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if this was in WWE they would have stared at each other and then locked up
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# ? May 21, 2024 15:04 |
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Kaito has lost his poo poo lmao
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 12:24 |
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this is so good I hope Kenoh never recovers
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 12:25 |
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nuts Kenoh got a shot in I was hoping that there would be zero aggression
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 12:28 |
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Guys, I'm worried that Kenoh might be in a bad mood now!
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 12:47 |
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Kaito was going nuts in that match. Need more of that Kaito.
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:As someone who doesn’t watch much NOAH, how hyped should I be about seeing Seiki Yoshioka next week? He's been doing matches in AJPW and is a decent worker. He does a really cool jumping axe kick.
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Christ but time flies. Feels like only yesterday I was writing up last weeks schedule, but alas, here is another one. Not exactly a week filled with the biggest matches, the weekend in particular is a bit on the thin side, with both Dragongate & Stardom not even having up lineups for their Sunday shows (Stardom at least put up one for their Saturday show this morning, wasn't there 16 hours ago). The big show on Sunday is probably Sendai Girls in Korakuen, which is a PPV and so I have no idea how that impacts any potential Wrestle Universe upload. I do know that in the past PPV matches don't always make it onto the Sendai Girls Youtube channel Other than that there's a weird Stronghearts produce show from GLEAT. The week at least has some consequential stuff, Evolution are back, GLEAT bring back the LIDET UWF show, which is a much needed treat, their original strength was the variety of the show, rather than just being a less good Dragongate. The Champion Carnival opens up at Korakuen Hall with Ren Ayabe facing off against Kento & Hokuto Omori vs Shotaro Ashino in my pick of the show. And then on Friday we have the unpredictable craziness of a Hyper Misao produce show that won't feature Hyper Misao because she's hurt. Also, talking of injuries, was checking Dramatic DDT & they had some injury news: apparently Hideki Okatani had been working with an ACL tear so he'll be out for a while. On the bright side, both Keigo Nakamura & Yuki Ishida are expected back from their injuries over the next month. 13/4/2024, Saturday 12:30pm JST/2:30pm AEDT/4:30am BST/11:30pm EDT/8:30pm PDT TJPW Live Tour Spring Night 4 Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo Uta Takami vs Yuki Kamifuku Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo vs Mizuki & Nao Kakuta Chika Nanase, Raku & Rika Tatsumi vs Kira Summer, Mahiro Kiryu & Toga Arisu Endo, Miu Watanabe & Suzume vs HIMAWARI, Shoko Nakajima & Wakana Uehara Juria Nagano vs Moka Miyamoto Juria Nagano, Kaya Toribami & Moka Miyamoto vs Pom Harajuku, Shino Suzuki & Yuki Aino Live on Wrestle Universe 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/5am BST/12am EDT/9pm PDT Stardom In Numazu Kiramesse Numazu Multipurpose Hall, Numazu Lady C vs Ranna Yagami Fukigen Death vs Rian Aya Sakura, Sayaka Kurara & Yuna Mizumori vs God's Eye (Ami Sourei, Saki Kashima & Syuri) Crazy Star (Mei Seira & Suzu Suzuki) & Queen's Quest (Miyu Amasaki & Saya Kamitani) vs STARS (Hazuki, Koguma, Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo) Empress Nexus Venus (Maika, Waka Tsukiyama & Xena) vs Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Natsuko Tora & Ruaka) Cosmic Angels (Natsupoi & Tam Nakano) vs STARS (Hanan & Saya Iida) Uploaded to Stardom World at some unknown point 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/9am BST/4am EDT/1am PDT DDT Dramatic Dream Tour 2024 In Fukuoka Nishitetsu Hall, Fukuoka Danshoku Dieno & Sanshiro Takagi vs Kazuma Sumi & Toru Owashi Kazuki Hirata & Soma Takao vs To-y & Yukio Naya Burning (Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku) vs Schadenfreude Intl. (Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada) & Tomomitsu Matsunaga Damnation TA (Daisuke Sasaki & KANON) vs Jun Akiyama & Rukiya O-40 Title: Azul Dragon vs Makoto Oishi 