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February 20, 2024November 16, 2024

Analyzing Mio Momono’s Violent People 100 Case

Image from RCW Spain Season Finale 2023 For those unfamiliar, Mio Momono is one of Marvelous’ brightest talents, a plucky underdog babyface who I think anyone – even people who aren’t particularly into joshi puroresu – could get behind. In this article, I’ll analyze her Violent People 100 case through two key criteria. Versatility: Whether […]

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February 16, 2024July 5, 2024

Recommended Matches Roundup #4

Are you short on time for watching wrestling this week? The Violent People crew has you covered with the Recommended Matches Roundup. Each week, we create a list of matches you should check out based on what aired or made tape.

1 min read

Review

February 15, 2024July 5, 2024

Mio Momono vs. Chihiro Hashimoto – The Purest of Dynamics

Every day, we need to take a moment and say a prayer for whatever time traveller took Mio Momono and Chihiro Hashimoto from the prime era of 2000s joshi and put them in the current day. These two produced some of the best wrestling in the world in 2021 with the Sendai Girls and Marvelous […]

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Editorial

February 13, 2024July 5, 2024

Am I Dumb For Being Excited For A GCW Show?

Probably going to start blogging more for Violent People. Sometimes I don’t want to sit in front of a mic, riffing for 20 minutes, editing, uploading, etc. I just want to throw together my ramblings and toss them to the world. Recently bought a single ticket (very sad) to see The Game Changer Wrestling in […]

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February 9, 2024July 5, 2024

Recommended Matches Roundup #3

Are you short on time for watching wrestling this week? The Violent People crew has you covered with the Recommended Matches Roundup. Each week, we create a list of matches you should check out based on what aired or made tape.

1 min read

Review

February 6, 2024July 5, 2024

Strong BJ vs Astronauts – The BJW May 28th Series

Diminishing returns is a very real thing in wrestling, a problem some wrestlers deal with better than others but so often it’s hard to recreate the magic of a moment when you see it over and over again. The idea of giving each audience a similar performance so that they can experience what makes each […]

11 mins read

Editorial

February 2, 2024July 5, 2024

Hackenschmidt in Australia

February 24, 2024, the Elimination Chamber takes place in Perth, Australia. It marks a significant moment in the history of wrestling in Australia. Though this is far from the first time a “World Champion” has wrestled in the Antipodes. Let’s go back over a century: President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “If I weren’t President, I’d […]

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January 31, 2024July 5, 2024

Recommended Matches Roundup #2

Are you short on time for watching wrestling this week? The Violent People crew has you covered with the Recommended Matches Roundup. Each week, we create a list of matches you should check out based on what aired or made tape. (Photo Credit: NJPW)

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Editorial

January 29, 2024July 5, 2024

Jaguar Beat as told in 10 joshi matches

Back in August 2022, the Takarazuka Revue announced the Star Troupe shows ‘Dimitri’ and ‘Jaguar Beat’ and I thought it would be hilarious if they put a Jaguar Yokota reference in the revue as she’s the most famous female jaguar in Japan. I was happily surprised when during the finale one of my favorite Star […]

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Jaguar Beat as told in 10 joshi matches