プロレス Primer
A weekly guide to Japanese pro wrestling.

Newsletter: March 4, 2025

We have a big week in wrestling to catch up on. FantasticaMania was great! We have some free wrestling from Osaka Pro, and Stardom just kinda putting up what might be a top-10 match of the year for me on Youtube! I watched some Dragon Gate, and didn’t regret it this time! And of course, one of these promotions has what I’m sure must have been the most talked about heel turn in wrestling last weekend. Can’t think of any other big ones.

Match Recommendations

Osaka Pro Tag Festival Night 1 (2/23, FREE Youtube, Cagematch)

Osaka Pro Tag Festival Night 2 (2/24, FREE Youtube, Cagematch (tournament spoilers!))

(I highly recommend watching the full set of tournament matches across those two shows if you have time! It’s a good two-night story.)

NJPW FantasticaMania Night 7 (2/27, NJPW World, Cagematch)

NJPW FantasticaMania Night 8 (2/28, NJPW World, Cagematch)

Dragon Gate Truth Gate Night 11 (3/1, DG Network, Cagematch)

NOAH Memorial Voyage in Yokohama (3/2, Wrestle Universe, Cagematch)

Dragon Gate Rey de Parejas Night 1 (3/2, DG Network, Cagematch)

Stardom Nighter in Korakuen (3/3, Stardom World, Cagematch)

NJPW

Another FantasticaMania is in the books. Not too much to say here other than that there was a bunch of extremely good wrestling, and at a much lower price than you’d get watching CMLL’s YouTube subscription. Luchablog has a good breakdown of match finishes and a bit of context for a few ongoing feuds, if this made you interested in jumping into CMLL. My favorite match across the two nights was probably Hechicero vs Cavernario; it had been years since I’d seen a Cavernario singles match and I completely forgot he could do that kind of technical wrestling.

One thing I’ve been thinking about: if I’m Ninja Mack on this tour, I would have spent the whole time trying to get in the CMLL wrestlers’ good graces trying to get booked on a CMLL tour. He could be extremely fun there, though I don’t know if they’d trust him given his rep as a botch machine (an incredibly entertaining one, to be clear). He did have a tremendous crash and burn managing to overshoot like four guys on a dive on the last night of FantasicaMania. I suspect he might be in Best of the Super Juniors again this year, but he’s apparently done with NOAH, so it might be time to expand his touring horizons outside of Japan. Or, I dunno, I feel like DDT would absolutely love him.

NJPW has a useful Anniversary preview. I’m very curious to see how Goto vs Tanahashi goes, just to answer the question of what Tanahashi can do at this point in his retirement tour. I’m also looking forward to seeing El Phantasmo’s mystery opponent.

The New Japan Cup starts the next day. NJPW again has a great preview of the 1st round matches. There are a lot of interesting stories in this: this tournament is the return of Yuya Uemera and Callum Newman, and could have big victories for newer guys like Drilla Maloney and Boltin Oleg. There’s no undercards announced for these shows - I’m curious whether they hold off on Shota Umino appearing until his match on 3/12, since there’s a lot of drama in his first appearance since losing his hair to Great-O-Khan (especially if his 3/12 match winds up being a rematch). I’ll be watching this tournament closely, even if I think the first round will be more interesting in terms of results than match quality (we are looking at matches featuring EVIL, Ren Narita, Chase Owens, and Bad Luck Fale after all).

New Japan guys overseas

Ishii will be on Prestige’s 4/12 show in Portland, Oregon facing Calvin Tankman, the day after his appearance on the NJPW Chicago show. There’s a decent amount of time after that before the Road to Wrestling Dontaku shows start, so I wouldn’t be shocked if he pops up in AEW or ROH.

Gabe Kidd had a segment on AEW’s Youtube where he got into a fight with Mark Briscoe backstage, angered that Briscoe would take a match teaming with the Costco Guy Big Boom AJ on the AEW Revolution preshow. I thought this was an extremely funny excuse for a beef and nullifies any annoyance AEW’s hardcore fans might have over Mark Briscoe taking that goofy match (which, honestly, I bet will be a perfectly fine preshow match anyways). That said, I’m not sure when Gabe will actually have a match with Mark Briscoe; Gabe’s gonna be back in Japan this week for NJPW Anniversary and the New Japan Cup. He could show up later in the month if he washes out of the Cup. Otherwise, I expect we’ll see this match on AEW TV sometime around the Chicago show on 4/11. It almost certainly won’t be on AEW Dynasty, since that’s the same weekend as Sakura Genesis and it’d be pretty weird for him to miss that show. I guess they could also just run that match at Sakura Genesis?

