Sukeban World Championship Fight (Sukeban)

[6.0] "Similar to promotions like Camp Leapfrog in my mind, you get it or you don't. Oddity & outsider wrestling created by people with their roots in the industry & clearly wanted something fun & different. This is a promotion that's honestly, meant for people who like the freakiness, quirks, silliness & femininity of pre 2000s joshi without the total whitewashing of it being a serious & professional approach to women's wrestling exclusively. I'm addicted to the color, the costuming choice, & the talent from post to post is great!"

[4.0] "A promotion that showcases ingenious visions within an absolute train wreck is the best way to describe Sukeban as a whole at this moment. Watching the two initial shows is a truly out-worldly experience trying to figure out what the hell am I watching with all seriousness, and I wrote a lot of things down. I could be very much wrong but since Sukeban refers to the 80s Japanese all-female gangs, the show revolves around four factions of 80s Sukeban as wrestlers, an 80s Joshi in a modern context. It has the AJWs over-the-top and unconventional style for characters at the expense of the modern hard-hitting, long match style of Joshi, which is displayed through the focus on characters, short matches, and bizarre costume designs and facepaints/makeups. It also seemingly attempts to mock the American style? Not sure but that does align with Sukeban's historical significance. The main problem is, such a vision is very much against what the promotion would bring in, at least online, which are modern Joshi fans in favor of seeing the in-ring action, who will receive the opposite. Its insane that they got together some of the best Joshi freelancers and major joshi promotions members to work such soft and fundamental matches on purpose, and thats the first big issue. 80s Joshi still brings the action into the ring, and booking top Joshi wrestlers, drawing in their fans, only to underdeliver in terms of match quality is a huge mistake. Perhaps its by design or because of the fashion they are wearing limits their movement, but you have to wonder why they couldnt at least put more time or effort into the matches. The show is only two hours long, maybe a mimic of TV shows but its still a wrestling event at the end of the day. Funny enough, a seemingly walk by crowd, evidenced by pops for basic moves - no one wearing any merch and not knowing what a hot tag is, are massively into the matches albeit still getting the hands of watch wrestling. That is very much to the merit of the promotion and it is doing pretty well in terms of attendant reception and ticket sells (even though the 1500+ ticket sale is... questionable). cant speak much about the fashionable gears, some are atrocious, some are very cool, but perhaps thats just the subculture element of the branding, which very much is unique. What I can speak of is -- Update: original this part is where i trash on the production but good job sukeban you up your game on your third show, the lighting is good, there is graphics now, the commentary is normal and actually funny, no echos or reverbs, honestly cudos to that. Bumping it up to a 6 from 5. Update: oh hell nah, why yall stop posting your show, now it's just money laundering-esk."

"Sukeban is a bit of a weird outlier to me. Not because of Joshi promotion in the U.S., that doesn't really shock me much. Instead, I'm quite curious about the inner-workings of the promotion. The stylistic approach Sukeban has is a bit inconsistent to me, some of it works really well, other of it feels a bit outlandish to the realm of pro-wrestling. From streaming on TikTok to their global approach, it's really interesting. They've only had 5 shows, they have some of the best talent in the world, and they have a unique approach to pro wrestling. But it hasn't quite sticked with me."