Highlights from May included Will Ospreay’s sole IWGP World Heavyweight Championship defense, a fantastic AEW pay-per-view in Double or Nothing, a shockingly spectacular tag match out of Australia, the finals of the AJPW Champion Carnival, and so much more. WWE .@WWECesaro takes to the sky!!!#WMBacklash #UniversalTitle @WWERomanReigns @HeymanHustle pic.twitter.com/RB9S75ixz1 — WWE (@WWE) May 17, 2021…
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Part IV: Epilogue Is Hana Kimura an angel? “Irving Shaw. God Was Here, But He Left Early. That keeps coming to my mind for some reason,” Fumi Saito explained. Some are convinced she is. Kyoko Kimura spent much of this summer speaking with Japanese media in an effort to call out Fuji TV and directors…
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Part III: Full Bloom Vibrant, lively, innocent, and naive was how one wrestler described of Hana Kimura to Fight Game Media. Hana disliked wrestling as a child. While she pursued hip hop dance until high school, she quickly lost interest in it when she was forced to dance to put money on the table. “It…
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Part II: Kyoko Kimura is inevitable After Hana’s birth, Kyoko Kimura separated from her husband in Indonesia and moved back to Japan with baby Hana in tow. As we discussed in part one of our series, life as a single mother isn’t easy, especially in Japan, though Kyoko never let this crush her dream of…
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Part I: Walking in storms Hana Kimura’s wake was two Fridays ago. While it was closed to the public, many joshi pro wrestling stars from the ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s were in attendance, including legends like Akira Hokuto, Chigusa Nagayo, Manami Toyota, Aja Kong, Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita, and current stars like Meiko Satomura…
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