Craig Ballantyne
@universalcynic
Be more skeptical
Just saw that Tiger Mask wrestled twice after his official retirement and retired again, officially officially. That's the most wrestling thing ever 😂 Beat Mick Foley's first retirement by a few weeks too #njpw #WrestleSky 🤼 www.fightful.com/wrestling/ka...
Aye, ok then. Reality is Busted Open's compromised itself to a permanent end as a credible show #WrestleSky 🤼
The boyhood dream, a submission victory on a Gears of War logo followed by a title celebration with a man in an ill-fitting dog mask 🥹 #SummerSlam #WrestleSky 🤼
Ibushi went to the NJPW offices, wonder if it's part of his venue project or something more. The fact he's even willing to talk to them after the way he left is huge! The change in owner and management probably helps a lot #njpw #WrestleSky 🤼
Yuto-Ice is my favourite NJPW wrestler right now (Tsuji a very close second). He's like Ishii crossed with Eddie Kingston. The punishment he can absorb is unreal and he's got charisma for days. Man could be the top babyface in Japan in a few years #G1CLIMAX36 #WrestleSky 🤼
Only three matches official for All In and it looks like it's being tailor-made for me! #AEW #WrestleSky 🤼
Labour finally have a lead over Reform, 28%-24%. Hopefully they can increase and sustain it. If ( it's a big if) they do, I think it'll be a General Election next year. #ukpolitics #Labour
Something I've been wanting to do for a while, took these at opposite ends of a corridor at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Not sure if I prefer the blue and red or red and blue @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social #photography 📸
Oh, hey, there's an AEW ppv later, and I just remembered some people became free agents 👀 Dynamite's also in Detroit this week... #AEW #WrestleSky 🤼
Instead, he's hiring a bus and taking a group of fans on a day trip to Mother Farm, like a school field trip! The man's insane, but one of the best humans in pro-wrestling 😂 2/2 #WrestleSky 🤼 www.instagram.com/reel/DbLFHsm...
Latest Ibushi project update. He's doing a Premium lecture and fan tour! It might not be what you think... He's doing a lecture on "How great matches are born" and then it's the fan tour a couple of weeks later. But, no, he's not going city-to-city for meet & greets, this is Ibushi! 1/2
Price was a bit steeper than I expected, but got a ticket for the Welcome to Wembley thing. Sounds like they're trying to plan things better than the previous All In fan things in the UK (although I did enjoy the Box one)
This is a bit worrying, mainly because people don't think NJPW's doing particularly well as it is. The product feels like an improvement on last year though, so hopefully that'll translate to the business side too #njpw #WrestleSky 🤼 www.fightful.com/wrestling/aj...
Oscar's been great on commentary, but I don't like being reminded of Great-O-Khan and Tanga Loa's gyoza eating contest (it was meant to be eel, might've been more entertainin? Probably not). My god, the KOPW turned to shit so quickly, GOK too unfortunately. #G1CLIMAX36
Go on Clacton, do the funniest thing that could happen to the UK far-right, and make your vote Count! #VoteBinface
SANADA today, and his outfit if he reaches the G1 final #G1CLIMAX36 🤼
This is a bit sad to see coming from someone like Styles. No, WWE shouldn't just buy its way into Japan. It isn't even using the NOAH partnership in anyway whatsoever as far as I can see. #WrestleSky 🤼
Maple Leaf Pro is on MyAEW. Brilliant news, I was hoping this would happen! #AEW #WrestleSky 🤼 www.allelitewrestling.com/post/maple-l...
As it stands, Nigel Farage is now going to have to campaign in a by-election against a man with a bin for a head, and he's paying for the privilege. It's amazing. Not that a Binface win is impossible, Farage was, after all, once beaten into third place by a dolphin. #VoteBinface #Clacton
Arguing it's just a vanity project for Farage and a deflection from his scandals. However, there is one person who's decided to run, a veteran of many elections, this man, Count Binface! So...
50% off AEW All In tickets for the next week! That means there's are tickets as low as £16.50 Bit gutted since I've already bought mine, but that's always a risk. #AEW #WrestleSky 🤼
Congratulations to Tiger Mask IV on one last victory over Black Tiger and a legendary career! #njpw #WrestleSky 🤼
Gabe Kidd won the Global Title, and slapped and spat on Tanahashi today. Him turning heel on the whole of NJPW out of sheer bitterness at his treatment by the company has been brilliantly done. He should be getting nuclear heat by the end of the G1! #njpw #WrestleSky 🤼
In Ibushi's latest blog, he spoke about the period (I think) after leaving NJPW and drinking a lot. But also using dating sites, including: "I used to use dating sites a lot. In one week, about 14 women...that's the number of women if you include both day and night" #WrestleSky #AEW 🤼