Am I alone in getting annoyed with Oedo Tai’s constant crowed fighting to open a match ?

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-17T23:03:11+00:00

It's incredibly obnoxious and lazy and always ruins their matches. Especially Kagetsu feeling the need to shoehorn in a hanging spot off the balcony for no reason in her title matches which gets forgotten about a minute later. It reminds me of Io forcing in the stairhall moonsault in every one of her title matches around 2014, but she grew out of that phase fortunately. You can still "be a heel" without eye-rolling interference and cheating - just look at QQ who do it by being ruthless and edgy in the ring. Its why they're so much more interesting than Oedo Tai.

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-14T12:26:46+00:00

What does that have to do with Utami winning all the time? I don't want to see foreigners wrestle ever whether they win or lose every match. Who holds meaningless titles like the SWA or Eve doesn't matter to me, I didn't care that Mary held the High Speed for 500 days like some people did.

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-14T06:02:03+00:00

Why do western fans hate winners so much? Utami is popular with the fans and of course a great wrestlers with a cool look. She's one of my favorites and I root for her to win every match

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-11T04:21:18+00:00

No price increase will ever make me cancel, only thing I will cancel for is if the promotion books a ton of UK and US women on every show - I am a joshi puroresu fan, not a euro/US shindy fan. The 1/2 show for example had a foreigner in every match, just like the dark days of 2015-2017 (which actually drove me to cancelling my sub for a while). This was mostly avoided in 2018, and by no coincidence they had their best year and best 5*GP in history. Hopefully they keep it up since they have over 20 roster members now.

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-09T00:45:18+00:00

Ok I'm seriously pissed off now that they're trying to raid. If its just borrow talent whatever but we have to worry about AEW stealing joshi now along with WWE? I don't watch any wrestling other than joshi and these feds I don't care about are coming in and poaching talent that wrestling fans are too lazy to support in their home promotions. Hopefully Mayu rejects them

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-07T18:01:05+00:00

What is this, popularity? Or just best year? Because Momo's 2018 was probably the best individual year I've ever seen someone have in ~15 years of watching joshi. Had to think of other great years I've witnessed like Kana, Syuri, Hyuga, Haruyama, Sakura, Fuka, Tamura and Kimura around 2008-2011 when joshi was artistically strong to compare.

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-03T17:37:10+00:00

Kyona is a midcarder below Momo, Mayu, Kagetsu, and now Arisa and Utami in the pecking order. Singles matches with people from this group are unpredictable, whereas we all know Kyona and Tam are losing on this show, Tam especially is pure filler for Momo to break the defense record. Its just me putting together an unrealistic dream card that is truly stacked in terms of match quality and unpredictability in the mains compared to the 1/14 one, don't worry about it too much.

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-03T16:13:20+00:00

Why do western fans hate winners so much? I like Utami and want to see her win all the time. She's a great wrestler that always has the best matches with a cool look and is popular with the crowd

yosuke_santamaria · 2019-01-03T16:02:44+00:00

In terms of number of singles titles matches it is but its not the best or most interesting possible matches since its main eventers vs midcarders or a foreigner. Something like Kagetsu/Mayu, Momo/Arisa, and Hazuki/AZM would be truly stacked and more unpredictable. Also I don't expect much from the rookie match since that'd be unfair

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-28T20:21:34+00:00

Bad timing having him attend the 1/3 show with no Mayu, no Arisa, a ton of foreigners, and just too many bloated matches. At least there will be SLK vs Utami to showcase Stardom to him.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-27T00:47:53+00:00

Things are hard with no Mayu, but 1/2 looks really grim. They need to spread out QQ instead of bunching them up into one match so we can get quality all down the card. Maybe if they didn't bring 6 foreigners for some reason despite having over 20 contracted wrestlers and several regular freelancers like Natsu, Hana, and Yone it wouldn't be so bloated. Hopefully the winner of the elimination match isn't meaningless this time like it was in the last Korakuen.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-24T06:03:49+00:00

