Hello everyone!
Coming off an amazing and memorable weekend of wrestling whether it was in Japan or America or anywhere else, 2025 has started out with a bang.
A couple of years ago, after a Battle In The Valley show in San Jose, California, this blogger thought about not ever attending another NJPW show.
It wasn't because the show was bad....actually, it was pretty good.
The problem was with NJPW officials. I took some photos from the rafters of the San Jose Civic Auditorium and was not only harassed by NJPW officials, but was escorted out of the building. They thought I was taking videos though I proved to them it wasn't.
Well, it's about two years later. San Jose is very fortunate to have two wrestling shows in the next week.
On Monday, January 13th, WWE RAW will take place at the SAP Center. It will be the second RAW that will be on Netflix.
On Saturday (this coming), I just secured a ticket for New Japan Pro Wrestling's Battle In The Valley. It will be my first wrestling show since last August when I attended the first PUSO Wrestling show in Quezon City, Philippines.
When this blogger saw who was appearing on the show, the decision to go to this event was a lot easier. Here is the show lineup.....
Gabe Kidd (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the Strong Openweight Championship.
Zach Sabre Jr. vs. Hechicero.
West Coast Wrecking Crew (Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs) (c) vs. Roppongi Revice (Rocky Romero & ROH) for the Strong Openweight Championship.
Sumai Sakai Retirement Match featuring Team Sakai (Sumai Sakai, Evil and SHO) vs. Team Hiromu (Hiromu Takahashi, Mayu Iwatani and Yuka Sakazaki).
TDMK (Shane Haste & Bad Dude Tito) vs. Fred Rosser & Matt Vandagriff.
I'm told that the Main Event has yet to be announced with a few days to go until the show. Could we possibly see an appearance by Kazuchika Okada or Will Ospreay? Their battle a couple of years ago was one of the best matches I've eve seen!
Looking forward to seeing ZSJ again (2018 was the last time at the G1 Special).
I'll have a recap on my blog within 24 hours after the show.
