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The full AJPW 11/27 Sumo Hall card is out Takuya Nomura vs. Naoya Nomura Naoshi Sano, Kazuhiro Tamura & Kaji Tomato vs. Masao Inoue, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & SUSHI Black Tiger VII, Takeshi Minamino, Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Mitsuya Nagai vs. Diablo, Rey Paloma, Ryuji Hijikata & Super Tiger Konosuke Takeshita, Kengo Mashimo & Ryoji Sai vs. Koji Iwamoto, Yuma Aoyagi & Jake Lee Isami Kodaka, Yutaka Yoshie, Osamu Nishimura & The Great Kabuki vs. TAJIRI, Ultimo Dragon, Chavo Guerrero & Dory Funk Jr. Manabu Soya & Takao Omori vs. Kendo Kashin & Jun Akiyama Gaora TV Championship Yohei Nakajima (c) vs. Jiro "Ikemen" Kuroshio World Junior Heavyweight Championship Soma Takao (c) vs. Keisuke Ishii All-Asia Tag Championship Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru Sato (c) vs. Atsushi Onita & Masanobu Fuchi World Tag Team Championship Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi (c) vs. Zeus & Bodyguard Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship Kento Miyahara (c) vs. Suwama Pleasantly surprised at there being only 3 multiman tags I don't much care about due to presence of either not-very-good sleazebag indie guys or barely-mobile old guys. Everything else has a lot of potential. Nomura vs. Nomura is a very exciting match for hardcore Japanese wrestling nerds and young boy fans. Spermgod fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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Kobashi and Akiyama on Baba's approach to weight training as translated by Chris Charlton
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I think you could tell Baba's thoughts on weight training by looking at him. (thanks for posting that!)
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Reminder that the big AJPW Sumo Hall show is late tonight/tomorrow moring at the reasonable for puro hour of 1 AM EST/5 AM GMT. Watch it live in http://www.psp-tv.com/r/PoD Spermgod posted:The full AJPW 11/27 Sumo Hall card is out
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Dory is amazing.
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https://twitter.com/narukiroy/status/802774820320444416 Is there anywhere to get the replay of this show?
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Jesus, AJPW, get some better gaijin.
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So outside of Dory Funk Jr, how was the show? Anything I should go out of my way to see?
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The World tag title match was universally praised. The main event was maybe a little more divisive but I thought it was really good.
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mariooncrack posted:https://twitter.com/narukiroy/status/802774820320444416 Should be up on the puro archive soon if it isn't alreadt
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oatgan posted:Should be up on the puro archive soon if it isn't alreadt https://twitter.com/mortenvh/status/802965753960038402
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Giant Baba was so freaked out by two dudes kissing he never lifted a weight again. Did he have a hand in Mike Pence's training?
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Full show is up now https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5rK95X3mRiiVk43cTcyaG1SQUk
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Whatever happened to Taiyo Kea? He returned to Hawaii, wrestled in Wrestle-1 as a freelancer, returned back to All Japan and now appears sporadically for Akebonos promotion.
