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Welcome back to another serving of BCTV Sunday Slices, where I take a look at the past week in BCTV's coverage to offer a thought or two on the topic. Once again, the views expressed here are my own and don't necessarily reflect on the rest of the fine folks at Bleeding Cool. Which is […]

New Japan Pro Wrestling could be coming back soon, as Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has lifted the state of emergency in the country. Abe says that Japan has effectively handled the crisis and that the country, including sporting events, can begin to reopen. "We've set some of the most strict criteria in the world […]

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) announced that Wrestle Dynasty has been postponed until 2021. This difficult decision was made in response to the ongoing and evolving COVID-19 global pandemic. Wrestle Dynasty was set to take place on August 22, 2020, at the historic Madison Square Garden in New York City. NJPW will announce new ticket information […]

Let's be clear: Heels star Stephen Amell's life hasn't just been filled with spandex-shape training and welcoming new members to the cast (though as you can tell from reporting, there's been a ton of both going on over the past few weeks). Every now and then, the Arrow alum gets a chance to get out, decompress, […]

This weekend, at Wrestle Kingdom 14, Jushin Thunder Liger is about to wrestle the final matches of his career as he heads into retirement. Or at least, pro-wrestling retirement, which usually gets broken for a number of reasons. But usually in New Japan Pro Wrestling, when you retire, you stay retired. For the better part […]

Those of us in the United States who have been hoping to see New Japan Pro Wrestling on TV will not be seeing it in 2020. For a few years now, American audiences have been begging for NJPW to broadcast their live events and major PPV events on TV. Whether that be live on a […]

The road to the Tokyo Dome in 2020 starts in Dallas, Texas as New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced all the G1 2019 competitors. After having several successful events in North America, including their recent dual show with Ring Of Honor at Madison Square Garden, the annual tournament will kick off in the United States […]

If you who haven't had a chance to check out what All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is all about, you're going to get another chance at the end of this month – and this time? It's free! AEW wrestler and executive vice president Kenny Omega announced during a speacial appearance at gaming convention E3 that the […]

From what we've been reading on social media and wrestling news/rumor sites about World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), All-Elite Wrestling (AEW), New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Ring of Honor (ROH) Wrestling, and others over the past several months, it looks like the best storylines and true drama is going on behind the scenes (and would make […]

If you're waking up this morning with a slight hangover, a sense of looming dread about how 2019 can possibly top 2018, and the strange recollection that a brand new pro wrestling promotion was announced last night, that's not the champagne talking. FRIENDS: [general mirth and merriment on New Year's Eve] ME: so what do […]

If you're a gamer and love either Kenny Omega or New Japan Pro Wrestling, you're probably going to enjoy the latest video on Being The Elite. Instead of getting some kind of answer as to what's happening with The Young Bucks, Cody Rhodes, Hangman Page, and others, we got a special promo video called "Kenny's […]

Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling have sold out their upcoming event taking place WrestleMania weekend at Madison Square Garden. Elated with the news, Ring of Honor sent out a press release written by Kevin Eck which waxes poetic about the accomplishment. ROH announced the show in July, after an initial attempt to […]

I've been preaching about New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) for the past few years now, and I keep getting asked by fellow wrestling fans why they should watch it. Time and time again I hear people complain about how they can't stand WWE's current programming. They hate the writing, they hate the direction characters they […]

Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling have announced that they will be holding a joint event at Madison Square Garden on WrestleMania weekend in 2019. The news follows reports that MSG had recently canceled talks to hold a Ring of Honor event at the venue after interference from WWE. A joint venture with […]

Last night's NJPW G1 match between Cody and Kenny Omega was nothing short of magical. The two are arguably some of the best wrestlers in the world right now. Cody has been a trailblazer since joining ROH, and Omega is set to dominate the world. The match opened with both of them going in hard. […]

AXS TV Chairman Mark Cuban has been making some noise recently about New Japan Pro Wrestling, whose programming airs on AXS each Friday night and which has been expanding its American presence over the past few years to include live shows and a streaming service, NJPW World,  that's become popular with American wrestling fans. "We […]

There's something that Austin Creed (Xavier Woods in WWE) and Kenny Omega did at E3 that shouldn't be ignored, yet so many have failed to see the awesome possibilities on. So let's be very candid with each other when it comes to professional wrestling. There hasn't been a time since the '90s where two global […]

One of the highlights of this year's WrestleMania 34 is without a doubt the WWE Title match between AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura. Both wrestlers are extremely gifted, as proven every week on SmackDown Live. And while this is indeed a dream match between two of WWE's top performers, this isn't the first time the […]

Some really cool news coming out of GDC today from Spike Chunsoft as they announced Fire Pro Wrestling World will finally be coming to the PlayStation 4 when they release the game on the system sometime this summer. This will be the first time in six years a Fire Pro Wrestling title will be on console since the […]

If you watch New Japan Pro Wrestling clips in English, you're probably doing it one of two ways. Either with Kevin Kelly and Don "Cyrus" Callis on NJPW World (or clips you find online) or through Jim Ross calling matches that are 1-5 years old on AXS TV. It may not be something you think of […]