Author: Mathew Sarpracione

In celebration of her 5Star Grand Prix victory in 2020, figure it be best if she gets the spotlight for the Joshi scene. If you’re familiar with Utami Hayashishita and with everything she’s done before and during her wrestling career, you know what she’s all about. And if you’re not familiar with her or new to the Joshi scene, you’ve come to the right place. This is Utami Hayashishita. Utami is twenty-six years old and has been wrestling over a little over six years now. Her debut was on August 12th, 2018, when she went up against Jungle Kyona in…

There are plenty of promotions in Japan. Just like in the United States and the United Kingdom where people go straight to the bigger promotions. Some have their beginnings in something rather smaller promotions and there is one who has wrestled for four years. It is already considered for greatness. We are talking about the Master of Suplex himself, Shotaro Ashino. Shotaro was born on May 25th, 1990, in Nishi-Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. In 2014, he graduated from the Nippon Sports Science University. He was even recommended to go to wrestling school by Hiroshi Hase. Ashino would take his offer and…

In spite of everything going on in the year 2020, the world of professional wrestling as still able to give us quality matches throughout the year. Many were considered wrestlers of the year by a lot of fans. But one that deserves the most recognition for that title is Go Shiozaki. Go is from Pro Wrestling NOAH and currently holds the top prize in the promotion for those who don’t know who he is. He was mentored by Kenta Kobashi while also trained by guys such as Harley Race, Tamon Honda, and Yoshinari Ogawa. During the beginning of his career…

If the name ASUKA sounds familiar, the belief is that we are discussing former WWE SmackDown, Women’s Tag Team, and NXT Women’s Champion. However, unless they’ve followed the Japanese scene outside of New Japan, you have likely not heard about the other ASUKA also known as Veny. So let’s talk about her career and just about her in general. ASUKA is a Freelancer who was born on October 27th, 1998. She mostly wrestled for Pro Wrestling WAVE and was trained by the same person that inspired her to become a wrestler with she was a child, Ayako Hamada, who you…

On April 9th, All Japan Pro Wrestling would bring back their annual tournament, the Champion Carnival. The last one was in September of 2020 due to Covid canceling a lot of events at the beginning of the year. Zeus would win the tournament in October 2020 but it was time for them to do it at their proper date this year. For this year’s tournament, instead of doing two blocks, they would only do one block with ten participants. How would the finals work? Well, if the person has the most points at the end would win but if there…

On March 3rd, Stardom would hold a big event at the Nippon Budokan Hall. It was where we saw a solid card from top to bottom. Both Nanae Takahashi and Yoshiko would make their return to Stardom for the first time in six years. It was the first time since the incident with Act Yasukawa, Natsupoi wins the High-Speed Championship from AZM in the opening contest, and of course, our main event of the evening. The show’s main event was Giulia defending her Wonder of Stardom Championship against her rival, Tam Nakano, but this time, the loser would also lose…

It’s been a long time since the last issue, but we’re here to bring it back for the year 2021! It’s been a crazy 2020, but it’s time to give it the revival it needs. There’s plenty of news in the world of puroresu. And we’ll be here to cover it on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. Let’s check out what the world of professional wrestling has for us in store in the Puroresu Press for 01/18/21. __________________ Naruki Doi Surgery On January 15th, according to Naruki Doi’s Twitter, he posted a picture of his right arm bandaged up, hinting…

All Japan Pro Wrestling would start off 2021 with their annual New Year’s Wars events, and our first one happened on January 2nd. Our main event for this event was the World Tag Team Champions, Suwama, and Shuji Ishikawa, defending their titles against the Real World Tag League winners, Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi. ________________ A little bit of history happened between Kento and Yuma last year when Yuma would turn heel to betray Kento after retaining the Triple Crown Championship. Ten months later, the two would reconsider getting back together as a team, and to try and regain…

As 2020 is about to come to a close, we have 2021 to look forward to in terms of wrestling. But who are some people you should keep an eye on in the puroresu scene? Well, we’re going to talk about it here with three wrestlers from the men’s side and three from the Joshi scene. These will be people who are either free agents or some that are young up and coming wrestlers that could make a big impact within the new year. So who made the cut as the 3 Puroresu and 3 Joshi Top Talent to Watch…

On November 15th, Dragon Gate held their annual Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival a little later than expected but would still give us a stacked show. The match’s main event was R.E.D leader, Eita defending his Open the Dream Gate Championship against the returning Shun Skywalker.The last time Shun Skywalker was seen in Dragon Gate was on December 4th, 2019, where he lost to the current champion at that time, Ben-K. After that match happened, he would take a hiatus from Dragon Gate to travel to Mexico to tone his craft. He would work for various promotions in Mexico, such as…