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…
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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 