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Ditch posted:Appropos of nothing, I just remembered that Nagata had possibly the hardest strength-of-schedule MMA career of all time. His two fights were against Cro Cop and Fedor. If Kojima stays you could argue that the 2000's new talent would be the equal of Tanahashi/Nakamura but Tenzan feels like that even if Inokism didn't happen he wouldn't be able to hand at the top of the card anyway
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Thanks both of you. Unfortunately, Dragon Gate is widely acknowledged to have the best men's booking. DDT is very competently booked and as long as you watch the post intermission matches or the matches with Jun Akiyama then you won't be seeing many comedy matches. G Pro Wrestling is good and competently booked, I'd say give it a try. If you don't mind death match wrestling Big Japan is supposed to be good and they have Big Japan Strong for a non death match style. fez_machine fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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fez_machine posted:Unfortunately, Dragon Gate is widely acknowledged to have the best men's booking. Big Japan is the definition of "good wrestling, lousy booking" tbh. And I say that as someone who loves the Strong division. But God they make NOSAWA look someone who pushes younger talent. NOAH is insanely frustrating because they've shown they can book well: Go Shiozaki's 2020 GHC Title run was booked exquisitely. But then they put the title on old dudes with a rep for refusing to lose & you could weep. Honestly, purely from a booking perspective DG is the best booked puro company right now. The way they've raised their young talent has been fantastic, and much needed with the original Toryumon guys all getting into their 40s. G Prowrestling has been a lot of fun, and STRONGHEARTS vs BULK Orchestra was my fave feud if 2021. It is in the Dragon System orbit but then you have a mix of ex-W1 guys, Kawakami is a fine example of BJW just whiffing on younger guys (see also Freedoms death match standouts Sakuda & Ueki), Tamura is a TAKA trainee who feels like he could have easily fit in with any of the traditional companies. I think it's a nice meshing of styles & well worth a look at least. Watch their recent Korakuen show with the title Tournament semis and final & see how you feel. I loved them. All Japan is, in a word, workmanlike. The booking isn't perfect, the roster is pretty thin but also on oh young side & promising, and Kento is always good value. I like it, I think it's worth checking out, AJPW TV is a good little service with maybe 3 or 4 live shows a month plus a couple that go up on demand later. As for joshi, I think SEAdLINNNG is pretty cool
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Yeah I've been most excited by DG in terms of booking. What do you not like about its house style? I feel like the Dream Gate title scene has bulked up, as current champion KAI brings the AJPW/Mutoh influence into his title matches, and his last two challengers were heavyweight DG guys like Takashi Yoshida and Big Boss Shimizu. The rookie wrestlers are being pushed really hard right now (which is not how puro usually works at all), and their workrate has been nothing but stellar. It also does faction drama waaaay better than any other promotion. but if I were to pick one (1) puro promotion to follow right now it would be DDT, which does sports entertainment better than WWE does. (just skip Dieno and the Pheromones stuff lol)
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DDT is not perfect (nothing is, but some are less stellar than the others), so that's a big caveat. Honestly I'm less beholden to promotions now, and follow wrestlers instead. Having a balanced wrestling diet is best, though it can cost your wallet. So for best value, just get a Wrestle Universe sub lol.
