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Black Tiger and Jushin Liger Have a Not-So-Friendly Friendly in the 1996 BOSJ Finals

The 1996 BOSJ ends with a technically accomplished finals that feels like it's just shy of true greatness.

NITRO MASTERLIST XTRA

Coward Shit (CM Punk & Buff Bagwell) | NITRO MASTERLIST XTRA #1

CM Punk in disguise! Vicious & Delicious in Japan! An AEW / NJPW post that isn't about Forbidden Door!

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Shingo Takagi vs. Will Ospreay

A trillion white ninjas in popular culture and this is the one we like??

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Will Ospreay's First Match Against Shingo Takagi Is Frustratingly Incomplete

Would Will Ospreay be a more enjoyable wrestler if the Ubisoft franchise he loved was Rayman and not Assassin's Creed? The world may never know.

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I was right about the 2019 BOSJ Final.

Will Ospreay's work is dazzling, but how does it hold up to closer scrutiny?

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Evan and Colette Discuss Shingo Takagi vs. Dragon Lee

PLUS: Goldberg talk! Hot Takes Month comes to BIG EGG!

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NJPW Battle Satellite in Tokyo Dome 1989

The first Tokyo Dome show! Jushin Liger's debut! Vader vs. Hash! Inoki promotes peace through pro wrestling and maybe hates Americans!

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The Bad Blood of Yuji Nagata vs. Kensuke Sasaki

Kensuke Sasaki returns home to NJPW and gets a bloody welcome back from Yuji Nagata.

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BIG EGG MASTERLIST

Joseph and Colette Discuss Shinya Hashimoto vs. Nobuhiko Takada

BIG EGG EXPLODES as Joseph and Colette fight it out over which wrestling style, and which wrestler, reigns supreme.

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Shinya Hashimoto Proves that Pro Wrestling is the Strongest

Take your shoot style out of our hallowed halls.

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Nobuhiko Takada Bets It All Against Shinya Hashimoto at the Dome and Loses

Weird vibes and Pyrrhic defeat as Battle Formation 1996 brings a close to the NJPW/UWFi invasion angle.

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Antonio Inoki vs. Big Van Vader

Vader should have stayed in Japan, man.

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Big Van Vader Wants Antonio Inoki to Fight Him. Boy Does He Ever.

Rekindling and putting an end to a major feud six years after the fact, in the Tokyo Dome, is a tall task, but Inoki is Inoki and Vader is Vader, so they do.

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Antonio Inoki Makes Big Van Vader Bleed

Antonio Inoki and Big Van Vader meet again at the end of Inoki's career, with retribution on the line.

Joseph's Best of the Month

Joseph Montecillo's Best of the Month (August 2023)

From Wembley Stadium to Korakuen Hall.

Joseph's Best of the Month

Joseph Montecillo's Best of the Month (July 2023)

Tournament month in Japan!

BIG EGG MASTERLIST

Joseph and Colette Discuss Jushin Liger vs. The Great Sasuke

Sometimes you biff something and it's for the best.

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Jushin Liger and The Great Sasuke Steal the Show at Super J Cup

One of wrestling's greatest karmic moments.

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Jushin Liger and The Great Sasuke are Icons in the Coolest Sense of the Term

They're, like, living metaphor, man. Words made flesh and whatnot.

Joseph's Best of the Month

Joseph Montecillo's Best of the Month (February 2023)

Dream matches and interpromotional rivalries all in one month!

Joseph's Best of the Month

Joseph Montecillo's Best of the Month (January 2023)

From the Tokyo Dome to the chains, it's the best in pro wrestling from January of the new year!

Joseph's MOTYC Rewatch

Joseph Montecillo's 2022 MOTYC Rewatch Part V (September to December)

A look back at the last batch of 2022's finest!

BIG EGG MASTERLIST

Joseph and Colette Discuss Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

A BIG EGG consensus pick for one of the greatest wrestling matches of all time.

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Nakamura and Sakuraba Prove Pro Wrestling is the King of Sports

Or how to go about making the impossible real.

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Against Shinsuke Nakamura, Kazushi Sakuraba Fails to Smother a Flame

Shinsuke Nakamura. Kazushi Sakuraba. The Tokyo Dome. It's a classic clash for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship on 1/4, with Nakamura achieving the unlikely.