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  1. https://rebellions.jp/ The thing that caught my eye is that their Project R, which includes Ice Ribbon, a pro handball team and Earthfriends Tokyo Z, which is a pro basketball team who got demoted to the B3 league for this season. They'll be coming to my neck of the woods to play our Yamaguchi Patsfive in January (they used to be called the Patriots - it's a whole thing).
  2. From the Athletic via Kyodo News: Ohtani joined Dodgers' pitch to Japan ace Yamamoto
  3. 1億 (oku) equals one hundred million. 10億 means a billion so 14億 means 1.4 billion. Google translate often gets a bit weird when you add 円 (en or yen) to a number. It will give you 1,478 million which is 1.478 billion.
  4. It definitely is. Even the Japanese wikis say that when NOAH stopped airing, it ended 55 consecutive years of wrestling on terrestrial NTV. If World Pro Wrestling can survive past five more years then TV Asahi can equal and eventually surpass that even though it's a 30 minute show that airs with a time slot that varies depending on which prefecture you live in. Where I am it's on at the choice time of 1:16 AM Mondays.
  5. "Sure, we haven't aired any wrestling on NTV in 14 years but 70 is a nice number and the number of people who may have actually seen the first ever match aired in 1954 is dwindling so best to celebrate now."
  6. Bishamon win the World Tag League for the third year in a row after forty minutes, the last ten of which were basically El-P going one on two. But the end result is that Bishamon want a re-match at the Dome so that Bishamon vs G.O.D. is on for Wrestle Kingdom. El-P and Hikuleo are also putting their Strong titles on the line so that may end up unifying the belts and ending the Strong lineage.
  7. Pour one out for all the Angels gear bought in Japan that now have to be replaced. Apparently the Dodgers are still in the running for Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
  8. Tag league finals are set for Sunday: Bishamon versus El-P and Hikuleo. Ren Narita is already the smartest heel in wrestling as he and H.O.T. attacked Honma while Honma's dumb tag partner, Shota Umino was coming out of the back entrance through the crowd. This Sunday's Frontier Zone (New Japan's term for dark matches featuring outside talent) will have current Kyushu Pro champion Kodai Nozaki and Aso-san against someone (not announced as of right now).
  9. TMDK and the War Dogs of Coughlin and Kidd advance out of the A Block. Tomorrow night will determine who comes out of the B Block. But the biggest news of the night is that Ren Narita (finally) turned on Umino and joined...H.O.T.
  10. And especially useful when you have two guys with big matches at Wrestle Kingdom (Naito and Despy) who can go and get surgery and still have some time to rest up before January hits.
  11. Sayaka Unagi was toting her Kitsune Women's Wrestling belt when she filmed her promo for SASUKE (Ninja Warrior), which will air in December in Japan.
  12. Ice Ribbon, Stardom, Actwres Girl'z and PPP Tokyo will be involved in the Tokyo Comic Convention coming up this December. The convention runs from the 8th to the 10th. Stardom is doing something on the 8th. Actwres (Actually Actring, which is slightly different) and PPP Tokyo on the 9th and Ice Ribbon on the 10th. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e4cf3731a9e90466939adc946a14f84b2503c32b Some Stardom wrestlers will also be in Singapore next week for the Bushiroad Expo Asia. https://wwr-stardom.com/news/20231121_info2/
  13. Shingo vs Tama in a rematch for the NEVER belt has been added to the card post the Lonestar Shootout.
  14. Of the active guys who are a title away from completing a Japanese major company Grand Slam (Nakajima, Jake Lee, Minoru Suzuki, Go Shiozaki and Kazuyuki Fujita), who actually has a chance to do it? The funniest scenario would be if Fujita somehow ended up in AJPW and beat Nakajima for the Triple Crown.
  15. Kind of hard to take the whole thing seriously when they cut to AJPW's president and he's wearing a Luigi hat because it's Halloween.
  16. Lol. BUSHI and Titan just handled H.O.T.on their own better than SANADA and J5Gs did throughout the whole SANADA/EVIL angle.
  17. Bushi Road had their state of the promotion press conference sorry, "joint business strategy presentation" today. Another NJPW/Stardom Historic X-Over show will happen. They are looking to form the Asia Pacific Pro-Wrestling Alliance by working with promotions in Taiwan, China, Thailand and other countries. Some of the Puzzle guys (Taiwan promotion) have been doing shots with Kyushu Pro and I think some DDT affiliated stuff. They are planning to have a show in Taipei. There is some stuff in the full presentation that is not included in the link below. https://www.njpw1972.com/160917
  18. Yuya Uemura is X and the newest member of J5Gs. Lio Rush is out sick so YOH is taking his place in the Jr Heavy title match three way. Abema: Hey, we just signed a deal with the WWE to broadcast their shows. NJPW: Cool, here, have a four hour show main evented by SANADA vs EVIL.
  19. Meanwhile, SANADA and co are made to look like chumps again and the current feud with the most fire is Finlay's Bullet Club versus Kushida/Knight/El-P and G.O.D.
  20. SANADA has said that J4G will be J5G strong again on the 10/9 show which will be streaming on ABEMA. Taiji Ishimori has been stressing (too much perhaps) that he really hates the number 5, I guess to dispel the notion that he's the new Justy.
  21. ABEMA is owned partially by TV Asahi (i.e. the broadcaster tied to NJPW). They've aired New Japan shows. Their majority owner is CyberAgent. Which owns Cyberfight. Which is the umbrella for DDT and NOAH. Raw and Smackdown have not been on air anywhere in Japan since their deal with J-Sports ended at the beginning of 2022.
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