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I'd honestly say to give AJPW a shot. They're in a rebuilding stage but they've got Kento back on top looking his best. They've got a clearly hot prospect in Ryuki Honda who looked great in his title challenge at just 21 years old. The heel faction are heelish without being obnoxious about it. The two Korakuens this year have been really enjoyable and they have a big show coming up at Ota Ward. The SEAdLINNNG house style is pretty similar to the NOAH house style so if NOAH's booking puts you off then you can watch that. They probably have the best tag team matches in all of Japan if you like tag team wrestling. I can't really say best tag division because it's just Las Ego and then Arisa/Nanae/Yoshiko getting paired with different people. Las Ego are my favourite tag team in the world though. They have one high speed match per show which is mostly comedy though if you don't like that. (Funnily enough there was a thing last year with some western joshi fans complaining about SEAd in the same vein western puro fans complain about NOAH but the women they were complaining about were in their 30s and early 40s as opposed to NOAH pushing guys in their mid to late 50s)
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Lily Catts posted:Yeah I've been most excited by DG in terms of booking. What do you not like about its house style? I can appreciate the odd frenetic multiman match, but one after the other is just too much for me
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A pretty quiet week again aside from the endless slog that is New Japan (sorry, that's harsh, I just get mad that they keep making my backlog get longer & longer). Decent looking AJPW show on Saturday, fun G Prowrestling on Sunday, NOAH have the biggest show of the week probably with the Heavyweight Tag tournament & Harada vs Eita which could be really good. Usual fun SEAdLINNNG show on Friday. Next week is definitely looking bigger, with TJPW's big Grand Princess show, an Ice Ribbon Korakuen that has Fujimoto tagging with Hikaru Shida for the first time since 2014(!), & SAKI challenging for the ICExInfinity belt, DDT Judgement which has a pretty stacked lineup with too much to call out, NOAH have Fujita's first title defence, All Japan at Ota Ward Gym with Jake Lee's return from injury & Miyahara defending vs Ishikawa. Always a sign of a big week when you've got to look forward to the following week for the big poo poo. 12/3/2022, Saturday 10am JST/12pm AEDT/1am GMT/8pm EST/5pm PST Gatoh Move ChocoPro #208 Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo Super Asian Title: Baliyan Akki(c) vs Ken Ohka Live on Youtube 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/2:30am GMT/9:30pm EST/6:30pm PST All Japan Pro Wrestling Dream Power Series Night 2 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Rising HAYATO vs Seigo Tachibana Black Menso-re & Takao Omori vs Izanagi & Kikutaro Ryo Inoue vs TAJIRI KAZMA SAKAMOTO vs Yoshitatsu NEXTREAM (Atsuki Aoyagi, Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi) vs Ren Ayabe & Twin Towers (Kohei Sato & Shuji Ishikawa) Evolution (Hikaru Sato & Suwama) & Shotaro Ashino vs TOTAL ECLIPSE (Koji Doi, Kuma Arashi & Ryuki Honda) All Asia Tag Team Titles: TOTAL ECLIPSE (Hokuto Omori & Yusuke Kodama)(c) vs Dan Tamura & X (Abdullah Kobayashi is out as a close contact) Live on AJPW TV 1:30pm JST/3:30pm AEDT/4:30am GMT/11:30pm EST/8:30pm PST Stardom In Tokyo Belle Salle Takadanobana, Tokyo Momo Kohgo vs Saya Iida COSMIC ANGELS (Mina Shirakawa, Tam Nakano, Unagi Sayaka & Waka Tsukiyama) vs Donna Del Mondo (Giulia, Mai Sakurai, MIRAI & Thekla) Donna Del Mondo (Himeka, Maika, Natsupoi & Syuri) vs STARS (Hanan, Hazuki, Koguma & Mayu Iwatani) Tug of War Match?: Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Rina, Ruaka, Saki Kashima & Starlight Kid) vs Queen's Quest (AZM, Lady C, Saya Kamitani, Utami Hayashishita & X) I have no what a tug of war match is, I think that's the right translation anyway Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/8am GMT/3am EST/12am PST New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup Night 6 Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium, Nagoya Kosei Fujita, Tomoaki Honma & Yuto Nakashima vs Master Wato, Ryohei Oiwa & Ryusuke Taguchi Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens & Gedo) vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tiger Mask & YOH CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI) vs House of Torture (Dick