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Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Deathmatch is up on Stardom World btw.

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Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Saki-Sama is also the only heel in the entire company so she brings a unique element to the company

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/Ben_0Rosso/status/1329810840846020608

Looking forward to Tall Saya taking over Stardom in a couple of years

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/wwr_stardom/status/1342682811099086848

The Momo disrespect.....

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

Neodoomium posted:

Giulia just did a kayfabed interview where she called Unagi a worthless wrestler who should quit STARDOM and "clearly she didn't learn anything where she was the last two years"

I'm sure that will work to get sympathy behind Unagi and Tam but I don't think that type of promo makes sense coming from someone like Giulia. She isn't a ring general herself, you know?

Giulia won a bunch of Joshi wrestler of the year awards so yeah it would make sense for her to say that.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

Johnny Landmine posted:

Given her kayfabe position it makes enough sense, but it is kind of funny coming from Giulia, whose year in Stardom has made her worse at wrestling than she was before

That is completely untrue. Her matches have improved much over the year than when she first started with Stardom.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/sg_oxxt/status/1359468880876294151

Card for the next Assemble show. Considering this is taking place the day before AEW Revolution I don't like Asuka and Rin Kadokura's chances of winning the AEW Women's tournament lol. Other interesting notes is no Oz Academy, Marvelous's new trainee is debuting on the show and Wave's first participation.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

Neodoomium posted:

More of you go watch that TJPW show so we can get 4 more MOTYCs on the list

There was nothing of that quality on that show.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Watching the Takadanobaba Stardom show and I don't think I've ever seen a bigger burial in the company than Giulia did to Unagi Sayaka. Geez, I know she's not good but that's way worse than even any rookie/vet match I've seen. Completely no sells her on 4 separate occasions to the point she looks amused as how weak this girl is, even no selling a bodyslam attempt like a 300+ pound giant would to a comedy jobber. After mounting and repeatedly slapping her, she taunts her, lets her get up, no sells one last forearm and casually puts her in a basic sleeper hold causing Sayaka to pass out.

Stall_19 fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Feb 12, 2021

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
I don't think Stardom not being booked in the AEW tourney has anything to do with any bad blood. Pretty much everyone booked in the tourney is either something they used or someone related to someone they used with the exception of Rin Kadokura who was the only real surprise. Even Asuka/Veny was someone I felt they would use eventually with how much she wanted to wrestle in America.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/wwr_stardom/sta...ghtmode%3Dfalse

Mega heel Giulia doing mega heel things

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

Neodoomium posted:

https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1360805090739712006

When is the end of the Japanese side of the AEW tournament? Did STARDOM just accidentally spoil Emi's result?

Oh wow, they got the nice lady that helps Jay White at NJPW shows

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
I appreciate the confidence Stardom has to give Utami a gimmick where she carries a rose to the ring to give to a female audience member because sometime she has to really search.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Guess I better start researching how to access SamuraiTV because I"m pretty excited to watch live.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Did I ever mention how loving weird I find Tam Nakano? Can't think of any other wrestler who actively seeks to be the waifu wrestler.

https://twitter.com/tmtmtmx/status/1362739886374092804

https://twitter.com/tmtmtmx/status/1362802880231612416

Second tweet literally translates to "Hey, you'll always love me right?"

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/LadyC_stardom/status/1362956418362482689
https://twitter.com/LadyC_stardom/status/1363278438430253056

Aww Lady C was a huge Tam fan, so much that she was inspired to become a wrestler. So despite Tam's best efforts, she actually had a female fan.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
I think internally Stardom has put all their effort into focusing on being the #1 Joshi promotion in the Japanese market and put the western market on the backburner which makes sense to me as we're not the ones that are gonna be attending their shows which drives most of the revenue. They could be better certainly. My dislike for TJPW aside, I think they've done a great job balancing trying to be more accessible to the western audience while still remembering that they're a japanese company based in japan. I have no idea what Emi's doing in Chocopro land though.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

RealFoxy posted:

There's no argument that Stardom has been at the top of Joshi for several years but there's a lot of things that would turn most people off like

Rossi pressuring/encouraging his roster to do semi-nude photoshoots (And then proudly laying in bed with his top talent while they're nude)
Stardom's really poor treatment for a long time of foreign acts, including Kris who was doing most of the photography and then just got fired.
The horribly toxic environment that lead to the Act Yasukawa/Yoshiko match which Stardom management took NO effort into trying to stop which lead to Kyoko Kimura shoot ending the match via forfeit
Extending to putting their under 18 talent into making similar semi-nude and softcore photoshoots
An English affiliate/office worker being toxic as hell in social media
Little to marginal attempts at making the product be accessible to international fans

I'll admit to not watching Stardom regularly for a long time, I still like some Rubber Mayu, Weird Tam, and Gulia matches but Stardom in the 10's felt like it was run by a Japanese Russo/McMahon hybrid.

