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Whenever I see stuff with Kyona she's great, that vid was cool. BTW, it is women's night at IWTV tonight: https://twitter.com/indiewrestling/status/1253155274182889472 The Summit posted:Smash Women's Title Match (vacant) (Special Referee: Xandra Bale): SENDAI posted:Singles Match:
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Was it Ayako that got busted at a house party where they found drugs? Anyway here’s a new steaming service, telepathy. Not really sure how it works. https://twitter.com/MatsumotoMiyako/status/1251008156534071297
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Smoking Crow posted:ayako got busted for meth possession oh I couldn't figure it out if she had physical possession or she was hit with a proximity charge.
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The Ayako Hamada story is disgusting; mostly because of the attitude of the promotions. She was busted with meth, after being arrested she was immediately stripped of the Sendai Girls World Title and WAVE went and literally deleted every match with her in it off their Network, and then after being convicted she "retired" because no Joshi promotion was apparently willing to book her and that's why she's in Mexico full time now. It goes back to the attitude of the promotions to people that get in legal trouble and its a wider Japanese issue. That's not the only example - in 2012 Io Shirai and NOSAWA Rongai (who were a couple at the time, which is still really strange to me) were arrested outside Narita airport after cannabis was found in their luggage, NOSAWA got sacked from New Japan, Io suspended from Stardom; both denied any responsibility although apologised for the trouble it caused and it turned out that SUGI had been bribed to plant it in their luggage because someone had a grudge against NOSAWA. Io got her spot back with Stardom but NOSAWA never worked for New Japan again and it probably derailed his career for a while although I don't think he minds now, being the head booker of NOAH at the moment. There's hypocrisy there where the promoters fire these people while wrestlers who physically harm others but who face no official legal sanctions (Yoshiko is the main example that people will know about, the Tsukushi stabbing thing as well is a good example), while getting punished, still get work and support from prominent people - Tsukushi was suspended from Ice Ribbon for a few months, worked a while in opening matches and is now back at the top of the card forgiven while Yoshiko left Stardom with one of its co-founders who basically started a promotion just for Yoshiko to work in. I'm not someone who supports blackballing either of those two people but that also means that the same applies to Hamada, Io and NOSAWA.
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Did SUGI or the one who asked SUGI to plan the drugs ever get payback for what they did?
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it sucks for everyone. I can't really say there's active malice. Ayako was a foreign national caught with drugs. She should be be in jail. she lucked out. Io and NOSAWA were hit at border inspection. Had SUGI not spoken up, they were going to stay in jail. YOSHIHIKO is pretty fuckin blatant tho. But she's not out breaking people in SEADLinning so I guess they've worked it out? Same with Tsukushi. No one actually got stabbed AFAIK the cops didn't come and whatever Kagetsu and Tsukushi were up to got worked out of sight.
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The Yoshiko thing seems to be a match between two people that really didn't like each other devolving early with Yoshiko winning rather than just her electing to shoot on someone but who really knows. Emi Sakura felt confident enough to book her against Mei Suruga and knowing how protective Emi is with her trainees that to me suggests that people are very sure that was a one time deal. I think it took time for her to earn back that trust though and if she didn't have Nanae backing her up she'd have been gone unless Stardom chose to gave her a path back. My issue isn't people being or not being punished by the state, that's a different argument entirely, its with promotions being hypocritical in the sort of things they'll toss people to the curb for and what things they'll accept forgiveness for. TV Zombie posted:Did SUGI or the one who asked SUGI to plan the drugs ever get payback for what they did? Sugi didn't wrestle for a fairly long time and came back for Zero-1 who, well, aren't necessarily picky about the people they work with.