Togo, EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi) LIJ (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito) vs Suzukigun (El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Taichi & TAKA Michinoku) NJ Cup 2nd Round: DOUKI vs Zack Sabre Jr NJ Cup 2nd Round: Great O Khan vs Taiji Ishimori NJ Cup 2nd Round: El Phantasmo vs Will Ospreay NJ Cup 2nd Round: Aaron Henare vs SANADA Live on NJPW World DDT Free -March- Suminoe Maikon Hall, Osaka Card TBA Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe Also shows from BJW, Ice Ribbon, Colega & Ryuku Dragon Pro 13/3/2022, Sunday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/2:30am GMT/9:30pm EST/6:30pm PST Stardom In Korakuen Korakuen Hall, Tokyo COSMIC ANGELS (Tam Nakano & Waka Tsukiyama) vs Queen's Quest (AZM & X) Fukigen Death vs Mina Shirakawa vs Momo Kohgo Mai Sakurai vs Unagi Sayaka Artist of Stardom Titles: Donna Del Mondo (Himeka, Maika & Natsupoi)(c) vs Queen's Quest (Lady C, Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita) Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Rina, Ruaka, Saki Kashima & Starlight Kid) vs STARS (Hanan, Hazuki, Koguma, Mayu Iwatani & Saya Iida) Donna Del Mondo (Giulia & Thekla) vs Donna Del Mondo (MIRAI & Syuri) Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/4am GMT/11pm EST/8pm PST DDT Judgement 2022 Tour In Osaka Suminoe Maikon Hall, Tokyo Bodyguard, Yuji Hino & Yukio Naya vs Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi) & Kazuki Hirata Chris Brookes vs Naomi Yoshimura 37KAMIINA (Konosuke Takeshita, Shunma Katsumata, Toi Kojima & Yuki Ueno) vs Burning (Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku) Unsure if there'll be other stuff added Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe 2pm JST/4pm AEDT/5am GMT/12am EST/9pm PST GLEAT G Pro Wrestling Ver.20 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo BULK Orchestra (Hayato Tamura & KAZMA SAKAMOTO) vs Stronghearts (CIMA & Issei Onitsuka) Kaho Matsushita, Tsukasa Fujimoto & Yappy vs Madeline, Michiko Miyagi & Yukari Hosokawa Leo Isaka & Yu Iizuka vs Masato Kamino & TiiiDA Kaz Hayashi vs Nobuhiro Shimatani BULK Orchestra (Quiet Storm & Ryuichi Kawakami) vs Stronghearts (El Lindaman & T-Hawk) Jun Tonsho, Keiichi Sato & Tetsuya Izuchi vs Minoru Tanaka, Soma Watanabe & Takanori Ito Uploaded to Youtube on a Thursday at Noon GMT. 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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:I'm enjoying Lidet UWF so far bc I love shoot style, is it worth checking out the G Pro side of GLEAT? As someone who doesn't watch much DDT outside of their biggest shows, what is the Pheromones gimmick everyone hates and why is it so terrible? I'm only vaguely aware of them.
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sticklefifer posted:Absolutely. The G-REX title tournament had fantastic semi-finals & finals, which is a great place to start if you don't want to go through months of back shows (Lindaman vs T-Hawk is especially great). You said DG isn't your style, so some of GLEAT's cruiserweights might turn you off since they came directly from there, but it's not their main focus. BULK Orchestra is one of the most fun heel factions I've seen in ages. They're just beefy tough guys who earned each other's mutual respect from beating rear end, and flex their pecs constantly. It rules. GLEAT is also one of the few J promotions that's trying to solidly push both men's & women's divisions: They have a few joshis under contract now (after only having Michiko Miyagi at first), and the rest of the women appear via working relationships with other promotions. Dieno sexually assaulting people, Iino trying to get naked at every opportunity & Yumehito Imanari I guess is their videographer/or is a voyeur. It's explicitly a stable of perverts & I dunno, It's Danshoku Dieno shtick but more. There's nothing charming about it most of the time (though in the Tag League where they were represented by Iino & Imanari there was some mildly funny stuff, but all of that revolves around the GM of DDT (I forget his name) trying to stop them getting naked or whatever, like in Chiba Iino went under the ring & came back out & had removed both his singlet & his underwear & the GM is desperately covering him up with his jacket and eventually convinces Iino to put his undies on again, but when he goes to pull them up he managed to flash the camera his rear end in a top hat so we got a nice Iino face censoring it, which the poor fans at ringside wouldn't have been saved by.
