January 2021

Shingo Takagi defends the NEVER Openweight Title. Talk about it here

This is for the WWWD tag titles with the 2AW team of 3A (Sasamura & Shingaki) challenging the champs Luminous. Outside of Best Friends matches, tag wrestling in joshi has been fairly lackluster the last couple of years but this felt like a much needed bright spot. Both Takase and Sasamura were terrific, as you would expect, but both of their junior partners hold up their ends at least. Shingaki, especially, looked good here with her arm work on both opponents. It's nice to see at least some Diana shows start to pop up because you get to see hidden gems like this. ****¼

I’ve been big on Goldberg’s returns and brief runs as his matches usually tend to be short and feature some wild big man spots. While this wasn’t on par with the Brock WM or Taker KSA matches and this was much shorter than those matches, I still think this served it’s purpose and was good. That headbutt McIntyre threw to kick this off may have been the best one he’s thrown. That Jackhammer Goldberg threw looked bad, but the fill in spears were great. Unfortunately this didn’t have a live crowd as they would’ve been going nuts and it would have elevated this. I would have also liked this more if it had gone a little longer and we would have gotten a few more big moments. I…