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NEW VID: How KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji Changed Wrestling

Added 2025-02-21 15:36:21 +0000 UTC

It's a new wrestling video, and we're going back to the world of NOAH. This one covers an important period in the careers of two of the company's best; KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji. Famous for teaming together, but also great against each other -- we're mainly looking at the time from 2000 to 2006, culiminating in them breaking the Junior glass ceiling and main eventing the Budokan, with the GHC Heavyweight Title on the line. Enjoy!

(Hopefully, this vid's going on YouTube in a week. I've uploaded it directly to Patreon because it looks like Nippon TV might be, unusually, a bit of a dickhead when it comes to the aforementioned GHC Title match -- most AJPW/NOAH seems to go through fine but you do get the odd match that can cause copyright irritation (Me and Joseph Montecillo know all about the nightmare of fucking 6/9/95). Fortunately (touchwood) NTV are more the sort to do automatic claims in the WWE vein, rather than manually strike in the TV Asahi vein. We'll see how making the vid YouTube-safe goes, but here's a version that's not going to require any further editing.)