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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:BJW are announcing matches for their Sumo Hall show and they're doing Uh oh... looking forward to WWE pulling WALTER once they find out about the death matches on the show
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Super No Vacancy posted:tozawa was in an intergender match on an fcp show with deathmatches You're right. They'd pull Walter from the BJW show for an NXT UK taping before the death matches.
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Ultimo Dragon has announced he's going to run a Toryumon-branded show at Korakuen on 31st January. To quote the DG English language Facebook, "he also hopes that any Toryumon graduate that is able to appear will do so", though so far at least there's only 5 names confirmed: Don Fujii, Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito, & Genki Horiguchi from Dragon Gate and Toru Owashi who is mostly DDT based.
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forkboy84 posted:Ultimo Dragon has announced he's going to run a Toryumon-branded show at Korakuen on 31st January. To quote the DG English language Facebook, "he also hopes that any Toryumon graduate that is able to appear will do so", though so far at least there's only 5 names confirmed: Don Fujii, Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito, & Genki Horiguchi from Dragon Gate and Toru Owashi who is mostly DDT based. don’t expect Stronghearts, SUWA or TARU. Everyone else, including Magu, are on the table.
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forkboy84 posted:Ultimo Dragon has announced he's going to run a Toryumon-branded show at Korakuen on 31st January. To quote the DG English language Facebook, "he also hopes that any Toryumon graduate that is able to appear will do so", though so far at least there's only 5 names confirmed: Don Fujii, Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito, & Genki Horiguchi from Dragon Gate and Toru Owashi who is mostly DDT based. Does Okada count?
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AJPW announced the Real World Tag League teams Violent Giants (Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa) The Bomber (Joe Doering & Dylan James) NEXTREAM (Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi) Zeus & Ryouji Sai Jake Lee & Naoya Nomura Daisuke Sekimoto & The Bodyguard Takashi Yoshida & Gianni Valletta TAJIRI & KAI Yoshitatsu & Joel Redman The End (Parrow & Odinson)
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Yoshida and Valletta may very well have been engineered to make the single least appealing tag team ever to me personally.
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Bummed by a lack of Okabayashi.
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Punch McLightning posted:Bummed by a lack of Okabayashi. A peace offering
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Can I ask for a brief description/writeup of AJPW, NOAH, and DDT? I'm interested in their styles and direction, compared to, say, NJPW. The most I know is that NOAH broke off from AJPW, DDT does a lot of weird comedy matches, but that's it.
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Schneider Heim posted:Can I ask for a brief description/writeup of AJPW, NOAH, and DDT? I'm interested in their styles and direction, compared to, say, NJPW. The most I know is that NOAH broke off from AJPW, DDT does a lot of weird comedy matches, but that's it. AJPW usually favours bigger boys, a lot of their matches tend to be chop fests. The big exception being their ace Kento Miyahara who is very much in the Tanahashi mould. They put a stronger emphasis on tag team wrestling than most companies and their tag league is one of the highlights of the year. The junior division is judokas and technicians. They don't book around big shows, instead booking their calendar around their four big tournaments. The highlight of the undercards are usually comedy matches involving Masanobu Fuchi, Jun Akiyama, Atsushi Maruyama and Black Menso~te. NOAH is more similar to NJPW in approach with longer main events in the puro epic vein. They have far more kick based offence than NJPW does. The tag division is also far stronger than NJPW's and this year has been dominated by AXIZ (Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima). The junior division is one of the best around. Right now it's booked around a faction war between Ratel's and Stinger. They have a big Sumo Hall show on November 2nd that would be a good jumping in point. DDT is primarily known for comedy, but they also are really good at turning out excellent mat based technicians. The current ace of the company is Konosuke Takeshita, who is one of the best in the world but also not so popular among the fanbase because it turns out puro ace is not a character archetype that appeals to DDT fans. Even when their matches aren't pure comedy, they are often incredibly creative. My favourite match of the year was a single light tube match in DDT where breaking the light tube meant losing the match. The comedy undercards are often an easier watch than the endless multiman tags in the other promotions but their big shows have a tendency to run extremely long, like 6-7 hours with the dark matches.
