This review has been lying dormant in my drafts for months. An event that I adored, and was honoured to get to call thanks to Mr Zachary Swift. WrestleMo-nia! was a special event held at The Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh to raise money for Movember, a charity close to Mr Swift’s heart and one that looks to aid men’s mental health.

On that, the reason it’s taken so long for this review to be done was an amalgamation of reasons from major changes in life, to the fear of hearing my voice played back, and just not having time. So I’ve sat down between seasons of the SWN Podcast to make time and relive one of the best events I had the joy to witness from the comfort of own home in 2025.

Tom Campbell entered to ‘My World’ and I can only imagine it would probably be against fire regulations but you know Tom had a guitar with a sparkler rigged up to it next to his front door before getting the unfortunate DM to say that he can’t take it with him over the boarder. One day Tom, one day.

Having Tom involved immediately made WrestleMo-nia! a must-see event, whether it’s online or being there in person. The personification of passion, Tom Campbell has risen up the ranks to be one of the most positive aspects in professional wrestling.

A warm welcome was received, Tom got the crowd ready for the wrasslin’, and of course plugged the raffle.

Meat Factory (Craig Berry & John Kerr) defeated Planet A (Martin MacAlistair & Ellie Armstrong) by pinfall.

Ellie Armstrong arrived in the Mo-vember spirit, with a fuzzy top lip and in Shego inspired gear, like a peak into Luigi’s weekends escapades. Planet A didn’t look impressed to see their opponents, Craig Berry and John Kerr, Meat Factory, who marched out declaring their love for the one thing MacAlistair and Armstrong tend to avoid, meat.

Armstrong and Berry started the bout, with Craig outpowering the Plant Based Powerhouse and ripping off the furry addition from Ellie’s face. A wounded Armstrong tagged in Martin MacAlistair who ran into a slab of meat, then found himself being crushed in the corner by Berry and Kerr. Ellie tried to get Martin to safety on the outside but were followed at speed by a diving John Kerr who continued to barrel through Planet A’s Anarchic Activist.

MacAlistair dodged a clothesline to flop into his corner to bring back Ellie Armstrong, who provided a distraction long enough for a dazed Martin to snap back into life and take Craig Berry down with a lariat to give Planet A the control.

The isolation of Berry continued with constant tandem offence to give him no room to catch his breath. Ellie overplayed her hand with an attempted ten punch in the corner, finding herself being carried and Berry Bombed in the centre of the ring. Craig dragged his way to a very much amped up John Kerr who threw his weight around, not without some flair, landing a cannonball in the corner whilst MacAlistair and Armstrong donned KFC buckets atop their heads, provided by Craig Berry from ringside.

One more Hail Mary from Ellie Armstrong came with a spinning heel kick to Kerr, but a groggy Martin couldn’t shake off the effects of the previous battering. Before Planet A could put an end to the match, Craig Berry returned to throw Armstrong out of the ring and assist a 3D to MacAlastair to send Planet A out of orbit.

A fast opener with constant action, Martin MacAlistair as the human ragdoll was outstanding. Meat Factory were a burst of energy whenever they got the upper hand, with Ellie Armstrong providing a great antagonist. Excellent stuff from all four.

RABU defeated Leon Redfield by pinfall.

Leon Redfield made sure that there was no hometown bias by immediately running down the capital which made the open hand chops to the chest courtesy of RABU all the sweeter.

A red handprint began to form on Leon, who fired back with a chop of his own that only seemed to irritate RABU, who took Redfield around the ringside with chops that got louder and louder.

Redfield wisely grabbed the arm of RABU to pull the shoulder against the ring post and slamming the hand of his opponent off the apron to neutralise the chop assault. As the match re-entered the ring, Redfield continued to torture the shoulder of RABU, tearing at the joint and putting continuous pressure while RABU tried to fight back.

An enziguri created the space for RABU, who strung a combo of a draping spinning neckbreaker, followed by a ripcord lariat to keep Leon Redfield down for three.