37KAMIINA (MAO, Shunma Katsumata & Yuki Ueno) vs Akito, HARASHIMA & Kota Umeda) Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT Gatoh Move Road To Korakuen Challengers Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo Choun Shiryu & Yoneyamakao vs Erii Kanae & Hoshitango Antonio Honda, Mochi Natsumi & Tokiko Kirihara vs Chie Koishikawa, Sayaka & Yuko Sakurai Baliyan Akki vs Shuichiro Katsumura Mizuki vs Sayaka Obihiro Black Menso-re & Sawasdee Kamen vs Emi Sakura & Masahiro Takanashi Mei Suruga vs SAKI Uploaded to Youtube later Also shows from Kyushu Pro, Ice Ribbon, BJW, Osaka Pro, Dragongate, Secret Base & Heat-Up 14/4/2024, Sunday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/3:30am BST/10:30pm EDT/7:30pm PDT Sendai Girls In Korakuen Korakuen Hall, Tokyo YUNA vs Yura Suzuki Miyuki Takase vs Sakura Hirota Chi Chi, Hiroyo Matsumoto & ZONES vs Manami, Ryo Mizunami & Saori Anou Sareee vs Yurika Oka Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana vs Team 200kg (Chihiro Hashimoto & Yuu) Hardcore Match: DASH Chisako vs Unagi Sayaka Sendai Girls World Title: Mika Iwata(c) vs VENY Live PPV on Zaiko. Hopefully uploaded to Wrestle Universe later 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/5am BST/12am EDT/9pm PDT Dragongate Gate of Passion Show 2 ACROS, Fukuoka Card TBA Live on Dragongate Network Pro Wrestling NOAH Sunny Voyage Show 21 Shinagawa Prince Hotel Club eX, Tokyo Ulka Sasaki vs Yu Owada Junta Miyawaki vs Kenoh Atsushi Kotoge vs Jake Lee Alejandro vs El Hijo del Dr Wagner Jr Naomichi Marufuji vs Ryohei Oiwa Kaito Kiyomiya vs Shuji Kondo Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe Stardom in Hamamatsu Act City, Hamamatsu Card TBA Uploaded to Stardom World at some unknown point 2pm JST/4pm AEDT/6am BST/1am EDT/10pm PDT DDT Shibushi Meat & Fish Battle @ Unagi Station "Unagi Station" Special Venue, Shibushi Danshoku Dieno vs Kazuma Sumi Damnation TA (Daisuke Sasaki & KANON) vs Kazuki Hirata & Yukio Naya Jun Akiyama & Sanshiro Takagi vs Takeshi Masada & Rukiya 37KAMIINA (MAO, To-y & Yuki Ueno) vs Burning (Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku) Yamada Suisan Fish Army vs Maruto Poultry Chicken Army Final Showdown!: Chris "The Falcon" Brookes, Makoto "Mr Chicken" Oishi & Shunma "El Turkey" Katsumata vs Shishamo Power, Super Unagi Mask & Unagi Mask Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe GLEAT STRONGHEARTS presents Action Daimao Stella Hall, Osaka Go Miyake vs Hayato Tamura BGI (Kaito Ishida & Tetsuya Izuchi) vs Koji Iwamoto & Seichi Ikemoto Beauty Kawakami & Shiigeko DX vs Hartley Jaiko & Michigoro KAZMA SAKAMOTO vs Yukimitsu Takahashi Kuma Arashi & Quiet Storm vs Magnitude Kishiwada & Seiki Yoshioka Issei Onitsuka vs Takehiro Yamamura CIRruMA, Shiryu & Tanaka Minoryu vs Pegaso Iluminar, Ramen Taisho & Tonsho Iluminar El Lindaman vs T-Hawk Almost certainly live on their Youtube, but otherwise uploaded later in the week Tokyo Joshi Pro Gaisenzakura Pro Wrestling Shinjo Village Outdoor Ring, Shinjo Mizuki vs Pom Harajuku Haru Kazashiro vs Miu Watanabe Arisu Endo & Mahiro Kiryu vs Nao Kakuta & Rika Tatsumi Aja Kongo & Raku vs Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/9am BST/4am EDT/1am PDT Dragongate Gate of Passion Show 3 ACROS, Fukuoka Card TBA Live on Dragongate Network 5:30pm JST/7:30pm AEDT/9:30am BST/4:30am EDT/1:30am PDT Pro Wrestling NOAH Sunny Voyage Show 22 Shinagawa Prince Hotel Club eX, Tokyo Kenoh vs Yu Owada Alpha Wolf vs Hajime Ohara vs Ninja Mack Daiki Inaba vs Takashi Sugiura GLG (Anthony Greene & Tadasuke) vs Team NOAH (Go Shiozaki & Hi69) Alejandro, Junta Miyawaki & Kaito Kiyomiya vs Stinger (Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa) & Ulka Sasaki Masa Kitamiya vs Ryohei Oiwa El Hijo del Dr Wagner Jr, HAYATA & Naomichi Marufuji vs GLG (Jack Morris, Jake Lee & YO-HEY) Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe Also shows from Osaka Pro, FMW-E, 2AW, BJW, Freedoms, Dotonbori Pro, JWP, Wave & Actwres girlZ 15/4/2024, Monday 7pm JST/9pm AEDT/11am BST/6am EDT/3am PDT Pro Wrestling NOAH Monday Magic Season 2 Episode 3 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo GHC Hardcore Title: Ninja Mack(c) vs Alpha Wolf GHC Tag Team Titles: GLG (Anthony Greene & Jack Morris) vs X Rest of card TBA Live on Wrestle Universe Also shows from BJW & Dragongate 16/4/2024, Tuesday 7pm JST/9pm AEDT/11am BST/6am EDT/3am PDT Evolution Vol.13 Shin-Kiba 1stRING, Tokyo Aki Shizuku & Flying Penguin vs Cherry & Riara Megumi Yabushita & Unagi Sayaka vs Momoka Hanazono & Uta Shima Daichi Sato