on hiatus, will be back xoxo

The pose they all did at the end of the show is called the "Sushi Zanmai" pose. For a while Chaos was doing this pose after group or tag victories, especially Goto and Yoshi-Hashi. I think (?) it was because Sushi Zanmai was sponsoring New Japan back then, but I'm not going to look it up to double-check. They got very enthusiastic about it, and it was very funny.

Sushi Zanmai is a popular sushi chain in Japan. The founder's "Sushi Zanmai Pose" became a meme in Japan. There are statues of him doing the pose in front of the restaurants, you can get toys of him doing the pose in gachapon machines, he had a cameo in one of the Yakuza games, and so on.

In real life he tends to do this pose in front of giant and impressive tunas.

Which is what Douki and Sho are supposed to represent here!

Thanks to Robbie’s choice, you can now watch one of my favourite matches on YouTube: Robbie Eagles vs El Phantasmo at BOSJ 29

Robbie’s own words about the feud:

everybody: celebrating

chris & zack: 😚😚