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Just Bad Dude (not Bad Boy lol, my mistake) Tito right now. He backed up Jonah during the G-1 and is officially a part of TMDK. Looks like Che is getting shots with the upcoming NJPW US shows though.

Now that Cilic is out there will be a first time majors winner for the third year in a row at the US Open on the men's side.

You can see the two fans I mentioned at the five second mark. Korakuen is absolutely the best place for them to have done this. It was a Monday night show so you're definitely only getting the hardcore fans there who were ready to make noise.

It will all come out to be a diabolical plan by MJF. We'll get videos later of the following: MJF stealing Hangman's phone and signing him up for Fightful Select. MJF disguised as Bix at the back of the media scrum holding up a "Where's Colt Cabana?" sign. MJF taping a sign on Kenny Omega that says "Bite if you love Steel Domain Wrestling!"

All the wrestlers seemed pretty amped up all night. O-Khan and Wato got pretty good reactions. LIJ is still very over. The show was also being streamed live on Abema TV so that might have played a part in the overall atmosphere.

NJPW starts tonight's Korakuen show with Hiromu Takahashi pumping up the crowd, which is allowed to cheer for the first time in over two and a half years. And then the first match is Bad Boy Tito vs Minoru Suzuki. KAZE NI NARE! I don't really care if there is cheering or not but definitely an emotional moment. There is a shot right before the Kaze Ni Nare where these two fans nod at each other like they've been waiting a while for this.

Goro Tsurumi has passed away. He was 71. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/18594aab3c8bef5d9fc1152f652daf998e14e6f3

The 10/9 Tenryu Project show will have a sort of WAR reunion match of Tomohiro Ishii/Ultimo Dragon vs Don Fujii/Masaaki Mochizuki with special referee Red Shoes Unno. https://proresu-today.com/archives/197187

The Historic X-Over (which I guess is the official name) will have three mixed matches: Tom Lawlor/Shuri vs Giulia/Zack Sabre Jr. Hiroshi Tanahashi/ Utami Hayashishita vs Hirooki Goto/Maika Natsupoi/Tam Nakano/TAICHI/Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs El Desperado/DOUKI/Momo Watanabe/Starlight Kid https://www.njpw1972.com/130419

According to their site history from the end of March 2020 (when Japan started shutting things down) until mid-2022 MAKAI didn't run any shows.

Also, if you are in Japan (or have a VPN? I don't really know) you can watch it online until next week:

The results of the (Bushiroad and a few other people) Pro Wrestling Election program:

Zack is the best (smartest) babyface in NJPW.

Okada is one of the tallest guys in NJPW so it just makes her look even shorter standing next to him. Lady C is booked as some kind of giant in Stardom but she's barely as tall as Shingo Takagi. Most of the Stardom wrestlers are in the 160 - 170 range. Most NJPW native juniors start at around 170ish. The only regular NJPW guy that would have to stand in the front of a group photo with the Stardom wrestlers to be seen is Taiji Ishimori.

I don't know if it's just the change in gear or if he bulked up but Shun looked as big as Diamante in that match. He was always taller than most DG guys but he never looked like he was that much bigger. Great great match.

KAORU had her retirement match at a MARVELOUS show on 8/8. http://battle-news.com/?p=87150

Jungle Kyona made a non-wrestling appearance at the latest NOMADS show. http://battle-news.com/?p=87026

The TV Asahi Pro Wrestling Election show is airing August 13th. It's part of a series where viewers vote on certain topics. Okada and Tanahashi are scheduled to appear. It's TV Asahi so expect it to be Bushi Road slanted.

Just to clarify, those first two sentences are not connected to each other. Osaka et al are not rural areas (they also probably mean regional not rural). They are examples of how they branched out into bigger shows in those areas and are going to do so in other parts of Japan they haven't had big matches in yet. Like how they kind of low key ran the Kokusai Center in Fukuoka when NJPW moved over to the Paypay Dome for Dontaku. It was the biggest show they had ever run in Fukuoka.

Unless it was leaked somewhere, Maki Ito's first name is still unknown. She was Maki Ito from the time she joined LinQ in 2011.

Miyuki Takase will be bringing NOMADS' tickets to the PleinsGaz show tonight.

Indy show tonight to celebrate the 20th anniversary of PleinsGaz, which is a brand that makes costumes for wrestlers and MMA fighters. The person behind PleinsGaz, Mami Takahashi was a flag girl for Pancrase. http://battle-news.com/?p=84898

It was never a law per se. It was, like most measures introduced in Japan, something the federal government recommended to the prefectural governments who then made the final decision. This being Japan, the no-cheering ban was followed pretty much everywhere. The wording now is that it depends on the capacity in the building - if you keep it under the full capacity cheering can be allowed. One idea floating around is that depending on the results of the next election in July, some restrictions may be lifted. The government is going to play it safe until then.

Can we please not use that word here?

So in May, after K-Ness retired, Masaaki Mochizuki added Dragon Gate trainee Masuharu Eto to be the newest member of M2K. A month later at the Toryumon show at Korakuen it was revealed that Eto is now called Ryuuto Mochizuki and he is actually Masaaki Mochizuki's 20-year-old-son. Part of the surprise is that people didn't know that Mochizuki was even married, much less that he had a child.