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rovert posted:I've maintained he's a Heavyweight. Re-asked two days ago and yep still a Heavyweight. Kevin Kelly is full of poo poo, as per usual
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I usually believe Rovert but ZSJ is just too small to be a HW.
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Suplex Liberace posted:I usually believe Rovert but ZSJ is just too small to be a HW. With the three belts around his waist, yeah I can absolutely believe he steps on the scale at heavy weight levels
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He wouldn't have pinned Goto in a match with three CHAOS juniors one night after pinning Shibata if he wasn't going to be a heavyweight. Yes, the NEVER title is technically openweight but they'd never debut a junior that way. Look at Hiromu's reintroduction in November if you want to see how they'd push a junior as a star.Chris James 2 posted:With the three belts around his waist, yeah I can absolutely believe he steps on the scale at heavy weight levels Wouldn't shock me if he adds a fourth soon....
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Venomous posted:Kevin Kelly is full of poo poo, as per usual He is possibly the worst announcer in pro wrestling today. Matt Striker, Mongo McMichael, and Yoshitatsu are all better at getting the wrestlers over.
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Thauros posted:Wouldn't shock me if he adds a fourth soon.... ZACKY4BELTS
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Under the vegetable posted:He is possibly the worst announcer in pro wrestling today. Matt Striker, Mongo McMichael, and Yoshitatsu are all better at getting the wrestlers over. Woah woah woah let's not get crazy here, he's better than Mongo.
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Venomous posted:Kevin Kelly is full of poo poo, as per usual To be fair NJPW did a faction swerve with Zack this might be similar.
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The Japanese announcing tells a story better in English than Kelly does.
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Thauros posted:He wouldn't have pinned Goto in a match with three CHAOS juniors one night after pinning Shibata if he wasn't going to be a heavyweight. Yes, the NEVER title is technically openweight but they'd never debut a junior that way. have any juniors even actually challenged for that belt? Wikipedia says Masato Tanaka was the lightest champion. rovert posted:To be fair NJPW did a faction swerve with Zack this might be similar. Was that deliberate then? I just assumed whoever made the graphic thought all skinny Brits were the same and mixed him up with Ospreay.
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i think ibushi challenged for it when he was a junior or something
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Thauros posted:He wouldn't have pinned Goto in a match with three CHAOS juniors one night after pinning Shibata if he wasn't going to be a heavyweight. Yes, the NEVER title is technically openweight but they'd never debut a junior that way. Look at Hiromu's reintroduction in November if you want to see how they'd push a junior as a star. Goto wouldn't have even been in the match if Zack was a junior. NJPW is pretty careful about balancing their tags with respect to the divisions. Plus, without ZSJ in the heavyweight division, Suzuki-Gun would just be an army of juniors (and one big gaijin) led by an already small heavyweight.
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Thrifting Day! posted:The Japanese announcing tells a story better in English than Kelly does. "AJ STYLES GO HOME!  " was a great line 
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Jerusalem posted:"AJ STYLES GO HOME! YOUNG-AH BUCK-AH GO HOME
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Super No Vacancy posted:i think ibushi challenged for it when he was a junior or something yeah, on that Yokohama Arena show that bombed in part because AJ hadn't gotten over yet. KUSHIDA also challenged Ishii during that same reign on a Taiwan show. Other than that, nothing
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Thauros posted:yeah, on that Yokohama Arena show that bombed in part because AJ hadn't gotten over yet. KUSHIDA also challenged Ishii during that same reign on a Taiwan show. Other than that, nothing they do Taiwan shows? How often do they do them? I'm in Taiwan and if they come here semi-regularly I'd want to check out a show
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Baron Corbyn posted:they do Taiwan shows? How often do they do them? I'm in Taiwan and if they come here semi-regularly I'd want to check out a show like once a year, maybe twice at most Here's the most recent one they ran: 
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Thauros posted:like once a year, maybe twice at most They're to the point of running in Taiwan and Singapore one weekend a year each IIRC, right. If you poke around on their page you can find dates but I think they were in Taiwan in late Jan-Feb, from memory. But much like WWE making a single annual trip to Japan, those international NJPW ones are pretty regularly set.
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Cheers, I'll keep an eye on their schedule. Too bad I didn't get into NJPW sooner. I could have seen Yoshitatsu vs. BONE SOLDIER live in the flesh.
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Charles Gnarwin posted:Goto wouldn't have even been in the match if Zack was a junior. NJPW is pretty careful about balancing their tags with respect to the divisions. Plus, without ZSJ in the heavyweight division, Suzuki-Gun would just be an army of juniors (and one big gaijin) led by an already small heavyweight. Plus this means we should get ZSJ in the G1, which means everyone wins.
