New Japan Pro Wrestling
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Baked Potato: A Review
I swear to God some of you don’t deserve to see heaven, let alone professional wrestling.
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Will AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door Be Any Good?
Yea, probably. More Professional Wrestling Why Do People Hate it When Tony Khan Makes a Huge Announcement? Jon Moxley and Wheeler YUTA Reveled in the Ecstasy of Combat Minoru Suzuki vs. Samoa Joe Was a Dream Match Stuck In the Real World In a Tale of Two Dream Matches, FTR Took On the Briscoes and…
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Minoru Suzuki, King of Wrestling Fashion
I’m the kind of freak who leaves the phone notifications on in my social media apps. There’s a guy on Instagram who sometimes sells Crush Gals records from Japan. There’s a Facebook group full of men who suddenly decide that a 1985 Hulk Hogan trading card that I’ve had in a desk drawer for awhile…
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The Hidden Histories of Wrestling Magazines
Something I’ve been obsessing over the course of the pandemic are the ways in which wrestling fans “see” wrestling. We’re restricted, at the moment, to the broadcast version of wrestling, shot by a finite number of cameras and edited live to the specifications of a company’s house style. It’s fine—it’s how most of us engage…
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Sublime Master Chef: Toru Yano’s Curry Reviewed
It’s Toru Yano Season, otherwise known as the G1 Climax, an incredible stretch of time where Toru Yano, my pick for wrestler of the decade, proves that he is, without question, the best wrestler in the world, taking on a rugged schedule, facing top opponents, and laying them all to waste without so much as…
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Will Ospreay Isn’t Even a Top 25 Junior Heavyweight
I’m just going to come out and say it: I’ve never been much for Will Ospreay. I thought his much hyped IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match against a returning Hiromu Takahashi was terrible. I wish it wasn’t. Takahashi is an insane genius, a star burning so bright that his next flurry of offense may well…
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In 1992, Jushin Liger and Brian Pillman Changed American Wrestling
I love Jushin Liger. I’m hardly alone in the sentiment, but I’m still avoiding Wrestle Kingdom because it hurts a little knowing that I’ll never see him wrestle again, and hurts even more knowing that I’ll never get to see him wrestle live. It’s a shame because I think Liger had a really good last…
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Katsuyori Shibata Is the Wrestler of the Decade
He is still alive. That is all.