When it comes to wrestling in the large global companies, there’s always been a clear split between the men and women when it came to in ring action. I don’t mean in terms of quality – it would be far beyond me to say one was superior to the other – but when it comes […]
Marigold is presenting ‘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 will be the first big test for the promotion after a successful start for Marigold. The nine-match long show is available as a PPV on Wrestle Universe and
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The term “dream match” has been overused in pro wrestling for years, but we have a true dream match coming up this Saturday night. A dream match is when the impossible happens, and for Utami Hayashishita — a match that felt impossible in her career is finally happening. At Marigold’s first major pay-per-view Summer Destiny
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STARDOM STARDOM held two shows at Korakuen Hall this week, which marked the third show at Korakuen in eight days. While the shows didn’t have major matches, they set up multiple matches in the future and featured some interesting angles that continued the current storylines in STARDOM. A great angle was Thekla’s suspension. She had
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New Japan Pro Wrestling After Forbidden Door, New Japan continued the Soul tour with a show at Korakuen Hall and at Tokyo Budokan that featured the semi-final and final of the G1 Qualifying Tournament, as well as the hometown return match of BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito and an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match between El
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Money in the Bank is one of my favorite stipulations in wrestling. The direct creator of so many iconic moments in WWE history, it stands as one of the company’s last great original concepts. Of course, no stipulation is perfect, and it has also produced its fair share of mishaps and poor decisions, some of
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Forbidden Door On Sunday, STARDOM took part in AEW’s Forbidden Door PPV in Long Island as Momo Watanabe, Tam Nakano, and Mina Shirakawa were part of the show. Tam Nakano teamed together with Willow Nightingale to face Kris Statlander and Momo Watanabe in the buy-in of the show. This was part of the storyline between
New Japan Pro Wrestling At AEW’s Forbidden Door PPV on Sunday, Tetsuya Naito reclaimed the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship from Jon Moxley in a match that was lacking what makes the two normally special – crowd control, pacing, and the in-ring sequences. The two didn’t have any chemistry in this match as nothing was working.
‘Hangman’ Adam Page is someone people often point to when they talk about success stories in AEW. Coming into the business, I don’t recall many people who circled him as someone who would be closing PPVs, holding world championships, and helping change the layout of the business as part of one of the fastest rising
Bloodsport Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport came to Japan for the first time as “Bloodsport Bushido” was presented from the legendary Sumo Hall on June 22nd. While Bloodsport didn’t officially announce the attendance, it seemed to be around 1,000 fans as many seats, especially in the sumo boxes, were empty, and it was noticeable. The show was
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