Tomiichi Murayama does not necessarily believe everything Antonio Inoki says when he describes the places he visits on his diplomatic missions, but the Prime Minister of Japan does continue listening…
Category: Everything is Wrestling
We maintain that everything is wrestling, whether it’s fighting robots, politics or the Eurovision Song Contest.
Many people in the grappling business would have you believe that wrestling fans are never happy. In truth, we’re almost comically easy to please. All we want is a show…
With two consecutive shows planned for 14th and 15th August in Korakuen Hall, the TJPW Princess Cup will be among us soon, and what better way to assess the runners…
2020 was, by any measure, a bit of a weird year and one of the things we all needed to get through was a bit of escapism, something completely stable…
Ever since the start of the UK’s first COVID-19 lockdown, my colleagues at this fine publication and I have been running a weekly video stream every Wednesday night, so we…
If you’ve not yet read the first two parts of this trilogy, you can find them here and here. Don’t just focus on the attack to the exclusion of all…
If you haven’t yet seen the first part of this series, in which I try to cobble together the Gatoh Move roster into a semblance of a functional football team,…
Football is pro wrestling, as those handsome bastards at the Puro Pourri Podcast observed. It shouldn’t be a surprise. Everything is pro wrestling. But what if pro wrestling was football? …
Brexit has, it is fair to say, completely altered the political landscape of the United Kingdom. Speaking less circumspectly, you might say that it has absolutely fucked it. Everything from…
Maki Itoh v Asuza Takigawa (Idol Lumberjack Death Match) Tokyo Joshi Pro Brand New Wrestling ~ The Beginning Of A New Era ~ Korakuen Hall, Tokyo 26 August 2017 In a…
We are finally here. All the marbles. The ten pounds of gold, I mean iron or something. The Robot Wars Grand Final. Legends are made. Dreams are shattered. The greatest…
Late is the hour, and smoke rises from those holes in the arena floor where that set of spikes used to be. It’s time for Episode 5 of Robot Wars!…