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Five Star Joshi || TJPW Grand Princess preview & more

Welcome! Five Star Joshi is a weekly insight into the world of joshi pro wrestling, discussing the shows, the best matches to watch, what wrestler(s) stood out, and a look ahead at what’s to come. It goes hand-in-hand with the Five Star Joshi Podcast, which you can listen to every Friday on Fight Game Media Network +! THOUGHTS OF THE…

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Five Star Joshi || Maika bests Saya Kamitani

Welcome! This is a weekly insight into the world of joshi pro wrestling, discussing the shows, the best matches to watch, what wrestler(s) stood out, and a look ahead at what’s to come. It goes hand-in-hand with the Five Star Joshi Podcast, which you can listen to every Friday on Fight Game Media Network +! THOUGHTS OF THE WEEK It was one of…

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Five Star Joshi || Syuri and Saya Kamitani shift Stardom’s future

Welcome! This is a weekly insight into the world of joshi pro wrestling, discussing the shows, the best matches to watch, what wrestler(s) stood out, and a look ahead at what’s to come. It goes hand-in-hand with the Five Star Joshi Podcast, which you can listen to every Friday on Fight Game Media Network +! THOUGHTS OF THE WEEK Stardom Dream Queendom…

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2021 Pro Wrestling Awards – Match of the Year

We’re doing the Fight Game Media Awards a little differently this year. We’ve reshuffled the deck on the pro wrestling side and added new writers who have been writing consistently for this website, or who will become more prolific for us in 2022. We’re also breaking up the awards into multiple posts. Next is the…

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Five Star Joshi || Konami to step away from pro wrestling

Welcome! This is a weekly insight into the world of joshi pro wrestling, discussing the shows, the best matches to watch, what wrestler(s) stood out, and a look ahead at what’s to come. It goes hand-in-hand with the Five Star Joshi Podcast, which you can listen to every Friday on the Fight Game Media Network! THOUGHTS OF THE WEEK…

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Five Star Joshi || Ice Ribbon shake up, Stardom Tokyo Super Wars, & more

Welcome! This is a weekly insight into the world of joshi pro wrestling, discussing the shows, the best matches to watch, what wrestler(s) stood out, and a look ahead at what’s to come. It goes hand-in-hand with the Five Star Joshi Podcast, which you can listen to every Friday on the Fight Game Media Network! THOUGHTS OF THE WEEK…

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Five Star Joshi || Stardom delivers strong show with Super Wars

This is a weekly insight into the world of Joshi in professional wrestling, discussing the shows that occur, the best matches to watch, what wrestlers stood out, and a look ahead at what’s to come. It goes hand-in-hand with the Five Star Joshi Podcast, which you can listen to every Friday on the Fight Game…

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Stardom 5 STAR Grand Prix Final 2021 Review: The Perfect Conclusion to an All-Time Tournament

On Saturday, Stardom presented its 5 STAR Grand Prix Final. The show aired live both on pay-per-view and Samurai TV as it was the ultimate conclusion to a two-month-long tournament. For those unfamiliar with the tournament, it is the same round-robin style tournament as NJPW’s annual G1 Climax. Previous winners of the tournament include Nanae…

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Best of Joshi: Must-see matches, July 23–July 29, 2021

If you have been listening to the Five Star Joshi Podcast on Fight Game Media’s Patreon, you may be wondering what matches that we reviewed are truly worth going out of the way to watch and why. Well beginning this week, here’s an in-depth look at the must-see matches from all of joshi pro wrestling….

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STARDOM 5STAR Grand Prix Preview: Stardom’s biggest tournament yet

I love a good round robin puroresu tournament. NJPW’s G1 Climax may still be the pinnacle of those types of tournaments, but Stardom’s 5STAR Grand Prix has quickly established itself as the joshi equivalent to it. This will be the biggest 5STAR to date, with 20 competitors total. And considering the impact of last year’s 5STAR,…

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