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Open The Voice Gate – Dragongate Buyuden & Skywalker vs Kikuta! Open The Voice Gate returns to discuss Dragongate's Buyuden Zero Vol 7 and the build to Shun Skywalker vs Madoka Kikuta!

ICYMI: Open The Voice Gate – Dragongate Buyuden & Skywalker vs Kikuta!

Between THE GRIP and GENE BLAST, New Japan hasn’t lost the power to have nicknames to be sounded out in someone’s head by @jeffgerstmann.com

THIS WEEK - is it the best Royal Sambo of all time? The ever evolving Brave Gate scene! is The OC the most influential modern rock show? And rather frank discussion on Dragongate’s 2025 business as we look ahead to Dangerous Gate.

tsuji vs evil - tolerable (2.5)

shingo takagi remains cool as hell, took two punches to the face. great stuff (4.25)

sanada vs finlay kinda played a bit on the bad house bullshit and had a nice closing stretch. need more great sanada entrance gear (3.25

“That’s dudes rock wrestling” is not how I describe yoshi hashi being 2-0 this early (1.75 had ren narita in it)

100 TAG TEAMS BETTER THAN THE DUDLEYS NOT NAMED BY JOE LANZA

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Oleg and Oiwa? Why that’s a Spicy Little Number! (3.5)

dammit this is two decent umino matches in a row. Drilla should become like ddp with drilla killa out of any position (3.25)

Dudley Boyz never had a match as good as maraha isappa vs araiwa no ring satl ii

night two

I think I have a higher tolerance for old man Tana than most, and this felt like the kind of match he needs to have a lot this tourney. Pretty successful (3)

Tana and taichi had enough moments of rolling the clock back to make it work. Not a killer first night imo (3.25)

yall I don’t get ren narita, he’s had a bag of nothing since being in the la dojo, continued it strong style, and got even more hacky as souled out. ZSJ remains very cool (3.5)

back at it. They kept it tight but tsuji vs sanada was like cuddling with the reminders of what could have been. It was ok (2.5)

We sure don’t get power chord arena rock themes like subconscious anymore.

gabe kidd vs takeshita was a g1 climax match boy howdy (4.25)

as critical as i've been over the noge system over the last few years, i feel like the grip is like the next last hope? enjoyed him and finlay a good deal (3.5)

umino vs elp was okay, which is all i can muster for umino (3.25)

i just don't "get" yuya uemura. always comes off like "tradition" is his personality absent of any top level charisma. idk. probably ironic as a yuki yoshioka defender. him vs bars was fine (3)

drilla maloney and great o khan? well that's the first Spicy Little Number of the tourney. it has everything. it has yano tribute spots. a kick out of a ttd. a spear where maloney kinda bounces off of o khan. i enjoyed it. (3.25)

i will choose to remember dick togo from michinoku pro 1994 instead of evil vs callum newman (1.5)

i refuse to acknowledge a reality where yoshi-hashi can crucfix driver shingo takagi and win. (2.75)

this is my long delayed g1 catchup while I pack boxes thread

Everyone’s favorite documentary podcast on 1990s regional Japanese wrestling is back and oh boy, we’ve got Sasuke on All Night Nippon, my joining the church of Otani, Señor Perfecto and a lot more!

Everyone’s favorite documentary podcast on 1990s regional Japanese wrestling is back and oh boy, we’ve got Sasuke on All Night Nippon, my joining the church of Otani, Señor Perfecto and a lot more!

They just don’t make commercials like this nowadays.

by the end of those days, I will have constructed a timeline of weird sports that gaora/jctv since the nineties, my next addition: pac-10 basketball in 1994. We are still getting the World Cup commercials @alan4l.bsky.social can’t wait to go to the cotton bowl to see all the stars.

Sport of Pro Wrestling 2025 G1 Climax 35 Pick 'Em Pool The largest unofficial G1 Climax 35 Pick 'Em Pool! Compete for bragging rights and a shot at prizes!

Hello, Bluesky!

I am here, and I am proud to announce the return of the biggest & best NJPW G1 Climax Pick ‘Em Pool for G1 Climax 35!

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Show Report - AEW All In Texas 2025 Mike returns to talk about AEW's biggest show of the year, how he felt Globe Life Field came off, "Landing the Plane", Hangman vs Moxley, and everything else on All In Texas before some last thoughts before Kobe World!

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