vs Dan Tamura Ayame Sasamura vs Soy Chi Chi vs Kohaku Winner of Match 1 vs Winner Match 2 Takumi Iroha vs ZONES Possibly live on Evolution Fan Club service Also shows from BJW & Dragongate 17/4/2024, Wednesday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT GLEAT LIDET UWF Ver.4 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo UWF Rules: Tetsuya Izuchi vs Yutaka Kobayashi UWF Rules: Hartley Jackson & Kaito Kotaro Suzuki vs Hideki Shrek Sekine & Takatoshi Matsumoto UWF Rules: Maya Fukuda vs Yura Suzuki UWF Rules: Dan Tamura & Soma Watanabe vs Minoru Tanaka & Takuya Wada UWF Rules: Masakatsu Funaki vs Yu Iizuka UWF Rules: Kaz Hayashi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kendo Kashin & Minoru Suzuki UWF Rules: Hikaru Sato vs Takanori Ito Almost certainly live on their Youtube, but otherwise uploaded later in the week Also shows from BJW, 2AW & JTO 18/4/2024, Thursday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT All Japan Champion Carnival Night 1 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue vs Rising HAYATO & Seigo Tachibana Cyrus, Hideki Suzuki & MUSASHI vs Hartley Jackson, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Ryuji Hijikata Champion Carnival A Block: Davey Boy Smith Jr vs Yuma Aoyagi Champion Carnival A Block: Kento Miyahara vs Ren Ayabe Champion Carnival A Block: Hokuto Omori vs Shotaro Ashino Champion Carnival B Block: Jun Saito vs Yuma Anzai Champion Carnival B Block: Rei Saito vs Suwama Champion Carnival B Block: Road Crewe vs Ryuki Honda Match order TBC Live on AJPW TV Also shows from BJW & YMZ 19/4/2024, Friday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT TJPW Presents Hyper Misao Produce ~ Hype 2 Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo Card TBA Live on Wrestle Universe
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 16:37 |
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I've FINALLY figured out Kenoh's weird place in my brain. He has the head of a Ken doll.
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 19:13 |
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Jason Lee's new look is great. And I like the idea that he's a heel now so no longer covers up the forearm tattoo. Shun's new mask is cool too
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# ? Apr 12, 2024 01:08 |
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what the gently caress is going on with this DDT x Pro Handball Team crossover thing they were advertising on April Fool? great fuckin show btw, can't-miss main event but a super fun undercard too
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# ? Apr 12, 2024 03:20 |
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Osamu Nishimura's cancer has come back
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# ? Apr 12, 2024 18:04 |
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Yet another DDT lol https://twitter.com/misterhakusan/status/1778663726142681462
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 04:30 |
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I watch AEW weekly (pretty much dynamite only, sometimes collision, and the papes) with my son, and we pretty much love it. We’ve watched from the start and, although it has had its ups and downs, we’re enjoying it. Prior to that I was into NJPW a little bit (probably why I started watching AEW honestly) but I was never a die hard fan. I can’t stomach WWE although I watched WWF as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s and it worked for me then. I am mystified by all of the different Japanese promotions, and wonder how I might dip my toe in. All I’ve seen in the past is videos of Ibushi fighting a doll and also getting fireworks shot at him, as well as some women fighting in a tiny padded room. I’m okay with this level of variety, and don’t really require a traditional experience, which is probably why I am not attracted to NJPW right now. It seems like many of the people I enjoyed in that promotion are in AEW now anyway. A traditional setting is perfectly fine though, but it isn’t a requirement or anything. I’m concerned about not speaking or reading any Japanese at all. Ideally there would be English subtitles in something, or at least for the more important shows. Or a timely blog with some explanations. I don’t mind signing up for streaming services or whatever. What might be a good fit for something to check out that might only require an hour or two a week? This thread is long so I’m sure there are good answers to this already, so I apologize for that.
