February 29, 1979/Showa 54 Over the course of the corona virus pandemic I took a step back from watching pro wrestling, both old and new, as my go-to promotions weren’t holding my interest and following the tragic passing of Hana Kimura I had lost most of my passion for the sport and totally stopped watching….
Rest in peace Hana Kimura
This post deals with the subject of suicide, harassment, and abuse. If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts please try contacting a suicide crisis center in you country. Apologies if this post isn’t written very cohesively, this is the first time I’ve written a long-form obituary before and dealt with some self doubt on if…
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…
My thoughts on Bushiroad buying Stardom
At the time this post goes up former Ice Ribbon member, Giulia, and Stardom are in an awkward position that pissed off some of their fellow wrestlers and promoters. With the Bushiroad acquisition bringing a new context to this situation it makes the whole thing stink more, someone probably tipped Giulia off that this purchase…
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…
Hey y’all
It’s ya girl, Alex, back at it again with writing reviews and sharing my general thoughts about Japanese women’s pro wrestling (hereafter to just be called joshi to save time and space) in a more suitable format than off the cuff twitter threads. I’m a former co-host of two short-lived women’s wrestling podcasts from Squared…
I say, you say, Heisei 