Since 2014 Discovery Wrestling have been consistently providing incredible moments for those that travel to Edinburgh, whether it was The Jam House, Meadowbank, Corn Exchange, or their regular home of Portobello Town Hall, Disco has prided themselves on being all about the wrestling.

It’s seen some of the best in the world appear from Will Ospreay to Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Cody Rhodes, Jay Lethal, Chris Hero, Doug Williams, to future WWE stars like Candice LeRae, Joe Coffey, Mark Coffey, to the future Alba Fyre, Piper Niven, War Raiders, with that exhaustive list only scratching the surface of what Discovery Wrestling has provided in the ring and to those that get to meet these real life heroes in person.

500+ packed into Portobello Town Hall for Joe Hendry to return as a viral WWE Royal Rumble entrant and the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion, for feuds to reach their peak, debuts, returns, a raffle, and an epic afternoon of professional wrestling in the capital.

The Good Times (Robb Stow & Monstrum) defeated Shaun Marx & Zander Mistry by pinfall.

Shaun Marx and Zander Mistry made their way to the ring during Kwaku mastering the ceremonies so you knew that there is a higher than normal chance of a murder to kick off the event. Their joy of the pair being announced from Edinburgh was quickly wiped away by the entrance of The Good Times to cause them all manner of pain.

The young lads tried their hand, and fists, at Monstrum, managing to knock down Robb Stow with a dropkick but a Black Hole Slam to Mistry followed by chokeslam-powerbomb combo to Marx quickly put away the pair despite a spirit attempt in minutes.

The bad times continued with Stow and Monstrum assaulting their opponents to bring out SKOL BROL to make the save. Stow put out the challenge, give The Good Times their earned title opportunity or Monstrum would put an end to Zander Mistry before his career even began.

With clear reservations, SKOL BROL accepted the terms.

Discovery Wrestling Tag Team Championships – The Good Times (Robb Stow & Monstrum) defeated SKOL BROL (Lost Boy Aspen & Caleb Valhalla) by pinfall to win the Discovery Wrestling Tag Team Championships.

The fight was on with Aspen and Stow going hell for leather but Monstrum slowed down the pace, trading tags as The Good Times dismantled the Lost Boy as the Disco faithful urged him to carry on but with every peak of support, Monstrum or Stow would cut off the comeback aggressively.

Aspen managed to dodged a flurry of attacks to bring in Caleb, well rested and pissed off, splashing and smashing The Good Times, but even he couldn’t handle Monstrum who dropped him with a short arm Black Hole Slam. A backbreaker into a chokeslam from The Good Times got the nearest of near falls as the challengers were a well oiled machine.

A pinfall break up spurred Aspen into action, dragging Valhalla to the corner to tag in but it still wasn’t enough to do much damage to Monstrum who continued to provide all manner of slams to SKOL BROL.

The Good Times carried on with the mauling, overwhelming SKOL BROL who were just managing to get a shoulder up but a chokeslam onto the apron to Caleb, and two chokeslam-powerbombs to Aspen saw SKOL BROL fall and new Discovery Wrestling Tag Team Champions to start ‘Year 10’ with a bang.

A crushing deconstruction of SKOL BROL who came in unprepared and The Good Times took advantage. Monstrum was an absolute monster, no bells or whistles, just a big soulless creature grabbing opponents by the throat and doing maximum damage. It was actually uncomfortable to watch SKOL BROL just get torn apart with The Good Times picking the perfect time to unleash hell.

The sheer impact to show the power of both Robb Stow and Monstrum making two well established wrestlers in Discovery Wrestling, the champions who beat The Good Times to win the titles less than a year ago, to look like they never stood a chance. Excellent.

Simon Miller defeated TV’s Umar Mohammed by pinfall.

Simon Miller took a Goldberg comment from the crowd personally and decided that Umar and Scotland was beneath him, belittling The Asian Sensation’s social media numbers, trying to make Umar the fool.

The YouTube megastar tried to bully Umar early on, muscling him into the corner, adding a slap for flair but Mohammed was undeterred, taking Miller off his feet with a hurricanrana. Simon managed to regain the advantage, giving Umar a barrage of strength based offense to knock Mohammed loopy, launching him hard into the corners with an Irish Whip.