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Yeah, OK. A stable of sex pests played for laughs is probably the most tone-deaf gimmick I've heard of in today's climate.
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sticklefifer posted:Yeah, OK. A stable of sex pests played for laughs is probably the most tone-deaf gimmick I've heard of in today's climate. Unfortunately, the homosexual rapist faction is very popular with the Japanese audience so they're not going away anytime soon. It could just be fun rear end stuff like this Kenny Omega, Shida, Kana and Tanaka match https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45wy4k but nope it's pretty much always sexual assault.
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They're substantially less annoying when Dieno isn't there. Iino in an enjoyable goof who shows his butt too much but usually isn't trying to make it your problem.
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The worst DDT match I've seen had Dieno in it (it was an MMA-styled match against Bob Sapp and you can tell the guy wasn't being paid enough for the poo poo he had to put up with)
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Really have to recommend the 27th February All Japan show from 2AW Square. Not that it's a must watch on the level of NOAH 1/1 or anything but it's just a really fun show top to bottom, there's good wrestling, some amusing comedy bits, exactly what a good B show should be really. Fuminori Abe & Shuji Ishikawa vs Kento & HAYATO was fun, Daiju Wakamatsu vs Ryo Inoue was a real nice opener, Aoyagi Bros vs THE RULE was great. Honestly, the only match worth the effort of skipping is the 2nd match, Izanagi & Yoshitatsu vs Omori & Menso-re, everything else is a bare minimum of "fun". So if you've an idle 2 hours & just want to have a nice time, this is it. You'll see MUCH better shows this year but better B shows? I doubt it.
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The Yoshitatsu Kingdom has been restored to its rightful King!!! Champion Carnival blocks btw https://twitter.com/PKDX/status/1502487913418080264?t=XgbSj1PYYrtyCV9fADLPOQ&s=19 Looks pretty great. Glad to see Takuya get a shot. GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Mar 12, 2022 |
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Holy poo poo, those are some monster CC blocks (and also Yoshitatsu). Irie vs Honda is something I didn't know I needed until now
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Swap out Yoshitatsu for Koji Doi and let Yoshitatsu continue doing his weirdly compelling Yoshiverse angles in the undercards and it'd be perfect Predicting Jake vs Yuma final.
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Nomura to win it all & finally break free of Big Japan's dire booking, beating Jake in the final & then going on to beat Kento.
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DDT is streaming its house shows free live on youtube now I guess? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMKXF5F9l4 fez_machine fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Mar 12, 2022 |
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Man, the ZERO1 show at Sumo Hall next month is uhhhh loaded. Obviously Sugiura vs Otani. Fujinami, his failson & Koshinaka vs Fujiwara, Masakatsu Funaki & Alexander Otsuka, Shuji Kondo & Daiki Inaba vs Marufuji & Shoki Kitamura, ZERO1 team vs Nagata, Kojima, Tiger Mask & Tatsuhiko Takaiwa, Yuji Hino, Jun Kasai & Saki Nagao vs the Big Japan trio of Daichi Hashimoto, Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi. They've got a joshi legends match, Jaguar Yokota & Shinobu Kandori vs Dump Matsumoto & Crane Yu with Bull Nakano as their second. Guys from AJPW, 2AW, Dragongate, BASARA, Ganbare Pro, basically someone from every promotion you've heard of except GLEAT
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forkboy84 posted:basically someone from every promotion you've heard of except GLEAT
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Apparently a stack of the times I put down for this week are wrong because daylight savings starts in America today, so that's a pain in the arse. Whole world going to DST (or not having it) on the same date would sure make my life easier. So mentally adjusted any US times yourself.
