Kevin Wilson

He'd have his team frozen if I was the commish of that league and not invited back in the future.

Kurumi is probably my favorite under 18 year old Joshi wrestler right now, I think she is better than Momo. I can't off the top of my head pinpoint any must-see matches as generally she is still in mid-card tags, but she always looks good in them and they are really giving her a chance to shine. A lot of promise there.

Canadians' opinions on American Football are void, go watch some hockey. That is two out of three weeks that MNF had some rough refereeing, you know the NFL hates that as that is what leads the sports headlines for a few days afterwards. I think the referees do the best they can and I hate to harp on them, but there have been just flat out bad calls recently. I hope through watching tape and training it gets better before the Playoffs.

I don't think the issue is that Brock is incapable, but that WWE is incapable. Wrestlers overcome losses all the time but it takes planning to put over/create someone and I think due to recent history very few have faith in WWE doing it with Brock. Since returning in 2012, WWE hasn't been using Brock in that way at all, so it would take a shift in thinking for that to change (and Brock being interested in whatever the program is).

At least now we know how to win next year.

I think in general people need to get over the "Brock Ended the Streak" thing. It was just a match they did to get people talking and maybe to get some pressure off of Undertaker so he didn't feel like he had to put on an epic every year. The "the streak will end to put over a young star" thing was a made up narrative from fans, there was never a real indication that WWE was going to do that. Taker had wanted to lose the streak to Brock since Brock is a legitimate badass, it wasn't meant to be a multi-year storyline. Goldberg beating Lesnar doesn't do anything to impact a match result from two years ago, WWE doesn't know what they are doing on RAW tonight, they don't plan storylines that far in advance. I can understand not liking the result, but tying it back to Lesnar beating Taker just seems like a real stretch of a reason.

There are always exceptions. Its like an MVP vote in any sport, no one agrees on everything 100% of the time but I'm willing to bet the vast majority of Joshi fans would have them up there somewhere.

If you think the post you made helps facilitate discussion then we have different ideas of what a discussion is. Giving examples and specific opinions facilitates discussion. No one said gaijins shouldn't wrestle anywhere in the world, you made that up. That's a strawman. Saying wrestlers shouldn't even dream of being wrestlers because someone doesn't like the gaijin brought in my Stardom is something I'd expect to read on 4chan and just makes people roll their eyes while discrediting your posts in general because its so over the top stupid. But you do you.

I haven't seen anything bad said about Toni Storm, Kay Lee Ray, or Evie, who are great and contributed well to Stardom. I think people have an issue with gaijin going to Stardom that aren't very good, getting title shots they haven't earned within the promotion, and then disappearing again. I think those are valid complaints on a case by case basis, but creating a "people say all gaijins are bad and shouldn't even be wrestling" strawman isn't going to help facilitate discussion.

What a post looks like when a person is no longer willing and/or able to have a normal discussion.

I think the frustration with Stardom and why people that are annoyed by them still watch them is that they do have the best Joshi wrestlers, so if you a fan of Joshi you kinda have to at least keep an eye on their big shows. Everyone has their own personal favorites but few can deny that overall Kairi/Mayu/Io are minimally all in the Top 10 current Joshi wrestlers, so just not watching Stardom at all isn't really an option for most fans. But asking them to not bring gaijins would be like asking Big Japan to stop having deathmatches or DDT to stop having comedy, the owner of Stardom is a big fan of gaijins and they aren't ever going anywhere. It is part of their identity. To me that will probably at times prevent them from having the best top to bottom cards but they will still have some great matches, and their gaijins coming over in January I am a fan of so things may be picking up a bit for them soon. At least temporarily. I know this was already discussed but I am finally now watching Stardom 10/30 (I am always a few weeks behind) and its just actively not good. I'm also watching the non-clipped version which was probably a mistake. I still have the main event left which will help, but that card construction is an example of what drives me nuts. Which is mostly only annoying because it is their Korakuen Hall show which are the events I'll be more likely to seek out going forward, I'd rather they do bad shit on the house shows and focus the good stuff on their Samurai tapings. There is no reason for Chelsea Green to have gotten a title shot, she only has two years experience so its not a 'respected veteran' situation, and she had no wins of note in Stardom. Since I think everything in the world thought that match ranged from bad to terrible, hopefully Stardom management noticed also and doesn't give her such a big spot again.

A show shouldn't be "carried" by the midcard, then it isn't the midcard. The midcard should be fun matches that keep the fans engaged leading to the big matches. If the midcard is carrying a promotion, that is a much worse sign than a promotion being top-heavy. WCW was being carried in 1999 by their midcard and didn't exist two years later. I don't think anyone mentioned Melissa because up to this point we hadn't been talking about 2014 and she wasn't a big part of the promotion. Gaijins will always be hit and miss in terms of how they mesh with a Joshi promotion, that's life. What can ya do.

I honestly don't think they were in 2014. They had Io/Yoshiko/Taiyo/Nanae on top, then Mayu/Kairi/Act beneath them, then vets like Kyoko/Alpha Female anchoring the midcard with young wrestlers like Takumi/Koguma in the openers. The 2014 roster looks so strong compared to their 2016 roster top to bottom, most promotions are 'top heavy' in the sense that they is where they focus their best wrestlers but I think their cards were a lot more complete in 2014.