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DDT has a big show at the larger Osaka arena that's bring broadcast near live tomorrow at 6:00 AM EST/11:00 AM GMT courtesy of mortenvh at http://www.psp-tv.com/r/PoD DDT “OSAKA OCTOPUS 2016 ~IT’S NANIWABUSHI WRESTLING~”, 04/12/2016 Osaka Edion Arena #1 0. King Of Dark Title: Nobuhiro Shimatani (c), Mizuki Watase & Rekka Vs Kouki Iwasaki, Guanchulo & Daiki Shimomura 1. Naomi Yoshimura Debut Match: Keisuke Ishii, Akito & Yuki Ueno Vs KUDO, Soma Takao & Naomi Yoshimura 2. Naniwa Woman Saga: Saki Akai & Lady Beard Vs Aja Kong & LiLiCo 3. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title – Battle Royal: Masahiro Takanashi (c) Vs Toru Owashi Vs Kazuki Hirata Vs Mad Paulie Vs Kuishinbo Kamen Vs Kikutaro Vs Dai Suzuki Vs Shoichi Uchida Vs Kenshin Chikano Vs Yoshihiko 4. Elementary School 3rd Grader – Yuni Debut Match: Shigehiro Irie, Yasu Urano & Yuni Vs Makoto Oishi, Shunma Katsumata & MAO 5. Special Tag Match: Masakatsu Funaki & Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Yoshihiro Takayama & Kazusada Higuchi 6. DDT Launch Pre-20th Anniversary Commemoration TLC (Takoyaki, Ladder & Chair) Special 6-Man Tag Match: Sanshiro Takagi, Kota Ibushi & Gota Ihashi Vs Dick Togo, Antonio Honda & Takashi Sasaki 7. DDT Extreme Title – Doyama Hardcore Match: Danshoku Dino (c) Vs Jun Kasai 8. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Daisuke Sasaki & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs Konosuke Takeshita & Mike Bailey 9. KO-D Openweight Title: Shuji Ishikawa (c) Vs HARASHIMA (card courtesy of https://dramaticddt.wordpress.com/) Dramatic DDT has a full preview like usual if you wish to read more up on the matches/stips Thauros fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Dec 3, 2016 |
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Thauros posted:DDT has a big show at the larger Osaka arena that's bring broadcast near live tomorrow at 6:00 AM EST/11:00 AM GMT courtesy of mortenvh at http://www.psp-tv.com/r/PoD do not expect the steiner bros. expecting the steiner bros has become a problem for ddt apparently.
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:do not expect the steiner bros. expecting the steiner bros has become a problem for ddt apparently. Huh?
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quote:DDT would like to remind its fans that even though there are a lot of foreign wrestlers in Osaka this weekend, none of them are the Steiner Brothers. So don’t come to this show expecting to see the Steiner Brothers. This cannot be stressed enough, it’s a regular problem at these big shows.
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It's a long running gag in the FAQ sections in the information pages of their larger shows. "Will the Steiners appear?" "no" modified to fit the location and the event, this one refering to the NXT show. Knowing DDT this joke has some really obscure origin.
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Adaptabullshit posted:It's a long running gag in the FAQ sections in the information pages of their larger shows. "Will the Steiners appear?" "no" modified to fit the location and the event, this one refering to the NXT show.
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I've only ever watched a handful of Genichiro Tenryu matches, but I generally love everything he does. Are there recommended must-watches for him?
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Red posted:I've only ever watched a handful of Genichiro Tenryu matches, but I generally love everything he does. Here's a list of his 5 star matches quote:5 Star Match (1986) with Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Riki Choshu and Yoshiaki Yatsu on January 28 Tenryu vs Hashimoto from the G-1 in '98 was great. I also remember thinking his match with Mutoh in 2001 was good, that was during Mutoh's big resurgence. Tenryu vs Kawada and Tenryu vs Kojima (2002) are also good. Here's Tenryu vs Kawada http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4511qt Here's Tenryu vs Kojima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwmkQjekn1c Tenryu vs Hashimoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDBnQCTlRY Also, Tenryu Vs NAITCHA BOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBl8kpUvIU
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Yeah those are all really solid choices. ctrl+f+tenryu on these pages for hours of fun: http://theditch.biz/chron.html http://theditch.us/090s.html http://theditch.us/00-04.html Tenryu is one of my two favorites ever so here is more (all of these own fyi): Tenryu & Kitahara vs Koshinaka & Kimura: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?s535s06vu79tk3d Tenryu & Kawada vs Hansen & Kea: http://www.mediafire.com/?to7w3xkt36g71ri Tenryu & Fuchi vs Kawada & Araya: http://theditch.us/TenryuFuchiVsKawadaAraya6-30-01.avi Tenryu & Akiyama vs Kobashi & Baby Shiozaki: http://www.mediafire.com/?aqpc7px47ru2daa
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Also, Tenryu Vs NAITCHA BOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBl8kpUvIU Holy poo poo, I had no idea this even existed. I was only aware of his two WWF deals.
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They had a better match in '92 (which is what Red is referring to): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xz4dag854bd48pv Also, Flair wanted Tenryu brought in for Starrcade (1988 or possibly 1987) because he wanted a really stiff match.
