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The DSR Indie Wrestling Watch Guide: October 2026

How to Watch, WrestlingJenny CatlinComment

Spooky Season is officially upon us, wrestling fans. It’s a glorious season to be a part of an industry that thrives on unnerving and sometimes terrifying hyperbole. This month, storylines are splattered with extra blood and gore. October indies have it all: jump scares, hidden identities, masks, gimmicks, and general fear.

As a lifelong and year-round spooky girl, I’ll be the first to tell you, no one needs permission to commune with the dark side, but Halloween sure gives us a fun reason to be a little extra about it. This month’s Indie How to Watch guide leans all the way into the season too, highlighting 13 featured shows with an intentional seasonal hook, followed by a regional roundup for anyone who wants more wrestling than one human being could reasonably watch.

Programming note: Streaming details are listed where they’ve been announced. Smaller promotions often add a live feed or VOD option late, so anything marked TBD is worth checking again the week of the show.

New Texas Pro: Texas Contenders Series #69: Trick or Treat

Oct. 1 | Houston, Texas | Watch live on IWTV

New Texas storms into October by giving its prospect-heavy Contenders Series the Halloween treatment. Four matches have been announced, including Alexia Ivy vs. Kitti Hisatomi, Danny King vs. Buzzsaw Samuels, and Rudy Garza vs. Marvelous Mack. The match with the highest obvious stakes is Pac Ortega vs. Jak Calloway, another round in their Best-of-Five Series. TCS is a highly competitive promotion built around wrestlers trying to move up the New Texas pecking order, so it’s a great place to find people who may be much harder to see on an indie card a year from now.

Hoodslam × SlamTown: DOOMSLAM

Oct. 2 | Oakland, Calif. | Expected on TrillerTV+

Dirt Sheet Radio’s feature promotion for September, Hoodslam doesn’t really need Halloween to get weird. It already feels like a wrestling show broke into a nightclub after midnight and nobody bothered to call security before everyone morphed into shadow people. DOOMSLAM, however, brings the worlds of Hoodslam and SlamTown together at Oakland’s Crybaby for an adults-only show featuring a who's who line-up of the region's most electrifying talent, including the Stoner Bros, KEiTA, Sheikah, Mylo, Mike Rayne, Cereal Man, Lara and Anton. No individual matches have been announced yet, but with Hoodslam, the characters and whatever lunacy connects the matches are likely to be half the attraction anyway. Hoodslam’s current shows stream on TrillerTV+; the specific DOOMSLAM stream hadn’t been posted as of Sept. 30.

ATTACK! Pro Wrestling: Goosebumps 11

Oct. 24–25 | Cardiff, Wales & Bristol, England | Watch on ATTACK!’s Patreon

ATTACK! doesn’t just slap a pumpkin on the poster and call it Halloween. It commits. Goosebumps is the promotion’s annual Halloween weekend, which pairs naturally with a company already built around ridiculous characters, elaborate costumes, and wrestling that can veer from genuinely great to completely unhinged in a matter of minutes. This year has another reason to watch: Goosebumps 11 will celebrate 20 years of Mark Andrews’ in-ring career across two nights, Oct. 24 in Cardiff and Oct. 25 in Bristol.

The card is still in development, but ATTACK! has called it its biggest Halloween party yet. The promotion currently posts complete events through its Patreon, where recent 2026 shows and earlier editions of Goosebumps are already available, so viewers outside the UK should be able to catch the weekend on VOD.

PPW: House of Spells

Oct. 10 | Slatington, Pa. | Watch on YouTube

Pennsylvania Premiere Wrestling has gone with the beautifully basic with House of Spells for its October show. PPW is still rolling out the card, so there aren’t enough confirmed matches yet to hype anything beyond the event itself, but the promotion has already added it to its October schedule and is advertising match announcements through its site and social channels. The upside for anyone outside Pennsylvania is accessibility: PPW directs viewers to its YouTube channel to watch its events, making this one of the easier regional promotions to sample without first figuring out which wrestling streaming service acquired it six months ago.

