Chester Swann-Auger

March 11, 2023

The Maddening Maths of Pegasus' Castle Sprint

The Maddening Maths of Pegasus' Castle Sprint Recently while wondering around the Welsh town of Conwy I stumbled across the new (I think) board game of Pegasus' Castle Sprint, based on Season 1 of the YuGiOh anime. Being a big Yu-Gi-Oh and a fan of the world of cheap board games I got the game and went to the hotel to play it with my p...
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November 20, 2022

AEW Full Gear (19/11/2022) Review

Hi, something a bit different here but I wanted to write a slightly longer form review of this show than Twitter or Discord really encourage, mostly just for something to do with my Sunday. So first of all, this was a great show, I'd need to look back at my notes but this is probably the best PPV I've seen this year, though it didn't q...
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August 21, 2022

Atlantis vs Villano III - 17th March 2000

Lucha is probably the biggest area of wrestling that I have little to no knowledge of, and I think it's the same for a lot of wrestling fans. But, I've got time on my hands so now is as good a time as any to get learning. I chose this match because I've heard a lot about it (as you'd expect from the Wrestling Observer Match of the Year...
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May 30, 2022

Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Santana, Ortiz & Bryan Danielson vs Chris Jericho, Matt Menard, Cool Hand Ange, Daniel Garcia & Jake Hager - 29th May 2022

So, something a bit different, rather than finding a random classic match to watch, I'm reviewing the Anarchy in the Arena match from last night's AEW Double or Nothing show. There are a few different reasons but mostly it's because it's an insanely cool match I need to write something longer form about to get my thoughts in order. Fir...
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May 10, 2022

Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori - 2nd April 1993

Just as a primer, my knowledge of joshi is sorely lacking, I've watched a good amount of it but it's from all over and always just odd matches so I know very little on characters and stories and that whole side of things. That said there's no better time to learn so here we go. So loading this match up, the thumbnail on YouTube is Akir...
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May 7, 2022

Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen - July 29th 1993

The opening of this match is great, Stan just starts stomping on a young boy while the streamers are coming down so Kobashi just launches over the ring and starts pummelling him. And then we're into the action and it's good! Kobashi hits a diving shoulder block off the apron and this is just one of those beautifully simple moves that I...
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April 7, 2022

Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue - December 6th 1992

Okay so obviously going in this is going to be great, it's 3 of the Pillars and Jun so it's almost a lock that this match is going to deliver and oh yes it does that and more. The opening is Jun firing up and just throwing offence at Kawada and slowly chipping away before getting shut down with a hard kick. This cycle keeps repeating u...
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March 13, 2022

Jumbo Tsuruta vs Genichiro Tenryu - June 5th 1989

Going into this I can't say I know much about either man, obviously they are both legends of wrestling but I've only seen a handful of matches from each wrestler so I don't have any strong opinions but hey, open minds are always good, here we go The match opens slower than I expected, it's a few minutes of Jumbo being dominant and he d...
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March 12, 2022

Kensuke Sasaki vs Kenta Kobashi - July 18th 2005

So, I've seen a fair amount of both of these guys between All Japan, New Japan and Noah but off the top of my head I've not seen them square of at all before. My overriding memory of Kensuke Sasaki is his awesome 2004 G1 Climax match with Yoshihiro Takayama, a match that I rewatch at least once a year and just adore from start to finis...
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March 11, 2022

Chester's 5* Match Project

Hey, so I'm Chester, I've been a wrestling fan for over a decade now which I know isn't that impressive in the grand scheme of things and I've spent a lot of that time just following the major promotions, whether that be WWE, NJPW, or AEW so I'm fully aware that there are vast areas of wrestling left unexplored by me. And that's not to...
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