ASIAN SPORTS PROMOTIONS
It’s been awhile but I have seen an ASP show before and if my memory serves me correctly then I believe they’ve been active as a promotion for over fifteen years. On Twitter the other day I came across a poster for their upcoming show in late June. They have the NWA logo front and centre so I’d love to know if there’s some weird back story with the NWA because the NWA aren’t foreign to working with some bat shit crazy indie’s in Japan. This show also has quite the extravagant range of talent appearing so let’s get into that
Yoshiaki Yatsu, KY Wakamatsu(!!!), Gosaku, AGU, Michio Kageyama, SAGAT, Taro Yamada
Very intriguing for us old FMW fans to see Gosaku pop up on a random show like this, he barely ever works nowadays.
DROKEE’S YANAI RING
Minoru Fucking Suzuki can wrestle for both the second and third biggest promotions in the world and then get booked to face promoter ‘Astro Z’ in his tenth trial match in front of 50 people… This show will take place on May 29th with the likes of MGA and El Brave also featuring on the undercard. This will be some holy-grail of a tape when it finally makes it way to our screens.
MIKAMI BRINGS BACK ” CRUISERS GAME ”
Wow!!! For you fans of mid 00’s DDT you will fondly remember MIKAMI’s produce shows labelled Cruisers Game with the tippity top junior heavyweight talent being booked for each show.
This upcoming show will take place July 17th at the Itabashi Green Hall, the main event will be MIKAMI’s 25th anniversary match and it is as follows
MIKAMI, Isami Kodaka & Ikuto Hidaka vs LEONA, TORU & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
MONSTER’S PARTY
Monster Party are back for their third show June 30th with a three match line-up
TORU vs Toru Sugiura
Joji Otani vs Toshiyuki Sakuda
Shota Nakagawa vs X
Still yet to see footage of this promotion, I think they wrestle on like tarps and not in an actual ring so it would be cool to see some day.
FIGHT OF THE RING
Fight Of The Ring is Masakazu Nagase’s fed, I’ve never seen one of their shows but wow they are indie sleaze personified and often feature many throwbacks to the old school indie puro scene. They’ve released the names for their upcoming show in August and I just want to highlight a few of those guys working this show,
Naoshi Sano, HASEGAWA, Tomohiko Hashimoto, Shinigami, Leatherface, Kenichiro Arai, Kazuhiko Matsuzaki and The Great
Sasuke!
BIG BEAR PRODUCE
Is this year going that quickly that we already have shows being promoted for late November? In any case indie wrestler Big Bear will be holding another produce show at the Basement Monstar November 20th with a huge list of talent appearing.
Super Delfin, Keita “IN THE HOUSE”, Guts Ishijima, KAMIKAZE, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Naoshi Sano, Onryo, Ricky Fuji, Taison Maeguchi, Akira Jo, Takahiro Tababa and Koju Takeda are all scheduled to wrestle.
TTT
TTT are returning to Shinjuku Face on June 19th with two matches announced thus far
TTT Certified Indie Unified Open Weight Championship Match: Guts Ishijima (c) vs TORU
TTT Certified Indie Unified Tag Championship Match: Banana Senga & Tsutomu Oosugi vs Masked Mystery & Tetsuhiro Kuroda
FUKUMEN MANIA
Mister Cacao is loving wrestling again after a few years away and here he is promoting another FUKUMEN MANIA show on June 5th at the Gunma Prefectural Kannon Mountain Family Park. Last show he held outdoors he did a perfect tope con hilo so I hope history repeats… Here is the full list of talent appearing
Masamune, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Kikutaro, Gabai Ji-Chan, Nobutaka Moribe, Gunma Cat, Shuichiro Katsumura, HAMATANI, Ann Cham, Miyako Matsumoto and Yoshietsu Neo
PURO IN THE ROUGH 