Miller took offense at Umar continuing to fight back, raining punches down on a prone Mohammed as the Disco faithful demanded some sensational scenes and scenes came by way of a spinebuster to put Miller on the back foot but a tornado DDT couldn’t quite put him down.

As Simon found himself groggy in the corner, Mohammed dropped the knee pads with a plan to finish the job but some quick thinking from Miller pulled referee Chris Quinn into harms way and the confusion allowed for a low blow, a cutting spear, then a Jackhammer for good measure to end Umar’s night.

The initial Goldberg swipe before the match to then see it end with the spear and Jackhammer combination was a fantastic callback which Simon Miller is very proficient at providing, a guy that listens to the audience and proves it with moments like that. Umar Mohammed continues to prove his place in Discovery Wrestling, and crowd were behind Umar throughout with every attempt to build momentum passing you could feel the anticipation. The sensational scenes will come and I hope Portobello Town Hall has the coverage for when the roof blows off the building.

Discovery Wrestling Openweight Championship – Two Out of Three Falls – Judas Grey defeated Ian Skinner by two falls to one to retain the Discovery Wrestling Openweight Championship.

Talk about a match that you could feel the atmosphere. Ian Skinner with his wild eyed determination and Judas Grey looking overwhelmed at the 500+ support in Portobello Town Hall before the bell even rang. Skinner not taking his eyes off his opponent when referee Chris Quinn tried to show him the potential prize at the end of the road.

After the saga at ‘Halloween Disco’ the new Judas Grey offered his hand but was responded with a slap to the face, it was like Judas rebalanced and accepted that it was fair. Skinner started hot, another hard slap to the face and taking Judas down with a headscissor but Judas was back with a dropkick as the two jostled for some sort of advantage.

As Judas planted Skinner with a Finlay Roll and took a moment to bask in the adoration from the Disco crowd readying for a vintage standing moonsault, Ian popped up with a school boy roll up to nab the first fall.

The second fall started as hot as the first with Judas opening his account with a pump kick but was soon being thrown by the neck with a cravate suplex with Skinner marking his target of the neck of the Openweight Champion, fighting to reapply an Octopus Stretch to cause torture with it only being broken by Judas falling into the bottom rope.

Not content with going after the neck, Skinner barraged the chest of Judas Grey with kicks, but the storm was weathered into a trade off of pin attempts resulting in a backslide nipping it for Judas to make it one fall apiece.

With it all to play for it was Skinner that made the first move but it was scouted, sending him to the outside and prone for a dive to the outside as the battle moved to apron with an exchange of chops. Once again Judas took too long to wait and his standing moonsault on the apron resulted in him crashing his knees off the edge as Skinner rolled back into the ring before immediately running off the apron and driving his knees into the back of Grey.

Skinner attempted a dive from the top but as he balanced himself Grey desperately jumped for a dropkick to send Ian off the turnbuckle and crashing ribs first onto the entrance stage as the war wounds started to show with both men struggling to their feet. Judas tried to dive to the stage but his weakened knee left him falling short and into a forearm from Skinner.

Judas fought out of a fireman’s carry but got a knee to the face then lifted up again for a spin out powerbomb onto the stage only saved by the rotation not fully completing and landing on the knee of Skinner to cause them both pain. As Skinner tried a dive from the ring to the stage Judas threw himself with a Swanton into the ring and tapped into a second wind, landing a spin out powerbomb of his own for an incredible near fall as the “this is awesome” chants returned.

The standing moonsault connected but it still was enough to keep Skinner down with both men showing signs of fatigue. An exchange of counters saw Ian stumble into Chris Quinn who suffered an errant superkick from Judas to cause some extra drama.

Two brainbustahhhs from Skinner laid Judas out of the count but with no referee to count the fall. Ian grabbed the Openweight belt but stopped himself short of caving the skull of Grey, instead challenging him to meet in the centre to exchange slaps, with each weak swing by Judas being met with an even harder slap from Skinner. They exchanged lip locks, forearms, Limp Bizkit lyrics, strikes, kicks, knees, with them both having an answer for the other. A kip up lariat and release suplex kick to the back from Skinner again couldn’t quite do the job as carnage continued.

