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Stardom have issued an apology for Giulia's appearance on the show yesterday which makes it sound like she actually is still under some form of Ice Ribbon contract.
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https://twitter.com/wwr_stardom/status/1184040611860471808 "We apologize profusely for any confusion and distress that may have arisen from Giulia appearing and speaking at our Korakuen Hall show yesterday. Shortly, we will have Giulia resume discussions with the promotion, in hopes of reaching an amicable solution." Followed by a bunch of replies real mad about how it's been handled in general, and several mad about how it reads like Stardom is putting full responsibility on Giulia in particular Johnny Landmine fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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Well I hope for her sake they work it out because if she can't work for Stardom, I'm not sure Ice Ribbon will be happily taking her back any time soon. The Ice Ribbon President did tweet out something more conciliatory this morning that said he wasn't angry but disappointed they couldn't give her a proper send off or something along those lines.
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Two updates on Ice Ribbon 1. The President has said Giulia is still a Neoplus (their parent company) employee and is absent from work without leave. They haven't been contacted by Stardom yet. 2. Tequila Saya has postponed her retirement until Ribbonmania on December 31st.
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Anything to this rumor of NJPW buying/investing in Stardom?
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I'd sum it up as there being a lot of smoke; but we haven't seen the fire yet
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IceAgeComing posted:I'd sum it up as there being a lot of smoke; but we haven't seen the fire yet
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Chris James 2 posted:Get rid of Rossy, pls The article mentions that they "expect a gradual shift to a new corporate structure, including Rossy." That's not explicitly saying he won't be involved, but that's the implication. There'll likely be more information in a couple hours. e: nevermind, he's still going to be Stardom CEO Johnny Landmine fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Oct 17, 2019 |
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Bushiroad are holding a live conference at 2pm JST (in 1. 5 hours)
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1: As reported today on the front cover of Tokyo Sports newspaper, Stardom is now a part of Bushiroad. Stardom is no longer a corporation and becomes part of the Bushiroad group “Kix Road”. Kickboxing promotion “Knock Out” is also a part of Kix Road. 2: On December 1, 2019, the company name will be changed from Kix Road Co., Ltd. to Bushiroad Fight Co., Ltd. Rossy Ogawa (Hiroshi Ogawa) will remain the Chief Executive Officer of Stardom. The name of the wrestling promotion remains Stardom. 3: BS Nippon Television broadcasting, advertising and global development will begin shortly thereafter. The first big show will be held on April 29, 2020 at Tokyo’s Ota Ward Gym. In 2021 there will be a big 10th anniversary show. 4: in 2020 Stardom will run Korakuen Hall 14 times. August 8 & 9, 2020 Stardom will run Korakuen Hall on consecutive days. Details will come later. 5: December 7th and 8th, 2019 Stardom will take part in "CharaExpo USA 2019" held at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim ,CA. Stardom will put on the following tag team match: Mayu Iwatani & Tam Nakano vs. Sumie Sakai & Nicole Savoy. 6: A TV program will air on BS NTV and TOKYO MX beginning in January 2020. On BS NTV (every Thursday 24: 30 ~) and TOKYO MX (this one is a 30 minute program). Stardom World will remain as it is. 7: Bushiroad in regards to contracts: “We will create contracts with each wrestler. We want to create an environment where the wrestlers can concentrate on pro wrestling, and we are expecting to bring in excellent wrestlers from all over the world. 8:”We would like to listen to the thoughts of each wrestler and take those thoughts into account when creating this new work environment.” 9: Advertising / Global marketing Strategy by Bushiroad will begin starting in January 2020 to include more "Weekly Pro-Wrestling" coverage, traffic advertisements, TV spots, etc., in addition to guest appearances at events hosted by Bushi Road. Starting here: https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1184696555317497858
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Hana Kimura will be appearing on Terrace House (a very popular Japanese reality show). I don't understand the decision to have Bea beat her. She has a lot of crossover appeal, and she's almost single handedly shifting the demographics at Stardom shows away from the creepy old men. Pretty much every young woman I see at those shows is wearing Hana's merch.
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I wouldn't be surprised if what eventually happens is that Rossy is sort of put in a ceremonial position that has no real responsibilities and they put others in charge - I don't think that they'll toss him to the curb unless something major happens though.GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Hana Kimura will be appearing on Terrace House (a very popular Japanese reality show). All I can think is that they want her win to be on a major stage - but in that case then why book that match at this time? Unless they think "she won the 5 Star GP!" is enough to elevate her so they can save the title change for later.
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Hana Kimura will be appearing on Terrace House (a very popular Japanese reality show). gently caress yeah!!! I'm hooting at 5:30am about this. hoot
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Misread that as WWE trying to get somebody onto Terrace House for a moment there.
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hope even with separate streaming services they start live streaming under new ownership. glad they're not doing the "new japan women's division approach" at least.IceAgeComing posted:I wouldn't be surprised if what eventually happens is that Rossy is sort of put in a ceremonial position that has no real responsibilities and they put others in charge - I don't think that they'll toss him to the curb unless something major happens though. i don't get how they can really get a bigger stage than "korakuen hall after winning the 5 star"
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IceAgeComing posted:All I can think is that they want her win to be on a major stage - but in that case then why book that match at this time? Unless they think "she won the 5 Star GP!" is enough to elevate her so they can save the title change for later. I can, however, think of some things why they didn't: 1) They shifted to a holding pattern with the Bushiroad deal and are not going to change things up until it's fully in effect/saving the title change until then. 2) They think Bea getting exposure through AEW is still better business. 3) They don't really trust Hana with long singles matches. I haven't seen the title match yet, but I thought the 5*GP final suffered from this.
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sportsgenius86 posted:They should make Stardom World a part of NJPW World. They can't. NJPW World is part owned by TV Asahi, and Stardom's new TV deal is with a rival station.
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I’m happy that I can see Stardom on Nittele now. I can’t help but think that Japanese promotions are seeing the threat that WWE poses to their market and are trying to cut it off at the pass. I’m definitely glad that Stardom wasn’t bought by WWE either.
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It's the difference between the US and UK scenes, where the promoters are largely WWE fanboys who are giddy that Vince has in some small way noticed them and are delighted to have 'made it' and Japan where WWE doesn't quite have that monopoly over the industry and promoters are looking to grow their business, their brand and their talent. Edit: Meiko's apparently for sure working for WWE at this point, per Dave. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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frankenfreak posted:Arisa & Tam's official team photo is something else Fuckin' perfect.
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When Arisa came back from an extended absence from wrestling, she was immediately inserted back into her old tag team with Mayu and moved up to basically be the second in command of STARS. Tam, who had been teaming with Mayu, got very adorably annoyed by the "new girl" and went on a world tour of trying to avoid interacting with Arisa (including when they team together). Arisa thinks Tam is great and wants to be friends, and will stop at nothing to get a hug/handshake/high five from her.
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ItohRespectArmy posted:oh man I almost forgot that maki itoh is gona win the title tonight She is not in the main event so I may have some bad news for ya Also, I love Maki but Yuna has unbelievably good entrance music and I'll kinda be sad if she loses??? Nani???? Daunte Vicknabb fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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im so proud of her oh my loving god she did it. https://twitter.com/ddtpro_eng/status/1185417377367805952
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