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The absolute best value for money deal you can get for Japanese wrestling is Wrestle Universe which includes a number of promotions for 1298 YEN a month (incredible value) but primarily: NOAH - The "serious" promotion, #2 behind New Japan in Japan, has its issues particularly around some baffling booking decisions at times but overall delivers very good quality and hard-hitting wrestling. DDT - The "goofy" promotion that does a ton of comedy, but usually has far more serious matches at the top of the card with some truly excellent wrestlers. This is where you will have seen stuff like wrestling a blow-up doll. TJPW - DDT's sister promotion, the second biggest women's wrestling promotion in Japan behind Stardom (which itself is arguably the 2nd biggest wrestling promotion in all of Japan) - does a mixture of comedy and serious, has some great characters, excellent wrestlers, and some of the best loving theme songs going. NOAH's big shows regularly have English commentary. DDT will also often do English commentary, though their teams mix up and range from great (anytime Chris Brookes and Baliyan Akki get together is a treat) to serviceable to not very good. TJPW sometimes but not often does English commentary. Both DDT and TJPW will often get live English translations going on Twitter, though I don't recall the specific addresses sorry - the guy who used to do TJPW regularly, Mr. Haku, moved on to other things though he does do live commentary on some of Chris Brookes' "Baka-Gaijin" Shows that also air on Wrestle Kingdom. Others can tell you more about the other promotions on the service, like Sendai Girls and Ganbare Pro, but the point is that WU is astonishingly good value for money. There's also All Japan, which was THE promotion in the 1990s and still exists today albeit with entirely different owners and is far, far smaller than its heyday. However it gets regularly talked up for the quality of its matches, and you can get a membership account there for their streaming service for (I think) 900 yen a month.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 11:53 |
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Jerusalem posted:The absolute best value for money deal you can get for Japanese wrestling is Wrestle Universe which includes a number of promotions for 1298 YEN a month (incredible value) but primarily: Thank you. I appreciate the write-up. I imagine the promotions mentioned don't have weekly shows, but more like NJPW where it might be a series of house shows, and bigger shows sometimes? I suppose a good bet would be to follow forkboy84's posts here and pick a promotion and just start watching something, huh... Do any of those mentioned above have both men/women? Or even inter-gender matches? Just curious
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 12:08 |
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DDT will have intergender matches from time to time. I advise anyone who hasn't seen it to watch the Akito / VENY single light tube death match. Ganbare will, too. But many Japanese promotions are either single gender or do not mix genders. The match in question https://youtu.be/GSrH4TuKq1I?si=AM_n8GTDNPEBt8BN
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Chinook posted:I watch AEW weekly (pretty much dynamite only, sometimes collision, and the papes) with my son, and we pretty much love it. We’ve watched from the start and, although it has had its ups and downs, we’re enjoying it. Nah, never apologise for posting! This thread dates back 18 years, only a mad person would even try to read through it! There's never been a better time to get into Japanese wrestling, in the sense that it's so affordable. Let me try to summarise this quickly to not overwhelm with information all at once. I'll try not to list them in my order of preference but more the general approachability.
