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A Wrestling Fan’s Guide to Tokyo and Japan A big thanks to harperdc for putting the above together -------------- Next cards: quote:
Links: NJPW's official website NJPW World Watch all major shows live or on demand for only about $10 a month Senor LARIATO's spreadsheet of must watch matches in the NJPW World Archives Chris Charlton's twitter providing translations of Japanese language promos and interviews PUROLOVE has results, schedules, and official gate figures for all puro feds large and small Voices of Wrestling covers New Japan well and their forums are actually decent unlike most wrestling message boards I've seen besides this one. They have an ebook available covering NJPW in 2016 which is available with a pay-what-you-want donation. Forum thread for all puro outside of NJPW and DG Thauros fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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quote:NJPW "WRESTLE KINGDOM 11 IN TOKYO DOME", 04.01.2017 (NJPW World) quote:NJPW "NEW YEAR DASH !!", 05.01.2017 (NJPW World) Thauros fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Kazeee nii nareee~
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 13:45 |
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ThePariah posted:Kazeee nii nareee~
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 14:15 |
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Cheeseburger has the best gimmick in all of NJPW: the foreign fanboy who's overexcited about japanese wrestling
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 14:25 |
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Lol the one day reign for LIJ. Also welcome back Suzuki.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 14:36 |
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good shows
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 15:13 |
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What was the big debut Dave
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 16:03 |
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Its there a way to follow this company from Chile? Im watching WK 11 and is cool so far. The bullet club is like the nWo, right?
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 16:03 |
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lot of people are up in arms over LIJ's treatment on NYD. I'm usually the first on the push Naito bandwagon but really don't see an issue. Naito was pinned by Elgin only after interference by Dragon Lee while Hiromu still has never been pinned. I don't personally understand the trios title decision from today either but those titles really don't mean much anyway and BUSHI doesn't really need protected. The only person they've really ever helped is David Finlay. I'm on board with the big Suzuki-gun return for now as well. MiSu vs. Okada for the title hasn't been done since I think Dontaku 2013 and KES is probably the best tag team the company has. Yes, Iizuka and Taichi are trash but hopefully they're not really focused on much in a company with more depth. Kanemaru is often uninspired but he has talent and hopefully he shows a bit of a spark now that he's out of a company he never really wanted to go back to.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 16:12 |
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SIX STARS.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 16:19 |
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So I haven't really watched since last year's Wrestle Kingdom. Allegedly the can't miss matches are Okada vs Ishii, Omega vs Naito, one of the Okada vs Marafuji matches (which one). Anything else from the last year to really go out of my way to see?
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 16:36 |
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Having only ever watched one NJPW match (I know it was had Nakamura with Jim Ross doing commentary) this was my first NJPW event I watched. I have heard of some of the wrestlers on the card just from being a wrestling fan. And holy poo poo did it deliver. That was pretty drat awesome of a card. Thought the different type of tag matches were all pretty cool. Main event blown my mind so many times. That was just amazing. The spots and just the way they run a match is so different to me since all I've watched is WWE that they felt so fresh and new. They just flow and are so smooth. It's beautiful. One thing that got me confused is are hitting the officials not illegal? They seem to grab and and shoved them around without any repercussion in the match. I'll be sticking around to keep watching more.
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Wazzu posted:So I haven't really watched since last year's Wrestle Kingdom. Allegedly the can't miss matches are Okada vs Ishii, Omega vs Naito, one of the Okada vs Marafuji matches (which one). Kamaitachi vs. Dragon Lee-Fantasticamania, Okada vs. Naito-Invasion Attack, KUSHIDA vs. Liger- Dontaku, Ricochet vs. Ospreay- BOSJ, Tanahashi vs. Okada - G1 A Block final show, Shibata vs. Kojima Thauros fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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oatgan posted:What was the big debut Dave the angles were billy gunn squaring off with katsuya kitamura and the latter refusing to back down, dragon lee interfering in the elgin/kushi/LIJ tag to take out hiromu, and suzuki-gun killing everyone. assuming kanemaru has appeared in new japan previously then no debuts technically
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oatgan posted:What was the big debut Dave Dragon Lee, i assume
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 17:06 |
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yeah the proper word would be re-debut, but it's Dave, y'know? The return of a 7 person stable that includes a guy main eventing your next big show plus an incredibly talented guest star set to resume one of the best rivalries of recent years qualifies as big I'm skeptical that this is happening myself, but LIGERFEVER's afraid that NJPW totally screwed over CMLL and is sending them Yoshitatsu in exchange for DL and that he's gonna stay for a fairly lengthy term like Dorada did. Thauros fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Always great to see Rey, glad he could make it to the show
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 17:29 |
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Naito's cool. He's a heel but he is still pretty happy to see people being a fan. But Minoru Suzuki? Minoru Suzuki is really fucken cool.