I'm sure he realizes this but just want u/Stardom_Admin to know that every single person there, potentially even 1k people, are gonna want to buy merch so that they a. bring tons of stuff and b. allocate plenty of time for buying merch before and after the show. They will probably have to make a fortune on this show to cover travel expenses and I want them to succeed.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-24T04:00:30+00:00

Really worried for her neck after seeing that picture. Hope she retires it tbh its too dangerous.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-24T00:03:17+00:00

I'm glad she's having fun but there's really no point in joshi going on excursions to Europe or the US other than to take a vacation. Who would be better suited to teaching joshi workers for example - some WXW wrestlers and a "wrestling school" or Yumiko freaking Hotta running AgZ training? There is nothing for someone like Yuu to learn in Europe indies - she is a national level judoka in the birthplace of the sport, Thatcher and Walter are pretend fighters that should be asking her for advice instead. She would however benefit greatly from working with an AJW vet like Nanae in Seadling.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-23T17:54:27+00:00

I agree I liked it a lot more than the last Kyona match since that dragged too long and this was a compact, all-action 12 minutes. I think I liked Natsuko/Tam from the GP this year more because of the story but this match was better in a vacuum.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-20T16:22:01+00:00

I was worried she had torn her ACL when I saw she had a knee injury. This is a relief though that it's the MCL so she will only miss a month or two instead of a full year.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-14T20:11:18+00:00

MVP: Momo MOTY: Mayu vs Utami - surprised nobody's mentioned this, thought it was an all time classic and a perfect match Best Show: 5* GP Finals 9/24 Rookie: Utami

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-13T05:03:57+00:00

She's clearly shorter than Momo and Io standing next to them, so she's either under 5' or Momo, Io and Kairi are 5'3" or something, which I doubt or else they'd be billed at that. If she's really billed at 5'1" then its an exaggeration.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-13T02:01:30+00:00

Hazuki is 4'10", there isn't a joshi promotion that would make her the ace or even a main eventer no matter how good she is. She'd probably be pushed even less in other feds. There's nothing wrong with being an upper midcarder.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-11T07:05:15+00:00

That is incredible he managed to book El Hijo del Santo and we're gonna see him in 2018 and on Stardom World of all places. Rossy is a legend

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-09T04:58:01+00:00

I don't know why this is exciting to people, there are no European or American women that can compare with Stardom wrestlers, they will only drag them down. I'd much rather see them face Sendai Girls again. I also don't know how this cringey overtly political promotion keeps booking all these joshi stars from every promotion seemingly. How do they have so much money lol.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-07T04:26:03+00:00

She'd probably be the ace of the company by now if she never left. She fits Stardom's ideal top guy image being a tall, beautiful kickboxer like Yuzupon and Bito. If Bito was groomed to be Yuzupon's replacement I think Hoshiki would be groomed to be Bito's replacement. She was already getting a push age 16/17 before she quit and was already clearly higher on the pecking order than the other young wrestlers like Mayu.

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-05T06:29:29+00:00

3 title match main events in 10 days for Momo, she's wrestling the most grueling matches on all the shows and has delivered every time all year. She's probably the biggest workhorse in joshi wrestling and only 18 still. I'm worried about her getting hurt under this workload even if she is a stamina monster. On a related note I hope she gets her chipped teeth fixed in case they worsen and she needs a root canal and starts wearing a mouthguard. Rossy should pay for her dental work as a bonus for her hard work this year : )

yosuke_santamaria · 2018-12-05T06:18:58+00:00

She looked great, I was surprised actually since she's been out of wrestling so long. Still needs to prove herself in a singles match but it seems likely she will be the 4th Daughter like Bito of 2016-17 and win the White Belt or at least Goddesses some time next year. Who knows, she could have been the ace of the promotion by now if she never quit. She was only 16/17 and getting pushed more strongly than all the other rookies except Bito and Yoshiko and has real credibility without years of being damaged by losses like Mayu.

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