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forkboy84 posted:Apparently a stack of the times I put down for this week are wrong because daylight savings starts in America today, so that's a pain in the arse. Whole world going to DST (or not having it) on the same date would sure make my life easier. So mentally adjusted any US times yourself. Thanks for the heads up, I wouldn't have known it was DST in America and probably have ended up even later for shows than normal 
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Not having to manually change clocks cause of everything being online means it's very easy to forget dst and just wake up missing or gaining an hour of sleep We still should get rid of it
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New DDT rojo tonight Takagi vs. Nakazawa but it's insanely late for anyone not in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2nDvBPkss There is however a more accessible Tetsuya Endo best of showcase premiering as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slbyNh4_6HQ
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https://twitter.com/osakapro/status/1503600222597189632?s=20&t=mi_8LN1zZcnzKazEht3D9A Osaka Pro's Pre-Launch show from the 6th will air on GAORA Sports on the 25th so I imagine it'll find its way online after that, if you're interested.
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https://twitter.com/b3rt4/status/1503701891041173505?s=20&t=IkI-7RrrMsvAUQRFOwb8Ag YES PLEASE Their only previous singles match was 2016 for the ZERO1 Heavyweight Title.
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Hiroshi Tanahashi paying tribute to Scott Hall at today's NJ Cup show https://twitter.com/JustDewIt10/status/1503698118596038657?t=Z76Ib9mwevby2xxAPARX7Q&s=19 This is soo cool to see, because back in 2001, when Tanahashi was young boy he wrestled Hall, and Scott even put Tana over.
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Apparently, Rosey almost talked Roman Reigns into signing with AJPW before he took the WWE developmental deal with accommodation being the only sticking point.
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I guess Killer (née Karrion) Kross is going to NJPW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnm9L3tE2fs the vignette, uh, does not inspire confidence
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A slightly early schedule this week because...I dunno, I was able to. Rare to see so few shows on a Saturday, but one of them is TJPW at Sumo Hall with their belts all on the line, plus non/semi-regulars Yuna Manase (& friends from GanJo), ASUKA, Sanshiro Takagi, Frenchman who looks a lot like Yukio Sakaguchi if you squint & even Hikaru Shida! Sunday is a bit busier with most of the major companies running, New Japan Cup Quarter Finals start, DDT Judgement, NOAH, Stardom. Monday is a holiday in Japan & that means big shows from All Japan & NOAH, with both their top belts on the line, plus the other night of NJ Cup Quarter Finals. And a cool looking 2AW show that I'll almost certainly not get to see, sigh. The rest of the week has very little going on, GLEAT go a G Prowrestling show, NOAH have a Korakuen double header, including night 1 having a rematch of my match of the year, Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Go Shiozaki, for seemingly no reason? Cool. There's also an Eita vs YO-HEY singles match which is fascinating from a Dragongate perspective. 