In 2019, I had only been watching professional wrestling for a few years, still in the infancy of my fandom. My fandom at this point consisted of almost exclusively mainstream American wrestling, a fancy way of saying WWE, and a smattering of the U.K indies. Like many fans at this stage, I began to wonder […]
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New Japan Pro Wrestling The New Japan Cup started last week and this year the tournament features 28 participants with the winner getting an IWGP World Championship shot against Tetsuya Naito at Sakura Genesis. Four prior winners of the tournament received byes to the second round. The matches started on the Anniversary on March 6
STARDOM The annual Cinderella Tournament kicked off, where the winner will receive a “wish” that leads to them challenging for a championship of their choosing, which has been the Wonder of Stardom Championship in recent years. This year, 24 wrestlers are competing to win the second biggest annual tournament in Stardom’s schedule. After the underwhelming
More has come out regarding Sting’s final match. On Sunday, the wrestling world watched on as The Icon Sting finished his legendary career. He and Darby Allin’s AEW World Tag Team Title defence against The Young Bucks went on last at the Greensboro Coliseum and the match itself was an epic encounter worthy of being
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New Japan Pro Wrestling After the disastrous last week for New Japan, this week was just full of announcements for the New Japan Cup, the Anniversary show, and Sakura Genesis. The Cup this year features 28 participants with the winner getting an IWGP World Championship shot against Tetsuya Naito at Sakura Genesis. Four prior winners
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STARDOM STARDOM had a quiet past week with two tour shows in Ishikawa & Niigata that both didn’t have something newsworthy on just a week before the start of the Cinderella Tournament. For that, STARDOM released the bracket on Thursday including cards for the opening night at Yokohama Budokan and the second night in Korakuen
Growing up in a family that has always watched professional wrestling, Sting is one of those people I grew up with an appreciation for. He was always talked about in my household as one of the best of the best – “yeah there’s better wrestlers, but there’s no one like Sting!” was something I often
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New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan held two shows in Sapporo in the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center as part of the New Beginning tour. The first show drew 3231 fans and featured five Championship matches. The first title match was for the IWGP Women’s Championship when Mayu Iwatani defended against Mina Shirakawa of EXV. They
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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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STARDOM STARDOM announced the line-up of the annual Cinderella Tournament and the tournament looks to be very different this year with many of the big names noticeably missing including Maika, Saori Anou, Giulia, Utami Hayashishita, Mayu Iwatani, Syuri, Saya Kamitani, and Momo Watanabe. President Okada stated that they reconsidered the concept and decided it was