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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Jumping Bomb Audio.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hello everyone, and welcome back to Jumping Bomb, audio, the number one show all about the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of Yoshi, Pro Wrestling, my name is Taylor, and I am joined as always by my very good friend, and co-host Kelly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly?
[SPEAKER_03]: How's it hanging?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really, I'm really wishing I had some YouTube
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we Kelly and I, right prior to recording, discovered the concept of YouTube jewels, I don't think there's any way for us to get jewels unless we live stream and it's the bra.
[SPEAKER_01]: Damn.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there are live stream only currency.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: However, if anyone listening knows how to get us some YouTube jewels.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you want to give us your jewels, we'll take them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Please send them our way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe one episode will have to do live stream in order to get jewels.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is this like the podcast or equivalent of a fucking Dan Housing requesting human monies?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, because I don't know anything about Dan Housing by choice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Damn, I'm going to have to learn about the house and to drop some damn house and facts on you to force you to learn about him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh God, yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, we have a lot of wrestling to talk about, so we got to get to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've got tournaments galore, we got big matches, we got small matches, but first we got plugs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So let's get right into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: We are going to start talking Tokyo, Joshi Pro Wrestling's summer sun princess from Corrican Hall on July 18th in front of 1,200 and four fans Kelly, what did you think of this show?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a really good show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I very much enjoyed my time watching this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really good crowd just all around Good time summer sun princess the song of the summer I have to say for a show that involved both People sticking boogers in each other's mouths and People throwing forts at each other, I believe
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... was a thing it was quite an enjoyable show yeah uh... at taylor i don't know if you know this bookbuggers hilarious it was like the most infantile to kill the show which is saying something consider considering poms gimmick is being three yeah and she is on every show
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... but i also very much enjoyed the show i thought it was very good was good to see a good crowd especially going up against the first uh... day of the five star grand prix twelve hundred which is i believe about two hundred over what they did at the last quirk and haul show so yeah that's a really good number a nice number so let's dive right into it the opener
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, we've seen her before, but the official debut of Momo Sato in a tag team match on the losing end.
[SPEAKER_03]: Being defeated by Ren Kanatsu and Udita Kami.
[SPEAKER_03]: Momo Sato teaming with Shion Kanzaki.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you could say this was in some degree the rookie match.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the one note I had about this match was they've got a good crop of rookies.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing crazy, you know, blow away about this match, but I think of where they used to be when these rookies debuted and the rookies weren't much.
[SPEAKER_03]: You didn't much more development time, I'll say, than the current rookies.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it is the veteran in this match is Uda.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: and you know there was no really like oh they mess something up or oh this went horribly wrong once you would expect from younger wrestlers it went very well it was a solid match good opener so i've got no complaints
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was a relatively unremarkable debut for Momosato, and I will say I am not buying any early stock in her at this moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the one thing that really bothered me about her, her gear is anime cosplay gear.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is based on a costume and anime character in the show,
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you, and I talk about this, if you're in the voices of wrestling slack, which I guess not most of you, most of you are not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whenever in a w fucking swirf strickling comes out in his cosplay gear, I go off about it, I hate it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're supposed to be the cool one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't dress up like someone that you think is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that for Momo, show me what your personality is rather than the personality of a thing you like, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was a bad sign for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It tells me that she doesn't have much going on in the creativity department.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess I didn't know all that information.
[SPEAKER_03]: So to me, she was just wearing an outfit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I do not.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hate it when wrestlers do the cosplay gear.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had fucking hate it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've, we've found another of Kelly's nerve points touched.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like you're supposed to be cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I totally understand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very understandable.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know you felt so strongly about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to see people dressed up like cosplay, I'll go to a comic con or scroll Instagram and someone with huge cans will be there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to see a wrestling dressed up like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to see fucking will-ass for a dressed like Bane.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you're supposed to be the cool one.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Momo, get your own identity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come back and be yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, speaking of things, Kelly really loves, but next match was a six-first and tag team match where Himawari, Mifu Ashita, and the day viewing, Shin Sakura Haurota, defeated Chicken and I say, Palmehara Juku and Raku in 11 minutes and 53 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, look, to me, I mean, the book or stuff was stupid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, it very much feels like this was a world garden of a match where we just took all of the goofballs and shove them into one thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah like doing the sleeping thing with rocker that i was like okay this is interesting i've never seen this before you know having palm what do the rope walk thing i was like okay this is like i'm i'm not upset by this match i wasn't really i wasn't loving it but you know in the book or stuff at the moment i was sort of like okay
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's sort of ended and I was like, okay, that was fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got through it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was all good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, not good.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like, it was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: We sort of have stars.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: You heard it here first.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the weird thing is that really the only comedy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, hyper, myself is comedy.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's like other than Paul and Raku, there are really no more.
[SPEAKER_03]: comedy characters in this promotion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so a lot of them can view comedy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's not like this is what I go out and do every time.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's like, unfortunately, Himawari and Mufu, it's been decided that you,
[SPEAKER_03]: are in this area, even though they're not comedy wrestlers.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, like it feels like the promotion doesn't have enough comedy wrestlers now at this point, where it just ends up that people I want to see like actually wrestle and up being like, well, you're in the comedy match and I'm like, ah, they could be used better elsewhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very much like the WWE problem for years where it was like, if you showed any hint of comedic timing, that's what you are forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: You could, you were not going to be pushed as a serious person because you made Vince McMahon last once.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it kind of feels like that's what's happening to hemoari and Mifushi.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, please, please get them out of there.
