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[jpivblog]

i went to vegas last friday to go to the deadlock pro wrestling show! it was awesome!!! managed to take some halfway decent pictures too

[backtothefuturefan88]

A redraw of my old Space Jam 2 art, with a few extra details.

Still not over that fact they gave Bugs Bunny abandonment issues

[guy60660]

Osip | Merlin Labron-Johnson | © Maureen M Evans

[bey-life]

[greyeyedmonster-18]

(anthony davis got traded off the lakers and im heart broken because he is getting torn away from his friends and—

sports are stories

((but also some kind of basketball au where sirius gets traded mid season and onto the same team as james who has been his notorious rival for years and years and years and they have to learn to work together and also fall in love bye))

[kud-lucas]

[returnofrukuss]

Not sure the picture of lebron is real

[blub-blob]

God I love them so much it's not even funny

THE GHOST APPROVES

from this fic by @adrianainthesnow

[chronicllchill]

“And NO i don’t think that Michel Jordan is the next Michel Jackson!?” I say with a fiery passion in my voice.

You could call Michel him, but he could never be he he

[livornointasca]

Coppa Lubrani - Meoni: L'Ardenza rovina "di nuovo" il tris ai bianco-neri

[wrestlingwiththoughts]

WrestleMania Week 2025: One More Final - Where Are You?

Now that I've mostly recovered from the post-WrestleMania Week 2025 hangover (I watched possibly too much wrestling in the span of 4 days last week), I wanted to put a capstone on this topic before moving on. Specifically, I couldn't help but wonder why Yoshihiko (the inanimate doll that DDT uses) had more appearances during WrestleMania Week 2025 than, say, Tommy Billington.

This question started because I had circled Tommy Billington's match against Sean Legacy at Pandemonium Pro Wrestling: The House Always Wins. Due to technical issues, I wasn't able to watch it, and I tried to find another Tommy Billington match since I had wanted to see how much he had progressed since his match against Konosuke Takeshita for ROH in January. To my surprise, Billington's match against Sean Legacy, scheduled for the pre-show, was his only match during WrestleMania Week.

I know that scheduling falls into a complicated matrix of wrestler availability, wrestler interest, pay for the match, the logistics of going from one booking to another (especially if the wrestler is scheduled to wrestler in another country after), interest from the promoter, interpromotional political considerations, wrestler health and fatigue, and other factors that I have probably missed. Yet, it makes no sense to me that Tommy Billington, who has wrestled on AEW TV programming only wrestled 1) once 2) on Pandemonium Pro's pre-show and 3) had fewer in-ring minutes over the course of two weeks than an inanimate object.

That pushed me down a rabbit hole of tracking wrestlers' appearances during WrestleMania Week based on information in Cagematch. I do not claim that this definitively captures the number of shows in which each wrestler appeared or the wrestlers who appeared at a WrestleMania Week show. I have undoubtedly missed a show or a wrestler. However, this still feels accurate enough in a back of the envelope calculation way that I can draw certain inferences on the wrestlers who seem, to be, to have been criminally underused at WrestleMania Week 2025.

1. Tommy Billington

Off the top of my head, I think I can imagine up to 10 matches that could have realistically happened at WrestleMania Week that involved Billington.

Billington vs. Kzy

Billington vs. Jonathan Gresham

Billington vs. Galeno del Mal

Billingon vs. Cappuccino Jones

Billington vs. Judas Icarus

Billington vs. Arez

Billington vs. Leon Slater

Billington vs. AJ Francis

Billington vs. Nicole Matthews

Billington vs. Michael Oku

Instead, we had just the match against Sean Legacy, and I couldn't have even seen that because Pandemonium Pro's stream was overwhelmed during that match.

2. Adam Priest 3. LaBron Kozone

As two of the highlights of Deadlock Pro Wrestling, one would have expected that we would have seen more of Priest and Kozone. Instead, Kozone had only his match against Leon Slater at DPW Title Fight in Vegas, while Priest only wrestled Minoru Suzuki at Prestige Wrestling Nothing to Lose and in three Ultimate Conflict match at the DPW show. One could argue that Priest and Kozone were featured wrestlers on DPW's show, so they could have turned down offers to appear on other shows to preserve themselves for the DPW show. Nonetheless, I wish they had been more active during WrestleMania Week.

4. Hyan

I only saw the 2025 Queen of the Indies winner in her match against Kingsley at Pandemonium Pro's show, though she also wrestled on Dragongate x Pro Wrestling Revolution: The Gate of Revolution. I was impressed with how solid she was overall. She isn't spectacular, but she is a better (or at the very least, a less annoying) wrestler than some of the other wrestlers who were signed to wrestle at more shows than Hyan. Could she have wrestled on the DDT or the TJPW/DDT/GCW show instead of the inanimate object?

5. Kingsley

Speaking of Hyan's match on Pandemonium Pro’s show, Kingsley, Hyan's opponent, only wrestled once during WrestleMania Week. It's a long trip to make from Australia to Las Vegas for just one match. There's potential in Kingsley's personality and character, and I wish we had seen more opportunities to see it contrasted against other wrestlers. For example, Kingsley and Nicole Matthews could have had some fun interactions.

6. Rey Horus 7. Ninja Mack 8. Luke Jacobs

Jacobs, as the PROGRESS World Champion, had a main event match against Michael Oku, so I could imagine, similarly as Kozone and Priest, that he wanted to save himself for that match. Horus, as a veteran, could have found some of the other shows not worth his time and effort. And Mack could be saving his body for another tour of Japan; however, given that he participated in a scramble cage match at the Clusterfuck show, I doubt it.

9. Titus Alexander

The problem with potential is that it can prop doors open for only so long. At 24 years old, Alexander still has plenty of time to realize his potential, but he also feels like old news because he made his debut seven years ago. In that time, he has had good matches, but it doesn't feel like he's had a stand-out break-out match. This year, he worked at three shows: DPW's, Marvelous's, and West Coast Pro's. While they were fairly prominent matches, they also weren't the most important or most memorable matches from the week. Again, do I wish that he had teamed with MAO instead of the inanimate object at the TJPW/DDT/GCW joint show? Absolutely.

10. Danny Orion 11. Carter Blaq

I wish that these two standouts from New Texas Pro Wrestling's show had wrestled in more shows this year. Orion was in the six-man match at West Coast Pro's show, and I think he or Blaq would have been a better option than some other wrestlers on, for example, Dragongate USA: The Reborn, or 4th Rope/GCW Heels Haves Eyes: For the Culture 2025.

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