Author: SixtyMD
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Get into Champion Carnival 2024
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All Japan’s most popular tournament begins this month featuring all of AJPW’s biggest heavyweights and a few new faces. Starting on the 18th of April, the tournament spans over 11 days with the finals being held on the 12 May in the Yokohama BUTANI. Now is the perfect time to dive into All Japan Pro…
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Year of the Dragon: Ryuya Matsufusa Rising.
In January 2024, Billy Ken Kid and Ryuya Matsufusa had a match for the Osaka Pro Wrestling Light Heavyweight Championship. Catching viewers attention with Matsufusa’s babyface performance and Billy’s relentless attacks that showed both all and none of his 50 years, the match was a breakout hit, escaping the usually small western fanbase to make…
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Little Legacy
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The most important tag match of 2023 happened on January 29th. Well, for me anyway. On January 29th 2023 DDT Tag champions ShunMAO, in between a hectic schedule appearances in the US, faced the recently reformed Ω/Omega team of Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi. At a basic level, the match is one pair of idiots…
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Jake Lee; GHC
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Jake Lee entered NOAH on 1st January 2023 an outsider, entering in the same costume and to the same entrance theme he used just weeks before in AJPW. Those elements haven’t changed but Jake’s hands (or at least his gloves) are now, quite literally, dyed the same green as the company whose highest belt he…
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The Extreme Sauna of Shunma Katsumata
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There’s few wrestlers in DDT that are as creative as Shunma Katsumata. To be honest, I don’t think I can count three as innovative as Shunma, not because they’re not good, but because they have a more “safe” approach of wrestling. The first time I saw Shunma wrestling I knew that crazy bastard just hated…
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AMAKUSA: Thnks fr th mmrs
AMAKUSA is a genius. In a matter of months he has overcome being cast as NOAH’s perennial loser, won (and lost) the GHC Junior Heavyweight championship and managed to turn denial of his past identities into a t-shirt slogan. Just in case you’re at all uncertain of my position I’ll say it again – AMAKUSA…
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“I fucking hate Shingo Takagi” – the story of the eternal rivalry of Dragon Gate’s first trueborns
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The rivalry of BxB Hulk and Shingo Takagi spanned over a decade and, as Dragongate’s first ‘trueborn’ wrestlers, is a core part of the company’s history.
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The Growing Pains Of Kaito Kiyomiya, Aged 26 ½
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The singles match with Okada has the potential to reveal a matured, post-Mutoh Kaito or, yet again, could define Kaito by who and what he is not.
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Death match and chill
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I don’t like horror. As a genre, whether movies, tv, fiction etc. I don’t like it. Or rather, I don’t get it. The awful creativity of the human mind in creating monsters or new ways of suffering, the rising suspense in waiting for the worst to happen, imagining the worst…not my thing. Or so I…
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Haoh and the meaning of loss
Loss and losing is an essential part of wrestling. It’s part of compelling struggles retold a thousand different ways. Even our favourites need to lose. After all, who doesn’t love a redemption arc?