Kazuchika Okada Archives

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 28 [Best Matches]: Aces & Twenty-Eights.

If you never got out of that Comic-Con coma at the end of July and have been summer swamped this current August, I have good news for you: I have every must-see, great, and classic G1 Climax 28 match ranked here for you. While I haven't yet and likely won't attempt trying to rank up …

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June 10, 2018July 29, 2018

NJPW DOMINION 2018 [Review]: Best Bout Machines.

– IWGP Junior Tag Team Title: Desperado & Kanemaru vs. Roppongi 3K - With how impressive Sho & Yoh were in the Best of the Super Juniors this past month, I kinda figured those weasals, Suzuki-Gun, would cheat 2 win. Of course, RPG 3K doesn't need the titles to be over-- they just need to …

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December 14, 2017January 23, 2018

THE APOSTLE AWARDS [Best Wrestling of 2017]: All the Stars, Aligned.

Calling all smarks across the globe: It's the second annual Apostle Awards! To come up with the very Best of Everything in Pro Wrestling for 2017, we asked 10 members of the Ringside Apostle congregation to vote. And, damn did we have answers -- answers that ranged from the highest mountaintop of World Wrestling Entertaiment …

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June 10, 2017

TEKKEN 7 [Face-Off Review]: The ‘Rainmaking King’ of Fighters.

TRAVIS "Monsignor" MOODY: Quite obviously, my hype for Tekken 7 got real when Bandai Namco announced that it hit the "hot tag" with the gods of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Just look my t-shirt collection. So, coming from that angle of wrasslin' mark-slash-Tekken-n00b (having only played the franchise's earlier entries), it's a joy to tell …

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