Gabe also had an absolutely delightful Hey EW episode. I’m not usually that big on Hey EW (combining intentionally-cringe comedy with what often ends up being unintentionally-cringe bad wrestling promos is not a good pitch for me), but this was really, really good. For some reason I sometimes see people say Gabe isn’t much of a talker (maybe because he sometimes sounds a bit silly when yelling mid-match) - I’d encourage those people to check this out.

Finally, to close out his short tour of North America, Gabe had a match with Stu Grayson on Mystery Wrestling. You can watch that in a VOD on Mystery Wrestling’s Patreon; it was an extremely goofy show and a fun main event.

Clark Connors worked a match on AEW Collision against Swerve that was pretty fun, though they had Swerve work a bit heel in the match which left the crowd confused as to who to cheer for.

Zack Sabre Jr’s match against Drew Parker was scratched after Parker got injured on the 2/28 show, replaced with a match against Fuego del Sol. I’m not gonna subscribe to Triller+ just to check the ZSJ matches from GCW 3/1 and 3/2 out, but Cagematch commenters seemed to enjoy both of them, so if you already have that subscription you might want to give them a peek.

Other New Japan news

NJPW announced the schedule for the Best of the Super Juniors this year - starts on 5/10, with the finals on 6/1 in Tokyo. They should reveal the lineup for the tournament at Sakura Genesis next month.

Fightful Select reported that HENARE will be out of action this year after being injured late last year. I feel like a few wrestlers have lucked out with quicker-than-expected recovery times from knee injuries lately but imagine with this timeline it was more severe than “just” an ACL tear.

Shibata did an interview where he talked about the upcoming Goto vs Tanahashi fight. He mentioned that he’s always wanted to fight Goto for the IWGP title, and Forbidden Door in August would be a great place to do that (though he also talked about being happy to fight Tanahashi as well). I have seen some people treat this as a match announcement; I kinda think it’s just character work and helping build the Goto/Tanahashi fight. I don’t think a Shibata title match is totally out of the question and understand him shooting his shot here, but I doubt this is actually coming from a planned angle from either AEW or NJPW.

Personally I’d love to see it, but I’m not getting my hopes up; Shibata hasn’t exactly been booked in AEW as a guy to main event a PPV and it’s clear NJPW has reservations about him having a real match at one of their events. What I think might be more likely is a Shibata vs Tanahashi match, with no title in play, at Forbidden Door - the weird 5-minute Wrestle Dynasty match might have been intended as a teaser of a later match on Tanahashi’s retirement tour, somewhere NJPW is more comfortable not having responsibility if Shibata has any further medical issues.

NOAH

Whoof. NOAH’s 3/2 Yokohama Budokan show was the kind of mess you kind of expect from NOAH, though at least the biggest issue wasn’t their fault. In the finals of the NOAH Jr. Tag League (and the semifinal match of this show), Mark Trew got knocked out from a relatively basic spot where AMAKUSA did a top-rope senton onto Mark while he was hung up in the ropes. It looked like AMAKUSA basically came down onto Mark’s head rather than his chest, causing Mark’s head to slam into the mat and knocking him out. They really awkwardly ended the match after Mark was clearly out for a bit - there were some half-hearted attempts at an audible, but it was clear no one really knew what to do.

NOAH released a statement saying Mark was examined for a concussion but was deemed healthy, and his tag partner Kieron Lacey made a mostly-positive Instagram post. Because of this I went ahead and threw this match in my recommendations with a content warning, because I think it genuinely was the best match of the night before the injury, and knowing that Mark seems to be okay I don’t think it’s too hard to watch (it’s not gruesome or anything, just very awkward). They also cut a nice little promo following up on it.

The crowd was super deflated after this - I think AMAKUSA and his partner Junta Miyawaki, while almost certainly the planned winners of the match, were just as thrown off by this finish as the audience, since their postmatch promo didn’t get very over. Mark was taken out on a board which is always a scary sight as well, so much harder to get the crowd back in that scenario than if the injured wrestler had walked away (that said, it is also always the right move to take someone away on a board if you’re concerned about a severe head or neck injury).

