34, with a suitably terrific show, headlined by Danny Proper facing up to the challenge of Chris Ridgeway and Taonga holding on to her Women’s title against Lizzy Evo – RevPro returned to Southampton, featuring title defences from Alex Windsor and Michael Oku, as well as another stellar match from Gabriel Kidd on his return to the UK
In some sad injury-related news, rising name Hannah Taylor announced this week that she has suffered a stroke and will have to pull out of all shows for at least the next year. Hannah was on the verge of breaking out and I’d like to wish her all the best going forward. If you’d like to help here is a link to her merchandise pages.
https://hannahtaylor.bigcartel.com/ | https://hannahtaylor.creator-spring.com/