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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.
Coming soon...
Beyond Signature Series Episode 4 (Mar. 18, 8PM Eastern)
- Megabyte Ronnie vs. Richard Holliday
- Mike Verna & Rex Lawless vs. The Bird and the Bee (Solo Darling & Willow Nightingale) (Tournament For Tomorrow First Round Tournament Match)
- Chris Dickinson vs. Wheeler YUTA (Greatest Rivals Round Robin Tournament Match)
Beyond’s Signature Series rolls on tonight— Ronnie and Holiday clash in a match of vanity and hot dog-powered elbow drops, Bird and the Bee bring it to the erstwhile Closers, and the GRR rolls on with Dickinson’s dirty intensity coming up against YUTA’s slick and smooth grappling.
Check it out live as always on IWTV, folks.
Enjoy Canned Heat #4 (Mar. 18, 7:30PM Eastern)
- Bird and the Bee (Solo Darling & Willow Nightingale) vs. Ziggy Haim & ???
- Lee Moriarty vs. MV Young (Enjoy Cup Tournament Finals)
Enjoy Wrestling have been dropping this little weekly pretape on us for a few weeks and I figure the final episode is high time to check in on ‘em here! Bird and the Bee avenge Edith Surreal (who you probably know better as Still Life With Apricots and Pears) having her mask ripped off by taking it to Haim in a mystery tag partner match, plus Young and Moriarty clash in tournament finals!
Catch the previous episodes and check it out live and free for nothin’ on YouTube, folks!
H2O Bad Luck... It Can’t Last Forever (Mar. 20, 8PM Eastern)
- Austin Luke, Reid Walker, & Rocket vs. Bobby Beverly, Eric Ryan, & Gregory Iron
- Atticus Cogar vs. Sean Henderson
- Jeff Cannonball vs. Jimmy Lyon vs. Mitch Vallen
- Devon Moore vs. Stockade
- Marcus Mathers vs. Rickey Shane Page
- Bam Sullivan (c) vs. Brandon Kirk (H2O Danny Havoc Hardcore Championship)
- Dyln McKay vs. Frankie Pickard (c) vs. Lucky 13 vs. Mouse (H2O Hybrid Championship)
- Aiden Baal vs. Chuck Payne (c) (H2O Championship)
H2O returns with another one of their trademark violence-filled shows and we’ve got some good stuff here. Vets Beverly, Ryan, and Iron take it to some up-and-comers, and the Extricated have a triple main event trying to maintain their grip on the Danny Havoc title and gain the other two singles belts in H2O!
Check it out live on IWTV, folks.
Free matches here!
AC Mack vs. Leyla Hirsch
We start things off with a bang this week as Beyond bring us this match featuring AEW’s latest women’s division signing— Leyla Hirsch faces off against AC Mack and it’s sprinty fresh, don’t miss it!
Ayako Hamada vs. Zeuxis
Tournament action courtesy of +LuchaTV and Torneo Suprema Mas Lucha, we’ve got this semifinal match featuring two of lucha libre’s lady juggernauts, enjoy!
Chris Hero & Robert “Ego” Anthony vs. Team BETA
And now Freelance wrestling drop this blast from the past on us, with greatest indie wrestler of all time Hero teaming up with underrated mainstay Ego to take on Craig Mitchell and Isaias Velazquez, check it out!
Bear Country vs. Mike Verna & Rex Lawless
Back to Beyond we go, for this stellar tag team match pitting the might of Bear Country against Verna and Lawless, check it out!
Cheerleader Melissa vs. Sara Del Rey
California’s All Pro Wrestling keeps the archive matches flowing and we got some real good stuff this week! Melissa vs. Death Rey in falls count anywhere action at the heart of the beginning of modern women’s indie wrestling, don’t miss it!
Best of the 2010s in ECCW
And as is time-honored tradition, we end on another ECCW comp, this one featuring their best stuff from the last decade, enjoy!
As always...
Remember folks, no matter what type of wrestling you like, no matter how down you feel about the state of WWE, AEW, 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.