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:AJPW usually favours bigger boys, a lot of their matches tend to be chop fests. The big exception being their ace Kento Miyahara who is very much in the Tanahashi mould. They put a stronger emphasis on tag team wrestling than most companies and their tag league is one of the highlights of the year. The junior division is judokas and technicians. They don't book around big shows, instead booking their calendar around their four big tournaments. The highlight of the undercards are usually comedy matches involving Masanobu Fuchi, Jun Akiyama, Atsushi Maruyama and Black Menso~te. All of those sound cool! I think what NJPW is lacking at the most is a proper tag division (not the endless exhibition multi-man tags) with stakes. I might see them for myself, since I'm freeing up some money by getting rid of my Adobe Photography Plan subscription. Is there English commentary?
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No English commentary: DDT have a semi-official English twitter that live tweets shows but that’s as close as you’ll get. If you’re looking for English commentary: Dragon Gate did for Kobe World and last I learned planned to do more: and Gatoh Move has live English commentary if you want very niche Joshi
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Yeah, Dragon Gate just announced The Gate of Destiny on 4th November will have English commentary. The good/bad thing about following NOAH is they've got no streaming service so you really will just be following it by a combination of shows they stream live on their Youtube and stuff people record from Japanese TV and put on sites like Daily Motion & Rutube. So it's a cheap follow
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Schneider Heim posted:All of those sound cool! I think what NJPW is lacking at the most is a proper tag division (not the endless exhibition multi-man tags) with stakes. I might see them for myself, since I'm freeing up some money by getting rid of my Adobe Photography Plan subscription. Is there English commentary? No English commentary any more for DDT but some of their shows from last year have it. DDT also has a great six man tag division with their top faction ALL OUT having some fantastic matches this year with Strong Hearts, Sendai Girls and BASARA.
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If what you're looking for is variety DDT has pretty much every style you could ever imagine in the promotion. They're a pretty-catch-all promotion that has death matches, comedy, women's wrestling, Kenny Omega/Ibushi, Big Boys, and just about everything under the sun. Can't guarantee you'll like everything they've got going on at this second but I can absolutely promise you there's a style you'll like with hours of content in their archives. Daisuke Sekimoto's KO-D championship is worth price of admission. Then you've got the Kota Ibushi/Kenny Omega matches, you've got TJPW Joshi matches, you've got comedy, you've got hardcore, you've got "Anywhere" matches, you've got NJPW epic style matches. Pretty much any genre of wrestling you can think of, DDT has. The biggest downside is no English commentary at all, but they've got unofficial blogs and twitter account that can fill in the blanks and there's enough goons here that can tell you which shows to watch.
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D-Oh Grand Prix 2020 Blocks: A Block: Konosuke Takeshita Tetsuya Endo Keisuke Ishii Yuki Ueno Yuki Iino Chris Brookes Chihiro Hashimoto B Block: HARASHIMA Daisuke Sasaki Soma Takao Yukio Sakaguchi Naomi Yoshimura Bull James Masato Tanaka
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Dave says OWE's done in China, staff and wrestlers have moved on, and plan is to relaunch eventually in Cambodia CIMA and T-Hawk will continue working for AEW and are working on Lindaman coming back T-Hawk and Lindaman are working for Wrestle-1 and Big Japan
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:D-Oh Grand Prix 2020 Blocks: The guests are mostly great other than Bull James. Masato goddamn Tanaka, yessir.
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Schneider Heim posted:Can I ask for a brief description/writeup of AJPW, NOAH, and DDT? I'm interested in their styles and direction, compared to, say, NJPW. The most I know is that NOAH broke off from AJPW, DDT does a lot of weird comedy matches, but that's it. GWB broke down All Japan about as well as you can. I just wanted to add that I’m watching the main matches from the Champion Carnival this year and they had so many great matches. I’m having a blast watching the highlights of the promotion.
