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TRS: The movers and the shakers

Japanese wrestling in some very important ways is no different to any other wrestling you will find around the world. Basically there are bookers, owners and of course members of the roster who have, as they say, influence with the office. But who are they? Who are the people who say who goes and make the biggest moves in the business?

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TRS: Whatever happened to the Golden Generation?

Before you start this is not a piece on the supposed team people believe should have won the World Cup for England in 2006…. or qualified with ease for Euro 2008 the lousy over paid… sorry, where was I… oh yes. This is a look instead at the generation of wrestlers who came before the likes of Tanahashi and Nakamura but after the generation of Hashimoto, Misawa, Kobashi, Kawada, Muto, Chono and Taue…

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Japan: November 2007 Wrestling News Roundup 2

New Japan In NJPW the G1 Tag League finally came to a conclusion as Tanahashi and Kanemoto once more made it to the final as they did last year and this time came across the IWGP Tag champions Bernard and Tomko. Both teams had previously taken part in a semi final match and the toll […]

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TRS: Japanese Wrestling Moves

I thought just to lighten up a bit I would tell you about the most famous moves in the world, invented in Japanese rings and them exported out into the world to be toyed with and modified beyond belief…

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Japan: November Wrestling News Roundup 1

NJPW TNA started it’s friendly war with NJPW today but not in the exact way that was planned… Senshi, Daniels and Rhino all made their flight to Japan and appeared at todays event… Ron Killings however didn’t and Tiger Mask won by forfeit. Instead Akebono relived his comedy Tiger Bono gimmick and took on Ishii […]

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TRS: History of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) – Part Two

Part two as promised of the history of New Japan Pro Wrestling and this time a look into the years that where amongst the most crazy, turbulent and damaging to any company in Japanese wrestling history…

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Japan: October Wrestling News Roundup

Pro-Wrestling NOAH The Autumn Navigation ’07 went on for the past two weeks building to the final event of the tour at the Tokyo Nippon Budokan however before that the GHC Tag Title Tournament reached its conclusion as D’Lo Brown and Bull Buchanan became the 15th champions winning the four man league last defeating Go […]

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TRS: History of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) – Part One

Right last time I looked at Pro Wrestling NOAH and this time I am going to look at another promotion… it was going to be Dragon’s Gate but their history is sort of wavy and up and down and well… odd. So I decided to take the easy route as I am a bit under the weather and do NJPW or New Japan Pro Wrestling to those who don’t want to try and guess what those letters mean…

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Japan: Wrestling News Roundup

Pro Wrestling NOAH Samoa Joe as I mentioned before is coming to NOAH and the match to decide who will face him took place about one day before my last update, Marufuji v Misawa for the GHC Title. It was a bit of a back and forth match but in the end Misawa botched a […]

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TRS: Pro Wrestling NOAH

I know I said last time that I would look at the overall structure of Puro and look at all the organisations histories and all but then I thought why go and blow it all in one piece? Why not just break it down and do it one by one and make it just that bit easier for the reader, afterall I’m doing it for them and not me…