[SPEAKER_03]: The next match was a tag team match, Haru Kazashiro and Yuki Ayanon defeating Mirai and Toga in 12 minutes and 17 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Haru pinning Toga.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that was an interesting result.
[SPEAKER_03]: I felt like the clear, the classic, and I feel like we haven't had one of these in a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the tag team match that you read about on a Tokyo Yoshi card, and you go, ah, that could be really, really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it's like the third match on the card, and it's fine, but it's not as good as you want it to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was, it was good, but like this had a pretty high ceiling.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, oh, this could have been like awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but but they used to do this all the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it would be like Mizuki and me, Yamashita against, you know, two other people and you'd be like, oh, this is really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you realize it's third from the top and they get like eight minutes and you're like, okay, it wasn't great, but it was good because obviously they're not in the spot to be like time to go out and steal the show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, in the third match,
[SPEAKER_03]: Like Haru still really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: She put on that figure for Armbar that look like Toga's arm was going the other way and I was like, that actually looks really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: That move is so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely love that armbar.
[SPEAKER_03]: My big takeaway was
[SPEAKER_03]: It feels to me a bit like, I like Toga.
[SPEAKER_03]: She has some skills.
[SPEAKER_03]: It feels like in a way.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has been exposed that there are big gaps in her over like in with her overall.
[SPEAKER_01]: I worry that Toga is one of those young wrestlers that got praised too much too early and then kind of just stopped improving because of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it feels like my thought is Haru has passed her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it showed here, she pinned her.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's like, OK, great.
[SPEAKER_03]: She has the, you know, the four arms, those are great.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's still, it's starting to feel like, oh, but what is the, there's no character, really.
[SPEAKER_03]: Except for I'm Toga.
[SPEAKER_01]: Toga and I'm handsome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's sort of like here I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: and it's like okay you have those strikes but other than that well well she does the rolling thunder that's true she does do the rolling thunder makes me laugh every time because it's feels absurd to see someone that isn't rob bandam doing that
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I liked her rock bottom off of the ropes.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was good, but this really sunk in that I was like, okay, and it feels a bit like the promotion doesn't quite know what to do with her where it's like, okay, she can team with mirai.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you know, I think it's definitely not the focus of this match.
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, I think the focus is they're building a larger story with Haru and Mirai here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I think one big issue is it seems to me or reads to me that Haru like gets it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, like someone who immediately is like, I understand how to do this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm very good at it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: That as I said, that is not every person and Toga is in that category of like you've got to do some figuring out of like what.
[SPEAKER_03]: this whole thing is, which hasn't happened yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: It could happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, she had the initial skill.
[SPEAKER_03]: People got very excited about her early as you said, but it may be the case that it was like, oh my god, they got really excited and then realized, like with horror, you get excited and every time she comes out, you're like, whoa, she's doing this now.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's improving.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's improving.
[SPEAKER_03]: So again, a match I liked, but I could sort of see the better version of the match in my mind's eye, so I like, you know, I probably would have gone like three and a quarter.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was a three and a half.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, it was the big Ajay Kong match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ajay Kong defeating a riso endo in nine minutes and 25 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly interested to hear your thoughts.
[SPEAKER_01]: I loved this match.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, the only thing that could have improved it is if there was blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: Endo was so good here.
[SPEAKER_01]: The herhating the waterwheel suplex on Kong got like got an actual audible reaction out of me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just endo took such crazy ragdoll bumps on the backdrop drivers.
[SPEAKER_01]: like it was so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went foreign a quarter on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely loved it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I liked it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It didn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're super connected with me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do hate the match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Taylor.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do hate it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can sort of see why people liked it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I feel like I see this match.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like last episode, we were just sort of talking about one of these matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like Ashakong.
[SPEAKER_03]: She comes in.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I liked it, but and I thought Endo did well.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought she came across very likable, but in the end of the day, I'm sort of like, yes, I have seen this.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I wasn't crazy about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it matches now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're kind of more looking for how the young wrestler deals with it, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's not even for me like, oh, is Endo gonna step up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, of course she is.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's like one of the best wrestlers in the whole company.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I wasn't surprised that I'm like, oh, she's doing really well.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, of course she is.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's very talented.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it isn't like a rookie where you're like, oh, finally they're showing the great spirit that they need to show.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, yes, this is a good wrestler going against a better wrestler and losing.
[SPEAKER_03]: So to me, I didn't even have that connection.
[SPEAKER_03]: The one thing that did make me laugh was, I don't think I've ever seen
[SPEAKER_03]: So she hits the water wheel and I think Ajo was upstanding and you know at her before she even like started moving to stand up from hitting the move like I've never seen obviously there's fighting spirit where you get it by a move and you're sort of like oh and then you power up I mean she got hit by the move and immediately stood up and was like what about it and I was like oh wow I've never seen someone get hit with a big match
[SPEAKER_03]: or get hit with a big move in, you know, you're the end of a match and just be like, whoop, stand up, here I am, and here like, okay, so I liked it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw that people had liked it, so maybe my expectations also were a little bit higher, but I thought it was fine, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was surprised that I was a Kong didn't like Buster Malith open when she is eight, the bin to the face and they were super kicked it into her.