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IceAgeComing posted:There's hypocrisy there where the promoters fire these people while wrestlers who physically harm others but who face no official legal sanctions (Yoshiko is the main example that people will know about, the Tsukushi stabbing thing as well is a good example), while getting punished, still get work and support from prominent people - Tsukushi was suspended from Ice Ribbon for a few months, worked a while in opening matches and is now back at the top of the card forgiven while Yoshiko left Stardom with one of its co-founders who basically started a promotion just for Yoshiko to work in. I'm not someone who supports blackballing either of those two people but that also means that the same applies to Hamada, Io and NOSAWA. To be honest this disparity is less a Japanese wrestling promoter thing and more a Japanese thing in general. Both drug laws and the general public perception of all drugs are extremely strict here, even for marijuana, which most people still consider basically on the level of any other drug in terms of badness. It's definitely no surprise to see drug offenses punished more harshly than violence. Which is not to say any of that is good, just that Japanese laws and societal mores reinforce that approach. It sucks. IceAgeComing posted:The Yoshiko thing seems to be a match between two people that really didn't like each other devolving early with Yoshiko winning rather than just her electing to shoot on someone but who really knows. Emi Sakura felt confident enough to book her against Mei Suruga and knowing how protective Emi is with her trainees that to me suggests that people are very sure that was a one time deal. I think it took time for her to earn back that trust though and if she didn't have Nanae backing her up she'd have been gone unless Stardom chose to gave her a path back. Yeah the general perception among Japanese fans and presumably companies as well seems to be that Yoshiko's done her time, so to speak. General opinion on the matter over here has always been a lot more varied than it is among English-language joshi fandom, which has been almost unanimously "gently caress Yoshiko" until what seems like relatively recently. Tsukushi was a minor at the time of the attempted stabbing, which has a lot to do with the lack of solid information about it (Japanese law is very strict about what details can be released about crimes involving minors) and I'm sure the relatively light consequences as well. Johnny Landmine fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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J-Ro posted:Whenever I see stuff with Kyona she's great, that vid was cool. I was at this show and it was really great!
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Marvelous are planning to do no-fan dojo shows on the second and fourth Sunday's of every month that will be streamed on their streaming service. They have specified that the only people that will be on these shows will be the people that live in the dojo which I think probably makes them the safest possible shows you could run at this time. First show is Sunday; no matches announced as of yet.
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coconono posted:Jungra! Jungra! Jungra! she's extremely underrated imo
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Natsumi Maki's contract expired with TJPW today so she is a freelancer again.
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As far as I'm aware that was a mistranslation - she's split from her management team but that doesn't mean that she's left TJPW
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I am thrilled to be wrong! I like NatsuPoi a lot.
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Thinking about doing a psp-tv watchalong and possibly a thread write up on these wonderful shows https://www.cagematch.net/?id=8&nr=1489&page=4 ok they're not wonderful but I think about GI Ho and Pussy Willow a lot. I know Pussy went on to be a burlesque performer in nashville. And I think there were two women under the GI Ho name to make things even harder. look at this card: Singles Match Wildfire vs. Jeannie Mae (w/Ellie Mae) Stairway To Ecstasy Match Pussy Willow vs. Tai Weed Anything Goes Match Candie vs. Tara Singles Match GI Ho vs. Ellie Mae (w/Jeannie Mae) Singles Match Little Louie vs. Jeannie Mae (w/Ellie Mae) Flaming Tables Match Jazz vs. Wildfire https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=130591&page=2
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coconono posted:Thinking about doing a psp-tv watchalong and possibly a thread write up on these wonderful shows God, their events were named by a malfunctioning pornbot. quote:
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Lamuella posted:God, their events were named by a malfunctioning pornbot. I think it turns into porn at one point. I know I saw one or two 'backstage scenes' between some of the non-indie wrestling talent they were using as refs and card girls. And there was even a transition period built into via the PWO angles.
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update on this, I got a source for shows. Once I get my GoogleDrive space topped up, there's gonna be a weekly WEW event. Sadly, the collection is not complete or curated so it will take some time to sort through. I'll probably throw some teaser pics and stuff up on my twitter @thethinkingmac1 coconono fucked around with this message at 22:50 on May 6, 2020 |
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Yuka's first column in the online weekly pro wrestling magazine went up. I don't have a subscription and can't read Japanese, so if someone manages to get it I'd love a summary.
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https://twitter.com/rossystardom/status/1258597361577652224?s=19 Some sort of discussion about the future of Stardom later today. Hoping as always that it's Rossy stepping down.
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"We are announcing today that we are continuing our policy of never having Jungle Kyona win the big one"
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Neodoomium posted:"We are announcing today that we are continuing our policy of never having Jungle Kyona win the big one" I want to argue with you but it's true 
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I liked that her own stable-mate denied her a twitter relay baton pass, forcing Kid to take pity on her instead.
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The announcement was that shows are cancelled through the end of May (obviously), that they will start recording dojo matches at the end of the month for Stardom World (which implies they're going to probably cancel shows in June) and that Toru Yano will produce joint NJPW/Stardom videos.