EWF: Halloween Brutal 2026*

Oct. 10 | Porto Alegre, Brazil | Watch on EWF’s YouTube channel

Brazil’s Evolution Wrestling Force has been running Halloween Brutal long enough to have defined what “brutal” means here. The 2026 card hasn’t been announced yet, but the 2024 edition included a no-rules match and ended with Ryan O Patrão defending the EWF World Championship against KaoZ in a casket match. EWF’s YouTube has deep archives for international viewers: channel members can access recent complete events, older shows eventually become free, and individual matches are regularly released at no charge. Last year’s Halloween Brutal is available there in full, so there’s plenty of homework while the new card fills in.

* This one is in Portuguese, but if you, like me, are tragically monolingual, don’t let that turn you off to EWF. You can get everything in admittedly not great YouTube translation, but this is a really physical company; you won't necessarily miss out if you don’t subtitle.

JCW: A Nightmare in Bergen County (Jersey Championship Wrestling, not to be confused with Juggalo Championship Wrestling)

Oct. 18 | Ridgefield Park, N.J. | Watch live on TrillerTV+

JCW has two matches announced already, and both fit comfortably under the heading “matches you might watch between fingers with your hands over your eyes.” Long-standing rivals Bear Bronson faces Conor Claxton, while Charles Mason gets Gabby Forza. Kylie Alexa, SLADE and Sloane Jacobs are in for the show, though matches haven’t been announced. JCW’s current incarnation has become pretty adept at mixing strange recurring characters with wrestlers who could turn a match into a bar fight with very little encouragement, making A Nightmare in Bergen County one of the stronger actual wrestling cards in the Halloween pile. Better yet, it's already listed as a live TrillerTV stream.

MCW Pro Wrestling: Monster Mash

Oct. 24 | Joppa, Md. | Full-event viewing available through MCW online

Not everybody needs to bleed into a pumpkin to make the season festive. MCW’s Monster Mash is the family-friendly version of Halloween wrestling, with trick-or-treat stations, costumes, giveaways, meet-and-greets, and nine matches promised for the main card. Students from the MCW Training Center will also get preliminary “Breakthrough” matches before the main card. Specific pairings haven’t been announced, but MCW has been around since 1998 and still works in the classic regional-indie model: lots of matches, recognizable local regulars, and a show parents can bring kids to without having to explain the difference between razor wire and barbed wire afterward. MCW makes full events available online, including on YouTube.

UK Wrestling: Hallowed Ground, Nowhere to Run

Oct. 24 | Batley, England | Live worldwide on StagePlayer+ and YouTube membership

Sure, there’s something to be said for subtlety, but UK Wrestling isn’t particularly interested in listening. Every damn match happens inside a 15-foot steel cage. Hallowed Ground: Nowhere to Run will run entirely inside the cage, regardless of who winds up on the final card. The promotion hasn’t announced enough matchups yet to single out a headliner, but the stipulation itself makes this one of October’s easiest recommendations because there’s no wondering whether the Halloween name actually means anything once the bell rings. It’s also one of the easiest international viewing options: UKW says the entire show will air live worldwide on StagePlayer+ PPV and through its Level 2 YouTube membership.

Pro Wrestling Action: Monster Mash 4

Oct. 25 | Deltona, Fla. | Watch through PWA’s YouTube channel

Monster Mash 4 is another family-friendly option, complete with a costume contest and PWA’s brightly colored, comic-book-heavy presentation. As with most of these shows here, the card is still coming together, although Saieve Al-Sabah currently holds the All-Star Championship and Shelly Benson and Nick Turner are the inaugural Dynamic Duos Tag Team champions, giving the promotion a few established pieces to build the show around. Nothing’s been announced to suggest those titles will be defended, so don’t pencil those matches in yet, but, you know, it’s possible. PWA posts its wrestling through its official YouTube channel, though an Oct. 25 live stream hasn’t been posted yet.

