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Ditch posted:Have I mentioned how amazing your avatar is because I think you did when I first made it a few years ago, but thank you all the same!
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Might as well throw in the Saito and Marufuji matches and watch the whole reign. The Saito match is more emotional if you go in with the context that these are the last two living guys from Misawa's match and Saito is working through a lot of guilt from that. The post-match promo made me cry ANy way to watch these two besides just signing up for Wrestle Universe? And, uh, if I do sign up for Wrestle Universe, how do I proceed to watch them.
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MJeff posted:ANy way to watch these two besides just signing up for Wrestle Universe? And, uh, if I do sign up for Wrestle Universe, how do I proceed to watch them. Saito match: https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1RK4y1x7se Marufuji match: https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1Mv411i7Rp The secret to using Wrestle Universe search is you have to use the kanji for the wrestler you are looking for, which I usually find from the Japanese Wikipedia.
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Potentially fun Zero1 match down the line https://twitter.com/b3rt4/status/1342440739054219266?s=20 Also think the Hayato vs Tanaka will be well worth seeking out.
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What's dang ol' Masato Tanaka doing? Still teaming with Tajiri?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:What's dang ol' Masato Tanaka doing? Still teaming with Tajiri? Fortunately that was just for the Tag League. He is mostly just doing stuff in DDT, 666 and Zero1. His loyalty to them feels a bit of a waste but
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Last time i saw Tanaka was when he showed up at a random Kobe World to team with Shingo and stiff the gently caress out of BxB Hulk it was very cool.
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Dimebags Brain posted:Last time i saw Tanaka was when he showed up at a random Kobe World to team with Shingo and stiff the gently caress out of BxB Hulk it was very cool. His DDT KO-D title reign this year was super fun stuff, & there was a Zero1 match with TAKA's hot new rookie Tamura Hayato (who in his first full year has won the Zero1 title & probably warrants being talked about in the same category as the DG rookies) from the Fire Festival this year. And there was a rocking Strong BJ vs Tanaka & Takashi Sugiura on the Zero1 Anniversary show. But you gotta go out of your way to track down that poo poo because Zero1 makes following Dragongate a cakewalk.
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Here's how voting currently stands on the ShuPro awards https://twitter.com/shupromobile/status/1342702618523496449?s=19 Grand Prix 1. Tetsuya Naito 2. Kota Ibushi 3. Go Shiozaki Joshi Grand Prix 1. Giulia 2. Utami Hayashishita & Yoshiko (tied) Best Tag Team 1. Dangerous Tekkers 2. Violent Giants 3. Oni ni Kanabo Best Match 1. Naito vs. Tanahashi (9.20) 2. Go vs. Fujita (3.29) 3. Naito vs. Okada (1.5) Best Foreigner 1. Zack Sabre Jr. 2. Jay White 3. Will Ospreay Best Rookie 1. Yuuki Mashiro 2. Lady C 3. HipHop Kikuta
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Could someone explain to me what the NOAH <faction> produce shows are? Basically a faction produces the matches themselves? Or is it more about highlighting a certain faction by giving them prominent positions in the card?
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The faction books the show
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Thanks to a Christmas present of a newer model Fire TV stick with a decent browser, I'll be able to watch this without streaming from my phone. Which is nice.
