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Angle of the Year 12th January Dragongate Open The New Year Gate Night 4 Masquerade/RED Triangle Gate Match aftermath Just loving great pro wrestling. Masquerade lose after Shun is accidentally hit by Kota with RED'S box. Eita & Kaito Ishida don't even pick up their belts. Inside the ring Shun is screaming at Minoura to apologise. Which is hilarious because Shun hit Kota plenty, and he deliberately caused Dragon Dia to lose his belt. Skywalker has been slowly losing his mind for a while now, so when HYO pounces to try get him to join RED he accepts and hugs HYO! Eita is like "shut the gently caress up kid, who are you to add anyone to RED? You're fired from RED." Only for RED to all jump Eita & Kaito instead, Shun included. So. Now the top heel faction have a new leader and may change branding entirely. The top face faction have lost their leader & may not exist anymore either. And if that wasn't enough GM Ryo Saito comes out to say SB KENTo hasn't fought yet, so there's one match left, the Champion music rings out so we know the Brave Gate belt is on the line and we hear the start of Dragon Dia's music and he returns for the first time since losing his mask a month ago. And he has a skateboard that makes English commentator Jae scream "do a kickflip". Match starts, RED try to cheat, Dia Inferno turns up and HYO offers to let him throw the white powder and he throws it at HYO instead before taking off his mask. Quick Reptilian, 1-2-3, New Champion! Yuki Yoshioka/Dia Inferno & Dragon Dia hug, RED try to get their heat back, SB KENTo is very mad. loving got to love it. Just exquisite booking and execution. Dragongate rules I know that's a lot of spoilers but in case any DG casual viewers haven't seen it yet, it's less than 24 hours and warrants being seen unspoiled.
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BBSOTY: Kuma Arashi vs Suwama, AJPW Excite Series Night 1, 5/2/22 (Big Boy Senton of the Year, obviously) You have to love a nice big boy senton, & Arashi has a beautiful one.
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Worst Follow Up Show To A Really Great PPV Of The Year: AEW Dynamite 9th March It started so well with Eddie & Jericho & all that, then there was a fun little title match followed by Danielson & Moxley having a fun extended squash. Regal's promo was kind of when it started to go wrong. It started great & then it just meandered on & on & kinda expect better from Regal, but he's earned a pass. The Wardlow segment was alright but every match after Danielson & Moxley was just underwhelming. Hirsh & Rosa should've been good but Rosa had no energy. The crowd didn't help but man, that show just wasn't what I expected coming out of Revolution. Oh well, I'm sure they'll regain momentum soon enough.
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Match Which Wasn't Great But Way Exceeded my Expectations 10th March NJPW New Japan Cup Night 5 Gedo vs Tetsuya Naito For some reason this hit just right and ended up being a lot of fun
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Angle of the Year 25th April Dragongate Gate of Passion Night 14 Jason Lee decides which faction to join while Shun Skywalker continues to be insane.
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Jerusalem posted:POTYC: El Lindaman giving a show-closing promo to a packed Korakuen telling them to subscribe to New Japan World but also to go out and watch other promotions, particularly GLEAT! - NJPW Best of the Super Juniors Night 7 5/24 Good advice, his bud T-Hawk has a Triple Crown challenge pretty soon, watch AJPW
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Actually, handy this got bumped because it reminded me I had something to nominate Biggest Disappointment of the Year 22nd April AEW Rampage Adam Cole vs Tomohiro Ishii Boy did this not work. I'm not sure I've seen a worse Ishii singles match, at least not anything he's done in a decade. It's not awful or even really bad, it's just mediocre. No chemistry. Adam Cole looking tiny and throwing dogshit strikes with Ishii. Just did not work for me
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Segment/Angle of the Year contender 27th April AEW Dynamite Death Triangle beat down House of Black after Rey Fenix returns Real fun little moment
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:POTYC: Jun Kasai & El Desperado - JTO (9/6) Yes, 2nded. I loved him talking about keeping the flower. Lovely "A death match doesn't end until you come how alive" is an excellent sentiment
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Dimebags Brain posted:Best Challenge for a title: Dragongate at Korakuen 12/6 - Ben K fedexes a golden rose to Yuki Yoshioka mid-go home promo. WHILE CLEARLY STILL IN THE BUILDING Nth
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Bonk posted:I'm late catching up to All Star Junior Festival 2023, because I watched the first few matches, then had too much wrestling to watch and didn't get to see the rest until today. This was very sweet.