Because of this, it’s a little hard to try to judge the main event that followed - the OZAWA vs Manabu Soya Heavyweight vs National Championship Lumberjack Match. It’s easy to say that, regardless of the crowd non-reaction that made up the first 3/4 of this match, this was not a good match. The lumberjack gimmick was horrifically misused here, with all of TEAM 2000X being in OZAWA’s corner and all of RATEL’s being in Soya’s corner, and rarely did they actually get around to do any brawling outside of the ring. Soya would fall into the Team 2000X side and get beat up and thrown back in, OZAWA would fall into the RATEL’s side and just get quickly pushed back in, and there was zero drama to any lumberjack action. The whole point is for everything on the outside to be an absolute chaotic mess, not like… strangely orderly. Otherwise, the lumberjack stipulation is indistinguishable from just having your stable at ringside like normal. And they really set this match up for failure by having Soya start getting beat down out of the gate, rather than give him a firey start to try to hype the crowd back up after the injury in the last match.

Of course, with nine people at ringside, this match broke down halfway through with like four different ref bumps and distractions and pulls causing everyone to brawl in the ring - again, a poor use of the lumberjack stipulation! And we got a big spot where Endo tried to get Kikuchi to turn on RATEL’s, Kikuchi refused and gave the chair that Endo had handed him to his teammate Tadasuke… only for Tadasuke to turn on RATEL’s and hit Kikuchi. So now I guess TEAM 2000X are back up to seven members. Have to say Tadasuke is one hell of a downgrade from Omos.

Eventually, OZAWA got the pin and became the unified GHC Heavyweight/National Champion… for like 5 minutes, as he then immediately threw the National belt away. We’re now up to two vacant championships in NOAH. Have to say, there was a lot of wonder about whether there’d be a time-limit draw or a no contest to avoid having unified belts; in retrospect we should have all known OZAWA would just not care about winning the title and vacate it.

Masa Kitamiya came out to challenge OZAWA for the Heavyweight Championship the 3/22 Korakuen, which I think has a much higher potential as a match, as long as they avoid any additional bad ideas for stipulations. This came after Kitamiya got a huge win over Marufuji in a very good undercard match. OZAWA’s response to Kitamiya was anger that Kitamiya, in his role as locker room leader, hadn’t done more to advocate for OZAWA when OZAWA was younger - he particularly called out NOAH featuring AJPW’s Yuma Anzai and NJPW’s Ryohei Oiwa over him, even though they all debuted within a year of each other. Some fun resentment going on there - it’s that classic heel trope of acting like you are above it all and don’t care, and inside you’re really, really pissed at how you think you’ve been slighted.

The rest of the undercard was pretty solid too, outside of a completely immobile Masao Inoue being in a tag. He at least was the legal man for only a small part of it.

The other two matches announced for the 3/22 Korakuen are Eita defending the Jr belt against Alejandro and HAYATA & YO-HEY defending the Jr Tag belts against AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki.

The cards for the 3/8, 3/9, and 3/20 shows are also out. You’ve got various Team 2000X tags, including Tadasuke in a 2000X vs RATEL’s match on 3/9.

KENTA isn’t on those shows, and he’s not currently listed for the 3/22 Korakuen. He’s gonna be in the US for a bit of time - he has a match on 3/16 in Deadlock Pro Wrestling in North Carolina, facing Titus Alexander. He could come back for the 3/22 show, but I feel like he’d probably be listed by now if he was going to do that.

He might stick around in the US through the Vegas WrestleMania weekend on 4/17-20 (he’s gonna be on at minimum a DEFY show there), but I kinda suspect he’ll fly back over for the 4/14 Korakuen before that. I assume we’re headed for Kenoh & KENTA vs Jack Morris & Daga for the vacant heavyweight Tag Championships, as while Morris vacated the belt with Omos when Omos left, Team 2000X are still walking around with those belts, and Daga is trying to solidify a move up to heavyweight. I would guess that match (or whatever match they’ll wind up making) will be on the 5/3 Ryogoku, so I assume he’ll be on that 4/14 Korakuen to set that up.

