Post by Shining Road Review on May 25, 2017 17:27:19 GMT -5
- THE SHINING ROAD REVIEW -
Overview
The Shining Road Review serves as the primarily English-language platform the news and analysis of the Pollobucket-owned Japanese professional wrestling company, Shining Road Pro-Wrestling. First airing on 6 May 2017 from a studio in downtown Yokohama, the Review airs Saturday night locally in Japan. Lion's Road Pro-Wrestling - the sister federation to Shining Road - typically uploads the Review to their website by Sunday evening. However, special events will often be simulcast live and on location.
The show format typically features the two lead broadcasters, Solomon Bentley and Kai Harrison, breaking down and discussion the action from that week in Shining Road. The show occasionally features interviews with members of the roster as well as freelancers - typically these are non-native fighters - to discuss the goings on in the company. The live shows also at times feature full-length matches with commentary provided by the English-language color commentary team of Tim Floss and Albert Mordecai.
At the end of show, Kai Harrison will usually give out the Fighting Spirit Award for the wrestler who that week fought with the most heart and effort. Thus, this award does not always go to the winner of a match but the wrestler who displayed the most grit and toughness.
The Review Team
The Shining Road Review serves as the primarily English-language platform the news and analysis of the Pollobucket-owned Japanese professional wrestling company, Shining Road Pro-Wrestling. First airing on 6 May 2017 from a studio in downtown Yokohama, the Review airs Saturday night locally in Japan. Lion's Road Pro-Wrestling - the sister federation to Shining Road - typically uploads the Review to their website by Sunday evening. However, special events will often be simulcast live and on location.
The show format typically features the two lead broadcasters, Solomon Bentley and Kai Harrison, breaking down and discussion the action from that week in Shining Road. The show occasionally features interviews with members of the roster as well as freelancers - typically these are non-native fighters - to discuss the goings on in the company. The live shows also at times feature full-length matches with commentary provided by the English-language color commentary team of Tim Floss and Albert Mordecai.
At the end of show, Kai Harrison will usually give out the Fighting Spirit Award for the wrestler who that week fought with the most heart and effort. Thus, this award does not always go to the winner of a match but the wrestler who displayed the most grit and toughness.
The Review Team
Solomon Bentley is a 41 year old broadcaster who fell in love with Japanese pro-wrestling while studying abroad in Fukuoka as an undergraduate at Syracuse University. Graduating with a double-major in journalism and communication, he spent the next five years at a news outlet in Las Vegas, Nevada covering boxing that would enable him to visit the world's most famous arenas, such as Madison Square Garden, Arena México, York Hall, and the Tokyo Dome. Covering the fight game eventually brought him to Japan where he covered Judo, Kickboxing, and Vale Tudo events throughout the country. He signed on with Shining Road in April 2017. Although earnest, he has a whimsical sense of humor at times, as he likes to joke that he joined the Review because of the studio's location only a five minute walk from the Yokohama Rāmen museum.
Kai Harrison is a 38 year old pro-wrestling analyst who works alongside Solomon Bentley. The son of an American soccer player turned corporate executive and his Japanese mother, he is fluent in Japanese and English, speaking the latter with virtually no accent despite being raised exclusively in Chiba. After studying Judo during his university days, he embarked on a fifteen year career in pro-wrestling wrestling primarily on the independent circuit. As a middleweight competitor, he became known as quite the technician but would also wrestle against high-flying types under the alias of ISHIGAME. Leaving the sport after tearing his Achilles tendon, he got into broadcasting and was signed by Shining Road Pro-Wrestling.
Tim Floss has been in the business for over 35 years and has spent most of his tenure in Canada calling matches from Vancouver to Prince Edward Island. He’s the recipient of the prestigious Nelson Award for excellence in pro-wrestling journalism. He first began a working relationship with Pollobucket when he signed on to broadcast the BLACK LION'S ROAD BOM-BA-YE New Year's Eve Festival. Months later Pollobucket called him up once more and offered him a permanent position as the lead man for the English-language booth for Shining Road Pro-Wrestling. Reluctantly leaving Canada for the first time in his life, Tim Floss has settled in and brings his folksy mannerisms and big heart to the team.
Albert Mordecai is a wrestling veteran of the 80s and 90s. He is well-known throughout the western provinces including a stint in the British Columbia based Federation MAPLE! and hosting the annual submission-wrestling epic known as the “CATCH me if you can CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN” Festival. He brings a sharp wit and isn't afraid to dish out his personal feelings during a match. He serves as a foil to the good-natured Tim Floss, often defending the underhanded tactics of heelish rogues. Ultimately, he respects anyone willing to put it all on the line. In short: real respects real.
Kai Harrison is a 38 year old pro-wrestling analyst who works alongside Solomon Bentley. The son of an American soccer player turned corporate executive and his Japanese mother, he is fluent in Japanese and English, speaking the latter with virtually no accent despite being raised exclusively in Chiba. After studying Judo during his university days, he embarked on a fifteen year career in pro-wrestling wrestling primarily on the independent circuit. As a middleweight competitor, he became known as quite the technician but would also wrestle against high-flying types under the alias of ISHIGAME. Leaving the sport after tearing his Achilles tendon, he got into broadcasting and was signed by Shining Road Pro-Wrestling.
Tim Floss has been in the business for over 35 years and has spent most of his tenure in Canada calling matches from Vancouver to Prince Edward Island. He’s the recipient of the prestigious Nelson Award for excellence in pro-wrestling journalism. He first began a working relationship with Pollobucket when he signed on to broadcast the BLACK LION'S ROAD BOM-BA-YE New Year's Eve Festival. Months later Pollobucket called him up once more and offered him a permanent position as the lead man for the English-language booth for Shining Road Pro-Wrestling. Reluctantly leaving Canada for the first time in his life, Tim Floss has settled in and brings his folksy mannerisms and big heart to the team.
Albert Mordecai is a wrestling veteran of the 80s and 90s. He is well-known throughout the western provinces including a stint in the British Columbia based Federation MAPLE! and hosting the annual submission-wrestling epic known as the “CATCH me if you can CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN” Festival. He brings a sharp wit and isn't afraid to dish out his personal feelings during a match. He serves as a foil to the good-natured Tim Floss, often defending the underhanded tactics of heelish rogues. Ultimately, he respects anyone willing to put it all on the line. In short: real respects real.
Sue Tsuboi, more affectionately known on the Review Team as "Sue2" by the Review Team and on social media serves as the backstage workhorse of the Team. She has an uncanny ability to lead her camera crew right into the thick of the action. Fluent in Japanese, English, and Mandarin, she can communicate with almost anyone and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the pro-wrestling scene in East Asia. The Review Team often bring her into the studio for her unique take on the state of pro-wrestling in the world.