March 1, 2003/Heisei 15 This is pro wrestling! That’s Misawa [and] Kobashi! Commentary after a rolling elbow leaves Kobashi on the mat and Misawa falls to his knees in exhaustion The sounds from the strikes in this match remind me of the sounds from a giraffe fight. There’s nothing like the sound of a heavy…
Mio Momono vs Mayumi Ozaki: Now this is what I call wrestling
August 7, 2023/Reiwa 5 I had first watched this match when it happened and absolutely loved it, I loved it so much that I was going to write a review but decided to delete that draft. Now that it’s been uploaded to the Marvelous youtube I gave it a second watch and somehow fell more…
Do not discard the sword of the Matsunaga Brothers
This was originally written in January 2023 In fact the struggle against revisionism will continue right up until the time when [a more complete understanding of joshi wrestling] is achieved on a world wide scale. This is my villain origin story. A single spark can start a prairie fire: a group of young women can…
Tomi Aoyama vs Mami Kumano: 1985 in 1979
1979/Showa 54 1979 is a year when AJW had to figure out who they were after the split of Beauty Pair in February. Jackie Sato was tasked with being a singles star and ace of the company, Queen Angels were poised as the new top tag team, and Mami Kumano had replaced Black Pair original,…
Akira Hokuto vs Yasha Kurenai: Bad Bitches Take a Seat, They Don’t Stand Up
June 11, 1993/Heisei 4 They stare. Kurenai squats. Hokuto sits. Kurenai attacks Hokuto’s bandaged knee from behind with a wooden sword and starts screaming and hitting chokeslam after chokeslam but Hokuto refuses to stay down. The tide changes when Kurenai dives off the tope rope and gets two boots to the gut, someone throws Hokuto…
Go Shiozaki vs Kazuyuki Fujita: Panem et circenses
March 29, 2020/Reiwa 1 Art is often transformed while still pending completion, — pendent opera interrupta; they go on quietly, in harmony with the changes in the art. The new form of art takes up the monument where it finds it, becomes a part of it, assimilates it to itself, develops it according to its…
The 1969 AJW Roster vs Yakuza Goons: Violence at the Pepsi stand
1969/Showa 44 To get up to speed, our main characters are heading to a spring festival to sell knives and other fine goods at their market stand and to also make a peace deal with their fellow yakuza families. Along the way they pick up a pretty lady who’s stranded on the side of the…
Giulia vs Maya Yukihi: What if JAGUAR challenged Buffalo to a wrestling match for Crystal Bird’s feather?
March 4, 2023/Reiwa 5 I watched this match because I saw the Shu Pro tweet featuring a BBM article where Giulia superfan, Hideki Suzuki, said this match had the potential to be Reiwa’s Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori. Hokuto vs Kandori from 1993’s AJW All Star Dreamslam and AJW St. Battle were legendary matches from…
LCO (Akira Hokuto, Mima Shimoda, & Etsuko Mita) vs Eagle Sawai, Harley Saito, & Miki Handa: Hateration
January 24, 1993/Heisei 4 Current joshi wrestling across the board is great and one promotion is arguably the best Japanese promotion of the pandemic era in regardless of gender. Stardom’s change in house style was enough to finally impress enough Tokyo Sports writers that a women’s match was nominated for the publication’s Match of the…
Here We Go Again: My Research On Joshi Candidates for GWE 2026
Hey y’all, it’s been a very long time since I’ve sat down and seriously watched wrestling for reviewing purposes. My dive down the “hardcore wrestling fan” hole started with me writing show reviews on my tumblr in 2016 in an attempt to, “…improve my writing and do more than just put a star rating into…
I say, you say, Heisei 