Category: Get to know
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The kids are alright (and the old guys too): what LIMIT BREAK taught me about wrestling in 2024.
I can’t tell you that LIMIT BREAK was the best wrestling to happen in 2024 (it might be, I just can’t exactly remember what I’m comparing it to) but I can tell you that it meant something to me.
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Becoming: Yuma Anzai & the Triple Crown
Everyone’s path to greatness – and what it means to be great – is different, and it is rarely straightforward. What comes easily to some might be a game of trial and error to others, and the Fates can be cruel to those who attempt to reach above their station. But it often, if not…
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A Sunday in Korakuen Hall
Jessica gives an insight into one of her favourite matches of the year – one that connects All Japan’s past and present, and brings lots of joy.
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Yasutaka Oosera: Best Junior Heavyweight In The World
Junior heavyweight wrestling is polarizing from a Western perspective. Juniors are often seen as a level below heavyweights, but junior wrestling is beautiful.
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Joining the dots: Ulka Sasaki, Pro Wrestler
For me, nothing sums up Ulka being a wrestler more than a seemingly throwaway statement he made in an interview as he reflected on his GHC National Championship victory and how far he had come.
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Osaka Pro: Osaka Castle Festival 2024 Preview
On 23rd June, Osaka Pro Wrestling will hold the Osaka Castle Festival, a major show featuring matches for all four of the company’s titles.
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Osaka Pro Wrestling: Light Heavyweight Tournament 2024
Osaka Pro’s light heavyweight talent, both upcoming talents and veterans, have been a highlight of the refreshed company, making this tournament a great way to get to know its current and future stars.
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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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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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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…