Hey folks! Welcome to the Northern Lights Bomb Wrestling Review #1! The DEAN~!!! show I reviewed here was such a great tribute to Dean Rasmussen. Dean was such a huge part of my early getting to know wrestling outside the WWF period that I want to pay homage to him, as well. So, here we are, this new format. In the past, I updated you on what I was watching right now with weekly or monthly posts ranking the matches, and this will be taking its place. Yes, it will update you on what I’m watching, but it will not just cover the great matches in a list form. I feel like that method was getting ra ..read more

With WrestleMania weekend, I won’t have too much new to say here, but here is my list. Note every match, even the honourable mentions, are 8/10 rated or higher. It’s been a great month of watching for me! Honourable Mentions Aja Kong vs Kyoko Inoue, AJW, August 10, 1997 Aja Kong vs Manami Toyota, AJW, August 20, 1997 Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs Kumiko Maekawa & Tomoko Watanabe, AJW, August 20, 1997 Meiko Satomura vs Shinobu Kandori, LLPW, February 12, 2007 Chris Hero vs Eddie Kingston, CZW, April 7, 2007 Bryan Danielson vs Nigel McGuinness, ROH, June 9, 2007 Cheerleader Melissa vs W ..read more

It’s been way too long since I reviewed my last IWA Japan show, and I really need to satisfy that itch for insane wrestling that only IWA Japan can fulfill. This is from November 17, 1994, at the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium with 4,795 fans, or at least cagematch says. We have Japanese, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Americans, and a Canadian, so let’s go! After the ring announcer says something, the “Eye of the Tiger” from Rocky plays, and each wrestler on the card makes an entrance and just stands in the ring with the others. The song ends and has to be repeated. This takes so long, and I am transf ..read more

I didn’t watch every show of WrestleMania weekend, but I did watch a bunch. Here are my top matches from Philadelphia and the surrounding area! Honourable Mentions Masato Tanaka & Minoru Suzuki vs Masha Slamovich & Rina Yamashita, GCW Joey Janella’s Spring Break 8, April 5 Billie Starkz vs Queen Aminata, ROH Supercard of Honor, April 5 Danhausen & Ram Kaicho vs Maki Ito & Nick Gage, GCW Joey Janella’s Spring Break 8, April 5 Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill, & Naomi vs Asuka, Dakota Kai, & Kairi Sane, WWE WrestleMania XL: Saturday, April 6 Cody Rhodes & Seth Rollins vs ..read more

I haven’t been this excited about a WrestleMania since 2004. Vince is gone, and they have an SA policy. Kevin Dunne is gone, too. The production is great, and the storylines heading into this one have been amazing. LFG! WrestleMania XL: Saturday April 6, 2024 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field The new button was pretty cool. After a nice intro video, Michael Cole gives us a weather update and wonders how the cold will affect the wrestlers. That’s a nice touch. Hey, it’s the proper USA anthem, not the song Vince always wanted. Truly, this is a new era! Speaking of a new era, Trips is here ..read more

To put together my top 100 list of the greatest wrestlers ever, I am going through each year and putting together a list for that particular year. Previously, on the podcast “Maybe Not Taue,” I compiled a list for 1985, 1990, 1997, & 2021. You can listen to those here. 1983, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2019, 2022, and 2023 are on the blog. 1992 It’s been a great year for pro wrestling, and the top-end talent really cemented themselves. However, I had a hard time ranking the first two-thirds of the list. There were a lot of really good wrestlers all vying for ..read more

Dean Rasmussen was a big part of my early online fandom and this tribute show is so nice to see. I joined DVDR as a teenager and started reading Dean. I did podcasts with Dean. Dean’s love of wrestling was beautiful, and this show is beautiful. Bear with me as I don’t watch much southern indies, so I don’t know a lot of these folks. From Williamstown, New Jersey on April 4, 2024. This is a fitting image to start the show: 1. Alex Kane (c) vs Colby Corino “ACTION Wrestling World Championship” Corino really worked the headlock in this match, hitting it in various ways, including from the top ro ..read more

Weirdly, the last time WrestleMania weekend was this exciting was 2019, when the last American Dream show was! I hope this is my first of many show reviews this weekend. Commentary by Veda Scott and Tom Lawlor. Not the sound mix is bad with Lawlor being inaudible and the music being super loud. 1. Mei Seira (c) vs Ram Kaichow vs Saki Kashima “High Speed Championship” Saki Kashima steals the show early with her reactions to Ram Kachow and her dead gimmick, with dust flying over her corpse and her playing referee for the other two. We get a lot of really great comedy early on to a hot crowd bef ..read more

I am going to do more shorter posts, so I’m shortening my monthly post down to the top 10 with honourable mentions. In March I had my live report from AEW Dynamite/Rampage, and in April I will have my WrestleMania weekend report. Hopefully lots more to come, because if I don’t write it down I’ll probably forget it! #10 Mitsuharu Misawa (c) vs Toshiaki Kawada “Triple Crown Championship” AJPW 20th Anniversary Giant Series October 21, 1992 This was their typical really good, but doesn’t do a lot for me matches. The highlights were the hot start and great finishing sequence, but the middle portion ..read more

Before The Show AEW is live in Toronto at the old Ricoh Coliseum, now Coca-Cola Coliseum and I am live with my good friend on this snowy Wednesday night! I haven’t been to this arena since last October when I saw Kim Petras. This show will not be that great, but I think it will be a lot of fun. I am usually lower on AEW, but Mercedes Mone’ is there now, and I am getting a Deonna Purrazo and Mariah May match, as well as a women’s street fight. The one women’s match a show rule SUCKS, but at least these are matches that should get time. So, let’s get onto the pre-show! Ring of Honor Anna Jay sq ..read more