There’s also a couple new wrestlers coming over a tour: Canadian wrestler Bryce Hansen and Austin-based Knull. Apparently this was set up a few months ago, and according to Hansen’s Instagram is part of an “8-week stint” at the NOAH dojo. They’ll be getting various tags and singles matches across 3/8, 3/9, and 3/20 shows, always fun to check out some guys I haven’t seen before so I’ll be making sure to watch those.

Stardom

So the big Korakuen 3/3 show ended up being a live stream on Stardom World with the main event aired for free on Youtube (and still available as a free VOD!).

The big reveal at the end of the match made it clear why: instead of some of the more convoluted ideas being fantasy-booked in the runup to the Loser Leaves Stardom Tam Nakano vs Saya Kamitani match, they went with the simplest possible angle: Saya beat Tam, but decided this wasn’t enough, and challenged her to a rematch, career vs career with the World of Stardom Championship on the line to boot, at Yokohama Arena in on 4/27.

The ultimate goal here was to sell as many tickets for Yokohama as possible - that’s at a 17,000 capacity arena, with their last show in 2023 selling 5500 tickets with an incredibly stacked card; they’re not by any means going to sell this out but this is the kind of match and attention they needed just to try to beat that previous goal. The previous record crowd for wrestling there is 8,433 for the last Great Muta match (not the Mutoh retirement show, to be clear; those were separate things).

So the idea was: get everyone to tune in for this match, then reveal an even bigger match to try to get people to go to. I think that’s pretty smart! I think some people feel like there was a bit of a bait-and-switch, but I don’t think anyone really expected Tam to just leave out of nowhere on a Korakuen. And I think if you’re going to end up voiding the result of a stipulation match like this, doing it with the winner cutting a promo saying “hey, I’m not done with you yet!” is the way to do it - I think that actually feels better to me than if they had, say, done a no contest or DQ finish.

And again, this match was announced on a week’s notice, for an otherwise-unremarkable Korakuen, and not on a PPV, and the match was free on Youtube. All of the giant flashing “ANGLE ALERT” signs were there for anyone who would go to this. I have seen some reports of the local fans feeling a bit burned by the stipulation being honored, but I really can’t imagine this will be too much of a long-term issue. You do not need to have an extremely high awareness of wrestling to recognize that this show was not going to be Tam Nakano’s last match in Stardom.

Plus, y’know, the match itself was excellent. Honestly, if the rematch is as good as that was, then it doesn’t matter how we get there.

And, uh, about that rematch. Career vs Career here is explicitly retirement, thus why it’s a raising of the stakes from Loser Leaves Stardom. And it does seem like this would be Tam Nakano’s retirement. I talked last issue about her age, injuries, and previous discussion of retirement - it certainly seems like this would be for real. But I feel like she could take a year or two off and people would forgive her for returning, because, y’know, it’s pro wrestling.

This is the most excited I’ve been about a wrestling story in quite some time. I don’t have quite the history with Stardom to fully appreciate the scope of the Tam vs Saya feud over the years it’s been going on, but just being aware of it since Saya’s heel turn, I think this is an incredible climax to this story. I’ve been watching wrestling for a little over a decade and can’t think of the last time there was a retirement match that had an unclear finish. I am 99% sure Tam is really retiring here, but there’s always that weird 1% chance - what if Saya’s recent reality TV appearances was a hint at future ambitions outside of wrestling? - puts this into an ambiguous space you just don’t get in much modern wrestling. It seems like there are no sources in the wrestling press with inside knowledge on Stardom who can reveal what’s going on here, and I kinda hope it remains that way until after this match. I cannot remember the last time a match with this kind of stipulation - loser leaves or loser retires - had genuine uncertainty around it, rather than “oh well we know X is going to the WWE” or “oh well Y is definitely retiring as they want a backstage role” or whatever.

But, we will have to wait a couple months for all that to be settled. In the meantime, next for Stardom is the Cinderella Tournament, starting this weekend. Annoyingly, for this three night tournament, nights one and three are both PPVs, while night two airs on Stardom World. I am tentatively interested in seeing the tournament, but I suspect not at the prices Stardom would want me to pay. There’s not much else on Stardom World this month either, and it’s hard to say how long the delay will be before the Cinderella Tournament matches are uploaded - the 2/24 PPV matches still aren’t up on Stardom World, after all, so seems like they’re operating on more than just a week delay.

(And if you’re wondering why I don’t have a preview of the Cinderella Tournament: I know, like, three of the people in the lineup by name. It’s gonna be a bit before I have useful Stardom takes! But I’m still looking forward to watching what I can of it.)

