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TJPW just dropped poster of the year thus far.

I NEED that new God's Eye t-shirt. I am READY for Ami Sohrei to come back.

Thekla VS Athena is MUST SEE TV. This year already has like 30 great matches. I also liked Meltear VS Ruaka and Azusa Inaba from the 1.11 show. That was some great stuff from Ruaka.

Stardom 1.11 I'm loving everything about Athena vs Thekla. Athena is like having an extra Hazuki. AND she did the kuma pose unbidden too. I was all "oh mothafuck, aw mother-fuck OOW muthafck!". There's only one bad thing about Athena in Stardom, she can't stay forever.

EXTREME PREJUDICE (1987) Dir. Walter Hill Nestled somewhere between Peckinpah and Tony Scott. Doesn't quite live up to the murderers' row credentials but damn fine watchin'. You will go "oh, I know that guy, I love that guy" multiple times throughout.

Tom Weights. Wrestling Troubadour.

AZM VS MAYU This was the only Joshi match on these NJPW shows that I thought had any chance of magnificence. Mina/Mone was better but who gives a motherfuck? I hate these NJPW women's belts.

Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling '25 Opener: NEW HIMAWARI gear. Ashida, for me, seems like the ideal rival for Wakana. That's just a perfect addition to the class of '23. Her elbows had more woofage than Toga's I'll tell ye that right now... Toga and HIMAWARI also had some great tête-à-tête with the signature move interplay. Second Match: LOVE this match. Mizunomi has Dusty Rhodes tier charisma. I don't want Matcha to leave! Third Match: REALLY LOVED this match. Every single morsel was a banquet. New Raku gear alert. Pom getting her otoshidama was funnier than Bugs Bunny. MOST HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION Shoko VS Hyper Misao: Complete and utter fantasy. Shoko's snake braid was awesome. The world needs Viper Misao. MOST HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION Fifth Match: Bit of a dud for me. New gear alert for Shino and Moka... Sixth Match: Lee is definitely grokking on to what makes for good TJPW. Like, you can be a hard-ass Mortal Kombat dude and still be fun. International Princess: I'm lukewarm. Tag Title match: Cool factor is all over this match. Very fucking awesome. 100% Tough 0% Fluff Main Event: Very cool. Miu was the best of the big champions in 24. Stardom New Year Dream Opener was fucking GREAT. Thekla's mouth is working overtime on this one. I was laughin' my ass off when she was going "Yo, what are you doin'? GET MINA" She has a combination Beetlejuice, John McEnroe and Fred Krueger. That team with Athena and Thekla is too fucking perfect. Highspeed 4 way: No fucking comment Manami/Hanan VS Young OED (whatever it's called now): Very fucking good. CHI CHI VS Aya: Two very big thumbs up. God's Eye vs H.A.T.E.: Eh, was what it was. When Inaba sisters fight it's always awesome. When the 3 sisters fight it usually bores the piss outta me. Neo Genesis VS Stars: Prelude hell. Atrocious Alliance (featuring Natsuko Tora) VS Kouzen. Everything Dump does is amazing. High Mate VS Team 200kg: Eh, just kinda what it was. I'm hoping Yuu comes back a little slimmer so we can love her for a couple more years. Shit was getting out of hand. Tam VS Unagi: Another one where I'm just left out in the cold. Unagi is just alright with me. MAIN: Oh man, Suzu Suzuki coming in with the wiffle bat had me hootin' and a hollering. My dream matches 2025 Kamitani VS VENY: This could totally happen in Stardom or SenJo. Koguma VS Emi Sakura: This could happen in a parking lot of a combination KFC/Long John Silver. Iwatani VS Mei Seira. Hopefully taking that goddamned belt. Yuna Mizumori VS ZONES. Oh it's gonna happen. Bottom dollar. Miu Watanabe VS Maika. Now we're getting into complete fantasy land. It could happen though. I'd like to see Mizuki defend against Yuka as well. Maybe add Saya Iida VS SOY as well.

My MEN! Understand that they will charge you for a full month on the first day of the month! Those Japanese streaming sites operate differently to what you expect!