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On WOR today Meltzer has finally realised Zack Sabre Jr. is a New Japan Heavyweight.
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But the young bucks aren't and they are physically larger than him.
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Bigass Moth posted:But the young bucks aren't and they are physically larger than him. Zack's also way more muscley than either of the bucks.
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https://www.njpw1972.com/g1special/
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I wonder what the breakdown between English-speaking and Japanese diaspora fans will be. Have NJPW ever tried to do a show in Hawaii? It seems like an easy win - a shorter plane ride for the guys and a huge Japanese-American population.
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They need to fire their web dev and hire me solely because of the error in the page name
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harperdc posted:They're to the point of running in Taiwan and Singapore one weekend a year each IIRC, right. If you poke around on their page you can find dates but I think they were in Taiwan in late Jan-Feb, from memory. But much like WWE making a single annual trip to Japan, those international NJPW ones are pretty regularly set. They ran three shows in Singapore last year and hopefully that's going to be the norm here going forward. They did the TV taping last November but last few years they have been running two spotshows back to back during the summer at the Chara Expo. This is a convention Bushiroad sponsors here with bandai and some others, mostly a bunch of tables of Cardfight! players/collectors and such, plus a lot of anime voice actors and Gundam stuff. They basically just plop a ring down in the far end of the hall and run the show, with it being free standing room for the seven bucks or so the festival admission costs, but you can pay an extra ten bucks for a ringside seat. They claimed the total attendance last year was 19,000 so it would seem to be pretty great exposure for them. They sold out most of the merchandise on the first day, and had Okada do autograph signings and such. Here's bushiroads press release from after the event, a picture of the size of the crowd and such is midway down to get an idea what it's like: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/sg/pinpoi...po-2016-1489171 Looks like their websites down so I can't post the cards but if anyone's curious I can dig out my program and take a picture. Sooper Gila fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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 Tomorrow morning marks the first night of the NJC. 1st round is split this year among the two weekend shows New Japan Cup Rd 1 March 11th at 4:00 AM EST/9:00 AM GMT Aichi Prefectural Gym Hirai Kawato and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. TAKA and Desperado (Suzuki-gun) Ten-Cozy and Jushin Liger vs. Nagata, Nakanishi, and TMIV Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI (CHAOS) vs. Kenny Omega and Yujiro (Bullet Club) Shibata, Juice, KUSHIDA, and Finlay vs. L.I.J (Naito, Hiromu, SANADA, and BUSHI CHAOS (Okada, Goto, Jado, and Gedo) vs. Suzuki-gun (MiSu, Iizuka, Taichi, and Kanemaru) NJC 1st Rd:Yuji Nagata vs. Tanga Loa NJC 1st Rd:Toru Yano vs. Tama Tonga NJC 1st Rd:Michael Elgin vs. Bad Luck Fale NJC 1st Rd:Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. EVIL Sunday's show is strange as it seems to start at the same exact moment the clocks jump forward fom 2 to 3 on the US East Coast due to DST. So the show I guess will start at 3:00 EDT, 1:00 CST. 7:00 GMT?[/b] New Japan Cup Rd 1 March 12th at 3:00 EDT/7:00 GMT Hyogo Baycom Gym David Finlay vs. TOmoyuki Oka Jushin Liger and Yuji Nagata vs. Manabu Nakanishi and Tiger Mask Ten-Cozy and Hirai Kawato vs. Bad Luck Fale and G.O.D. Tana, Elgin, KUSHIDA, and Taguchi vs. L.I.J (Naito, Hiromu, EVIL, and BUSHI) CHAOS (Okada, Goto, YTR, Jado, and Gedo) vs. Suzuki-gun (Iizuka, Taichi, Kanemaru, TAKA, and Desperado) NJC Rd 1: Juice Robinson vs. Yujiro Takahashi NJC Rd 1:YOSHI-HASHI vs. SANADA NJC Rd 1:Katsuyori Shibata vs. Minoru Suzuki NJC Rd 1:Tomohiro Ishii vs. Kenny Omega
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The NJC matches on that second card look way better, but EVIL vs. Tanahashi should be rad too.
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That is a solid rear end bracket. I'm predicting an Omega/Elgin final but I'm not sure yet who I think wins it all. Shibata/Suzuki is going to be the toughest tough guy poo poo and I can't wait.
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A Juice chant. Whatever city this is knows what's up. Is David Finlay a junior btw? The makeup of the teams would suggest he is, but he looks around the same size as Naito, Juice and Shibata.
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The undercard is done and the cup matches are about to begin if anyone's waiting on that. 2 hours in for anyone watching the show later and wanting to skip the tags. There's an intermission so probably more like 2 hours 10 GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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EVIL!  Shame about Bad Luck Fale though.
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EVERYTHING IS EVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLL!
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