Pro Wrestling EVE will kick off 2019 with two sold-out shows

British women’s promotion Pro Wrestling EVE have announced that their first show of 2019 is now sold out, with their February show – Global Women Strike – about to follow suit.

EVE have become something of a cult sensation on the British wrestling scene in the past year. The promotion rose to prominence in the wake of their hugely successful Wrestle Queendom event, Europe’s biggest ever all-women’s pro-wrestling show. Featuring the likes of Aja Kong, Kay Lee Ray, Meiko Satomura and EVE mainstay Charlie Morgan, the show kicked off in grand style with a huge War Games match – and somehow kept getting better.

Amazingly, tonight’s sold-out show She Who Dares, Wins has achieved its capacity crowd without announcing a single match. Earlier in January EVE tweeted that the show would feature the first ever EVE Battlebowl – a nod to WCW’s over-the-top-rope Battle Royal style match.

With no participants yet confirmed, it’s a testament to EVE’s reputation for putting on consistently stellar events that the show has sold out regardless.

And lest we write this one off as a fluke, EVE have also announced that February’s ‘Global Women Strike’ is down to just three tickets, with a month to go before the show:

https://twitter.com/ProWrestlingEVE/status/1083910671585210374?s=20

Global Women Strike already boasts two must-see matches. Up-and-coming star Laura DiMatteo takes on Progress Women’s Champion Jordynne Grace. Grace is on a roll after dethroning former champ Jinny, who held the belt for an impressive 224 days. DiMatteo and Grace clashed at December’s SHEVivor Series, where a post-match brawl led to February’s grudge match. Expect fireworks.

And the EVE Championship will be on the line when current champion Nina Samuels – who is beginning to make a name for herself on NXT UK – takes on the legendary Emi Sakura. Sakura, who holds over two decades of pro-wrestling experience, is a highly-decorated Joshi veteran, and a previous EVE Champion, ending Nikki Cross’s reign after just a few minutes. (Don’t worry – Nikki got her revenge, and went on to hold the title for over 600 days.)

Pro Wrestling EVE founder Dann Read is typically sanguine about the fact that the promotion could have sold out a much bigger venue:

https://twitter.com/DannRead/status/1083745095126532101?s=20

The Resistance Gallery might be home for EVE, but 2019 could well be the year that the promotion has to consider the possibility of moving on to pastures new. Taking advantage of the influx of new fans would be a smart decision for EVE, who stand to raise their profile even more with their second Wrestle Queendom event later this year. And if you want to understand why, EVE have made the first Wrestle Queendom event free to view on YouTube.

With 1000 fans attending last year’s show at York Hall, EVE’s power to attract new fans simply through word of mouth is quite a phenomenon, and it’s credit to their high-quality shows, punk-rock attitude and refreshing feminist ethos that more and more people are looking to Pro Wrestling EVE as a bastion of the very best that women’s wrestling can offer.