It’s only taken two and a half years between volumes, but in this edition, in honor of the most Stupendous WrestleMania happening this weekend, I’m going to go over a list of people who have graduated from putting on $5 shows for me and 12 other people to showing off their skills by making it up to THE major league wrestling promotion, WWE. Even so, only two are currently active in the WWE, most have moved on to other pastures, either AEW or Impact. But you can’t take away from them the time they spent at the top of the mountain. No wait, that was a weird TNA reverse battle royale. You know what I mean.

In honor of last weekend’s Bound For Glory results, I’m going to go over a list of people who have graduated from putting on $5 shows for me and 12 other people to showing off their skills on a major national television show. So for this week, I’m including Impact (regardless of the fact that for a long time they were a joke of a competitor, now they are on AXS and have been killing it), AEW, and while they may be failing of late, I’m also gonna include Ring of Honor. Next week is reserved for those who graduated to WWE. I’m also throwing in an extra one this week, mostly to justify the banner image.

Apparently this week a big crew of wrestlers from Fighting Spirit Wrestling came down from Brooklyn, so we got to see some new faces and get in some new matchups. Trooper Audubon opened up his home to the Vatican for the Pope’s visit, and as such the Dojo Wars Grand Prix Trial Series Jack Tunney Memorial Invitational Open Challenge is currently suspended. Only in wrestling does that sentence make any sense.

So tonight seems to be the start of a new Wednesday Night War, what with NXT, Lucha Underground, Ring of Honor, and TNA all airing on the same night now, which is just awesome. Or would be if El Rey was available anywhere so I could watch Lucha Underground in English, but I digress. It’s a great time to be a wrestling fan. But I wont be partaking in any of those as they air, because I’ll be watching live wrestling. Tonight had a few good matches, and a few stinkers, but you can’t go wrong for just $5.

While not many people showed up at this the first weekly Dojo Wars that wasn’t part of the originally scheduled bi-weekly shows, that didn’t keep it from being jam packed. It featured seven intense matches, and may well have been the most intimate and entertaining night of Dojo Wars yet.

NXT wasn’t the only show in town this Wednesday. OK, so there were no title defenses, and there wasn’t anything as epic as Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch, and no massive swerves like the debut of Samoa Joe, but it was still a fun night of wrestling.

Sorry this took so long, but I’ve been sick since when this took place, plus I am leaving for Japan for 3 weeks on Monday. Therefore, the next installment and next new post will most likely be Dojo Wars 28, because starting in May, Dojo Wars is moving from biweekly to weekly! Good thing I prepaid for that VIP pass. Due to my sickness and the time gap between when I wrote this up, the details are a little scarcer than usual. Sorry about that. Funnily enough, even though I’ll be in Japan for three weeks, it isn’t until after I return that I get to see Japanese wrestling, in my hometown no less.