/wooo/ - Pro Wrestling

Yamashita "Pink Striker" Miyu
Three time and current Princess of Princess Champion as well as one time former SHINE Champion and former three time Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. Coming from a family of traditional Japanese martial artists and raised in dojo with a storied history spanning twelve generations, she has trained in Kyokushin Karate as well as Brazilian Jui-Jitsu and Judo from the age of 6. One of the original Tokyo Joshi she is the sole remaining member of the founding class of students that began the promotion. Noted for her fierce strikes as well has her clumsiness she quickly garnered the nickname "Pink Striker" owning to her choice in ring gear and her penchant for accidentally knocking her opponents unconscious. The Ace of the promotion, Miyu has consistently maintained her position in the upper ranks of competition.

Sakazaki "Magical Girl" Yuka
Originally a member of a comedy troupe Yuka transitioned into professional wrestling in the hopes that the experience could provide stories and characters which she could use to further her career in comedy. Despite an initially disappointing debut Yuka awoke to a passion for professional wrestling that led to her becoming one of the most ardent players in the joshi wrestling. Her light-hearted gimmick based style, habit of mobbing the camera, and using every chance she can to perform comedy spots for the audience which earned her the nickname "Magical Girl" belies her true nature; Sakazaki is a fiercely competitive, aggressive, and short tempered individual who has driven others she deems as lazy and uncommitted into retiring from the sport. She is a former two time Princess of Princess Champion in addition to holding the distinction of being a two time Tokyo Princess Tag Team Champion. Since her debut in AEW in 2019 Yuka has devoted herself even further to reaching the pinnacle of Joshi wrestling and has put on a significant amount of muscle as well as broadly widening her repertoire of moves.

Two of the current "Four Pillars of Joshi" they have only face one another in singles competition twice before. Despite Yuka having won on both previous occasions Miyu is heavily favored to win.

Akiyama "Blue Thunder" Jun
Trained by the legends Giant Baba, Kenta Kobashi, and Jumbo Tsuruta, Akiyama has spent the last twenty-nine years building his own legend as one of the greatest wrestlers in Japanese history. A technical wrestler famed as an innovator of numerous moves which have entered mainstream wrestling he is known for his serious in-ring demenour and causticly sarcastic promos. With a background in Amatuer wrestling he was part of the famed Senshu University wrestling team of the 1980s and counted such future puro greats Riki Choshu, Hiroshi Hase, and Manabu Nakanishi as his team mates. A thoughbred of wrestling he has served as the president, representative director, co-head booker of All Japan Pro Wrestling as well as following Misawa in the great exodus to help found NOAH his list of championships and accomplishments is simply too numerous to list.

==HARASHIMA
With twenty years of in-ring experience and over 1500 matches in 21 different promotions HARASHIMA is not to be underestimated. Trained in the Dramatic Dream Team dojo he debuted in 2001. Despite an underwhelming early career he gradually grew in experience and skill and earned himself championships and accomplishments in multiple promotions. In his home promotion of DDT HARASHIMA has earned himself the honor of being the Ace, having carried the company through some of its darkest times and helping to ensure that it weathered the loss of such stars as Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega. While HARASHIMA may not be the legend that Akiyama is, HARASHIMA is known for never having a bad match and pulling out all the stops and putting on amazing performances when it really counts. To paraphrase Weekly Pro Wrestling
>The bigger the match, the brighter he shines.

To the best of my knowledge these two have never faced one another in singles competition. Akiyama is heavily favored to win despite HARASHIMA's relative youth. Not only does Jun possess a massive advantage in both size and experience, but in their recent tag matches facing one another Akiyama has demonstrated a dominant pressence. Can he maintain this advantage without the chance to rest that a tag match provides? Only tonight will tell.