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Junta Miyawaki vs Yasutaka Yano Miyawaki is skilled, Yano is green. Which make this match look a bit like an act of bullying. I've seen Junta tag before and he seems decent for someone three years into his career, but I'm waiting to see a flash of brilliance from him. Yasutaka Yano has good young lion energy. His size and build make me feel like he needs to work on strikes and agility, neither of which is his strong suit yet. Perfectly respectable young lion vs slightly older lion match Manabu Soya vs Tadasuke Ah, Tadasuke and your unnervingly full lips. Soya's hair is an incongruous create-a-wrestler detail that I really like, it's nice to see a muscle boy with a soft detail to him. Tadasuke's tope con hero was pretty good, but it looked like he caught his feet on the ring barrier. Overall this was a fun match but I didn't feel for a moment that Soya was going to lose. Go Shiozaki & Naomichi Marufuji vs Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue The battle of Old Guys versus Star Power. I kind of love Marufuji's "scene kid who never moved on" gear. The problem with Inoue doing a "hesitating while entering the ring" spot is that he's just reached the age where you wonder if he tweaked a knee and can't move any further. It's weird to see Go Shiozaki play a young upstart role when he's 38 and the world champion. As a newcomer to Noah, I think I need to see more Marufuji, some of his moments in this were great, especially a hook kick he did fairly late in the match. On the whole this is a good tag match: Marufuji and Shiozaki work around Saito and Inoue's limitations pretty well, and while there are some clumsy spots (what was Inoue thinking with that second rope shoulder tackle? He just looked like he was falling) it was pretty enjoyable. Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya) vs Yoshiki Inamura & Kinya Okada Nakajima has such a strong "it" factor. I like that this match let the big lads go at it first, although as always my first thought on seeing Kitamiya was "wow, Soya washed that hair dye out quickly". Najajima has an interestingly effortless form of athleticism, he reminds me of Tetsuya Naito in that respect. I'm trying to work out if Inamura is a deceptively agile big guy or just an oaf who is in the right place at the right time a lot. Kinya Okada has some very crisp looking moves. His bridge after one of his suplexes was really nice, and he lays his strikes in well. I just want to see somethng that sets him apart from the pack. This was a good tag match, but it was also the fourth match in a row where the finish seemed entirely obvious. Haoh vs Nioh Time for Opponents In Similar Tights. Is there an explanation on commentary why these two stablemates are fighting, or did they just want a match? It's a spirited junior heavyweight affair... until my stream breaks halfway through. Switching to casting from my phone. Nioh is obviously dominant here, and wrestles a good match. Haoh seems more passive, and doesn't take all the opportunities for offense he's given. However, his top rope rana was very well performed. The man who was always going to win won. Kenoh & Jinsei Shinzaki vs Kaito Kiyomiya & Daiki Inaba Kaito Kiyomiya is such a JRPG protagonist. A youthful pretty babyface in an absurdly big jacket. Oh hey, it's Hakushi! (yes, I know that Jinsei Shinzaki has had much greater success uner anything other than that name). I wonder if Daiki Inaba feels bad about being the only guy in this match not to get his own entrance music. This is the first match where I can at least conceptually grab either side winning (Kenoh and Shinzaki are going to win). It took me a little while to look past Kenoh's absurd hair to see the very good wrestler underneath. SHinzaki is in absurdly good shape for a 54 year old. He's not lightning fast, but he's brutal and ethodical and very quickly puts Kiyomiya in the Young Upstart In Trouble role, which is a perfectly fun story. This match started fun and quickly got great, with Shinzaki breaking out all sorts of good stuff like rope walking. Daiki Inaba is talented, muscular, athletic, and looks way too much like Norman Wisdom and Lee Evans for me to take him seriously. Fun fact: Kenoh and Kaito Kiyomiya have been in matches against each other 123 times. That's 23% of Kiyomiya's matches. Other fun fact: this tag match is loving awesome. A very good match. And Kenoh and Shinzaki won. Lamuella fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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Overall this was a very decent and absolutely predictable card. It killed two hours on a Saturday perfectly well.
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https://twitter.com/jojo_runs/status/1342783597262991360?s=20 is he still doing his gimmick from those IGF-NEW shows by chance? loved that edit 2 nvm, now that i'm awake i can tell that's an old igf photo Thauros fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/jojo_runs/status/1342783597262991360?s=20 People bitch about NOSAWA bringing in all his pals but gently caress it, it rules. Murakami hasn't wrestled in 3 years.
