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Harley is respected in the US and Japan, both for his career and as a trainer. WLW provides cheap gaijin, and NOAH wrestlers get to learn from him. That's the sense I get. We'll see what he says!
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And how can you possibly turn down the potential superstar "Wild" Wade Chism?
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-Ask him what he thinks about Go Shiozaki. -Memories of Jumbo Tsuruta, Giant Baba, Tenryu (has he ever faced Tenryu?). -Ask him about any specific recommendations he made to Morishima and Go. -Ask him who he thinks the second best wrestler on God's green Earth is. -Ask him how he learned how to cut such good promos. I'm sure you'll cover most of this, I'm just really excited you might get to interview Harley, who I really enjoy.
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Possible ask him about trevor murdoch, about the WWE in general, or what he thinks his role in wrestling is at the moment (should he be booking, teaching, wrestling, or just sitting back and quietly retiring, so slowly nobody notices).
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Marufuji vs KENTA went to a 1 hour draw. Also, so people know, I did part of my interview with Race on Thursday, and I'll do more on Monday. edit: Also also, today marked the end of a really badly-done three-show weekend set at Sumo Hall. The final match was Masato Tanaka & Sekimoto vs Motor City Machine Guns. So Sekimoto went from CHIKARA to Ryogoku Kokugikan. Ditch fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Oct 25, 2008 |
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Ditch I request you get this match on your site asap.
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That draw is either going to be really really good, or loving terrible. I can't see there being any middle ground here.
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HulkaMatt posted:Ditch I request you get this match on your site asap. Seconded. Screw the haters, the previous Marufuji vs. KENTA was awesome.
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Ditch, Meltzer is saying that the Budokan show did really well and drew 10K. Any truth to this? I vaguely remember the early reports saying the October 06 show did an OK number, and then wham, it did poo poo. He also says it was in part because they said they'd have the best match of the year, which considering they said this back in 06 and it meant nothing in terms of drawing power I am a bit suspicious that Meltzer's info might be a bit on the optimistic side.
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The 2006 match did 11,500 per Meltzer. What that and the current number don't take into consideration is freebies and discounts. The gate for Sunday's show was probably way under half of, say, the Kobashi return show.
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New column! Mostly Kobashi! http://pulsewrestling.com/2008/10/30/puroresu-pulse-issue-136-kobashi-the-mvp-years/
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Very good read Ditch. I just wanted to post here that Tanahashi is working the three TNA house shows this weekend, so if you're a fan and in Southern California, you can see him live!
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KENTA vs Marufuji: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=98PJOUT0
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HURRY UP MEGAUPLOAD gently caress gently caress gently caress LONGEST 45 SECONDS OF MY LIFE. EDIT: YAY EDIT 2: LONGEST 5 MINUTES OF MY LIFE. EDIT 3: I MEAN 8 MINUTES. EDIT 4: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. Edit 5: yay 
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Thank you Ditch. I have a couple of other puro matches from Ditch's threads to watch still but I'm totally watching this first.
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gently caress YOU, MEGAUPLOAD Why does it refuse to let me download this (probably) great match? Wazzu fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Nov 5, 2008 |
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So awesome.
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Ditch posted:Marufuji vs KENTA went to a 1 hour draw. Probably in front of the same size crowd though
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The Sumo Hall thing sold like 2000 tickets combined. NOAH sold at least 5000, probably closer to 8000.
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So, any opinions on the KENTA/Marufuji match? I'd rather not sit down and watch an hour of this if it isn't going to be my cup of tea.
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I didn't care for it. I mean they didn't have a bunch of no-selling, they saved the big moves for last, and there were some big/innovative spots, but there really wasn't an hour's worth of content. Even mediocre ROH broadways like Punk vs Daniels have some good matwork and focus and stuff. The August Burning vs Kensuke Office survival match is a better use of an hour.
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For an hour long match, it's pretty good. You will always have the problem that it doesn't make sense compared to a 20 minute match (why did they suddenly last 3 times as long as normal), however I thought it was well done, logical counters and going for strong moves but sensibly kicking out of strong moves/finishers (for japan). However the match is not as exciting as it could be because files betray it and you know nothing's going to happen for most of it, I would have probably enjoyed it more if I didn't know (like the cena/HBK match after last year's wrestlemania on RAW). I probably enjoyed it more than Joe/Punk 2, but that's my personal gripe against that match.