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Coolest Spot OTYC 29th April Ganbare Pro Run Lola Run MAO does a DDT with the help of a large tire https://twitter.com/shikamasa/status/1652247586886270976?t=5HeNPFmsAf-eaaBEtkD4NA&s=19 With thanks to DJ Exile for finding the link
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Edward Mass posted:Moment of the Year: Bully Ray shouting "MY BALLS!" after being on the receiving end of a Wazzup Headbutt, Impact Wrestling Against All Odds 6/9 Sounds like he just ripped off everyone's favourite Nia Jax moment, when she screamed "MY BUTT! MY HOLE"
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Biggest Explosions of the Year (in wrestling, there's probably bigger ones in warfare) 11th June All Japan Dynamite Series Night 1 All Asia Tag Team Title Barbed Wire Double Barricade Mat Megaton Current Blast Deathmatch Atsushi Onita & Yoshitatsu(c) vs Hikaru Sato & Ryo Kawamura Skip to 38 minutes to watch Rarely have their been a more appropriately named show than the Dynamite Series tour kicking off with this match on the card as Atsushi Onita brings his circus to the promotion he got his start in. And holy loving poo poo am I glad I'm not in the ring when those explosives go off because they sounded loud enough to blow out eardrums. It's really cool & I hope Tony Khan takes notes if he ever does another explosion deathmatch. Less is more? No, more is definitely more.
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Video About Wrestling of the Year Kim Justice's video KENTA vs SUWA: An All-Time Great Heel Performance Watch it, it's half an hour about a match 3rd from top of a show from 18 years ago Popped up on my Youtube recommendations this morning & hell, you mention SUWA in a video title & I'll probably the watch it because he's a guy who has never gotten his dues. Video gives you a lot of context to make it easy to follow the story here. House of Torture should be made to watch SUWA because that guy was a heat machine, an absolutely superb heel, an all-time wrestling prick.
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Bonk posted:Hell yeah, I always loved SUWA back in the Toryumon days. They've been steadily releasing a lot of old Toryumon on the Dragongate Network and it's a real trip to finally see old SUWA matches in HD. Crazy MAX were absolute shitheads back in the day. The good thing of the fallout between SUWA & DG was at least that his NOAH run rocked. And then we even got SUWA challenging Danielson for the ROH World Title in one of those 2006 UK shows (the night after the insane match with Nigel)
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Barry Bluejeans posted:I don't want to speak for anyone else but this is the least interested I've been in NJPW since I don't know when, can't even be bothered to watch most of the Tag League Tag League is THE "this tour exists so you can feel OK taking a month off to recharge your fan batteries before WK when exciting things happen" and has been at least my entire time since getting NJPW World for the first time. The Super J Cast podcast, dedicated solely to cover New Japan, always hand the show off for the duration and let some other sickos cover it. I don't go that far, there's usually fun stuff to catch, but through the first 7 nights I've watched 6 matches. Picking and choosing is deffo the way to go to avoid HoT and Fale and the mediocre AEW team. New Japan in 2023 is weird. I'm not particularly enthused by it and then I look at my spreadsheet and I've given them 13 more MOTYC nominations than All Japan, a company I think have had a real good year and keep telling goons to watch. Part of what I'm so into AJPW about is they have a lot of exciting young guys, but then so do New Japan. The NJPW main event scene is lukewarm at best, Okada had been tredding water, Shingo hasn't been spotlighted much and Ospreay hasn't been around as much this year. But other than those things it's really kind of hard to pinpoint why I'm cool on New Japan despite it actually still being a very good year in-ring.
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Rarity posted:How the gently caress is Chase Owens still a thing Once upon a time, 2016 I believe, The Young Bucks were meant to compete in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament, due to start on May 21st. On May 19th they both withdrew because of injuries. So 2 days before the big tournament David Finlay replaced Matt, which was fine, he was already at the Dojo, but Chase Owens got the call, jumped on the first plane he could & flew halfway across the world to get to Tokyo for opening night. And Gedo is loyal to a fault so he's still very grateful & will keep booking him as long as Chase wants to come. So really, it's The Young Bucks fault.
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Jerusalem posted:Worst Show of the Year: NJPW The New Beginning in Sapporo 2/23 President Tana, save us. Fire Gedo & Jado.
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