Kenji Mutoh
The Great Muta, the Super Ninja, the Natural Born Master, 610, the Genius of Pro Wrestling, Space Lone Wolf, The Pearl Of The Orient. What could I say that would do him justice? Entire promotions have been built on Mutoh's work and have collapsed in his absence. This very event would not be happening were it not for Mutoh deciding to work for a nearly dead NOAH and reviving it in less than a year. Mutoh's existence is so pervasive that even the way he breathes has influenced wrestling to such an extent that the raspy exaggerated breath so commonly affected by Japanese wrestlers is nothing more than a mimicry of Mutoh's shoot asthma. One of the Three Musketeers of NJPW and personally trained by Hiro Matsuda, Kotetsu Yamamoto, and Antonio Inoki. He came from a background in Judo and had already become an international champion before he had even finished his excursion. He is the only wrestler to have won the three major titles of puroresu (AJPW's Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship, and NOAH's GHC Heavyweight Championship) and the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship. He is also a twelve-time world tag team champion, being a five-time AJPW's World Tag Team Champion, six-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, and a one-time WCW World Tag Team Champion. When the final chapter of this weird little hobby of ours is written Mutoh will be remembered as one of the greatest of the greats, a man that has effected not just his homeland, but the entire sport of wrestling in the end of the 20th century.
But no legend is immortal, time marches on and human existence is weak and short lived. He is 58 years old. His body is broken and worn. He no longer has knees as they were replaced in 2009 with artificial joints.

Naomichi "Junior Genius" Marufuji
If Mutoh is the spirit of 20th century Japanese Wrestling then Marufuji is a strong contender for the spirit of the 21st. Small of stature, humble, and quiet Marufuji, along with KENTA, has done the most to change the perception of the Junior Heavyweight class. Marufuji is a former three-time GHC Heavyweight Champion, as well as the first of two men to win Junior Heavyweight Championships in all three major Japanese promotions. Prior to Marufuji, Jrs were relegated to the midcard. Even under the height of 20th century wrestling, the likes of Tiger Mask, Dynamite Kid, and Liger were seen as little more than something to fill the card with while people waited for the draw. Even Liger's Super J-cup, and the subsequent Best of the Super Juniors, couldn't change the perception of Jrs as perennial midcarders. Marufuji in his feud with KENTA elevated the Jrs to legitimate mainevent status. Carrying NOAH through it's dark years following Misawa's death he held the promotion together, and it was only as he began to age out and could no longer headline every show that NOAH's collapse began. Despite that Marufuji struggled to hold together his teach and mentor Misawa's dream. When Kobashi, Akiyama, Shiozaki, and Kanemaru left, when the management was exposed as having ties to the yakuza, when they lost their tv deals and lost money on every show any other man would have given up out of despair, but Marufuji held on. Now, after almost a decade of decline, NOAH is regaining its status and Marufuji is fulfilling the promise he made to the man he thought of as a father; that no matter what may happen he would not let the Ark sink and that there would always be a place for the kind of wrestling Misawa loved.

JoShizzle's career retrospective of the Miyu/Yuka rivalry

My suspicions regarding Toribami were confirmed. Her promotional images clearly showed an older women under the mask which is unusual as most Joshi are scouted young so that they can capitalize on their looks as long as possible. So far she has demonstrated the highest technical skill in the match confirming my hunch that she was a former wrestler from another promotion. He moves are clean, skillful, and with no mistakes or botches despite the high skill level of what she is attempting. The only question is who she is and where she is from.

Mirai continues to show herself as the most promising of the young wrestlers. Less than a year since she began training and she has suppassed many of her seniors in the promotion. Having her perform in a large arena like this really emphasises her star potential.

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And she knocks Mahiro's head half off her shoulders and pins her clean 1 2 3 with no resistence.

Based Big Booba

Delayed entry Battle Royale with the current Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship Saki Akai competeing. The Ironman Heavymetalweight belt can be won in any match under any ruleset simply by pinning the person who currently holds it resulting in over 1500 title holders in the 21 years it has existed. Potentially it could pass hands 15 times tonight. Saki will have a hard time holding onto the title should anyone decide to go for it.

Based Olympic grandpa working with a prosthetic leg.

And Muslim Disco Grandpas all coming in at once because fuck the rules they are too funky

And the disco grandpas are rebranding themselves as the Saitama Excitment Army and get shit wrecked by everyone else

Saki approaches.

I kneel Hapa queen.

