New Japan Pro Wrestling The annual G1 Climax continued as 20 wrestlers fight for the right to challenge the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom 19. The past week featured four shows, as the tournament edges closer to the time when the maths start to get important and the first […]
STARDOM After a newsworthy weekend in Sapporo, STARDOM held a tour show in Hamamatsu that featured the first matches of the newest stable H.A.T.E. and an Artist of Stardom Championship match between EXV & Cosmic Angels. In the opener, Saya Kamitani had her first match as a heel as she teamed with Ruaka & World
As wrestling fans, we all have our own story behind what drew us into the industry and made us keep coming back for more. For many, our first exposure to the business will have come from the WWE, as its mainstream status meant that we’d at least heard of wrestling growing up, but, in order
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New Japan Pro Wrestling The annual G1 Climax continued as 20 wrestlers fight for the right to challenge the IWGP World Champion in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom 2025. The past week featured four shows, as the tournament edges closer to the time where the maths starts to get important and the first eliminations
STARDOM A huge championship change happened on the STARDOM show at Korakuen Hall this past week as Momo Watanabe & Thekla won the Goddess of STARDOM Titles from Konami & Syuri after Konami turned on her tag team partner to help the Oedo Tai duo win the tag titles. It’s another swerve heel turn in
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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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New Japan Pro Wrestling The annual G1 Climax kicked off as 20 wrestlers fight for the right to challenge the IWGP World Champion in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom 2025. This year, NJPW have decided to go back to the old format of two blocks of 10 wrestlers, with every match having a 30-minute
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Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling TJPW held its Summer Sun Princess show at Korakuen Hall in front of 873 fans, which is a good number for Tokyo Joshi at Korakuen, but given it’s one of the biggest shows of the year, it’s a disappointing number as SSP drew over 1,200 fans in Ota Ward last year
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Marigold Marigold presented ‘Summer Destiny 2024’ on July 13th from Sumo Hall. It’s the first major PPV for the newly founded promotion by Rossy Ogawa, and it was their first big test after a successful start. The nine-match long show is available as a PPV on Wrestle Universe and featured three inaugural champions being crowned,