It was a sudden ending but put across the urgency RABU required to keep Redfield down. Perhaps a bit of fear that Leon was a danger if he got his hands on the RABU’s shoulder again. Leon showed some great instincts to draw focus to the skin broken marks on his torso. A strong outing for both men in this first time encounter, and considering Leon’s limited in-ring experience he held a good hand but ultimately folded to RABU.

Moustache vs Moustache – Tommy Lockhart defeated Zachary Swift by pinfall. Zachary Swift had his moustache shaved.

Zachary Swift tried to play his ace straight away, telling Lockhart to lie down because without Mr Swift there would be no ring, no roof, no ref, no show. As Zachary stomped over to retrieve the clippers from ringside a quick roll up caught a two count as Tommy wasn’t going to just give up his moustache without a scrap.

Lockhart tied up Swift, and with a loud request from the fans in The Voodoo Rooms, proceeded to kick Zachary Swift up the arse.

Swift weathered a barrage of strikes to lift an elbow to knock down Lockhart and take charge of the match, slowing the pace down to pick apart his Tremendous adversary.

A countered back suplex gave Tommy the opening to land a springboard uppercut and send Zachary Swift for an Airplane Spin, adding a Finlay Roll to lead nicely into a second rope moonsault to end a wonderful sequence of manoeuvres.

Before Tommy could fly from the top turnbuckle, Swift bundled referee Chris Quinn into the ropes to cause a loss of balance that gave The Modern Day Gentleman the advantage. Swift produced a wax strip from his trunks but thanks to a well timed dropkick from Lockhart it became stuck to the chest of Swift. Of course Tommy ripped off the strip and rattled the spot with chops to add insult to injury.

It was a back and forth of heavy hits, Zachary Swift went back to using a short cut, low blowing Tommy while Chris Quinn was disposing of the clippers that Swift brought in. Swift pushed around Chris a bit too much as he walked into a headbutt, a superkick, and finally a cutter to give Tommy Lockhart a hard fought victory.

No amount of pleading could stop Zachary Swift from receiving a Stunner from Chris Quinn and having his moustache removed.

Brilliant. The fire for Zachary Swift to lose his facial hair was stoked amazingly with twists and turns. The lean into it being an event that Zachary facilitated was really an excellent touch, and the three count was euphoric. Spot on.

TNT Ultra X Championship – Triple Threat – Che Monet defeated Landon Riley, and Judas Grey by pinfall to retain the TNT Ultra X Championship.

We returned from the interval with a highly anticipated triple threat over the TNT Ultra X Championship and it started hot with quick pin attempts and near falls from all three competitors.

Monet was sent out flying out of the ring for Riley and Grey to reach a stalemate between the ropes. Che tried to sneak in but was quickly spotted as the match went to the outside. Chops were thrown, then Landon Riley and Judas Grey launched themselves through the ropes one after the other with the crowd in The Voodoo Rooms getting up close and personal with all three.

Grey and Monet fought on the apron, the defending champion got the best of the exchange by piledriving Judas onto the edge parallel to the ropes which was gnarly. Che re-entered the ring only to be bombarded by the fast paced offence of Riley.

Landon couldn’t capitalise as he was caught on the top turnbuckle by Judas, but a stunning run up from Che Monet sent Riley from the second rung via a Frankensteiner, with Che holding onto the waist of Grey to roll him through for a Chaos Theory Suplex that gained a long two count.

The torture for Judas continued by being trapped in a Boston Crab and a cross face by Monet and Riley. Che took exception to Landon trying to take his potential submission with the two trading blows until Grey recovered to fire in with a shotgun dropkick to take out both men.

It was forearm city as some dominance was trying to be established with nobody being able to string the right combo together. Monet fought a rabid Judas off the turnbuckles only to find himself sailing to the canvas via a Landon Riley Spanish Fly then hoisted up and driven down with a Death Valley Driver for the closest of near falls. Che ducked to avoid more punishment which lead to Landon stepping up and spinning Grey over for a Canadian Destroyer.

Once more it was high impact hits but the third man interrupted the equation to break the counts, Riley knocked down Grey but was in perfect position for Che to come off the top turnbuckle and land an Eclipse stunner.

