This past week I had the opportunity to do a quick interview session with Dalton Bragg, the bombastic American wrestler who had the unique honour of being the first ever MKW Champion, to better understand who he is and what the Chinese wrestling scene is truly like, from a competitor’s perspective. His answers were sometimes…
Just before the end of 2016 Middle Kingdom Wrestling participated in their biggest venture to date, a co-promoted tour in Thailand with Kingdom Wrestling Federation, a local Thai group, and Association Bitteroise de Catch, out of France, dubbed WrestleStar III. These shows, for my interest in shining a light on underrepresented places in international Pro-Wrestling,…
Admittedly this campaign almost slipped by me entirely. Thankfully it came back into my focus with enough time left for us to break down the campaign and see what it’s doing right and, just maybe, what it is doing wrong. At the time of writing this article CHIKARA: Action Arcade Wrestling (a terribly generic name)…
Recently I completed the third full illustration in my new sketchbook and, amongst the usual self-criticism of the perpetually improving artist, I stopped to take a look back at the sketchbook I had just set aside. Therein lay the tale of the year in which I believe I have made the most improvements. I decided…
Middle Kingdom Wrestling recently hit a new landmark in their self-proclaimed journey to become the dominant Pro-Wrestling company in China. They posted their Season 2 finale to YouTube on September 18, 2016. You can watch it right here and then follow me on to the review! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZlwOcnTEr4&w=560&h=315] This episode only has two matches, and…
I’m going to start this off by revealing my bias: Little in life gets me as excited as Giant Robots. Mecha just reach deep down inside of me and flip a switch that fills me with childlike exuberance. I grew up, and still am, enamoured with Transformers and easily found that love of heavy mechanical…
When I initially decided that I wanted to cover Pro-Wrestling companies on the fringes, outside of the mainstream Wrestling media coverage, I figured it would be a hard sell. I knew that it was a subject that I was direly interested in, and which desperately needed more coverage. However, I had no clue when I…
For a long while now, I’ve wanted to add my voice to the world of professional wrestling commentary, but I’ve never before understood what I had to offer, or what I wanted to talk about. There are millions of voices out there chronicling the big leagues with fervor and unquestionable talent. I’m no Dave Meltzer,…
My passion for crowd-funding was kindled during the time I spent as part of the nascent Indivisible fan community as we campaigned to help Lab Zero Games reach their oft scoffed at funding goal. I grew to appreciate, through my efforts as well as through observation, the work that goes into setting up a campaign…
In my last entry I may have crossed the line a bit too much into teaching you what I am being taught, dearest readership of zero people. That is not my intention. I started out last week by telling you that in six hours with Ty Templeton (you can find his course at www.comicbookbootcamp.com daddy-o!)…