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Help book Dragon Gate USA!
Gabe Sapolsky, the booker for Dragon Gate USA and formerly of ROH, has announced a chance for some lucky fan to actually help book the competitors for one of the matches on DGUSA's upcoming show held on September 6th. Taken from the DGUSA website: Dragon Gate USA is OUR wrestling haven. We have...
History of Wrestling: Super J Cup 94
On April 16, 1994 New Japan Pro Wrestling held a card in Tokyo that would be considered by many as the greatest wrestling show of that year. Super J Cup 1994 was a one night tournament that featured 14 of the best junior heavyweights from around the world. NJPW flew in Chris Benoit, Dean...
History of Wrestling: The Yokozuna Bodyslam Challenge
When Yokozuna (Rodney Anoa'i) made his WWF debut in 1992, the head office saw a new main-eventer. Yokozuna would go on to beat Bret Hart for the WWF World Heavyweight Title, lose and regain the belt from Hulk Hogan all in under a year from his first match in the WWF. To celebrate his win, his...
History of Wrestling: Kenta Kobashi's best match?
Back around 1996, I decided that I had read enough about how great Japanese wrestling was and wanted to see a few matches for myself. Being a longtime reader of the Death Valley Driver Video Review, it didn't take long to make a list of what everyone considered to be top shelf stuff. Now, if you...
Kenta Kobashi returning to AJPW?
Kenta Kobashi, the 42 year old Japanese wrestling legend, is rumored to be returning to All Japan Pro Wrestling at the 8/30/09 Sumo Hall show. While there isn't a lot of news to be found online to confirm this, I have found this newspaper clipping that seems to be pointing to a match with Satoshi...
High Drama in Nagoya Honbasho 2009
Sumo wrestling doesn't get much coverage in America anymore, a long drop from when NBC sports used to show one or two Grand Sumo final days a year on slow sports weekends. But it's still out there, as it has been for centuries. And with only six yearly Grand Sumo tournaments (3 in Tokyo, one in...
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