Marigold First Dream: My heat index ranking #1 Mai Sakurai VS Miku Aono. This match delivered. Flat ass. This is the good stuff. Kifujin is a dude I've been loving since October '22. She had some major stinkers but she also has this Scott Hall punching above her weight thing that has always facinated me. I also loved her "Rick Fudi" gimmick with the regional promos. Bring that back. Sakurai is in that transitional zone like Mina Shirakawa was in '22. Miku needs to go full evil. It would suit her soooo well. Aono joins Dark Wolf army and has husky promos with Nozaki. #2 Passion Sisters VS Senjo Very, very awesome match. I hope this leads to a rubber bout in a Sendai Girls ring. Everything about wrestling tells me these guys ain't actually retiring. Everything else about wrestling tells me I need to cherish every moment with any player I truly love. This is also another one where the inter-company quid pro quo is probably more interesting in the long run. #3 Seri Yamaoka VS MIRAI I've been following Seri since her declaration day. Loved her ketchup and mustard wrestling shoes from the start. Have NOT felt any of the super rookie hype but was very hopeful. Match was cool. I'd still rank Mirai VS NORI higher but for a debut match this was very smartly manuvered. This girl has every chance to be Yuzuki's rival. I need some bloody mouth matches in the coming. #4 Superfly belt Even though I'm coming in one billion percent rooting for Yuzuki I would still say Showzuki is my number 1 favorite in Marigold followed by Ishikawa, Matsui and Bozilla. I can't believe I ranked it that way either but Misa is just that little bit better than Bozilla. Obviously Yuzuki still seems to struggle with springboard rope shit. I'm still saying this fucking ruled even with the beeps and bloops. Showzuki is still the king tho'. INTERESTED in how this hashes out with Ice Ribbon and how that company is going and all that minutia. I'm not a major fan but I do have favorites. #5 Utami VS SAREEEEE Match was a big ol' blah for me. Sareee is a dude I loved unconditionally since I first saw her when she came back around September '23. Didn't know she existed and was an instant fan on the first match I saw. Utami is a dude I've grown to enjoy but I still don't get the hype. I've seen the major matches and I mostly loved her early shit with Jungle Kyona. I do not understand her as a power wrestler. It's just not happening for me. She's just okay, I haven't been roused to cheer a single time. There's all that and then I know Sareee is 99% going to lose did not help this match. #6 Rumble Rea Sato came out in new gear and firmly reasserted herself as one of the shittiest dudes in Marigold. I'm hating that I'm saying this ( and some of the next statements) but she STINKS. I love her look and her crazy faces but she STINKS. Her matches with Komomo Minami STINK. Those guys STINK. \ Onto the good. Oh wait... Flying Peguin STINKS. I liked the Ice Ribbon portions and Nightshade. #7 Kouki VS GOCHIKA Well, I would've figured Chika would've been the one to injure herself with her ultra crappy giant swing. This was passable but also a shitshow but they kinda made it work. Hopefully Kouki isn't too fucked up. Gochika has like #2 lovability on the Marigold roster behind Ishikawa but her in-ring just stinks to high heaven. Want to love her but I just can not happen yet. #8 Dream Star Tag I can't believe a match with BOZILLa and the Dark Wolf Army is rating this low for me but it is. Bunch o' poop. I even liked Tank after thinking she was gonna be the shits. Bozilla facemask was kinda cool.

Old news now but I just heard yesterday. Rina is coming back February 9th!

Dream Queendom: Eh, I'm kinda cold on the show. First off WHY the hell is the Goddess Title match so goddamned low on the card? Why? Cut out those 12 and 8 man tag team matches. Cut that shit right out. What was the point? The whole Iwata/Anou thing has been a great big nothing for me this year. Maika vs Natsuko gets small points even with the inconsiderate camera work. Wanna see Tora blading Maika? Wanna see the poison mist get handed over and loaded in plain sight? I'd still rate Natsuko/Giulia and Momo/DASH higher. Also, nice to see Natsuko in cool gear where she didn't have to pull her pants up every 90 seconds. MY WORST OF THE YEAR 2024 Stardom #1: Depressed Hazuki. SUCKED #2: Re-recorded Mei Seira theme song. WHY

TJPW Year-End Party 2024 Awesome state of the art TJPW show. Damn near everybody's hair looked killer. Seriously, Shoko's hair looked amazing. Kiryu got one of those "I hate this haircut but the'ain't nothin' can be did" deals. Title matches kicked ass. That gauntlet match had me thinking it was going to be overwrought but the stipulations added to the flavor with actual drama. Pom and Matcha had another great and unique match. Pom is having a fantastic end of year. If I heard that correctly, Lei Ying Lee is going to be a TJPW regular in the new year (alongside Ivy Steele). Rumble was superfunkycalifragisexy.

TJPW 12.14 Haruna Neko's best match since the comeback POM VS HIMAWARI: Most highest recommendation! Marigold 12.26 Nao VS Mirai is the best thing that's happened in the promotion in over a month. Bloody mouths for everyone. They've been putting out some stinkers. I know shows are bad when I nod off during the finishes. Opener debutante match was also good. She had a solid plan attacking Tanaka's back. I don't see how Kizuna isn't going to have to spend a year in a back brace and even then maybe not ever be 100%. Did you see that match she had with Showzuki on Dec 8th where she just crumpled at the end? Yeek.

Wolfman's got Neidhardts.