A twirling sit out fisherman’s buster finally let Che Monet pin Landon for three and survive with the TNT Ultra X Championship in hand.

It was breakneck from start to finish and The Voodoo Rooms ate it up. There was some stumbles when it came to tangling on the turnbuckles but it just added to the drive everyone had to win the match. Landon Riley, a late substitute, made sure that every forearm landed hard and he was outstanding. Judas Grey got to show his strength with a torture rack spin out powerbomb, and by pulling himself up when caught in a tree of woe by his thighs alone that was impressive.

The little things added so much, the moment in the opening when Che tried to catch Judas and Landon sleeping while perched on the top rope but denied, to the several attempts to try and get something going from that same location, to finally managing to hit the stunner that started his finishing sequence of moves en route to retention was a delicious thread through the bout. Top quality.

Before the Whisker Awards there was a rather surreal shoutout by Tom Campbell for ourselves that I did not expect, so that was nice.

BUT it was Whisker Awards time with Jack Ripley and Natasha Swann strutting out to examine the face fuzz in The Voodoo Rooms. Ripley and Swann commanded the chaos, picking out Callum’s invisible moustache for worst tache, and the moustached lothario Elijah got Natasha, and Jack, hot under the collar with his sheer manliness to take home a lovely pair of socks.

Planet A arrived to put an end to the shenanigans. Martin tried to claim that Ellie had the best moustache who emerged having retrieved her ‘tache that was ripped off her face in the opening contest, Risky Business didn’t take too kindly to having their judgement questioned and gave them a pasting, ending with a wassup headbutt to Ellie Armstrong to send Planet A once again leaving with their tails between their legs.

Pure and utter entertainment from start to finish. Jack Ripley and Natasha Swann have a fabulous chemistry to navigate the nature of a fan interactive segment. Planet A once again were the butt of the joke but they are an incredibly entertaining pair which made this whole thing a joy to see unfold.

Andy Roberts defeated Hunter Samson by pinfall.

Two big lads squared up in the penultimate match, with Hunter Samson showing his power early by getting the better of the veteran Andy Roberts. Roberts had to hit hard and fast, eventually raking at the eyes of Samson to wound The Behemoth and start wearing down the super heavyweight challenge.

Andy kept ripping and tearing at the joints, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, and the back of Hunter, who came back with raw power but found himself caught by a cerebral and meticulous Andy Roberts to stun the brute.

As the confidence started to build for Roberts, he went to revisit the power game that Hunter had him well matched with early on, leading to both running at each other for a collision to reset the bout.

Once again Roberts wanted to bully Samson around which just woke up Hunter to strike with a massive lariat. Andy dodged a big boot to deadlift Hunter Samson overhead for a German Suplex. Samson evaded a Vader Bomb but his follow up chokeslam left Roberts rolling out of the ring to avoid any pin attempts.

A furious Hunter Samson rolled Andy Roberts back into the ring for a powerbomb, only for Andy to drop and roll Samson through for a pin to snatch the win.

Roberts offered a handshake but was met with a short arm clothesline to send him quickly retreating to the back.

A beautiful tale of brain over brawn, I loved that when Andy tried to go for power it was brushed off so Roberts had to go back to wearing down Samson, but every so often he would go back just to test the water then seeing Hunter fire up would snap Andy back into what was working for him. A great match.

The Golden Mo – Five Way Elimination Match – Umar Mohammed defeated Tommy Kartel, SBX, Lost Boy Aspen, and Prince Levi to win The Golden Mo.

As soon as the bell rang Lost Boy Aspen rushed to the opposite side of the ring to drive his boots into the face of Umar Mohammed to set the tone for the pandemonium to follow.

A brawl between all competitors sparked around ringside as Aspen grabbed a steel chair to further assault Umar at ringside. The match returned to the ring with SBX and Prince Levi going back and forth, with SBX getting the better of Levi but had little respite as Tommy Kartel slid in to send SBX up and down with an array of suplexes.

Bodies were flying, fists swinging, all five mixed it up in the ring and at ringside.

