Masahiro Takanashi

From left to right, Chris Brookes, not sure who the lady is, Chris Brookes and Jake De Leon at the Meet And Greet prior to the Dexcon Wrestle Storm show.
 

 

In doing this post, I'm thinking of everyone who has been affected by Typhoon Carina that hit the Philippines over the past few hours.  My thoughts and prayers are with everyone at this time.

 

I've wanted to do a post on someone who has helped Southeast Asian wrestling over the years.  Tajiri is the first to come to mind.  Before doing one on Tajiri, my second choice, Masahiro Takanashi came to mind as well.

 

Masahiro Takanashi is a wrestler who works for the DDT Pro Wrestling promotion.  The 41 year old veteran has wrestled mostly in Japan.  However, he has also wrestled in the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand among Southeast Asian countries.

 

The two things that blew me away was the fact that he's won a combination 16 titles in his career.  Definitely impressive!

 

Also, if Cagematch is correct with the statistics, Masahiro Takanashi has wrestled in 2374 matches!  That is impressive considering he has wrestled since 2003.  Despite the years missed due to covid, he has averages over 100 matches per year or once every four days.  Any wrestler who has done that has to be durable.

 

This blogger talked with some fans who were at the Dexcon Wrestle Storm show earlier this year.  Takanashi along with Chris Brookes were the featured match in the show.  They took on a very quality team in Jake De Leon and Dabid Ravena.  It was a weekend to remember for Pinoy Wrestling fans. 

MYPW Show Update #7

Hello everyone!

 

One match, and a good one, has been added to the upcoming Malaysia Pro Wrestling show.  Fight Back, the event, will take place on Saturday, August 3rd beginning at 6pm.  The venue is the KuAsh Theater TTDI.

 

Carlo Cannon will put the MYPW World Championship up against the Ace Of Thailand, Shivam.

 

Carlo Cannon has successfully defended the title for over 500 days now.  This match could be one of his toughest.

 

Shivam has won multiple champions as a member of the SETUP Pro Wrestling promotion.  His record speaks for itself!

 

For more information, including tickets for the show, please visit the Malaysia Pro Wrestling Facebook page.  Thank you.

Congratulations Mike!

Hello everyone!

 

Congratulations to Filipino Pro Wrestling's FPW Champion, Mike Madrigal in successfully defending his title over the past weekend. 

 

Mike traveled to Malaysia to take part in APAC Wrestling's show, Wrestlelegion this past Saturday night.  

 

Mike defended the title in a Four Way Match against quality competition.  His opponents were the Aerial Sniper Nyc from RoR Wrestling in Singapore, Big Eddie Emil, definitely no slouch, and Mick Mercer, two APAC up and coming stars.  Mike came up with the win from my sources.

Now, he's back in the Philippines.  Along with Evan Carleaux, Cali Nueva, Jeffrey and James "Idol" Martinez, they will be putting their focus in the task ahead on September 15.  

 

That will be FPW's Unfinished Business show that will take place at Baked Studios in Makati City.

 

Team Madrigal will be taking on Team Red Ollero. His team consists of Good Guy Quatro, Thiago and The YOLO Twins.  It appeared from some video from the past couple of shows, Team Ollero may have a slight advantage.  However, never count Team Madrigal out!  There may be a huge surprise in this encounter!

 

For more information including tickets, please visit the FPW - Filipino Pro Wrestling Facebook page.  Thank you.

The Queen Of Philippine Wrestling At The Upcoming Show!

Hello everyone!

 

The Queen Of Philippine Wrestling, Crystal, will appear at PUSO Wrestling's Unang Tibok show.  The event will take place on Saturday, August 17th, 6pm at the Brawl Pit Bulusan in Quezon City.

 

Currently, Crystal is in preparation for a championship title match in China this September. She will be challenging for the SPW Queen Of Asia Title against the champion, Yuki Kamifuku.  All the best to Crystal on the upcoming match.

 

For more on PUSO Wrestling's show, including tickets, please visit the PUSO Wrestling Facebook page.  The promotion can be seen on Instagram, X and You Tube.

 

If anyone would like to sponsor the show, or learn about sponsorship, please email PUSO Wrestling at pusowrestling@gmail.com for details.  Thank you.

