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DarkstarIV posted:I mean I honestly wouldn't be shocked if there ends up being a mass exodus of STARDOM talent over this (likely go freelance). Rossy was very much well liked by both current and former STARDOM women. uh that's not wholly true, some love him but there's plenty who hate him
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Stall_19 posted:https://twitter.com/Peps_Wrestling/status/1754355873239982341?t=Jj9YhFCXY7A0JkBaJN_u3Q&s=19 gently caress
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Ah man  fez_machine posted:uh that's not wholly true, some love him but there's plenty who hate him Didn't Mariah May say something about not telling Rossy she was signing to AEW because he tended to be loose-lipped about this sort of thing? I'm admittedly not familiar in any way with the politics of the Joshi scene, just that this seems like a Big Deal.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Ah man Not Rossy but Stardom's weirdo english guy Sonny who loves to blab and be the centre of attention
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Ah man Rossy tells Sonny everything, and Sonny tells everyone everything. A lot of people hate Sonny because he's poo poo at his job, and recently, a screenshot of him talking poo poo about Starlight Kid on the WON forum was circulating online and that got a lot of people wanting him fired for sucking at everything. https://twitter.com/pinklightsticc/status/1743138462591787017 HamburgerTownUSA fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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HamburgerTownUSA posted:Rossy tells Sonny everything, and Sonny tells everyone everything. Ah yeah, this incident was also on my mind. Gross.
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Then the day after that someone leaked a clip of an unmasked Starlight Kid on 4chan. There's no proof it was him but the timing is very suspicious.
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Stall_19 posted:https://twitter.com/Peps_Wrestling/status/1754355873239982341?t=Jj9YhFCXY7A0JkBaJN_u3Q&s=19 This really sucks. She was just 21, even.
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DarkstarIV posted:I mean I honestly wouldn't be shocked if there ends up being a mass exodus of STARDOM talent over this (likely go freelance). Rossy was very much well liked by both current and former STARDOM women. The industry is still in dire shape. There are promotions where the top stars are going freelance just to be able to make some money. It's very obvious that stardom pays by far the best within Japan.
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fez_machine posted:We'll see who follows Rossy though. Japanese women's talent in WWE have absolutely proven popular although Asuka hates hates hates Rossy's guts. Given Mayu's professional relationship with Rossy, I'd bet she follows him the minute she loses the IWGP Women's belt to Mina, which happens in a few weeks.
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Stall_19 posted:https://twitter.com/Peps_Wrestling/status/1754355873239982341?t=Jj9YhFCXY7A0JkBaJN_u3Q&s=19 That is so unbelievably sad.
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Testekill posted:Tony has been waiting for this for a while now. His memes are getting instantly retweeted by Will Washington. He's been talking about this among his inner circle for a long time.
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Dancing Peasant posted:Given Mayu's professional relationship with Rossy, I'd bet she follows him the minute she loses the IWGP Women's belt to Mina, which happens in a few weeks. She's under long term contract.
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Dancing Peasant posted:Given Mayu's professional relationship with Rossy, I'd bet she follows him the minute she loses the IWGP Women's belt to Mina, which happens in a few weeks. I guess I was wrong for now quote:A lot of the talent is loyal to Ogawa, who founded the company and gave most of the women their career breaks. Expect several departures from the group in March, when most of the contracts expire. The only wrestler under a longer term commitment to Stardom is IWGP Champion Mayu Iwatani, because of the movie on her life coming out.
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several questions arise from this: 1) why does only japan get to have university pro wrestling clubs 2) why are they so prevalent that i've seen like multiple ddt shows with pro wrestling club talent on them and people working office jobs were in them 3) when will they make a persona game set in a university instead of a high school so i can join a pro wrestling club while saving the world
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abraham linksys posted:several questions arise from this: you can have a university club for anything brother, you didnt set one up, you could've been the change you want to see.