The conflict made its way to the turnbuckles with a spin out powerbomb from the second rope and butterfly neckbreaker only garnered Judas Grey a near fall to the disbelief of everyone. Judas once again offered his hand but a defiant Ian Skinner threw out one more slap that left Grey no choice but to hit the kill shot, another butterfly neckbreaker to retain in an epic contest.

The two finally exchanged a handshake and one final kiss to close the Judas Grey – Ian Skinner romance.

I tried to avoid writing this move for move but my god, this was incredible. Every move mattered, the call backs not only from past matches between the two but from the coming out of Judas Grey back in October, the buzzword around the interweb is “cinema” right now and this was that with the way it was built to make both have that split second will they moment. Two absolute superstars. The crowd were invested in every moment, for every spill, near fall, twist, and turn. Ian Skinner, a rabid dog in attack showing what Disco may have missed with his time in Edinburgh being stop-start but proving why he is a can’t miss talent in UK wrestling.

For Judas Grey, his years in the ring may be shorter than most but he has all the tools to be a megastar, the aura he has, cool, measured but at the same time wild and reckless, there’s a reason why so many tell me when doing the podcast that Judas Grey is a guy they want to wrestle and it is because of matches like this.

If we don’t see either man challenge the Y Division Champion Leon Slater in a Discovery Wrestling ring in 2025 then there is a missed opportunity for more outstanding title matches.

Emersyn Jayne entered to interrupt Kwaku to announce that Session Moth Martina is sick so cannot compete against her tonight but never fear Ronan King strutted out only to be cut off by Connor Molloy who suggested adding Emersyn to their match which was met with a resounding yes.

Triple Threat – Emersyn Jayne defeated Ronan King, and Connor Molloy by pinfall.

One enziguri from Emersyn left Ronan hatless, I repeat, hatless with a Connor Molloy superkick sending him to the floor to give as an opening showcase between Jayne and Molloy. It was all too brief and a returning Ronan got sent around the houses by the quickness of ‘The Main Event Empress’.

Emersyn continued to run rings around Molloy and King as the match spilled to the outside, with all three getting a chance to take lumps out of the other. While Jayne recovered on floor, Ronan King and Connor Molloy exchanged offense. King found the upper hand, keeping on top of Connor while knocking Emersyn off the apron to keep it one on one but he couldn’t escape a snap German Suplex from Molloy.

Das was bad yah for Ronan as he got another German Suplex from Emersyn Jayne, then his head was driven to the mat by her knees for a near fall. Molloy got a hit with the Shadowfax when he hesitated after throwing a Miz-style corner clothesline. The action ramped up with Ronan attempted a springboard cutter to Jayne but she dodged with King cutting Connor Molloy before getting hit with the Bitch Please cutter from Emersyn, she couldn’t capitalise with the moonsault with King rolled out but as he smugly showed off his cunning, Molloy gave Jayne a cutter to land on King.

The trio reset with Ronan getting the brunt of the attacks. Connor looked to finish Emersyn but Ronan stepped in as the two lads fought back and forth. Jayne re-inserted herself but after a flurry found herself powerbombed onto the back of Molloy by King.

Jayne tried to catch Ronan with a Frankensteiner from the turnbuckle by ate a second rope Styles Clash, only to be saved by Connor Molloy breaking up the fall. A fisherman’s buster from Connor sent Ronan rolling to the apron, and the situation lead to Emersyn using Connor as a step to landed a hurricanrana off the apron to the floor which gave Jayne a second lease of life, the Frankensteiner connected to send King into Molloy. A top rope Spanish Fly and a reverse Tombstone Piledriver gave the Discovery Wrestling Women’s Champion the win.

A hard fought triple threat, Emersyn Jayne came out as a killer, slapping the misogyny out of Ronan King to put forward a thrilling bout. The in-ring content was slick, Connor Molloy continues to put in some impressive performances even in defeat. There was a lot of love in Portobello Town Hall for this one.

Bruiser Brad Evans defeated Ravie Davie by pinfall.