 

GCW: Shotzi Blackheart’s Drive-In From Hell

Oct. 25 | Grindstone, Pa.g | Watch live on TrillerTV+

Professional wrestling at an actual drive-in followed by horror movies is the kind of idea that makes my own little black heart happy. Shotzi Blackheart (Naturally) hosts GCW’s Drive-In From Hell. The current roster makes the concept even better: Hallowicked, Frightmare, and Beastman are joined by Lio Rush, Megan Bayne, and Priscilla Kelly. Individual pairings still haven’t been announced, but this doesn’t need much salesmanship beyond “GCW at a drive-in on Halloween weekend.” Unlike a lot of the month’s smaller spooky shows, this one already has a confirmed national option and will stream live on TrillerTV+.

Labor of Love: Mischief Night Mayhem 5

Oct. 30 | Philadelphia, Pa. | Watch online via YouTube

A lot of October events focus on the the spirit of the holiday, but Labor of Love has actual stakes attached to its fifth Mischief Night Mayhem. The Outfielders, Shea McCoy and Weber Hatfield, face Citywide Street Gang’s Martin Hughes and Tom LaRosa in the Commonwealth Cup final, with the vacant LOL Philly Philly Tag Team Championship also on the line. Matt Mako will defend the Citywide Championship against Se Morrigan. That gives the show more to work with than Halloween costumes and a spooky font: there’s a tournament conclusion and two championships at the center of the announced card. The event is listed as an online stream through YouTube, with more matches still to come.

BZW: Scary Banger

Oct. 31 | Lyon, France | Watch on BZW+

Banger Zone Wrestling gets one of the month’s biggest visiting names in Jeff Cobb, who’s already announced for a BZW Championship match against whoever holds the belt by Halloween night. Calypso vs. Mila Smidt is also official. That’s enough to make Scary Banger more than an international curiosity, particularly for anyone who hasn’t spent much time with the growing French wrestling scene. The show takes place Halloween night at Salle de la Ficelle in Lyon and is already listed as an upcoming release on BZW+, the promotion’s subscription streaming service, so viewers outside France won’t need a plane ticket to find out what French wrestling looks like with the lights turned down.

IWA: Hallowicked

Oct. 31 | Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia | Watch later on YouTube

Halloween actually falls on show night for International Wrestling Australia, which will run Hallowicked at Club on East in Sutherland. The promotion hasn’t announced the card yet, so this is more of a bookmark than a match-specific recommendation for now. IWA has been running in Australia for decades, though, and its October branding tends to give the promotion room to lean harder into characters and spectacle than on an ordinary card. International viewers should eventually be able to see the results themselves: IWA says it regularly uploads both individual matches and complete event footage to its official YouTube channel.

Around the regions

A few more October options, from tiny local Halloween cards to national indie anchors. A lot of these smaller promotions announce streams late, so TBD really does mean check the week of the show again.

This is not even close to an exhaustive list for events or streaming options. As always, check out ThrillerTV and IWTV for streaming options.

Please remember that the best way to keep your favorite independent promotions alive and thriving is to go to the shows, buy the merch, and spread the word.

Northeast

Oct. 18: Limitless Wrestling: Fresh Blood '26 (Portland, ME). JTG is advertised alongside Donovan Dijak, Maggie Lee, Manders and Thomas Shire. It isn't a Halloween gimmick show, but it's a strong wrestling-first option mid-month. Watch: IWTV archive; event stream TBD.

Oct. 24: Focus Pro Wrestling: The World in My Hands (Cambridge, MA). An afternoon show at Sonia makes this half of an easy Cambridge wrestling doubleheader for anyone planning to stay for the violence later that night. Watch: TBD.

Oct. 24: ICW No Holds Barred (Cambridge, MA). Same building, much rougher half of the doubleheader. If the Halloween mood you want is 'somebody may need stitches,' this is the option. Watch: check ICW's current streaming listing closer to bell time.

