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Yota Tsuji defeats Ryohei Oiwa in a classic. You should watch it, there’s not enough words in the English language for m...
12/10/2026

Yota Tsuji defeats Ryohei Oiwa in a classic. You should watch it, there’s not enough words in the English language for me to do it justice so I’m just not going to bother.

In other news: GOD RETURNS TO NEW JAPAN.

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GOOD FU***NG LORD. Aaron Wolf and Kosei Fujita just had one of the best NEVER Openweight matches I’ve ever seen in the l...
12/10/2026

GOOD FU***NG LORD. Aaron Wolf and Kosei Fujita just had one of the best NEVER Openweight matches I’ve ever seen in the last decade. Incredible match, as Wolf retains the belt after hitting a modified Northern Lights Bomb.

Fujita continues to be an absolute freak of nature when it comes to his strength for someone that’s a junior, effortlessly suplexing Wolf around the ring. Likewise, Wolf continues to prove that the time he spent in the New Japan Dojo was worth it, the fact that he’s this good already despite only wrestling less than a year is mind boggling.

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BREAKING: AND NEW! Knockout Brothers & Jeff Cobb of Unbound Company defeat United Empire to become the new NEVER Openwei...
12/10/2026

BREAKING: AND NEW! Knockout Brothers & Jeff Cobb of Unbound Company defeat United Empire to become the new NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champions!

Fantastic match! I need a singles match between Yuto-Ice and Will Ospreay like a fish needs water.

Afterwards, Callum Newman comes out swinging with the sword and almost takes out Ospreay. In turn, the Billy Goat challenges KOB to a tag match for the IWGP tag belts at Destruction in November.

Yuto obliges…but only if Ospreays tag partner is Callum - effectively making it a handicap match and almost certainly laying the groundwork for the inevitable betrayal.

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Toru Yano becomes the first wrestler to pin Shun Skywalker in a New Japan ring.That’s it, that’s the post 😅-
12/10/2026

Toru Yano becomes the first wrestler to pin Shun Skywalker in a New Japan ring.

That’s it, that’s the post 😅

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or In a couple hours time we’ll see if Yota Tsuji’s era as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion continues, or will Ryohei O...
12/10/2026

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In a couple hours time we’ll see if Yota Tsuji’s era as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion continues, or will Ryohei Oiwa and his new brand of Strong Style be top of the mountain in New Japan?

So who you got? Personally, I think it’s time to strike with Oiwa. My money is on The Grip.

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11/10/2026

Noticed a lot comments online that Walter Hahn, aka WALTER and currently Gunther - arguably the greatest export Austria has ever produced to wrestling, is now somehow “washed” due to being booked in matches against the likes of Danhausen.

Let me be clear, do I think Gunther is wasted right now? Yes. I do think he’s hit his ceiling in WWE, I don’t think he’ll ever be booked to dethrone anyone from the Anoa’i family. But do I think he’s washed? ABSOLUTELY NOT. The man is too good.

And if you think he’s in bad booking right now, then let me take you back to 2007 and a young 18 year old wXw rookie heading off to Japan on the instructions of one of his co-workers Chris Raaber. With ZERO1 still using a Dojo that Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Riki Choshu and Tomohiro Ishii are running - the man known as Big Van Walter in Germany arrived in December 2006 to begin his training. Naturally it wasn’t long before Walter would make his debut…in the most bizarre of character gimmicks.

Gha-cha-ping was a play on the anthropomorphic green, bucktoothed dinosaur Gachapin from children’s educational tv series Hirake Ponkikki. Walter’s costume, theme music and even dyed hair was designed to resemble the popular children’s character. While the character would only last 4 months, it did give Walter the exposure he needed on the Japanese indies to be booked by other promotions. By 2008, the year he returned to start working Big Japan - the dinosaur character was dead. Still though, we get matches like this in the archives; facing the king of comedy Mitsunobu Kikuzawa: aka Kikutaro.

It could be worse folks.

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As confirmed yesterday, here’s the updated main event for Marigold Grand Destiny on October 24th inside Ryogoku Sumo Hal...
11/10/2026

As confirmed yesterday, here’s the updated main event for Marigold Grand Destiny on October 24th inside Ryogoku Sumo Hall.

As it stands it’ll be a 3 Way Winner Takes All Match. Someone is walking away with all the gold! I know there were some discussions that Miku wouldn’t be eligible for the Superfly title due to weight class, but that can be put to rest now.

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10/10/2026

We’re 9 days away from what to many is the beginning of the greatest era of wrestling the world has ever seen, but rivalries have to start somewhere and for some the 10th of October would lay the groundwork for what was to come.

We’re 4 months removed from Mitsuharu Misawa shocking All Japan and defeating Jumbo Tsuruta in the Budokan and a month removed from Jumbo getting his revenge, but the roles in the company have never been clearer. Misawa and his troops; Kawada and Kobashi, are on a relentless quest to surpass Jumbo and his veteran henchmen. They’re no longer the young upstarts, SGA are megastars in the making and no one more so than the Emerald Warrior. He’s the next Ace.

But standing in their way is more than a megastar. Jumbo Tsuruta is a Demi-God. To many, he’s the greatest hero of All Japan. The original Ace. Preternaturally good. But the heroic Babyface days are over now. Jumbo is bitter, Jumbo is angry, Jumbo refuses to give way to the next generation - Jumbo wants war and he will savagely beat anyone who gets in his way as he refuses to give up his place at the top of the mountain.

Problem is though, he doesn’t have Masa Fuchi with him as back up. His right hand bastard isn’t here, and instead we have a weaker veteran taking his place in Mighty Inoue.

Clearly this something SGA can exploit.

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BIG HASH RETAINS IN THE BEST MATCH OF SPIKE NISHIMURA’S CAREER!!! Seriously though, bit of a confusing match this one. F...
10/10/2026

BIG HASH RETAINS IN THE BEST MATCH OF SPIKE NISHIMURA’S CAREER!!!

Seriously though, bit of a confusing match this one. From watching this and from what I’ve read of comments online, the general agreement is that something went wrong during the match. Either Hashimoto is an Oscar-worthy seller of an injury OR she was legit hurt at the midway point - from second viewing it looked like she took a bad knock to the head from one of Spikes Thrust Kicks and it temporarily sparked her out, as well has left her with what I believe looked like temporary numbness in her arm. Wada-san and the entire roster at ring side looked concerned and it definitely seemed like they were trying to buy Hash some time to recover.

And somehow she did, and she came back like the Hammer of Thor. The closing stretch of the match was incredible, as a highly emotional Chi-Chan simply refused to stay down and ultimately landed one last Albright German to retain.

Chihiro Hashimoto is the best wrestler on the planet.

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BIG NEWS coming out of Marigold today as announced at the end of Battle Heart, the main event for Grand Destiny 2026 wil...
10/10/2026

BIG NEWS coming out of Marigold today as announced at the end of Battle Heart, the main event for Grand Destiny 2026 will be a HUGE Three Way Triple Crown Match.

It’ll be United National Champion Victoria Yuzuki vs Superfly Champion Mayu Iwatani vs Marigold World Champion Miku Aono…

WINNER TAKES ALL.

That’s right, Marigold are going to strap one of their biggest stars with ALL the singles belts.

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