Happy New Year from Manga Pro-Wrestling!

May you be blessed
with the power to unleash your full potential
and lead your life to a better path.

HAVE A POWERFUL 2023!

Happy New Year from Manga Pro-Wrestling!

May you be blessed with
radical love, peace, and strength
as we wrestle with the challenges
that await us in 2022.

HAVE A RADICAL 2022!

Alternative versions

Manga Pro-Wrestling wishes you peace, love, and strength in the new year.

May you be blessed with
physical, emotional, and mental strength
as we wrestle with the challenges
that await us in 2021.

HAVE A STRONG 2021!

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Extra Notes:

The year 2020 was a stunning year for all of us, but for all the wrong reasons. The global pandemic has changed the lives of virtually everyone in this world.

Many have wished for the end of the year 2020, but the end of 2020 does not mean the end of the battle that we had to face in this difficult year. The battle will continue in 2021, and its impact will continue to be felt in the years to come. That is why my wish for the new year is for everyone to be strong.

In making this piece, I originally conceptualized it using a move that had the word “strong” in it, similar to the manner I conceptualized my past New Year’s Day greetings. However, the untimely death of AEW star Brodie Lee (also known as WWE’s Luke Harper) led me to redraw an old lariat illustration I had to make it resemble his signature move, the discus lariat.

My reason for changing it is that Brodie Lee’s death and its impact to people in the past few days helps me understand further my wish for “a strong 2021”. He was a strong wrestler whom we did not expect to go down with a disease at his prime, much less die from it. One could just imagine how much he tried to be strong in dealing with this for his family, and how his family had been strong for him as well. e learned in the past few days how much he loved everyone around him and how people have sought each other’s strengths in processing their grief over his death.

Many people have had similar experiences in 2020. So many lives were lost, and so many lives were changed. All we can do at this point is to be strong. That is what I hope people will be able to do as we start a new and uncertain year.

May you be blessed with physical, emotional, and mental strength, as we wrestle with the challenges that await us in 2021.

HAVE A STRONG 2021.