2023, for better or worse, has been about change, evolution, and progress for the professional wrestling world. All Japan Pro Wrestling has been one of the promotions that have been affected by it the most. After years and years of guys like Kento Miyahara and Suwama at the top, we’ve seen new stars rising and …
Kento Miyahara VS Yuma Aoyagi: Shocking The Status Quo Read More »
There have been many attempts at capturing the themes of friendship in wrestling matches over the years. They’ve done it in different ways. MJF vs. Adam Cole most recently is a big example of this. They’ve tried to manifest themes of friendship and love through hesitation to harm each other. I’ve always felt that this …
Takuya Nomura vs. Fuminori Abe: Best Friends Forever Read More »
The G1 Climax is one of the most wonderful times of the year, well… it usually is. This year’s G1 Climax wasn’t the best experience, to say the least. Reasons ranged from a lot of bloat in the list of participants, to some very questionable booking decisions. While the tournament itself wasn’t that enjoyable, the …
Violence. It’s painful. It’s scary. Terrifying even. But what happens when you use violence to tell a story in a medium like professional wrestling? What happens when you take two very different but equally admirable personalities that absolutely DESPISE each other and put them in the same ring? We get pure magic. That’s what happened …
Hangman Adam Page vs Jon Moxley: What Goes Around Comes Around Read More »
Interpromotional wrestling has always been the best part of Puroresu. The hatred and disdain that fuels those rivalries, there’s just nothing better in wrestling. So, when Kaito Kiyomiya said that he wanted to experience the Rainmaker back in 2020, the world took notice. Fast forward to 2022, Okada and Kaito met in a tag match …
Kazuchika Okada vs Kaito Kiyomiya: When Dreams Become Nightmares Read More »
It has been a while since a match hit me so hard that I felt like I absolutely had to write about it immediately. Not that I feel that my words can do justice to how sensational this was but man I will give it my very best try. Antonio Inoki used to say that …
Kazuchika Okada vs. Shingo Takagi: The Perfect Main Event Read More »
All of us have our heroes, inspirations. Me, you and everyone in this world. Very few of us get to meet them and even fewer get to work with them whilst chasing our dreams. But what happens when you actually get to do both of those things? Then you pour you heart out into it …
El Desperado vs Jun Kasai: Choosing Life Over Death Read More »
The day is is 3rd October, 2015. The IWGP Heavyweight champion Kazuchika Okada has been booked on RevPro’s Global wars against Will Ospreay, a young rising star from Essex. No one knows what the future looks like but as this match ends, the New Japan star just proved to be too much for Will, as …
The annual King of DDT tournament culminated today at Korakuen Hall. The tournament was for the KO-D Openweight championship, since the previous champion Tetsuya Endo had to vacate the title due to a concussion that he suffered at the Cyberfight Festival. Heading into the show we had two semi finals laid out. Yuki Ueno vs …
Kazusada Higuchi vs. Naomi Yoshimura: The King of DDT Final Review Read More »
What is perfect professional wrestling? Is it the flashiest moves? On the contrary, is it two men running into each other or hitting each other as hard as they possibly can? Better yet, maybe it’s a big dumb epic of bad control segments with monologues every other minute? Does such a thing even exist? I …