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Something tells me the switch was because Taichi was about ready to knock some wrestlers out of competition for 9 months.
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:The announcement was that shows are cancelled through the end of May (obviously), that they will start recording dojo matches at the end of the month for Stardom World (which implies they're going to probably cancel shows in June) and that Toru Yano will produce joint NJPW/Stardom videos. Now I just want videos of YTR trying to sell his dvds to Stardom wrestlers.
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YTR is definitely canny enough to realize he can make a fortune if he partners with whatever the gently caress Tam's doing
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Neodoomium posted:YTR is definitely canny enough to realize he can make a fortune if he partners with whatever the gently caress Tam's doing there is a very obscure japanese martial arts film about a lady who takes a job in a ramen joint to learn the owner's martial arts. He makes her wear revealing clothing and does tons of business because of this. I imagine Tam and Yano's business relationship working out about the same.
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Yoshiko has become a big TikTok star during the lockdown This kind of feels like one of those flavour messages you get in TEW about random wrestlers with a small popularity boost but there you go.
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coconono posted:there is a very obscure japanese martial arts film about a lady who takes a job in a ramen joint to learn the owner's martial arts. He makes her wear revealing clothing and does tons of business because of this. I imagine Tam and Yano's business relationship working out about the same. Yano wearing more revealing clothing every week?
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Yoshiko has become a big TikTok star during the lockdown wouldn't call it a small popularity boost: went from 3,000 twitter followers to 80,000 in like two weeks Hopefully this leads to SEAd getting a bump in popularity because they probably need it and it'd be cool
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Hope people don't mind me posting some of my own tweets in here - its because I've done some stuff and don't really want to retype everything again. WAVE have been uploading a lot of their past Catch the WAVE tournaments (2016 and 2017 in full, 2018 in progress) and I was bored this evening so was going to watch some but I am a little weird and like watching things in chronological order and they have them split by block so I thought I'd make a playlist with them in the right order for me. This led to me not watching any 2016 Catch the WAVE but instead making a load of playlists of free Joshi shows that promotions have uploaded for free on YouTube that I haven't watched yet and then shows that I have but like you can't leave a job undone. I did it all for my own sake but I hope that someone else might find this useful so I'll link the twitter threads with the shows in them here: not going to auto embed since it'd take up too much space. WAVE Sendai Girls SEAdLINNNG Marvelous
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IceAgeComing posted:Hope people don't mind me posting some of my own tweets in here - its because I've done some stuff and don't really want to retype everything again. WAVE have been uploading a lot of their past Catch the WAVE tournaments (2016 and 2017 in full, 2018 in progress) and I was bored this evening so was going to watch some but I am a little weird and like watching things in chronological order and they have them split by block so I thought I'd make a playlist with them in the right order for me. This led to me not watching any 2016 Catch the WAVE but instead making a load of playlists of free Joshi shows that promotions have uploaded for free on YouTube that I haven't watched yet and then shows that I have but like you can't leave a job undone. I did it all for my own sake but I hope that someone else might find this useful so I'll link the twitter threads with the shows in them here: not going to auto embed since it'd take up too much space. Thank you for this!
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https://twitter.com/sg_oxxt/status/1260860235658301440?s=19 This sucks. Hopefully she gets better soon and gets back to turning DOUKI into her fashion model.
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yeah, just saw a machine translated google news article tweeted out by one of the stardom wrestlers. early joshi retirements are so commonplace that never even occured to me.
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Actwres girl'Z have launched a streaming service https://twitter.com/beginning_pro/status/1261239622257872896?s=19 At ¥1000/month it's one of the priciest on offer. The standard of wrestling is really good, especially for what seems like a promotion based on idols despite losing two of their top wrestlers in Saori Anou and Jumbo Arita recently. Unlike other attempts at streaming services (*cough*Sendai Global*cough*Gatohverse*cough*), they've started with a pretty decent collection of shows already uploaded so you can jump straight in The production quality is usually pretty high (can't speak for this streaming service) especially if you like choreographed dance routines and everyone has a pretty well defined gimmick so it's easy to get into. You'd probably enjoy this if you like TJPW or Stardom. The roster are a lot older than those two companies (mostly mid 20s to mid 30s) if you feel put off by all the teens wrestling in those companies too. (On the other hand, I've seen the owner at OZ Academy shows and he's the sleaziest looking man I have seen) GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 11:41 on May 15, 2020 |
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