About

Hi my name is Andrew and I made this website to review wrestling shows I watch.

What's my story?

I became a fan of Pro Wrestling after watching Royal Rumble 2000 on Channel 4 here in the UK, at the time I would have been 13. I've been watching wrestling on and off since then. What pulled me in was the main event match between Cactus Jack and Triple H for the WWF Championship. Looking back it was Mick Foley's bumps in that match which mesmerised me and made me a fan.

I would say 2001 was when things picked up and I watched more regularly. I never got to see Raw, but I would watch the Saturday morning repeats of Smackdown! on Sky One, catch the recap shows and WWF Metal on Sunday mornings on Sky One, and watch Sunday Night Heat (on a Sunday afternoon) on Channel 4. Essa Rios challenging Kurt Angle for the WWF Championship on an episode of Heat just popped into my head.

I ended up joining some wrestling forums back in the day these were primarily WWEForums.co.uk and Wrestling Games Zone (or WGZ for short) my username back then on these forums was Monkee and I spent a fair amount of time on these forums in my teenage years, and created the "Mr Wonderful" Trevor Clarence character in the e-feds of the time, and that's kind of why I chose to use the word Wonderful for this website.

I also became a part of ShootClub.com which was a unique almost type of a game, if I remember correctly you had to pick certain moves each month, and the effectiveness of those moves would change through a random number system, the website would then pit your character against others in matches and whoever had the more effective moveset would ultimately "win" the matches in a kind of a fantasy football way. These "matches" acted kind of like "house shows" in a way, and you had to write promos on a weekly basis, and other players would vote for who had the best promo, and there would be writers who would write a regular show. Looking back it was a pretty detailed thing with lots of creative writing and I do still to this day remember some of the characters. You had to create your own characters, and I remember this was around the time of the Mohammad Hassan character in WWE and he had just been forcibly removed from TV.  To give you an idea of my sense of humour, I came up with a new gimmick for him where he was a Star Trek fan, and Daivari would cut promos in Klingon. They would be huge Star Trek The Next Generation fans and Hassan would refer to himself as "number two" after Captain Picard called Commander Riker "number one" on the TV show. Obviously I changed the names slightly, I believe I went with Commander Massan and Lieutenant Kaivari.

I also briefly became a part of the WWE Fan Nation (remember that?) which was an attempt at a WWE social networking site, which was as great an idea as the XFL and WWF New York. I would write reviews of WWE shows the only way I could.

Anyway back to watching TV, I quickly became jaded with the WWE product, probably around 2003 I would say it started to go down hill. Being on forums with other fans, everyone shared a similar opinion, and it was easy to take the piss out of the product at the time (think Zach Gowen, Mr America, Triple H's World Title run of doom, etc) As fans we were always crying out for an alternative. Around 2004 I would say, in the UK we were gifted the Wrestling Channel on TV, which carried old World of Sport matches, NWA-TNA early weekly pay-per-views, Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Noah, CMLL, IWW, FWA, NWA Wildside, IWA Mid South, CZW, MLW and I can't think of any others if I'm forgetting them... they did have Japanese Women's Wrestling too, but I can't remember the name, it may have been GAEA maybe? Either way I would watch wrestling from all over the world. My favourite wrestler was always Chris Jericho and I remember watching the 'Break the Walls Down' documentary on VHS, and they showed photos from his early career of wrestling in Mexico and Japan, so being able to watch Mexican and Japanese wrestling I thought was cool.

Eventually The Wrestling Channel disappeared, and sporadically I would try to get back into WWE, think the CM Punk Pipe Bomb promo, but ultimately it would always let me down. I did in 2016 start buying ROH DVDs and got into them.

Then when Chris Jericho went to the Tokyo Dome to wrestle Kenny Omega, I braved the Japanese language only website of NJPW and signed up to New Japan World, that subscription would last four years and I became a genuine fan of New Japan, getting to watch some of what I would call the best moments in professional wrestling, I don't think anything can top Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada 2 out of 3 falls for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. I watched G1, BOSJ, World Tag League, I consumed everything. They had the best wrestling, the best commentary and the most unique crowds who just added to the experience. There's nothing quite like watching shows at Korakuen Hall with no stage set up, at first I thought it was low budget but I grew to love it in it's own way. It didn't need to be flashy.

Then AEW came along, and changed the landscape of pro wrestling (in a good way, of course). I will admit that even though this site will primarily feature AEW show reviews (thanks to the MyAEW subscription) I have never regularly watched the product, I've kept up to date with what has happened on shows, usually I will read results online and then maybe watch highlights on YouTube. I have over the years ordered a handful of their pay-per-views (in all my time watching WWE I had never ordered a single pay-per-view). I think AEW has had it's highs and lows, but in 2026 (and last year in 2025 too) they are doing some great things. Don't worry I'll still take the piss out of their shows.

What about WWE? Aren't they "hot" right now? Well I do have Netflix, and at the start of 2025 I decided to watch RAW weekly, I did this for about six months, and watched the Saturday Night's Main Event shows as well as all of their PLE's. I stopped after ordering an AEW pay-per-view, and realising one AEW show was better than anything I had watched on WWE for the previous six months. That's just my personal preference. WWE is a media machine intent on taking your money. AEW is a pro wrestling company.

Maybe I'll do some WWE content, but for now I'd rather watch something I'd like to watch and throw some humour in along the way. Don't get me wrong, I liked Dominik Mysterio, Liv Morgan, Lyra Valkyria, Kevin Owens, etc.

I've always been more into technical wrestlers. Chris Jericho would be my favourite of all time, but I can admit his AEW stuff had been getting stale. I think AEW's long term storytelling has been great, with the character development of Hangman Page as a fine example.

Anyway, a piece of advice I would give is, if you don't watch AEW and you read my reviews, take some of it with a pinch of salt, I may deviate slightly and make some inaccurate comments. Perhaps Andrade El Idolo isn't a 1920s Detective, that's all I'll say.