Ryōgoku Kokugikan

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Yeah.

And then we're building right back up for their biggest show of the year in Sumo Hall.

So now the question to you, Andy Hedder, is we are about a month away from Grand Destiny in Sumo Hall.

You want to, 'cause I know Sumo Hall, from what we were told, it's a very expensive building to run.

You're gonna wanna draw at least 3,000 people to kind of, you know, break even and make your money back.

What are some of the big matches there? And obviously we did see the first two shows in Sumo Hall.

They brought Iio in.

Mm.

Um, and then they wouldn't have this mess where now they're not even gonna have, well, I assume...

Oh, God, if they, if they, like, drop it to Diana Strong for that Sumo Hall show, I, that, I, I-

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Okay, I'd go ballistic on that.

But no, I assume they're not gonna have a United National title match on the Sumo Hall show.

It feels like it's kinda not even existing at the moment, that title, in a way.

Yeah, it's dumb.

So that means, so that was League D over, so Kuki and Reaseto went through.

my most frustrating thing nowadays but like

they they are running sumo hall in a month four weeks yeah like a month um and miko ayano is like oh i have somebody in mind yusuke's talking about her belt you know I would have rather they at the very least be like, here's what we're doing.

Because if Yuzuki is holding off until first stream, which is fine, I would totally be okay with her holding off until first stream.

You'd need to have been like, okay, so here's what we're doing for the world title now.

Third of October.

So we'll be back next week.

Um, yeah, we're kind of on the path to Sumo Hall, which we're not, I'm not sure what's going to happen yet.

I think there's a lot of questions.

October the 9th, 1986, we go to Japan, New Japan Pro Wrestling in Tokyo, Japan.

It's Sumo Hall, drawing 11,520 people for Antonio Inoki's 25th Anniversary in Wrestling Special.

It was shown live on TVSI and drew a 28.9 rating.

That is incredible.

October 21st, 1986, All Japan Pro Wrestling.

14th anniversary show in Tokyo, Japan.

Sumo Hall drawing 10,600 people.

Kuniaki Kobayashi and Isumu Teramishi battled Paul Diamond and Hiro Saito to a double DQ.

Sherry, a few months ago, did wrestle Megan Bain for the IWGP Joshi Championship for All-Star Grand Queendom in front of 8,500 people.

So what's not to say at the end of the year, the big show for stardom, Dream Queendom, December 29th, 2026, obviously, Sumo Hall, Sherry versus Bixson.

I'm down.

I want to.

Let's make enough noise.

Let's make that happen.

I would love to see that in the legendary Sumo Hall, Sherry versus Vixen.

That's something that I would definitely, definitely love to see.

And, um, this is...

Now, throughout the course of this, uh, tour, you know, it's no secret that we are building to a Goto-Yota Tsuji title match, and the winner of that will go on to, um, Sumo Hall, um, you know, Ryogoku in October on the 12th to face off against the G1 Champion, Ryohei Oiwa.

So this was, um, again, another in a long series of preview matches between these two.

However, this is, um, an interesting one because, not to say that you don't have guys that can lay down.