I just got back from my honeymoon in Europe with my wife. As soon as we booked the tickets last summer, I started looking for some indie wrestling for us to see in one of the cities we were visiting and the promotion I kept coming back to was Pro Wrestling Holland (PWH). Luckily for us and our love of independent wrestling, PWH announced they were running a show in Rotterdam while we were scheduled to be in Amsterdam. Let me tell you friends, it was more than worth the day-trip to Rotterdam to see Pro Wrestling Holland in all its glory. What a fucking time.

You can absolutely cover up holes on in-ring product with great production and you can cover up lack of production with great in-ring product, but the sweetest space - shockingly! - is when an indie promotion has a high level of production that matches their incredibly high standard of in-ring action. And that sweet spot is exactly where PWH is. From the first entrance to the last bell, PWH delivered on seemingly every level I can think of as a guy who frequents small wrestling shows and has pretty strong opinions about what I like and don't like. (Saying this knowing that I am amenable to a much wider swath of what wrestling has to offer than a lot of my wrestling friends.)