Mr. Monday Morning

For those who like some hittin' Sayaka & Rina Yamashita had a fun one at ChocoPro earlier today - it should be up on their youtube shortly (10am Sunday JST) Whole show was fun, albeit the other 2 were mixed tags so not strictly joshi per se.

Alright well today was fun as I got to chalk off Korakuen from the bucket list and see a super fun DDT show (April Fool). I might honestly have preferred it to Sakura Genesis, the much more laid back and fun vibe was a treat. I'm not sure if they showed the pre-show match but there were some...interesting characters in there. Oh and Big Hash is the TRUTH

I wouldn't even remotely call myself a regular TJPW watcher but Grand Princess was super fun. A little long, they probably could've cut one or two of the openers (or SKE48, lol) but a little something for everyone and some really good stuff. Personally MagiRabi vs TeaDK was MotN but there were a couple others that ran it very close. Brookes is getting into (already in?) that rarified Claudio-type air where you just slot him in to base for joshis and you know you'll get something great.

I guess this should go in the ROH thread (if there even is such a thing) but maybe not everyone checks there - anyway, Maika/Mina/Mei Seira vs Tam/Tall Saya/AZM got announced for the RoH PPV on 5th April

Sooo Stardom did some test livestreaming of the weekend's shows and it seems to have gone pretty well. Some highlights (?) -AZM & Mina bonding ahead of their stint in America (if you've ever wanted to see dancing AZM then between Mina's Tiktok and the match on Saturday you've been spoiled this weekend) -Golden Generation tag (Utami/Tall Saya/Maika/Non-Tall Saya) -DDM reunion tag (Giulia/Syuri/Maika/Natsupoi/Mirai/Mai Sakurai) -Sayaka Kurara and Aya Sakura both having singles against Yunamon trying to get into Cozuen -New Blood tag title match Ah heck there's a bunch of good stuff

Yuzuki's a surprise, that one will hurt a bit. She definitely has a lot of promise. Not sure how they wouldn't have the rookies on deals though, that seems odd.

Not sure how long to leave for Cinderella spoilers? I'll put it in anyway to be safe Meltz has dropped a slight update but it's nothing that people won't have figured out. Utami, Mirai, Suzu likely leaving with Giulia, Tall Saya and Syuri staying, etc. We probably won't really know for sure for another few months. But it seems like a) Okada has managed to convince at least a couple to stay who were minded to go, at least for now, and b) we'll likely see a lot more movement in and out of Stardom if Rossy establishes his new thing. Wouldn't be surprising if some left and then came back in future.

More names announced for the Stardom Philly show Complete lineup: Not sure about KoMomo as she's meant to be injured, but maybe its not that bad. Some notable absences, obviously, but could be for any number of reasons. Saori does stick out a bit given she's been working the US semi-regularly - I can't keep track of who's been caught up in the whole visa mess though.

(Stardom Prez) Okada is at the AEW show tonight -edit- aaaand Mina worked the ROH taping

11 March spoiler Tomorrow is Tanga vs Finlay and Goto vs Chase at the top of the card. As nature intended.

It was Chase's birthday guys. Don't you get totally undeserved presents on your birthdays?

Cinderella tournament night 1 results + thoughts. There is some big future match news coming out of this, I'll leave it in the spoiler for now In not really spoilery news they announced the 5 Star will be held between 10-31 August. So there will almost certainly be format changes of some description

Yikes - I was about to place an order for All Star Grand Queendom tickets today. Might have to hold off on that... Can Bushiroad go like, 2 weeks without having some sort of embarrassment? I haven't been watching a super long time but it seemed pretty clear things were not working well last year and it seemed from the outside that was down to Rossy having booking decisions taken away from him / over his head. Doesn't bode well.