Pro Wrestling League/Renegades of Wrestling – Australian Supershow (Brisbane, 14 Feb 2025)
Shortly after All Elite Wrestling’s announcement of Grand Slam Australia in Brisbane, local promotion Pro Wrestling League and Melbourne’s Renegades...
Andy Gray
Lifelong wrestling fan. Decade-long fan of local wrestling. Writer. Aspiring interviewer... if it weren't for that pesky, crippling anxiety!
PWDU Feature Interview: Solomun Blackwell
“I say the with the utmost… humble-ism? I don’t know if that’s a word?” I loved this quote from my...
PWDU Live Review – PWA Colosseum 2023: Night 2 (Sunday 22 October)
We’re back with a “better late than never” review of PWA Colosseum Night 2 (driving to and from Sydney sucks,...
PWDU Live Review – PWA Colosseum 2023: Night 1 (Saturday 21 October)
Having attended some really fun PWA events in Sydney and Melbourne in recent years, including the 2022 version of Colosseum,...
PWDU Live Review: MCW Fight to Survive, Saturday 14 October 2023
We’re back at the Thornbury Theatre for another really exciting MCW card, featuring a 5-on-5 main event, Jarvis vs Delta,...
The Rise, Stagnation And The Downfalls Of DMDU
When I first started writing with PWDU in early 2023 I wrote an article providing an overview of some of...
PWDU Live Review: MCW Ascension (Saturday 9 September 2023)
Saturday 9 September saw PWDU back at the Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne’s inner north for another really exciting looking Melbourne...
PWDU Live Review: Renegades of Wrestling vs Game Changer Wrestling – Melbourne 26 August
I arrive early to the really schmick looking Melbourne Pavillion for the meet & greet. A couple of notes from...
PWDU Interview (Part 2/2): Emman Azman “Robbie Eagles is a piece of sh*t!”
Ahead of next week’s Renegades of Wrestling vs Game Changer Wrestling tour, PWDownunder was lucky to speak with Emman Azman...
PWDU Interview (Part 1/2): Emman Azman – “Vikingo is not Emman Azman!”
“What I’ve been doing my whole life and career is telling people that I come from Malaysia… My mission is...
PWDU Review: PWA It’s Coming Home
After being lucky enough to enjoy PWA Black Label’s previous show, Requiem for a Tag Team Dream, from the live...
Renegades & GCW leading a new dawn in OzWres? Interview with Renegades Promoter Mikey Jay
We had the NXT tour and tryouts of 2016. Then came the New Japan tours of 2018 and 2019. We...
GCW/Renegades of Wrestling – Tour Announcements
As we covered recently on PWDownunder, Melbourne’s Renegades of Wrestling and the US-based Game Changer Wrestling are co-promoting a three...
Live Review – MCW Ballroom Brawl, 8 July 2023
Melbourne City Wrestling’s Ballroom Brawl is one of the big annual events of Australian wrestling, and we were excited to...
Review: IMPACT Downunder – Wagga, Saturday 1 July
After a really fun show on Night 1 of IMPACT Downunder, we’re back for night 2. Unfortunately the lighting issues...
Review: IMPACT Downunder – Wagga, Friday 30 June
We’re reviewing this show from the Fite stream tonight - I would’ve loved to go to Wagga, but sadly I...
PWDU Live Review – PWA Black Label: Requiem for a Tag Team Dream
Last weekend saw me take PWDU on the road for PWA Black Label’s “Requiem for a Tag Team Dream”, with...
IMPACT Downunder tour – IMPACT match announcements + Australian showcase
With just two days until IMPACT Wrestling's tour of Australia in conjunction with Oceania Pro Wrestling and the New South...
Tour Announcement – GCW vs Renegades of Wrestling
Renegades of Wrestling has today announced that it will be hosting a co-promoted tour with US indy giant Game Changer...
