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Worst in the World: Yoshiko vs Act Yasukawa-Stardom Queen's Shout

Click the link here to vote in the poll and help decide the next edition of the Worst in the World. 凄惨マッチ Seisan Matchi The Ghastly Match That is the name the now infamous match between Yoshiko and Act Yasukawa at World Wonder Ring Stardom's Queen's Shout event is known by. The match, which saw Yoshiko defend the company's top title, the World of Stardom Championship, against Yasukawa, seems good on paper. Yoshiko was a dominant monster and a protege of one of Stardom's founders, joshi legend Nanae Takahashi, while Yasukawa was one of the company's rising stars, having held Stardom's secondary championship, the Wonder of Stardom title, twice, and held it going into this match. This was also a match we were supposed to get earlier than we had, only for that match to be canceled due to Yasukawa suffering a Graves' disease flare-up. On top of all that, Stardom, founded in 2010 by longtime joshi promoter Rossy Ogawa, former wrestler Fuka, and the aforementioned

Worst in the World: New Jack vs Mustafa-Living Dangerously 1999

Click the link here to vote in the poll and help decide the next edition of the Worst in the World. Watching former tag team partners face off is a staple of professional wrestling. Former friends turned enemies after one wrestler stabs the other in the back, leading to an incredibly heated feud chock full of the emotion that pro-wrestling thrives on. Over the years, we've seen plenty of fantastic rivalries & matches come out of these kinds of feuds, whether it be the top-notch in-ring work of the Johnny Gargano-Tommaso Ciampa series (excluding One Final Beat, which was...something) to intense drama of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage's feud going into WrestleMania 5, a tag team break up can create magic in the ring. However, the magic isn't always there, and sometimes former tag partners facing off doesn't lead to memorable matches. This is the case for this match, as the former Gangstas teammates New Jack and Mustafa faced off at ECW's Living Dangerously 1999. In f