{"id":49061,"date":"2022-11-22T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49061"},"modified":"2022-11-22T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T03:24:28","slug":"kairi-and-the-long-overdue-iwgp-womens-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49061","title":{"rendered":"Kairi, and the long overdue IWGP Women\u2019s Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I heard the news that KAIRI (FKA. Sane) had become the first-ever IWGP Women\u2019s Champion, I was both pleased and disappointed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I liked Kairi Sane when she was a part of the WWE; she really captured the imaginations of those who watched her rise in NXT through the Mae Young Classic (which they really should consider doing again), and I enjoyed her development into the main roster where she formed an entertaining team with Asuka.\u00a0 She could work and had charisma, and I was disappointed when it was revealed that she did not re-sign with the WWE, but understandable given the circumstances of her wanting to go back to Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, I\u2019m happy for her that she\u2019s the inaugural IWGP Women\u2019s Champion because I always liked KAIRI, and I think she deserves it.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, at the same time, I\u2019m perplexed and mostly disappointed in the fact that in 2022, is when New Japan Pro Wrestling had finally decided to create an IWGP Women\u2019s Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, NJPW never really had a women\u2019s division at all, often outsourcing their need for women talent mostly to Stardom, but as the rest of the world continued turning, NJPW remained in the Bronze Age as far as gender equality went.\u00a0 Which is doubly ironic, because Japan is home to such a deep well of female talent, both Japanese and foreigner alike, with most of the latter ex-pats coming to Japan on their own fruition as it\u2019s known to be such a robust scene to grow as performers.<\/span><\/p>\n

For as much of the weebs of the world think that Japan is this magical culture that can do no wrong, the fact that there\u2019s never been an IWGP Women\u2019s Championship until now is just a little microcosm of where they as a culture truly are behind the times.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not even just about wrestling, it\u2019s the simple fact that as culture, Japan is still extremely misogynistic.\u00a0 Sure, they\u2019re no draconian Sharia law country, but they\u2019re still a hundred years behind the United States, and we frankly are mediocre at just about everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I\u2019m pleased with KAIRI becoming a champion once again, but it really is kind of pathetic that it\u2019s taken this long for NJPW to even have something of a women\u2019s championship in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I heard the news that KAIRI (FKA. Sane) had become the first-ever IWGP Women\u2019s Champion, I was both pleased and disappointed. I liked Kairi Sane when she was a part of the WWE; she really captured the imaginations of those who watched her rise in NXT through the Mae Young Classic (which they really … Continue reading Kairi, and the long overdue IWGP Women\u2019s Championship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,190,54,49,55],"class_list":["post-49061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-white-people","tag-wrestling","tag-wtf","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49063,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49061\/revisions\/49063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}