2014 Stardom was great, but the somewhat forced restart in 2015 was going to lead to a dip in match quality throughout the card. Losing Takumi, Yoshiko, Nanae, Act, and Koguma in a six month period was killer. But in 2015, having Kairi and Mayu at the top of the card still felt fresh, which is probably why it is remembered more fondly than 2016, plus having Satomura in the mix more.

One thing I've noticed watching the Bills/Bengals game is that the Bengals fans are quiet. Really quiet. I think there have only been a few times all game they seemed to get fired up to try to drown out the Bills on offense. And its a close game, so its not an issue of them being behind and not caring anymore. I don't normally watch Bengals games so I dunno if this is normal for them or I am just used to watching the Bills play this year in games with a loud crowd.

XPs being a mind-fuck for Kickers is on one hand illogical since its just a mid-range FG, but on the other hand players with one sole focus in various sports seem to have a weird mental block that most other positions don't have (closers in baseball being similar). The same dude that makes a 50 yard FG will shank an XP in a heartbeat.

Well right, that would imply it was things like general insubordination, missing curfews, etc., not her having a boyfriend. Plus the translation (which admittedly may be off, it usually is with Twitter) doesn't make it clear who decided she was resigning, like if she was making mistakes and wasn't willing to fix them, or she was making mistakes and they told her to get out. My point was more there are lots of reasons sub 18 year olds leave and they seem to protect privacy a lot more in Japan than they do in the US so we rarely know what the real reason is unless its something like the wrestler gets married or the wrestler is honest about it afterwards. I'm not really a gossipmonger so I don't really look around for it myself, I usually default to "its none of my business." Don't forget when Kana announced she was going on hiatus everyone said it was because she was pregnant or getting married, rumors around the 'net are rarely accurate when it comes to Japan. And I don't think stating a rumor found on message board as fact is a good idea as others reading it may not know its just a rumor started on the Internet with no factual support. I knew it was just a baseless rumor but others here may not be as aware of the situation.

Well I am sure they have more rules than that You also have to consider the possibility that her family didn't want her to do it anymore, she didn't want to do it anymore, failing grades, missing curfew, general insubordination, etc. I think there are probably a dozen reasons that < 18 year old wrestlers stop wrestling, which is one reason I try not to get too excited about any Joshi wrestler until they are at least 20 as by that point they are probably more serious about staying in the business for at least a few years.

Speaking of shitty things, I am trying to figure out if I concussed myself the other day. I passed out for no good reason I can determine, and hit my head on my desk. Once I woke up, there was a fair amount of blood everywhere as I hit my nose on something, and I had a big mark on the side of my head. Plus a cut lip among other things. I am not as concerned about the nose, it could be broken but if so its a minor break as I can still breathe out of it, but I don't know if I did something to my brain. Since then I haven't been able to sleep more than four hours at a time, and twice I have spaced out at my computer and lost several hours. Like I glance down at the time and its much later than it was the last time I looked at it, but I have no memory of doing anything during that time. But I am not sensitive to light and I have still been functional at work, and don't have a headache, so maybe I just knocked myself a bit loopy. This happened the same morning as my email issue so it was a rough day.

Is RIZIN airing on Spike TV for their December show or did that experiment end with the weird shit they did with the special last year.

I am a fan of John McCarthy, always thought he was one of the better referees and enjoy his bluntness sometimes. Anyway he did a long interview at Bloody Elbow, thought others may enjoy it. The referee pay is ridiculous but I am not surprised. I shouldn't be making more money a year than UFC referees. But a lot of sports underpay their referees, and get part timers because of it, then wonder why they make mistakes.

So basically, a few months ago through gmail I got the email address [email protected], with joshicity.com being my domain. To do that, I just logged into Godaddy through gmail and they changed the MX records/took care of the back-end. Simple enough, and that automatically made all my emails a "business account" since I now had my primary email through my domain name. So my hosting has been fine, but since google already knew I had the domain, I guess the easiest way to prove that I was who I said I was was to make a CNAME at their request that they could verify. But that is why I lost all my email, google drive, google hangouts, etc. as they were all under the Gmail App umbrella under my joshicity.com business account. I got access back a few hours after the phone call, the annoying part is they again said they don't know why it got disabled. The guy I talked to said he didn't have access to it due to privacy/security reasons but that it was likely due to suspicious behavior. So I may go ahead and just ditch the @joshicity.com email and go back to being a regular gmail user, as if they weren't all under the business umbrella I wouldn't have lost everything.

Hiroyo Matsumoto's Anniversary Show on 7/31/16 had some unique match-ups, I am still annoyed that Mayu/Shida/Kotori only went four minutes but seeing Yoshida again brought some warmth to my cold heart. I enjoyed the main event a lot, and so I wasn't being a complete tease to the Joshi fan community I uploaded it: You can read my full event review here.

Luckily not in my case, Google just called me and got me to add a CNAME to the domain to prove it is mine. He didn't know why it got disabled but said he'd look into it. So I am now waiting for the next step, whatever that may be. It seems the issue is that I had a business account with them and then all my personal emails under that business account, so when the business account got disabled it just disabled everything.

To keep myself more sane, I'd stick to just Japanese women on both the current and all time list. Otherwise I'd have to make up a cut-off on how many matches a gaijin would have to have had in Japan which gets dicey, plus then people would ask why I didn't include her accomplishments outside of Japan and its not a road I want to go down. Once I am feeling list-happy, I'd probably later make a separate list of top gaijin.