Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
Earlier this week, it was revealed in a story by Sports Illustrated that Billy Corgan, frontman for Smashing Pumpkins and owner of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), had secured the original Women’s World Championship belt originally held by Mildred Burke, pro wrestling’s original game-changer for women in pro wrestling. The belt will be on display […] READ MORE
Victory Through Guts: A Joshi Podcast is a podcast from two of our contributors Alex Richards and Dylan Murray as they take a journey through All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling (AJW). For episode 9 they watch three matches that end the year for AJW before going through their year-end awards for 1990 In this episode […] READ MORE
All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling (AJW) is one of the biggest pro wrestling companies in the history of Japan. The all women’s promotion housed some of the biggest women’s stars in wrestling history. Legends Of AJW will take a look into the careers of some of AJW’s legendary talents. This edition focuses on AJW’s biggest […] READ MORE
Wrestling Meccas is a series of features at Last Word on Pro Wrestling that looks at the history of some of professional wrestling’s most iconic venues, from large stadiums to small indie havens. Our second edition heads to Tokyo, Japan to look at what many consider the “Madison Square Garden of Japan”, the famed Kōrakuen […] READ MORE
In early 2005 All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling (AJW) shut it’s doors for the last time. 15 years on and the promotion is still heralded as the greatest women’s wrestling promotion in history with a host of its top names considered to be some of the best wrestlers of all time. We’re going to go […] READ MORE
Victory Through Guts: A Joshi Podcast is a new podcast from two of our contributors Alex Richards and Dylan Murray as they take a journey through All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling (AJW) starting with episode 1 which sees them review the January 4th 1990 show which saw a new WWWA World Champion Crowned In this […] READ MORE
On April 2, 1995, twenty-five years ago this month, Japanese wrestling magazine Weekly Pro Wrestling presented Bridge of Dreams, a massive showcase of the best of Japanese wrestling at the time. It was held at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, and sold out with 60,000 in attendance. It was a massive gesture of goodwill, […] READ MORE
All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling (AJW) is one of the biggest pro wrestling companies in the history of Japan. The all women’s promotion housed some of the biggest women’s stars in wrestling history. Legends Of AJW will take a look into the careers of some of AJW’s legendary talents. This edition focuses on the two […] READ MORE
Command Bolshoi’s promotion Pure-J today held her retirement show at Korakuen Hall in front of 1,530 fans. Bolshoi’s career spanned almost 30 years as she wrestled for almost every major promotion in the world having thousands of matches and making use of her diminutive size. It's an incredibly important day as the legendary Command Bolshoi – a […] READ MORE
In a story that was widely unreported on, one of Japan’s legendary joshi wrestlers thwarted an early morning assault on a woman in Japan back in late November. Chigusa Nagayo, former joshi star with the legendary Crush Gals in All Japan Women’s Wrestling (AJW) and the co-founder of GAEA Wrestling and Marvelous joshi promotions in Japan, was heading to her car […] READ MORE
Jamie Greer joined LWOPW in 2015 and was the site's Managing Editor from 2016 through 2020. After handing over ME duties to Alex Richards, he remains a frequent contributor to the site. He's also written for Pro Wrestling Illustrated, WrestleZone, The Windsor Star, and other publications. He lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, with his wife and son.