There are many, many other companies, far too many to be honest, but I think those are the most approachable companies from a "I like wrestling but am intimidated by the language barrier" perspective. I love All Japan for example but I don't know how approachable they are. I'd also say that Stardom used to be quite good for having short subtitled promos before each match but they dropped that during the pandemic, it's a bit of a bummer. Excellent promotion though. Those are I think the easiest to follow. The thing I'd also say is that once you get used to things, know who the wrestlers are, don't be afraid to switch to the Japanese commentary. I speak as little Japanese as you, & when I first watched puroresu I found the language barrier to be a big sticking point. I remember watching one of the AJPW '90s matches that are highly touted and I just didn't know which one was Kawada, Taue, Misawa or Kobashi & I felt lost. But once I'd established that orange tights was Kobashi etc it all got a lot easier to care. The best thing to do honestly? A lot of stuff is available online on free Youtube-like sites. Sample things, maybe the Dragongate style isn't for you for example. I think though based on what you've said have a look at DDT & at Dragongate first of all. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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forkboy's write-up just reminded me of a couple years back when DDT did one of their empty Tokyo Dome matches, and it was teams from NOAH, DDT and TJPW wrestling throughout the building for a cash prize. When it finally got down to the last two teams and they were going at it, a representative from Tokyo Dome came over to congratulate the GM on a wonderful show and then gave him the bill for hiring the venue. The GM didn't have the money to pay it so he gave the guy the cash prize and then ran away as the show went off the air while the wrestlers were still fighting for it
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 12:52 |
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Jerusalem posted:forkboy's write-up just reminded me of a couple years back when DDT did one of their empty Tokyo Dome matches, and it was teams from NOAH, DDT and TJPW wrestling throughout the building for a cash prize. When it finally got down to the last two teams and they were going at it, a representative from Tokyo Dome came over to congratulate the GM on a wonderful show and then gave him the bill for hiring the venue. The GM didn't have the money to pay it so he gave the guy the cash prize and then ran away as the show went off the air while the wrestlers were still fighting for it I must admit that everything I'm reading so far makes me think that perhaps DDT is the promotion for me. I will check out lots of stuff on Youtube to get a feel for each of the promotions mentioned, though.
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Jerusalem posted:forkboy's write-up just reminded me of a couple years back when DDT did one of their empty Tokyo Dome matches, and it was teams from NOAH, DDT and TJPW wrestling throughout the building for a cash prize. When it finally got down to the last two teams and they were going at it, a representative from Tokyo Dome came over to congratulate the GM on a wonderful show and then gave him the bill for hiring the venue. The GM didn't have the money to pay it so he gave the guy the cash prize and then ran away as the show went off the air while the wrestlers were still fighting for it God that was wonderful. The perfect ending to what was an extremely fun match. Chinook posted:I must admit that everything I'm reading so far makes me think that perhaps DDT is the promotion for me. I will check out lots of stuff on Youtube to get a feel for each of the promotions mentioned, though. Just to make it easier for you, here's a link to the most recent Dragongate show: https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252890 It's the semi-finals & finals of their tag tournament, though there's other good stuff on there too, setting up the main event of Dead or Alive for example. I just started the video at the beginning, because you get Jae & Ho Ho talking about the card & what's happened in the tournament & the ongoing stories, but if you just want to go right to the start of the show proper then skip to about 25 minutes in, give or take a few seconds.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 13:53 |
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forkboy84 posted:God that was wonderful. The perfect ending to what was an extremely fun match. Oh wow, that "vk" site kinda has everything, doesn't it? I will watch it. Thank you for the suggestion! I'm also watching these videos, which are pretty awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuhHTjjnbxs
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 14:25 |
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DDT is great for the comedy and energy but it also has Chris Brookes and MAO who are absolutely awesome A lovely wrestling company through and through.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 14:41 |
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Is there a an easy way to watch stardom? Kind of interested after the big ROH 6 womens match.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 14:50 |
