Other wrestlers when they lose the world title: confused. depressed. angry. weirdly into balloons. Utami Hayashishita:

Rin Kadokura back in Marvelous!! Kensuke on babysitting duty I presume

Nothing like a consistent VOD schedule. Yesterday's show was released last night, today's will be on … Wednesday. OK then.

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Was hoping the guy would eat a Styles Clash on concrete

I'm afraid Akira is in trouble with Stardom HR. Again.

Real pro wrestling

Please put in the newspaper that i got mad (low key impressive how she managed to speak coherently while struggling with those glasses. Next time get a pair that doesn't slide down all the time??)

Btw: If you'd rather not have Chigusa screaming all over Marvelous then you could wait until the shows hit Wrestle Universe. Those take a few weeks to release, but they're commentary free (and cheaper than Gaora).

The future is hat

Absurdly stacked lineup for this New Year's Eve rookie tournament: Yuuka Yamazaki, Shinno, Seri Yamaoka and … Megaton. Plus Selene Flora finally back together at next week's Korakuen tag team tournament. Feels like they haven't tagged since the summer.

ruh-roh kakutolog.info/wrestling/ma...

Jumbo and Cat reunion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUM8...

This PPV is available on Wrestle Universe www.wrestle-universe.com/en/lives/ngV...

Mai choked Miku unconscious in their preview tag last week. Now she headbutted her and put her in the STF again. Same move she finished her with to take the white belt at this year's show. First Dream will end with Miku Aono beating Mai Sakurai with her own finisher and I will be here for it

GoChika once again boasting how she's gained 20 kg over the past year. Utami says she's also gotten bigger in Marigold, but that it's made her more powerful, whereas Chika has gotten slower and there's no way she can giant swing her 🙃 Now Utami tells her to measure her butt for … science?

Presser time Typical Nao Ishikawa promo (she's making fun of Kouki doing stage plays all the time, also Showzuki's MOBA advertising)

When Sareee calls her Natsupoi here, she is talking about the wrestler she wants to defeat. When she is talking about her best friend who she has watched suffer and wants to see get back to the top, she calls her Natsumi. Love that. www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/3...

STARDOM have compiled a playlist of Saya Kamitani's big matches from the past year, starting with her red belt title win in late 2024 and all subsequent PPV title defences of 2025: #STARDOM #Joshi #Wrestlesky #wrestling 🤼‍♀️ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It's good I didn't watch this one right after yesterday's show, going from the grim box to a fun Aichi crowd full of kids is already quite the whiplash

YTR went drinking with Las Cachoras Orientales but somehow they didn't throw steel chairs at him www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eYb...

Time to visit the 176BOX, my favorite venue in all of bizarro world Japan

Have already decided the AEW Dark revival will be bad because it won't have the GOAT jobber team

I don't know what Wrestle Universe is paying its graphics designer(s) but it's not enough. The colors, the way the sunlight hits the back and left side of the heads. Yuzuki fronting. Can you actually see Mt. Fuji from Ota Ward? Don't care, looks cool.

it’s our biggest omakase ever- we recap the year that was for 20 different japanese promotions (with 13 guests!) and then look ahead to what they’ll be doing during WK week. starts with part 1 covering the men’s promotions, and part 2 on joshi comes out later this week redcircle.com/shows/wrestl...

Miyuki Takase joined SenJo less than 6 months ago and they already brainwashed her into a produce fanatic. Went to invade the dojo of LLPW-X after they started selling their own rice, but Kandori wasn't there so she only ranted to the camera and their 14-year-old rookie

insane match 🤼‍♀️🇯🇵

She's become too powerful

This Ganbare show has Akira Shoji in a tag against Takuya Wada with Yuji Shimada refereeing, thank you to whoever booked this pervert shit

Not a huge match or anything, but Blue Natsumi! Dark Kouki! First time the whole roster has been together since Nanae retired (and really, Showzuki was already injured and toughening it out to be there) Takumi and K the only outsiders on the show

Also feel like Aya now constantly posts wearing goth-adjacent like black lace, studded belts, lace-up boots, chokers going Oh Kikyooooo

John Cena's finest contribution to the culture has nothing to do with his wrestling, rapping, or acting. It's being the catalyst for "HE SAID THAT YOU SON OF A BITCH!" (Because he is Albanian.)

Thing to keep in mind with machine translation that uses generative AI is it won't translate what's correct but what sounds most likely/impressive/cool/whatever it's been trained to Including names!

"We want to recruit a high speed rookie who's our age" Kitto could only make this Ema bait more obvious if she also asked for military experience (also she wants the red belt but what else is new)

A channel has been putting up pre-Stardom Tam Nakano footage, mostly revolving around her FMV stuff. They just uploaded her and Onita's 2017/06/24 produce show where she (spoiler?) gets put in an exploding coffin. I think only clips of this were online until today. This video has the death match:

1st singles match at First Dream lfgggg

Or a chain ig

Had a feeling that an Arisa Hoshiki/Yuzupon match would have some fun spots in it but aaaaagh

Doodle of that one Akikyo selfie #akirakurogane #kikyofurusawa #stardom #wrestleart 🤼‍♀️

Haven't found a Japanese transcript of the Queendom presser other than the Youtube one, but Anou's and Iida's promos are very passionate. Anou even kind of ties her whole arc this year together.

Watching the debut of Chanyota's protege Non Toraga and while her moves aren't polished yet, she seems to have a solid understanding of wrestling. She's also pretty tough because this did not break her back

やっぽい！！ 🤼‍♀️🇯🇵

Return of the king (why yes this is totally the main event of the show, Utami vanquishing the dastardly villains all by herself and never falling on her neck)

(because she's physically incapable of letting anything go)

Aya and Chi Chi....good. I'm honestly so happy bc their story was really cooking right before Chi Chi got injured. But of course my girl Aya didn't let that shit go 😤😤😤

And onto the next one. Because unlike every other company, this one will run both its Sapporo shows on the same day 🤷‍♀️

I wonder what's up with Sapporo that all the bigger promotions will do two events in a row there. Is it so difficult/expensive to get to Hokkaido in the first place? Anyway: It's goldin' time

Nice to read about Lady C having made some kind of reconciliation with her dad. He still doesn't want to come watch her wrestle, but the whole "I'll stop if I haven't won a title in 5 years" (iirc?) thing hasn't come to pass either. number.bunshun.jp/articles/-/8...

Why show a pic from the first show if you're going to blur out everyone lol, can more than 10% of today's Stardom fans identify these people?