Hiroshi Tanahashi is the Ace of New Japan Pro Wrestling. He has held the IWGP Heavyweight Championship eight times, the Intercontinental Championship twice and the United States Championship on three separate occasions. On January 4, during the first night of NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 17 event, Tanahashi teamed with Keiji Muto and Shota Umino in a […]
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STARDOM Over the last week, Stardom had three Triangle Derby Shows, with the first one being live on YouTube. The Tam Nakano hometown show in Anjo featured a big main event match between the two Cosmic Angels Trios. The team of Waka Tsukiyama, Rina Amikura and Yuko Sakurai faced The top Trio of Cosmic Angles
Kota Ibushi has been sidelined from action due to the shoulder injury that he received in a grueling match against Kazuchika Okada in the G1 Climax Finals in October of 2021. Ibushi was announced for the prestigious New Japan Cup but was pulled due to the severity of the shoulder injury. In May of 2022,
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Tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite will feature the final match in The Elite & Death Triangle’s best-of-seven series for the AEW World Trios Championships in an Escalera de la Muerte match, a match that will decide the series as both teams currently find themselves on three points each. Speaking to Sports Illustrated, Nick Jackson of
On January 4th in the main event of NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 17 event in the Tokyo Dome, Jay White lost the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship to Kazuchika Okada, leading to an enraged White calling former Bullet Club member Hikuleo for betraying him. The following day, White would savagely attack Hikuleo, challenging him to a “Loser
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STARDOM Stardom hosted two shows this past week where the cards were totally changed due to illness from multiple wrestlers including Starlight Kid, which canceled the big AZM vs. SLK rematch on the Nagoya show. The Korakuen Hall Show had a big angle with Chihiro Hashimoto from Sendai Girls appearing to confront Syuri. This happened
Since Triple H was appointed as WWE’s Head of Talent Relations, the company have made an effort to sign a number of previously released talents, including the likes of Johnny Gargano, Hit Row, Dakota Kai, and many more. Recently, WWE’s recruitment strategy has seen them also show interest in external talent that have no prior
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On February 4th, Stardom will present their Supreme Fight PPV event in Osaka, featuring the first World of Stardom Championship defence from Giulia, who will take on her Prominence’s Suzu Suzuki in a match that is likely to further the personal rivalry between the two former Ice Ribbon stars. It now appears as though the
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There were few safer bets in wrestling than Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay stealing the show at Wrestle Kingdom. After all, that’s who both guys have so consistently been, especially in that setting. This was a match with almost impossibly high expectations and yet, they still felt certain to exceed them. At Wrestle Kingdom though,
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WWE reportedly have interest in another NJPW talent. Earlier this week, Fightful Select reported that WWE are interested in bringing NJPW’s Hikuleo into the company, a report that made Jay White’s ‘Loser Leaves Japan’ match challenge toward the 6″8 talent all the more interesting. It now appears as though Hikuleo isn’t the only NJPW star
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