Men Dying Slow

Part of me laments nobody photoshopping Rossy onto the Cody gif but another part isn't entirely sure where Hibiki would fit into the Stardom picture if it were as clean-cut as that. But seeing as practially every other joshi fed besides Tokyo Joshi is one big network in itself I can't imagine them going anywhere else. Or maybe my brain just isn't cut out for this kind of news this early in the day Will throw a fifty dollar bill into the church collection basket for Saya Iida and Hibiki beating the heck out of each other, however. Just one victory and I'm on my way

The Japan Wrestling Hall of Fame that got established last year is holding a two-day show at Korakuen Hall on September 14th & 15th to celebrate the 70th anniversary of pro-wrestling in Japan. The cards got announced today and the lineup is... pretty wild.

Shoutouts to this account for uploading some of the TRUE Revolution Pro on YouTube - full shows, too.

MISTICO IS DEAD. LONG LIVE MISTICO.

SURVIVAL TOBITA VS FREDDY KREUGER WITH SPECIAL GUEST 'Vaguely Ominous Halloween Stock Music 2021'

Hiroshi Yamato defended his Top of Mt. Fuji Championship against FUMA yesterday, a belt that can only be contested for at... the top of Mt. Fuji. They then fought Kunio Toshima from 2AW and Koichi Takemura in a battle royale, because climbing to the top of Japan's biggest mountain so you can beat the snot out of people is a communal, spiritual activity.

Well, here's a match-up and a half.

Michiko Omukai Is Alive & Well And Living Getting Into Swordfights In Ehime

A ~30 minute 2001 Survival Tobita match! Uploaded by former ZERO-ONE guy Fuyuki Takahashi, of all people. Dove Pro 2008! Furthest back they've gone with the old match uploads on their channel. Local underdog Sakigake, against Yuko Miyamoto, for the Heavyweight Title!

Funnily enough, this isn't the first time this match has happened! They ran it in Hard Hit in 2019, which very helpfully got uploaded earlier today

VKF have been getting back into the swing of Osaka Pro uploads. Up here, the collision of almighty forces - Kikutaro and Kuishinbo vs Liger and Delfin Hopping forward in Osaka wrestling chronology, back in January Hayato Nanjyo uploaded his match against Masato Tanaka from FFF. The spirit of FMW will outlive us all.

Think its worth noting, though I'm open to correction, that CIMA hasn't been submitted, knocked-out or pinned for a three count in a singles in Japan since OWE was established. He lost to Jun Tonsho in a 2-count match in W-1, Ultimate Spider Jr. took him to a 15-min draw in Colega earlier this month, that's been about it. So its going to be particularly interesting to see who takes the title off him, and in what manner it happens Or, you know, he just refuses to do the job and the AJPW Jr. division just wipes itself out. That could also work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLTrJQlc8lA Full VKF show from today. Everything's a bit short due to curfew constraints and its single-camera but it gets the job done. Also apparently the last ever match for the old INFINITY tag team of Black Buffalo & Tsubasa, so that's one to look out for for the Osaka Pro fans. This will probably get taken down in a few days if its like the last show, so eat it while its hot

Pending me finishing my watch-through and going back to some things I missed, the best pre-Dramatic Fantasia DDT match.

Half-hour no-ring match on a very tiny mat, from one shoot-style micro-indy journeyman unto another. Slow as molasses, at times tense, there's a whole trove of recent no-ring puro on YouTube but this stands out in an extremely good way.

Another Japanese promotion for there to be seven events uploaded for and then never again. Two recent house shows, one has Takuma & CHANGO vs Mashimo & Hanami and the other a Takuma vs Hanami singles so if you've been keeping up with the Andrew Kingdom storyline, there's some more world-building for ya

Yu Iizuka is a HEAT-UP trainee and self-professed #1 Volk Han stan (his Twitter name @VOLK_KID, for Christs sake). Shinya Ishida is a Nagoya guy who spent a year on Sakushima island after injuring his knee and despite that break seems to have been in incredible form since he came back last November. This is the right kind of Small Lean Guys Wreck Each Other's Shit match. Stop sleeping on HEAT-UP Universal, will ya

Potato quality, but it's also Dick Togo, so it's all good. First day of Noah Global Jr League. This is his opponent Hao's, who's aligned with heel unit Kongoh and vowed from the gate to Not Let His Ass Get Kicked, first NOAH singles match. Which is very awkward for him because he used to be Yuki Sato in another, more Actively Advanced life, who was trained by... Dick Togo

Looks like Mort is hanging up the boots on PuroresuDream/RealHero.

It's a Masashi Takeda match what do I even have to tell you my man

This is objectively the right way to sell this. No further comment..

One-day tag tournament from Kyushu Pro! And a Hitamaru/Kanemoto rematch!

KEITA! In the HOUSE! KEITA! In the HOUSE! The ZERO-ONE judoka is here to give him a concussion.