Promotions Watched : AJPW, NOAH, Dragon Gate, DDT
We’re halfway through the year and the Japanese wrestling scene keeps on fulfilling your quality grappling needs. This month’s top 3 is pretty stacked. Three completely different matches, all 100% worth watching. A blood-soaked cage match from the good folks at Pro Wrestling NOAH, a mouth-watering look at the (very near) future from the Cyber Fight Festival and a tournament final banger that heralded the arrival of KZY TIME.
Elsewhere on this list: more tournaments. The tournaments will not stop and you must accept this as a fact of life. Great stuff from both King of DDT and AJPW’s Junior Battle of Glory, including some peak 2021 performances from the Italian Warrior Child Francesco Akira and Chief Consumer of Meat Yuji Hino.
The Top 10
1. Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Masa Kitamiya – Hair vs. Hair Cage Match (NOAH 6/26/21)
2. Konosuke Takeshita & Yuki Ueno vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Yoshiki Inamura (CyberFight 6/6/21)
3. Kzy vs. Kota Minoura – King of Gate Finals (DG 6/3/21)
4. HARASHIMA vs. Yuji Hino – King of DDT Round 2 (DDT 6/20/21)
5. Francesco Akira vs. El Lindaman – Junior Battle of Glory Finals (AJPW 6/3/21)
6. Kento Miyahara vs. Jake Lee – Triple Crown Gauntlet (AJPW 6/26/21)
7. Jake Lee vs. Yuma Aoyagi – Triple Crown Gauntlet (AJPW 6/26/21)
8. Sanshiro Takagi, Akito, Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yukio Naya vs. Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Haoh, Nioh & Tadasuke (CyberFight 6/6/21)
9. Hikaru Sato vs. Fuminori Abe – Junior Battle of Glory Round 2 (AJPW 6/3/21)
10. Atsushi Kotoge vs. HAYATA – GHC Jr. Heavyweight Title (NOAH 6/27/21)
Honorable Mentions
1. Kento Miyahara vs. Yuma Aoyagi – Triple Crown Gauntlet (AJPW 6/26/21)
2. Yuji Hino vs. Yukio Sakaguchi – King of DDT Round 1 (DDT 6/10/21)
3. Jun Akiyama vs. HARASHIMA – KO-D Openweight Title (CyberFight 6/6/21)
4. Tetsuya Endo vs. Chris Brookes – King of DDT Round 1 (DDT 6/10/21)
5. Konosuke Takeshita vs. MAO – King of DDT Round 2 (DDT 6/20/21)
