Beyond the Ring

Magazines & Media

Weekly magazines, match programs, newspaper coverage, and broadcast guides gave fans a way to study puroresu beyond the live show.

Japanese wrestling magazine cover featuring Antonio Inoki
01

Weekly Pro Wrestling

Weekly Pro Wrestling helped frame match results, interviews, photos, touring angles, and long-running promotional narratives as a continuous national conversation.

02

Weekly Gong

Weekly Gong and similar magazines gave fans another angle on the same scene, with cover stories, photo spreads, and rankings that made the business feel trackable.

03

Programs

Event programs preserve lineups, sponsor context, venue identity, and promotional design choices that can disappear when a match is remembered only by the bell time.

04

Broadcast Guides

Television listings, magazine previews, and results columns shaped how fans found matches before searchable video platforms made discovery feel automatic.