51 points

Average Babymetal performance

permalink
report
reply
22 points

Kawaii as fuck!

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Is this… not… Babymetal doing a thing?

permalink
report
parent
reply
31 points

No, this is Joshi. Japanese women’s wrestling. Like WWE but surprisingly more hardcore???

permalink
report
parent
reply
23 points

This is lit! Get it Japan.

permalink
report
reply
23 points

I wish I had the energy to find dank wrestling promotions

permalink
report
reply
17 points

Damn, this does go hard. If we had this in America instead of WWE I’d actually give it a shot

permalink
report
reply
14 points

there are so many promotions in the USA that aren’t WWE

like nearly every city with more than 5000 people probably has a wrestling promotion

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points
*

get wrestle universe for like 8ish dollars and it comes with tokyo joshi pro wrestling. aew also has a number of joshi wrestlers. chocopro broadcasts free on youtube, and you can also get stardom world for whatever 900 yen is :)

edit: oh also pro wrestling eve is women’s wrestling out of uk and they’re awesome. they have an on demand service on youtube and through their own platform and a lot of current stars went through them including a number of joshi stars.

edit again: also a lot of current stars came up through shimmer. it’s not running now but you can find good matches on youtube

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points
*

I haven’t been following for a while, but last I checked there were a number of Japanese women’s wrestlers that are signed with AEW. Riho was the first AEW Women’s World Champion, and Hikaru Shida held the title for the longest so far. They both started their careers with the Ice Ribbon women’s promotion in Japan.

Edit: I’m also pretty sure I’ve seen Riho pull this exact move. She’s light enough that she can fully commit without causing injury. Absolutely brutal to watch, legit knocks the wind out of people.

permalink
report
parent
reply
17 points

Not super current on my Joshi. I think I recognize Maki Itoh, but who is that stomping on her?

permalink
report
reply
25 points

Pretty sure it’s her long time partner Mizuki. Not the same stomp but here’s a good one in video.

Pretty sure it’s her in the same gear, but her and Riho have similar gear.

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

Yo did she just do that to someone lying on the ground? My ribcage hurts…

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Not the same stomp but here’s a good one in video.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

What the hell did I just watch

and why do I suddenly need to see more?

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

Because Joshi wrestling is awesome.

permalink
report
parent
reply