Alex

I'm not quite sure of my top 10, but here's what I have so far (not in order): Jaguar Hokuto Eddie Hansen Bull Rey Flair Santito Tenryu Casas

That was a fun two hours. I enjoyed Mercedes slugging it out with Kana and the submission match the most. I'm so glad Mercedes and Kylie didn't go the Benoit/Angle route for the submission match, and the no ropes stip was dope and loved the use of the streamers. I will definitely be checking out more of her.

If you ever get in contact with that guy, let me know.

My favorite wrestler of all time. Could pretty much do everything well, promos, storyline acting, matches were fantastic and he had good matches with a variety of quality of wrestlers and in different settings. His 2004 year is one of my favorite wrestling performances for a year, and he had a lot of strong matches in 2003 and 2005 (that June Smackdown match with Rey goddamn) also. He's a lock for my top 10. It just sucks he had so many matches with Benoit (I can't watch them anymore).

Ice Ribbon has a thing on niconico, it's around $5/month.

I miss the Joshi forum from Smarkschoice, I learned so much from that place. That forum was a huge reason why I got into Joshi in the first place. Sure there were the creepy posts once in a while, but it was overall super informative. I know people make fun of Coey, but he was a big fan of joshi as well, and spider twist was a pretty good resource along with Lorefice. It seems like Lorefice doesn't watch joshi as much as he used to, but still collects everything. I wonder what has happened to wolverine, pantherwagner, Rob, and FLIK. I know PUNQ is religiously watching every movie ever made. Looking at that list, it surprises me that Yoshida wasn't in the top 25. Seemed like everyone was a stan of hers. Once AJW and GAEA closed up shop, Joshi got super niche super quick. I never saw anyone post about Joshi on the regular boards except for the same 90's shit. I kinda have to thank Ronda being such a huge star that the WWE wanted a piece of that action as well, and now the WWE has a real women's division that isn't used for bathroom breaks. Stardom have done a good job of getting more westerners watching and keeping them after Shirai and Hojo have left. I sort of have 80s yearbooks in the works. I have the footage, it's just extremely time consuming to put that stuff together. I have no idea how Will did so many sets in such a small amount of time. What a workhorse.

I have about 30 - 35 matches of hers.

Satanico is a good one.

I'm about to make some popcorn for that list. I only have two women above Bull.

That was my first time doing a watch party, and it went awesome. I've seen those matches before, but it's Jaguar, I'm always down for some rewatches. The chat was great and added to the experience. I will try to do the other ones, especially for the stuff I've never seen before.

I don't want to be negative on a wrestler, but I can't stand her, I almost always fast forward her segments. She has to be second coming of Jaguar in the next five years to crack my list. She's certainly had some fun matches (I've liked her vs Sasha), but nothing great. Maybe if I one of extremely creepy fans, I'd give her a vote, but I'm not.

I thought it was Kitano, definitely looked and sounded like him, but wasn't sure. Thanks!

I'm well aware that she loves Joshi, I just wanted to make the correction. I agree with you that Ozaki influence is totally there.

Yeah the 4/4 show was pretty good overall, it didn't have the any horrible like the 3/3 show did (goddamn that battle royale sucked). The main event ran too long for me. Bea/Utami was the MOTN for me.

Pretty sure it's Eddy Guerrero. I may be misremembering, but I think I saw that her favorite joshi wrestler was Toyota. Anyway, OZ Academy is stuff I need to watch.

She was always going to be on my list, the WM main event just made her case even stronger. Holy shit that was great. She can only go up further on the list for me.

Maybe the Joshi Mix guy has more stuff, I'm definitely interested if we can get more. The only other thing I have with Akagi is with her and Jaguar on a comedy show.

S-tier wrestler. Definite top 5 for me. The only run where I haven't seen anything of hers is her Reina Jabuki run in CMLL. Are there any good matches from her there?

I admittedly have not watched a lot of WWE in the past year or so, so I haven't really watched Bayley's heel run. What are the good matches she's been in since turning?

I liked that match also, I just feel bad for Momoe.

Bump! Speaking of hair vs hair matches, Stardom just had one during the All-Star Dream Cinderella PPV between Giulia and Tam Nakano. The show was pretty awesome overall, mostly good to great matches (and none of the main matches are that long either) with a great main event.