Davie tried to get out of the blocks early but the BEEFKING was quick to stand his ground, not falling for the usual Ravie Davie shenanigans. A springboard moonsault was avoided with a bruising shoulder tackle to send Davie flying.

The Fresh Prince of Drumoyne Square kept coming back with dropkick after dropkick after dropkick but Bruiser Brad was not to be taken off his feet. Evans was finally grounded by a rolling out of a piledriver attempt into a pin, stomping on the chest of Brad to keep him down.

Another springboard moonsault attempt was stopped with Evans capturing Davie and muscling him up for a running powerslam for a near fall. The hard hits continued with a beefy suplex that turned Davie into jelly. Bruiser Brad took stock, posing to the crowd to the chants of “beef” while Davie recuperated on the outside.

Bruiser Brad brushed away the punches, throwing Davie onto the entrance stage but all that posing left him wide open for a springing Blockbuster to finally send Evans properly off his feet but a missed step up moonsault left him getting planted with a spinebuster for another close call.

After numerous times of trying Davie got Brad up onto his shoulders and hit a rolling Death Valley Driver but his springboard moonsault was once again scouted as his head for driven into the canvas with a piledriver to give the win to the Beef King.

If there was ever a match to cement Bruiser Brad Evans place in Discovery Wrestling this was it. Ravie Davie only got the man off his feet maybe three times but not only was Evans just the mass of humanity smashing through his opponent, but by continuously pre-empting the moonsault that has won Davie so many matches all over Europe just showed the brains are also part of the meaty package.

There was a loud vocal meat section of Portabello Town Hall and I can see Bruiser Brad being an integral part of Discovery Wrestling, and Scottish wrestling as a whole, in 2025. I’ve recently said on one of those anonymous Q&A things on Instagram, and truly believe, that Brad can be Scotland’s equivalent to a Rampage Brown in that he is just non-stop raw violence.

He wasn’t there to be part of the silliness and leviety that Ravie Davie often provides, just a gargantuan problem to overcome. An effective match to show that.

Cowboy Dave Conrad entered to pay tribute to his late brother, declaring himself into the Disco Derby to get a chance at the Openweight Championship in dedication to him. Simon Miller stomped his way back out to belittle Conrad, marking his intention on the Y Division Championship which brought out Ryan Richards who also declared for the Disco Derby as the final entrant.

Miller and Richards put the boots to Conrad but the Cowboy sent them both over the top rope in a Disco Derby preview before shouting loud that he would be taking the long road to the Openweight Championship by stepping in at number one.

Chip Shop Street Fight – The Disco Fry (Chip Watson & Rob Mills) defeated James Erdos & Thatcher Wright by pinfall.

In the penultimate match of the show, entering to the Cisco hold music which actually enraged me more that I thought it ever would. I have to listen to that music almost daily so to have it come up in the form of entertainment I love out of nowhere gave me 9-5 PTSD. ‘The Big Fry Man’ Chip Watson and Rob Mills entered to save our ears from further pain.

The scrap was on as all four got to brawling. A spear from Chip to Erdos was countered by Erdos revealing a hidden metal baking tray under his puffer gilet. Clearly James Erdos watched a little Bret Hart in preparation. The beat down of Chip continued as Erdos found a table made of pizza boxes. Watson fought out of danger, taking a rest on the outside to bring Rob Mills back into the fold. Mills spanked Erdos with a fish slice as he screamed “Daddy no!” to make it weird. The Disco Fry gave Erdos a Con-Tray-To but Thatcher Wright broke the count.

Chip returned with a stuffed fish to belt Erdos, finding a fryer tray full of those plastic tables that likely came from the pizza boxes that were taped together but Chip’s efforts were scuppered by a slam onto the plastic, Wright brought in vinegar to added a sting to the wounds. After being stopped from using his book of Margaret Thatcher, he revealed it was actually a cookbook therefore a legal weapon. Erdos smashed a chalkboard with The Disco Fry specials over the head of Chip Watson to have his team in firm control.