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DDT D-Ou The Final thoughts Toi Kojima vs Hideki Okatani DDT young boys make their quick journeys to the ring. Toi in yellow trunks, Hideki in brown. Spirited affair to start off. Both look like they're progressing nicely, but Toi looks just a little further on. Apparently this is Toi's debut, and if so he's looking pretty good. A short bout, but Hideki looked good in victory and it was an impressive debut for Toi. Toru Owashi vs Antonio Honda vs Nobuhiro Shimatani Honda is one of my favourites based purely on his work in ChocoPro. I appreciate Toru Owashi becaushe sometimes you just need a big lad. This is silly from the get-go, with Honda getting into some Bugs Bunny antics. Shimanti breaking up the kiss made him the biggest heel in wrestling. Honda tricksters his way to victory. Fun. Sanshiro Takagi & Danshoku Dieno vs Nayashiro Nayagi & Super Sasadango Machine I'm never sure about Danshoku Dino's comedy, and even less so when the joke is "his rear end is disgusting". The match told the joke well enough, but when I don't care that much for the joke I can't say that's an unalloyed good. Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Saki Akai) vs Makoto Oishi, Mizuki Watase & Tomomitsu Matsunaga I love the consistency and variation of Eruption's ring gear. They look coherent as a unit but also individual as competitors. Higuchi is a beast. This is a chaotic six man but there's some really good stuff in it. I especially liked Sakagushi's selling for Oishi et al, he managed to look like he was in peril without looking weak. And sets things up nicely for Higuchi coming in and just murdering people. I liked the spot of using Saki Akai as a weapon a la Luther / Serpentico. The elevated iron claw Higushi used at the end was incredible. I like this trio, and want to see them grow. Maybe a feral maid should escort them to the ring. Damnation (Tetsuya Endo, Soma Takao, Yuji Hino & Mad Paulie) vs Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA, Keigo Nakamura & Shinya Aoki Match expanded from a 6 man to an 8 man since I got the line up so apologies if I got names wrong. Wow, Yuji Hino is beefy. I always love Keigo Nakamura's facial expressions. Give me Harashima and Hino thumping the poo poo out of each other forever please. God, things just light up when we get Brookes vs Endo. These guys are so fast and so fluid together. This is an incredibly well structured 8-man. Nobody wears out their welcome, nobody gets lost in the shuffle, and we get glimpses of what a lot of fun matches would look like. Also, loving HELL, that Hino frog splash was just ludicrous. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Akito, Kazuki Hirata & Shota(c) vs Shunma Katsumata, MAO & Yuki Ueno Lego boy and his pals! Big fan of this trio of weirdos. Katsumata is a talented chaos goblin, and both MAO and Ueno are superb athletic wrestlers. Less familiar with the current champs, who seem to lack cohesion in their look. Nice green and purple tights, Shota. Ueno and Hirata are a good pairing to start with and do some great gymnastic stuff against each other. Mao has this strong shades of grey babyface energy to him, like he's not as chaotic as Katsumata but not as straight arrow as Ueno. On the other side, Akito and Shota work very well together as a unit, to the point where Hirata despite being clearly the leader of his trio seems like the odd man out. Hahaha, the leapfrog splash spots from opposite corners were insane. Shota pulls out a win and I'm just... not sure how or why. I'm sure they have fun plans, I just liked the other team more. D-Ou Grand Prix Final: Jun Akiyama vs Konosuke Takeshita Other than a few of his tournament matches I'm not that familiar with Takeshita. Seeing him take on an opponent of twice his age with considerably more experience is going to be interesting. Akiyama is dominant from early in the match and stays dominant throughout. Takeshita's offense when it comes is well executed, his dragon screw is savage and a real tide-turner, but I wouldn't be able to say he was dominant even on the attack. This sets up an interesting story where Takeshita has to try and exploit every chance he gets because he knows that he's going to get methodically dismantled otherwise. As Takeshita finds his feet and his strength later we get some great spots, like a strike exchange that leaves both of them reeling. The increasingly desperate pin attempts really reinforce the different motivations of the wrestlers. He's unable to overcome the beast, and Jun Akiyama wins a hard fought victory. This match was gruelling but it was rewarding. All in all a good tournament final show. It balanced humour and action well and gave a final result that has really storytelling implications.
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Well, looks like tomorrow's 2AW show is going to be on NicoNico PPV. An annoying trend of late (the 2 Hard Hit shows today were also on PPV). At some point if everything is on PPV it leaves you wondering what you are paying your subscription for, a 500 Yen discount on every show that ends up as a PPV?
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:nicopro have said the PPVs will eventually go up on the normal site, it's not like they were doing live shows before the pandemic and the PPV stuff is mainly targeted at people who would have otherwise have gone to the shows. Ah that's a relief, hadn't heard that part.
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It's crazy to me that Yuki Ueno, MAO and Konosuke Takeshita are all 25 or younger. At the start of the year I would have had Kaito Kiyomiya as a lock for best wrestler in the age group, but they (plus ASUKA) have made a real push in the back half of the year.
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SG Bamboo posted:It's crazy to me that Yuki Ueno, MAO and Konosuke Takeshita are all 25 or younger. At the start of the year I would have had Kaito Kiyomiya as a lock for best wrestler in the age group, but they (plus ASUKA) have made a real push in the back half of the year. Dragon Gate are another one with sickeningly young talent. Shun Skywalker, 24. Kota Minoura, 21. HYO, 23. SB Kento, 20. HipHop Kikuta, 21 & has never actually wrestled in front of a proper crowd that can make noise (didn't debut until June 2020!) but has already been involved in one legit MOTYC. Kaito Ishida is 25 & has already been part of one of my 2 favourite feuds of the year & a couple MOTYC. God drat young people.
