10 Live Observations From Attending EVOLVE Wrestling Over WrestleMania Weekend

3. There's A U.S. Market For The U.K.'s Top Stars

Over the past couple of years, the United Kingdom's native independent stars have been getting a lot of worldwide press. Whether it's the stars of New Japan traveling to work for Revolution Pro Wrestling, or PROGRESS Wrestling shows wowing viewers with a different brand of competition, it's clear the country's scene is hot.

Two of the country's top stars (apart from Zack Sabre Jr., who's been an EVOLVE mainstay for a while) are Marty Scurll and Will Ospreay. The talented pair have had a career-making feud that's led to a number of classic matches and earned them the cachet to compete with the U.S.'s best.

The villainous Scurll scored a win over Fred Yehi on Friday and a major non-title upset over EVOLVE Champion Timothy Thatcher on Saturday (one that hopefully guarantees a return).

As for the high-flying Ospreay, he fell short in a great match with Sabre on Friday, and on Saturday, he headlined the show against a similarly-talented foe...

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013