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Ditch posted:You are a very deceptive person. It's a tag: Who the hell is Kono?
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BigRed0427 posted:We were watching a 666 show on Synctube and I really wanna see more. Can anyone tell me where to look? I really wanna know what happened to the SKB guy(the fireworks suicide jacket guy). If Great Kojika has to come out and tell you to settle the gently caress down, you're probably not long for the world. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_CRAZY_SKB
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HulkaMatt posted:Frye vs. Takayama in 2013 AJPW. Those poor guys are going to have to do that spot again.
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Just got front row tickets for this in London in June. Liger's first match in the UK in 20 years apparently.
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gently caress, he was probably Sammy Lee back then.
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Prince Devitt should become Jushin Liger II. Or Super Liger II.
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Domalom posted:Just got front row tickets for this in London in June. Lucky bastards. I'm loving jealous.
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Thauros posted:Lucky bastards. I'm loving jealous. I just did the math. It would be ~$3000 to put my rear end into a seat for that show. I think I'll get the DVD.
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quote:All Japan Pro-Wrestling will be undergoing a change going forward from today as it has been announced that they will be undergoing a change of ownership. Nobuo Shiraishi [40] of Speed Partners has acquired 100% of the All Japan’s shares and will be owner and President of All Japan as of a corporate restructuring that will take place as of November 1, 2013. I don't have a single clue what Speed Partners Co., Ltd. do but it sounds so far like good news?
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Anyone investing in puroresu is nuts. That said, AJ has stabilized, so it's not TOTALLY bonkers like it would have been.KungFu Grip posted:Who the hell is Kono?
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Didn't NJPW's current resurgence pretty much start with their sale to that CCG company?
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Thauros posted:Didn't NJPW's current resurgence pretty much start with their sale to that CCG company? Yeah, they poured money and support into the company so it could get its poo poo together. It helped though that the head of Bushiroad is a huge wrestling nerd, I don't know whether AJPW is going to have that bonus.
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Domalom posted:Just got front row tickets for this in London in June. So nice of them to use publicity shots done in ludicrously different lighting, and then not touch them up when they wanted to use them together.
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Wazzu posted:So nice of them to use publicity shots done in ludicrously different lighting, and then not touch them up when they wanted to use them together. Devitt is really that pale.
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Domalom posted:Just got front row tickets for this in London in June. loving A. Would you say it's even worth it to pay £50 for a front row seat when you can get third row for nearly half the price? Just debating it.
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AJPW Purchased:quote:The Japanese corporation Speed Partners purchased 100% of the stock of All Japan Pro Wrestling, and will be forming two separate companies to handle both the wrestling and merchandising end.
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If you're interested, here's their corporate web page: http://www.speedpartners.com/index.html It looks awful generic, and the stuff they're in business with is really...eclectic. But that's the name. Here's a Japanese blog link on the purchase, apparently Shiraishi has come out guns blazing. Highlights include AJPW overtaking NJPW within a year, getting national TV broadcasting (terrestrial as opposed to satellite), holding their own Tokyo Dome show and a four-dome tour as well. The buyout is reported at only 200 million yen, which is juuuuust over $2 million 
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grats you just bought a tape library. I don't see how they're going to overtake NJPW in a year when NJPW actually has something resembling a global strategy in place.
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AJPW saying they're going to overtake NJPW just reeks of TNA when they started out and tried to take on WWE head to head.
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All we need is a Tokyo Dome show
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All Japan doesn't seem like it has many new, exciting young stars. Of course they've got Mutoh and Kaz Hayashi and Akebono but what do they offer in terms of build a future? There are a dozen guys in New Japan that are both >35 and have very bright futures.
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Gotta figure they're going to make a grab for the NOAH freelancers but getting a bunch of old dudes and Go Shiozaki is a really TNA move.
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weekly font posted:Gotta figure they're going to make a grab for the NOAH freelancers but getting a bunch of old dudes and Go Shiozaki is a really TNA move.
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All Japan has some pretty good young talent actually, but they're no where near capable of doing a DOME show. They had probably the second best show of the year last year but it fell out of a lot of peoples minds because they just kind of... didn't do anything else exciting the rest of the year.
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weekly font posted:Gotta figure they're going to make a grab for the NOAH freelancers but getting a bunch of old dudes and Go Shiozaki is a really TNA move. Mid 30's isn't really old. I don't really see anything wrong with bringing those guys in, especially now that they can afford them.
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MassRayPer posted:Mid 30's isn't really old. I don't really see anything wrong with bringing those guys in, especially now that they can afford them. Most wrestlers usually hit their strides around that age anyway. Really an anomaly in athletics.
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HulkaMatt posted:All Japan has some pretty good young talent actually, but they're no where near capable of doing a DOME show. They had probably the second best show of the year last year but it fell out of a lot of peoples minds because they just kind of... didn't do anything else exciting the rest of the year. oh yeah, when I was reading the article and translation I thought "welp." Brash but probably just a lot of bluster.
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I know NOAH hasn't been able to draw and lost a bunch of top guys, but how bad is AJPW's current state? The only recent AJPW I've seen is that joint show they did with NJPW last year, but I didn't think they were that far behind their rival.
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Thauros posted:I know NOAH hasn't been able to draw and lost a bunch of top guys, but how bad is AJPW's current state? The only recent AJPW I've seen is that joint show they did with NJPW last year, but I didn't think they were that far behind their rival. Meltzer was reporting just a few weeks ago that they couldn't afford to bring in the NOAH refugees for every show, so it was pretty bad. It's not like Aoki commands top dollar. I also can't believe Aoki is 35, it seems like only yesterday he was in a trial series.
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It's because he was in his late 20s when he debuted.
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AJ, like NJ, was in a long slide. They stabilized while also cutting talent costs (like NJ). NOAH never stopped sliding. Don't think a failure to sign 5 guys as a package on the drop of a hat is an indication of weakness though. Unless we're going by the Monday Night Wars standards where a wrestling promotion has a boatload of cash behind it ready to go at a moment's notice.
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SMASH, Tajiri's defunct company now has an iPhone App. https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/smash-channel/id596337240 I have no idea what's on it yet. It's either just a YouTube app that just plays what they've uploaded to YT or it's all their shows.
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A Cageside Seats anecdote claims that when Suwama got on the mic to ask where Shiozaki was, it was a shoot in the sense that he hadn't gotten the news that only part of the former NOAH guys were being booked regularly.
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 The after-math of Kenny Omega vs Michael NAKAZAWA from the recent DDT show, for their Heavyweight Title. I never expected either man to ever be in a bloody match, but they both look like they've been through hell.
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While watching Tanaka vs Awesome from Heatwave 98, I decided to look up Tanaka on NJPW's profile page from his wiki article.... Jesus, Tanaka looks like hell. That feud really took it out of him, or he has a BAD painkiller problem.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:While watching Tanaka vs Awesome from Heatwave 98, I decided to look up Tanaka on NJPW's profile page from his wiki article....
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Do you mean the weight loss? He got shoulder surgery in 2006 and dropped a ton of muscle when he returned. In the process he revived his career.
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Flameingblack posted:I never expected either man to ever be in a bloody match, but they both look like they've been through hell.
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Illinois Smith posted:KO-D Openweight title matches are fun because even the guys who are known for comedy / weirdness usually try something different. There was a Dino / Honda main event from last year where the focus was on punches to the face and blood, with minimal Dino antics.
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