Oh shit, Saki lost the belt at a house show on the 30th. I didn't even know that. She had a long reign for an Ironman HebbyQ

The Ganbare champ enters the ring and General Saki commands everyone to gang up on him. Saki roles herself out under the ropes, I do not know what the rules for this BR are, but she may just be gaming the system.

And she rolls back into the ring as soon as Yuna Masane made her entrance.

Yuji Hino approaches as the first serious contender. No sells Yuna and Saki's offense

Everyone has now entered and the first elimination is Oishi.

The NOAH fans are just staring at the ring in complete confusion at this mix of DDT, Ganbare, Gatoh Move, and TJPW wrestlers doing a clusterfuck of a comedy match.

Bodies are dropping quickly now.

Yoshiaki Yatsu, 64 years old, with one leg, has shown the purest actual wrestling tonight which should come as no surprise from a former Olympic contender and MMA pioneer.

And then was quickly eliminated.

Three remain.

No one care about the rules. It is your typical DDT booked shitshow. Saki is somehow still in and took a devastating Muscle Buster from Mohammed Yone.

Officially only two left. Somehow Antonio Honda has survived to the end. Proof of the hybrid vigour only hapas are capable of.

Hapas are superior

And 100,000 yen richer

Ganbare six-man tag match. Don't know what to expect because Ganbare is a mix bag and no show I have ever seen was ever like another.

Very high paced match. Not particularly good but I am impressed by how hard these guys are working. I have only ever seen them work in parking lots with no mats before so they are giving everything they have to make use of this opportunity. The younger guys in particular are working stiff as fuck and just /HEEM/ing the shit out of each other. The moment one starts to gas out they tag someone in.

Honestly I was pretty impressed by the end. Everyone looks like they are half dead in a match with six people that lasted maybe ten minutes. They must have practiced for this match like you wouldn't believe. No wasted movement, going full speed from spot to spot, and they managed to make it look not completely unrehersed unlike you see with some of those AEW spot monkey matches that are likely just as scripted.

I hope some of these younger guys get a shot in the future. They have a lot of heart.

Akki is an absolute shitter on commentary but he is correct about Yuka's vindictive and violent nature. He even brought up how she shot on her tag partner and shoot friend Mizuki over an accident. He did however completely glossed over the fact Yuka kicked one of Mizuki's teeth out.

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And the preshow is officially over and the show has begun. I hope this does well. In one of the many build up interviews Yuka alluded to the fact that if the show is not well recieved CyberAgent will lose a lot of faith in the CyberFight brand. This could lead to significant cuts in budget which could cripple the smaller promotions run by CyberFight and lead them to a permanent decline. The healthy competition that the CyberFights promotions has provided an alternative to Bushiroad's promotions. I wouldn't call myself a joshi fan, but I have been watching since I have subscriptions. I prefer the less mentally damaged girls in TJPW to their Scardom counterparts. Also NOAH has been amazing lately and been providing a consistently better product than NJPW for a year now. DDT has not, nor has ever been, a style of promotion I have enjoyed. Still I would not like to see one of the few Japanese promotions that actually takes the time to train and grow young talent die out.

wtf very short match. Didn't even have time to start typing my impression before it was over. Iino's team should not have lost that quickly even if it was his Kojima tapping out.

I hope the rest of the matches don't end up in squashes like that.

The Hero Misao appears! and with her is the niggest Kaiju
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Best Botch Machine Chinese Diaper is at it again. Braparetsu sister and Kyoraku Kyomei are working their asses off harder than I have ever seen and KWABITO DORAGON is shitting it up. I am glad they took the PoP off of her even if it meant another Pink Striker administration.

Miu, as usual, looks like she is enjoying the pain she can inflict on other humans.

Shoko still has a better 619 than Rey "BOYAKA BOYAKA I KILLED MAN" Mysterio

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Miu straight up deadlifting a sandbagging Shoko from the floor to powerbomb position in a pretty impressive feat of strength for a girl.

Based Biggest Kaiju 147 takes the W after an assist from granny PaMi

Jesus, Akki is terrible on the commentary. Even the nip magazine writer who can barely speak English is more coherent and has better takes.

