Fight Club: PRO, Wrestle House 2019, The Hangar - Review
The main event of Wrestle House 2019 saw Schadenfreude explode when the big men, Austria’s Walter and Australia’s Mark Davis collided after clashing in the changing rooms following the group’s failure to defeat Meiko Satomura in December.
Walter is known for being one of the hardest hitters in pro-wrestling, often leaving literal handprints on his opponent’s chests, but in Davis he was facing someone who could match him, strike for strike. With both men laying it in thick, this was a brutal, thrilling match. Davis would ultimately win with a piledriver but worst would follow for Walter, with his tag-team partner Timothy Thatcher turning on him to remain in Schadenfreude.
Davis’s tag team partner Kyle Fletcher was also in action, and had an excellent match against New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Openweight Champion, Will Ospreay. Despite having broken his toe the week before at World of Sport event, the Brit was in no mood to surrender the initiative to the Australian. Both men would go to the top rope repeatedly, with Ospreay needing to dig deep to secure the victory, with a last-gasp reverse hurricanrana giving him the space to hit his big finishing moves.
There was more highflying when Tipton’s Hunter Brothers successfully defended their tag team titles against Spain’s Team White Wolf. The champions always like to set a fast pace and this was no exception, but A-Kid and Carlos Romo managed to keep up. And Ospreay wasn’t the only pro-wrestler representing a Japanese promotion, with Coventry’s Mille McKenzie wearing her Sendai Girls Junior Title to the ring. She would defeat Yui, a Japanese pro-wrestler who is doing an extended tour of the UK. Afterwards McKenzie would be attacked by Charli Evans, most likely setting up a match for the next show.
Perhaps the biggest story coming out of Wrestle House 2019 was that somehow Fight Club: PRO had managed to sell out The Hangar, maintaining the promotion’s streak of leaving no tickets unsold for their monthly Friday shows in the venue. This was particularly impressive, both because they had managed to secure permission to increase capacity, and due to no longer being able to book WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne and his fellow WWE superstars Moustache Mountain. It’s a testament to Fight Club: PRO’s strength in depth, that they’ve been able to take the departure of British Strong Style in their stride.
By Will Cooling
Fight Club: PRO returns to The Hangar on Friday 15th March. Wrestle House 2019 will shortly be available to purchase on DVD and Video-on-Demand. For more information, visit fightclubpro.bigcartel.com