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If you're in a mood to watch more 3 AM tag team wrestling after the NJPW Tag Finals, AJPW has a TL show at 2:50 EDT/7:50 GMT being streamed live in http://www.psp-tv.com/r/PoD. All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2016 Sekai Seikyo Tag League”, 12/11/2016 [Sun] 17:00 EDION Arena Osaka, 2nd Stadium () Ultimo Dragon & Yohei Nakajima vs. Mitsuya Nagai & Takeshi Minamino () SUSHI & YO-HEY (DOVE) vs. Billyken Kid (FREE) & TORU (Doutonbori) () Jake Lee vs. Yutaka Yoshie (FREE) () Kento Miyahara vs. Koji Iwamoto (Sportiva) () Suwama & Atsushi Aoki vs. Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi () Tag League ~ B BLOCK : Zeus & The Bodyguard vs. Super Tiger & Hikaru Sato () Tag League ~ B BLOCK : Jun Akiyama & Kendo Kashin vs. Takao Omori & Manabu Soya card courtesy of puroresuspirit.net Don't ask me what the the standings are, purolove doesn't have them posted and I ain't pol or stopspot.
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In the time I've been visiting Ditch's archives, I don't think I've seen a Tenryu match I didn't like. I especially liked that tag match he and Jumbo had against Ted DiBiase and Stan Hansen (All Japan, 12-12-86). Really, I don't think the guy has ever lacked in chemistry with any opponent or partner he's ever had.
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When you think about great tag wrestlers, your mind goes to midcard 'tag division' Ricky Morton types. In contrast, Tenryu reliably made tag matches feel like legit main events in a way that is almost unthinkable in the US, and very much in a "throw random guys in there with him, it'll work" dynamic at times. Tenryu with three headliners? Epic (Jumbo/Tenryu vs Choshu/Yatsu; Tenryu/Hara vs Jumbo/Yatsu). Tenryu as backup to an outmatched midcarder? Epic (Hansen/Gordy vs Tenryu/Kawada). Tenryu and a lesser partner against a headliner and a midcarder or young lion? Even his smaller show tags could blow the roof off (see a couple of the ones I posted). And it's like, hey here's the 75th best tag match Tenryu was in and it's good enough to be most guys' top 10 if not top 5. Such an insanely huge catalog of great bouts, most of which are still criminally overlooked.
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When I first started reading about and watching Puro, Tenryu seemed to be a guy everyone liked a lot, yet he always seemed to get brought up less than people like Misawa, Kawada, and Kobashi. Maybe because his prime wasn't coinciding with the internet developing Puro discussion communities. Maybe because in the 90's people focused less on smaller Japanese companies. Not sure, but it's kinda unfortunate.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:When I first started reading about and watching Puro, Tenryu seemed to be a guy everyone liked a lot, yet he always seemed to get brought up less than people like Misawa, Kawada, and Kobashi. Maybe because his prime wasn't coinciding with the internet developing Puro discussion communities. Maybe because in the 90's people focused less on smaller Japanese companies. Not sure, but it's kinda unfortunate. Tenryu did have this special guest star role in the 90s after SWS collapsed and he started WAR. He did do a couple of good runs in NJPW (which was outshadowed by 90s AJPW, I assume) and also helped UWFi make a little money before folding.
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1. Misawa/Kawada/Kobashi all vastly more athletic, and their best matches had more impressive highlights while also being world-class from a technical standpoint. Highspots were one of the big draws of puro when the alternative was late '90s WCW/WWF, so they caught on quick as the bootlegs became widespread. 2. Tenryu's athletic prime was in the '80s. 3. Tenryu's greatest hits are dispersed across more promotions and more decades, making his career very hard to follow. 4. Tenryu's matches tend not to be especially deep, complex, or technical. So the consensus of Tenryu being below them is really to be expected. It took me years of hunting for puro hidden gems before I came to fully appreciate Tenryu's career. My main goal isn't to have people prefer him to anyone in particular, but rather to have them watch the hidden gems because they're great in a way that's somewhat unique, and give Tenryu the love he deserves. The best analog I can think of is Ishii, whose fire and stiffness make him so consistent and able to pull great performances out of his opponents. Then have Ishii still doing this in like 2033.
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