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The motivation for AJW wrestlers working the style that they did was that they didn't think that they would get noticed any other way. Osamu Nishimura in the 00's was able to take a dated style and adapt it to the style of the time with the result being that he got really over by having some tremendous matches.
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To preview their Wonder of Stardom title match on Saturday, Stardom up loaded the Starlight Kid vs. Tomoka Inaba match from opening night of the 5 Star Grand Prix. One of the better matches from the whole tournament.
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New Japan ran multiple dome shows in the 90's when the Japanese economy was more screwed up than it is now. Stardom is doing record attendance, Noah is doing well hitching their wagon to OZAWA, even All Japan has done well when one of their younger wrestlers get hot.
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Whole show streaming for free on YouTube:
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Playoffs are set for the 5*GP. First round and quarters are on August 20th with the semis and finals on the 23rd. Block winners who get a bye to the quarter-finals: Saroi Anou, Sareee, Saya Kamitani, and Natsupoi. First round match-ups: * Suzu Suzuki vs. Bozilla > winner faces Anou * Ami Sohrei vs. Momo Watanabe > winner faces Sareee * AZM vs. Hanan > winner faces Kamitani * Bea Priestley vs. Rina > winner faces Natsupoi
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Stardom streamed the last 3 matches of this show on their YouTube channel so you can watch this match plus Starlight Kid vs. Rina and Saya Kamitani vs. Mei Seira for free.
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The Konami/Sareee match from the opening night of the 5 Star GP was a highly entertaining follow up to this. Konami's post-match promo was wild as well. Sareee/Momo Watanabe on August 16 might be the most anticipated match for the rest of the tournament.
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Highly recommend checking out Stardom's July 24 show from Korakuen. One of the best shows that they've had this year, especially the last 3 matches. The trios felt like a 90's interpromotional match, helped by the "Support the home team even though they're heels" crowd. AZM/Bozilla turned the monster/underdog dynamic on it's head. The main was surprisingly great, with Ruaka of all people doing the heavy lifting.
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Watched the Stardom Sapporo Rendezvous show. I would recommend checking out the top two title matches (Saya Kamitani vs. Natsupoi and Starlight Kid vs. Saori Anou) especially if you're tired of the formulaic nature of modern Japanese title matches. While you could be nitpicky about the limb selling SLK/Anou, they do end up working it into the finishing stretch (particularly the actual finish of the match itself) in superb fashion. Meanwhile, if you had told me that Kamitani and Natsupoi built a match around taunting and brawling I would have expected the worst but the two of them did a tremendous job to make it work. Kinda shocked that the Star Crusher is such protected as a finisher.
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5 Star Grand Prix lineup has been announced. THIRTY TWO (32!) women entered. Sareee and Bea Priestley are in. Syuri, Hazuki, Koguma and Saki Kashima are not.
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Not sure if this would be the right thread to mention this, but if anyone is looking for a relatively easy way to cast videos from your phone to a TV I recommend using Web Video Caster app on the Amazon Fire Stick. I haven't had any buffering issues that I would almost always have with Chromecast, even with 1080p videos. You can also use the Fire Stick's remote to control the video instead of wasting battery on your phone. Worked pretty well for me using Wrestle Universe and Stardom World. Archive.org and Google Drive stuff might take a couple of tries to get running but once the video starts it has ran well. Thought I would mention this since it's Prime Days so Fire Sticks will be cheap.
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Happy Canada Day! {Insert #ElbowsUp joke}
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The IWGP title has always felt like a refashioned SWA title. It certainly helps that name wrestlers from outside of Stardom have gone after it. How Stardom handles Sareee's reign will be interesting given Stardom's raised profile in the Japanese mainstream along with Sareee associating herself with Inoki's legacy. In a interview with Tokyo Sports, Sareee said that she wants to be in this year's 5 Star GP. I also preferred the draw from earlier this year than the title switch. Granted, the former had the advantage of that type of match being in a small venue. Not sure the match would come off the same if it was in a big gymnasium like the latter. I really enjoyed the finish of the title switch though. It felt Sareee knew that the match was starting to slip away from her so her finisher spamming at the end felt justified because she had to blitz Syuri hard in order to grab the win. I want to mention that the Goddesses title match from this show was pretty good too. Especially the strike exchanges between Hanan and Natsupoi, which were intense and non-formulaic. The best match from what has been a underwhelming wing*gori title reign. Bozilla showing up in Stardom was surprising. It's a nice fit since she need to clean up her sloppy, sometimes dangerous, execution. Also, with how hot Stardom is at the moment, it keeps profile high if she wants to get signed by either AEW or WWE in the near future.
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Now would be a good time for an episode of Way of the Blade with Phil and Tom K just do a audio version of their DVDVR Review.
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The WCW channel seems to be doing well too. It's at 291k subscribers with just under 50 million views after starting 7 months ago. Meanwhile, the NXT channel that was started just a week earlier, has 158k subscribers with 27.5 million views. Hopefully this is a sign that interest is more into older footage than more recent stuff.