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June 16, 2020June 17, 2020

NJPW NEW JAPAN CUP 2020 [Day 1 Review]: Hai!

Oh, NJPW, how I’ve missed you! It’s only been three months since The New Beginning, but it feels like it’s been three years. Today was the first time in forever that I was up at 5:45 a.m. to watch a show live. Sure there was no audience, but I didn’t miss them as much as …

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January 6, 2020

WRESTLE KINGDOM 14 [Night 2 Review]: Destinooooooo.

What a morning! After the sheer greatness that was the ending of Wrestle Kingdom 14's Night 1, I was expecting to catch my breath with Night 2. Nuh-uh. Once the pre-show ended, WK14 stepped on the gas and didn’t let up— not even after the last match was over. Thanks to this show, I’m even …

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January 5, 2020

NJPW WRESTLE KINGDOM 14 [Night 1 Review]: Here Comes the ‘Rain’ Again.

The holidays are over and now it’s time to get to the real most wonderful time of the year: Wrestle Kingdom Season. The first big show of the Roaring ‘20s (ha!) -- New Japan Pro Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom 14 -- gave us some damn good wrestling to kick off the decade and a couple of …

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August 11, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [A & B Block Finals]: Golden Ticket.

DAY SEVENTEEN - A BLOCK FINAL – Lance Archer v EVIL - Archer has had a very very good G1 and this was a huge win over EVIL, who just took Okada to the near distance just a couple nights ago. Perhaps that was the story. A chokeslam reversal of EIE, an F5 and the …

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August 8, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [Day Fifteen & Sixteen Review]: Made In Japan.

DAY FIFTEEN - A BLOCK – SANADA v Lance Archer - A good match between two hungry guys, one who has shocked the world and had himself a tournament, and another, who's had a fine, albeit disappointing G1 (compared to 2018), but shocked the world with a win over the tournament favorite and IWGP champ …

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August 1, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [Day Eleven & Twelve Review]: CHAOS From The Top Down.

DAY ELEVEN - A BLOCK – Kota Ibushi v Bad Luck Fale - Kota Ibushi in a *1/4 match. Nuff said. - 1.25/5 – Zack Sabre Jr. v Will Ospreay - As great as you'd imagine. Two of the, if not the two best, British wrestlers in the world go full out for 20-minutes. From …

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