[SPEAKER_03]: The next match was another six-person tag team match, Kumadori, Sakura Harota, and Yuki Kamufuku, defeating Mahiro Kiryu, Sanchira Takagi, and Yuma-Hita Imanari in 12 minutes and six seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was very funny to have it was like Kumadori and Imanari or something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're like running around the ring and kumidori's doing all this stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it was like, okay, tag in.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's Hatori and Kiryu.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kiryu looked like she was moving through mud.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, after watching them.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and Hatori's like running around the ring trying to give some energy.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's like, I'm gonna hit the road.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm gonna do this.
[SPEAKER_03]: And my hero's like just standing in the middle of the ring, doing nothing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, they'll never tag again, but I did sort of like the energy of Sakura and Kumadori.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kumadori is awesome, actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is my first time seeing him and he rules.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was great, but I thought they had great energy together.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have sort of similar engines.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Things, and I was like, oh, this is a great team.
[SPEAKER_03]: They'll never tag again.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: But, you know, I enjoyed that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, did I like?
[SPEAKER_03]: taking farts and throwing them in people's face.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that was it the beginning.
[SPEAKER_03]: They then got away from it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was nothing major, but it was enjoyable enough mostly because they kept me here out of the match.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, she sort of like did the apology thing and then everyone moved on and it was like, okay, we don't need to see her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I'm just waiting for the day that Mahiro takes like an office position in the company and stops wrestling and only appears to be hit by a bike once every couple of months.
[SPEAKER_03]: which that was good this time i was like oh if she were only this part of the show she'd be yeah i should say they also announced that her roya matzimoto will be coming back to Tokyo joshi that's right yes after she had two i believe two matches last year and that not to
[SPEAKER_03]: will be appearing at Cork and Hall for chemis show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it her retirement show?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't remember.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't remember if that's her retirement show or a lead up.
[SPEAKER_01]: All I know is we definitely need Okiyon commentary for that show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I desperately need to hear him react to some areas spots.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, the next match was a special singles match originally meant to be Will or Nightingale and Mizuki Will or Nightingale not having these issues of some type.
[SPEAKER_03]: So instead it was Chris Brooks.
[SPEAKER_01]: defeating Mizuki in ten minutes and forty seven seconds Kelly what were your thoughts on this this is awesome uh Brooks is so good at playing the giant bully like this made me feel like I was back in the golden age of Choco Pro during the pandemic days when he was just beating the shit out of fucking Lulu pencil and stuff uh he's just
[SPEAKER_01]: The visual of him picking Muzuki up by her leg and pulling her into the ring was so wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I've ever seen that before.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a bummer we didn't get the Willow match, but I was okay with it because this match was awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was another four and a quarter for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also went for an accordor.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also wrote the note that I have never seen someone pick someone up from the apron over and into the ring.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like not even okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm picking them up and then I'm doing something on the apron, but to do like, oh, I'm picking you up and high enough that I can then just place you into the ring.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's like, oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's unique.
[SPEAKER_03]: The highlight for me was the Mizuki went for the footstomp and Brooks caught her and then turned it into a tombstone.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like that was great.
[SPEAKER_03]: The one thing actually that didn't work was the thing I was most excited for, which was the whirling candy didn't look great.
[SPEAKER_01]: and which is weird because they've done it so good in the past.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this may have just been caught her at a weird angle or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was just a thing where I was waiting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, oh, she's going to hit the whirling candy.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to look great.
[SPEAKER_03]: You didn't look bad, but I was sort of like, oh, they've done better in the past.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which was a bit of a bummer, but I thought it was great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, just Brooks trying to demolish.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mizuki and it's also always interesting, you know, seeing like, oh, people thrown into chairs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're seeing a huge guy do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And all of a sudden, you're like, oh, like five rows of chairs is gathering instead of like one row slightly moving.
[SPEAKER_03]: So great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also went for and a quarter.
[SPEAKER_03]: So really good match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Chris Brooks is at his best when he's being a joy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then we got into the title matches, the first title match, the international princess title, Susume, the champion successfully defending, against Walkinga, Uihara in 12 minutes and 47 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: This match was okay, this was a weird match.
[SPEAKER_03]: It felt like nothing to me, really.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, in the crowd was absolutely dead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, yeah, it felt like the crowd was not into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It felt like they didn't really have good chemistry, so it felt like just it was like, oh two people just having a match.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it was a title match, but I'm like it didn't really have the energy of one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think the crowd really threw me because it's like, you know, Susumi comes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: She gets a good reaction, walking up comes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: She gets a good reaction, bell rings, silence.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, wait, what happened?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and then people would make noise, but it sort of felt like like people sort of were thinking, okay, well, we got to do something like we got to make some noise, so we'll clap a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just really felt like a nothing match.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, walkin' out is in an interesting place.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cause to me, it feels like she has a lot of the intangibles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's good enough in ring.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, she's not crazy good, but she's not out there like falling apart in the ring.
[SPEAKER_03]: But something is missing, and it could be another Togeth thing where, remember she won the rookie tournament?
