I know this announcement will make a bunch of my mutuals very happy! #SendaiGirls will be a part of the 2027 #wXw 16 Carat Gold weekend and will run a show on Sat. Tickets for that single event will be available on May 8th. The festival tickets are available rn. shorturl.at/dTPtS #indiewrestling

Here, at last, is the full four-part AJW Battle for the Red Belt series, all in one big video! The legendary matches of Manami Toyota, Kyoko Inoue and Aja Kong in AJW's last period of popularity, leading up to the beginning of the dark ages in 1997. Enjoy and please share youtu.be/gzchVb1FHY0

What's more annoying than someone who's young & talented & knows exactly how good they are? Someone even *younger* with the same proclivity Welcome back to High Speed History - this week a true rarity, as AZM goes up against someone who falls into just that category - say hello to Rina #Stardom

8,015 is the official attendance figure. That's impressive. #Stardom

I guess she inherited Tam's booking too. It'll be different, for sure. You look at the list of those who've never held it, or even challenged in some cases, and it seems a bit silly though.

That made absolutely no sense but I guess we're just going on vibes. Last 2 were good if a little bit overbooked for my taste. Speaking of overbooking, here comes your main event...

Best performance by a Kevin since Dances with Wolves

That was a fucking STUPID spot & dangerous as fuck, whoever cleared that needs a serious kick in the ass.

Rian please form your own unit & stop hanging around with these losers

Alright so no in-depth preview this year ( I was unemployed last time so I had a lot more time on my hands) but I can throw a few thoughts in for ASGQ I'm feeling fairly confident about most of it but Okada has been throwing the odd curveball recently, so who knows #Stardom

Apropos of nothing (warning: English comms. Chris Charlton does pretty well covering the backstories etc but uh...well its Kevin Kelly. So fair warning) www.dailymotion.com/video/x9el634

Cultivated in China since the Neolithic period, peaches were a symbol of longevity. Despite the name persica (Persian plum), they spread from China to Persia, then to Europe Its High Speed History & this time, for the first time, Momo (means peach in Japanese, y'see) Kohgo challenges! #Stardom

The biggest wrestling show of 2026 still hasn't happened! April 26th #STARDOM presents All Star Grand Queendom #ASGQ feat highly emotional duels of f.e. Kamitani vs Kurara, Konami vs Hanan, Natsupoi vs Itoh. Is it the downfall of HATE or Cosmic Angels? #wrestlesky a 🧵 wwr-stardom.com/en/queendom2...

I dunno if I'll write up an ASGQ preview this year - I don't doubt it'll be a good show but last year really was exceptional, maybe an all-timer depending on your perspective. Not getting those vibes this year. I really do need to put together something for longer content.

Apropos of nothing my trip to Japan at year end '24 was for 2 1/2 weeks, I saw something in the region of 15 shows (slightly more, I think) including one of Stardom's 2 big shows a year, Noah's new year show at the Budokan, TJPW's Ittenyon show at Korakuen, DDT's big year end show, Wrestle Kingdom..

Despy & Sasaki are hanging out in Vegas and its going about this well

I did openly wonder a while ago if Himawari had ever used her hair for a rope break - lo & behold Work to your strengths kids

I was going to write something up about spiders & toxins & venom & all that but to heck with it, I was arachnaphobic when I was a kid & I don't really want to revisit all that This week on High Speed History, Thekla attempts to capture AZM's title in her web - will she be successful? #Stardom

I dunno if she's gotten it all out of her system or what, but if not Hikari v Suzu plssss

I fear for Kikyo #Stardom

Alrighty, welcome back to your irregularly-scheduled slice of High Speed History Last time, AZM bear-ly clawed her way past the apple girl, Mei Suruga. This week, she finds herself in a grizzly situation, no more 3 ways, its a straight 1v1 (& you'd best not play dead) vs Koguma #Stardom

Available to watch sometime in 2027, probably

No High Speed tonight as I'm back to work after the 4 day weekend and already feeling the post-break blues, so gonna watch Spaceballs to cheer myself up

Himawari put up an April Fool she was getting her hair cut & I'm not ok with how upset I (briefly) got

Shall I compare thee to a high speed match? Thou art slower and much less precise: Two high speed prodigies, each the other trying to catch Apple goblins & bomb girls, doesn't that sound nice? High Speed History! #Stardom

I appear to have somehow wrenched my shoulder blade between leaving work & now, which is making sitting still a bit uncomfortable, so sadly I have to postpone High Speed til tomorrow, sorry about that But, to make up for it, have some Mei Suruga matches! vs Mao youtu.be/-CU9MkNz-ac?...

