New Japan also have a
YouTube channel. Most of it is post-match interviews but they often upload highlight videos of events and full matches from shows from a year or so ago.
Fade wrote:What about Stardom?
Stardom World is about £6.40ish. They don't do live shows but have one or two shows a week usually with 5 matches, they had a bunch of special shows four days in a row for Golden Week. The shows get uploaded as individual matches rather than all one show which I kinda prefer anyway. There's no commentary (a few Japanese promotions are like this) but the pre and post match promos are subtitled. They've got a YouTube channel as well which they've just started using again after about a year of posting nothing. Most of it is behind-the-scenes videos of some of their bigger shows but they often put up whole matches for a limited amount of time
like this one. Stardom World just got completely overhauled in March and they haven't uploaded the majority of their older content yet but you can find a lot of it on Japanese video sites.
If you're wanting to get into it then now is probably a really good time. The promotion is based around four factions (STARS, Oedo Tai, Queen's Quest and Tokyo Cyber Squad) and they just had their annual faction draft the other week which shook up the roster a bit and is basically the start of a bunch of new feuds and storylines.
It's easily my favourite promotion just now. It's genuinely entertaining and probably has a large number of the best women wrestlers in the world right now. It's where Kairi Sane and Io Shirai came from and a lot of current WWE, NXT and NXT UK wrestlers have worked there like Shayna Bazler, Toni Storm (currently there just now and was their champion last year), Viper, Ruby Riott and Dakota Kai.
There's a helpful in-depth FAQ on the Stardom subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/stardomjoshi/c ... le_giants/