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boooooooo they did Noah dirty
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Jan 8, 2022 12:32
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I love Okada and Tana as a team.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:33
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Jerusalem posted:Really wish either Kiyomiya had won that or LIJ/KONGO had gone last.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:33
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Rick posted:I love Okada and Tana as a team. The New Megapowers never really got a chance to shine so it was nice to see them again  Also I guess NJPW had to win because it was a Wrestle Kingdom event, but I really hope they do something with the bunch of singles matches that got teased all night.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:34
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IS OKADA GONNA AIR-GUITAR!?!?!?!
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Jan 8, 2022 12:36
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Can't wait to hear the Pickering and co commentary Wrestle Kingdom 16: Day 3 (Noah's Version) (From The Vault)
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Jan 8, 2022 12:38
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Jerusalem posted:IS OKADA GONNA AIR-GUITAR!?!?!?! I bit on it for sure.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:38
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I dug the match but Okada didn't need to laugh at Kaito the way Tana used to laugh at him. Be the bigger man! hopefully we'll get some follow up on this, Naito vs Nakajima especially would be huge.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:40
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Overall there was more good than bad in this show, although there were parts that irritated me because they felt like New Japan big-leaguing it. Hope they do more together in future.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:45
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Sooper Gila posted:hopefully we'll get some follow up on this, Naito vs Nakajima especially would be huge. I know the crowd reacted big to that face-off but I really think Naito/Kenoh is the pairing that makes sense character-wise at least, they're like oil and water and I really wanna see them clash again. But in any case, agree that I'd love to see some singles matches in the future, a ton of cool stuff got teased tonight.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:45
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Nice of Charlton and Kelly giving a shoutout to Fulton and Pickering and pushing for New Japan fans to check out NOAH.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:49
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You could definitely book another (maybe less crowded) show directly off the back of this one and it would do pretty great business.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:50
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do you guys think that literally any of the singles matches teased this morning will actually happen
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Jan 8, 2022 12:51
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Good show. Very enjoyable. Njpw were obviously going to win all the big matches but I don't think it was that much of a burial. Once Naito was set up as okadas next opponent neither would be taking pins.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:55
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Smoking Crow posted:do you guys think that literally any of the singles matches teased this morning will actually happen 
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Jan 8, 2022 12:56
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Smoking Crow posted:do you guys think that literally any of the singles matches teased this morning will actually happen I think they could, I'd like them to, I place no faith in it being something they do.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:56
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fez_machine posted:boooooooo they did Noah dirty i'm surprised bushi didn't eat the pin in the semi-main but there was no way in hell tana or okada were jobbing as the top two champs Smoking Crow posted:do you guys think that literally any of the singles matches teased this morning will actually happen literally any? yes as it seems like this isn't the end of the companies working together. all of them? lol no
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Jan 8, 2022 13:14
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Jerusalem posted:I know the crowd reacted big to that face-off but I really think Naito/Kenoh is the pairing that makes sense character-wise at least, they're like oil and water and I really wanna see them clash again. But in any case, agree that I'd love to see some singles matches in the future, a ton of cool stuff got teased tonight. Definitely. Smoking Crow posted:do you guys think that literally any of the singles matches teased this morning will actually happen I think at the very least if everyone continues getting along there will be Noah people in the g1 this year, and Kenoh would be the best choice to send there. I get the impression that they want to do some other shows with more companies as well, so maybe there? They GOTTA keeping going, the match I want the most in all this is Go vs Tana and that's not even been hinted at...
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Jan 8, 2022 13:17
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Considering they had a legit sellout and outdrew the second night of the Dome in a building half the size, they'd be leaving money on the table if they don't follow up.
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Jan 8, 2022 13:19
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Yeah, don't overdo them, but another show in 3 or 4 months, with some interpromotional rivalry in advance, would draw very well. And now that the two promotions have been doing some work together you could have other elements of crossover. Kiyomiya enters the New Japan Cup, Dangerous Tekkers take part in the Global Tag League. Don't make it a focal point necessarily, but don't let it drop off people's radar.
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Jan 8, 2022 13:32
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Njpw wrestlers pinned in that show, Gedo, Taka, Togo, Kanemaru. They really didn't give Noah anything of significance, did they?
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Jan 8, 2022 13:49
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Stall_19 posted:Njpw wrestlers pinned in that show, Gedo, Taka, Togo, Kanemaru. They really didn't give Noah anything of significance, did they? You can definitely understand why NOAH/Kendo Kashin were apprehensive about having singles matches on the show if that VOW report was accurate. TAKA is technically JTO and Togo is technically Michinoku Pro affiliated as a wrestler even if he's NJPW office so we can say that two NJPW contracted pro wrestlers took the fall, and only one of them was a full-timer GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Jan 8, 2022 |
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Jan 8, 2022 13:57
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:You can definitely understand why NOAH/Kendo Kashin were apprehensive about having singles matches on the show if that VOW report was accurate. TAKA is technically JTO and Togo is technically Michinoku Pro affiliated as a wrestler even if he's NJPW office so we can say that two NJPW contracted pro wrestlers took the fall, and only one of them was a full-timer i woke up and started watching with the gedo/ishimori match and it hit me that the first four i saw all ended with a 45+ junior heavyweight who books a promotion eating the fall (this applies to NOSAWA as well for anyone unaware). fwiw togo's now listed as new japan on cagematch not that it matters either way to the overall point. i would've let kenoh or nakajima pin bushi or maybe even sanada personally to even it up Thauros fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jan 8, 2022 |
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Jan 8, 2022 14:04
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tbf if you did the same in reverse you get King Tany, Kinya Okada, Atsushi Kotoge, NOSAWA, Tadasuke and Kaito, which excepting Kaito, isn't really the most star studded of lists either.
