#mika iwata

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TODAY on Sendai Girls (Wrestle Universe):

✨ Aya Sakura vs YUNA in the Jaja Uma Tournament semi-finals. Sakura wins and proceeds to the finals, taking place on the 20th!

✨ Syuri + DASH Chisako vs Mika Iwata + Miyuki Tasake. DASH pins Iwata, and after the match, Syuri challenges Iwata for a singles match!

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July 8th, 2023

From DASH Chisako's IG:

Thank you for your continued support guys 🔥 Today marks 17 years of debut 😊♥ And 17 years of virginity!! Walking the wrestler life with a bunch of girls. Coming back in a week. Because my 2023 hasn't even started yet. I'll be promoted from 7.16 🔥

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The Anou/Iwata match is a whole clinic.

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Mika Iwata with a rolling kick to Ryo Mizunami at Sendai Girls

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❤️🤍💛🤍

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using @thistledropkick's post as an excuse to also do the wrestling 2024 tag meme!

im gna go ahead n tag @maxbuck @jupiterjunebug @bang-bang-gang and @pujoshi if u feel inclined to do it :)

MVP/wrestler of the year

Match of the year

favorite feud

favorite tag team/faction

favorite show

breakout(ish) star

horniest moment

most anticipated in 2025

its long as hell so its going under a readmore lmao

wrestler of the year

this is a pretty tough question. i got into a lot of new promotions this year and fell in love with so many people i didnt even know existed before, but I think it has to be miu watanabe. her run as princess of princess champion has been fantastic, proving herself to be new pillar of the company. with yukas departure and miyu+maki doing a lot more work overseas there is definitely places at the top of the (very chillaxed) tjpw food chain and miu has been filling that role. watching her go from an underdog to the benchmark in a little over a year has been so satisfying amd every match she had during her run was great. i think losing to mizuki capped off her reign well and im excited to see what the future holds for the new ace of tjpw!

honorary mentions for: jacky kamei, who quickly became my favorite guy in the world this year, mika iwata who, despite being hampered by some confusing booking did a great job defending the senjo title against some fun opponents, and also saori anou about a hundred times, and chris brookes who makes my list every year

match of the year

honestly this was gonna be puro but something happened to me in august, so its swerve strickland vs bryan danielson. it is the live wrestling bias, and the fact that that show was so good it made me actually keep up with aew for a grand total of 2 weeks before i realized i hate that fucking company, but also its just a damn good match. theyre both guys who are willing to go the extra mile and some more for a spectacle, and anyway, its a good memory

honorary mentions: chris brookes vs daisuke sasaki (both of them), dragon dia vs junta miyawaki which is just, so fucking good. go watch it yall. and miu watanabe vs ryo mizunami

favorite feud

gold class vs z-brats! starting out with minoura losing his hair, and betraying riiita, and the whole thing leading to big hug disbanding somehow. it was a gut wrenching thing to watch, especially with big hug disbanding because of the whole situation. i almost stopped watcjing wrestlimg early in the year and dragongate really pulled me back. its just very effective storytelling and i felt like my life was at stake at points

honorary mentions: toni storm and mariah may, i dont watch aew but i salute lesbianism

breakout(ish) star

CHI CHI!!!!!!! i started watching sendai girls and evolution joshi this year just to put things on while working and i really fell in love with her. shes been great eith the revived senjo jr title, she has great kicks and she just had a great match against stardoms aya sakura which you should watch as well. shes been wrestling for something like a year and honestly, it doesnt show. im so excited to keep up with her career, she has great things ahead of her

favorite tag team/faction

big hug you will be sorely missed!! this is the category where i will not be able to pick a favorite, so let me list some good ones. i loved big hug. i loved that they loved each other so much, they worked so well together. finally mante was able to use kamei as a weapon with his permission. they were so fun. im still upset

not hug, also, were really good. their tah title run was fun as hell its the definition of Dudes Rock. their whole coworkers who hate each other shtick is really good and its incorporated into their moveset and teamwork really well, with doi being reluctant to help dk at points and moments of miscommunication, but they always manage to make it work

team 200kg had such a fantaszic year, two absolute powerhouses walking into the ring to a rock ballad with a comical amount of belts. chihiro hashimoto has always been a really great heavy hitter but this was the year when yuu really became her equal. the yuu roll is the most electrifying move in wrestlimg argue with the wall. their ajpw tv title run with shuji ishikawa was great, just 3 big strong people suplexing fools through the floor. one of those teams you would be insane to dislike

favorite show

so we got two shows tied here. dragongate's dead or alive 2024 show is what finally got me into the promotion after seeing 2 of my friends gush about it for over a year, and i was kicking myself for not getting in on it soomer to be honest. that show made me so invested in jacky kamei in about half an hour that i was clutching my knees and screaming and crying basically the entire time. greatest cage escape spot ever. im putting the entire show here and not just the cagematch because that show also had the twin gate match where not hug won the titles and that was also heaps of fun, and anyways its the worst dg show i ever watched it deserves the spot

tjpw x eve was not, i dont think, on a lot of peoples radars, but it was magical in a lot of ways. obviously tjpw had to kind of send the b team, but to us teej heads there is no such thing as the b team and everybody in that building who had to stand because they fucked up the seating tickets was absolutely Elated to see himawari. raku got a huge cheer, and a you sick fuck chant, i got to see aja kong live and in person which made me almost faint on the spot. i love eve as well and half the british wrestlers on that show had to go and wrestle a 4 woman hardcore match later that day on a revpro show i also attended, so massive props to them. miyu said in her promo closing the show that she wanted this crossover to happen for a very long time and she hoped she could do a much better one next time, which im also hoping for!

horniest moment

this seems to be the year of kissing men so its not easy to pick but it is probably everything that happened in that despe/chris match. i can only dare hope that we can surpass ourselves next year

most anticipated im 2025

as opposed to last year, im excited about plenty of things! im excited to watch meiko satomuras retirement series as it draws to a close, im excited to see how chris brookes's championship reign goes. im very hyped for suzume as international princess champion and im just generally excited to see what dragongate has to offer me this year. im also tentatively hyped for some new japan stuff, the wk weekend shows were, not necessarily great but i think they set up some stuff that could be. and ofc im excited for wrestlimg to suprise me again this year!