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Thauros posted:lot of people are up in arms over LIJ's treatment on NYD. I'm usually the first on the push Naito bandwagon but really don't see an issue. Naito was pinned by Elgin only after interference by Dragon Lee while Hiromu still has never been pinned. I don't personally understand the trios title decision from today either but those titles really don't mean much anyway and BUSHI doesn't really need protected. The only person they've really ever helped is David Finlay. gently caress them they suck. naito sucks
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:07 |
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Capsaicin posted:Minoru Suzuki is really fucken cool.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:08 |
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So, if things are going as they usually go, we're getting a Naito vs Elgin main event at New Beginning. That's pretty neat
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:19 |
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gently caress naito push juice
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:23 |
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juice is getting pushed
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:25 |
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Really want Suzuki/Omega after Suzuki/Okada
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:30 |
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aye, IWGP Heavyweight Champion Minoru Suzuki sounds good, do it e: also how the heck is Suzuki still going strong at 48 years old? That's incredible.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:37 |
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Just catching up with WK11, what an awesome show. Sad for my boy Omega, but he'll have his day I'm sure. Probably the right call to keep the belt on Okada, since it really helps push him further as the Ace and also leads us to the very-cool upcoming Suzuki feud. Suzuki loving rules. Edit:
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:53 |
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Shibata vs. Suzuki would be a natural feud they've never really done. I was on board with the Goto switch but now I wish they'd have waited
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:03 |
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Thauros posted:Shibata vs. Suzuki would be a natural feud they've never really done. christ it's like you want someone to die
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:08 |
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Happiness posted:RIP neck belt Sanada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 22:00 |
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If you're just joining us, Minoru Suzuki was a leader/founder of PANCRASE, legit shoot fighter, a Gotch disciple, and loving awesome. Also billed as "The Angriest Man in the World." And has easily the best theme in NJPW save maybe Liger. https://youtu.be/A0P-SgpwYnE
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 22:01 |
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The crowd just coming unglued at "KAZE NI NARE" about 2 minutes in is just chilling Edit: it's about 1:35 in
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 22:22 |
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SANADA reminds me of Paul from tekken for some reason.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:11 |
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I'm not too familiar with how NJPW operates, what does this mean for Omega now? Is he out of the title picture altogether now? Was that his one shot?
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:24 |
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It means they'll do the same main event match for another 3-4 years until Omega finally hits his finisher or until one or both participants kills his family Because of the CTE, you see
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:27 |
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Frankston posted:I'm not too familiar with how NJPW operates, what does this mean for Omega now? Is he out of the title picture altogether now? Was that his one shot? I imagine they'll separate them briefly (Okada vs Suzuki seems to be the current direction) and then Omega will win the title either from Okada around mid-year or whoever has beaten Okada in the meantime. Edit: New Japan wants to expand internationally and their gigantic G1 Climax tournament kicks off around July including a couple of exhibition shows in the US, so I imagine they'll want Omega to be Champion by that point.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:28 |
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Solus posted:SANADA reminds me of Paul from tekken for some reason. Fun fact: the motion capture for King in Tekken 3 was done by Minoru Suzuki.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:37 |
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The Suzuki gun return was fantastic. Rest of the show was boring though.
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The summer is the time they prefer to try out a new guy anyway, that stretch leading up to the start of the G-1 is when Okada had his first run, AJ had his and Naito had his. It always feels a bit of a lame duck season though.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:54 |
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After New Year's Dash, I have no clue where so many guys will fit in. Suzuki-Gun is obviously going to war with Chaos, so that leaves most of the BC guys like GoD out of title hunts. I wonder if they have Suzuki beat Okada, Kenny win the NJ Cup and take the belt from him, then we spend a good portion of the year building to Okada/Omega II at WK 12. I hope LIJ gets the trios titles back in brutal fashion so they can reign over the rest of NJPW while Chaos is distracted. But most of all, I hope that YOSHI-HASHI wins the ROH world title.
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