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Only on mobile, so my report will suck, but JWP show was fun. I have no idea what the plots or promos were, but it was fun, the two biggest matches were really good. Sadly my favourites for those matches lost, with both ray and Leon, as well as Kana losing. Krazy Klown Kana is great, the main event brawling and grappling was a wonderful change.
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I couldn't find the official footage, but Dory's wife Marti filmed the Funks' AJPW return match vs Masanobu Fuchi & Osamu Nishimura and uploaded it to YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccx0fdo_JBI I was really loving confused at first why Chono's music hit after Fuchi and Nishimura's entrance.
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Illinois Smith posted:KENTA & Sugiura vs Nagata & Sekimoto from Korakuen showed up in my Youtube feed yesterday. If you watch only one NOAH match this year you should probably make it this one. Nagata in NOAH is a thing. He gets booed and flipped off by fans.
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Morishima beat KENTA for the GHC title at Korakuen Hall.
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KENTA had the title longer than I thought. What defenses of his are really worth checking out? I haven't seen a lot of current puro outside of NJPW. Which reminded me that I hadn't seen the Taue retirement show yet, and I was able to find it by searching on Youtube. Taue Retirement Ceremony Taue, Morishima, Sugiura & Hirayanagi vs Tenryu, Fujinami, Inoue & Shiga Jushin Liger & Tiger Mask vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Yoshinari Ogawa for the GHC jr tag titles KENTA vs Yuji Nagata for the GHC heavyweight championship
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Looking for an old match. Hoping someone here can help me. I am trying to find a match that involves the Steiners and I believe Muto & somebody else. Think that somebody else is either Hase or Sasaki. The match in question involves a spot where Muto and his partner do the steiner run around the ring and crawl through the legs pose. Does anybody recall this? I first saw it on the NJPW Youtube but they have since either deleted it or set it to private. I remember thinking the Steiners were beating the piss out of Muto/Partner. Winner was ~~~~~~Steiner Bros.~~~~~~
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HulkaMatt posted:Looking for an old match. Hoping someone here can help me. I believe that's their 8/12/92 match for the IWGP tag titles. Here is a video of it.
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Solomonic posted:I believe that's their 8/12/92 match for the IWGP tag titles. Here is a video of it. You're a champion. Wish they got a better camera shot but it's as great as I remember.
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HulkaMatt posted:You're a champion. Wish they got a better camera shot but it's as great as I remember. Scott was so good before steroids. 
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Both of them were loving phenomenal. My overriding memory of them as a team is at WM9, when Rick counters a Doomsday Device into a bodyslam from Fatu's shoulders on Samu. It looked amazing when I first saw it and now I just can't watch it without thinking "How the gently caress did no-one get injured from that incredible clusterfuck". But yeah, gonna check out that match because Steiners in Japan instantly means good match.
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Aubergine Mage posted:Scott was so good before steroids. So in high school?
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 Apparently DDT Pro has signed a deal with a TCG company and they're making "Moe" versions of the roster. The rest of the news and more pics are here: http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2014/01/29/ddt-pro-wrestlers-submit-to-ring-dream-moefication/ (Site might not be SFW sometimes)
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So, how bad is NOAH going to be hosed if KENTA goes to WWE as reported? I only watch occasional matches from them, but it would be nice if one of the majors aside from NJPW could do alright.
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Flameingblack posted:
Nope, this ain't happening.
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Thauros posted:So, how bad is NOAH going to be hosed if KENTA goes to WWE as reported? They have Marufuji(sometimes) and current champ Morishima. Maybe Zombie Misawa if they get that money back from the Yakuza.
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John Cena posted:Nope, this ain't happening. http://swninfo.success-corp.co.jp/general/ringdream/ddt/
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Thauros posted:So, how bad is NOAH going to be hosed if KENTA goes to WWE as reported? I think Japan could survive well with one big company and a bunch of local indies (and maybe like Dragon Gate still going around doing what they do). There's not enough TV time for puro now (guess Japan needs more awful dramas, replays of two-year-old western movies and food tourism shows instead), there's not enough interest in puro for two big companies, and I'm not sure that will change -- not enough spending money in the populous to go around sadly.
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Speaking of companies that are probably on the way out, it looks like Osaka Pro's close to done. They had a mass exodus of talent last year (basically everyone involved with JOKER except for like Quiet Storm and Ultimate Spider, Jr., Daisuke Harada getting signed to Noah, Kuishinbo Kamen going part time) and now they've moved out of their main venue, are probably dropping the weekday shows and potentially going to a tour system in the next few months. Sucks because I really enjoyed what I watched of them.
