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What if they booked Rousey like Mike Tyson. Would Dana White go for that?

Just have them pound the crap out of each other and have Cesaro take Suplex City. It worked at Wrestlemania.

If Liger doesn't come out with his own selfie stick and a bunch of anime cosplay models, then this will just be a huge waste of time.

WWE has a much narrower view of women. If they signed someone like Goya Kong or Tsubasa Kuragaki and pushed them seriously that would be different. Have they ever signed anybody who had a tomboyish look? All of the bodybuilder types they sign always have strong feminine features.

Hikaru Shida was the supposedly the Japanese woman at the tryouts. She kinda fits the look, but I doubt that they sign her. She gave another woman a nasty concussion a couple of months ago, if the WWE see that then they'll lose interest. A lot of people say Kana, but she has more of natural look then what they go for. Kairi Hojo has been fantastic the last few months but she has more of a "girl next door" look to her. Although her vs Sasha might be the best potential babyface/heel matchup in wrestling. Mio Shirai is really charismatic and works a pretty simple style, but she retiring in the fall due to a bad neck. Yumi Ohka might be the best fit, her moveset is very WWE so she would just have to learn the "style". Her problem is that while she's attractive she doesn't really have a star quality about her. For Shimmer, they just signed Jessie McKay, who was probably the Diva looking woman that they used on a regular basis. I think Melissa would work, but if she hasn't signed by now I doubt she ever would. Athena might work if they're looking for a female Kevin Owens.

Kairi Hojo vs. Meiko Satomura (6/14/15) Stardom - World of Stardom title They work a 30 minute draw that never drags. While Satomura is terrific, it's Hojo's performance that really makes the match. Early on in the match, Hojo quickly establishes that she not afraid of going toe-to-toe with Meiko. She hits Satomura with a nasty backfist out of the opening collar & elbow, and breaks up a Boston Crab attempt with an even nastier slap. Of course, this doesn't always work out well for Hojo as she running into some nice submission counters and eating some really brutal looking shots. Around the halfway point though, you see Satomura start to get more aggressive. After Hojo rolls out of the ring, Meiko follows her out, drags her to the entrance, then lands a DVD with a sickening thud. She follows that up great looking backdrop suplex and the best looking sleeper you'll see. Hojo sells all of this beautifully but still manages to keep fighting back. She never just pops up and goes on offense, she seems to slip through a crack in Satomura's attack and get back in control through her own sheer will. Just an amazing must see match.

Josh Hamilton = Kerry Von Erich - I really hope Hamilton's life doesn't end like Kerry's did. Troy Tulowitzki = Daniel Bryan - Injuries + lack of opportunity to be successful at the big time. Alex Gordon = Rodrick Strong - Overrated guys who became underrated. Jeffrey Loria = Dixie Carter - Granted Loria has a WS ring but c'mon. Cubs prospects = NXT prospects - Lots of potential.

Kairi Hojo vs. Mayu Iwatani (5/17/15) Stardom - World of Stardom title Great showing for two women working their first main event singles match. I really like how both of them focus on a specific body part in an attempt to neutralize a major part of her opponent's offense. Iwatani goes after Hojo's arm to take away her elbow based offense. Hojo counters by going after Iwatani's abdomen to prevent her from hitting her dragon suplex, which legit KO her in a tag title match earlier in the month. With the way that both women work the selling into the match, it turns into a story of who is willing to work through the pain to hit her finisher first. Iwatani wins that battle but ends up landing too close to the ropes with Hojo rolling outside to recover. Hojo hits her top rope elbow drop but is too hurt to cover. They run through a bunch of desperation rollups but Hojo ended that with a couple of nasty back elbows to setup another top rope elbow for the win.

Oops forgot this one, late 00's JWP/NEO, recent Stardom (all of Io Shirai title defenses): http://www.dailymotion.com/user/cmrankin/1

Youtube: Most of the early 90's AJW shows: https://www.youtube.com/user/ringstarfield/videos Good mix of 80's/90's/00's on both of these: https://www.youtube.com/user/nagashimark/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/kapengmabula/videos Lots of 80's stuff: https://www.youtube.com/user/dazzlewrestle/videos Kana Pro official channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/tripletails/videos Rare joshi mixed in with all kinds of stuff: https://www.youtube.com/user/BestPuroresuVideos/videos Dailymotion: Almost all of the recent puro shows including some joshi: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/JAHMAL1111/1 http://www.dailymotion.com/user/RealHeroDos/1 Classic 80's mixed in with some other neat stuff: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/andylovesbears/1 Another one with a good mix of stuff: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/mbahbomaye/1 Best channel for recent joshi: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/NoCode1/1

Given the way Angle's life has gone, probably did Stephanie a huge favor too.

The biggest problem that the WWE has with women is their inability to consistently develop solid characters and give them good storylines. Over the last decade they show flashes of some of the women having good characters and had them in feuds that got decent TV/PPV time. The problem is there clear gaps in between those feuds that showed that they had clearly no idea or interest in the women and that, more than anything that had to do with match quality, ended up being reflected by the audience. While I'm a big Sasha Banks fan, I don't think the current women's roster is really any better than what they had in the late 2000's. You could take 6 women from that time and build just as good if not better women's division than what you could at this moment. So talent has never been an issue. Didn't they do this with Beth Phoenix?

The difference is that Sasha Banks looked closer to Savage than Warrior in her matches. Even if she bombs on the main roster that's not enough to write her off as a worker. Serena looked great after she got fired working indys and Japan. If injuries didn't pile up on her in the last few years she probably would have been resigned by now.