Midwest

Oct. 10: HAW: Never Surrender (LeClaire, IA). Leyla Hirsch and Masha Slamovich are among the names advertised, giving this one more outside-name juice than a lot of regional cards. Watch: TrillerTV PPV.

Oct. 23: AAW: Bourbon Street Massacre (Merrionette Park, IL). AAW returns to 115 Bourbon Street with a title that understands the assignment. The card is still filling in. Watch: TBD.

Oct. 23: New Edge Pro Wrestling: The Omen (Hazel Park, MI). The name does some October work on its own, and the announced card includes Marco Modello vs. Jake Omen and STXRM Garcon vs. Noelle Summit. Watch: YouTube bonus matches announced; full-show stream TBD.

Oct. 24: Pro Wrestling King: Halloweenmania XIII (South Bend, IN). Thirteen Halloweenmanias is enough to qualify as a tradition, and PWK gives northern Indiana its own annual spooky-season card. Watch: no confirmed stream is listed yet.

Oct. 24: NWF (Covington, KY). A Halloween Massacre Match gives this one a real seasonal hook instead of just an October date. Watch: check NWF's official channels; stream TBD.

Oct. 31: We Love Wrestling: Halloween Wrestleparty 2 (West Allis, WI). The Wisconsin deathmatch-heavy promotion lands on Halloween itself, which feels about right. Watch: WLW's recent full events are available on IWTV; exact release timing for Wrestleparty 2 TBD.

South

Oct. 2: The Establishment Wrestling: Monster Smash II (Casselberry, FL). TEW opens the month at EMPIRE Arena with Monster Smash II -- 'Smash,' not 'Mash' -- and gets Florida into the Halloween business immediately. Watch: TEW has streamed recent EMPIRE Arena shows live on YouTube; exact Oct. 2 feed TBD.

Oct. 3: Coastal Championship Wrestling (Miami, FL). CCW is a reliable Florida regional option and has been making major shows easy to find online. Watch: recent events have streamed free on YouTube.

Oct. 3: MLW Slaughterhouse 2026 (Atlanta, GA). MLW is the biggest promotion in this roundup, but a Fusion taping called Slaughterhouse belongs in October. The event is now listed for Atlanta after originally being announced for Philadelphia. Watch: footage airs through MLW Fusion on YouTube, VEEPS and beIN Sports; this is a taping, so don't assume the full event airs live that night.

Oct. 9: ProSouth Wrestling (Piedmont, AL). ProSouth runs often enough that it feels less like a monthly supercard promotion and more like a real weekly wrestling ecosystem. Watch: YouTube, including live/member programming.

Oct. 10: Viral Pro Wrestling (Augusta, GA). One of Georgia's better-established regional promotions, and an easy add for anyone trying to follow the Southeast beyond the biggest brands. Watch: TBD.

Oct. 11: Deep South Wrestling (Atlanta, GA). Yes, Deep South Wrestling is still around. That alone makes it a fun regional note for readers who remember the name from another era. Watch: TBD.

Oct. 24: Brawloween III: La Noche De Miedo (Lake Mary, FL). The title translates to 'The Night of Fear,' which is really all the justification an October roundup needs. Watch: no confirmed stream yet.

Oct. 24: AW: Halloween Massacre (Kissimmee, FL). Another Florida card that isn't being subtle about the holiday, this one runs at Sun on the Beach. Watch: no confirmed stream yet.

Oct. 24: Wrestling Revolver (Nashville, TN). Revolver is the larger-scale option in the South roundup, with a deeper traveling roster and a more national indie footprint. Watch: TrillerTV+.

Texas

Oct. 15: Dragonslayer Pro Wrestling (Fort Worth, TX). A smaller Texas stop that helps the roundup get past the usual Houston-Austin axis. Watch: WSN Plus has carried Dragonslayer programming.

