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Thought the live Stardom show was a middle in the road show. It seemed like they were rushing everything on the undercard but that hurt the two title matches with Io vs KLR being MOTN. I knew it would be a matter of time before Hana Kimura showed up at Stardom. She wasn't bad here and I think her being stuck in trios matches will help her get better in the ring. They tried really hard to make Bito vs Tessa important but it fell flat. Both were not ready to main event a Korakuen show and the crowd being dead silent at times proved it.

Su Yung. She wrestles regularly for SHINE.

Does anybody find it weird that neither the English Twitter account nor Courtney Stewart formally announced that she was leaving the tournament? Not even a "hey, I'm sorry I can't complete the rest of the tournament" tweet from her. Only the Japanese account announced that she was going to be out of the tournament because of what was loosely translated as "family misfortune".

Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuto vs Combat Toyoda & Megumi Kudo from the FMW 3rd Anniversary Show. It's out there on YouTube but I put together the handheld footage with the FMW footage that basically cut the match in half so that people can watch the match in full.

Just finished watching this and I highly agree. If you liked the match with Best Friends vs Nanae and Emi Sakura from the Ice Ribbon Anniversary Show, this is up your alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TygtDOkTyw CCTV sat down with Aja Kong to talk to her about growing up in Japan being mixed race in English and her career. Here's the description from the video.

I know the mini concerts go back years and years but do the Joshi audiences really come to these shows for more than just the wrestling like them singing?

I've recently seen two of her matches from Wrestle-1 shows. She's just "ok". Interesting if she improves and becomes a star in the future.

I think he talked about them in a not so good light cause his dealings with them in J'd and ARSION. My timeline might be off with when Ogawa was promoting J'd but Jaguar ended up leaving in 98. With Lioness, didn't he make her the booker in ARSION around 2001? The promotion looked like it went bad when she took over and Ayako dropped the belt to her. Maybe I'm wrong but I get that feeling that he said that cause of business he did with them.