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The women wrestling in a padded room is ChocoPro/Gatoh Move (which is probably the place you'll see the most intergender) and I'll use it as an excuse to talk about Japanese women's wrestling, or Joshi, in general. Basically, in the 40s and 50s Mildred Burke went on a massive run through various countries touring women's wrestling after having made it big in America. Although American wrestling promoters managed to kill serious women's wrestling in the States, in Japan it set off a mini-boom of enthusiasm for women's wrestling. It soften in the 60s and a lot of promotions died but in the 70s, one promotion All Japan Women's Wrestling (or AJW) managed to get a tv deal and packaged a tag team as both wrestlers and pop singers which lit the fuse for a successive series of increasingly larger booms focused on the promotion until the mid 90s. The late 80s team of the Crush Girls (another wrestling/pop idol combo) was bigger in popularity than Hulk Hogan. AJW's wrestling is and was some of the very best wrestling by men or women to ever exist. AJW had very restrictive entrance requirements and rules for active wrestlers (most notably forced retirement at 26) which lead to a spate of competing promotions forming in the late 80s. These promotions started dying in the early 90s and AJW had a series of amazing inter-promotional shows culminating in the 10 hour long Big Egg Wrestling Universe in front of 32,000 fans. The Japanese economic crash and end of kayfabe hit all promotions in Japan, albeit with different effects, but AJW began to suffer the consequences of ill advised real estate ventures from its owners. They had also lost much of their female fan base that had lead to their late 80s success and a lot of their booking and locker room culture relied on there being a surplus of interested trainees willing to suffer the often brutal and humiliating effects of both. With declining profits and top stars reaching the forced retirement age, new promotions sprang up once again. Neither AJW nor its major competitors (Gaea, Arison, or the first iteration of Neo Ladies Pro-Wrestling) would survive past 2005. The years of the first decade of the Millennium are known among fans as the Joshi Dark Ages. 2000 took down Neo. In 2002, AJW lost its tv deal. Gaea and Arison closed their doors in 2003. AJW finally folded in 2005.There were signs of survival and strength though especially at the end of the decade, the second iteration of Neo Ladies was going strong as Neo Women's Wrestling, there were promotions that had managed to cling on through the 90s and 00s like JWP and Oz Academy, and the creation of ultra-local promotions like Sendai Girls. The true paradigm shift and revival came with a small training promotion called Ice Ribbon. Originally promoted as a spin off from Neo. Ice Ribbon focused on showcasing very young and green wrestlers, non traditional venues, and a pop idol aesthetic updated to the Akihabara 48 era. AEW wrestlers like Riho and Hikaru Shida came from here. Ice Ribbon proved to be economically successful with weekly shows to 70 people, it was only time before others decided to create more scaled up versions. From 2010 or so, apart from Neo and JWP folding in 2010 and 2015, there's an era of relative stability and growing interest in Joshi wrestling. And some ten to thirteen years later this stability leads to Stardom (founded 2010) becoming the number two promotion in Japan. Here's where the current Joshi scene sorts between the athletic focused AJW inspired promotions and the more AKB48-style idol Ice Ribbon inspired promotions, while acknowledging that most have some measure of influence from both.
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mariooncrack posted:Is there a an easy way to watch stardom? Kind of interested after the big ROH 6 womens match. Sign up here for 900ish yen a month https://www.stardom-world.com/
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mariooncrack posted:Is there a an easy way to watch stardom? Kind of interested after the big ROH 6 womens match. The indie wrestling group on vk has all the shows up in a timely manner, otherwise their streaming service (unfortunately separate to New Japan's despite the same parent company) only costs 920 yen a month. Chinook posted:Oh wow, that "vk" site kinda has everything, doesn't it? Big fan of vk, it let's me see all the bottom tier Japanese indies i'd have to muddle my way through nicopro to see otherwise
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 15:26 |
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lol Emi strikes again at the legacy of IWA Japan https://twitter.com/setupth/status/1779141705171898483
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 15:39 |
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fez_machine posted:The women wrestling in a padded room is ChocoPro/Gatoh Move (which is probably the place you'll see the most intergender) and I'll use it as an excuse to talk about Japanese women's wrestling, or Joshi, in general. Incredible write-up, cheers bud
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 15:46 |
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That's a great write-up, thanks fez_machine. Crush Gals vs. Jumping Bomb Angels is an absolutely insane watch, the atmosphere is off the charts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWC0idWTu8
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 00:00 |
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So I finished that that Dragongate show, the one with the G1-ish tag tournament finals. I referred to this playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A379y8nfXDg) quite a few times, and have a bit of an idea of who the main players are, at least at the moment. I wish I had more time, because I'd like to get back into NJPW a bit, maybe, and also check out DDT and Noah. But for now, I'll stick with this. I liked it. I wish I could understand spoken Japanese better than I do. Aside from 'oi oi oi' and 'matte matte matte' I basically have no clue what they're saying. The English commentary obviously helps a lot. From what the announcer said, he won't be on commentary again until the show in May. So, all of these shows that are going up on dragongate.live are just tag-heavy house shows with no real story progress, then? I can basically ignore them? If not, is there a decent place for English recaps?