Oct. 25: River City Wrestling (San Antonio, TX). A long-running San Antonio promotion and a solid regional anchor for the back half of the month. Watch: TBD.

Oct. 30: New Texas Pro: 8-Year Anniversary (Houston, TX). Shibata, Bryan Keith and Kylie Rae are among the advertised names, making this one of the easiest non-Halloween cards to recommend on name value alone. Watch: IWTV and YouTube are listed for the event.

West / Mountain

Oct. 25: Primos Premier Pro Wrestling (Denver, CO). Primos is back at the Roxy, giving the Mountain West a real October stop without pretending every region has 10 major indies running every weekend. Watch: TrillerTV+ carries Primos programming.

Oct. 31: Crimson Crown Wrestling: Festival of the Dead (California). This is the CCW in question -- Crimson Crown, not Coastal Championship Wrestling -- and its whole 'supreme violence' identity is already built for Halloween. Watch: Crimson Crown has an official YouTube channel and recent full events on IWTV; exact Festival of the Dead distribution TBD.

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Jenny Catlin is a writer from the Square States, covering racing, pop culture, professional wrestling, country and western, and glam metal music, obsession, sex, pornography, the real working class, indie press, and other obsessions. An award-winning essayist, she is a contributing writer at The Athletic and Denver-based Denverse Magazine. Find her on Substack and Instagram.

The DSR Indie Wrestling Watch Guide: September 2026

Wrestling, How to WatchJenny CatlinComment

Why watch independent wrestling? TrillerTV won’t pixelate the blood, for one thing. That’s a joke, but only kind of. Indie promotions can take risks that larger televised companies can’t. They’re the closest thing wrestling still has to the territory days. Regional scenes develop their own ecosystems with unique crowds, personalities, and ways of doing wrestling.  Indie promotions have more freedom to take risks and fewer people telling them no.

That might mean building an entire promotion around unusual characters like JCW’s cocaine-addicted zombies, a niche style like Horror Slam’s collision of horror and deathmatch wrestling, a specific audience like Hoodslam’s fiercely loyal Oakland crowd, or an alternate universe where the local government is actually a wrestling faction and bureaucratic disputes can sometimes be solved with a moonsault.

Indie wrestling can collapse the distance between fame and fan. Danhausen is known to work national television one month and a no-ring show in a glorified backyard the next. The joy isn’t only finding tomorrow’s stars, though that's where they come from. It’s also seeing what wrestling looks like before anyone has standardized it.

I love the indies. If you don’t already, I think you will. Streaming options make it easier than ever to catch wild shows from all over the world. Plus, supporting independent artists is cool. Everyone’s doing it.

Favorites and B-Sides

Many watch guides eventually settle into a comfort zone, featuring a dozen or so of the easiest promotions to stream, find, and recommend. I love the kind of serialized storylines that require cult-like devotion, but I also love new gems, and you should too. September is a good time to break out of your comfort zone and check out a company you’ve maybe never even heard of.

Dirt Sheet Radio’s monthly how-to-watch can never cover everything happening in independent wrestling around the world. Instead, this month's guide focuses on promotions we haven't spent much time with before, from a three-night trios tournament in Philadelphia and a Toronto lucha program to a Newcastle company wrestling inside a brewery and one of Pittsburgh's best indies preparing to close for good.

And then there's our featured promotion, Hoodslam. The Oakland promotion gets this month's featured spot with a deeper look at the strange world the Dark Sheik has built around wrestling, performance art, nightlife, and Northern California counterculture in general.

