An Icon’s Burden: How 2020 Secured Mayu Iwatani’s Legacy
It wasn’t long ago a socially distanced crowd at Sendai Sun Plaza Hall witnessed history, a peremptory passing of the torch
It wasn’t long ago a socially distanced crowd at Sendai Sun Plaza Hall witnessed history, a peremptory passing of the torch
By: Richard Edwards It’s no secret by now that the Great-O-Khan made headlines in NJPW on October 16, 2020, by teaming up
By: Michael Cervino While wrestling fans with international taste tend to focus on the two big wrestling promotions in Japan, AJPW and
By: Zack Heydorn It’s the hair. Remember Wrestle Kingdom 15? This year, how could you forget it, right? Not only was it the
By: Jeffrey Andrews Kota Ibushi won double gold at the Tokyo Dome on January 5th in the longest match in Wrestle Kingdom
Are you new to Japanese wrestling, looking to branch out from New Japan and dive deeper into the world of puro,
When Harold George Meij was first introduced to the NJPW masses in the spring of 2018 as the promotion’s new president,
New Japan’s nucleus of lethal, five-tool bad boys like Jay White and “The Holy Emperor” Taichi owe a debt to numerous
By: Richard Edwards So who is this fleet-footed phenomenon planning to overtake the squared circles of Japan? When he left the scene
