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His last match in Kyushu Pro. The whole show is on their youtube channel but since it was a "near live" each match is a separate video. Main was the Mentai Kid taking the title from TAJIRI.

Tenryu is back in the hospital due to septic shock. He is conscious after a successful surgery but is still in the ICU. https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/news/202302110001088.html

In a reminder that time is ever moving forward, Minoru and Yumi (nee Fukawa) Tanaka's daughter Kizuna had her "pro test" at Sunday's WAVE show. She signed with them last year. Kind of weird that they made her do the whole thing in front of the crowd but it's wrestling. They don't show the test part but they do show the announcement that she passed at the end of the show: More details here: https://www.pro-w-wave.com/blog/article.html?page=967

Kensuke only won the All Asia tag belts in AJPW. Never got the World tag title.

Nagata is Kento's next challenger. The hook is that Nagata needs the Triple Crown to hold a "Grand Slam" of the top singles and tag titles in NJPW, NOAH and AJPW which I think only Muto, Kojima and Takayama have done.

Kota Ibushi has started his own youtube channel. He doesn't really say much in it but the video has 13K views already.

The 1/21 Wrestle Kingdom show is now up on NJPW World.

Note: Venues still have to submit infection prevention plans to their local governments and each prefecture has the discretion to create their own rules and criteria. While Bushiroad can say that they are lifting the cheering ban, it is still technically a show by show decision depending on the area. It's only once covid is downgraded in May that things will really become closer to what they were pre-pandemic.

This happened earlier in the year but Kageki Pro wrestler Tacos Kid (タコス takosu = taco in Japanese) was elected to the Daizaifu City Council in Fukuoka prefecture. He will be wearing his mask while performing his duties. https://www.city.dazaifu.lg.jp/site/gikai/3291.html The Great Mucha is a Nagano City Council member and also wears his mask while attending meetings. https://www.city.nagano.nagano.jp/site/gikai/3798.html

The changes were officially announced today. The Japanese government will downgrade covid-19 to Level 2, same as the seasonal flu, in May, after this year's Golden Week. At the same time, the upper limit that was imposed on venues that allowed cheering was lifted as of the announcement (today, January 27th). People will still be requested to wear masks. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/01/04e28460e3db-breaking-news-japan-health-ministry-experts-agree-to-downgrade-status-of-covid-19.html https://www.47news.jp/covid/8866490.html

Good use of Hakushi tonight. Everyone else in the tag could have been anyone else.

Jake Lee, Jack Morris and Anthony Greene are now GLG - Good Looking Guys. https://proresu-today.com/archives/209809/

Japan has kind of sort of put together their roster for this year's WBC. Their team will include Shohei Ohtani, Yu Darvish, Seiya Suzuki, new Red Sock Masataka Yoshida and possibly Lars Nootbaar of the Cardinals. Roki Sasaki, who pitched a perfect game in 2022, is also on the roster.

LIJ go to a NOAH show and get...a signed t-shirt by the members of KONGOH. The whole interaction is funny and KENOH looks like a dork for always losing his chill.

TAJIRI is already the Kyushu Pro champion. Also, he was raised elsewhere he is originally from Kumamoto in Kyushu. The majority of the signed Kyushu Pro guys are from various prefectures in Kyushu. He made his debut with them back in May and took part in the Glocal Tag League.

Before this show you have 1/22 in Nagoya headlined by a KOPW title match between Shingo and O-Khan in only their second singles match and first since 2021. Double header in Sapporo with Catch 2/2 vs Kanemaru/Douki, Ospreay vs TAICHI and Umino vs Naito on night one and three titles on the line on night two with Bishamon vs TMDK, Zack vs Ishii and YOH vs Hiromu. Surprisingly, TAICHI is 1 - 2 against Ospreay but the lone win came when they were both juniors. They last met in 2020. YOH beat Hiromu in last year's BOSJ and Hiromu beat YOH in the finals of the 2021 BOSJ. Umino and Naito have never met one-on-one but in tags, Umino is on a two-win streak against LIJ with Naito whereas prior to that LIJ won every tag match with Naito and Umino in opposing teams.

A clip in which the guy who plays the hero in Kamen Rider Black Sun delivers a Slingblade and a Rainmaker to a guy holding Red Shoes hostage at knifepoint:

Stardom will allow fans to cheer during the 2/4 Osaka show

While he was in Japan, Shinsuke Nakamura went to visit a well-known TikTok spokesman

The Shibata/Lawlor match from the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye show is up on NJPW World.

Card for Wrestle Kingdom NJPW vs NOAH on 1/21 Ryohei OIwa/Kosei Fujita vs Yasutaka Yano/Ozawa Taishi Tomohiro Ishii/Oskar Leube vs Masa Kitayama/Daiki Inaba Hiroshi Tanahashi/Toru Yano/Satoshi Kojima/Takashi Sugiura vs Naomichi Marufuji/KENTA/El Phantasmo/Gedo El Desperado vs Yo-Hey Tiger Mask/Ryusuke Taguchi/Master Wato vs Alejandro/Junta Miyawaki/Amakusa Kazuchika Okada/Togi Makabe vs Kaito Kiyomiya/Yoshiki Inamura BUSHI vs TADASUKE Hiromu Takahashi vs Hajime Ohara Sanada vs Manabu Soya Shingo Takagi vs Katsuhiko Nakajima Tetsuya Naito vs KENOH The show will be on Abema PPV.