Mr. Monday Morning

Fun Teej show, Ashida looks like she will fit right in. Usual undercard shenanigans, usual Misao-Shoko New Year cluster (with extra added Poison Sawada Julie) and the 3 title matches were all solid to very good

Chi Chi vs Aya was very fun & enjoyable, kudos to both Cup High Mate vs Team 200kg was even more fun and about exactly what you'd expect

Noah I won't say anything other than I'll be curious from anyone who follows regularly what they make of the main event (the 2nd one) Perfectly acceptable prowres show otherwise with a decent crowd (would guestimate 3.5-4k?) Got to tick the Budokan off the list, so that's a good start to the year

TJPW have announced Mifu Ashida for the Jan 4th show, looks like she'll be there full time

If you want something a bit light-hearted then ChocoPro's Christmas rumble is on youtube (I will forever forget how to link properly on here) Decent Baliyan Akki - Shin Suzuki opener and then the rumble itself. Small people throwing tantrums over presents? 2 drunks trying to ruin everything? Sounds like Christmas to me... Stardom was a very good show (they sold just over 4k which puts it right up there as like top 3 attendance in the company's history - and that's with the Sumo Hall boxes only being sold in 1s & 2s) Personally, really enjoyed the Kurara-Yagami match on the pre-show (expecting big things from both next year), the tag title match, Tora-Maika and SLK-Poi. The latter was good enough it had me doing one of those gamer lean-ins, just with a drink not a controller Oz earlier was a decent enough show, I won't spoil anything but just to say one match had a trio of Kaori Yoneyama/Momoka Hanazano/Hiroyo Matsumoto - yeah, think about that for a second. Main for the tag titles of H2D vs FWC was very good - worth going out of your way for, maybe not, but perfectly good nonetheless. It has made me curious to see a Hazuki - Ryo Mizunami match, that's for sure.. -edit- fuck, I forgot there were some ZONES - Tomoka Inaba bits which need to happen a lot more. And Jaguar Yokota moving around well enough to make me question what's gone wrong in my life...

I'll put it in a spoiler as it just happened last night so some folk won't have had a chance yet - big challenge laid down for the next SeadLinnng show

O-Khan managed to injure himself against Taichi which means no match against Dieno @ DDT today Instead we get the renewal of an old rivalry, Dieno vs

Stardom Christmas Eve show was fun. Two title matches that if I'm brutally honest were better than I expected (Mei is great but Momo K can be hit & miss, Kurara might be the next big thing but Amasaki and her 95% DDT moveset can likewise not always work), usual low card Christmas goofing shenanigans, HATE messy brawl and a very good World+Wonder champs vs challengers tag. Having said that I am biased, as I got Mayu's wristband. To be honest it's a Christmas miracle she didn't ding someone in the face with it, but we take those.

Bless you O-Khan, you crazy bastard

Oh also, speaking of blood feuds, for anyone who hasn't had it hit their radar, Chi Chi & Aya Sakura realllllly aren't too fond of each other There are apparently 'digest' version(s) of what has happened so far on Stardom World (it started in Sendai Girls so Wrestle Universe should have the full beginnings if you have that) but long story short Dec 27th in Evo - Chi Chi & ZONES vs Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara Jan 3rd in Stardom - Chi Chi vs Aya Sakura

Teej yesterday was good. I mean it was Teej, so if that's your thing this will be for you. If not, probably not. All fan random drawn matches, bunch of singles with 7 min limits, couple tags with 10. As you'd expect as you go up the card the stuff gets better and they start laying it in more. To the extent Miyu and Mizuki were going at it full bore in the semi main.

Glad someone else picked up on this. Putting aside the wisdom of having anyone actually say this, which I'm sure has been gone over before at great length, he was on PPV 6 months ago sporting an AEW tattoo. The absolute whiplash of this whole catastrofuck of a feud is just...yikes. I'm starting to think Jericho isn't the only one with a vortex attached to him, because with rare exceptions there's very few people who cross Max's path who don't get bogged down for months at a time with the same patterns over and over.

I will die on the hill that says the finish would've gone over a lot better if they'd done 3 arm drops, instead of Bryce just making the call himself. When did this become a thing anyway? You don't just use the 3 drop for the babyface to hold their arm at the last millisecond, you use it to stretch out the audience's investment/pain/whatever to the bitter end when they realise the person they were cheering on has been defeated - its the same as a long slow 3 count after the heel has cheated and the ref has crawled back in without seeing it (I guess you could call it the Hebner special) Something in my head says this has come from MMA and fights being waved off at the ref's discretion. Fuck that, this is pro wrestling god dammit.

After not being able to sleep I woke up early and put the Kyoto Stardom show on (8/17 if you're looking for it later) - one of the more fun shows I've seen in a while. On paper its kind of a weak card, but the crowd were super into it, everyone showed up and there was an undercurrent of goofy comedy running through the 2nd half of the show that you don't get all that often on these shows (especially the 5 star) Two thumbs up

Alright so this is a little random but I figured someone here might have an idea - I'm trying to track down the Natsuki Taiyo vs Kaori Yoneyama 30 minute time limit draw for the high speed title from back in 2013. Specifically March 3rd 2013, if that helps at all. It looks like it was included as part of a commercial release (Stardom Season 11 Grow Up Stars 2013) but finding it online somewhere has proved a bit of a challenge - it's not on Stardom World, as a lot of the older stuff is missing. I'm doing a bit of a high speed retrospective so would like to see it if I can, but short of shelling out something ridiculous for the DVD it seems a little unlikely at this point. If anyone has any ideas they would be gratefully received

Give Fujita all the things please

Stardom Fukuoka spoilers

Belt up Chase once, shame on you..

Mayu - Sareee was great. Not sure it quite hit the heights, maybe there will be a rematch, but still very good. Will have to rewatch the Mayu-Syuri match to compare. 4 way tag was super fun as well, just non-stop throughout. Meltear bumped their absolute asses off, not quite sure what it really accomplishes but it went better than I thought. Oh and Hanan did very well vs Saori. I was a little worried as the crowd were burnt out but she showed real poise just letting the match play out and allowing them to come back into it. Impressive for someone so young (IMO, anyway)

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