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Chris James 2 posted:Redesigned Open the Dream Gate title looks good imo thank god they kept the cool key gimmick.
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Does NOAH have little to no interference (think Bullet Club shenanigans) in their booking? I feel like I need a palette cleanser from all the nasty things that Bullet Club has been doing of late in NJPW. (I already have a WRESTLE UNIVERSE sub, I'm just looking for more reasons to get into NOAH more)
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Schneider Heim posted:Does NOAH have little to no interference (think Bullet Club shenanigans) in their booking? I feel like I need a palette cleanser from all the nasty things that Bullet Club has been doing of late in NJPW. I don't think NOAH has had any real interference spots since Hooligans broke up at the beginning of last year.
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Chris James 2 posted:Redesigned Open the Dream Gate title looks good imo Speaking of the Dream Gate, people should defintely watch the Eita/Doi Dream Gate match from Memorial Gate this morning/last night. It was extremely good, might be my favorite match of the year. Fun fact about Dragon Gate after the show With Eita's win, and Lee and Minoura capturing the Twin Gate, every champion in the company is currently under 30.
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Dimebags Brain posted:Speaking of the Dream Gate, people should defintely watch the Eita/Doi Dream Gate match from Memorial Gate this morning/last night. It was extremely good, might be my favorite match of the year. As well, Eita's the first person since YAMATO in 2010 to win a Dream Gate with their first challenge/key. There was a reason why I was so down on his chances on otvg/preview. Like how they committed to him winning it completely clean and in a style of his great 2016 run. Have to think he's going to get turned on in the cage next month though.
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i loved yammy's run in 2010. that was probably the year i felt most invested in the company. does DG have any relationship with any mexican promotions currently?
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JOHN CENA posted:i loved yammy's run in 2010. that was probably the year i felt most invested in the company. does DG have any relationship with any mexican promotions currently? Several. With Ultimo back, they restarted their relationship with IWRG (His gym was based at Arena Naucalpan). Shun and Yoshioka have been mostly working that and DTU (where Flamita was from). Which makes things interesting because Jimmy is based in the DTU splinter Lucha Libre Vanguardia (which is run by Draztick Boy, who did a ton of DG tours.) Some of that might change. IWRG seems to be getting in bed with AAA which CIMA is affiliated with, but its a healthier relationship because of Ultimo so who knows.
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Schneider Heim posted:Does NOAH have little to no interference (think Bullet Club shenanigans) in their booking? I feel like I need a palette cleanser from all the nasty things that Bullet Club has been doing of late in NJPW. Didn't notice this before but yeah, NOAH is not doing much in the way of outside interference for the year or so I've been regularly watching again. Added bonus is that a lot of their shows have been shown live and for free on Abema.tv (& free on demand for 7days before it gets uploaded to Wrestle Universe)
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King of DDT 2020 tournament starts Saturday live on Wrestle Universe with the entire 14-match first round El Lindaman vs Yukio Naya Seigo Tachibana vs Toru Owashi Danshoku Dieno vs Antonio Honda Kazusada Higuchi vs Mizuki Watase Nobuhiro Shimatani vs Yuki Ueno Daisuke Sasaki vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Shunma Katsumata vs Yukio Sakaguchi Mad Paulie vs HARASHIMA Yuki Iino vs Shinya Aoki Chris Brookes vs Makoto Oishi Kazuki Hirata vs T-Hawk Minoru Tanaka vs Soma Takao Konosuke Takeshita vs Naomi Yoshimura Tetsuya Endo vs Akito 
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Jeez, 14 matches on the card will be exhausting, but definitely looking forward to Endo Vs Akito
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Watched through the undercard of the NOAH show from this morning, not really much I'd say you need to go out of your way to watch. Not-RATELs-Any-Longer vs Full Throttle was a fun Junior 6 man tag if just for the extreme weirdo energy of Kotoge & YO-HEY facing off. YO-HEY is definitely someone who is much more fun with an audience around to react to his goofs. The semi-main is your NOAH Trueborns (Suzuki, Shiozaki & Kiyomiya) vs the 3 guys left who jumped from All Japan with Misawa (Ogawa, Marufuji & Sugiura) which is a pretty fitting match for a show like this on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the company's very first show (the one with the terrific Akiyama/Kobashi vs Misawa/Taue match) so it's nice to watch from that angle & there's some good stuff between Shiozaki & Marufuji to setup their title match tomorrow. Or I guess technically today. So not essential but a couple of fun little matches. Don't want to watch the main while I'm feeling so tired so I can full appreciate me some kickboys. And yeah, I know Sugiura didn't debut until in NOAH, but he was in the AJPW Dojo at least so he counts.