[SPEAKER_03]: you know then she wins the tag team titles and it feels like oh my god this is a big deal person that tag title runs going to be the worst thing that ever happened to her and it just feels like her trajectory is wrong because now it's like oh this person should be a star and she's in these matches and you're just not like I don't feel it yeah it's like oh you definitely needed more time to figure everything out
[SPEAKER_03]: before it looked.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the tag team was bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, because I think she was with someone who is the exact type of person she didn't need to be with, which was like, hey, I've gotten good enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this match, it just, it's like mine would have been like maybe three stars, two and three quarter stars.
[SPEAKER_03]: For this match, it was just
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think I was about three and a quarter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what kind of felt like half a step slow, which typically isn't that bad, but when you're against Zume, who is so fast and so smooth, it's the most noticeable thing in the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was a match where I thought, oh, maybe, you know, I didn't watch the show for a couple hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I'm sort of just,
[SPEAKER_03]: you know, getting tired, whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was not the case because the next two matches I was back in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it was like, okay, it isn't me.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's this match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of the semi main event of the show, the princess tag team title match, me, Watanabe and Rikatetsumi, the champions, retaining against hypermissow and Shoko Nakagima in 17 minutes and 50 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: I said, uh, I gave a hot take last week about to hear a Hashimoto.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have another hot take.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Masao is the greatest comedy wrestler of all time when she becomes a serious wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the thing about it is like I often think in Joshi,
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll limit it to Joshee.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think of like, Kiori Yoniyama used to be this way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where it was like, she comes out and she does this, you know, in stardom.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Death Yamasana, or whatever all the Yamasans were.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, she's goofy, and then she would go and like, in Chucco Pro or something, have a match and you'd be like, oh my God, it's like four and a quarter stars amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: The difference is to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, Kira Yoniama is not wrestling a serious match as Death Yama's on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where you're like, oh, there's all make sense in the character.
[SPEAKER_03]: But how does it and like, fits it within this comedy character?
[SPEAKER_03]: Of like, oh, I have this mask.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it gets knocked off on serious, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: That to me is harder than just being like, oh, I play this goofball sometimes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then when I need to have a good match, I'm just myself, and I wrestle a good match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, that's a lot easier than this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi permissau, embracing the spirit of Colt-Cobanvers on a side.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this match was really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's the four like four of the best wrestlers in the company.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's not you're not like shocked.
[SPEAKER_03]: I went four and a half stars.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I'm at too.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went four and a half.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really loved the this head a distinct three act structure, which you don't see a lot of in wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they started off really kind of fast pace, no silliness, then went all in on being silly.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had the payoff of the bike bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they went back to the ring, had an intense match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Missile gets their mask ripped off.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, continues the trend of those matches being awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: The pace at the end was so insane.
[SPEAKER_01]: just crazy stuff going on constantly.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just a great match all around.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I went foreign a half as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is my favorite match I've seen these teams have.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and it's remember where we were with the tag team scene two months ago.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's good to be back here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's like, yeah, just put two really good teams against each other
[SPEAKER_03]: um, what about that?
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the main event, the Princess of Princess title match, Yuki Arai successfully defending her title defeating the ace, maybe in Masha, in 19 minutes and 16 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, I'm going to let you go first.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, because I have a feeling I'm going to be, we're going to have different opinions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I loved this match as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also went four and a half stars on this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I, I feel like before the match, me, you must have told Eri, hey, lay your shit in, and she really did, uh, you keep your eyes never hit people as hard as she did in this match.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... the finally to the outside sounded awesome her she did a bunch of good elbow strikes to me while she was in like the indian death lock just all around i thought me you made arrived look tremendous here
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was like a super back and forth match by the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: I honestly didn't know which way they were going to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it is the right move now to have Iri win here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm glad to see that my tripitations about her winning title have been largely unfounded because it's not like they are drawing any less.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not like she's laying eggs out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was very, very happy with this match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, another four and a half star match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, well, we're not that far off, but I was higher than you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whoa, I went for them three quarter stars.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hell yeah, um, I thought this rocked me of course is so good as everyone knows and we've always known.
[SPEAKER_03]: This did feel like you keep getting to that place like stepping up.
[SPEAKER_03]: The biggest thing I thought of during this match was
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the match also was so good because Yuki has been miscast sort of as champion.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think naturally when you're champion, you have the sense of I am the best people are coming at me, and I am, but I'm better than they are, or like I am the one, like they should be scared of me, I should not be scared of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it feels in a way like Yuki has been cast as his killer wrestler who's got this finally kick where it's like, don't get hit by the finally or you're done for like this crazy amazing kick.
[SPEAKER_03]: To me, it feels like such a better fit in this match that she was sort of like
[SPEAKER_03]: I have a lot to face, you know, me who has beaten a lot of people in this company, but I have this kick and if I hit this kick, I can't beat her and I can win.
[SPEAKER_03]: And sort of that story fits so much better with a rye who comes out, you know, she's like smiling and, hey, you know, with the belt and she's sort of this idle person, it doesn't, it doesn't super click with me to then have her going to match with, you know, whoever.
[SPEAKER_03]: and be like, okay, hi, and you should be scared of me, by the way, because I'm going to kick your ass.