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Ditch posted:The Sumo Hall thing sold like 2000 tickets combined. NOAH sold at least 5000, probably closer to 8000. I meant Chikara and the Sumo Hall thing
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Jimchuck Spanner posted:I meant Chikara and the Sumo Hall thing And true.
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Akiyama vs Morishima set for the next NOAH Budokan show, winner gets the winner of Sasaki vs Saito, aka Sasaki. Akiyama or Morishima will be the guy to beat Sasaki, so the first defense of '09 is even money to be a title change. If not there, then the other guy does it later in the year. NOAH announced restructuring. Some wrestlers won't go on tour (but will get paid). Shorter cards, fewer random trios bouts, everyone's told to work harder. And, I would guess, fewer gaijin being flown around. This could lead to more big matches getting booked... but it doesn't by default mean the booking gets better. We'll see, they definitely needed a shake-up.
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Ditch posted:Akiyama vs Morishima zzzzzzzzzzz
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Hey, Akiyama vs Morishima last year was good. So was the 2001 iteration that was Morishima's first big singles match.
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Sasaki vs. Saito, truly a perfect fit for their timeslot.
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Jimchuck Spanner posted:zzzzzzzzzzz NOAH, 12/7/2008 Tokyo Nippon Budokan 1. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 2. GHC Heavyweight Title Contendership: Jun Akiyama vs. Takeshi Morishima 3. GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Kotaro Suzuki (c) vs. KENTA & Taiji Ishimori 4. GHC Heavyweight Title: Kensuke Sasaki (c) vs. Akitoshi Saito If you can't get excited for that you should probably watch some other fed instead.
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Illinois Smith posted:1. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima OK now I'm intrigued And you better believe I do and will
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NOAH will end the year with a 32-man tournament featuring all its top stars  ...oh and all matches have a 10 minute time limit, and a "ref committee" will decide winners for the draws. 
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Ditch posted:NOAH will end the year with a 32-man tournament featuring all its top stars I'd be all over this if it was New Japan. Their heavyweight style fits 10 minute matches quite well. Does NOAH even have 32 guys on their roster? 
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Sasaki and Nakajima are in it, plus the midcard scrubs, plus juniors, plus the top names, plus a young lion, plus two X's, equals 32. Shiozaki not announced yet, I bet he'll be an X.
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Are you sure that the entire tournament will be 10 minute matches and not just the first round?
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As best I can tell. First two rounds on night 1, so 2nd round has to be 10 minute time limit. Final three rounds on night 2, plus you'll have 24 (or more) others to put into matches, so not a lot of additional time. It's a year-end thing and that usually signals it won't be that big a deal.
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Ditch since you're the puro god around here do you speak any Japanese? I was watching one of my old puro tapes Chono/Nagata for the IWGP '02 and I noticed on the commentary there isn't a minute that goes by where one of them isn't going "Hai" in like 37 different variarions. Is that the equivalent of us going "yeah" or "ok"
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I speak very little Japanese but enough to know "Hai" is yes. They also say "so-desu-ne" and "hontoni", both of which are expressions of agreement. They ESPECIALLY say it when a wrestler is on guest commentary. From what I've been told, Japanese wrestling commentary isn't exactly thrilling from an intellectual standpoint. Let us not forget "ABUNAIIIIIIIII".
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Ditch posted:I speak very little Japanese but enough to know "Hai" is yes. They also say "so-desu-ne" and "hontoni", both of which are expressions of agreement. They ESPECIALLY say it when a wrestler is on guest commentary. From what I've been told, Japanese wrestling commentary isn't exactly thrilling from an intellectual standpoint. Let us not forget "ABUNAIIIIIIIII". I want these commentators calling a boring WWE match. They sound so excited.
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Ditch posted:I speak very little Japanese but enough to know "Hai" is yes. They also say "so-desu-ne" and "hontoni", both of which are expressions of agreement. They ESPECIALLY say it when a wrestler is on guest commentary. From what I've been told, Japanese wrestling commentary isn't exactly thrilling from an intellectual standpoint. Let us not forget "ABUNAIIIIIIIII". Yeah, even my otaku japanese understands that much. My favourite things about japanese commentary are: That they constantly use english. Is there nothing in Japanese that means "diving" or "headbutt"? That they act excited regardless of the words, like during Misawa/Ogawa vs KENTA/Marafuji, Misawa does a suicide dive, and the annoucers shout "SOSHITE!", which literally translates as "oh, so" and is just meant to be a conversation filler. Basically, imagine JR yelling, "HMM, I SEE!" during a high spot.
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