Atsushi Onita, Raijin Yaguchi & The Shooter 2025 vs. Hayato Mashita, Hideki Sekine & Kazunari Murakami, SSPW 2025/3/13
Normally, I probably wouldn't watch a 2025 Onita match. But the thumbnail showed me that Murakami is also in this match, so I was intrigued. And well, this was a fun ghoulish spectacle. 2025 Onita looks and walks like he is held together by duct tape, but to hell with it, he is pro wrestling incarnate, and he still spits green mist, hits people with chairs, and bites, so he delivers. Getting bitten by 2025 Onita has to turn you into some kind of cryptid. Murakami is in his weird glittery suit and he still mugs and hits people recklessly like he's in his prime. I wish the camera had been on Murakami a little more, because he still showed plenty of energy when he was throwing chairs on someone. Hideki "Shrek" Sekine looks so grotesque like he's a One Piece character. And Mashita tried to get some fire out of his miserable existance. This is pretty fun, and it does have a moment where Onita and Murakami get in the ring at the same time and start circling each other giving menacing glares, so it delivers that money moment that you want too. A barbedwire board comes into play, and you won't believe who gets slammed into it. Also an abundance of green mist. You may want to watch this.
Senka Akatsuki & Takumi Iroha vs Seri Yamaoka & Nanae Takahashi, Marigold 3/30
Really cool match that showcases some of the top prospects in the world of womens wrestling now. Senka Akatsuki rules, literally all she has is a body slam and a shoot pin that she can beat even established wrestlers with, and it totally works, whenever she starts pinning people Korakuen Hall goes crazy because the match might now turn into a shoot. Seri Yamaoka is also well on her way to become the joshi version of Tamon Honda, with the cool unique mat transitions and amateur wrestling moves, so of course I'm really excited about her. Really liked the aggressive opening grappling, with Yamaoka trying to put the pin expert Akatsuki on her shoulders only for Akatsuki to force her to the ropes with a really tight armbar. Iroha is a bit of an odd case, by all means she has the potential to be the most badass woman on earth, and there are shades of that here, but she also likes lazy thigh slaps a lot. That said there were some awesome aggressive moments here where they stomped and slapped the shit out of each other and it was pretty great. You'd think 25 minutes would be a little long for a match with 2 rookies that have less than a year of experience combined, but I thought they did just fine thanks to the constant aggression and scrappiness throughout. You had the contrast of Iroha and Takahashi doing some more advanced stuff and then Akatsuki and Yamaoka coming in to get huge reactions with pin and suplex attempts. Really fun last couple minutes with a really good build to Yamaokas suplex and Akatsuki putting her in trouble with half nelsons. Takahashi seems over the hill but she still has her moments. Overall a really fun ride that makes me excited for the further deveopments of Seri Yamaoka and Senka Akatsuki.
Shinya Aoki vs Keigo Nakamura, DDT 2/14
Way too fun. Basically Nakamura can't do anything to Aoki, and Aoki just toys with him for a couple minutes showcasing how tight you can facelock and stretch someone without snapping them. Aoki has a bunch of cool ways to twist someone up on the mat, and watching him basically forcing a bunch of classic pro wrestling style pins in a shootstyle manner was really cool. The highlight was easily Aoki stepping on Nakamuras face. Nakamuras one hope spot is when he desperately latches onto Aokis leg but Aoki quickly thwarts that like its nothing. Pretty unique and fun to watch.
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