MINORU SUZUKI
Will Cooling Aug 30, 2022. 5 minute read
Revolution Pro’s Epic Encounter 2022 Was Wrestling at Its Most Resilient
Who would want to be a wrestling promoter? One wouldn’t forgive Andy Quildan asking himself that as he went to bed the night before Revolution Pro Wrestling’s Epic Encounters. For over a year he had fought to survive as lockdown forced RevPro behind closed doors and then, even after reopening,…
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Colette Arrand Apr 18, 2022. 5 minute read
Minoru Suzuki vs. Samoa Joe Was a Dream Match Stuck In the Real World
Minoru Suzuki and Samoa Joe wrestled for the Ring of Honor Television Championship in the main event of Dynamite last week. It was fine. When I say “it was fine,” I don’t mean it dismissively. Both Joe and Suzuki are presence guys at this point, and that meant that the…
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Geoffrey D. Wessel Apr 13, 2022. 5 minute read
Minoru Suzuki Takes America (Again)
When Minoru Suzuki made his excursion of the United States last September and October, it was a bit of a revelation for many here stateside. A shock to the system, if you will, of wrestling in the United States. Certainly, many words were written on this very site by diverse…
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Joseph Anthony Montecillo Mar 18, 2022. 7 minute read
To Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary, NJPW Chased Its Past
New Japan Pro Wrestling currently has a complicated relationship with its history. The company has existed for half a century now, having spent most of that tenure as the leading wrestling promotion in Japan. New Japan’s grip on the top spot in Japan has rarely wavered in any quantifiable way.…
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Colette Arrand Oct 24, 2021. 8 minute read
Dominic Garrini and Minoru Suzuki Made Me Love Indie Wrestling Again
I did not go to Fargo to have my love of independent professional wrestling rekindled. All I wanted was to see Minoru Suzuki, the bonus being that he was wrestling Dominic Garrini, a wrestler I knew and felt very attached to despite our paths never crossing. But how do you…
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Colette Arrand Oct 21, 2021. 12 minute read
For Dominic Garrini, Minoru Suzuki Is More Than a Dream Opponent
I’m going to begin this interview with Dominic Garrini as if this was a personal essay, because in some ways it is. The two of us come from the same territory, so to speak, Cleveland’s Absolute Intense Wrestling, and while I consider myself a critic capable of expressing displeasure in…
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Joseph Anthony Montecillo Oct 17, 2021. 4 minute read
Bryan Danielson Cracked the Minoru Suzuki Code
So here’s the thing about Minoru Suzuki’s recent tour of the United States: if you’ve seen one of those matches, you’ve seen them all. The novelty of his match ups, more often than not, far outweighs the in-ring product as many of these matches follow the same general formula and…
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Joseph Anthony Montecillo Oct 15, 2021. 10 minute read
Interview: In Five Days, Daniel Garcia Wrestled Four Dream Matches
This is becoming a regular thing for Daniel Garcia. It seems that every month, he racks up a week full of bookings that make for appointment viewing. The first that comes to mind for me would be SCI weekend in August. Then, Daniel Garcia made it to the finals of…
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Fanfyte Staff Oct 4, 2021. 6 minute read
FanFyte’s Best of the Month: September 2021
September was full of bangers. Don’t believe us? Take a look at AEW: in one month they had Jungle Boy vs. Adam Cole, Bryan Danielson vs. Kenny Omega, Miro vs. Eddie Kingston, CM Punk vs. Darby Allin, and The Young Bucks vs. the Lucha Brothers, to name the matches we…
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Colette Arrand Sep 17, 2021. 5 minute read
The Greatest Wrestler of All Time (The First 10)
This is not a list. I cannot stress that enough. I love lists, I like how they reveal the biases and blind spots of the communities that put them together, but this is not a list. Rather, it is a gathering together of wrestlers who I have (or would) called…
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Colette Arrand Sep 8, 2021. 2 minute read
Screaming KAZE NI NARE at the Top of My Lungs: A Review
I never thought I’d get to see Minoru Suzuki live. This is what happens when your favorite wrestlers are older and not from around here. You accept it, you appreciate them from afar, and you wonder how cool it would have been to actually watch them perform. Well, I’ve seen…
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Emily Pratt May 5, 2021. 3 minute read
Ten Years of Suzuki-gun: A Review
The first night of New Japan Pro Wrestling‘s Wrestling Dontaku event this weekend was also the anniversary of the company’s two oldest heel factions. May 3, 2021, saw Bullet Club celebrate its eighth birthday and Suzuki-gun its tenth. Both factions won two matches on the show, but Suzuki-gun’s wins were…
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Colette Arrand Feb 14, 2021. 7 minute read
Minoru Suzuki, King of Wrestling Fashion
I’m the kind of freak who leaves the phone notifications on in my social media apps. There’s a guy on Instagram who sometimes sells Crush Gals records from Japan. There’s a Facebook group full of men who suddenly decide that a 1985 Hulk Hogan trading card that I’ve had in…
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Danielle Riendeau Apr 24, 2020. Less than a minute
Fanfyte 10: Pancrase Predator Wristlock
Today on Fanbyte’s premier MMA and pro wrestling podcast, we took a trip back to the mid-90s with the hybrid shoot-wrestling and pro wrestling promotion Pancrase. It’s a wildly entertaining combination of real MMA grappling with some flair and fixings from the pro wrestling world, and we watched two of…
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