Author: Mathew Sarpracione

It’s time to bring back the Puroresu Press. After giving it a month off with my trip from Japan and being ill for a good majority of January we return. We have a few exciting news bits to bring to the table today and are excited to share them with all our readers here including news from Dragon Gate and MLW. Dragon Gate and Major League Wrestling partnership! We are going to start with some big news right out of the gate. Since this is one has myself and others excited. On February 3rd, MLW has announced that they have…

On December 25th, 2019, Kagetsu would announce her retirement from professional wrestling. She said she would wrestle for Stardom for about a month and then in February, she’ll be fighting various opponents from different promotions before her last show on February 24th, which she’ll also be producing as well. The former Odeo Tai leader wrestled her final Stardom match on January 26th where she teamed with Mayu Iwatani to take on Momo Watanabe and Jungle Kyona, and Kagetsu would be pinned by Jungle to lose the match. Now that she has finished her Stardom obligations, it’s time for her to…

If you all remember from my previous article involving Dragon Gate, BxB Hulk betrayed YAMATO to join R.E.D. In doing so they would vacate the Open the Twin Gate Championships in the process. As to how they would crown the new champions, Dragon Gate would host a tournament. Consisting primarily of the newly built factions with generational warfare between Toryumon, Dragon Gate, and R.E.D. On January 11th, the tournament would start and it would conclude on January 15th with new champions. To nobodies surprise, BxB Hulk and YAMATO would meet in the finals of the tournament but the question was…

Stardom’s Nine-Year Anniversary Show has recently ended on January 19th. It was a show full of great matches. The show also included; Kagetsu’s final singles match in Stardom before her retirement next month. Also, new champions crowned at the show as well as top Gaijins win the Goddesses of Stardom Championship. Tokyo Cyber Squad members, Jungle Kyona and Konami would defend their Goddesses of Stardom Championships against two people from separate units. Oedo Tai’s Jamie Hayter would team up with former World of Stardom Champion and Queen’s Quest member, Bea Priestley. Before this match took place, the two teams actually…

At The Final Gate, the final major Dragon Gate event of the year, there were multiple matches held where titles were contended for. We had four title matches take place at the event, but only three of them would change hands. Which ones changed hands? Well, we’re gonna talk about those three matches right now. First up, the Open the Triangle Gate Championship was contested for when Strong Machines defended against members of R.E.D and Natural Vibes in an elimination-style match. Natural Vibes would be the first ones to be eliminated from the match, meaning they won’t be able to…

On December 9th, All Japan Pro Wrestling would conclude their Real World Tag Team League. It’s been a month of exciting tag-team wrestling from the company, but it’s now time for the tournament to come to an end. For the finals, we have Jake Lee and Naoya Nomura taking on Violence Giant (Suwama and Shuji Ishikawa) and the winner of this match will fight for the World Tag Team Championship. After a twenty-minute match, Suwama and Shuji would win the match to win the Real World Tag League. A lot of people are calling it a MOTYC and honestly, this…

The year is about to come to a close as Dragon Gate hosts its last big event of the year, Final Gate 2019. This year for Dragon Gate has been a huge improvement with return of PAC going in full swing, Ben-K stepping up to be their new top star, and the return of Ultimo Dragon. Let’s bring this year to a close as we talk about Dragon Gate’s next show with a card nobody should sleep on. Let’s break down the card. Tag Team Match Tribe Vanguard (KAI & Kagetora) vs. Mochizuki Dojo (Yuki Yoshioka & Keisuke Okuda) Our…

We’re back to another edition of the Puroresu Press. For this article, we’ll be talking about an update from my last article about the arrest, some partnerships, new cards, and another heel turn in one of the promotions including Sareee potentially appearing in Stardom. Plenty of content to cover in this press, so let’s just get down to the juicy stuff, shall we? Kaito Ishida joins R.E.D! We first travel over to Dragon Gate as R.E.D’s leader, Eita has been making some moves to stir some trouble for the company. Eita has vowed to make sure that Ultimo Dragon was…

Sad news broke in the Joshi world on November 24th, where Hazuki would make an announcement. Hazuki announced that her inpending retirement from professional wrestling. It was a shock from many fans to see her leaving the world of wrestling at twenty-two-years-old. Her retirement was announced for December 24th where she’ll be facing off against fellow Oedo Tai member, Natsuko Tora. Hazuki has been wrestling since she was seventeen and only had five years of wrestling experience under her belt. Her career has always been Stardom when she was first known as Reo Hazuki. After two years in the business,…

Welcome back to another edition of the Puroresu Press. We’ll be talking about a few things with some big announcements. They will include; winners of a title with a certain ending, along with some disturbing news at the end regarding Joji Otani. But either way, it’ll be covered regardless and let’s just have some fun! Great Muta coming back to the United States! On November 18th, it was confirmed that Great Muta will be traveling to the United States/ Once again as he will be performing at Joey Janela’s Spring Break 4 event! Great Mutoh was apart of Wrestlemania weekend…