John Cena improved a lot from when he first started being pushed as a main guy. I'm pretty sure he has the busiest schedule out of anybody. If Sasha is green then they better postpone the GWE poll till she's a polished vet.

Balor vs Breeze If they want to make the how makeup deal really mean something then Balor needs to raise his in-ring work. Otherwise, he just looks like he's going to a comic con cosplaying his own fanfic character. Tyler Breeze needs a fresh dance partner. I like him as a worker and the gimmick is awesome, but he never seems to have matches that stand out. A feud with Solomon Crowe could be really good, but a step down career wise. Every WWE show needs a "Chinlock City" sign. Women's Tag Pretty much filler. Didn't really advance the Bailey/Emma feud. Teased Charlotte/Dana but that could really expose Charlotte and they're really trying to protect her. Dana looks like somebody who's more interested in her entrance and poses than her in-ring work. Corbin vs Rhyno It will be interesting to see how patient they are with Corbin. He looks like a guy they keep talking themselves into keeping but there is no guarantee that he'll get any better or worse than what he is now. Tag Titles So, the storyline leading up to this was centered around Carmella. Then, when they actually have the match she's an afterthought. It would have helped the champs get over better if they worked a couple of spots with her but that's the problem with most WWE heels. They're only heels during promos and back stage stuff. Did love Enzo selling, especially after the hot tag. Love/hate the finish. Enzo's selling did make it plausible for little Alexa Bliss to take her out, but it did make Cass look like the biggest idiot in the room for literally leaving Enzo hanging to check on Carmella. Women's Title Sasha Banks... just WOW!!! I mean Becky Lynch was really good definitely not just along for the ride but it still felt like it was the Sasha show. Pretty much everything she did meant something, all of the little things she added worked. Hard to believe she gone from being a nobody to, arguably, a top 5 woman in the world. Only Meiko Satomura and Kana are clearly better. I'll have to rewatch some stuff but this might be the best women's match to happen in a U.S. promotion. Main Event Maybe it's just me, but this match seemed like it was designed to write Sami Zayn out of NXT. With Joe showing up, it looked like they were trying to replace the fallen hero with a new one. The match itself was fine, maybe hurt by what it had to follow. The brawling was good but it only felt like they were using it to move around to setup the next spot/sequence. If they're going to do these injury stoppages then they should get someone to play a ringside doctor. It would make it more clear to the audience as to what is going on rather than gang of refs/security they use to break up any other type of similar situation. I loved Joe's promo at the end but he's got to get rid of the 8 bit video game theme music.

I like Bolshoi a lot, especially after she adopted more of a Yoshida-like matwork style. Still, I'd have a tough time putting her in the top 10 of women who were part of the JWP active roster during their careers. You could say she was underutilized, but she been running JWP since the early 2000's, so that's kind of a weird point to make.

Fans throwing streamers during intros, especially when it's a big match with two really over workers and the fans just bury them when the ring announcer calls his/her name.

Michael Cole yelling "He's going to Wrestlemania!" sounds so hollow when anyone who knows anything about the business side knows that they're going to try and get as many people on the roster as they possibly can.

It's the right move if they go for it. Irregardless of how hurt Zayn is, he's probably on the main roster sometime this summer anyway. That leaves a big hole at the top of the card that I'm not really sure that either Balor, Itami, or a face-turned Breeze could fill. Joe's recent ROH run showed that he could probably get himself into that spot rather quickly, if allowed to. Anyway, if your planning to watch Unstoppable, you should check out this week's show. Just a great "Go Home" show from start to finish. From Corbin vs Crowe's stiff shots and crazy bumping, to the combination of creative editing and dumb luck that allowed them to work Zayn's injury into the main event. Hell, Carmella had a really good promo that got her over without Enzo and Cass around. The only match I'm worried about is Banks/Lynch. If I was creative I'd be worried about the crowd wanting to turn Sasha face since Becky doesn't really have a character. I don't think the crowd will get behind her smiling babyface who's "living the dream" when she pretty much stole this title shot from Charlotte.

The Devil vs. Chigusa match mentioned earlier in the thread should be something you check out. Some recent stuff that non-stereotypical Joshi: Azumi Hyuga's matches vs. Kaori Yoneyama (12/9/07) and Kayoko Haruyama (4/29/08), both Kana vs Meiko Satomura from Kana Pro (2/13/11 and 2/25/14),

Amano must be in be shape because she never really did anything physical on the show. A real shame that she didn't get to go out on her own terms. Props to Ozaki, Kansai, and Aja though, this was the second retirement show in less than a week for them. They where in Chicago for Tomoka Nakagawa's retirement match a few days earlier. Also of note, Sonoko Kato and Chikayo Nagashima had their 20th anniversary match on the same show.

Dash Chisako & Sendai Sachiko vs. Nanae Takahashi & Kairi Hojo - Sendai Girls 3/11/15 - Two fun teams have a super fun match. The Jumonji Sisters have a bunch of slick double teams and aren't afraid to sell like crazy. Takahashi & Hojo have a nice vet/rookie dynamic with some fun double teams of their own. They also manage to not go too long on the finish.

This is an issue, Sendai Girls really only made TV maybe once or twice a year. Meiko does show up at Stardom every once and a while. Then there's the question of whether it gets put online or picked up by a tape dealer. Then there's the question of if it stays online (YouTube deleted a bunch of good joshi accounts in the last month).

Each match is up on Youtube.

I just want to see these guys take turns clubbing each other for 10 to 15 minutes. Plus, Zigger vs Bryan always has Dolph trying matwork. How often do you see that in a WWE match?