Best Bets

Featured promotion:

Best wrestling weekend: Power Pro Lucha’s Attack on Trios, Sept. 4-6

Show with the most emotional stakes: Enjoy Wrestling’s Five Years, Sept. 5

Best deathmatch event: CZW Tournament of Death XXIII, Sept. 5-6

Best look at the next wave of indie talent: ETU Wrestling’s All I Want 4, Sept. 19

Best Canadian discovery: Demand Lucha’s Masked by Midnight, Sept. 17

Best international discovery: NORTH Wrestling’s Thunder Road, Sept. 19

Deep cut: Horror Slam’s Masters of HorrorCore, Sept. 4

Power Pro Lucha

Attack on Trios

When: Friday through Sunday, Sept. 4-6

Night One: Friday at 8 p.m. ET
Night Two: Saturday at 6 p.m. ET
Night Three: Sunday at 6 p.m. ET

Where: Arlen Specter US Squash Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Where to Watch: Live on IWTV

Cost: IWTV lists each night as a PPV available through a subscription or 1,000 tokens

Why Watch

Power Pro Lucha’s three-day event is an easy recommendation. This is a great promotion for anyone who misses wrestling with elaborate teams, masks, over-the-top characters, and complete earnestness. Over three nights, Attack on Trios, Triple Tech Tournament brings together 16 wildly diverse teams for a battle of “titanic proportions.” The enormous bracket pulls from lucha libre, joshi, and several generations and styles of American independent wrestling.

The structure is cool and fairly unique. Instead of assembling a card around a few big names and recognizable singles matches, Power Pro Lucha invites fans to follow teams across the entire weekend. This is a good pick for fans who like wrestling to feel like opening a comic book halfway through and making up the rest of the mythology as you go.

Can’t commit to the whole weekend? No problem. Each card has enough happening that viewers can drop in for one night and still get a full show. For example, Night 2 includes the six-person Ace of the Skies ladder match, which gives the tournament a break without abandoning the promotion's maximalist instincts.

Matches and Teams to Watch

The field includes Modern Age Violence (Jonathan Gresham, Dominic Garrini and Kevin Ku); Team Lodestone (Janai Kai, Amira and Gabby Forza); Spectral Envoy (UltraMantis Black, Hallowicked and Frightmare); GummiBurger (Cheeseburger, Boar and Erica Leigh); Team ChocoPro (Emi Sakura, Baliyan Akki and Mei Suruga); Mala Fama (Skayde, Toxin and Látigo); The Colony (Ultimo Ant, Electro Ant and Thief Ant); F.I.S.T. (Travis Huckabee, Ryan Mooney and Myung-Jae Lee); High-Flying Star Machines (Bojack, Diego Hill and BK Westbrook); The Delinquents (Josh Fuller, Saul Esparza and Mikey Banker); Wilde LLC (Dr. Ethan Wilde, Dylan Mesh and Journey Burke, Esq.); The Very Good State Champs (Avery Good Professional Wrestler, David Moses and Sal Mistretta); BIG League Chew (BIG CALLUX, Shea McCoy and Weber Hatfield); Thicc & Thin Party (Andy Brown, Billy Avery and Unicorn Party); The Tetrominoes (Z Block, T Block and O Block); and Hands of Fate (Nemesis, Moros and Eris).

Enjoy Wrestling

Five Years

When: Saturday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. ET

Where: Mr. Smalls Theatre, Millvale, Pennsylvania

Where to watch: No live stream has been announced. Enjoy has made most of its previous events available for free on YouTube, so watch the promotion’s official channels for an eventual release.

Why Watch

Enjoy Wrestling announced on August 26th that it will close after three final events. Five Years is the second of those events and the promotion's final show at Mr. Smalls Theatre, its long-term home base. The final farewell follows on October 4th at Tacomania.

Enjoy began during the pandemic, initially filming on a closed set. It grew into one of Pittsburgh's most distinctive independent promotions. By the time Enjoy closes its doors for good, it will have hosted 36 events, most of them available for free on YouTube. The company became particularly notable for consistently booking LGBTQ wrestlers and cultivating an explicitly welcoming audience. At Enjoy, inclusion never felt like a promotional gimmick. Five Years is weightier than a traditional anniversary card since Enjoy has already announced there will not be a Sixth.