[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know it feels like someone who should be like in this match fighting to prove themselves.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and it feels like she's sort of been in the other matches, like I don't have anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have this great kick, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: another problem being like the kick never looks good and in this match it looked great mm-hmm I mean the one on the apron sounded like she just shoot kicker yeah in the head so I thought it was great really well worked I this is the correct thing to do it's like you have to go all at this point you have to go all the way absolutely
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was funny because I didn't watch the show live and I wasn't spoiled.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't get spoiled on any of the results.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I did see someone tweeted.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't remember who it was was like, oh, the, the, the, what was the, I don't remember what the exact wording of the tweet was.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it was something like, oh, the main event of the Tokyo Joshi Show really doesn't make sense to me in terms of the direction they're going with the company.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I was like, well, that reads to me like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because that would be sort of a thing where it's like, okay, that feels like a three year ago, two year ago thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where they were like, okay, you've had your, like, you've had your run, like the thing they did with me, you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, Watanabe, the first time she had the title.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whereas like she had the title, everyone got excited.
[SPEAKER_03]: She defended it a couple of times and then lost it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the whole sort of rationale,
[SPEAKER_03]: at least in my mind and maybe some other people's minds was it was like, okay, she proves she could win the title.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was sort of step one.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then she had to come back and win the title again to be like, yes, I am a great champion.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I could see a world.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm glad it didn't happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're like, me, you wins the title here.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it becomes the thing where it's like, yeah, but you can have the title like she proves she's in that upper echelon.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she'll come back and get it again later.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which I guess is a fine story, but I'm much more excited to be like, yes, definitively, she is at the top of the mountain.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it certainly seems, I said before, she would won the belt that I was like, she doesn't seem like a draw.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, she seems like a draw now.
[SPEAKER_01]: She sure does.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, stick with her and also have to say, you know, a point for me, you is in the last,
[SPEAKER_03]: Me, who has been like, I'll lay down whenever you want.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, which really says something, I think is, you know, and she's lost before the show, but she came into this match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Equally is, oh my God, she's the A, she could win, you know, it's not taking the shine off of her and it's helping other people.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think that's really big too, but I love the match.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, it was so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: This show was, is maybe their best show this year so far.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I got my new bookmatches.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would have to go back and look because I always forget like what matches what show.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, preview shows have been held back by the fact that the tag title matches were not good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it was like, oh, if they're three and a half stars, we're doing pretty well.
[SPEAKER_01]: like the only thing holding this one back is the international title match but other than that like the top two or both incredible uh... i like to the azacong a resumatch more than you did but we both really like to the brooks mzuki match and the rest of the undercard was solid enough all right what else has been happening in joshi in the last two weeks well a lot yes a lot is that it was
[SPEAKER_03]: It has been the kickoff of the five star Grand Prix started back on July 18th.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, with the day one, you know, I was Kelly, I was messaging you, um, while I was watching these, I have to say the biggest struggle for me is talking about five star grand pre-matches, because so many of them end and I'm like, hey, good match, that's all I can say.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's a lot of three stars, a lot of three stars, a lot of three and a quarter.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think for the tournament matches the first night, my standout, by far was Moa Wattenabe versus Unimizamori.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like that a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've still think Momo in the five stars, one of the safest bets in wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: She and you know, really beat the hell out of each other here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I would have to look back, but I'm pretty sure this is my favorite match that Jonas had in her stardom run.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I went four stars on this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed it, but the rest of the tournament matches I thought were just kind of fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I also think Mama just kicked you in the face at one point in the match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but even I'm like, oh, even if it's three and a half stars, three and three quarters, maybe even four stars.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, I don't have anything other to say.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Other than like I like this match, it was good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, yep, they're two good wrestlers.
[SPEAKER_03]: They had a good badge.
[SPEAKER_03]: Although something we can talk about, Kelly, very controversially in the semi-main of this show, the triangle of madness, Julia Hart, who is replacing B-preasely in the five-star Grand Prix.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sky Blue and Tecla, defeating Amisore Hena and Lady C to win the artist of Star-Dem title match.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I'm less offended by this than other people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my open my first note for this match says I'm sure everyone was extremely normal about this result.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because it feels like, okay, they'll probably drop them back in a month after the tournament is over.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll probably lose them at Wembley.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, they're not going to have them that long.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I, you know, I mean, he, you know, ladies see like it's a fun team, but I'm not
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the artist of Stardom titles, I'm like, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I'm capable of being upset about anything related to the artist of Stardom titles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I put it in my notes.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a one-woman team versus god-size most boring soldiers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I cannot possibly imagine having a strong opinion about this match, or it's results.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I will say the funniest part of this match for me was Julia doing the rope walk
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, and then did like an arm ringer.
[SPEAKER_03]: She like sort of dropped off the ropes and was going to do like an arm thing on the ropes missed the apron and fell directly on her ass on the ground.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which made me laugh quite a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I do I will say one of my favorite things about this is you know the English speaking fans very upset about all of this Japanese fans.
[SPEAKER_01]: They fucking love Julie Hart They are really fired up about her Which I find very funny
[SPEAKER_03]: And then one match we should talk about, the main event, the IWGP women's title match Surrey successfully defending her title against not support in 20 minutes and 52 seconds, not support after the match, not directly after the match, but in subsequent days, announcing she will be retiring.
[SPEAKER_03]: in January, January 3rd.
[SPEAKER_03]: So some big news there, but this match, great match.
[SPEAKER_03]: I went four and a half stars.
[SPEAKER_03]: They just pummeled the shit out of each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: For the whole time, there were two headbugs, two shoot headbugs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the match, just kicking, slapping, just going at it, really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Wrestling Observer went five stars.
