I’ve been trying to write about Stardom for months. It’s been hard to see any clear direction in the company’s endless, seemingly circular faction wars; I couldn’t see where the…
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I have been squealing for days. Aja Kong will finally stand in a British ring at Pro: Wrestling EVE’s Wrestle Queendom next year, squaring up to the Vixen of Violence…
Arisa Nakajima & Tsukasa Fujimoto v Maruko Nagasaki & Mio Momono 1st Round Tournament Match For the Vacant International Ribbon Tag Team Championship Ice Ribbon Yokohama Ribbon 2017 ‘Autumn’ 23rd…
Manami Toyota’s Retirement Show Yokohama Osanbashi Hall 3rd November 2017 The match: Here’s a head-scratcher for you: imagine you’re one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time and you’re…
Ahead of AJW’s landmark reunion show this weekend, here’s why it was the greatest wrestling promotion of all time. We’ve had some dark times as women’s wrestling fans. Even as…
I Am the Future: Miyu Yamashita v Meiko Satomura, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Korakuen Hall, 28/08/17
Note: the two matches discussed in this article can be seen by subscribing to DDT Universe Let me begin as usual by talking about Saika Takeuchi. Her journey from hopeful…
Please note: the three matches discussed here are all available to view on Stardom World for the low low price of 750 Yen per month. There may be other ways of…
The Hall of Fame is a crock of shit, right? That’s what the ‘smarks’ always say. It’s a marketing tool; it draws mainstream attention; you either get inducted because Vince…
In The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, which I got for Christmas, Anna Lowenhaupt-Tsing uses the term “salvage accumulation” to…
Momo Watanabe v Jungle Kyona Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix, 11th of September 2016 Shin-Kiba First Ring The match: It’s the penultimate day of Stardom’s 5 Star Grand Prix tournament,…
How many heel turns can you list that have properly haunted you? Whose sense of injustice you couldn’t shake days or weeks later, even when you know it’s probably a…
The most important time of every Maintainer’s year: the Stompies. Our end of year awards are fast becoming the industry’s most prestigious accolades. Well, we’ve never really told anyone that…