I must admit I was a little down on Grand Princess beforehand, & there were some bits in there I could've done without (or less of, certainly) but overall pretty solid Not 100% on where they're headed, but they do have to mix it up a bit to keep things fresh. I hope they know how good Miu is.

Ok so the Yurika Oka injury made it to reddit, I didn't go looking for it but its there in case anyone really wants to avoid seeing it I am neither a doctor nor a concussion expert in any sense of the word. Also hindsight is 20:20, clearly. But it seems a *really* bad failing on the refs part.

All hail We 💜 Tokyo Sports

We've all been there. You have co-workers you know, maybe even get along with - you don't *dis*like them, but you're not exactly friends. You mill around day to day, greet each other sometimes, make small talk. And then one day you all get thrown onto a project, & now it gets awkward #Stardom

I swear I have some kind of dangerous skill to just find expensive things on the internet I want to buy yet can't afford Rare OOP Bluray Steelbook? Sure! 'Limited edition' artbook up for preorder? Yep! Crazily overpriced scale model fucking Batmobile? Yeah you betcha I need to buy a HOUSE, brain

This suuuuuucks. But, hopefully he still has his health & can both live a full life & find something he can enjoy doing instead

Oh hey, speaking of Mark Rocco www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-66...

Oh, well hello there. After an accidental week off - its time to get back to what we do best around here: poorly coordinated non-detailed recaps of years old joshi matches. Yay! This week - AZM! SLK! A match good enough I'd recommend it to just about anyone! Its high speed history! #Stardom

Cinderella ultimately pretty predictable, but again that doesn't necessarily mean bad. As a contrarian I do have to say I would've preferred the alternative final, but ultimately there were a few different beneficiaries from how it played out, so a worthwhile endeavour - so long as its built on

Oops, I guess I'm taking week off from High Speed as its already Sunday & the week has flown by. Back in the usual slot tomorrow. Work is hopefully calming down soon, albeit my contract ends soon so going to have to go back to market...ugh. But there shouldn't be quite so much jumping around.

Ah fuck. Add 'Didn't go see Senjo at Shinjuku Face' to the ever-growing list of regrets

No High Speed tonight as I had a late finish with an early start tomorrow (do *not* call 9am meetings if you want to stay on my good side) - its coming this week though. Meanwhile why not check out that match from yesterday I gushed about? I just watched it back & its as good as I thought

Starting a new weekly pro-wrestling match pack series with a pure focus on Joshi Puroresu (女子プロレス) called "Joshi Puro Explorer". If you are interested in getting into Joshi, this is a good place to start. There's 1 match per weekday and I will reveal the bonus match on Friday. #WrestleSky 🤼‍♀️🇯🇵

Get Nyla Rose back on AEW TV already for fuck's sake.

Actually up to speed with the Cinderella (for now) - I will put some thoughts further down for anyone who doesn't want spoiling I've not been doing brackets etc as I've honestly not been paying attention. Its certainly not how I would've liked everything to go, but thats just personal bias.

I see you Koda #tjpw

Alrighty, so welcome back to High Speed History, not the first time we've seen this matchup but something a little different this time around - Kid defends against the newly returned (from acting in a stage play) Natsupoi in the main event at Korakuen Hall 1st Feb 2022, here we go #Stardom

Seem to have temporarily fixed migraines but cutting wildly back on caffeine intake (who would've guessed? 🙄 ) Also its Friday & I pulled Narita Brian from a freebie ticket, so life's pretty good In that spirit, SLK vs Poi, High Speed, tonight!

Sorry folks no High Speed tonight, got a headache so its more slow dark room. Back soon as I can muster.

More Anne + Rian minutes please #Stardom

Its a day ending in y so I guess Windsor gets another unwarranted title shot for 'reasons' Getting silly now

I'm pretty much to the point of not understanding young people anymore, and tbh, I can think of at least a few examples where if I had the chance I'd throw a zoomer into a fight against a bear & a tiger. Not that I would fancy their chances IRL, but hey this is High Speed, so who knows? #Stardom

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