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So the short answer to that is 'sometimes, maybe lol'.
The long answer: The regular shows have no commentary period. Japan does tours, not TV, so most of their shows are the Japanese equivalent of house shows (even if they get uploaded to Stardom World. That being said some important stuff can still happen on em, they are 'canon' compared to US house shows which aren't).
When they have bigger shows, they'll sometimes have commentary. That being said the commentary is usually Japanese.
When they have really big shows, they'll occasionally have English commentary which (as NJPW owns them nowadays) is usually provided by NJPW's commentary team.
When they have really big shows and they bring in NJPW's commentary team, they usually suck ass and make you wanna turn back to the Japanese commentary (sorta like with watching NJPW). They seem to not familiarize themselves with the product and if they know Japanese themselves they don't take the time to translate post-match promos or things wrestlers say in the ring.
That being said.. they are trying to do better. 2024 was a very big rebuilding year (NJPW assuming formal control, the booker/company founder being fired for trying to poach talent for a new promotion, the opening of said new promotion which resulted in 5-6 Stardom talents leaving for a fresh start, a new booker being installed who never booked wrestling before [but has been doing fantastic], etc). We can probably expect it to get better as time goes on, but expect it to be a slow process (they may be the #1 joshi promotion and the #3 overall in Japan but they run on an Indie budget/payroll and the economy in Japan is shit).
There are people like Merawrestling on Xitter who post translations of post-match/in-ring promos, and by the time they're uploaded to Stardom World the guy who uploads em usually has subtitles available on the videos (but said uploading can take 1-10 days depending on workload, time of the year, holidays etc). They will also post subtitled stuff for promos and whatnot on the Stardom youtube channel iirc.
So yeah kinda lol.
Well that's not too bad, I guess. Better than nothing and that's the really important stuff that needs translating anyway. Pity they're on Twitter though. Subtitles are actually fine too, so the YouTube channel might be worth a look see.
I've been wanting to look into this promotion for a long while now but apart from NJPW itself, Japanese wrestling isn't nearly as easy to find online and start anywhere as American wrestling. Same goes for Mexican wrestling actually. Lucha can be as confusing as fuck without someone telling you what's going on in English, especially chaotic AAA.
Oh trust me we're all hoping they make the jump to Bluesky. Idk if they're Japanese or elsewhere but Japan has been real slow to adopt Bluesky as an alternative, sadly. I know like 5 Japanese wrestlers using it and only 1 is active lol.
You are not wrong. 99% of my viewing is done via torrents since I have an XWT account (hence why I post a lot of recaps of Stardom like this one) and if I can catch a live show it's usually on baked.live (which also works for any of the big companies in Japan and the US, the guys who run the wrestling board on 4chan run numerous channels on Baked and will have PPV's airing live).
(If you do go down the subscription rabbithole at any point, a note and a warning: NJPW and Stardom have separate services (sadly) and probably will not be combining them anytime soon. Though they should, cause both suck and should be combined anyway lol. Cyberfight (the other big company) has their own service (Wrestle Universe) which provides access to DDT, NOAH, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling, Marigold, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling, Michinoku Pro Wrestling, and ZERO1..and maybe more idk lol, so it's much more worthwhile cost-wise, but you don't get NJPW/Stardom with them. Regardless of any of them: Do not subscribe unless it's the first few days or so of the month. Japanese subscriptions go 1st-to-1st, so if you subscribe February 25th for example, you'll pay a full month for 3 days service and then pay again for a full month on March 1st lol.)
God fuck AAA and fuck Konnan lmao. I don't watch much Lucha (for the reasons you mentioned lol) tho the shows always seem fun as well, and I love seeing a big show in Arena Mexico.
Ah yeah I assumed the good wrestling torrents were probably locked behind a registration somewhere. I barely ever see wrestling torrents on standard sites and when they do exist, the seeding is poor. My go to through the years has usually been the watchwrestling websites, but they seem to only ever deal in WWE, AEW, TNA, ROH and NJPW. I found a steam for this Stardom show in yandex search results (it's basically better than any other mainstream search engine for pirate shit) but still, not my preferred route.
And fuck Vampiro too lol. Say what you will about Matt Striker, the guy had to do two commentators jobs when he was working with Vampiro because all you could get out of the guy was burps, farts and hot takes like "I dunno man, it's just pro wrestling". Lucha Underground was good in spite of him.
Yeah definitely use baked.live for the next live show, they'll just about always have em up. At worst for some huge shows if they get mass pulldowns of the streams they'll enable a protected mode where you gotta pay a subscription to access it, but even during Wrestle Kingdom this year that didn't end up happening, so it's not too often it happens.
Gods that was such shit, never seen someone that washed in regards to commentating in a long time lol. Look at him and it's hard to remember its the same guy who I used to watch in corpse paint on Nitro.
Yeah, sadly the pro wrestling lifestyle seems to fuck these guys up properly more often than not. I never actually saw Vampiro in his heyday but he strikes me as the kind of madman that did a lot of head related offense lol.
We actually never got WCW in my country I'm pretty sure until the Monday night wars were over and Vince already owned it. If I'm remembering correctly, we got it on TV around the time the invasion was already going on in WWE. And it wasn't on TV for very long either. From what I can tell, WWF/E had already won the war outside of the USA and beat WCW to those markets. On that note, I wouldn't mind finding and checking out old ECW shows, another important part of history I missed here.
Thanks for the new website to add to my bookmarks! Honestly the timezone usually kills me, which is why I watch the next day normally, but maybe Japanese time will be kinder to me than US timezones. And it's worth having a near all nighter for the occasional show sometimes.
Definitely. Plus there will be some variance. I've seen Stardom/NJPW shows start as early as 2am EST, I've seen em start as late as 5am EST (not sure why the difference).