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Joseph Anthony Montecillo May 3, 2022. 7 minute read

Imperfect, Broken Down, Occasionally Wonderful: Fanfyte’s Best of the Month, April 2022

While WrestleMania and the surrounding independent shows dominate April discussion most years, plenty of strong stuff comes out in the weeks that follow it. Anyone reading this has likely heard of all the usual suspects from this time — FTR vs. The Young Bucks, Minoru Suzuki vs. Samoa Joe, or…

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Emily Pratt Mar 29, 2021. 16 minute read

Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Go Shiozaki vs. Kazuyuki Fujita Was the Match of the Pandemic

On March 29, 2020, Go Shiozaki was set to make his first defense of Pro Wrestling NOAH’s GHC Heavyweight Championship. His opponent: 50-year-old former MMA fighter and IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuyuki Fujita. The setting: Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. The recorded attendance: zero, in keeping with guidelines for live events intended to…

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