KOPW Fiery Battle Results

Hello everyone.  Here are some results from a King Of Pro Wrestling show in Guangzhou, China.  The name of the event was KOPW Fiery Battle.  It took place on July 6th at the Zi Ran Jie Party Pavilion.

 

A new KOPW Tag Team Champion was named after a tournament took place over several shows. The Tag Team titles became vacant after a serious leg injury put Ash Silva of The Regnant Stable out of action.  Hopefully, he's on the road to recovery and will be back in action soon.

 

Here are the results from the show:

 

Gao Yuan (C) d. Mr. Asthma and retains the KOPW Junior Heavyweight Title.

Nate Grimm (C) d. Smart Boy and retains the CWE Title (India).

Mad Dog Connor d. Illegal Immigrant.

Big Sam (w/Chairman Al) d. Zombie Dragon.

Bitman (C) d. Mofi Angus and retains the KOPW Title.

Zhao Junjie d. Wang Jumjie.

Cheng Da and Chen Wenbin d. Chen Pengwei and Feng Jianlang to win the vacant KOPW Tag Team Title.

WUW Philippines

Hello everyone.

 

It's important with this blog to mention every wrestling promotion, active or not.  This blogger hasn't mentioned this promotion enough.  Going forward, there will be more posts regarding the following promotion.

 

The oldest, if you want to call five years old, active wrestling promotion is World Underground Wrestling - Philippines.  WUW-PH, for short, is a branch of World Underground Wrestling.  WUW started in the 18th Century, and in France.

 

Per numerous sources, WUW-PH's first show took place on October 5, 2019.  The show, WUW PH Dojo Storm took place at the Brawl Pit Bulusan in Quezon City, Philippines.

 

The show was a success with seven matches.  A couple of days after the show, the promotion began putting their matches on You Tube for viewing.

 

Led by Saint John Martin, the promotion has had some shows.  Prior to the 2020-2021 covid pandemic, WUW-PH did have three shows, roughly one per month.

 

Slowly but surely, since the return in 2022, WUW - PH has had some shows, the latest being the show, Tagay Na! that took place on July 7th.

 

WUW-PH does have one championship title currently.  That is the World Underground Wrestling Tag Team Titles currently held by Saint John Martin and Ken Cifer.  The pair won the belts this past December and have defended it successfully several times this year. 

 

Those that have appeared at WUW - PH shows have included wrestlers from the newest wrestling promotion in the country, PUSO Wrestling.  The performers include Saint John Martin, Ken Cifer, Dabid Ravena, Razael, Kanta Terror, Silent D, Zera, Main Maxx, Pinoy Bulldog and more. 

 

This blogger has been to one of their shows which was August of last year.  For those reading this post, I would definitely recommend any wrestling fan to see a show when one is announced again.  

MYPW Fight Back Show Update #6

Hello everyone.

 

There have been a couple of matches added to the upcoming Malaysia Pro Wrestling show.  The event, Fight Back, will take place on Saturday, August 3rd beginning at 6pm.  The venue is the KuAsh Theater, TTDI.

 

An additional match in the Journey To Gold quarterfinal features Orion Black vs. "Love Warrior" Syawal.

 

Also, there will be an International singles match with Guken taking on John Day.

 

Tickets are still available for the show.  Please visit the Malaysia Pro Wrestling Facebook page for more information.  Thank you.

APAC Wrestling Enter The Dragon Results

Hello everyone!

 

Here are the results from APAC Wrestling's show, Enter The Dragon.  The show took place this past January 28th.

  

• Ambition Global Title: Shaukat (c) defeats The Eurasian Dragon.
  
• APAC Title Tournament Semi Final: Serigala defeats Gotham.
  
• APAC Title Tournament Semi Final: Double K defeats Alfa Nazri.
  
• APAC Women's Title: Nor Phoenix Diana (c) defeats Marika Kobashi.
• Fatal Four Way: NYC defeats CBK and Dreamchaser Azroy and Morgan Rose.
• Malaysian Royal Rumble: Dreamchaser Azroy defeats Ahmad Arif and AJ Pyro and Alfa Nazri and Amir Zaa and Aziq Blade and Big Eddie Emil and CBK and Double K and Gotham and Hendo Ramli and Jago Aqasha and Joe Louise and K.A.E and Konrad Kai and Lethal Daus and Lukas Ora and Mad Mat Rykal and Mad Scholar and Marika Kobashi and Mark O'dea and Morgan Rose and Nor Phoenix Diana and NYC and Radja Afif and Sam Bunk and Serigala and Shaukat and Star Kidd Mercer and The Eurasian Dragon.