Independent wrestling companies disappear all the time, sometimes without even getting the chance to say goodbye, and Enjoy is getting one last night in the building most closely associated with it. That alone makes it worth finding when the video becomes available.

Scheduled to Appear

Lee Moriarty, the Amazing Red, The Butcher and The Blade, and Dark Sheik are among the wrestlers scheduled to appear, but expect additional Enjoy Wrestling regulars and guests to be added to the card.

COMBAT ZONE WRESTLING

Tournament of Death XXIII

When: Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5-6

·       Event begins: 2 p.m. ET

·       IWTV stream: Currently listed for 4 p.m. ET

Where: Townsend, Delaware

Where to watch: Live on IWTV

Cost: IWTV lists each night as a PPV available through subscription access or 1,000 tokens

Why Watch

Combat Zone Wrestling has been associated with ultraviolent wrestling for over a quarter century, and Tournament of Death, now in its 23rd “installment,” is the most distilled version of that. There’s no point pretending this is a recommendation for everyone. Tournament of Death centers on death matches: weapons, blood, and escalating violence. But in wrestling, as in all things, not for everyone doesn’t mean not for anyone. This is a great promotion with a pretty stacked card. The draw is getting to see some of the best deathmatch wrestlers pushed through multiple rounds over a weekend, rather than watching one hardcore match dropped into an otherwise conventional card.

IWTV has both nights listed live, with Night 2 carrying the survivors through the rest of the tournament. CZW has always been more varied than its deathmatch reputation suggests, but the balance has shifted considerably over 27 years. The promotion that once became synonymous with ultraviolence now runs a broader mix of conventional indie wrestling, younger talent, and occasional showcases of the extreme style that made its name.

Tournament of Death is a direct line back to the brutal identity that made the promotion internationally recognizable. For deathmatch-curious viewers or those looking for the style beyond GCW and the handful of names that dominate social media clips, this is a must-have historical rabbit hole.

First-Round Matches

Bear Bronson vs. Alex Colon
Nathan Mowery vs. SLADE
Nino Extremo vs. Joe Dred
Dimitri Alexandrov vs. Tim Strange
Jamesen Shook vs. Eric Dillinger
Eric Ryan vs. Toby Kline
SHLAK vs. Aeroboy for the CZW Ultraviolent Championship

CZW World Championship: Eran Ashe (c) vs. AKIRA, Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch

Horror Slam Pro Wrestling

Masters of HorrorCore

When: Friday, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. ET

Where: Special Taste Hall, Livonia, Michigan

Where to watch: No live stream is advertised. Jobber Radio reports that matches are scheduled to appear later through Hardcam Frio’s channel.

Why Watch

Horror Slam is what happens when a Michigan regional wrestling promotion decides Halloween and underground horror shouldn't be confined to October. And I happen to agree.

The company has a devoted Livonia audience and shows built around cards that shift between conventional wrestling, hardcore matches, and genuinely gory deathmatches. Earlier shows have included everything from conventional title bouts to light tubes and weapons, as well as its annual Murder City Deathmatch Cup, which attracts wrestlers on the national deathmatch circuit.

Masters of HorrorCore is very accessible by Horror Slam standards. It’s also exactly the kind of promotion this guide is useful for. Horror Slam is not difficult to understand, but it is difficult to stumble across until somebody tells you about it.

Matches

Dean Hendrix vs. Matt Cross for the Horror Slam Heavyweight Championship
Terminate on Sight vs. Triple Platinum for the Horror Slam Tag Team Championship
The Pillars vs. Mickie Knuckles & Tara Zep
Dr. Redacted vs. Robert Katchem
Mad Man Pondo vs. Anakin Murphy
Breyer Wellington vs. TJK

DEMAND LUCHA

Masked by Midnight

When: Thursday, Sept. 17; hype-up party at 7 p.m. ET, wrestling at 8 p.m. ET

Where: Parkdale Hall, Toronto, Ontario

Where to watch: Demand Lucha has an extensive archive on IWTV, but a live IWTV listing for the Sept. 17 event has not been confirmed as of Aug. 28.