19/3/2022, Saturday 2pm JST/4pm AEDT/5am GMT/1am EDT/10pm PDT Tokyo Joshi Pro Grand Princess '22 Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo Arisu Endo & Suzume vs Jurina Nagano & Moka Miyamota HARUKAZE, Moeka Haruhi, Yuna Manase & YuuRI vs Haruna Neko, Kaya Toribami, Mahiro Kiryu & Nao Kakuta Hyper Misao vs Sanshiro Takagi ASUKA vs Yuki Kamifuku Nodoka Tenma vs Yuki Aino NEO Biishikigun (Martha, Mei Saint-Michel, Sakisama & Yukio Saint Laurent) vs Marika Kobashi, Pom Harajuku, Raku & Ram Kaichow Hikari Noa vs Hikaru Shida International Princess Title: Maki Itoh(c) vs Yuki Arai Princess Tag Team Titles: Magical Sugar Rabbits (Mizuki & Yuka Sakazaki)(c) vs Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi Princess of Princess Title: Miyu Yamashita(c) vs Shoko Nakajima Live on Wrestle Universe 6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/5am EDT/2am PDT Dragongate Glorious Gate 2022 Night 4 Sambo Hall, Kobe Card TBA Live on DG Network Also shows from Ice Ribbon, Heat-Up & Colega 20/3/2022, Sunday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/2:30am GMT/10:30pm EDT/7:30pm PDT Ice Ribbon Korakuen Tournament March 2022 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Maika Ozaki & Saori Anou vs Ram Kaichow & Saran Kaho Matsushita vs Rina Yamashita Asashi & Ibuki Hoshi vs Cherry & Kiku vs Hikari Shimizu & Yuko Sakurai Rina Amikura vs Totoro Satsuki Triangle Ribbon Title: Yuki Mashiro(c) vs Nao Ishikawa vs Riko Kaiju Hamuko Hoshi & Makoto vs Muscle Venus (Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto) ICEx ∞ Title: Tsukushi Haruka(c) vs SAKI I'm honestly not sure where this will show up, if it'll be on their NicoNico or their YouTube. 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/4am GMT/12am EDT/9pm PDT Stardom In Hamamatsu Act City, Hamamatsu Saya Iida vs Waka Tsukiyama Donna Del Mondo (Mai Sakurai & Thekla) vs Oedo Tai (Rina & Saki Kashima) Donna Del Mondo (Himeka, MIRAI & Natsupoi) vs Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Ruaka & Starlight Kid) Queen's Quest (AZM, Lady C, Miyu Amasaki, Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita) vs STARS (Hanan, Hazuki, Koguma, Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo) COSMIC ANGELS (Mina Shirakawa, Tam Nakano & Unagi Sayaka) vs Donna Del Mondo (Giulia, Maika & Syuri) Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World 2pm JST/4pm AEDT/5am GMT/1am EDT/10pm PDT DDT Judgement 2022 - DDT 25th Anniversary Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo Prelim: El Unicorn, Toi Kojima & YukI Ishida vs Ilusion, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku Prelim Tag Team Battle Royal: Andreza Giant Panda & Super Sasadango vs Gorgeous Matsuno & Gota Ihashi vs Minoru Fujita & MJ Paul vs Seiya Morohashi & Tomohiko Hashimoto vs Shota & Soma Takao vs Yuji Hino & Yukio Naya KO-D 10 Man Tag Team Titles: Antonio Honda, Kazuki Hirata, Toru Owashi & Yoshihiko(c) vs GENTARO, MIKAMI, Poison Sawada JULIE, Takashi Sasaki & Tanomusaku Toba Akito, LiLiCo & Ryohei Odai vs Pheromones (Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Yumehito Imanari) 37KAMIINA (Shunma Katsumata & Yuki Ueno) vs Isami Kodaka & Yukio Sakaguchi Maya Yukihi vs Saki Akai Burning Wild (Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori) vs Eruption (Hideki Okatani & Kazusada Higuchi) Michael Nakazawa vs Sanshiro Takagi KO-D Tag Team Titles: Disaster Box (HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura)(c) vs CDK (Chris Brookes & Masahiro Takanashi DDT Universal Title Hardcore 3 Way: Daisuke Sasaki(c) vs Jun Kasai vs MAO KO-D Openweight Title: Konosuke Takeshita(c) vs Tetsuya Endo Live on Wrestle Universe 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/8am GMT/4am EDT/1am PDT NJPW New Japan Cup