The first elimination came from Prince Levi missing a dive towards Mohammed to eat a cutter from SBX, the ricochet sent him into the corner for an Umar Mohammed Thundergunn Express, Tommy Kartel wanted a piece of the action to add a Sky High sit out powerbomb, with SBX putting the exclamation point on it with an elbow drop to end Levi’s night. SBX had little time to celebrate as the three count was made due to being immediately grabbed and piledriven to the canvas by Lost Boy Aspen.

SBX remained a focal point, low blowing Aspen, then sending Umar off the second rope with a grapefruit vice grip. Tommy Kartel returned as he and SBX went at it to try and score a second elimination and elevate their chances more. As Kartel and SBX ran at each other a sudden roll up from Aspen and Umar to Tommy and SBX respectively suddenly had them exit the match to leave us down to two.

Roof tiles on The Voodoo Rooms were shaking as the support for Umar Mohammed continued to reverberate around the venue, Aspen tempered the reaction by throwing a chair into the face of The Asian Sensation to put Mohammed on the back foot.

Aspen demolished Umar with the chair, driving it over the sensational spine, driving Mohammed’s skull off the steel over and over again mercilessly. Umar was still breathing so was still fighting, defiantly challenging Aspen to come at him. A drop toe hold sent Aspen crashing into the chair to give Umar a much needed opening to use the weapon for his own brand of violence.

Two chairs came into play as Umar tried to suplex Aspen through the set up but The Lost Boy put a stop to it and turned the chairs onto their side. Umar fought off a powerbomb but was caught during a Codebreaker attempt and slammed onto the steel construction to have his back bend and contort over the metal as a result. Somehow Umar kicked out to send The Voodoo Rooms unglued.

Lost Boy Aspen went back to work with the chair, targeting his attacks on the back of Umar Mohammed. A missed second rope moonsault allowed Umar to land an Arabian Facebuster that could only catch him a two count by referee Chris Quinn.

The battle went to the apron for Umar to be piledriven, in contrast the earlier piledriver from Che Monet to Judas Grey, Aspen turned 90 degrees to have the back of Umar’s neck connect with the wooden edge which was barbaric. Aspen rolled Umar back in for easy pickings but Mohammed retaliated once again with a small package for a near fall that was responded with a Jay Driller as Aspen aimed to drill Umar’s head into a chair wedged in the corner but it was reversed. Mohammed hit a shotgun dropkick similar to how this match started, and as Aspen lay in the corner, Umar demanded a chair and went Coast To Coast, dragging a lifeless Lost Boy into the middle of the ring to win The Golden Mo.

Use all the adjectives, this was a phenomenal main event, from the passion of the crowd, the brutality in the ring, to the feel good ending for Umar Mohammed to overcome the big bad bastard that is Lost Boy Aspen who was ever the engaging villain, it was glorious.

From the opening notes of Tommy Kartel’s entrance music to the final bell, this was a spectacular match that showcase some underrated talents and hidden gems of Scottish professional wrestling. All five looked to come in with a point to prove and they went about showcasing the best of their ability from start to finish. You could feel the atmosphere even across a TV screen, the noise when the final count was made was an eruption of absolute joy.

An impassioned speech from Umar capped the night off perfectly.

What a show, what an event, Zachary Swift built a card of first time matches, in a first time venue that was packed to the rafters, not only with wrestling fans but those that wanted to support Zachary in his charity endeavour. A night where wrestling fans and non-wrestling fans gathered and I’d hazard a guess a few more wrestling fans left the building who entered with a curious mind and open heart.

I’ve watched a good chunk of Scottish wrestling in my lifetime, in person and online, seeing this event made me want to be in that crowd and live in that moment, seeing good people do great things. Reliving it again, I could hear the passion in my own voice because when the commentary was recorded, that was the first and only take because I wanted to see and react to it in as realtime as possible, I believed in every word spoken.

A collection of brilliant professionals giving us an event to remember in aid of a fantastic cause.

The donation link is still open if you want to support the cause and who knows, maybe we’ll see WrestleMo-nia! 2: Electric Boogaloo in 11 months time…

The full event is available on YouTube: