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Basketball and hockey have never had major issues with PEDs. Although it has never seemed to be an important issue to athletes/media/fans in either sport.
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Stardom and Sendai Girls renew their rivalry with this tag main event. While Iwata sticks out as the obvious job girl here, I was really impressed with her. She does a great job of selling her beatdown while still managing to get her own shots in plus a few rollups for nearfalls. It's business as usual for the three. While it's not NJ/WAR, Stardom/Senjo still manages to capture that heated interpromotional rivalry that's been missing in Japan for awhile. **** -
This is the first title defense of the new Stardom World Alliance Championship. It was created during Stardom's tour of Europe back in May with the gimmick that it has to be defended between two wrestlers from different countries, in this case, Japan (Shirai) and Portugal (Shanna). I really like Shanna here. I've seen her a few times on the indys and she was always really solid, if unspectacular. She does have a couple of rough moments, but I liked how she picked up the intensity as the match went on. Io is basically what you would expect from Io Shirai at this point. With Stardom World you really get to see just how consistent she is from show to show. A solid, entertaining title match. ***3/4
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I believe she got some stage acting work or something like that. They announced that she was leaving for a while at the May Korakuen show but didn't say when she would be back. Stardom announce the lineup for their 5*GP tournament. Here's the poster for the finals with everyone on it: Looks like they are going back to the Stardom vs. World theme that they used earlier in the year.
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Stardom World is now off of YouTube and is now located here. They bumped the price up a bit but now there's no regional restrictions. The player is suppose to be the same as the one New Japan uses.
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This is booked like your standard OZ Academy match, which has a lot of brawling and interference. Still, these are two get the most out of this all things considered. In fact, Kato is really underrated as her matches usually have good selling and pacing. Mio Shirai works as a heel ref as she isn't clearly bias towards the heels throughout the match. Even though the overbooking weights the match down it's still an effective main event title match. ***1/2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKg1SEuZZ2I&feature=youtu.be Match starts at 1:18:38 A great vets vs. rookies tag match. Avid Rival spend most of the match beating their younger opponents which allows them to show off their cool offense. The rookies due manage to work in enough comebacks to stay a realistic threat for the win, especially with Kobayashi making every rollup come off as a nearfall. They do go a little too long as they work a draw but Ohata and Mizunami end up killing Kobayashi a bit too much before the bell. Overall, a really strong tag match with everyone playing their roles well. ****
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Match Link This is one of Takahashi's first matches outside of Stardom/SEAdLINNNG in quite a while, so it is interesting to see her take on some new opponents. Unfortunately, the TV version of this match has about a third of it clipped, but what is shown is great. Ohata is not the flashiest worker that you will ever see, but she makes everything she hits look like it made an impact. Takahashi does have a couple of iffy moments with selling and transitions although she looks fantastic on offense. Hopefully WAVE's streaming service shows this in full because the clipping is the only thing that's keeping me from calling it a MOTYC. ****
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[2016-03-06-Sendai Girls] Meiko Satomura vs Syuri
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Hojo vs. Hiroyo singles match is happening at Kenta Kobashi's Fortune Dream show on June 14.
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WAVE can have some shows that are pretty loaded with talent. Their main problem is that the booking is aimless. There is no real storylines, and their titles don't mean anything. They usually book short matches that are worked in a fairly spotty style. I'm taking a wait a see approach with this because the first new show they put up has clipped matches, which is bullshit for a streaming service. I can understand older shows being clipped due to not saving the footage but taping a show knowing your going to be starting a service like this up and still clipping matches is just dumb.
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As per Stardom's English twitter account, Stardom World is making some changes in July: Apparently another joshi group, Pro Wrestling WAVE, is also setting up a streaming service soon.
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Nominating: Io Shirai vs. Mayu Iwatani (Stardom 5/15)
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This is the title match that was setup after Iwatani won the Cinderella tourny a couple of weeks earlier. The match really comes off as a more cohesive version of the Io/Hojo match in January. Here, they do a much better job of mixing the heavy striking with the big moves. By the finish you really feel that Io won a war while Mayu managed to truly establish herself as a true rival in defeat. ****1/2
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This is the final to Stardom's Cinderella tournament, which is a one-night tourny where the matches have a 10 minute time-limit plus the option of winning via throwing your opponent over the top rope. This gets heated right off the bat as after Hiroyo gets knocked to the outside, Iwatani takes too long to follow up allowing Hiroyo to hurl a chair at her. She then quickly follows up by powerbombing her on the apron. The match turns into a bunch of bomb-throwing but they never forget to put over everything with their selling. I really wish that they hadn't gone with the battle royal style finish, even though it was well worked, since that was the only time that the teased that type of finish. ****
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This is a match for Stardom's six-women titles pitting Threedom (Io, Iwatani, Hojo) versus the Rookies (Watanabe, Kyona, Mimura.) The thing about this match that I liked the most was how the Rookies were able to earn their offense throughout the match. Usually in this type of setting, veteran(s) vs. rookies, they get their openings for offense through the arrogance of the vets. Even during the finish, it never feels like Threedom just flip the switch and put the Rookies away instantly. It comes off as them having earned their win. ***1/2
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Thread right here.
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The official line is that she initially left due to a "family emergency" and was suppose to come back after a month or so but never did so they ended up firing her. I think her parents freaked out over the Yoshiko/Act Yasukawa shoot incident on this same show and talked her out of being in wrestling.
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To be honest this match is much better if you watch it with some context. Emi was one of the original founders of Ice Ribbon but ended up leaving for "personal reasons," leaving Fujimoto to take over as head trainer/face of the promotion. Emi made her surprise return to the promotion a few weeks earlier as the mystery partner for Takahashi. Also, Nanae has a budding rivalry with Nakajima that started in her SEAdLINNNG promotion and carried over to this. Plus, this match came together after the initial match between Best Friends and Stardom's Thunder Rock fell apart. Anyway, the actual match starts off with a mat exchange between Nakajima and Takahashi, but after that it just turns into a slugfest. Sakura gains control over Fujimoto simply by chopping the hell out of her. Eventually the match is worked like a tag combining two singles feuds as anytime Arisa gets in the ring and goes right after Nanae, likewise with Tsukka and Emi. The finish does turn into a bit like the typical joshi tag finish with a ton of saves, but it works because of the story they established with Fujimoto surviving and overcoming her former mentor. A really awesome match. ****1/4
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Nominating: Tsukasa Fujimoto/Arisa Nakajima vs. Emi Sakura/Nanae Takahasi (Ice Ribbon - 5/4) I'll get a write up done later this week. I don't have internet on my desktop at the moment.
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Viper is more like Earthquake than Vader. She's not really athletic enough to have a really flashy offense.
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That channel just posted 3 Azumi Hyuga title matches vs Amazing Kong, Kaori Yoneyama, & Kayoko Haruyama so if you're looking to check her out because of GWE now is a good time.
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They also got raided pretty hard after Mania. Who would have thought that Crews, Corbin, and the Vaudevillans would all be up on the main roster by now, while Balor and Bayley are still in NXT? Of course they could get away with having those two work different tours but they don't trust Bayley to headline a house show by herself. People love to complain about Asuka working too stiff.
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Bayley vs. Asuka (NXT Take Over: Dallas, 4/1) - YES
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Pretty simple story here as the beloved champion takes on the dangerous undefeated challenger. This does get off to a slow and even awkward start, (Asuka stiffs Bayley with a forearm after their first lockup.) Once they they settle down, they do get into a nice groove with each other. I do like that Bayley went right at Asuka and never showed any fear but that does cost her at times as she gets out-struck and outclassed on the mat. She does adjust and learns to pick her spots which leads to some nice counters. Also, I enjoyed the announce team as both Phillips and Graves put over both of the matchup plus point out little stuff like Bayley trying to use submissions that had got her wins in previous title matches. Overall, an incredibly well done title match the is different from the typical fare you get from the WWE. ****1/4