Unang Tibok Update #4

Hello everyone!

 

My apologies on this but there are two additional names that this blogger left out from the last post.  We are talking about PUSO Wrestling's upcoming show, Unang Tibok.  The venue is the Brawl Pit Bulusan in Quezon City on Saturday, August 17th beginning at 7pm.

 

In the Jun Capilos Jr. Battle Royal, Serafin Liwanag and Jomar will join Danny Zamora, Dabid Ravena, Fabio Makisig, Ken Cifer, Patricia Ligaya and Brother Benny.  The match rules is that a wrestler needs to be thrown over the top rope to be eliminated from the competition.

 

There may possibly be additional wrestlers or even possible additional matches.  If there are, this blogger will update the readers.  For now, the poster you see at the top of the page are the matches made so far.  As always, in any wrestling show, the card is subject to change!

 

Tickets for the event are still available.  Please visit the PUSO Wrestling Facebook page.  Also, PUSO Wrestling can be found on Instagram, You Tube and X.

 

If anyone would like to sponsor for this show, or have any questions about sponsoring, please enmail PUSO Wrestling at pusowrestling@gmail.com for details.  Thank you.

One Week Away

One week away until the visit.

 

This post is focused on the new Pinoy Wrestling promotion in PUSO Wrestling.  It can be very well focused on all pro wrestling promotions in Southeast Asia.

 

The upcoming visit to the Philippines means a lot to this wrestling fan.  When originally planning and making reservations for the visit, the last thing that this wrestling fan thought would be a popular wrestling promotion would abruptly end its operation.

 

I don't want to dwell on this, but the closing hurt a lot.  In my lifetime as a pro wrestling fan, this is the second time that a wrestling promotion that, I was close to, abruptly ceased operations.  

 

In 1981, this fan was a big supporter of Big Time Wrestling San Francisco.  This fan went to numerous wrestling shows in the San Francisco Bay Area.  This happened for about 11 years of my life.

 

A couple of days after the 1981 show, a Battle Royal and an NWA World Title match between Harley Race and one of my idols, Ray Stevens, the promotion shut down for good.  It was gut wrenching and did not watch wrestling for weeks.  The area did not have wrestling locally for nearly 15 months.

 

This fan, knew very much, how the Pinoy wrestling fans felt who followed this promotion.  I had a very good sense of how officials of the popular promotion felt.  Certainly, this blogger along with the fans, felt for all the wrestlers involved.  I write about their progress in wrestling and more.

 

The blow softened a little with a Dexcon show called Dexcon Decada.  Then, there was the emails and invitations to Pinoy Wrestling Night.  The end of the show would announce the new promotion, PUSO Wrestling.  There have been numerous posts on social media about the upcoming show, Unang Tibok on Saturday, August 17th.  The show takes place at the Brawl Pit Bulusan beginning at 6pm.  For more information, please see the PUSO Wrestling Facebook page.

 

In a very short time, the promotion is doing well.  A lot of people....wrestlers, officials, wrestling fans and this blogger are trying to get the word out about the show.  Patience is important here as well as getting the word out as a unit.  Please continue doing what you're doing right now!

 

To wrestling fans in the Southeast Asia area....this is a definitely a feel good story.  As a blogger on this platform, hopefully what happened in the Philippines will NEVER happen to your favorite promotion.  Please never assume that your favorite promotion will never abruptly end its operation.  The quote "never say never" should always be in your minds.

 

Unang Tibok in a little over four weeks time!  The Pinoy wrestling fans, wrestlers, referees, officials and yours truly cannot wait!  I'll see you guys soon!

Grapplemax Open House Results

Hello everyone!

 

Here are the results from this past weekend's Grapplemax - Open House at the Grapplemax Studios in Singapore.  The event was held this past Saturday night, July 20th.  Thank you to Grapplemax Pro Wrestling for the results.

 

 

Graduation Match

Endboss GREGORY d. Devan.