+ That weird fan event where all the talent were in their pajamas.

Hopefully some of this should be rectified under Bushiroad's management. Though I haven't heard bad experiences by foreign acts in awhile so hopefully they've gotten better at that.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1366671237871624195

https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1366671528876630018

Getting hyped for tonight.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
3,318 for Stardom's Budokan show. About 900 less than what Noah got for their show a few weeks back, 200 less than what NJPW got the last time they ran that building. Good number I think considering they've really gotten nothing close to that....perhaps ever? Plus Covid is really having an effect on people willing to go out to these shows. Curious what New Japan's Budokan show tomorrow is gonna do considering they've done zero build for it and Stardom & Noah have been building their shows up for awhile. Would suck a little if they beat Stardom's number considering the amount of effort being put into each show.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
I feel 100% certain Maki Itoh is the major signing Big Show is announcing at Revolution. She has a show on 3/6 but because the time difference she could make the trip before the ppv. The fact that TJPW does not have Itoh apart of the online signing only strengthens my belief.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

Oil! posted:

It's Florida, there aren't any Covid restrictions.

Yep

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

Johnny Landmine posted:

Maki Itoh has always done her online autograph sessions separately, IIRC; she's technically not signed with TJPW full-time.

That may be. But they generally announce when she doing it right? They have just enough time to fly her to Florida and that sounds like something they would %100 would do.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/maki_itoh/status/1368124829757403136

quote:

We lost. We lost the final. I'm sorry, Yamashita. Itoh will go somewhere far away.

Feeling really good about my prediction that Itoh will be at Revolution. Really good.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
The one season of fantasy football I played taught me that even things you think are sure bets often aren't but if it's something small like an avatar bet or something I'm down. Though if someone makes me use a Raku avatar for any decent length of time I may delete my account in shame.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

Vince MechMahon posted:

I have no money or skills so any bet would need to just be dumbass posting related stuff. Loser has to watch every WWE show for a week or something lol

Oh no.....that's a rough one. I just quit wwe for the most part too. Okay I'm in though.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/wwr_stardom/status/1368392328352731136

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Is Rossy still doing day to day scheduling? Because that is hosed up.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
And they put the Budokan show on Stardom world at the time I'm actively pissed at them, nice.

I hope the talent actively pressures them to cancel like they did that one show early in covid breakout.

Stall_19 fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Mar 7, 2021

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1368707350136229894

Confidence that Maki is in Florida is rising dramatically.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Feeling loving great!!

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

forkboy84 posted:

I would be tempted to bet the house that I don't even own but will when my parents die within the next 10 to 15 years that this doesn't happen.

Or a shiny penny (British). Whatever.

Hope you learned you lesson about never betting your house in the future.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Speaking of Assemble, I'm currently watching the last one and sometimes you really got to suspend your disbelief in Joshi a lot more than other stuff. I'm watching Chihiro Hashimoto in the ring with a 14 year old.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Assemble was fun but the production needs a lot of work. They completely missed an all time meltdown from Mio Momono.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1370945185496977409

Starlight Kid being forced to join Oedo Tai leading to a months long storyline of broken Mayu

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Watching a pre pandemic match makes me realize the one benefit of Covid Era is that we don't have to hear that one guy (you know who I'm talking about) constantly yelling all through the show. Used to think he was a Stardom superfan but as I watched more Joshi promotions nope he's everywhere.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

I think stall is talking about IOOOOOO/SEKIMOTOOOO guy

Yep that guy. Heavyset japanese guy usually in a red Toyota shirt. Mayuuuu!!! Kidddddoooooo! Oh! Ohhhh! He has a distinctive voice so even when you can't see him on camera, you know he's there.

You can hear him a bunch in this match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFH4bbKsMkI

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Surprised they gave Itoh another Korakuen main event after the one she had with Miyu was one of the worst Korakuen main events they've had.

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
That match? I was saw it but I wasn't that impressed. I would say if that match was their moty then they've had a rough year but during my limited TJPW viewing this year I saw a match I would rate much higher. Kamiyu/ Mirai for the international title at the last Korakuen show. I very much enjoyed that match.

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Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
It's not the worst name. Will take some getting used to.

Curious what wwe's criteria is for who keeps their name and who needs to change. Like why does Io get to keep hers but Kairi has to change her last name. Same with Nakamura and Kenta.

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