Since Collision’s premiere, Ricky Starks has made considerable progress on his path to main event status. For much of the three years prior, he had hovered within the tier below, waiting his turn to cross the bridge that’s seldom truly completed. He’d taken steps in that direction, even flirting with the promise land on occasion, […]
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STARDOM held 5STAR show in Fukuyama on Saturday with four 5STAR Grand Prix Matches, including Momo Watanabe facing Giulia and Ami Sourei battling Mayu Iwatani. It was a really fun show with four great tournament matches. In the first 5STAR Match, Mariah May (3-2-0) battles Utami Hayashishita (2-2-0). Utami is trying to stop her losing
Last week was a terrible week for the pro wrestling world. On Wednesday, we lost a legend and just one day later, one of this era’s most iconic characters had tragically passed away. Unfortunately, wrestling is more familiar with tragedy than we’d like it to be and as fans, we often heal by coming together
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A few months ago, I started watching NXT from the first episode they taped at Full Sail University. It was a fun trip down memory lane, seeing some of the brightest stars of WWE’s last decade in their formative years, before the championship glory and WrestleMania main events. But one act caught my attention, just
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Hikaru Shida was crowned the new AEW Women’s World Champion just three weeks shy of the biggest show in the company’s history, ALL IN, and is now walking into Wembley Stadium with gold around her waist. Her journey there wasn’t easy and also had multiple obstacles that she needed to overcome to get there. The
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Terry Funk is pro wrestling. Among Funk admirers, that’s a common sentiment, the simplest way to embody what he’s meant to our differing fandoms. This evening, news broke that Funk had passed away and though after recent reports, I wasn’t stunned, my emotions quickly unravelled. It wasn’t the news that shocked me, it was that
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STARDOM The STARDOM 5STAR Grand Prix continued with a show at Korakuen Hall with 1.519 fans in attendance, the highest attended Korakuen Hall show of the year, and one of the highest in the history of STARDOM. The 5STAR GP Matches kicked off with a Blue Stars Block Match between Momo Watanabe (2-0-0) and Saori
Honestly, for the first time in a while, I’m not sure that it actually is an especially big week for pro wrestling. In fact, this week very much feels like the calm before the storm, with an awful lot of headlines ahead. Even still, we have some matches worth covering, including the 1-2 punch of
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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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August 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc, a young Jamaican man who moved to the United States when he was 12, hosted a back to school party in the recreation room in his apartment building in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx, New York. There, Kool Herc laid the foundation of hip-hop. With disco being
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