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate ran a double shot in Osaka, with night 1 centered around YAMATO defending the Open the Dream Gate title from Kzy, and night 2 being the opening of the Rey de Parejas tag tournament.

I thought YAMATO vs Kzy was fine; I think I just do not have the history with Dragon Gate to appreciate the drama of YAMATO’s Dream Gate run. Dragon Gate fans seem to have it on their match-of-the-year shortlists, for me personally I just thought it was a pretty cool match.

What I can recommend without any reservation is the Night 2 show, which has four good-to-great tournament tag matches (and the other couple of matches are also worth a watch). My personal favorite was the opener, which featured rookie Akihiro Sahara. Sahara is a former American football player, and, well, he wrestles like it - he’s big but wrestles with a lot of speed, doing huge lariats and spinebusters running off the ropes. Also pulled off a great shoulder tackle out of nowhere on the apron. This is the kind of rookie that makes me consider watching a promotion more closely so I can be there when he finally picks up his first singles win.

The Rey de Parejas had one more show streameed this morning (from Korakuen), but then there’s nothing else streamed on Dragon Gate Network until the 3/30 finals show. They briefly had Shun Skywalker’s SSWQUEST IV on their streaming schedule for this month but then removed it. DG’s Jae Church teased some kind of “good news” coming about this month’s shows but hasn’t followed up yet.

Japanese wrestling is ultimately a business about selling event tickets, not streaming content; I try to set my expectations accordingly. But while it’s one thing to skip a minor house show tour, a big tournament like Rey de Parejas is weird to not air. I wasn’t really that concerned about it before watching the first night - I have plenty of other wrestling to watch, after all - but considering how fun those matches were, I’m now kind of annoyed!

I did go ahead and pay for DG Network for the month, so I’ll check out the Korakuen and the finals and… SSWQUEST if I can, I guess.

Also, as an aside: DG Network has the absolute worst image quality I have ever seen of a stream I’ve paid for. Like, the average IWTV or Triller+ production looks better than this, and that’s saying something. I don’t know how you get a bitrate this low in 2025; it’s like they’re streaming off a wifi hotspot and trying to save bandwidth. I try not to think of DG Network as a “bad deal” because, hey, getting access to 3-4 shows a month for $10 isn’t that bad in the grand scheme of paying for wrestling (did you see the bit I just wrote up there about Stardom PPVs?), but it still comes off as amateur hour when the streams look this bad.

(they also didn’t pay to license Kushiro TOKYO Japan’s music. AJPW fell into this trap with the Champion’s Carnival last year. Please: do not book Kushiro for your round-robin tournament unless you are prepared to license his music for however many matches he’s in. A muted Kushiro entrance is no entrance at all.)

Other News

I watched Osaka Pro Wrestling’s two night tag tournament. It’s free to watch - I linked the Youtubes in the match recommendations above, go check ’em out if you can carve out a couple hours.

Osaka Pro has an astonishingly loud crowd compared to just about any other small wrestling show I’ve seen from Japan. I would really love to know how they cultivated this - do they actually prompt people to make noise, Impact Zone style, or is it entirely natural? It could be differences in audience makeup, maybe; I think there’s a lot of families at Osaka Pro. The promotion reminds me a bit of DDT since they seem to have a big emphasis on midcard comedy, but while DDT crowds are happy to laugh along with those matches, they certainly don’t get as rowdy as the Osaka Pro crowds. TJPW actually ran a show at this same Osaka venue (Azalea Taisho Hall) that I watched later on Wrestle Universe and the crowd was, as you’d expect from a small TJPW show, almost dead silent for most of the matches, so it’s not just some trick of the venue itself.

A loud crowd works wonders for a tag tournament, since nothing sells a babyface in peril and heels preventing a hot tag like a screaming chorus of voices. It was a really fun watch and I’m gonna make sure to check out the 3/9 championship match this built to (Quiet Storm & Shigehiro Irie vs Aran Sano & Tigers Mask).

TJPW announced that their Vegas show will have all three championships defended. I thought this would be the first ever Princess of Princess Championship defense outside of Japan, but somehow, no: Miyu Yamashita defended against Delmi Exo in MLW in December 2023, and going further back, also defended against Allysin Kay in a WWN Supershow in April 2019. Still, this will be the first Princess of Princess Championship on an international TJPW show.

