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Welcome back to the Sermon on the Mat, your weekly one-stop shop for news from the wider world of wrestling beyond the big cable TV monoliths that get all the coverage.
Indie wrestling is still shut down from the pandemic and everything sucks, but hey, I’m still comin’ at you with all the freebies that I can find!
Plus, a number of streaming services and Twitch channels are offering a constant stream of material for you that’s hard for me to include in the listing, so make sure to check ‘em out—
IWTV Mixtape: The Best of Black Independent Wrestling
We don’t have any new shows as such for you this week, but IWTV and J-Rose have cooked something up for us that I think is very much worth your time, folks...
Thursday, 06.11.2020
— IWTV (@indiewrestling) June 8, 2020
IWTV Mixtape: Special
The Best Of Black Independent Wrestling
All proceeds from this stream will go to @MNFreedomFund and other Black Lives Matter organizations + special BLM apparel & more
Curated by @thisisjrose#BLMonIWTV pic.twitter.com/wbFUE24AYK
There are so many talented black folks wrestling right now, friends, and this is going to be a spotlight worth watching, so join us!
Free matches here!
Beyond Looking California
A free full show from our friends at Beyond here, we go back to April of 2017 and a double-header weekend. This show features Deonna Purrazzo vs. Jordynne Grace, Team Pazuzu vs. OI4K, LuFisto vs. Penelope Ford, Ace Romero vs. “Hot Sauce” Tracy Williams, and in the main event, Donovan Dijak vs. Joey Janela! Don’t miss it!
IWRG Rey del Ring 2009
From the folks over at +LuchaTV and the lucha indie juggernaut that is IWRG, we’ve got some Royal Rumble style action for you! This bad boy features the likes of Negro Navarro, BUSHI, Angelico, Los Traumas, and more, enjoy!
IWRG Rey del Ring 2019
And we have here the 2019 edition to follow it up!
Butcher and the Blade (Andy Williams & Pepper Parks) vs. Violence Is Forever (Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku)
From our friends over at Black Label Pro, we’ve got some dynamite tag team action for you this week. Well... half-Dynamite, half-Fusion, at least! Bad jokes aside, check it out!
Anthony Greene vs. Ava Everett
From Limitless Wrestling up in Maine, some intergender action as the partnership between the Retrosexual and the Ava-Taker explodes!
Dave “the Potato” Dawson vs. Johnny Gargano
The fine folks at AIW have uploaded this match, in which Johnny Wrestling fights a potato.
Estrellita, Marcela, & Sexy Dulce vs. Lady Flammer, Lady Puma, & Tiffany
Some lucha libre women’s action from +LuchaTV and KAOZ, enjoy!
Hakim Zane vs. Space Monkey
The folks over at Glory Pro are back with another Match of the Week, and this time it’s everybody’s favorite monkey from space in action against Hakim Zane. Check it out!
Kenny Lush vs. the Natural (Hot Dog Eating Contest)
From Canada’s ECCW, we’ve got... a hot dog eating contest? A hot dog eating contest. C’mon, folks, you know I couldn’t resist this one when I saw it land in my inbox!
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito
To celebrate New Japan Pro Wrestling restarting activities next week, we’ve got this blast from the past for y’all! From Dominion 2017, Naito defends his IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Tanahashi, check it out!
Dash Chisako vs. Kay Lee Ray
There are some thumbnails I just can’t resist, and when Pro Wrestling: EVE gives me KLR buried under a pile of chairs and about to have a ladder bulldogged onto her, well, I’m gonna run the match.
Daniel Garcia vs. Tony Deppen
Some Discovery Gauntlet action from our friends over at Beyond. Red Death takes on Tony Deppen, enjoy!
DCT & Viper vs. Kay Lee Ray & Stevie Boy
Scotland’s ICW have this intergender tag match lined up for us, so check it out!
Christian Casanova vs. Myron Reed
A little slice of indie black excellence for you from the fine folks up at Limitless, don’t miss it!
Team Adams (Karen Q & Tasha Steelz) vs. Team PAWG (Jordynne Grace & LuFisto)
Our friends over at Women’s Wrestling Revolution Pro have a grade A slice of tag team wrestling for you, enjoy!
Fluffman vs. Montana Black
Last but not least, PWX’s Series of Supremacy rolls on with this HOSS FIGHT!
As always...
Remember folks, no matter what type of wrestling you like, no matter how down you feel about the state of WWE, Impact, ROH, or any other “big-time” pro wrestling, there’s something out there for you. There’s a pro wrestling product that can hit you in the right spot and make you love wrestling like you thought you’d never be able to love it again. It’s there, I promise. You just gotta reach out and find it, and that, my friends, is what the Sermon on the Mat is all about.