Stardom All-Star Dream Cinderella PPV 2021.03.03 Nippon Budokan I have no idea why they booked such a big show in a big venue where you can’t fill it with people. High Speed Championship: AZM (c) vs Natsupoi Of course, they do the superfast paced matrix intro for the match. First diving double stomp looked pretty weak, but the second one looked ok. AZM pretty much was dominating and did a flying nothing so Natsupoi could get a dropkick in. Natsupoi bridges are gorgeous. Lots of pinning attempts in the home stretch, Natsupoi hits three bridging/rolling German and gets the straight jacket suplex for the pin! New champ! Match was a pretty good spotfest, most of the moves hit pretty well. AZM being only 18 is crazy. Goddess of Stardom Championship: Maika & Himeka (c) vs Natsuko Tora & Saki Kashima Cool spot where Himeka gets both Oedo Tai members in the Torture Rack. This match felt like filler, they just didn’t get a good rhythm going. Nice to see that the WWE let Io Shirai cut a promo for Stardom. Tanahashi! Kairi Hojo! Main Card: All-Star Rumble I do prefer the Rumble format over Battle Royales, it’s just strange they don’t give more time in-between entrances but granted this isn’t the main event. Because of this the ring fills up really fast. Lots of comedy spots. Lady C is the first to get eliminated by Kyoko Inoue. Inoue gets another Lariat for another elimination but is ganged up afterwards and gets pinned. Mima Shimoda! Chigusa Nagayo and Kikutaro are the last to enter. Kikutaro doing his schtick, being a creepy old man, really could have done with this. Unagi Sayaka ultimately wins over the Cosmic Angels girl in the final three. Momo Watanabe vs Nanae Takahashi (SEAdLINNNG) Lots of strikes to start off, Nanae gets the early advantage after a german suplex and more strikes. These girls were working their asses off! Very good, though short match, barely 10 minutes long. SWA Undisputed Title: Syuri (c) vs Konami Matwork opens with Konami getting the extension of the armbar, and the control of the opening moments. Konami brought some cool armwork, but we go to suplexes almost right away. Pretty short match, I would’ve preferred if they got more time for what kind of match they were going for. Konami taps out to a cool submission. Pretty decent match. Mayu Iwatani vs Yoshiko (SEAdLINNNG) Akira Hokuto on commentary! Yoshiko gives Mayu the bird before the match. Clear roles to begin with, Mayu – the babyface technical wrestler, Yoshiko the power rudo. Mayu’s tope was so fast, looked like she could’ve hurt herself. Mayu sells the backbreaker like death. The women definitely worked very hard, and the finishing stretch was very good. Match of the card so far, almost great. World of Stardom Title: Utami Hayashishita (c) vs Saya Kamitani Clearly defined roles again, Utami the more powerful wrestler, Saya the flashy type. Saya’s flashiness gets her controlled by Utami, and Utami starts hitting power move after power move. Saya comes back with a dropkick and a huracanrana and hits a tope con hilo. Saya pretty much had control afterwards and gets a springboard huracanranda for a 2.9. Saya hits a Stardriver, but was slow to cover letting Utami get a kickout. Phoenix splash misses, and Utami goes back on offense hitting a Torture Rack bomb for a two. Black Tiger Bomb gets reversed into a huracanrana for a HUGE 2.9. Two lariats and a Black Tiger Bomb later and Utami gets the dub. Utami definitely made Saya look like a million bucks even though Saya probably shouldn’t be in a title match. Very good match. Bea Priestly calls out Utami afterwards. Hair vs Hair Wonder of Stardom Title: Giulia (c) vs Tam Nakano Here we go…grudge match for a long feud and a lucha de apuesta to up the ante! Things get going pretty quickly, and Giulia hits a piledriver on the table! Tam is definitely selling Giulia’s beatings and even after reversing a Glorious Driver to a reverse DDT, Tam still can’t get up. Eventually she gains her strength, hits a plancha and a Tiger Suplex. Tam can’t hit a second Tiger, but hits Giulia’s Glorious Driver instead. Tam kicks the shit out of Giulia, but Giulia hits a backdrop driver. Glorious Driver by Giulia for two. Both women slap the shit out of each other, with Nakano selling being loopy and then slaps Giulia while Giulia has her hands tied behind her back. Giulia returns the favor, the last one sounding real hard. Nakano with two spin kicks then a Tam Screwdriver!!!! Twilight Dream for the win and Nakano’s first white belt!!!! Damn what a match! Tam and Giulia deliver promos afterwards and Giulia sits in the chair to get her hair cut. Nakano doesn’t want to cut Giulia’s hair, so Giulia gets one of the guys nearby to do it, but he doesn’t finish. The two talk afterwards and Giulia shows Nakano respect. Great show, I would say this is a borderline 5-star show, but I have to give it a 4 since the rumble match was awful and the longest match of the show. Everything else is completely watchable, with every match except the tag being ranging from good to great, and a MOTY contender main event makes this a HIGH RECOMMENDATION. 4.5/5 show.

I fully support this.