This is an interesting reversal of their 2024 Mania weekend show in Philadelphia, which had zero titles defended. I thought that was a very fun show in person and didn’t really mind the lack of stakes; after all, it’s TJPW, most of the time you’re not really there for high drama nail-biting nearfalls. They are running opposite a Stardom show, so I wonder if there was concern over the competition in that time slot? They’re also running the Pearl Theater at the Palms (as part of the GCW Collective), which is like three times the capacity of the venues TJPW has run on Mania weekends the last few years, so that may be contributing to it as well.

Here’s a cute post from TJPW’s Kira Summer about her son “training” with Haru and Toga.

TJPW’s long-time ring announcer Sayuri Namba is retiring in June. She’ll get what sounds like her own show on 6/14 in Shinkiba 1st Ring, with her last show as ring announcer being on 6/22. She was absolutely an icon of the company and has been there as long as I’ve been watching TJPW, having joined in mid-2018. I’ll genuinely really miss her.

My only AJPW note this week is a correction: Jun Saito’s new finisher is, indeed, called Days Gone and not “Days Garn” as Tokyo Sports had it - they just had different katakana printed than what made it to the official AJPW site. A much more sensible name, if a less fun one.

Fightful had an interview with Sareee before her Sareee-ism Chapter VII show. She’ll also be teaming with Meiko Satomura against Team 200kg on a Kenta Kobashi-produced show (Fortune Dream) in April; it looks like the last few years it has made tape on something Cagematch has labeled as “G+” but that’s an incredibly un-Googleable service name so who knows what that is. I’m guessing we’ll be able to find it on tube sites eventually.

What to watch this week (3/4 - 3/11)

3/6 brings us the biggest show of the week, NJPW Anniversary, with Goto’s first title defense against Hiroshi Tanashi and El Desperado defending the junior heavyweight title agianst Francesco Akira.

Then, there’s two big tournaments going into this weekend: the first two nights of the Stardom Cinderella Tournament, and the first four (!) nights of the New Japan Cup.

The Cinderella Tournament shows will be on 3/8 and 3/9, with the first show being on PPV and the second show being live streamed on Stardom World. Stardom World gets delayed uploads of PPV matches and it would be nice to see the 3/8 matches get uploaded before the finals show on 3/15 (which is also a PPV), but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

The New Japan Cup’s first round spans shows on the 7th, 8th, and 9th. The show on the 11th is the first of three shows that cover the second round.

AJPW has a big Korakuen on 3/9 featuring the Saito Brothers defending their tag belts against Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi, MUSASHI defending the junior tag belt against Seigo Tachibana, and Yuka Miyamoto defending the GAORA TV championship against Naruki Doi. I’m weirdly looking forward to those midcard title matches.

Sareee is holding another Sareee-ism show on 3/10. This will be a PPV you can buy for 4000 yen on Sareee’s website (about $26 USD), which is a bit steep for a five-match card, but it looks pretty solid with Syuri vs Sareee main eventing and appearances from Natsupoi, VENY, and DASH Chisako.

If FantasticaMania didn’t give you enough CMLL x Puroresu crossover, there’s a show branded as “CMLLxLADYSRINGxMexico Tourism LUCHA FIESTA #3” with a whopping two CMLL wrestlers on it (the mother-and-daughter team of Lluvia and Tabata). That’ll be uploaded to Wrestle Universe on 3/6 and has an interesting joshi lineup.

Quiet week for DDT in the runup to Judgement. They have a small 3/8 show that has some preview tags and a KANON vs MJ Paul singles match for the real sickos.

Referee Barb Sasaki is holding a deathmatch show on 3/10 that will be aired on… a New Japan World PPV? It’s headlined by El Desperado vs Jun Kasai vs Masashi Takeda in a light tubes & glass boards deathmatch, and also has a Suzu Suzuki vs Rina Yamashita in a TLC match. A ton of other people are on this too (Starlight Kid, Saya Iida, Shuji Ishikawa, Toru Sugiura, and Daisuke Sasaki among others). Could be a lot of fun!

Thanks for reading! I am still dialing in lots of things: how much attention I give each promotion, how much detail to go into for every company, how much to focus on results vs news vs previews. Feel free to send an email to thomas@puroresuprimer.com with feedback or anything you think I missed.