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 02:15 |
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:As someone who doesn’t watch much NOAH, how hyped should I be about seeing Seiki Yoshioka next week? He kicks really well if you're into that quote:So I finished that that Dragongate show, the one with the G1-ish tag tournament finals. I referred to this playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A379y8nfXDg) quite a few times, and have a bit of an idea of who the main players are, at least at the moment. I wish I had more time, because I'd like to get back into NJPW a bit, maybe, and also check out DDT and Noah. But for now, I'll stick with this. VoW also has some show reviews written by the same people https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/category/vow-latest/reviews/puroresu/dragon-gate-puroresu/ Puro promotions in general make most of their money from touring, so even the house shows still drive the story and build up feuds. Don't sleep on the multiman matches because that's how they cook up new angles. DG is a very tag-heavy promotion and their house style really gives their tags a higher floor than the rest of the competition. I wouldn't say watch everything unless you have all the time, but you could check out the news and check out the show VODs. DG's streaming service is weird because they put up VODs for about a year after airing, they used to be on a weirder schedule (which was caused by the TV network deal, dunno how it changed but it's better now) but it's still watchable. Lily Catts fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Chinook posted:So I finished that that Dragongate show, the one with the G1-ish tag tournament finals. I referred to this playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A379y8nfXDg) quite a few times, and have a bit of an idea of who the main players are, at least at the moment. I wish I had more time, because I'd like to get back into NJPW a bit, maybe, and also check out DDT and Noah. But for now, I'll stick with this. Person who created those vids is a goon! I wouldn't say there's no story progress, but yes, you can get away with skipping most of the shows. if you're time sensitive. Although it depends. We've just come off the Rey de Parejas & being a tournament that meant there were important matches all over, including on the shows that didn't get shown on the Network. They put those up on their Youtube channel, well, usually 2 or 3 matches from each unaired house show. You certainly can follow the promotion with only watching the Korakuen shows & the bigger named events & not miss too much. Unfortunately there's not really a good DG equivalent of Dramatic DDT anymore. Jae used to run I Heart DG but it got erased from the internet several years ago. There used to be an OK Dragon Gate Wikia which was good for looking at unit affiliations but that seems to have been abandoned. I speak as much Japanese as you do sadly but tbh it's not too hard to follow. There will be a promo at one point where one of the face groups talk a bit & then invite a child into the ring, & they get to be special ring bell ringer for a match.
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 07:43 |
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Chris James 2 posted:[Kaito Kiyomiya,] the most humiliated man alive quote:NOAH announced today that Kaito Kiyomiya will face Jake Lee next Monday to determine the number one contender for El Hijo Del Dr. Wagner Jr's GHC Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Magic on May 4 Jake Lee, you have the chance to continue the funniest tradition in wrestling
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 22:59 |
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Rossy Ogawa is such a clown, he's only doing untold damage to the women's wrestling scene by splitting Stardom, and it's all probably part of a backdoor operation for WWE to get into Japan anyway. Bah! Fie on you, Rossy Ogawa! Rossy Ogawa's new promotion will be part of Wrestle Universe. The man's a genius! A visionary! Plaudits for Rossy Ogawa! Medals!
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 23:41 |
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I like Jake Lee. I'm glad he's in important fights for world titles.
Dishwasher fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Apr 16, 2024 |
# ? Apr 16, 2024 00:45 |
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GLEAT go live on Youtube with LIDET UWF Ver.4 in about 2 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs-Slkb3YV4 17/4/2024, Wednesday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT GLEAT LIDET UWF Ver.4 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo UWF Rules: Tetsuya Izuchi vs Yutaka Kobayashi UWF Rules: Hartley Jackson & Kaito Kotaro Suzuki vs Hideki Shrek Sekine & Takatoshi Matsumoto UWF Rules: Maya Fukuda vs Yura Suzuki UWF Rules: Dan Tamura & Soma Watanabe vs Minoru Tanaka & Takuya Wada UWF Rules: Masakatsu Funaki vs Yu Iizuka UWF Rules: Kaz Hayashi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kendo Kashin & Minoru Suzuki UWF Rules: Hikaru Sato vs Takanori Ito Wild that Fujiwara still wrestles a handful of times a year. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Apr 17, 2024 |
# ? Apr 17, 2024 08:33 |
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It's started and this lady is talking rather somberly
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 10:34 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 15:04 |
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I love that I knew I could turn up 10 minutes late & they'd still be on the intros They really do not need to do these long rules explanations everytime, they've been doing these matches for near 4 year now!
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 10:42 |