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FEATURE: The Wrestling Streaming World Tour Part Four
FEATURE: The Wrestling Streaming World Tour Part Four Japan Welcome back, time to talk about Japanese pro wrestling or as it’s called by fans of Japanese wrestling; Puroresu. I should get this out of the way. I LOVE Japanese wrestling. I love the athleticism, I love the sports-like feel, and I love the tradition. Also, there’s a lot of promotions in Japan, nearly fifty. And a lot of them have some sort of streaming service or a channel on YouTube or Twitch and if we start talking about bootleg streams… *ahem* that number gets even higher. So, I have to be really selective. (My personal favorite promotion, Pro Wrestling NOAH…
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FEATURE: The Wrestling Streaming World Tour Part Three
FEATURE: The Wrestling Streaming World Tour Part Three The UK and European Scene When I was a kid watching wrestling and a wrestler showed up from Europe in general or especially the UK I knew one thing, this person was going to beat the hell out of people. You need not look any further than Stephen “William” Regal and Fit Finlay to see why. The European style is often referred to as Strong Style, which means there’s less high-flying and more striking and submission holds. Strong Style wrestlers often gain a reputation as being especially tough. In the late nineties and early 2000s the scene went through some down years…
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FEATURE: The Wrestling Streaming World Tour Part Two
The Wrestling Streaming World Tour Part One US/Canada It goes without saying that here in the US and Canada that the WWE is King but we’re not here to talk about them. In the US, outside of WWE there’s four promotions you really need to know about (Five if you count New Japan’s expansion but we’ll get there.) Those four promotions are: Ring of Honor, Impact, Chikara and Shimmer. There’s two other things I’ll mention but they’re not quite promotions in the same way. Ring of Honor, depending on who you ask, is either the Number Two or Number Three Promotion in the US. They were started in the early…
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FEATURE: The Wrestling Streaming World Tour Part One
This is the beginning of a series entitled “How WOBAM Spends Their Summer Vacation” where we introduce you to some fandoms outside of our usual scope. Keep Checking in for More! The Wrestling Streaming World Tour: Why Now is the perfect time to get into Professional Wrestling outside of WWE. It’s the summer. All your favorite TV shows are on summer hiatus. The next Comic Book Movie is Ant-Man 2 in July. But you’re looking for something to whet your geeky appetite for longer than two hours. Well, your old Uncle Jason has something he thinks you should try. Come over here, let’s have a talk. I’ve made my…