DPW - Harehills WMC

What can I say? This was an awesome occasion.

Myself and Socko were present at the August event at Morley town hall and this time we were joined by a chap who occasionally goes by the name of Duke Punchingham - a great time was had by all.

Dynamic Pro Wrestling (DPW) is a small company based in Yorkshire and they have been going for around 30 months now and it's not exactly big but the wrestlers always seem to put on a great show and don't care that they are playing in front of a few dozen people as long as the banter is flowing and cheers are to be heard - This, This is wrestling.

I'm still wrestling (no pun intended) with the names of many of their stars, but here follows an account of the main event - The Juice CJ Banks defending his DPW British Heavyweight Title against the Mexican sensation, El Ligero.

The match started at a sizzling pace with El Ligero leading the way showing off some of his blistering speed and high flying moves. The Juice however showed that he's indeed no slouch by not allowing this torrent of abuse to stop him from getting up and fighting back. It wasn't long before The Juice had to regroup by taking a little time-out outside the ring - this was a perfect way to take the pace out of the bout, or so you would think...

El Ligero managed to get onto the apron and managed to hit a very impressive suicide dive onto the hard concrete floor. The bout then continued outside the ring as the ref fought long and hard to keep some sort of order by following them outside as El Ligero was happy to use anything to hand to get the advantage, ranging from boxes to children's inflatables and bin lids as the fight escalated towards the back of the room and in front of the bar. Shortly after that, Ligero asserted his dominance of the match by hitting a very impressive high cross body from the room's DJ booth!

Shortly after this, the bout returned to the ring where The Juice was able to reverse an attack from Ligero and finally show why he is the champ - he was able to slowly break down Ligero with a series of suplexes and holds that demonstrated that the art of technical wrestling is alive and well.

Ligero then started to get back into the fight and got things back to a pace that suits him by hitting Juice with a series of fast attacks but something got in his way - the ref...

While the ref was down Ligero was able to hit back with a super kick followed by a top rope splash for what should have been a very impressive three count, but Ligero didn't realise that the ref was still down...

Juice was down and seemingly out but so was the ref. Ligero knew that he couldn't win the title with an out cold ref so he attempted to help him - at the point Juice was back on his feet and had his title belt in hand and... you guessed it, nailed him with it. Juice wasn't finished, he went up to the top rope and hit a great frog splash then covered Ligero to get a (slow) 1-2-3.

This was a great match and showed just what the wrestlers of DPW can do, I would urge anyone to give them the support that they both need and deserve.

Dynamic Pro Wrestling really is the future of British wrestling and I wouldn't be surprised if some of these people go on to bigger if not better things on the other side of the pond.