Night 12 Ao-re Nagaoka Arena, Nagaoka NJ Cup Quarter Final NJ Cup Quarter Final Rest of card TBA Live on NJPW World Pro Wrestling NOAH Just Fine! 2022 Night 1 Kumamoto City Distribution Information Centre, Kumamoto Alejandro & Kai Fujimura vs Kinya Okada & Yasutaka Yano Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito, King Tany & Muhammad Yone) vs Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Nioh & Tadasuke) Atsushi Kotoge, Haoh & YO-HEY vs Los Perros del Mal de Japon (Kotaro Suzuki, NOSAWA Rongai & Super Crazy) Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura vs Dangan Yankees (Masato Tanaka & Takashi Sugiura) Daisuke Harada, Junta Miyawaki & Kaito Miyomiya vs HAYATA, Naomichi Marufuji & Yoshinari Ogawa Daiki Inaba, Go Shiozaki & Masaaki Mochizuki vs Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh & Manabu Soya) Uploaded to Wrestle Universe on 23/3 Also shows from BJW x2, Ryuku Dragon Pro, Diana, Actwres girlZ x2, Kyushu Pro, Dove Pro, JWP & Wave 21/3/2022, Monday, Vernal Equinox Day 10am JST/12pm AEDT/1am GMT/9pm EDT/6pm PDT Gatoh Move ChocoPro #211 Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo Choun Shiryu & Shin Suzuki vs Hoshitango & Masahiro Takanashi Best Bros (Baliyan Akki & Mei Suruga) vs Sayaka Obihiro & Tokiko Kirihara Live on Youtube 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/2:30am GMT/10:30pm EDT/7:30pm PDT 2AW Grand Slam in Korakuen Hall Korakuen Hall, Tokyo BUG's MUTATION (Ayumu Honda & Chicharito Shoki) vs Kunio Toshima & Tatsuya Hanami Hiroshi Yamato & Taishi Takizawa vs Shuji Kondo & Takuro Niki Ayame Sasamura & Kyu Mogami, Ricky Fuji & Shiori Asahi vs THE RULE (Ayato Yoshida, Naka Shuma, Takuma Joshiba & X) Kaji Tomato vs Kotaro Yoshino 2AW Tag Team Titles: Voodoo Murders (Chris Vice & Yoshikazu Yokoyama)(c) vs Daiju Wakamatsu & Shu Asakawa 2AW Openweight Title: Shigehiro Irie(c) vs Kengo Mashimo 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/4am GMT/12am EDT/9pm PDT Stardom In Nagoya Nagoya Congress Centre Event Hall, Nagoya MIRAI vs Miyu Amasaki STARS (Hanan & Koguma) vs STARS (Hazuki & Momo Kohgo) COSMIC ANGELS (Mina Shirakawa, Tam Nakano, Unagi Sayaka & Waka Tsukiyama) vs Donna Del Mondo (Himeka, Maika, Mai Sakurai & Natsupoi) Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Rina, Saki Kshima & Starlight Kid) vs Queen's Quest (AZM, Lady C, Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita) Alto Livello KABALIWAN (Giulia & Syuri) vs STARS (Mayu Iwatani & Saya Iida) SWA World Title: Thekla(c) vs Ruaka Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World 3pm JST/5pm AEDT/6am GMT/2am EDT/11pm PDT NJPW New Japan Cup Night 13 Ao-re Nagaoka Arena, Nagaoka NJ Cup Quarter Final NJ Cup Quarter Final Rest of card TBA Live on NJPW World Pro Wrestling NOAH Great Voyage 2022 In Fukuoka Fukuoka International Centre, Fukuoka Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito, King Tany & Mohammed Yone) vs Kinya Okada, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura Alejandro, Haoh & Kai Fujimura vs Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Nioh & Tadasuke) Naomichi Marufuji vs Yasutaka Yano Los Perros del Mal de Japon (Eita & Super Crazy) vs Stinger (HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa) Daiki Inaba & Kaito Kiyomiya vs Daisuke Harada & Junta Miyawaki Go Shiozaki vs Masaaki Mochizuki GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Atsushi Kotoge & YO-HEY(c) vs Los Perros del Mal de Japon (Kotaro Suzuki & NOSAWA Rongai) Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh, Manabu Soya & Masakatsu Funaki) vs Sugiuragun (Hideki