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Jan 8, 2022 14:21
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:tbf if you did the same in reverse you get King Tany, Kinya Okada, Atsushi Kotoge, NOSAWA, Tadasuke and Kaito, which excepting Kaito, isn't really the most star studded of lists either. and i would argue in that case it's not on new japan that new japan dojo training has been his fatal flaw in kayfabe even when wrestling near 60 year olds
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Jan 8, 2022 14:26
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Baffled by the booking of the final two matches, gently caress would it have killed New Japan to let Kongoh (the team with the two top singles champions of their home promotion) win their match to make it a story of the Champ and the Ace working together to even the score up in the main event? If they were going to have NJPW win the top two, let Yano win in the prematch, he's the more experienced rookie and it would have made it 5-5 going into the main. Aside from booking gripes, I thought the show was fun and went by real quick. Looking forward to watching it again in a week with Pulton and Pickering commentating, hopefully with far less muted audio and tech issues
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Jan 8, 2022 15:03
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I'm excited to watch this show. I forgot it was this morning  I do think I'm going to wait until it's up on NJPW World before I watch it.
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Jan 8, 2022 16:22
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Stall_19 posted:Njpw wrestlers pinned in that show, Gedo, Taka, Togo, Kanemaru. They really didn't give Noah anything of significance, did they? I know that Ishimori had heat leaving NOAH, but was Kanemaru's departure just as heated or was it more diplomatic?
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Jan 8, 2022 16:51
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This was a bit of a sneak preview of Okada as the ace holding on against whoever the chosen upstart is from the next generation (ren, shota, tsuji or uemura) And it felt good. Okada had some great strikes. He played the role really well. Man it's gonna be so good seeing those young guys taking a pop at the champ
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Jan 8, 2022 21:41
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Listening to the Pacific Rim Podcast with Fumi, Jim & Dave, Fumi says the plan is for any more collaborations between New Japan and NOAH to run through Abema PPV which, after today's show, isn't exactly an exciting prospect 
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Jan 8, 2022 22:30
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It makes sense, though. Abema is owned by CyberAgent, and doing them as PPVs gives them a direct metric of how much revenue the show brings in and thus they can work out whatever split of that pot they and Bushiroad each get. I did wonder if the TakaTaichi show on NJPW World being a PPV was a trial so the next colab could be on the New Japan/TV Asahi side.
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Jan 9, 2022 00:48
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time to invest in a japanese vpn and spend 33 dollars
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Gaz-L posted:It makes sense, though. Abema is owned by CyberAgent, and doing them as PPVs gives them a direct metric of how much revenue the show brings in and thus they can work out whatever split of that pot they and Bushiroad each get. TV Asahi own like 40% of Abema so I'd expect any collaborations to stay there as a compromise Burn Down Canberra posted:This was a bit of a sneak preview of Okada as the ace holding on against whoever the chosen upstart is from the next generation (ren, shota, tsuji or uemura) He felt very influenced by how Tanahashi treated him
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Jan 9, 2022 01:04
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Gaz-L posted:It makes sense, though. Oh it makes perfect sense to them, I can absolutely see why they're doing it! It was just very frustrating watching last night when 10-15% of any match was in complete silence because the English feed muted ALL entrance themes which also meant any (restricted) crowd reactions or trashtalk by the wrestlers trying to set up future angles etc was completely lost. Made all the more frustrating by learning that the Japanese stream that you would have to VPN in to buy had NONE of those issues at all.
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Jan 9, 2022 01:36
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KungFu Grip posted:time to invest in a japanese vpn and spend 33 dollars This sounds sarcastic but I don't mean it like that: what would doing this allow me to do (I already have a vpn with Japanese options anyway)?
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Jan 9, 2022 02:00
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Rick posted:This sounds sarcastic but I don't mean it like that: what would doing this allow me to do (I already have a vpn with Japanese options anyway)? The Japanese stream didn't mute out all the entrances/crowd mics/wrestlers during all the pre and post match stuff for every match like it did for the English stream, but you can't choose to access it, Abema only gave people outside of Japan (to the best of my knowledge) an option to buy the English stream, with the Japanese one being a separate purchase only available if Abema thinks you're Japanese.
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Jan 9, 2022 02:04
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nordvpn worked with abema fine as of a few months ago if you want your mahjong fix/japanese ppv access. i plan on trying it if there's another one
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https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1480139791039545345?s=20 I don't know whether pairing up the two poo poo stirrers in Naito and Nakajima and the two angry men in Kenoh and Shingo is a better dynamic or pairing each guy with their polar opposite. Like Naito can get Kenoh worked up and yelling but the promo dynamic might be weird if Naito can't finish a sentence without Kenoh incoherently yelling. At least Shingo will yell right back.
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Yeah, I want Naito vs. Kenoh, they're a match made in wrestling hell. Sweet, beautiful wrestling hell 
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