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The Asia Dream Tag Team Championship (Japanese: アジアドリームタッグ王座, Hepburn: Ajia Dorīmu Taggu Ōza) is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Joshi puroresu (women's professional wrestling) promotion ChocoPro. Though Gatoh Move is a joshi puroresu promotion, this title has no gender restriction. Like ...
The first match rated more than five stars by Meltzer was Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat in 1989. The highest-ever rating is seven stars, awarded to Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall in June 2018. There have been 272 matches awarded 5 or more stars; Will Ospreay has the most individual
Throughout 1985 and 1986, Matsumoto and Chigusa Nagayo had a feud with each other that included two highly acclaimed hair vs. hair matches. [8] Following the first hair vs hair match, in which Matsumoto defeated Nagayo and forced her to shave her head bald, approximately 500 wrestling fans surrounded Matsumoto's transport outside of the arena ...
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling's debut show took place on January 30, 2013, at Akihabara Twin Box in Tokyo. The show featured just two matches, a sambo exhibition between trainee Chikage Kiba and DDT referee and former sambo competitor Daisuke Kiso, and a singles match between trainees Miyu Yamashita and Kanna.
Professional wrestling contains a variety of punches and kicks found in martial arts and other fighting sports; the moves listed below are more specific to wrestling itself. Many of the moves below can also be performed from a raised platform (the top rope, the ring apron, etc.); these are called aerial variations .
A No Disqualification match, also known as a No Holds Barred match, [93] or sometimes as an Anything Goes match, an Extreme Rules match (in WWE, since the establishment of the now-former ECW brand), Tribal Combat and Bloodline Rules (in WWE, for wrestlers in the Anoaʻi family) or a No Ropes Catch Wrestling match (in MLW), is a match in which ...
Kabuki (left) and Dusty Rhodes during a professional wrestling match, c. 1982 Mera adopted the Great Kabuki persona in World Class in 1981. The character was created by Gary Hart , [ 3 ] based on an old gimmick used by Filipino wrestler Rey Urbano, a former partner of Hasegawa's in the U.S. [ 4 ] Kabuki kept his hair in a mop cut which kept his ...
In Asian culture it is generally considered disrespectful for people to be loud or boo, which in turn leads to the fans either remaining quiet and politely clapping during matches, or generally cheering the action without booing any of the in-ring competitors. [21] Most of the heels (the "bad guys") have been foreigners. [19]