Suzuki, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kendo Kashin & Takashi Sugiura) GHC Heavyweight Title: Kazuyuki Fujita vs Masato Tanaka Live on Wrestle Universe 4pm JST/6pm AEDT/7am GMT/3am EDT/12am PDT AJPW Champions Night 3 Ota Ward General Gymnasium, Tokyo Abdullah Kobayashi & Dan Tamura vs Black Menso-re & Takao Omori Carbell Ito, Raimu Imai & Yoshitatsu vs Izanagi, Shigehiro Irie & SUSHI Andy Wu, Hiroshi Yamato & Seigo Tachibana vs Ryo Inoue, SUGI & Takato Nakano TOTAL ECLIPSE (Jake Lee, Koji Doi, Kuma Arashi, TAJIRI & Yusuke Kodama) vs Voodoo Murders (KONO, Shuji Kondo, Suwama, TARU & Toshizo) PWF World Junior Heavyweight Title: Hikaru Sato(c) vs Hokuto Omori Dradition (LEONA, Mitsuya Nagai & Tatsumi Fujinami) vs NEXTREAM (Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising HAYATO & Yuma Aoyagi) Last Man Standing Match: Ryuki Honda vs Shotaro Ashino Triple Crown Title: Kento Miyahara(c) vs Shuji Ishikawa Live on AJPW TV Also shows from YMZ, Kyushi Pro, Dove Pro & JWP 22/3/2022, Tuesday Marvelous & PPP Tokyo 23/3/2022, Wednesday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/9:30am GMT/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT Pro Wrestling NOAH Just Fine! 2022 Night 2 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Kai Fujimura vs Tadasuke Funky Express (King Tany & Mohammed Yone) vs Kinya Okada & Masaaki Mochizuki Alejandro, Daisuke Harada & Junta Miyawaki vs Los Perros del Mal de Japon (Kotaro Suzuki, NOSAWA Rongai & Super Crazy) HAYATA & Kaito Kiyomiya vs Yasutaka Yano & Yoshinari Ogawa Daiki Inaba, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura vs Hideki Suzuki, Masato Tanaka & Takashi Sugiura Eita vs YO-HEY Atsushi Kotoge, Haoh, Kazuyuki Fujita & Naomichi Marufuji vs Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Kenoh, Manabu Soya & Nioh) Go Shiozaki vs Katsuhiko Nakajima Live on Abema & I don't have a link for you right now GLEAT G Prowrestling Ver.20 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo BULK Orchestra (Hayato Tamura & KAZMA SAKAMOTO) vs Stronghearts (CIMA & Issei Onitsuka) Kaho Matsushita, Tsukasa Fujimoto & Yappy vs Madeline, Michiko Miyagi & Yukari Hosokawa Leo Isaka & Yu Iizuka vs Masato Kamino & TiiiDA Kaz Hayashi vs Nobuhiro Shimatani BULK Orchestra (Quiet Storm & Ryuichi Kawakami) vs Stronghearts (El Lindaman & T-Hawk) Jun Tonsho, Keiichi Sato & Tetsuya Izuchi vs Minoru Tanaka, Soma Watanabe & Takanori Ito Probably ploaded to Youtube on a Thursday at Noon GMT. Probably this coming Thursday but I can't say for sure And maybe it'll be live? Whenever it's available I'll post a link. 24/3/2022, Thursday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/9:30am GMT/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT Pro Wrestling NOAH Just Fine! 2022 Night 3 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Daiki Inaba vs Naomichi Marufuji Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomia & Takashi Sugiura vs Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh & Manabu Soya) GHC National Title: Masakatsu Funaki(c) vs Hideki Suzuki Rest of card TBA Live on Wrestle Universe 25/3/2022, Friday Only a Colega show
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DDT Judgement 3.20 will have English commentary by Baliyan Akki, Hiroshi Arai & Christelle Ciari https://twitter.com/ddtproENG/status/1504095432426762243?t=gbXqzdogOsd1Qpm5wc1B8A&s=19
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GLEAT G Prowrestling 19 is on YouTube 5 hours from this post, 11am GMT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iLCvYkvbe0
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