Crash-watching stuff for FSM 50 study, and shamefully only just watched the Satomura retirement match and now completely absorbed in the whole post-match ceremony. I really should have watched this at this time and it should have gotten more coverage. The absolute perfect template for Tana on Sunday

Excellent writing from @jessecollings.bsky.social here. www.voicesofwrestling.com/2025/12/30/w...

Quite honoured to have my column about how my fandom intersected with the career of Hiroshi Tanahashi in the @pwtorch.bsky.social Newsletter on the week of his retirement. All the more honoured that Wade said it was a pleasure to read! 😀 Hope everyone else enjoys. pwtorch.com/site/2025/12...

Really enjoyed talking Tana with Sean. My column we referenced should be up soon (or possibly will be in this week's Torch newsletter)

This is great! @kieranedits.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC8S...

New episode! The 2025 year in wrestling trivia featuring @alan4l.bsky.social and Mike and Case from @openvoicegate.bsky.social - an incredible way to close out the year! redcircle.com/shows/18c9b3...

Voting is now live in the VOW Discord - in out exclusive GAGNE CHRISTMAS DRAFT DISCUSSION ROOM! discord.com/channels/628...

What a shit-show of a finish to Okada/Takeshita. If you're going to do a cliche hokey finish, at least try to execute it well. They got too cute and fucked it all up. They've really messed this programme up for me. It's gone too long, too many bad segments, and now they fucked up the 1st match.

Couldn't close out the 2025 ProWres Paradise Christmas Party without chatting to our pal Justin Shapiro! Just A to Z's is all the way up to W with a mighty slate of topics on tap. Walter, Willow, Wade K, Wade B, Will, WHAT? and even Wrestling! @pwtorch.bsky.social www.pwtorch.com/site/2025/12...

LET THE GAMES BEGIN! The 2025 Joe Gagne Christmas Draft is here! @joegagne.bsky.social and Rich & Joe from @voicesofwrestling.com join me to draft from the 2025 Japanese wrestling scene. Subscribe now to @pwtorch.bsky.social - GOVIP www.pwtorch.com/site/2025/12...

OH MY GOD THAT YUU CHOP #STARDOM 🤼‍♂️

If you didn’t know that AR Fox’s wrestling school used to be the WCW Power Plant, this random picture of Ron Reis at his desk should tip you off.

So Dynamite starts in TV in the US in five minutes, but not for another hour on Fite? Have I got that right? Seems less than ideal

Chris Charlton desperately trying to keep to kayfabe while ELP talks about how TMDK vs KOB would only get 12 mins on the Tokyo Dome but will get close to 30 on New Years Dash was very funny

THE 2025 PROWRES PARADISE CHRISTMAS PARTY IS OFF AND RUNNING! The doors of the Dr. Keith Christmas mansion are open and the good doctor himself is up first with his long awaited return to the show! What's On The Telly? Awful WCW and really really great NWA! @pwtorch.bsky.social t.co/HIuzSWsQ5j

THE 2025 PROWRES PARADISE CHRISTMAS PARTY IS OFF AND RUNNING! The doors of the Dr. Keith Christmas mansion are open and the good doctor himself is up first with his long awaited return to the show! What's On The Telly? Awful WCW and really really great NWA! @pwtorch.bsky.social t.co/HIuzSWsQ5j

Very happy with my comp and how it represents a major period of my wrestling fandom. Such an exciting time to be a fan learning about new wrestling and wrestlers. Thank you @pwoloss.bsky.social as always!

He's not on Wrestle Kingdom in any capacity. Not even the consolation gauntlet. Good job New Japan

I finally figured out who Daiki Odashima has been reminding me of. He's young Jonathan Gresham. They move the exact same way and have the same body type (well the same as Jon used to have)

what do wrestling companies think is going to happen if TV matches don't go into and come out of commercials in the most patterned done to death ways? It's one of the more egregious "show about a wrestling show" tropes. I hate that Tony was convinced by someone that AEW had to look like this.

Madoka Kikuta annihilates Dragon Kid with a hip attack

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Watching Dragongate from Korakuen and just in awe of Shun & Cielo as a team. Imagining these fuckers against peak 2007 Briscoes. They are kinda great in many of the ways Kings Of Wrestling were great now that I think about it.

