event featured well known overseas wrestlers such as Will Ospreay, Tenille Dashwood and Bea Priestley. The main event was a 20-man Southern Rumble match won by Kane Khan. The 2019 Southern Rumble event was held again in ILT Stadium on 13 July 2019, with similar attendance numbers. The 2019 event was a cross promotional event with Melbourne City Wrestling (MCW). The show featured 8 matches including a Winner Takes All match for the SPW New Zealand Championship and the MCW Heavyweight Championship. JK Moody won the 20-man Southern Rumble main event. On 24 August 2019, the event aired on TVNZ Duke and was viewed by over 40,000 people. Major professional wrestling promotions Television programming Weekly Pay-per-view Former See also Professional wrestling in Australia Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom Professional wrestling in the United States References Further reading Mazer, Sharon. Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. External links NZPWI.co.nz, the New Zealand Pro Wrestling Informer KiwiWrestling.com, official website for upcoming documentary on New Zealand professional wrestling Wrestling - An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, a brief history on amateur and professional wrestling in New Zealand Pro-Wrestling in Oceania (Australia & New Zealand) at WrestlingScout Jason Hunt's Slammin' Steel Chair Fan Club Go the Wrestling!, Wrestling in the 1920s.