WWE’s King of the Ring tournament has undoubtedly seen a gradual decline in its prestige over the years. The event was initially a cornerstone of professional wrestling and one that could launch a wrestler’s career to new heights, however, it’s struggled to maintain its significance and has most recently been used to simply provide midcard […]
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A new era is upon us. On February 4th earlier this year, STARDOM founder and executive producer Rossy Ogawa had his contract terminated by Bushiroad and the promotion following accusations of talent and staff poaching. Ogawa’s involvement in professional wrestling dates back to 1978, beginning first as a ringside photographer for All Japan Women’s Pro
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The annual Best of the Super Juniors tournament began this month and is featuring all of NJPW’s biggest Junior stars and a few new outsiders, with Dragon Dia from Dragon Gate, Blake Chrisitan from ROH, and both HAYATA and Ninja Mack from NOAH all involved. The tournament started on May 11th, with the final happening
Dream Star Fighting Marigold After getting released from STARDOM, Rossy Ogawa announced his new promotion, ‘DREAM STAR FIGHTING Marigold,’ or ‘Marigold’ for short. The roster includes Giulia, Utami Hayashishita, Mai Sakurai, MIRAI, and Victoria Yuzuki (FKA Yuzuki) who all left STARDOM on March 31st, as well as Nao Ishikawa, Nanae Takahashi, and 6 former AWG
STARDOM is presenting Flashing Champions on May 18th in Yokohama Budokan. It’s the first major PPV after All Star Grand Queendom and will be the next big test for STARDOM under Taro Okada, who has been struggling lately as the head of creative, which was not only seen in the build-up to this show but
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All Japan Pro Wrestling All Japan’s biggest tournament, Champion Carnival, began this month featuring all of AJPW’s biggest stars and a few new faces. The tournament started on the 18th of April. After a solid block stage, the final of the tournament was held on May 12th in the Yokohama BUNTAI. In the final of
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling TJPW held its annual ‘Yes! Wonderland’ show at Korakuen Hall on Monday as part of Golden Week. The show drew 756 fans, which is a good number, and in the yearly calendar of Tokyo Joshi, always the second-best number at Korakuen Hall for the promotion. Daisy Monkey made their first successful
Occasionally, you just have a feeling. Granted, it didn’t require naive optimism to be hopeful for the first-time matchup between AJ Styles and Cody Rhodes, but I was particularly bullish about this scenario. It had been a thin few years for Styles, as uninspired creative combined with frankly overdue injuries for some of his weakest
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New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan held two nights of Wrestling Dontaku on May 3rd and 4th from the Fukuoka International Center in Fukuoka. The two shows featured seven championship matches, including three title changes. In the first title change, Jeff Cobb defeated Zack Sabre Jr. to win the NJPW TV Championship in a great
STARDOM Golden Week is one of the busiest times in the calendar of STARDOM as they had five shows this past week from Hiroshima all the way to Fukuoka. Ami Sohrei and Natsupoi faced each other in a No. 1 Contenders match in Yamaguchi on May 3rd with the winner going on to Flashing Champions