Pro-Wrestling EVE: #SHEVolution Show Offered Something Special For Every Fan

Pro Wrestling EVE recently made its #SHEVolution show available, and this event deserves heavy praise for producing a card that delivered in every possible sense.

Wrestle Queendom is coming up on May 5th , and women’s wrestling fans have a lot to be excited about. It is the largest women’s wrestling event ever held in Europe, and the card is an incredible mix of international superstars and home grown talent. Luckily, international fans are going to be able to watch the action live thanks to Fite TV.  There is literally no better time to get into the world of Pro Wrestling EVE.

Of course, getting into a new wrestling promotion with a lot of history can be a daunting task. If you’re looking for a primer on Pro Wrestling EVE,  their latest Eve On Demand offering #SHEvolution is a great place to start.

The card is full of EVE favorites and Wrestle Queendom storyline build up, and offers everything from brilliant comedy matches to a hardcore match that you’ll have to watch to believe. All of that, plus some of the best women’s wrestling you can see in any promotion today. We want you to be as excited about Pro Wrestling EVE as we are, so here’s a match-by-match breakdown of everything we loved in #SHEVolution. Read it, check out the show  for yourself, and meet Harmony and Joe back here on May 5th for Wrestle Queendom!

NIA SAMUELS AND RHIA O’REILLY (EVE-STER DEATH MATCH)

Harmony: The first match kicks off with Nina Samuels sauntering into the ring. She’s a posh, arrogant heel and she’s funny and mean, and the crowd knows her well enough that she’s basically unable to move without being showered in boos. If you weren’t familiar with EVE, you might start to feel bad for her. However, when someone shouts something supportive, she orders him up to ringside only to look him in the eye and shout: “I don’t need your f******g support! Now get to the back!”

So that’s Nina. She’s pretty great!

Her opponent for this match is one of my favorite wrestlers working today,  Rhia O’Reilly. Rhia is a great talent. She’s charismatic and fun, and the EVE crowd loves her as much as I do. She comes bouncing down the stairs wearing Easter bobble-ears and carrying chocolate. She gets a “Happy Eve-Ster” chant going, and then reveals a proposed stipulation for the match: let’s make it an Eve-Ster Death Match!

What the hell is an Eve-Ster Death Match? We all get to find out together as the stipulation is granted and the bell rings.  The two fly at each other and grapple and kick, and there’s a great moment where Nina gets Rhia tied up in the ropes and delivers an painful-looking drop kick to her back.

Then the Easter props come out. They take turns garroting each other with a string of light-up egg lights, then Nina grabs the easter bobble ears and slams them on Rhia, getting her into a submission hold so she can stuff chocolate eggs up her nose. At one point, Nina jams hot cross buns into Rhia’s mouth and kicks her in the face.

It’s like a deathmatch staged in the holiday aisle of a Wal-Mart, and it’s awesome. Things escalate quickly and weirdly, with Rhia using an “Easter Bunny Stop Here!” sign like a kendo stick and eventually scattering Cadbury Mini-Eggs on the ground like thumbtacks and powerbombing Nina into them to win the match.

Overall, this was a great match for both performers. Both are incredibly funny as well as talented, and it was nice to see those skills put to good use. Also glad to hear Jetta back on commentary, as she’s great with it. Her claim that Cadbury Mini-Eggs are functionally indistinguishable from thumbtacks made me snort beer out my nose. Well done. Please do this every year.

Joe: OK, so most afternoons, I like to hop by the vending machine to pick up a Kit-Kat bar, because (chants in head) “I deserve it!”. After Nina Samuels eviscerated the very premise of a Kit-Kat bar, “half of it’s wafer!”, I think I’ll just reach for a healthier option like a Snickers bar instead.

Anyway, this match is hilarious, and it’s everything I love about pro wrestling. More shows should kick off with a match as hilarious as this one, and I’m still holding my sides at the image of Samuels stuffing buns in O’Reilly’s match. This is everything, say, 205 Live’s Halloween gimmick match should have been. The Mini-Eggs/thumbtack spot in particular was brilliant.

Also, Samuels’s promo before the match was splendid, and I audibly snorted at how deftly she turned the crowd’s chants against themselves. I’m a sucker for swift responses to the “You f****d up!” chants, regardless of who they are directed towards.

Quick pop for O’Reilly having the Dropkick Murphy’s “Shipping Up To Boston” as her theme and for Jetta calling eating the chocolate eggs “Carb loading” during the match. That would totally be my gimmick in wrestling.