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Chris James 2 posted:Dave says OWE's done in China, staff and wrestlers have moved on, and plan is to relaunch eventually in Cambodia Dave is just going off of the rumor that’s going around and didn’t reach out at all to OWE. Things aren’t looking great for them, but the full story that’s going to come out isn’t just “the company is done and rebooting in Cambodia.@
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El Gallinero Gros posted:The guests are mostly great other than Bull James. Chihiro goddamn Hashimoto, yessir.
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:No English commentary any more for DDT but some of their shows from last year have it. DDT also has a great six man tag division with their top faction ALL OUT having some fantastic matches this year with Strong Hearts, Sendai Girls and BASARA. please don't forget MLX with my boys MAO and Mike Bailey
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A Block is going to rule, goddamn.
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:Dave is just going off of the rumor that’s going around and didn’t reach out at all to OWE. Things aren’t looking great for them, but the full story that’s going to come out isn’t just “the company is done and rebooting in Cambodia.@ https://nuclearconvoydotcom.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/amidst-negativity-owe-strives-to-find-a-path-forward/
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e: nm, think I leapt without looking here
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I still don't know why they tried international expansion so soon when the company was clearly unproven and barely established in China, that always felt like a disaster waiting to happen.
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There's plenty around OWE which warrants criticism, questions around their business practices, but CIMA hates American wrestling and Americans is certainly an interesting take considering he's regarded by people like The Bucks as a huge fan of US indy wrestling who gave them their first break outside of North America. Ditto all sorts of other guys from Ricochet, Generico, Sydal, Jack Evans, etc. That claim alone is nonsense enough to raise questions about the rest of it.
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so I already gave my stance on twitter, but there’s a ton of inaccuracies in this rant that discount the valid points they are making (talent contracts and the nxt worker (most likely zeda zhang) mostly). It reeks of someone who was unhappy with owe and just unloaded based on their relationship with CIMA. CIMA is no angel, don’t get me wrong, but this was pretty much the person “Signal Boosting” this not caring about vetting or biases and clearly caring about engagement. anyways here’s the thread validating some of what the rant was and throughly debunking the rest. click through for case lowe and my responses https://twitter.com/_inyourcase/status/1183091666040901633?s=21
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:Dave is just going off of the rumor that’s going around and didn’t reach out at all to OWE. Things aren’t looking great for them, but the full story that’s going to come out isn’t just “the company is done and rebooting in Cambodia.@ This would be one hell of a scoop because the reports have been out for weeks and we have people leaking that conditions in Cambodia are horrible. They are pretty clearly done in China and all of the ideas to expand are bombing. Which is a shame, and a sign that no one is ever going to break into China. CIMA being anti-American is silly though it's clearly not true.
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It's a shame because some of the guys in OWE seemed like they could have been bigger names. sucks to see it fail and turn into such a mess.
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Big Japan Ryogokutan 2019 Nov. 4 card: Ryota Hama, Yasufumi Nakanoue and Kazuki Hashimoto vs Takuho Kato, Akira Hyodo and Yuki Ishikawa Great Kojika, The Great Sasuke, Brahman Shu, Brahman Kei and Kankuro Hoshino vs Abdullah Kobayashi, Hideki Suzuki, Shinobu, Orca Uto and Drew Parker Ryuichi Kawakami and Kazumi Kikuta vs Jake Lee and Naoya Nomura Hideyoshi Kamitani, Takuya Nomura and Fuminori Abe vs Shigehiro Irie, T-Hawk and El Lindaman Rickey Shane Page and Masaya Takahashi vs Masashi Takeda and Takumi Tsukamoto in a tax trip deathmatch Yuya Aoki defends the junior title in a fourway against TAJIRI, Tatsuhiko Yoshino and Kota Sekifuda Daisuke Sekimoto and WALTER vs Yuji Okabayashi and Yuji Hino Ryuji Ito and Takashi Sasaki vs Jun Kasai and Toshiyuki Sakuda in a BLOOD & DEATH HISTORY deathmatch Kohei Sato defends the Strong world title against Daichi Hashimoto Isami Kodaka defends the Deathmatch title against Yuko Miyamoto in a 4 Board Giga Ladder deathmatch
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