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…
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Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori II: a company did not buy the following hyperbole
December 6, 1993/Heisei 4 This match is the second singles encounter between Akira Hokuto and Shinobu Kandori in the ongoing Hokuto vs LLPW feud. Both this and their first match in April of the same year received high praise from domestic and international audiences and either one are often included in lists of the best…
Nobuhiko Takada vs Shinya Hashimoto: Now for something completely different
April 29, 1996/Heisei 8 During this time of at-home isolation and bountiful free time due to the hospitality & food service industry in my country exploding I actually have time to watch some wrestling in 2020, and for April 1st I decided to review one of my favorite men’s matches from a Japanese promotion. Around…
Jackie Sato vs Rimi Yokota: Beauty ends
February 25, 1981/Showa 56 At quick glance it’s easy to tell that this will be an important title match for the immediate future but this match is also a major changing of the guard for AJW from their first stars to the eventual rise of some of the biggest wrestlers of the new decade. I’ll…
Yumiko Hotta & Manami Toyota vs Tomoko Watanabe & Momoe Nakanishi: fighting Mom & Dad in a garage
March 10, 2001/Heisei 13 In the short couple of years that I’ve been watching joshi wrestling the discussion about AJW for many usually falls off a cliff around the year 1997. The reason being that during the summer of 1997 several women left the AJW roster due to new contracts bringing in less money and…
The Wrestlers: Japan’s Finest Wrestlers
Early last month Viceland uploaded an episode of their wrestling documentary series that focuses on World Wonder Ring Stardom, one of the most popular active joshi wrestling companies. When I first got wind that a documentary on Stardom was happening in 2017 I was worried about how the company and sport itself was going to…
Shinobu Kandori vs Megumi Kudo: Writing actual reviews is hard
January 5, 1997/Heisei 9 It took me longer than I expected to decide on which match to make my first review of this new blog. I started with possibly writing about Kansai & Ozaki vs Takako Inoue & Hotta for the WWWA tag titles from June 3, 1993 since it was one of the first…
I say, you say, Heisei 