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Its very much an honor/respect based culture and despite how it seems to us folks on the outside sometimes, VERY conservative. Affairs are seen as bringing shame to yourself and everyone around you, and one like TAKA's that went on for nearly a decade mean he was a liar as well as a shameful adulterer. So that's a double whammy for him.

TAKA's affair lasted like 7-8 years which is what made it particularly egregious in Japanese culture.

That's just one of those cultural things, that's highly frowned upon in Japan so it's not just someone in New Japan being a prude about it.

The announcement was that day three of Wrestle Kingdom will be a show on January 8 that will be NJPW X NOAH.

Gotta say, Smackdown was pretty solid again this week. They got me interested in two matches for Survivor Series: Becky/Charlotte for obvious reasons and after the closing angle I'm down for Roman and Big E to slap some meat.

Those photos are the wrestling equivalent of finding out your grumpy grandpa was a dashing young man in his day.

La Parka AAA was fine in the role, but a lot of the times he was pushed more as a state of proof that AAA owns the gimmick. He was a fine wrestler, but there's a reason when people think of "La Parka" they are thinking of LA Park and not him. Mistico is a guy who should be in the HOF by any tangible metric but will have a hard time getting votes because he's kind of a d-bag. He's like the Roger Clemens of Lucha.

....and despite all that he still caped for the company on Twitter, who then made him look like a giant clown by releasing him after. Also the "BS reports" he's referring to are ones saying he got heat for his comments about not being like the others who failed on the main roster because they can promo. Funny thing is if the reports are true, it's proof in his favor that the other things he said in his tweets are true. But he has to call them BS because a "dirt sheet" said it. WWE Brain is a serious problem, folks.

Honestly, Billy's always been a low key favorite of mine. He's not the greatest wrestler or anything, but the way he just goes full gusto in whatever he's doing with that big dumb puppy energy he has. I kinda feel like he gets a bad rap because he's been adjacent to people with stroke despite not having any of said stroke himself.

Imagine having Hit Row signed to your company and not thinking they were worth keeping around. As much as I want to LOL at Top Dolla for his tweet that was just begging to get dunked on, that's just mind boggling to me.

I guess that's the people who were being talked about for the last round of cuts.

He's pretty much radioactive to the point the only person who would do a show with him was Mark Madden of all people, who's made a bit of news here locally for having a temper tantrum and taking his ball and going home because he was making personal attacks on another local sports reporter.

I feel like the best answer here is to just search out Vikingo matches and you'll find some great stuff even it's in some barn looking setup with 20 people in the crowd. Lucha indies tend to be a pretty extreme case of hit and miss, every shows is either a hidden gem or some "the promoters of the show are doing some real The Producers shit here"

Who is currently on tour with said band and came back just to have a a match with Ishii.

It really does speak volumes that the most compelling reason to watch anything in WWE right now is to see if Charlotte and Becky end up beating the shit out of each other legit on live TV.

I didn't even realize how much I wanted to see Punk-MJF until that segment, and I was immediately like "yes, that will do"

Jay Lethal just seemed like a guy who did everything possible in ROH and was just spinning his wheels. He's always been good, he just was just badly in need of a change in scenery.

Pretty sure they announced Lethal signed with them already.

Saw that sign in the crowd saying the "this is awesome" chant sucks and I immediately wondered which PWO member it was

Still not sure why Lio Rush is dressed like a Power Ranger

Ishii and Rocky coming out with Best Friends is some "did my edible kick in early?" shit.

MJF doing his best coked out Roddy Piper in Mid Atlantic impression.

The "Bryan Danielson Murders the Dark Order Tour 2022" is going to be amazing.

As great as he is as a babyface, he's somehow he's even better as a tweener/heel.

That's the state motto for Virginia, since it's a popular place for weddings (I was married there too).