IMPACT Wrestling Downunder – Talent announcements, Australian showcase, matches and meet & greets
With under two weeks remaining until the IMPACT tour of Wagga Wagga, PWDownunder continues its coverage with an overview of...
IMPACT Wrestling Australian Tour – PWDU Talent Announcement!
Last week PWDU commenced coverage of the upcoming IMPACT Wrestling tour of Wagga Wagga with talent announcements to date. Two...
Live Review: MCW High Stakes
Melbourne City Wrestling’s “High Stakes” show took place on Saturday 3 June out of the Thornbury Theatre, following on from...
Review: Wrestle Rampage – Bad Moon Rising
Wrestle Rampage’s March 2023 was uploaded to YouTube last week, and with a really high profile main event I’m looking...
IMPACT Wrestling Australian Tour – Talent Announcements
Following its recent Australian tour announcement on behalf of IMPACT Wrestling, Oceania Pro Wrestling and the New South Wales Regional...
Live review: Renegades of Wrestling – Brewery Brawl
Sunday, 21 May saw Renegades of Wrestling present its Brewery Brawl event as part of Melbourne’s Good Beer Week. Held...
Review – PWA Black Label: RUMBLE IV
It’s PWA, one of the top two promotions in Australia. It’s a rumble, featuring 30 of New South Wales’ and...
IMPACT Wrestling Announces Australian Tour
IMPACT Wrestling has announced that it will be undertaking an Australian tour in June/July 2023, with 4 days of activities...
Review: DMDU x Heathen Combat – Weekend of Death
How does one introduce a review of Deathmatch Downunder in the early days of May, 2023? Do you ignore everything...
Review – Battle Championship Wrestling: BCW 51
On Friday 28 April I was lucky enough to head along to the Whitehorse Club in the Melbourne suburb of...
Live Review: NJPW TAMASHII – Melbourne, 16 April
Sunday, 16 April saw the 7th edition of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s TAMASHII brand at Melbourne’s Croxton Theatre. This was...
Live Review: MCW Blood in the Water
Melbourne City Wrestling’s second show of 2023, Blood in the Water, took place at the Thornbury Theatre on Saturday 8...
Feature: Cherry Stephens – The Soul of Australian Wrestling?
Click here for the full audio interview! “I’ve always been very partial to the written word. I love reading, I...
Review: EPW Goldrush 2023
Explosive Pro Wrestling (EPW) out of Perth has been a mainstay of Australian wrestling for over 20 years, and has...
Analysis – WWE Sale to Endeavor
Following Endeavor’s early-morning announcement (US time) that it had purchased WWE, it has also released a presentation from Endeavor CEO...
WWE SOLD TO ENDEAVOR
Endeavor, owners of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), announced terms early on Monday morning US time for a sale/merger with WWE....
Preview: Renegades of Wrestling @ Knotfest
In a surprise announcement this week, Renegades of Wrestling were able to capitalise on its excellent The Return of the...
Feature: JXT – Lessons From a WrestleBraniac
Our full interview with JXT is available for you to listen to. When the story of the renaissance of Australian...
Review: Renegades of Wrestling – The Return of the Renegades
Sometimes you’re lucky enough to go to a local show that leaves you thinking “I’m an idiot that I wasn’t...
PWDU Feature: Aysha – A First Class Interview
“I was really sporty and very academic, I was always someone who wanted to go big with things” Aysha tells...
World Series Wrestling – Unleash Hell Tour (Night 2: Melbourne)
We’re welcomed to the show by Lord Andy Coyne and his amazing green jacket and red pocket square. He runs...
World Series Wrestling – Unleash Hell Tour (Night 1: Melbourne)
Lord Andy Coyne welcomes us and announces that Taya Valkyrie is a last minute withdrawal from the tour. He runs...
Jordan Samson – A Humble Giant, With Or Without His Hair
As I approach west Melbourne’s Kindred Bandrooms for DMDU’s “Philadelphia&Chicago&Tokyo&Footscray” show I find myself slightly terrified. I’m meeting a huge,...