Big weekend for Poland’s growing pro wrestling scene: streaming deals, international stars, hardcore violence and casket matches

Last weekend was a pretty big one for Polish pro wrestling. Two of the country’s most popular promotions were in action and big news came out of both events and the days surrounding them.

First, let’s start with Prime Time Wrestling. PTW is a relatively young company that’s taken the spot as the place to see the biggest international wrestling stars live in the country. Their most recent event, Kinguin PTW #3: Legends on November 26th in Warsaw, saw more of that trend continue. PTW took their show to Hala OSiR Bemowo in Warsaw, a basketball arena that has a capacity of 1,000, and filled in the arena pretty well. In the ring for PTW at the event were international wrestling stars such as Samuray Del Sol, Matt Sydal, Marty Scurll, Joe Hendry, Trent Seven and Xia Brookside. In the PTW main event, Samuray Del Sol defeated Matt Sydal and in a big milestone for both Polish pro wrestling and Impact Pro Wrestling, Joe Hendry successfully defended the Impact Digital Media Title, marking the first time that an Impact championship has been defended in Poland.

Following the event, 411 Mania reported some big news on PTW going forward. Sports streaming service DAZN has reached an agreement to stream their events through the end of 2023, giving the Polish promotion a big boost in terms of getting eyes on their product internationally.

In action from Kinguin PTW #3: Legends, Diana Strong shows off her immense strength while dropping Xia Brookside and Myla Grace simultaneously with a Samoan Drop. Image courtesy of the PTW Instagram page.

The pro wrestling action in Warsaw wasn’t done when PTW wrapped things up. Hardcore-influenced, DIY hybrid wrestling promotion PpW was also in action in Warsaw at Waldorffa 25 for “The Best Show In Town.” The promotion attracts a rabid and loud fan base, one of our favorites in all of pro wrestling, and is heavily influenced by ECW and the mid ‘90s grunge movement.

As usual, PpW featured some hardcore violence and unique gimmick matches that were seen live in Poland for the first time. Also, in what’s becoming a reoccurring trend for the promotion, they brought in independent wrestlers from around Europe to round out the card. Mywrestling.pl had the results for the event and we’ll share them here, along with some photos from the action.

In singles action, Feyyaz Aguila defeated Joshua Amaru. Aguila was making his second appearance for PpW and is based out of Germany and was trained at the wXw Academy while Amaru, who is also based out of Germany, was making his PpW debut.

**Feyyaz Aguila locks in a deep headlock on Joshua Amaru in their singles match at . Photo credit Łukasz Kozłowski.**

Another debuting wrestler, Kapitan Bazooka, defeated PpW regular Adam Wong. Both wrestlers are homegrown PpW Polish talent.

**Kapitan Bazooka lands a boot on Adam Wong. Photo credit Łukasz Kozłowski.**

In another singles match, Isnorr defeated Feager. Feager had recently obtained the managerial services of Ms. XXX who had previously been aligned with Mr. Z before turning on him after his loss to Stephen “Biesiad” Strong at Brak Mi Słów 22. Ms. XXX made her presence felt in the match between Feager and Isnorr and Isnorr was having none of it, not hesitating to use force to put a halt to the interference. In the end, Isnorr was able to overcome the numbers disadvantage and walked out of The Best Show In Town the winner.

Shots from Isnorr vs. Feager. Photo credit Łukasz Kozłowski.

In tag team action, the team of Mister Z and Ricardo Diesel beat the team of Tony Skin and Madman Charlie. Osamu was originally supposed to team with Tony Skin but had to pull out of the match due to injury.

The team of Mr. Z and Ricardo Diesel takes on Tony Skin and Madman Charlie. Photo credit Łukasz Kozłowski.

The PpW European Ultraviolent Championship was on the line at The Best Show In Town in Poland’s first ever casket match. The champion, Stanislav Van Dobroniak, was able to defeat the sadistic Johnny Blade to retain the title belt in the historic first gimmick match.

Shots from Stanislav Van Dobroniak vs. Johnny Blade courtesy of Małgorzata Tomczak.

In the night’s main event, Stephen “Biesiad” Strong defended the PpW Championship against Steve Kuningas of Belgium in a ladder match. The match was set up between the two after Kuningas attacked Biesiad following his successful title defense against Mr. Z at Brak Mi Slow. Stephen Strong was able to win the match by retrieving the title and continues his reign as PpW Champion.