The Buffet Club logo appeared on the screen as Gene Munny provided a message to distract Erdos and Wright. A spear through the pizza boxes and package piledriver scored the win for The Disco Fry. As Erdos lay there, hopefully as uncomfortable as he possibly could be, Watson picked him up and sent him through the pizza box construction again to welcome him as an official employee of The Disco Fry.

It took a little bit of time for the crowd to warm up to this one but as the shenanigans escalated they understood the assignment and relaxed into the tomfoolery. My gut is saying that this might have been more effective being a one on one match between Chip Watson and James Erdos because the additions of Thatcher Wright and Rob Mills were almost superfluous to the bout.

Major Matt Wolfe arrived to announce that he was now in charge of the raffle as Raffle Executive Assistant to a “you deserve it” chant. I don’t know what raffles do the fans in Portobello because they love them some ticket pulling and colour questioning.

Joe Hendry defeated Man Like Dereiss by pinfall.

Portobello believed in Joe Hendry as the crowd exploded when his theme hit, entering with the TNA World Heavyweight Championship to 500+ waving their hands from side to side, and having them in the palm of his hand.

Hendry and Dereiss exchanged holds in the early exchanges with the crowd appreciative of both men with strong chants of support, the Disco faithful were here for a main event exhibition of two incredible professional wrestlers.

The charismatic Man Like Dereiss had Joe’s number with a dropkick knockdown but the power of Joe Hendry came but with a shoulder tackle and held Dereiss up an impressive vertical suplex for a tour around the ring before reaching the canvas destination.

The momentum swung back and forth with Dereiss coming out as the aggressor by having a little fun at Joe’s expense. He busted out a sweet rhyme to goad Hendry but his words did something to awaken the TNA Champion, firing up for a suplex and taking Dereiss for a Fallaway Slam.

The Standing Ovation was countered into a cutter from Dereiss but his pursuit up to the top turnbuckle turned into agony when Joe popped up to land a superplex to leave both down on the mat. Following the reset Man Like Dereiss and Joe Hendry exchanged strikes and pin attempts but neither man could find the answer. Hendry locked in an ankle lock but was rolled through into a Dereiss ankle lock in return.

Dereiss feigned an injury to the ankle to poke the eye of Hendry but his plans to use the ropes to leverage his roll up was spotted by referee Mikey Innes, who then ended up flat on the mat with a shotgun dropkick meant for Joe Hendry. Dereiss hit a low blow, grabbing the TNA World Heavyweight Championship to clock Joe with but it still wasn’t enough as Portobello Town Hall were now 100% on the side of Hendry.

Joe countered a springboard dive attempt into the Standing Ovation to keep Man Like Dereiss down for three.

A great main event, the crowd got what they paid for and that was the Joe Hendry experience while Man Like Dereiss looked like a star on the rise as he stood toe to toe with Hendry.

Another stellar event from Discovery Wrestling that gave the talent that were discovered via the Joe Hendry Wrestling School, later the Disco Academy, a chance to stand out like Robb Stow, Monstrum, Judas Grey, Chip Watson, and Ryan Richards, even Major Matt Wolfe got a cameo in the raffle portion.

The two out of three falls match was sublime, using all that history to tell the story as the match evolved throughout each fall. The emergence of the brutes like The Good Times and Bruiser Brad Evans was great, and Discovery have new heroes in Umar Mohammed and Chip Watson to cheer and support their rises through the ranks.

I do have one minor criticism though in that this was a celebration of ten years of Discovery Wrestling but it didn’t feel like that. Amazing matches, that can’t be denied, and it was a brilliant event as a quote-unquote “normal” Discovery Wrestling show. I would’ve liked to see some call backs to the past to show appreciation to the years prior like a four way, or a return of wrestlers from the first shows like Damien and Ian Ambrose for example, or video messages from past champions like Joe Coffey or Chris Sabin, or even from the current Y Division Champion Leon Slater.

We got Gene Munny during the Chip Shop Street Fight which was a welcomed surprise and the intention to have Session Moth Martina was stopped by illness but there could have been more to properly celebrate the milestone.

With that being said the packed Portobello Town Hall were loud and supportive the whole show, that interaction has always been a constant that has made Discovery Wrestling stand out and has made them a highly rated promotion for so long. Long may that reputation continue.