UK promotion 5 Star Wrestling has announced the full card for their first taping on the FreeSports channel. The company has issued the following press release for the event emanating from Liverpool’s Echo Arena on February 1st:
When we created the 5 Star Wrestling brand, we set ourselves some extremely ambitious targets. We wanted to work with the biggest and best stars from around the world, to put on huge events in front of the largest possible audiences and above all else, we wanted to finally bring LIVE wrestling to prime-time UK television.
It is with great pride that we announce a MULTI-YEAR DEAL to broadcast all future 5 Star Wrestling events LIVE on British TV, 7pm-10pm every Thursday night, starting February 1st LIVE from the Liverpool Echo Arena.
This is set to be a truly historic night featuring the 5 Star debut of the iconic Rob Van Dam!
FreeSports is a brand new channel here in the UK that can be found for FREE on FreeView, Sky, FreeSat, BT, TalkTalk TV and very soon on Virgin Media, making 5 Star Wrestling programming available in over 22 million homes across the country.
For those who aren’t in on Thursday nights, every episode of 5 Star Wrestling will repeat multiple times per week on FreeSports and we’ll be making them available via various catchup services as well as right here on our Facebook page and over on our YouTube channel.
The full announced card is as follows:
- 5 Star Championship Match – Rob Van Dam vs John Morrison (c)
- Tap or Snap Championship Match: Submission Elimination Match – Mark Haskins vs BT Gunn vs Nathan Cruz vs Joey Axl vs Flash Morgan Webster
- The Legendary Rey Mysterio vs Liverpool’s No.1 Zack Gibson
- Eddie Ryan vs Jake Hager (WWE’s Jack Swagger)
- 5 STAR TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT – SEMI FINAL
Carlito & Chris Masters vs Adam Maxted & Charlie Sterling - 5 STAR TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT – SEMI FINAL
El Ligero & Jody Fleisch vs Big Grizzly & Dave Mastiff
- Moose vs Rampage Brown
- Jack Jester vs ‘The Primate’ Jason Prime
- Brian Cage vs The Darewolf PJ Black
***FULL MATCH CARD ANNOUNCED***
CO-MAIN EVENT
For The 5 Star Championship
Rob Van Dam vs John Morrison… https://t.co/U23gweHkxH— #5StarWrestling (@5StarWrestling) January 27, 2018
