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tigerdriver82 posted:What's Tajiri's WNC like? Is it similar to SMASH?
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Ditch posted:It looks to be SMASH without the burden of ever taping a loving thing. And without the burden of paying talent.
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Really? That's a bit poo poo. I really wanted to check it out...Oh, well. Do New Japan release dvds of their PPVs and iPPvs? I would to watch some of their recent stuff but my internet connection is uhh...not good.
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MassRafTer posted:And without the burden of paying talent.
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tigerdriver82 posted:Really? That's a bit poo poo. I really wanted to check it out...Oh, well. Do New Japan release dvds of their PPVs and iPPvs? I would to watch some of their recent stuff but my internet connection is uhh...not good. http://shop.njpw.co.jp/products/list.php?category_id=99 Yeah, but you're looking at around 40 USD to start, plus I'm pretty sure you'd have to go through one of those intermediary shipping sites to get it shipped outside of Japan.
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Flameingblack posted:Yup Kana and AKIRA were in a barbedwire deathmatch and then quit the company almost immediately after for not getting paid. Both are big enough names they were free to go and do whatever they wanted to. A lot of the remaining talent are just exclusively students of Tajiri or long-time friends.
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SHINSUKE NAKAMURA HAS A MUSIC ALBUM?
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WRESTLE-1 debut show will be on iPPV on USTREAM for $20 http://www.ustream.tv/w-1
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golden oldies pete posted:WRESTLE-1 debut show will be on iPPV on USTREAM for $20 http://www.ustream.tv/w-1 they have a week and the card isn't fully announced. Not really feeling this, Mutoh.
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hello Shiraishi what are your plans since you are resigning as AJPW president?   oh
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golden oldies pete posted:it was in ZERO1 please tell me this up on YouTube. death match night may ride again.
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echopapa posted:I'm going to Japan in November and am thinking about getting tickets to a DDT show at Korakuen Hall. Has anyone else here been to DDT?
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echopapa posted:I'm going to Japan in November and am thinking about getting tickets to a DDT show at Korakuen Hall. Has anyone else here been to DDT? If you need help I can do some looking online to check the schedule and figure out how you get tickets. I have my suspicions, but I'll check and see later.
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My hope is that I can navigate their site through an automatic translator and buy tickets with my Yankee credit card, but I may have to settle for buying something once I'm there. Do they usually sell out? Am I screwed if I have to buy at the door?
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They almost never sell out, which is part of what makes the 5000+ attendance every year at Sumo Hall/Budokan so nuts.
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echopapa posted:My hope is that I can navigate their site through an automatic translator and buy tickets with my Yankee credit card, but I may have to settle for buying something once I'm there. Do they usually sell out? Am I screwed if I have to buy at the door? Provided it still exists (and why shouldn't it?), you can go to the ticket office in the same building as Korakuen Hall and buy tickets to wrestling/mma/boxing shows in the tokyo area (and in some cases beyond if I remember correctly). They have binders with handy seating charts at the counter so you can just point at the seat you want. Very easy, very convenient and no credit card fees  .But yes, there should also be plenty of tickets left at the door.
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harperdc posted:Apparently Akebono has signed an exclusive contract with AJPW. Yay...? Definitely YAY! Because that means we now won't have to endure him in NJPW pre-show or random 6-man tag matches any longer.
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mostly good show but the main event was as good as it looks, Sekimoto & Okabayashi vs. Team 246 was the best match, Junior Stars vs. Hayato + Mochizuki & Laughter7 vs. Stack of Arms were good too. next big show is in October in Korakuen Hall and features DOUBLE J - JEFF JARRETT handsome only face fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Sep 8, 2013 |
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I found a bunch of my old dvds from back when I first started getting into puro and it is terrifying how much of a mark for Shinjiro Ohtani I apparently was, because I have like three hours worth of him doing kicks to the face and unnecessary headdrops. I'm watching a match right now where he and the Ultimo Dragon did the old 'hit me, now I no-sell it and hit you, repeat four or five times' exchange...with tombstone piledrivers.
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Solomonic posted:I found a bunch of my old dvds from back when I first started getting into puro and it is terrifying how much of a mark for Shinjiro Ohtani I apparently was, because I have like three hours worth of him doing kicks to the face and unnecessary headdrops. I'm watching a match right now where he and the Ultimo Dragon did the old 'hit me, now I no-sell it and hit you, repeat four or five times' exchange...with tombstone piledrivers.
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That was the 95 match, right? Their effort in 96 was my favourite when I was younger. Oh, Ohtani...you should have stayed an underdog rookie forever.
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Oh my god this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w13NhZPz7xE&t=139s (Jump to 2:20 if the video doesn't do it automatically) edited for correct time sorry! Strenuous Manflurry fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Sep 9, 2013 |
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And no one ever did another piledriver in Japan again.
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Ditch posted:Japan doesn't respect the piledriver much but that match was the worst by several orders of magnitude. I bow before your puro mastery and concede that you have forgotten more than I have ever seen despite my decades of doing so, so I will note that I believe that 1994 Queendom II tag match between Aja Kong and Bull Nakano vs Akira Hokuto and Shinobu Kandori is the champion of piledrivers. Except instead of trading them they're mostly all done to Akira Hokuto one after the other after the other. Then there are more piledrivers. And a tombstone. And a package piledriver years before Kevin Steen popularized it here. I showed it about a week or two ago during my Wednesday PSP-TV night. The match is about 40 minutes long, but this timecode should give an excerpt of the piledrivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF_d3Ni8vLk&t=690s As you can see, that is from the beginning of this match, which commences with a head drop before the opening bell.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Oh my god this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Holy poo poo is Otani's tombstone loving poo poo.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Oh my god this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I actually said this out loud, verbatim, when it went down. I'm not usually a fan of exchanges that aren't strikes, but they at least sort of work when both guys are popping up with fighting spirit and yelling and what have you (like any time somebody trades backdrops with Shibata). Ultimo just kinda stands up, like 'oh okay now it's my turn'. No hype or anything. And then at the end he completely overshoots the corkscrew moonsault and looks like an rear end.
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Daryl Surat posted:And a package piledriver years before Kevin Steen popularized it here.
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Tonfa posted:Did WRESTLE-1 even promote the card? I would have at least considered it had I known Laughter7 was there. 50% of the card was billed as mystery X's including Mutoh's tag partner, not a great way to promote the inaugural event but the surprises were mostly pleasant. Laughter7 were the biggest surprises on the card.
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