u/tenshipriestjotaro1

Yes...the broken back never happened. It was a smokescreen because she was burnt out in JWP in 1997 and wanted new challenges (she did an interview with Bull Nakano recently, a great watch for anyone interested). And yes, she regretted ghosting her mentor Devil Masami about why she wanted to leave JWP, and it stinged her a lot (alongside burnout) that when she retired in 2001 and until 2024...she never talked about her wrestling, never told her friends she was "Candy Okutsu", it's like as if it never existed

For me, it's this: no, STARDOM is not the spiritual heir or successor to AJW. They're totally different styles of Joshi wrestling, and to be honest, you can't exactly pinpoint an actual successor to AJW because there are 10+ companies competing in 2026

A more accurate opinion is that STARDOM (alongside WAVE, Marigold, AWG and Seadlinnng) is a spiritual successor of JDStars, the company that innovated the concept of "Athress", because if you look at STARDOM, it's 40% wrestling, 40% idol stuff, and 20% shithousery

Yes, that's the song of the meme, "du bist gut genug"

I just typed "Crush Gals Akina Nakamori" in Japanese on Youtube to find these frames

Show: Yoru no Hit Studio, February 26th, 1986

As simple as that. No need to elaborate

Just decided to prove my point in the earlier post

For me, it's between these 3 names:

1. Mariko Yoshida: pioneered fluid Shoot-Style wrestling (known as "Hyper Visual Fighting"), became the bridge between pro wrestling and women's MMA, launched the career of Megumi Fujii, and without her...maybe modern women's MMA as we know it would never exist

2. Jaguar Yokota: nuff said

3. Mach Fumiake: the blueprint that made pro wrestling super-popular, as she was the proto-idol wrestler. No Mach? No Beauty Pair. No Crush Gals. No Mimi Hagiwara. No Takako Inoue. And of course, no JD Stars, no STARDOM...and no Tam Nakano, no Natsupoi, no most of the names you'd see in the modern Joshi scene. It all comes back to her