The @btsheetspod.bsky.social show I was listening to this past week saw @kriszellner.bsky.social and @davidbix.bsky.social waxing nostalgic about how bad advertisement have gotten over the years. They are correct. www.tiktok.com/@the_advert_...

Bobby Davis managing Gorilla Monsoon 🤼 The prototype of the wrestling manager, Davis very much patterned the slick, motormouth style that influenced the Heenans, Harts and Heymans of the wrestling world in later years and would be more well known, if not for a lack of footage. Ahead of his time.

Can we get a Nick Jackson vs Hechicero singles match please? The glimpse of those two working together was like .... God damn.

I just realised I'm going to have to write about Hiroshi Tanahashi's career soon and that's...... daunting.

The Destroyer contemplates consuming a small Japanese child 🤼

Love this match. An all time fave. Watch both the January and April 1991 Taue vs. Kawada singles matches this Christmas.

The Don Callis Family’s analytics team is El Clon when he isn’t hacking into Hologram’s online banking.

In a strange turn of events Trump is actually at Hijo Del Santo’s retirement match tonight

Is Collision not on Triller or am I being dumb?

I love the annual Michinoku Pro Great Space War because you find out the films Great Sasuke has been into this year. True cinephiles either book a strange wrestling match or get a Letterboxd account.

There are few things as nice to watch in wrestling as Atlantis Jr running a comeback sequence on Los Guerreros Del Laguneros. Poetry in motion.

VIP NEWSLETTER – PWTORCH #1949: NXT Deadline and ROH Final Battle reports, Keller on Cena’s media tour, Parks on TNA-AMC deal, TV reports: vip.pwtorch.com/2025/12/12/v...

Speedball Mike Bailey and the idea of "taking it easy" are mutually exclusive.

Funny moment in the Jack Perry beatdown where the run-in music plays (shit) and everyone has to stop beating on him so they can stare at the ramp. But Hechicero just keeps clattering him. Then he looks up, notices everyone has stopped & you see him realise "oh I have to do a dumb American TV thing"

In 2007, I was lucky enough to be part of the team that promoted the first Eddie Kingston vs Samoa Joe match. In 2025, they’re running it back for the World Title on cable TV. Check out the first battle on my YouTube channel now! youtu.be/_L9QlgJSGTc

Yuto Koyanagi debut match absolutely rocked! I will watch every match Daiki Odashima has against these new kids. As good as he was in HIS rookie matches, he's even better in this role breaking in the new lads.

Final four for WTL isn't what I'd have gone for but there's no House teams so I will absolutely take it! I don't think Bishamon make for very interesting winners so I'd be going Zack and Oiwa and let them get after it with KOB at the Dome

Ooooh I like Uemura's little shining wizard elbow drop! That's a new one

If anyone wants to see the matches that Ikuto Hidaka and Naohiro Hoshikawa had in the 2000s, I uploaded their three singles and one tag to my Google Drive for someone last night. Will leave them there for a while if people wanna grab. Great example of 2000s puro. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Totally understand Claudio sticking his Dunnes receipt to his pants. There's nothing worse than not being able to find it when you wanna get your 10 off 50 on the big shop.

Jack Perry’s Putting Challenge

New ProWres Paradise labelled as "graphic media". Is it because of the pic of a bleeding Mox? Yuto being vulgar to Zack? Or did I just work blue on the show when talking about Ryuki Honda? Click to find out!

New ProWres Paradise, solo edition talking King Of Gate, NJPW and AJPW tag leagues, ROH, CMLL, C2 and much more! A packed 45 mins with my thoughts on a bunch of recent wrestling. Check it out!! @pwtorch.bsky.social vip.pwtorch.com/2025/12/06/v...

"Stun Gun Takamura" A new contender has emerged.

This hits me on Saturday morning like a gallon of espresso

I'd love to see a version of Forbidden Door where it's just here's a bunch of actually interesting cool AEW vs. NJPW matches as opposed to whatever we get now, and for it to feature Lee Moriarty vs. Yuya Uemura.

Lee Moriarty vs. Nigel, with Mox on commentary as I go through old Wrestling Playlists articles, is the exact kind of Saturday morning energy I'm all about for my 40s. @pwoloss.bsky.social