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Joseph Anthony Montecillo Apr 11, 2022. 7 minute read
Zack Sabre Jr. Should Have Been IWGP World Heavyweight Champion By Now
It’s almost easy to forget just how good Zack Sabre Jr. is. There’s a few reasons for that. The primary reason, of course, is that New Japan Pro Wrestling isn’t the hot company that it once was. Zack’s devoted pretty much his entire decade so far to wrestling for New…
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Joseph Anthony Montecillo Apr 6, 2022. 6 minute read
Have a Week, Speedball Mike Bailey: FanFyte’s Best of WrestleMania Week 2022
WrestleMania weekend is so much more than just The Show of Shows itself. Going back to the mid-2000s or so, WrestleMania weekend has been a hotbed for independent wrestling as promotions flock to the host city to showcase their product to the largest concentration of professional wrestling fans anywhere on…
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Emily Pratt Nov 18, 2021. Less than a minute
Tomohiro Ishii Entering to “Where Is My Mind?” on AEW Dynamite: A Review
It’s been a good week for NJPW‘s Tomohiro Ishii. Since arriving in the U.S. with Okada, the Stone Pitbull has gotten In-N-Out, won the NEVER Openweight Championship, and debuted on AEW Dynamite as the tag partner of his new stablemate, Orange Cassidy. Ishii and Orange vs. The Butcher and The…
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Emily Pratt Oct 23, 2021. 15 minute read
NJPW G1 Climax 31 Night 18 and Final Review: Everything’s Cursed but at Least Shibata Is Here
Previously on NJPW’s G1 Climax 31: 85 tournament matches happened and Ibushi won A Block to make his fourth G1 final in four years. New Japan Pro Wrestling’s 2021 G1 Climax tournament came to a close earlier this week with a block-deciding Cobb vs. Okada rubber match, a quality tournament…
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Emily Pratt Oct 19, 2021. 8 minute read
NJPW G1 Climax 31 Night 17 Review: The Block Final Countdown
Previously on NJPW‘s G1 Climax 31: there was so much of the G1 Climax 31. There were 70 matches of the G1 Climax 31! After nearly a month of competition, the 2021 tournament comes to a close this week with its final three shows: the A Block final, B Block…
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Emily Pratt Sep 30, 2021. 6 minute read
NJPW G1 Climax 31 Night 6 Review: Chaos Rains
Previously on NJPW’s G1 Climax 31: Ishii brought out the best of Kenta and ZSJ continued his tentacle monster hot streak. New Japan Pro Wrestling‘s September 29 show at Korakuen Hall closes out the first third of the 2021 G1 Climax with what’s probably the tournament’s least appealing card so…
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Emily Pratt Sep 28, 2021. 8 minute read
NJPW G1 Climax 31 Night 5 Review: Like a Squid Out of Hell
Previously on NJPW‘s G1 Climax 31: In A Block, Zack vs. Shingo! It happened! It was amazing! In B Block, Okada is still wrestling like he’s in his stem cell era, and it’s also very exciting. It sounds like a bad thing when I say that Night 5 is the…
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Emily Pratt Sep 26, 2021. 12 minute read
NJPW G1 Climax 31 Nights 3-4 Review: Wrestling Brains
Previously on NJPW‘s G1 Climax 31: The tournament started strong! Its first two shows were very entertaining overall, with some standout matches and surprise results. Unfortunately, this was followed by the bad kind of surprise: Naito getting injured for real and forfeiting the rest of his matches. Nights 3-4 of…
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Emily Pratt Sep 21, 2021. 15 minute read
NJPW G1 Climax 31 Nights 1-2 Review: That Rainy Day Feeling Again
New Japan Pro Wrestling‘s 31st annual G1 Climax tournament is officially underway, and it got off to a strong start. The first nights of A and B Block competition both delivered some really good matches and a few surprises. Sho’s evil gamer ways have evolved, Yujiro is now fueled by…
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Emily Pratt Sep 16, 2021. 12 minute read
Everything You Need To Know About NJPW’s G1 Climax 31
After a series of stadium shows and a revamp of activity in America, it’s tournament season for New Japan Pro Wrestling. The G1 Climax 31 starts this weekend, kicking off on September 18 in Osaka and ending on October 21 at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan. Between those dates, twenty wrestlers will…
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Emily Pratt Sep 9, 2021. 19 minute read
NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome Review: Torture? In My House?
Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome (not to be confused with the one in the Tokyo Dome) is New Japan Pro Wrestling‘s last big show of the summer and last show, period, before the 2021 G1 Climax. The two-night event included defenses of every available championship, a grudge match between…
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Emily Pratt Aug 17, 2021. 14 minute read
NJPW Resurgence Review: Carrying the Torch
After a year and a half without running a show in front of a live audience in America, New Japan Pro Wrestling finally earned a gate in the U.S. with NJPW Resurgence. The event featured matches that had been promoted on NJPW’s pandemic-born studio show NJPW Strong, as well as,…
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Emily Pratt Aug 12, 2021. 8 minute read
NJPW Summer Struggle 8/7-10/21 Review: R3K Is Not OK
After a break from televised shows, New Japan Pro Wrestling returns with the first leg of Super Junior Tag League, a tournament that two different wrestlers said they found out was happening the week before. There’s also a NEVER 6-man title match and some storyline progression for the next Wrestle…
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Emily Pratt Aug 3, 2021. 9 minute read
NJPW Summer Struggle 7/27-8/1 Review: Who’s the Boss?
After a mostly-triumphant return to the Tokyo Dome for Wrestle Grand Slam, New Japan Pro Wrestling hits a bit of a lull. The first three of the four Summer Struggle events that take place at Korakuen Hall on July 27, July 30-31, and August 1 are largely skippable – mostly…
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Emily Pratt Jul 26, 2021. 13 minute read
NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam in Tokyo Dome Review: Knee Japan Pro Wrestling
After three days of seasonal struggles in Osaka and Nagoya, New Japan Pro Wrestling makes its return to the Tokyo Dome with Wrestle Grand Slam. It’s NJPW’s first show in the stadium outside of January in over fifteen years, but it doesn’t have the triumphant atmosphere that implies. Even knowing…
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Emily Pratt Jul 25, 2021. 7 minute read
NJPW Summer Struggle in Nagoya Review: Shibata Friendship Circle Drama
After two nights of Summer Struggle in Osaka that focused on the heavyweight tag title feud, New Japan Pro Wrestling‘s Summer Struggle in Nagoya is the culmination of singles feuds and the go-home show for Wrestle Grand Slam. These factors combine to appoint Kota Ibushi’s replacement in the Tokyo Dome…
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Emily Pratt Jul 24, 2021. 9 minute read
NJPW Summer Struggle in Osaka 2021 Review: Chekhov’s Double Pin
New Japan Pro Wrestling kicked off four consecutive nights of big shows with two back-to-back Summer Struggle in Osaka events. For July 22-23, the heavyweight tag title feud is the focus of NJPW, and the matches between Naito/Sanada/Zack/Taichi play a major role in delivering some of the most fun NJPW…
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Emily Pratt Jul 21, 2021. 7 minute read
Everything You Need To Know About NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam
On Sunday, July 25, New Japan Pro Wrestling will return to the Tokyo Dome for Wrestle Grand Slam. The event, which was originally scheduled for May 15 and postponed for pandemic-related reasons, will be NJPW’s first show in the stadium aside from its annual January event in about sixteen years…
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Emily Pratt Jul 18, 2021. 9 minute read
NJPW Summer Struggle 7/17/21 Review: Rights for Juniors, Ass People and Feet People
After two nights of Summer Struggle in Sapporo and in between NJPW-affiliated action in three U.S. promotions, New Japan Pro Wrestling returned to Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall for two hours of tag and singles matches. The July 17 Summer Struggle event was definitely one of New Japan’s best non-major shows of…
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Emily Pratt Jul 13, 2021. 10 minute read
NJPW Summer Struggle in Sapporo 2021 Review: How to Win Tag Titles and Irritate People
After the low-key Kizuna Road, New Japan Pro Wrestling amped things up with Summer Struggle in Sapporo, two back-to-back shows that kick off the tour that will carry the company through August. Although these were NJPW’s biggest events since Dominion, they were still basically one-match cards – but along with…
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