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BIG G1 CLIMAX BOUT SET FOR NJPW ON AXS, WHAT'S SET FOR THIS WEEKEND'S WOW - WOMEN OF WRESTLING, MOXLEY AND MORE

Set for Thursday's edition of New Japan on AXS is Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito from this year's G1 Climax tournament.

Scheduled for this weekend's WOW - Women of Wrestling:

"With Amber O'Neal by her side, Jessie Jones makes her intentions toward former tag partner Americana crystal clear; Gloria Glitter aims to make a statement against Stephy Slays; Holidead tries to tame Chainsaw once and for all."

Jon Moxley vs. Gringo Loco will headline the 1/27 Wrestling Revolver event in Dayton, Ohio, a bout the promotion has been trying to put together for a long time but it kept getting delayed.  The show will air on TrillerTV+, formerly FITE+.

The new book Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling (Sports and American Culture) – by Jon Langmead has been pushed back to a 1/19/24 release.  Promotional material for the hardcover release notes:

"Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling is a history of professional wrestling’s formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the “sport” as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to melodramatic mass entertainment that reliably drew large crowds in cities across the nation.

The narrative uses the life and career of Jack Curley—a boxing promoter whose fortune took a turn for the better when he began promoting wrestling matches—as a compass as it charts the development of wrestling. By the late 1910s, Curley’s shows were selling out Madison Square Garden monthly. Ballyhoo chronicles his competition with the other promoters, as well as the lives of colorful athletes like “Strangler” Ed Lewis, Frank Gotch, the “Masked Marvel,” Jim Londos, “Gorgeous George” Wagner, “Farmer” Martin Burns, and “Dynamite” Gus Sonnenberg."

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