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SG Bamboo posted:It's crazy to me that Yuki Ueno, MAO and Konosuke Takeshita are all 25 or younger. At the start of the year I would have had Kaito Kiyomiya as a lock for best wrestler in the age group, but they (plus ASUKA) have made a real push in the back half of the year. Sareee is still 24 which makes her impending move to Florida all the sadder.
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Oh my god Chris Brookes just (well, a month ago but just now for me) biting Sakaguchi's toes. Wrestling is weird.
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speaking of brookes, looking forward to this https://twitter.com/drewparker341/status/1343330493740195840 that's the main, here's the full card for anyone who wants to translate it: https://bjw.co.jp/schedule/s2020-12-30/ i'm assuming this is taped considering the name "fighting tv," but not sure where to expect it - bjw core? or will it air on samurai tv at some point and i'll have to wait until then for a vod?
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abraham linksys posted:speaking of brookes, looking forward to this It airs 8th January on SamuraiTV IIRC.
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Lamuella posted:fair's fair, it means she'll still be in her twenties by the time she's had the joy leeched out of her by the Knee Breaking Factory. HOW do you manage to gently caress up Nakamura and Kairi??
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Aftermath of Dragon Gate's Sambo Hall show: After losing to Masquerade, YAMATO conferred with his team and decided to disband the Dragon Gate Gen, as Masquerade took a big chunk of their group, Ben-K is out injured, and now the rookies like Kento, Kikuta, and Kamei, who weren't even on the main roster when DG Gen formed, have rocketed right past them. Everyone in the unit is now freelance. Horiguchi and Susumu came out and talked with Kzy, and they are reforming the core of Natural Vibes and will be looking for recruits. They won't do the dance until they've filled out the unit roster. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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YESSSSS, zero enthusiasm dancing Susumu is back baby!!!
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catching up on this thread and I never truly realised until now just how much Shuji, Tajiri, and hell, Suwama are turning AJPW into a vanity fed for themselves and their friends obviously Tajiri's not going to change a thing in the next year, and Suwama's probably going to hold the Triple Crown until he loses it to *checks notes* Fuchi that or it stays in a holding pattern between Kento, Shuji and Suwama until Akiyama sells the company off to either Bushiroad or Venomous fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Dec 29, 2020 |
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i think whoever said putting the belt on suwama was all japan curling up to die is 100% correct.
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I think Akiyama has divested himself of AJPW. He's clearly staying with DDT past the end of the year which is what the loan period was for and his promo at the D-Ou Grand Prix seemed to be throwing shade on AJPW.
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I honestly would not be shocked if All Japan goes out of business in 2021 or does one worse and ends up selling to WWE
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i am unironically excited for KO-D champion jun akiyama in 2020.
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forkboy84 posted:Zero1 Happy New Year Zero1 have the full card for this one. Kazuki Hashimoto vs Souki Nagao Syouki Kitamura & Baba Takumi vs Team GLEAT (Takanori Ito & Soma Watanabe) Hartley Jackson & Yuko Miyamoto vs Voodoo Murders (Chris Vice & Yoshikazu Yokoyama) Takuya Sugawara & Asuka vs Hide Kubota & Yasu Kubota #STRONGHEARTS (CIMA, El Lindaman & T-Hawk) vs HOT JAPAN (Shinjiro Ohtani, Aja Kong & Yumeto Imanari) Zero1 World Heavyweight Title: Hayato Tamura(c) vs Masato Tanaka I'm not going to say it'll be a must watch show but Zero1 big shows usually don't disappoint. Bare minimum I bet the title match is worth a watch. While I'm here I may as well post the cards for the Gatoh Move 75 & 76 shows, even if one of them is on right now Gatoh Move ChocoPro 75 Emi Sakura vs Rin Rin Sayaka Obihiro & Chie Koishikawa vs Cherry & Yuna Mizumori Lulupencil & Antonio Honda vs Mei Suruga & Baliyan Akki Gatoh Move ChocoPro 76 Chie Koishikawa vs Tokiko Kirihara Rin Rin & Toru Owashi vs Sayaka Obihiro & Lulupencil Asia Dream Tag Team Titles: Emi Sakura & Kaori Yoneyama(c) vs Mei Suruga & Baliyan Akki forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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How do you do, fellow I am currently in the process of getting some stuff organized for a (most probably bi-weekly Sunday) NOAH watch-along - starting from their inception and making our collective way through their extensive back catalogue. The tentative start date is January 17th, and the place to be is our own PSP-TV. Thank you for your attention.
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