[SPEAKER_03]: So even higher than me, Kelly, what did you have for this match?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was born a quarter.
[SPEAKER_01]: I liked it a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I called this a smart jock wrestler versus a dumb jock wrestler match.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... it's there was a bit in here when point of her leg usual apron bump where i don't know what it was but the sound of it was so much grosser than normal let it just it was this weird metallic splat and it was just like all my god she's dead well will they open the match by just throwing each other onto the apron yeah like it was like okay you go on the apron now come up here and throw me onto the apron
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I do feel like the match went a little longer than it should have.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they missed the peak and there was two times where Siri was late on kickouts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was going to say that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, is this becoming a start?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm thinking where people are late on kickouts?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I don't think I noticed it twice, but I definitely noticed it once.
[SPEAKER_01]: I probably would have gone four and a half of not for those.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I kind of shaved that off with the quarter star off because of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that kind of makes me think like, if you shave the last three minutes of this match off, I do think it's better for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like either way, awesome match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then on the 19th, there was the second day of the five star grand prix.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, anything that calls out to you from this day.
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually do have a couple notes on this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely loved that Tomica and Avabita, not secretora by DQ, the ref called for the bell.
[SPEAKER_01]: He saw cheating happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'd said, Hell yeah, out loud, because I love to see rules being followed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Finally.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so that was good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I really enjoyed the utami rena Yamashita draw thought the second match.
[SPEAKER_01]: The second half of it was really good, but the first half definitely suffered from the time limit draw psychology of all we need to draw this out when you don't just wrestle the regular match, but that's a wider wrestling like psychology problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: My main thoughts on this show, and it kind of goes into wider booking, comes from the main event between Carrera and Rina.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had my usual problems with this match that I do with Rina matches, where I find them overindulgent and Rina kicks out of a whole lot of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And normally that's whatever because a lot of times it's for like a future a startup title or a new blood thing or whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: The issue my issue specifically here.
[SPEAKER_01]: is that Rina is not in a position on the pecking order where she should be kicking out of Siyaka Kurara's finisher's because Kurara is an incredibly recent world champion.
[SPEAKER_01]: The stuff that Rina was kicking out of are moves that put away Siyaka Matani.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like that's an issue going forward is the booking of Karara where it kind of feels like they're still treating her as the plucky upstart when that's not what she is anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's a former world champion.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it just has a lot of
[SPEAKER_01]: that adds a lot of implications to her matches and how it's booked.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't feel like she should have had as hard of a time putting away arena as she did.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like, and then going forward into the show after, Karara loses clean to Tomica and Abba, who I like a lot, I think and Abba's
[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't think Anabha should be beating incredibly recent world champion like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know, maybe I'm thinking about it too much, but it just seems like this muddy is a lot of the booking.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that I still don't think Coraro was ready to be the champion that she was.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then on the 20th of July, there was another day of five star cramp reaction.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really know how to distinguish, uh, make these interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, anything from the 20th, I would say my highlight would definitely be the main event, my kids feeding, Azumi.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think other than that, I don't really feel strongly about any of these.
[SPEAKER_01]: I loved how they did the hayman special from the summer some of my main into the main.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was awesome Just all right, these two hang out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, then they're getting into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what ring the bell start the match like that was awesome I loved that I actually went four stars on the main.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was very good Micah and Azumi two great wrestlers.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, this match should have been as good as it was
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the 25th was the final day of this period for the five star.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have not seen the show yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, you have anything to recommend from this show.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I will say that it's gay aoki versus Nazi guitar match was bad, but it wasn't like a disaster bad, so it was just kind of boring bad, and I was disappointed with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I don't know, I feel like she maybe should not have pizza, whatever, and oh, and poor Macyara, she gets implicated in a black face scandal after the bell.
[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't even happen during the match.
[SPEAKER_01]: What were we doing?
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, what else has been happening?
[SPEAKER_03]: Marigold had a show on the 14th of July, two title matches in that mega ton, defeating Asami Kodaka to retain the independent junior heavyweight title, sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the main event, twin tower of Chika Godo and Kokeyamarei, defeating yes, do you have something to say about twin tower?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's no, sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: My, I didn't, I thought you would stop talking, but my mic just went out for a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I started talking over you on accident.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mistake.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, it's because I said twin tower and being muted.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Chica Goto and Koke Amore defeating the darkness revolution duo of Chiyaki and Reyes Setto in 16 minutes and 54 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another tournament kicking off in the last two weeks.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Tokyo Princess Cup over in Tokyo, Joshi, the first day of that tournament was on the 20th of July with the first round matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, we sort of talked about this when we were previewing.
[SPEAKER_03]: These shows.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a bigger venue than they, I feel like typically running for the show.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was very echoing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I would say, my, probably my high match was me, Watson Ave, defeating Ren can not sue other than that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought all of these matches were fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went three and a half stars on both endovers as a Tory and arrive versus Haru.