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abraham linksys posted:several questions arise from this: Urban Japan doesn't have a whole lot of backyards
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so is the conclusion of "what the hell is going with Giulia" not that she's going to AEW or WWE, but is probably leaving Stardom and potentially joining something new that Rossy starts?
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Hopefully bushiroad fire Sonny too There is absolutely no reason for Bushiroad to keep Sonny around if Rossy is gone.
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This is not the first time he's reported this either. https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1754367642192736462
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MassRafTer posted:This is not the first time he's reported this either. This would make it seem like she's following Rossy wherever and doesn't feel she needs an agent to do that. i still have no idea how he's going to just start up another promotion though, but I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough on Japan/joshi to know how difficult that would be right now. Kinda sorta smells like the beginnings of nxt japan to me but that was more of a triple h dream and have no idea if Endeavor has any plans for an expansion like that.
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Funnily enough when I was catching the bus home I was like oh this was probably that news being teased for march. It's probably Rossy had a 5 year deal. It became obvious he didn't want to re-sign. Hence the rumours. Someone on the roster ratted him out for enquiring about contract status and bushiroad fired him before his contract run out. If he has a 5 year non compete it's not going to be up until the end of the year....like October
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I can't claim to be an expert in joshi politics but Stardom is my favourite current promotion so I hope this doesn't gently caress them up too bad. Then again, if there's a mass exodus maybe Saya Iida will finally get a push! Burn Down Canberra posted:
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Tokyo Sports have a few articles up that I think are interesting - usually they lean into kayfabe but they'll do serious stories for things like this Interview with President Okada: Gives a bit more of a timeline: they knew in December that Rossy wanted to leave and also that he was asking around if anyone wanted to leave with him; they asked him to stop then. In January they told the roster he was leaving in March; but after that they learned that Rossy had convinced several people to leave including 'title holders and other popular wrestlers' so they sacked him. Also confirms people will leave but that's not surprising. Interview with Rossy Ogawa: Rossy claims that he learned he'd been sacked after the show yesterday; and had been swiftly taken away from the building in a taxi. Confirms he's starting a new promotion but challenges the poaching point by claiming that wrestlers simply volunteered that they wanted to leave with him if he wanted to start something. He told them in November he was leaving; citing the busy schedule and 'harrasement in the company' (quoted as machine translation). Also notable that the reactions that they chose to feature from wrestlers were Maika, Mina Shirakawa and Starlight Kid who are all 'we want to carry on looking forward please follow us' more positive things rather than the reflective or negative things others tweeted - I wonder if that's a hint that those three might be three that stay. Pure speculation there but like for all three it sort of makes sense - Maika is the World Champion (and it sounds like that was a plan chance away from Suzu; although who made the call no one knows); Mina really only got a major push after Kamitani broke her face (and I suspect delayed MIRAI's run which feels very strongly like a Rossy thing) and so might see this as a bit of an opportunity; Starlight Kid is one of the top merch sellers and is clearly someone that they are well behind (and Sonny buried her very pubicly and he's a Rossy man). The first two are also in the new big slightly random faction that formed after they knew Rossy was fishing around. This could be me reading into things something that is not there but I think its a more informed example of that.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I can't claim to be an expert in joshi politics but Stardom is my favourite current promotion so I hope this doesn't gently caress them up too bad. non competes are really them just paying you to sit at home. You can go work elsewhere, you just wont get paid your contract anymore. And if they fire you, yeah, non competes arent a thing
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Burn Down Canberra posted:The person who asked about SLK on the observer board where Sonny buried her said on reddit that he got the impression that BR basically asked rossy something like "she moves a lot of merch why isn't she being pushed" from the conversation wtf I love Bushiroad? Seriously, you wouldn't happen to have a link to the Reddit post by any chance would you?
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Crapple! posted:wtf I love Bushiroad? https://www.reddit.com/r/stardomjoshi/s/GeFv4KXDJe Lowlight is the poster. His claim is that he said something like br has it right if they are making them push slk and rossy doesn't get it right all the time And then that's when sonny launched his slk is actually a lazy loser rant
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