Whelp this is the wild card match. Dino and SSM vs. Sugiura and Sakuraba. It is going to be rough for Sakuraba to carry three people, especially when two of them are absolute shitter "comedy" acts that will be going out of their way to make the match as bad as possible for a "rib"

And SSM is announcing some sort of special rules and conditions. This is gonna be bad.

SSM's meandering mic bullshit is taking longer than Iino's opening match. I guess they are really playing up this interpromotional match shit since he is going through an entire explanation of the DDT/NOAH promotional differences in style and presentation.

I hope Sakuraba shoot /HEEM/s these faggots after wasting ten minutes of my time to say
>DDT is a comedy promotion
>NOAH takes itself seriously
>Except Sakuraba
>He doesn't take wrestling seriously
No shit you fat jobber. He is an actual fighter, and an extremely skilled one with an incredible reputation. Why the fuck would he take this shit seriously.

Sakuraba seems like he is half seriously shooting on Dino as a sort of warning to not play his stupid comedy faggot shit. Just a warning kind of thing.

Sakuraba is taking some liberties with SSM

Okay Sakuraba is letting Dino get some of his comedy shit in and then giving him a reciept with a genuine ankle lock. He is definitely fucking with these guys.

Suguira and Sakuraba started corpsing to one of SSM's comedy bits so there is that.

Okay pretty underwhelming ending. Sakuraba is still kind of giggling over the pantyhose comedy bit which might have savede Dino from a shoot RNC when he pulled him off of Suguira for the finish.

Suguira apologizes to the audience for how shit the match was.

Artists rendition (1954 colorized) of Shoko Nakajima (147cm Biggest Kaiju) carrying the entire show.

Kitamiya and Okatani showing the first real match of the night outside of the Ganbare preshow.

NOAH squashes DDT again. Kitamiya is a beast and it is to be expected, but it was nice that a DDT performer actually tried to wrestle and not do their comedy shittery.

This is going to be a terrible match. You have Maki Shitoh who has not improved at all this year on one side and the D-list second stringer from the Jannetty of AKB idol on the other side. They are clearly going to turn this into an idol versus idol thing. In the process they are wasting the International Princess title holder, Hikari, who is a deathmatch wrestler in a tag match for what will be the match with the least bumps of the night. They are also wasting the single most over wrestler in TJPW, Mizuki, by putting her in a match with no one capable of the speed and strength to handle her hyper-agressive highspeed style. So Mizuki will have to slow everything down to a crawl so that the shitters can handle her.

The teams are entirely one sided with Mizuki and Hikari on one team.

The new idol is a complete fuckup and has no idea what she is doing. Itoh is still pretty clearly worked by the fact a young, prettier, and more successful idol failed downward into her gimmick and is using the chance to throw a couple of potatoes knowing the new girl can't do shit.

Fuck this new idol is bad.

Based Mizupyon comes in and clears the shitters out of the ring before having to work like she is underwater so Kamifuku doesn't end up botching a catch causing Mizuki to break her neck.

Marika was doing her dad's signature chops with the new idol, clearly enjoying the fact she is no longer the newest person on the roster, but then immediately had to stop once Hikari came in so she wouldn't catch a shoot bunch to the face.

Maki is back in the ring with the new idol and taking liberties, again.

Maki's wrestling hasn't improved, but her heel work has. I guess all it took to motivate her was a threat to her job security.

Hikari and Mizuki came in and handed Maki a few reciepts to remind her that she is newer than them and to not treat the new girl like a toy.

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btfo'd

New idol taps to a lion tamer delivered by Maki. Looked genuinely painful as she didn't arch the back upwards at the waist, but twisted it and put her knee in the lower back severely limiting the new idols range of motion.

All NOAH match is up now, so we are sparred complete shittery. Should be good juniors match. Current Jr champion and jr tag champions facing the former jr tag champions and their partner.

Japanese Young Bucks, but good

This match is really hammering it home why the DDT Ultimate Tag League finals had five people in the audience the other day ago and why NOAH is outdrawing NJPW at Korakuen Hall.

