You know that one player of your team that was supposed to be the next big thing, had a really disappointing initial run on the big stage, and was then was given another chance to play a significant role before finally delivering in spades on that promise that he showed? That feeling is so indescribably […]
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For the better part of the last 12 years, New Japan Pro Wrestling has been the gold standard of pro wrestling. And at the helm of the promotion have been the 2 greatest wrestlers of the 2010s, Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi. As a team or as opponents, they represented NJPW through thick and thin. Their careers have been intertwined to
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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