[SPEAKER_01]: I liked both of those quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Kelly higher than me on this show that he was very scared that he would not enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I didn't think it was great, but like, I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been far, far worse.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the 25th, this round two matches, Kelly, you have seen this show, what did you think about this show?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the first three of the tournament matches were kind of nothing, uh, endo beating chicken and assay was whatever I, at one point, I had noticed like I was watching the match, but I was zoned out thinking about something entirely else, like I just, they did not keep my attention at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... he may worry be walking out which is a surprising result and kind of awesome actually some i'm excited about that uh... miss out in mizuki had and not tremendous not a great match island three stars on it which is incredibly disappointing for those two uh... too much comedy in this one it didn't it very it very much felt like a house show match
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... but then the main event was awesome recantit sumi beating me humashita it was so unlike everything else that came on the card prior where this was just a very nasty and gritty match where they were just
[SPEAKER_01]: really swinging for the fences, Tetsumi was just wrenching on Mew's leg in this match and then eventually on her neck with the dragon's sleeper which got her the win.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yamashita hit a crazy looking skull kick at one point.
[SPEAKER_01]: like this was a much-needed match for me as this was like the main event of my day of watching three five stars shows and then this talk show show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went four and a half stars or four and a quarter stars on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really really liked it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if there's any tournament match you should watch out of all of the shows we've just talked about that's the one if you have time for one single match make it re-cattetsum
[SPEAKER_03]: Then, Sendai girls had a big quirk in Hall show on the 20th, as well, celebrating their 20th anniversary.
[SPEAKER_03]: A junior title match, Fight Nishimori, defeating Yuna to retain that newly won title.
[SPEAKER_03]: The semi-main was a tag team, hardcore match, El Desparado, and Rio Misanami, defeating
[SPEAKER_01]: thoughts, uh, what a strange match to have happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, like what an odd grouping of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why just brown was here, just very weird all around like,
[SPEAKER_01]: zero took one of the funniest table bumps I've ever seen like he did legitimate me make me laugh like he goes like he goes up on the ladder does like the you know the dash spot jumping off the ladder to the table but whoever he was going to jump on I think it was music and I mean moved
[SPEAKER_01]: And he sees that kind of halfway through on his way down and just makes like the disappointed current the frog face.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then holds that face as he hits the table and looks so disappointed in himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it made everything with Jiro worth it for that day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he was actually very funny on in this one match.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the main event was the Sendai Girl's World title match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here are Hashimoto, the champion, retaining again, Siri in 18 minutes and 17 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really liked this match.
[SPEAKER_03]: I went for an 1,4 star's thought it was sort of the classic Hashimoto Siri style, lots of suplexes, hard hitting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was actually sort of surprised to see a winner.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's been a bit of winter, especially because I think they were doing time calls throughout the match, or they were saying something which I thought was time calls and thought, okay, they're going to go to a draw and they didn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was expected this to be a draw.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really hard hitting again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another good curie match in this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, Kelly, would you think?
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... dudes rock ladies addition strikes again uh... just fucking awesome they beat the absolute shit out of each other there was multiple strikes that made me go oh god stages sounded and looked gross it was awesome i went for and have stars i loved this match uh... someone make day for each this one too
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Kelly, what has been happening in Choco Pro in the last two weeks?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Choco Pro had one of their bigger shows on the 14th, uh, manifested by a super age of title match, Mia Yatsubo successfully defending against Mesa Ruga and a pretty good match, uh, that I went four stars on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really feel like Mia is improving with every match and I think she's having a very good run as champion.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, and what is coming up in the next two weeks of action?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we have some more five star grant pre-action that resumes on the 28th of July at Corican Hall, both A-block and B-block and B-block and Red-block and Blue-block in action.
[SPEAKER_03]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the Red A, Psychicurara against Tsuki Aoki and Micah against Natsukatura, in the Red B, Lady C against Machito and Utami against Konami, in the Blue A, Susu Suzuki versus Miyu Amisaki, and Rion versus Julia Hart, and then in Blue B, Yudameezamori against Amisore and Starlight Kid,
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Starlight Kit again, Saiyakamatani is the match, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Saiyak was dearly missed on the show, was prior to this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, you getting hyped for Rion versus Julia Hart?
[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, kind of.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Rion a lot, and I'm, I'm hoping Julia steps up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, actually, you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I am.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then on August 1st, they will be at Sendai Pit.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a blue block day in the A-block, Susu Suzuki, against Hanako, Ayesakura, against Ruaqa, Hina, against Julia Hart, and Miyu, Amisaki, against Rion, in the B-block, Kogama, versus Sae-Kamatani, Yuna-Mizamori, versus Kikyo, for Asawa, Amisore, versus Momo Watanabe, and Hanan, versus Starlight Kid, that blue B-block
[SPEAKER_03]: doing the work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not having that block for the most part on these early shows or just kind of not being around a ton really.
[SPEAKER_01]: Drag down those first couple of days a little bit tournaments.
[SPEAKER_03]: then it will be August 2nd in utsunamiya one single red a block match rena versus it's hukiyaki and then it's all b all the way down i esuakura versus miyama saki sususuzuki versus rian ruaaka versus julyahart
[SPEAKER_03]: Hina versus Hanako, Yuna Misa Mori versus Kogama, Starlight Kid and Momo Watanabe, Honen and Amisore and Sai Kamatani and Kyoku for Sawa.
[SPEAKER_01]: Starlight Kid and Momo is the one to watch out for there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then on the third, they are back in Korkin Hall with all blocks in action, Red A, Azumi, and Tsuki Aoki, Natsuka Torah, and Kira Kira Gane.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the Red B, Lady C, and Azusa, Inaba, Saida, and Konami, Red A, Iasakura against Julia Hart, and Hina versus Riyan, and then in the
[SPEAKER_03]: Momo Watanabe versus Sia Kamatani.
