SEAdLINNNG (9/22/2022) SEAdLINNNG Beyond the Sea Tag Team Championship: ASUKA & Makoto (c) vs. Riko Kaiju & Ayame Sasamura Riko Kaiju, SEAd's only rookie and the youngest member of its four-man roster, feels like the promotion's last hope.…

Stardom - 5STAR Grand Prix 2022 (9/24/2022) Blue Stars: Giulia vs. Saya Kamitani The 2020 GP match between these two was a personal gem of mine and I couldn't wait to see them face again. They have an excellent chemistry; their timing and …

1. Blue Stars: Hanan vs. Suzu Suzuki A nice compact sprint opener. Even though Hanan has no possibility of advancing to the tournament finals, she fought with a lot of urgency and emotion and showed her pride as pro-wrestler. Suzu's abilit…

Ice Ribbon - #1230 ~ Ribbon No Kishitachi 2022 ICExInfinity Championship: Saori Anou (c) vs. Stephanie Vaquer A nichiboku visual battle. This reminded me of one of the better matches you'd see from "gaijin of the month" era Stardom. Stepha…

BLP - Turbo Graps 24 (9/24/2022) Jungle Kyona vs. Skye Blue I found this to be a much better showing for Jungle Kyona than the DPW match. The match had more energy and dynamism. It helped that she had someone like Skye Blue to work with, w…

Stardom - 5STAR Grand Prix 2022 (9/19/2022) Red Stars: Utami Hayashishita vs. SAKI Utami and SAKI matched up surprisingly better than I was expecting them to. This was a great match between power fighters. It built up gradually from headlo…

WAVE (9/18/2022) WAVE Tag Team Championship: SAKI & Hikari Shimizu (c) vs. Haruka Umesaki & Miyuki Takase This went the full 30-minutes. It was almost a marathon of back and forth offense and defense with neither team gaining a true lead. …

4. Blue Stars: Mina Shirakawa vs. Starlight Kid Another grueling limb war involving Mina Shirakawa, who has firmly developed her fighting style in this tournament. Mina mixed up other forms of offense with her leg attacks to keep Kid guess…

5. Blue Stars: MIRAI vs. Mina Shirakawa Strong style in its truest form. A combination of martial arts standing techniques and ground work. MIRAI and Shirakawa have both really honed their styles of fighting in this tournament, especially …

Gatoh Move - Phoenix Rises (9/15/2022) Mei Suruga vs. Yuna Mizumori This is the type of match I would like to see the Super Asia title contested for. A short 20 minutes filled with creative twists and turns. It became a bit one-note as the…

Ice Ribbon - #1224 (8/28/2022) ICExInfinity Championship: Saori Anou (c) vs. Maika Ozaki This was better than I was expecting. Maika Ozaki has a personality deficiency, but Saori Anou did her best creating a story of sheer struggle around …

Tokyo Joshi Pro - TJPW AUTUMN TOUR '22 (9/16/2022) International Princess Championship - #1 Contendership: Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume Miu and Suzume wrestled perfectly to their archetypes. Miu as a big, muscular athletic grappler and Suzume a…

2. Blue Stars: Mina Shirakawa vs. Ami Sohrei Mina showed a glimpse of what she can do with a figure-four leglock in her match against Giulia, and in this match she was fully focused on working the leg, finding a variety of angles to attack…

5. Blue Stars: Saya Kamitani vs. Suzu Suzuki I never imagined Saya Kamitani and Suzu Suzuki would be competing against each other in the same ring. Stardom and Ice Ribbon supernovas who achieved big things early in their careers. It was a …

ChocoPro - #254 (9/11/2022) Mei Suruga & Chie Koishikawa vs. Yuna Mizumori & Sayaka Obihiro Great prelude to Mei and Yunamon's upcoming singles match at the anniversary event. Even though these two have been facing each other regularly for…

Tokyo Joshi Pro - Inspiration #5 (9/11/2022) Miyu Yamashita vs. Arisu Endo Miyu worked a more delicate singles main event than usual, without the excess and structural disarray of some of her most recent main events. I really enjoyed the o…

JTO - TakaTaichiDespeMania ~ TAKA Michinoku Debut 30th Anniversary ~ (9/12/2022) Tomoka Inaba & Aoi vs. Maika & MIRAI This was one of those magical matches that can never be duplicated. The right amount of back story and emotion, a recepti…

5. Blue Stars: MIRAI vs. Momo Watanabe I was looking forward to this and I wasn't disappointed. Momo as a conniving heel and MIRAI as a gentle and strong heroine. While it didn’t come close to MIRAI-Suzuki in quality, it was similarly a ba…

PURE-J (9/4/2022) Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championship: Crea (c) vs. Yuko Sakurai Yuko Sakurai is not the youngest member of COLOR's, but she's the least experienced and doesn't get as many opportunities as the others, so I was happy whe…

6. Blue Stars: Giulia vs. Mina Shirakawa I always enjoy Giulia and Shirakawa's chemistry. Both are charismatic wrestlers with heavy hitting movesets that draw inspiration from the past. This was an exciting sprint match built around classi…

TJPW CITY CIRCUIT ~Nagoya Performance~ (9/4/2022) Princess Tag Team Championship: Saki Akai & Yuki Arai (c) vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu Kamiyu was working very hard in this match. From the beginning where she traded finisher attempts …

2. Blue Stars: MIRAI vs. Hanan Hanan has found her consistency in the later part of her tournament. The early standing grappling and headlock struggles showed the fruits of their judo training. It was an amazing match from a technical stan…