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That sucks. I always thought they were pretty much invincible with the way they had their venue and schedule set up, plus from what I read in gordi's trip reports on DVDR their fanbase was super enthusiastic and loyal with the wrestlers doing tons of local PR.
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Suben posted:Speaking of companies that are probably on the way out, it looks like Osaka Pro's close to done. They had a mass exodus of talent last year (basically everyone involved with JOKER except for like Quiet Storm and Ultimate Spider, Jr., Daisuke Harada getting signed to Noah, Kuishinbo Kamen going part time) and now they've moved out of their main venue, are probably dropping the weekday shows and potentially going to a tour system in the next few months. Osaka Pro was an influence on Chikara and PWG, and as much as some folks hate Chikara around here, I think managing to influence two well known American indies is a pretty cool legacy.
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Osaka Pro is really rad but I loved their offshoot Okinawa Pro. What little I've caught of them was pure japan.
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Flameingblack posted:http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2014/01/29/ddt-pro-wrestlers-submit-to-ring-dream-moefication/  .
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Germansimp posted:So, they are making a moe girl version of Michael Nakazawa, a wrestler known for covering himself in massive amounts of oil? I think I've seen enough hentai to know where that is going, and I'm scared 
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If there's one trait about Nakazawa, it's that his legs are 2/3rds the total length of his body.
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dave melter the melty man posted:TNA announced a joint PPV that will be taped on 3/2 at Sumo Hall in Tokyo working with the Wrestle-One promotion on a One Night Stand show that would air later this year.
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Hahahahaha remember when TNA had access to Jushin Liger, Tanahashi, and actually owned Okada under contract? What a bunch of idiots.
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Flameingblack posted:Hahahahaha remember when TNA had access to Jushin Liger, Tanahashi, and actually owned Okada under contract? What a bunch of idiots. I remember when they put at-the-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinsuke Nakamura on Xplosion with Elix Skipper.
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I thought it was Tanahashi that ended up on Xplosion.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I thought it was Tanahashi that ended up on Xplosion. Nah, it was Nakamura
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I thought it was Tanahashi that ended up on Xplosion.
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Bard Maddox posted:Tanahashi vs. Roddy was on Xplosion. Meanwhile that would be a main event at a ROH show (and may actually happen in the near future).
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Suben posted:Speaking of companies that are probably on the way out, it looks like Osaka Pro's close to done. They had a mass exodus of talent last year (basically everyone involved with JOKER except for like Quiet Storm and Ultimate Spider, Jr., Daisuke Harada getting signed to Noah, Kuishinbo Kamen going part time) and now they've moved out of their main venue, are probably dropping the weekday shows and potentially going to a tour system in the next few months. This is a good English-language site for Osaka Pro coverage: http://www.osakahurricane.com/ Yeah, looks like in the spring they will be running 1-2 times a month without a permanent home. Not clear how sustainable that is. I always liked the concept of a family friendly, comedy-oriented promotion with a strong local presence, so if this really is the beginning of the end, that's sad. EDIT: I also think the CHIKARA comparison is apt, although (if I have my facts straight) CHIKARA was started because Quackenbush needed a promotion to showcase the wrestlers he was training, whereas Osaka Pro came from Super Delfin leaving Michinoku Pro with some of his buddies (over disagreement with Sasuke, which I have never read the details of). Also, I think Osaka Pro endured at least one prior mass exodus of talent back in 2005 (when Big Boss MA-G-MA and Gamma both jumped ship and ended up in Dragon Gate) so it's not like this is the first time this has happened. Panama Red fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Flameingblack posted:At least Tanahashi and Liger made it to PPVs, and they had one decent match each. Tana wrestled against AJ Styles while Liger wrestled Samoa Joe. Okada just went to TNA, stole Pope's gimmick and made it 10000 better and became the Rainmaker. Liger's match with Joe got cut down to nothing, although he had a pretty good match the next year at Lockdown.
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MassRafTer posted:Liger's match with Joe got cut down to nothing, although he had a pretty good match the next year at Lockdown. I thought he canceled the match on Lockdown when he found out it was a cage and they brought in Low Ki as a replacement?
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John Cena posted:I thought he canceled the match on Lockdown when he found out it was a cage and they brought in Low Ki as a replacement? I think it was actually a double booking, but yeah I guess he didn't. So yeah Liger's TNA match was about 8 minutes due to Nash having a heart attack/not wanting to job to Jarrett again.
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Just a reminder that on this day in history 11 years ago, a ladder won the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship by pinning Yoshito Sasaki.
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It was actually Yoshihiro Sakai, aka. Muscle Sakai. Yoshihito Sasaki would never tolerate such foolishness 
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