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What have you watched lately? Seen any great matches? Have suggestions for things to watch? Anything not getting covered in other threads that ya wanna fill people in about? Questions about promotions, wrestlers, ‘the business’ or more?
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Just watched it this morning lol.
Mayu is always fantastic and any match she is in (singles, at least) is guaranteed to be a banger. I’ll hate to see her go, if she does (which she almost certainly is), but she’ll be a huge get for Marigold.
As for the clown (Fukigen Death), for an explanation at least: She was this death metal rocker kinda character with a painted face (Death yama-san iirc) as a part of Hana Kimura’s Tokyo Cyber Squad back pre-pandemic. When the faction disbanded (after Hana’s death) she ended up in STARS as Gogiken Death, this colourful happy-go-lucky clown to fit with the other happy members of STARS.
Then she ended up being forced to join Oedo Tai as the result of a match and she became corrupted via chain smoking cigs and gambling on horse races (the paper she carries is the sports section with the betting results lmao).
The woman under the facepaint, Kaori Yoneyama, is a long term freelance legend who has worked everywhere for 26 years now and is the true workhorse of the wrestling world. A lot of Stardom wrestlers, as the biggest company, will hit 100 matches a year (if not a lil over) cause of how tours work. Kaori regularly hits 150+, almost 200 a few years in a row (2002-2004-) with only a few months off for an injury she had late last year!
I love/hate it. Really fucking funny. I subscribed to Stardom-World and found a spreadsheet of match recommendations, so I’m ready for this journey. Thank you for always being so awesome and taking time out of your day to answer my questions
No problem! Not sure how far into the past you’re going but I’ll give you the same advice I gave someone here a week or two ago: The current booker took over around April when Rossy was fired and his storylines kicked in approx. a month or so after so if you wanna get caught up on he current era (since you’re less than a year into it) that’ll be a good approx. area to start (though some stories and whatnot did extend 6 months or so prior to that with the dissolution of DDM, Queen’s Quest, etc.
I started Birth of Nova last night lol. I’m going all the way back. When I get a special interest I’m all or nothing
I can respect going for the long haul! lmao
I’m making good progress through the recommended matches. This shit is good. Haruka (the 9 year old) could fucking work. I wonder how good she would be now if she had decided to stick with it. Natsuki Taiyo and Nanae Takahashi are really good, but I believe they are vets. Taiyo and Yoshiko are absolutely brutal. My girl Mayu has eaten so many pins. Let her win!
I found out Mayu had a movie made about her. Runaway Wrestler. It was m and of hard to find, but I’ve got a YouTube link with timestamp if anyone is interested. Stardom played it at the end of a 5+ hour stream
Yep! If you ever saw/heard Cornette whining about Kenny Omega wrestling a 9 year old girl years ago, Haruka is who he was talking about. She sadly didn’t have a long career, only 20 matches in 2011 and that was it for her. I believe on Reddit years ago they mentioned hearing she was being bullied in school and likely dropped out of the business as a result (tho it could be a million reasons, she was 9 lol). Would have been nice to see her go for a longer career given how many joshi who start at that age ended up being phenomenal (like AZM)
Not sure about Taiyo (my early years are sparse in knowledge lol) but Nanae is for sure. She worked for All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling back in the day and is one of the 3 co-founders of Stardom with Rossy and Fuka (and of course later Marigold). Was also All Japan’s final WWWA World Single Champion (their main belt).
Does it have subtitles cause if so yes please link lol. Been waiting for the guys on Avistaz to upload subs with the copy of the film and they have yet to honour my request (damned dishonourable pirates lol)
I did hear Corny lol. He’s a guilty pleasure. I wouldn’t really care about Kenny if not for the allegations he threw at Rossy with nothing to back them up. Either Kenny knows something and isn’t doing anything to stop it, or he is making shit up while playing with 9 year olds. That’s just my opinion though
Taiyo also wrestled for AJWPW from what I read. I think she is the only one not trained by Fuka or Nanae. I live on wikis right now. She’s fucking explosive. Makes full use of all five feet of herself. Her dropkicks look so fucking painful.
Only YouTube’s shitty auto generated. I only watched like thirty seconds to make sure it was there and the subs half ass worked. They were speaking slowly enough in the beginning it was working well enough I think. Stardom has inspired me to get back to my Japanese on Duolingo lol
Mayu is on the worst losing streak. Nanae had a gauntlet match against like six of the girls, four or five minute time limits. Everybody, including Haruka, got a time limit draw. Except Mayu. Who tapped out. I’m glad I know how things turn out, it’s super hard being a fan of hers in the beginning lol. She still puts on great matches