2013 Year In Review: NJPW

Was this the best year ever for any promotion?

 

 

Here we are folks with another article in my annual Year In Review series! A series where I will take a look back at the best performers, PPVs & matches from each major promotion that I watched this year and give an overall assessment of how much I enjoyed said promotion's product throughout 2013. In our next article, we're going to take a look a New Japan and see how they did this year.

WWE PPV Report: TLC 2013

A quick review of the most historic TLC event ever.

Here are my thoughts from the WWE's fifth annual TLC event live from the Toyota Center in Houston, TX:

2013 Year In Review: TNA

Sigh....

Here we are folks with another article in my annual Year In Review series! A series where I will take a look back at the best performers, PPVs & matches from each major promotion that I watched this year and give an overall assessment of how much I enjoyed said promotion's product throughout 2013. Next up, we're going to take a look at TNA's product and see how they stacked up against their major rival up north.

2013 Year In Review: WWE

An electrifying year.

Welcome to another installment in my annual Year In Review series! Here I will take a look back at the best performers, PPVs & matches from each major promotion that I watched this year and give an overall assessment of how much I enjoyed said promotion's product throughout 2013. What better place to start than the world's most famous wrestling promotion, the WWE! Find out just how good the WWE was this year after the jump!

The 2013 Year End Awards Nominees Are In!

Did Randy Orton's dominant main event run over the last four months earn him a nomination for Wrestler Of The Year?

 

Check after the jump to reveal the full list of nominees for the best of 2013!

Making The Case For Cena Vs. Orton At TLC

At TLC, these two legends will write quite possibly the final chapter to their decade long rivalry.

John Cena and Randy Orton were seemingly born to be rivals. Ever since both men landed down in OVW, they were instantly put into direct competition with one another. In the beginning, it was Orton who impressed officials and was deemed "the future of the WWE". As the years went by however, personal issues and immaturity kept Orton from becoming "the man" and it was Cena who in the end won over the audience and became the poster boy of the promotion for the past decade.

A Behind The Scenes Look At NJPW & The G1 Climax

In the latest edition of MVP's "VIP Sessions", he takes us behind the scenes at New Japan Pro Wrestling and introduces unfamiliar fans to some of the best wrestlers in the world today. It's a captivating look into one of the most exciting locker room's in the biz right now. You can view the video in it's entirety below:

 

The ESSENTIALS: Reviewing John Cena's 380 Day WWE Championship Reign

John Cena is without question, one of the greatest WWE Champions ever.

Welcome to another "Great Champions" edition of the ESSENTIALS. Last time, we took a look at why CM Punk's legendary 434 day WWE title reign is easily, the best of the 2010s thus far. Today, we breakdown Punk's greatest rival, John Cena's 380 day run to see why it's widely considered the best title reign of the decade prior. 

WWE PPV Review: Survivor Series 2013

This year's event brought the attention back to the style of match that made it famous.

This year's Survivor Series event took place in my hometown of Boston, so you know I just had to be there.  I had the pleasure of being front row behind the announce table and smack-dab in the middle of one of the most intense atmospheres of my time as a wrestling fan.  Fans here in Beantown are as vocal and opinionated as anywhere else in the world and most of all we love our rasslers.  Top talents like John Cena and Randy Orton often find themselves in enemy territory here while underdog grapplers like Daniel Bryan and Seth Rollins receive a hero's welcome.  It makes being a part of this audience feel like being at WrestleMania every time.  That being said, was the WWE's 27th Survivor Series event one to remember?  Find out after the jump!

NJPW PPV Review: King Of Pro Wrestling 2013

Okada-Tanahashi Part VI: MOTY?



I've been a huge fan of the wrestling scene in Japan for just under a decade now, but when I first started this blog, I centred most of my writing around the WWE's product.  The reason being that my knowledge for the promotion's history ran much deeper at the time.  Since 2009 though, I've been consistently following along with New Japan Pro Wrestling and I've slowly been leaning more in their direction as far as my overall superfan status goes.  Last year, the company made their iPPV debut with the now classic "King Of Pro Wrestling" event and it blew the wrestling landscape to bits with everyone claiming NJPW to be the best wrestling promotion on the planet Earth.  So I then figured that there would be no better moment to begin reviewing their shows with their much more accessible product.  In the year that followed, Kazuchika Okada replaced CM Punk as my current favorite active pro wrestler and Hiroshi Tanahashi has been the biggest magnet of praise in my writing with his consistently brilliant performances.  The rivalry between Okada & Tanahashi has been nothing short of spectacular and thus far in 2013 alone, one of their matches has already earned a five star rating from me.  With that kind of acclaim, you'd be a broke smark to bet against them when they clashed for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in their biggest matchup to date.  Ladies & gents, it is my honor to review such an epic encounter, but to get there we'll have to drudge through what could be New Japan's weakest iPPV offering since their breakthrough began just 365 days prior.  Find out how this event ranks among their other efforts after the jump!