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forkboy84 posted:3 guys left who jumped from All Japan with Misawa (Ogawa, Marufuji & Sugiura) 
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JOHN CENA posted:im trying to figure out of shiozaki looks more or less japanese than the threshold that was deemed to be "too much" during his wwe tryout Go has looked plain for years until recently. wonder if NOAH had more plans with the National title as a gaijin belt until the virus messed that up
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Full card for the NOAH Yokohama finale show August 10 Tadasuke and YO-HEY vs Haoh and Nioh Kotaro Suzuki, Yoshinari Ogawa and Kinya Okada vs Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara and Seiki Yohioka Naomichi Marufuji, Masaaki Mochizuki and Yuko Miyamoto vs Katsuhiko Nakajima, Shuhei Taniguchi and Muhammad Yone Daisuke Harada defends the IPW:UK Junior title against HAYATA Takashi Sugiura, Kazushi Sakuraba and Kendo Kashin vs Masa Kitamiya, Manabu Soya and Yoshiki Inamura Keiji Muto vs Kaito Kiyomiya GHC Heavyweight champ Go Shiozaki vs GHC National champ Kenoh with both belts on the line, winner take all It'll air live free on Abema here https://abema.tv/channels/fighting-sports/slots/Dd3gtJdQtXgqMZ and be available to free to view on demand there for a full week after, I believe?
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KungFu Grip posted:Go has looked plain for years until recently. I dunno, it's not really that heavy a foreigner promotion at the mo. And even during Sugiura's reign the only foreigner involved was Elgin in the very first match for the title. I'm trying to think what gaijin they regularly used last year and Chris Ridgeway is a Junior, they were maybe starting to use Elgin on bigger shows, El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. Was in Japan for most of lockdown. Dragon Bane and his brother are Juniors. The National belt always felt kind of weird but I'm glad it exists because we've had 3 strong champs and a lot of good or better matches. Like Nakajima vs Kenoh. God I loved that match forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Aug 6, 2020 |
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Kendo Kashin is super weird and much more enjoyable than I remember him being. He's coming out on night 2 of Departure and immediately goes for a barrier and then he pushes a young boy violently off the apron so he can hold the ropes open for Sugiura. And Sugiura loving hates it 
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Chris James 2 posted:NOAH going the double-champs route too This is going to rule so much. I mean I'm conflicted about both belts being on the line because it's sure not worked in New Japan but just as a match itself? I think Go is a little lower down on Kenoh's best opponents (in no order the top 3 is Nakajima, Sugiura & Kiyamiya imo) but they had a great match in the 2017 Global League finals & can hopefully replicate that on Monday.
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Your weekly Puro watching schedule 8/8/2020, Saturday 11:30am JST/3:30am BST/10:30pm EST/7pm PST Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix Night 1 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Red Stars Starlight Kid vs DEATH Yama-san Konami vs Saya Kamitani Tam Nakano vs Himeka Mayu Iwatani vs Giulia Blue Stars AZM vs Saki Kashima Momo Watanabe vs Maika Natsuko Tora vs Syuri Utami Hayashishita vs Jungle Kyona Uploaded to Stardom World eventually 12pm JST/4am BST/11pm EST/8pm PST Tokyo Joshi Pro Tokyo Princess Cup 1st Round Kanda Myojin Hall, Tokyo Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1A: Yuka Sakazaki Vs Nodoka Tenma Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1B: Miyu Yamashita Vs Raku Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1C: Natsumi Maki Vs Mina Shirakawa Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1D: Maki Itoh Vs Himawari Unagi Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1E: Haruna Neko Vs Suzume Live on Wrestle Universe 5pm JST/9am BST/4am EST/1am PST DDT King of DDT 1st Round Kanda Myojin Hall, Tokyo King Of DDT 2020 Round 1M: El Lindaman Vs Yukio Naya King Of DDT 2020 Round 1G: Seigo Tachibana Vs Toru Owashi King Of DDT 2020 Round 1B: Danshoku Dieno Vs Antonio Honda King Of DDT 2020 Round 1L: Kazusada Higuchi Vs Mizuki Watase King Of DDT 2020 Round 1A: Nobuhiro Shimatani Vs Yuki Ueno King Of DDT 2020 Round 1E: Daisuke Sasaki Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga King Of DDT 2020 Round 1I: Shunma Katsumata & Yukio Sakaguchi King Of DDT 2020 Round 1K: Mad Paulie Vs HARASHIMA King Of DDT 2020 Round 1F: Yuki Iino Vs Shinya Aoki King Of DDT 2020 Round 1D: Chris Brookes Vs Makoto Oishi King Of DDT 2020 Round 1C: Kazuki Hirata Vs T-Hawk King Of DDT 2020 Round 1J: Minoru Tanaka Vs Soma Takao King Of DDT 2020 Round 1N: Konosuke Takeshita Vs Naomi Yoshimura King Of DDT 2020 Round 1H: Tetsuya Endo Vs Akito Live on Wrestle Universe 6pm JST/10am BST/5am EST/2am PST Dragon Gate The Gate of Adventure KBS Hall, Kyoto Punch Tominaga & Ho Ho Lun vs. Jimmy & Madoka Kikuta Ultimo Dragon & Masato Yoshino & Ryo Saito vs. Ben-K & Strong Machine J & Dragon Dia Kzy vs. Taketo Kamei Eita vs. Yosuke♡Santa Maria YAMATO & KAI vs. BxB Hulk & Big R Shimizu Dragon Kid & Shuji Kondo & Yasushi Kanda vs. Kaito Ishida & Diamante & Kazma Sakamoto Naruki Doi & Susumu Yokosuka & Kagetora vs. Keisuke Okuda & Kota Minoura & Jason Lee Live on DG Network 6:30pm JST/10:30am BST/5:30am EST/2:30am PST NJPW Summer Struggle Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Card tba Live on NJPW World 9/8/2020, Sunday 10am JST/2am BST/9pm EST/6pm PST Gatoh Move ChocoPro 39 Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo Card tba Live on Youtube FOR FREE 11:30am JST/3:30am BST/10:30pm EST/7pm PST Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix Night 2 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Red Stars Mayu Iwatani vs Starlight Kid Tam Nakano vs Konami Giulia vs Himeka Blue Stars Saki Kashima vs Maika Utami Hayashishita vs Natsuko Tora Jungle Kyona vs Syuri Momo Watanabe vs AZM Uploaded to Stardom World eventually 12pm JST/4am BST/11pm EST/8pm PST Tokyo Joshi Pro Tokyo Princess Cup Kanda Myojin Hall, Tokyo Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2A: Miu Watanabe Vs Mirai Maiumi Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2B: Rika Tatsumi Vs Yuki Aino Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2C: Yuki Kamifuku Vs Winner Of Match 1D Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2D: Mizuki Vs Winner Of Match 1E Live on Wrestle Universe 5pm JST/9am BST/4am EST/1am PST DDT King of DDT 2nd Round Kanda Myojin Hall, Tokyo 1. 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Champion Carnival dates: 12th September ( Sat ) 18:00 Aichi/Nagoya International Congress Center [ Opening Round ] 13 September ( Sun ) 17:00 Kanagawa/Cults Kawasaki 15 September ( Tuesday ) 18:30 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo 21 September ( Mon ) 11:30 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo 26 September Sat ) 18:00 Kanagawa/Odawara Arena ( Sub Arena ) 5 October( Mon ) 18:30 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo [ winning match ] Field to be announced on Youtube in about 10 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ePh6q409c A Block Suwama Zeus Jake Lee Kuma Arashi Jiro Kuroshio B Block Kento Miyahara Shuji Ishikawa Yoshitatsu Yuma Aoyagi Shotaro Ashino forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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JOHN CENA posted:i think if jake is gonna be a long term torch bearer he prolly needs this CC and a win over big bad monster dad suwama in the field. TBH I thought that passed when Kento beat Jake in that great match on January 3rd. He's 1-9 in singles matches against Miyahara but I suppose he's only 0-3 in Triple Crown matches & there's not a lot of other obvious young HW talent besides Nomura who is obviously hurt. Schneider Heim posted:Wait there is an AJPW wrestler whose name is literally Bear Storm? Sweet. He was actually a Wrestle 1 guy, trained by Mutoh & I assume Kaz Hayashi there and has only turned up in NJPW after they closed in April. He's a big beefy lad. Not enough body hair to be a true bear though. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ajpw/comments/i4ujux/every_ajpw_triple_crown_match_ever_minus_2/ Someone uploaded all the Triple Crown matches bar 2 to Daily Motion so that's something to kill time with
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Chris James 2 posted:New stipulation just added to the 9/21 Dragon Gate cage match probably the most legible way of making sense of it. https://twitter.com/Cboz_1020/status/1292612994736758790?s=20 also this is what the rookie gimmick big r has to return to, it's based off a manga/anime. very charming. https://twitter.com/openvoicegate/status/1292598791879696385
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