Do you think this is what the Bucks think they wrestle like?

Kotoge really needs to ease up on the thigh slaps. That was practically Aliester BLACKED tier.

Got so caught up in the match I fogot to keep updating. Beautiful suplex from Harada on HAYATA and then another one to finish the match.

Ogawa is so old. I don't know how he is able to keep working on those knees considering they are the first thing to go on juniors.

And here we go with a pure DDT match just in case you forgot what shit tasted like.

Endo, Moa, and Shunma are the only good players in this match.

Thank you 4PM me for buying two sips knowing that a Chris Brookes match was booked.

This shit is terrible. I take back anything nice I ever said about anyone involved. They are only good when you see them in the vaccuum of a DDT only show where they are the least shit parts of it. Following up a NOAH Jrs match with this has exposed everyone involved.

At least the time warning was called.

Really niggers?

That match was 15 minutes too long. How fucking bad do you have to be to have the piss break match when there is an entire promotions worth of girls wrestling in the show?

The idol match may have been shit with three of the players botching their finishers in the course of 35 seconds, but at least it wasn't boring.

DDT should have splurged to hire Fujita for tonight. Having him compete in this next match and stare down KONGOH for 20 minutes until Tubbie-Oh has a shoot embolism would have been kino.

This niggers name really is soy

>They brought Kenny's blow up doll
Jesus fucking Christ, get your shit together Takagi. You have once chance to get on a big stage and have several hundred times more eyes on your product than normal and you pull this shit.

Rewatching Hikari's blizzard suplex is was actually pretty good. I was just so distracted by the shit show that was basically everything else going on right at that moment that I didn't give it the love and appreciation it deserved. It was fast, hard, and looked devastating. As expected of the hardcore princess. She didn't have the normal perfect arch to her back that she normally does when she completes it, but the execution more than made up for the aesthetics.

Okay this spot is pretty great.

and then they completely fuck it up by forgetting:
1) The spot they were supposed to be reacting to
B) To do the spot that the person is reacting to

Did Tubbie-Oh get even fatter since the last time I saw him? His gut is just jiggling right there.

That is Hyper Misao's bike they are destroying. Like her actual one she rides to work.

I hope DDT replaces it for her.

DDT has not represented itself well tonight.

Also making a declaritive statement that you will become the best promotion in the CyberFight brand when you WERE the CyberFight brand is not a good look. TJPW was three girls rolling around on mats in a basement just five six years ago and NOAH was a corpse loaded with debt you picked up a year ago is embarassing. He just admited that in the course of basically 19 months you have gone from the top to the bottom.

And to make that statement after an embarassment of a match like that? I don't even know. I just want this match to end so we can get onto the main events. Every time a match started to build some hype with me a DDT match would come along and completely drain me of my desire to watch. Those last two in a row were especially egregious.

Inamura is finna based. Too few big guys in tonights show and they wasted Hino in a comedy rumble on the preshow.

Finally an interesting match. I can feel my desire to give a fuck slowly seaping back into my tired brain meats.

lmao Tony is totally going to poach this dude from DDT. After the matches he had in AEW and being the only DDT player not to shit the bed tonight there is no way Tony won't steal Ibushi at home.

Fucking beautiful

Fuck this match is great. Everyone is just destroying each other.

They are going to milk this shit for another 100 to 130 minutes, aren't they?

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Big Thighs Yammy Best Botch Machine

Oh it is going to be one of those Miyu/Yuka matches, isn't it?

Yuka is getting frustrated ever since that botched Hurricarana by Miyu

Fucked that one up Yukkers

Pretty good. I wish I wasn't so tired so I could enjoy it more. I'm finna go to sleep. Old man Mutoh is probably going to disappoint and I can't appreciate Marufuji trying to carry him in the state I am in right now.

I am coming up on 24 hours awake. Just lay down Marufuji. I asm going to have to run in 50 minutes, at least let me rest my eyes until them. Old man Mutoh is falling apart in real time. He just botched a back breaker and shattered his knee doing a moonsault.

That finish works for me too.
>Mutoh immediately sits up and no sells.
lol those knees are fucked again.