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Another match added to All Together: Hiromu/YAMATO/Tetsuya Endo/Alpha Wolf/Dragon Bane vs Desperado/HAYATA/Ninja Mack/Kota Minoura/MAO.

"Fouls were missed. Time-outs were ignored. It happens. Hey, MSG was rocking!"

It's from a google translate of this article (or at least one of the versions of this article - stories get aggregated a lot in Japan): https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/299962 Since it's in the press, it's probably being done in character, maybe setting something up for later.

NJPW to fully acquire Bushiroad Fight https://www.njpw1972.com/175523 So basically, NJPW is "buying" Stardom.

Starlight Kid/Natsupoi vs AZM/Miyu Amasaki has been added to All Together on 5/6.

Stardom's All-Star Grand Queendom card for the 27th Maika vs Momo Watanabe Mayu Iwatani vs Sareee Saori Anou vs Hanan meltear vs Kaoru Ito/Aja Kong Rina vs Sayaka Kurara Syuri/Ami Sohrei/Konami vs TBA Konami is apparently coming back full-time to Stardom

Night 2 is tempting. It will probably be my only chance to see Mox as IWGP champion live. There is no way he is losing to Narita so I figure Shota helps him fight off HOT and set up their match. And Shingo vs Gabe will probably be violent. I can't see Nemeth losing to oldfat so the tag will probably set up SANADA trying to get back a version of a title he had. New Japan has tried to make the Dontaku an event where things happen but I haven't gone since they moved to two nights. Due to the Dontaku festival happening, hotels are already pricey and the recent tourist boom plus the weak yen has just made things worse.

So the AWG wrestlers are not part of Marigold. Not yet anyway. Fuka denies that they were poached by Rossy.

The cards for Satsuma no Kuni on 4/29 and the two nights of Dontaku on 5/3 and 5/4 have been announced if someone wants to make a thread about that. Satsuma no Kuni will be headlined by Hiromu/BUSHI taking on the War Dogs and DOUKI versus SHO. Night One of Dontaku is ZSJ and Cobb for the TV title and oldfat Tanahashi versus Nic Nemeth for the IWGP US title. Night Two is Gabe Kidd and Shingo fighting for the NEVER Title and Mox versus Narita for the IWGP title.

That AWG released an actual statement and not a gif of ACT saying "Fuck you Rossy" on a loop is amazing restraint on their part. Anyway, here is the inspiration for the promotion name:

Her only defense was yesterday. Cagematch lists the title as vacant but I don't know if that's just someone being proactive based on the news. At the very least, she wasn't carrying the belt to the press conference.

His new promotion is called Marigold. At the press conference there was Giulia, Utami, MIRAI, Mai Sakurai, Nanae Takahashi, Yuzuki (now called Victoria Yuzuki) and Nao Ishikawa. Their first event, "Marigold Fields Forever," will be held on 5/20 at Korakuen and will be streamed on Wrestle Universe. The one match announced is Giulia and X vs SAREEE and X. There will be foreign talent on the show. During the photo op, Fuka and some..Actwresgirlz (I think, maybe, I dunno) showed up and..took part in the picture. Oh, OK. Earlier in the day, Fuka, CHIAKI, Kouki, Chika Goto, Misa Matsui, Natsumi Sumikawa and Miku Aono all announced that they were leaving the promotion and I guess they are now a part of Dream Star Fighting Marigold. The foreign talent are: Bozilla, Myla Grace and Zayda Steel. The Actwresgirlz thing is pretty messy, it seems. They might have given notice yesterday and it was announced that they were leaving a half-hour before the press conference started. The Judas Fuka if you are an Actwres fan, I guess.

Rossy Ogawa will make an announcement about his new promotion tomorrow afternoon in Japan (Monday, 4:30 PM JST). It will be live on the Wrestle Universe youtube channel.

The grind thing couldn't have been about Okada since New Japan guys generally work over a hundred matches a year. Japan is smaller though and maybe if someone told HHH that having high speed rail that generally runs on a reliable time schedule cuts down on road time we would see a WWE campaign to bring the shinkansen to America. The only way people like Fuminori Abe and Kaori Yoneyama amass matches over or near 200 is by doing double shots. Looking at cagematch, Abe would do a show at Korakuen and then mosey on over to Shinkiba (or maybe vice versa). Sometimes they don't even have to move as indies will sometimes split a building to do morning and afternoon shows. Star Lane in Hakata would have this a lot. I'm amazed Sakura Hirota only hit a hundred matches in a year a few times because it felt like she was there every time I went.