[SPEAKER_01]: That show is saved entirely by Blubi.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then, on the eighth of August, they will be in Sapporo, it's all red, the rest of the time it's all red, so it's red A, Azumi versus Natsugatura, Tomukate Naba versus Akira Kira Gane, Micah versus Rina in the B,
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we end this two week period, still in Sapporo on the 9th, still red in the A-block, Azumi and Kira-Kurugane, Saika Karar versus Natsukatura, Tomukenaba versus Rina, Micah versus Tsukia, Ok.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the B-block, only three matches, Azusa and Abba versus Konami, Saida versus Rina
[SPEAKER_03]: So that will be it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then in two weeks, we will be very close to the end, hard to believe of the five star Grand Prix.
[SPEAKER_01]: Am I insane or doesn't feel like there's so many more red matches than there are blue?
[SPEAKER_01]: It really does.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I like, how is that possible?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, but I think it's made up by the fact that the last two days are almost exclusively blue matches.
[SPEAKER_01]: OK, yeah, that's true.
[SPEAKER_03]: like two of the last three days are almost exclusively blue matches, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, the Tokyo Princess Cup will be continuing on the 30th of July, four matches, Toga against me here at Kiryu.
[SPEAKER_03]: Me, you want to not be versus UK, I ain't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Susan Mae vs. Palmer Jukew and Yukea Rye vs. Shoko Nakajima.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then on August 8th, it will be Rikata Tsumi vs. Hyper Mesao, a recent end-over vs. Himalari, and then it will be the winner of Toga and Mahiro Kiryu, facing off against the winner of Miyu Watanabe and Yukea Aino.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then,
[SPEAKER_03]: The winner of Suzame and Ponghara Juku will face the winner of Ukiyurai and Shoko Nakajima.
[SPEAKER_03]: What is coming up in Marigold?
[SPEAKER_03]: They have a Corrican Hall show coming up.
[SPEAKER_03]: On the 30th of July, the big match there is going to be Miko Aino and Komomo Minami facing off against Seri and Chichi, that will be the big one.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then on August 9th, Kelly, we have Summer Destiny 2026.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so excited.
[SPEAKER_03]: A big show for Marigold.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, the last time they did some our destiny.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're talking Julia was there.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're talking EOS sky.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're talking utami.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're breaking out big big.
[SPEAKER_01]: Big guns.
[SPEAKER_01]: Big guns this time, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: The biggest only the biggest then the best.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are they calling it favors?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are they getting EOS back?
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, summer destiny on January on July 13th, 2024, semi-main event, Eosci versus utami, main event, Cere versus Julia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are they going to get Julia back?
[SPEAKER_03]: So they got a topit, Kelly, the tag title match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Get excited, okay?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, twin tower.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tobito tower.
[SPEAKER_03]: Koke Amare and Chika Godo will face off again, Shino and Yuka Yamazaki.
[SPEAKER_03]: Get excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the main event, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you got to have a big singles title, main event.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you do.
[SPEAKER_03]: The champion, Miko Aono.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, she's good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Defending.
[SPEAKER_03]: Against people who are saying maybe the biggest challenge yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nagisanozaki.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to put butts in the seats.
[SPEAKER_03]: Folks, get excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you said the biggest challenge, I'm not going to lie there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a bit where I was like, they fucking putting back a ton in the middle.
[SPEAKER_03]: anything's possible in the one where it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also excitedly honoring the rookie that previously was part of Tokyo, Joshi and left and joined Marigold, which I believe Rossi called a game changer in the world of Joshi wrestling, an undabued rookie going from one company to another is debuting is debuting on the show, but she's going to be terrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: So get excited for Marigold, um, they are currently I believe begging Siri to do the, um, to do their upcoming tournament.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll see.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, no, man, I'm still hurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm doing that match for you guys before then, but I, I, I, I got theitis.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I'm busy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I got to wash my hair
[SPEAKER_03]: I have some real estate.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking into.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that is what is coming up in the next two weeks.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we will be back, of course, what we will be talking, we'll be talking a five star grand pre.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll be talking the Tokyo Princess Cup, but that will be in two weeks time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Before we end this episode, of course, I've got to throw it over to Kelly for Kelly's corner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so I haven't been doing a lot of them like just trying to stay caught up on wrestling, you know, uh, uh, they're getting out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm much talk about uh, this coming week is the release of volume two of Tadau Suege's uh, boat life manga.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm very excited about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm currently reading boat life volume one again because that came out four years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't remember a ton
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly's corner recommendation this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: Watch wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty much yeah, like I do there's a part of me where I'm just like damn I do want to catch up on the G1 because like I'm kind of like New Japan might kind of be back But also I don't want to watch anymore wrestling I don't want to like completely burn myself out and I still have so many tournament shows to watch Like I'm full I'm skipping the AW show tonight I just I can't bring myself to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've what I've spent too long yesterday watching wrestling
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know, maybe I'll watch some G1, but also I may just spend the day taking, taking a minor vacation from wrestling.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we will be back with you in two weeks time.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can find out if Kelly watched any of the G1.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you can also hear Kelly's thoughts on the five-star Grand Prix and the Tokyo Princess Cup.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lots of Yoshi action coming up for everyone to watch.
[SPEAKER_03]: But until then, stay cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye, everybody.