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New Beginning in Osaka – The End of an Era in NJPW
In front of a sold out crowd of 5,400 at Edion Arena New Japan Pro Wrestling put on one of their finest shows since the end of their golden age which ended with a global pandemic. Two of the matches on this show could be considered as contenders for match of the year and another…
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Wrestle Kingdom 18 – Good Start for New Japan in the Tokyo Dome
New Japan Pro Wrestling kicked off 2024 with their traditional January 4th show from The Tokyo Dome with Wrestle Kingdom 18. While NJPW is nowhere near their peak where in 2020 just before the pandemic they were able to pack over 70,000 into the dome over two nights Wrestle Kingdom this year drew a solid…
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Okada leaving NJPW
Kazuchika Okada the hall of fame wrestler. One of the all time greats and the biggest star of New Japan Pro Wrestling is leaving his promotion seemingly for one of the big two US promotions. In the last few months there has been some speculation that Okada would leave NJPW when his contract expires at…
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Not a great start for AJPW. Big NOAH show is a little bit of a let down. NXT in the new year is the same NXT.
AJPW AJPW continued their new year tradition of starting the year with two shows from Korakuen Hall. The first show on the 2nd January is usually the lesser of the two shows and this year was no different with not a single match of any real quality showing that the promotion despite its momentum still…
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Welcome to 2024
Another year gone by and I must say it was probably the most hectic year of my life. I started the year as a full time university student and a part-time accountant and ended the year well still a student (I won’t go into details) and a full-time accountant. This resulted in very little time…
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NOAH The New Year 2023 – 1st January 2023
The first show of the year as NOAH put on their big Nippon Budokan show. The opening match sees Yasutaka Yano take on Taishi Ozawa. A short match that was well worked by two young NOAH talents with Yano winning after the fisherman suplex. **1/2 Funky Express (Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito & Shuhei Tanaguchi)…
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Stardom Dream Queendom 2022 – 29th December 2022
The opening pre-show match is the Stardom Ranbo which is a royal rumble style match with two competitors starting and more entrants appearing at regular intervals. Typical match of this type with lots of comedy and silliness with average wrestling but lots of fun. The final two wrestlers are Super Strong Stardom Machine and Super…
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AEW Dynamite #169 – 28th December 2022
Dynamite is coming at you live from the 1st Bank Center in Denver Colorado. Bryan Danielson is taking on Ethan Page in the opening match. This was an excellent ***3/4 match which was eventually won by Danielson after a series of elbow strikes but Danielson gave a lot to Page here giving him plenty of…
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NOAH The New Year 2022 – 1st January 2022
NOAH began the year 2022 with a big show at the Nippon Budokan in front of a good crowd for the pandemic of 3,181. I decided I would watch the final 5 matches on the card starting with the GHC Junior Heavyweight Title match as HAYATA defended against Yoshinari Ogawa. An excellent ***1/2 match. This…
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NJPW Road to Tokyo Dome – 23rd December 2022
The final New Japan show for 2022 and the last match for Suzuki-gun takes place at Korakuen Hall on the 23rd December 2022. The opener sees the House of Torture (SHO & Yujiro Takahashi( defeat Jado & Yuto Nakashima. This was a solid undercard opener with none of the nonsense we normally get from HOT…
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