First and foremost, hope everyone had a great weekend. Congratulations to PUSO Wrestling in the Philippines on a great show this past Sunday night. Continued success to a promotion that is getting better and better every time out.
Also, congratulations to SETUP Thailand on announcing a wrestling show for the Tokyo, Japan area in November. This is great and huge news for SETUP, IWA Thailand and the SEA Wrestling industry. No question that this announcement will be a huge success. The fans in Japan enjoy wrestling and SETUP/IWA Thailand will enhance wrestling in the country as well as Southeast Asia.
Also, this blogger wants to congratulate Grapplemax (Singapore) wrestlers, Simon Siah and Shawn Phang on their successful wrestling tour and visit to Taiwan. They wrestled in a New Taiwan Wrestling show called NTW - Hot War. The event, am told, went very well.
Right now, despite the struggles this American is seeing in his country because of an autocrat leader, Southeast Asia Pro Wrestling has been the complete focus, as well as pro wrestling in general. Fans, unfortunately it's not an excuse, but a realism 350-plus million people have to deal with on a daily basis.
Lately, this fan has been able to get an affordable internet provider so this blogger can get posts out on a timely basis. The readers of this blog have noticed it lately, and thank you fans for the responses and the patience. My Independence Day weekend was doing what he enjoys....and that was either watching pro wrestling, reading and/or posting about it on the blog.
Personally, I need to thank one person for all of this. A journalist/photographer by the name of Bill Apter is the major reason for doing this. Over the years, this wrestling fan has read tons of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazines and have enjoyed what he does done for the business. This blogger won't ever be able to do the remarkable things that he's done. However, his example is one that has been rubbed on this blogger.
Finally, the next couple of months are going to be huge in Southeast Asia Pro Wrestling. Each one of the 13 promotions / organizations will be putting on, or have, put on shows. Now is the time to get out and support the group(s) in your country! That is part of what this blogger does. and that is to promote the SEA promotions and SEA Wrestling. Please have a good week everyone!