Author: Mathew Sarpracione

It’s time for another edition of the Puroresu Press where we will be talking about various news, rumors, and all sorts of goodies involving the Puroresu scene. Wasn’t much to go on in the previous week but now, we got a lot to cover for your reading pleasure. So let’s get to it, shall we? Keiji Mutoh Producing A Show For New Year’s Eve! You heard it right, Keiji Mutoh will be producing a special event to end the year of 2019 called the Wonder Carnival. It’s a cross-promotional show involving Wrestle-1, All Japan Pro Wrestling, and Dragon Gate. The…

During a press conference on October 3rd, Pro Wrestling NOAH would announce that they have created a new championship called the GHC National Championship and the match would take place on their big show on November 2nd called The BEST. The two people that would participate in this match were IMPACT’s very own Michael Elgin and former GHC Heavyweight Champion, Takashi Sugiura. This would be a first time ever match as they wanted to sell out the Ryogoku Sumo Hall with an already stacked card like the GHC Heavyweight Championship and the first-time-ever match between Naomichi Marufuji and The Great…

On October 14th, Bea Priestley retained her World of Stardom Championship. In a match against the 5Star Grand Prix winner, Hana Kimura and she would claim herself as the top gaijin in Stardom. Mayu Iwatani would step up to become the next challenger for the championship. It was set to take place on November 4th, Best of Goddess 2019. The last time Mayu challenged for the title was on August 12th, 2018 when Kagetsu was the champion and Mayu has been finding a way to get back into the picture. Mayu did win the 5Star Grand Prix last year but…

On October 24th, the fans of All Japan Pro Wrestling have witnessed a match of the year contender. It was at their Raising An Army Memorial Series. It was also their 47th anniversary touring at the Korakuen Hall. The match they had as the Triple Crown Champion, Kento Miyahara defending his title against the winner of the Royal Road Tournament last month, Jake Lee. This was an important match because it could have lead to All Japan pulling the trigger on a new top star. Kento’s goal would’ve been in jeopardy if he were to lose. Since he wants to…

Welcome to the latest addition to the Puroresu Press and it looks like I will be making it into a bi-weekly piece. Here we have more coverage for your reading pleasure. Good thing that we did. In fact, waited since quite a lot has happened during this week. Not gonna bore you with the introductions and just get right into the juicy stuff. Among the topics of discussion including Bushiroad Purchases Stardom. Bushiroad Purchases Stardom, WWE Fails to Make a Purchase! Earlier in the week, there was a rumor going around that New Japan Pro Wrestling would be purchasing Stardom.…

Quite a few things occurred in Stardom after their big show has happened, which I wrote a preview for if you haven’t checked it out yet. Anyway, I do want to talk about a few of the things that did transpire but I’m saving one of them for the Puroresu Press this week and just talk about the two big title matches that have occurred on this show. I’m talking about Arisa Hoshiki defending her Wonder of Stardom Championship against Kagetsu and Bea Priestley defending her World of Stardom Championship against the winner of the 5Star Grand Prix, Hana Kimura.…

Welcome to my next preview as I will be talking about Stardom’s next big show, Stardom World Champion Wars 2019. We got quite a bit happening on this show with two big title matches and the start of their Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, which was going to start on October 12th but they had to cancel the show due to the typhoon coming to Japan, and I hope that everyone living in Japan is careful and safe since it’s more important than a show. Anyway, I’ll be breaking down the card with the six matches that they’ll have in…

Welcome to a new little piece I’ll be doing for the site known as the Puroresu Press. This is where I’ll be talking about some news from a few promotions from the Japanese scene outside NJPW. For these, I’ll be talking about tournament winners, rumors, big match announcements, and anything else in-between except for new champions since those will be separate articles. Anyway, let’s get this show on the road and see what I’ll be talking about for this week on the first edition of the Puroresu Press. Jiro ‘Ikemen’ Kuroshio Rumored to Join WWE!? That’s right, another one of…

Instead of the Global League that NOAH runs every year, they would do something different as they would rename it the N-1 Victory Tournament and shorten it to five wrestlers on each block as Kenoh wins. The tournament started on August 18th and the finals took place on the September 16th show. On that show, we had the winners of each blocks fighting each other and they were Kenoh and Takashi Sugiura. The match was known as one of their best this year and after nearly a half-hour of them fighting each other, Kenoh would become victorious and would win…

During the Dragon Gates show on September 11th called Storm Gate 2019, Ultimo Dragon would take part in the main event teaming up with Dragon Kid and his old rival, Darkness Dragon as they took on Masato Yoshino, Naruki Doi, and YAMATO which ended in a No Contest due to R.E.D interfering in the match and attacked both teams. After the match, however, Ultimo Dragon would keep his promise and would make his final decision whether he would join come back home for good and join Dragon Gate or not. To many people’s surprise, he would actually say yes and…