Why Watch

Toronto has its own increasingly crowded indie ecosystem. Demand Lucha is a user-friendly entry point to the parts of that ecosystem shaped by lucha. The promotion runs regularly from Parkdale Hall and has built its cards around masked wrestlers, Canadian indie talent and visiting luchadores rather than simply trying to reproduce an American televised product.

The main attraction announced for Masked by Midnight is Gringo Loco against Shotzi Blackheart for the Lucha Premier Championship. Both were advertised as featured guests before Demand Lucha confirmed the title match. Demand also has a sizable backlog on IWTV, including the 2025 edition of Masked by Midnight, which makes this a particularly easy promotion to sample while waiting for the September show release.

ETU WRESTLING

Marcus Mathers Presents All I Want 4

When: Saturday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. ET

Where: The Mecca, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey

Where to watch: Live on IWTV

Why Watch

ETU stands for Expect The Unexpected, but the promotion says it wants to build its own version of traditional Tri-State professional wrestling. All I Want 4 is presented with Marcus Mathers, and the card is essentially a snapshot of wrestlers moving between the regional independents, GCW, AEW, ROH, WWE’s ID system, and other larger platforms.

The appeal here is timing. Indie wrestling is full of periods when several wrestlers seem to be moving upward simultaneously, and ETU has assembled a card featuring a lot of people currently living in that space.

If the goal of an indie watch guide is partly to introduce wrestlers before everybody already knows who they are, this is exactly the kind of show it should include. I may talk ad nauseam about storylines, but every wrestling fan should appreciate a great match between up-and-comers.

Matches and Scheduled Appearances

Marcus Mathers vs. Tyler Breeze
Aaron Rourke vs. Billie Starkz
Dustin Waller vs. Gravity
Joey Janela vs. Avery Styles
Janai Kai
Cappuccino Jones
Additional matches to be announced.

NORTH WRESTLING

NCL.71: Thunder Road

When: Saturday, Sept. 19; doors at noon ET, first bell approximately 1:30 p.m. ET

Where: Anarchy Brew Co, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Where to watch: NORTH releases complete events after they happen through Patreon, TrillerTV+ and YouTube. No live broadcast has been announced for Thunder Road.

Why Watch

British wrestling doesn’t begin and end with the promotions that regularly appear on American streaming schedules.

NORTH Wrestling has operated out of Newcastle for a decade. Its DIY identity centers on small-room crowds, a punk-rock atmosphere, and a willingness to put wildly different kinds of wrestling on the same card. Past NORTH events have mixed British technical wrestling, comedy, lucha libre, character-heavy storytelling and harder-edged matches, including an Ultraviolent Championship.

Its commentary team includes Veda Scott and Cultaholic’s Tom Campbell. A documentary about the promotion, Watch the Lights, won a Royal Television Society North East & Borders award in 2025.

Thunder Road returns NORTH to Anarchy Brew Co, a working brewery that regularly hosts the promotion’s rowdier Newcastle events. The full September card is still being assembled, but NORTH makes most of its shows available after the fact through multiple platforms.

If EVE, RevPro and PROGRESS are already familiar, NORTH is a good next stop for exploring the current British independent scene.

ALSO WORTH CHECKING

880 Wrestling’s Thursday Night Fights streams free every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET through IndyWrestling.US. The Pittsburgh promotion is especially easy to sample because it requires no subscription or PPV decision.

Returning Favorites in September

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For more promotions and ways to stream local, regional, and international independent wrestling, check out the August Guide.

Jenny Catlin is a writer from the Square States, covering racing, pop culture, professional wrestling, country and western, and glam metal music, obsession, sex, pornography, the real working class, indie press, and other obsessions. An award-winning essayist, she is a contributing writer at The Athletic and Denver-based Denverse Magazine. Find her on Substack and Instagram.