Tag Team Match

Ming Rui & Kelvin d. Divya & Simon Siah.

 

Tag Team Match

Tydus & YC d. Nathaniel & Shawn Phang.

A Look Back - Ring Of Rebirth

Hello everyone!

 

Just recently, Ring Of Rebirth Singapore (or RoR Wrestling) celebrated its second anniversary as a promotion.

 

For those that don't know, RoR Wrestling began in 2022.  As the third, and newest promotion in Singapore, ROR Wrestling, led by The Eurasian Dragon, had its first show on July 9th.  The theme was called RoR - Press Start and was held at the Goldpine Industrial Building.  The location has hosted a few pro wrestling shows over the years.

 

The promotion does it in a studio type format, something very familiar especially in the Territory Era days.  The Eurasian Dragon has done a great job with the local talent such as Nyc, Varun Khanna, BGJ, Mr. Geylang, Erfie, Kuhan Bluestar and others.  Wrestlers from nearby countries such as Vietnam, Australia and Hong Kong.

 

The Eurasian Dragon, himself, wrestles on occasions and has wrestled throughout Southeast Asia.  He appeared at a recent APAC Wrestling show in Malaysia and did quite well in a tag team match.

 

Kudos to The Eurasian Dragon and to RoR Wrestling.  Their latest shows, RoR Wrestling #8 through #10 were recently taped and will be out on You Tube soon.   This blogger cannot wait who was on the show and the matches that took place. As soon as the announcement is received here, I will announce it on the blog.           

Clash At The Club II Results

Hello everyone!

 

Here are the results from SPW's show, Clash At The Club II.   The event was held this past Friday night, July 19th at the ION Club.  Thank you to SPW for the results. 

 

 

Emman def. Trickster.

 

BGJ and Meta def. CK Vin and Blade.

 

Aiden Rex def. Riz.

 

The Statement & The Midnight Bastards def. Mighty Arrow & Destroyer Dharma.

Wrestling Venues

 Legendary announcer, Walt Harris interviewing Kinji Shibuya at the KTVU studios in Oakland, CA.

 

Wrestling fans in America, for the most part, love the large venues.  Certainly Madison Square Garden, Crypto.com Arena, United Center and others come to mind.

 

However, what about the small arenas or venue?

 

Before seeing my first big wrestling show at the Cow Palace in Daly City, it was seeing a one hour wrestling show at a television studio in Oakland.  KTVU Channel 2 would originally televise their promotional shows at 9pm each Friday night for a few years.  One night, some family friends and I had a chance to see a show.  There were four matches in the one hour time slot with commercials.  It was a beginning for this wrestling fan.

 

I've been fortunate to see some shows in all different venues.  Wrestlemania 31 at Levi's Stadium was monumental.  However, seeing a show in a small venue is every bit as important.

 

My last show was this past weekend at the United Irish Cultural Center with West Coast Pro Wrestling.  Several names were on the show, though Robbie Eagles, who was mentioned, didn't appear.  It was possible because of the IT issues that Eagles wasn't there.  The names of Shelton Benjamin, Titus Alexander, Alex Shelley and Alan Angels made up for it though.  It was a nice and exciting evening of independent pro wrestling in the Sunset District.

 

My next show......a little over four weeks at the venue above.  Brawl Pit Bulusan in Quezon City, Philippines.  The venue has hosted wrestling shows for several years now.  The upcoming event, Unang Tibok will be the inaugural show for the promotion, PUSO Wrestling.  

 

Right now, there are six matches scheduled for the show.  

 

Four of the matches are part of a tournament to declare an inaugural Pusong Pinoy Wrestling Champion.

 

There will be a battle royal in honor of a late, huge wrestling fan.  The Jun Capilos Jr. Battle Royal will be an exciting one to watch.

 

Also, the Pinay Vixen, Chelsea Marie will face "Mr. Philippine Wrestling" Jake De Leon in the Main Event.  This is a return match from the Pinoy Wrestling Night last month.

 

For more information, including tickets, please visit the PUSO Wrestling Facebook page.  PUSO Wrestling can also be found on Instagram, X and You Tube.

 

Finally, if anyone, or anyone you know is interesting in sponsoring the show, please email PUSO Wrestling at pusowrestling@gmail.com for more details.  Thank you.