The Eastern Lariat is back with a jam packed episode that starts with the joshi awards as voted by the users of puroresuspirit.net and a look at how the joshi companies in Japan closed out 2016. From there the two briefly discuss Takaaki Kidani's plans of opening up New Japan office in the United States. With New Japan and WWE seeking new business opportunities on foreign shores, STRIGGA & Dylan fantasy book a WWE Japan Championship tournament that includes both legends and rising stars of the world of japanese wrestling while closing the episode like it started: Going through another set of awards.