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Rarity posted:HM: Hiromu Takahashi vs. Taiji Ishimori, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15, 05/01 2nd. Honestly a bit disappointed in Hiromu. It lacked that certain something you just come to expect from him & yet it was still extremely good
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MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01 God fought the Devil and it owned.
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Cerebral Bore posted:MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01
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MOTYC: Kota Ibushi (C) vs. Switchblade Jay White for the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 Night 2 - 1/5 Completely different style of match to Naito/Ibushi and Okada/Ospreay (and of course Takagi/Cobb) but no less excellent. A perfect face/heel combo, fantastic match structure, great close-calls and pitch-perfect callbacks to their history. Just an utterly superb match, during the final phase I was on the edge of my seat, it was a masterclass in anticipation/fear. What a match. Cerebral Bore posted:MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01 
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MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01
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Cerebral Bore posted:MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01 2nd
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Huntman posted:MOTYC: Shingo Takagi vs Jeff Cobb NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01 Cerebral Bore posted:MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01
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MOTYC: Jay White vs. Kota Ibushi, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15, 05/01 Ultimate good vs ultimate evil in an epic marathon
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Cerebral Bore posted:MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01 nth IIII BUUUU SHIIII
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Cerebral Bore posted:MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01 Perfect description. Nth. 5*+. Awesome match
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Jerusalem posted:MOTYC: Kota Ibushi (C) vs. Switchblade Jay White for the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 Night 2 - 1/5 Nth for all these reasons. And I'll add a holy poo poo these guys are so smooth together. Seriously making counters and transitions look effortless.
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MOTYC: Ibushi vs Naito They took 1.5 over 1.4 all by themselves.
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JOHN CENA posted:i will edit this post over the weekend. final nominations for the weekend.
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JOHN CENA posted:final nominations for the weekend. Oh I knew you were adding nominations but I didn't realize you were changing ones you had already made  Edit: Luckily it didn't affect anything!
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1.4 MOTYC - Naito v Ibushi MOTYC - Okada v Ospreay HM - Takahashi v El Phantasmo 1.5 MOTYC - Ibushi v White MOTYC - Takagi v Cobb HM - Ishimori v Takahashi I don't think they can put the genie back in the bottle but if that was all one night that would have been an all time card. Otherwise it's too separate fantastic cards.
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WK 5/1 HM: hiromu v ishimori motyc: Shingo v Cobb motyc : Ibushi v White It was a very good wrestle kingdom. There are 4 matches across the 2 nights that id not argue if someone said it was their favourite match.
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Nominations from both shows. Great, great stuff both nights. MOTYC Okada vs Ospreay Ibushi vs. Naito Cobb vs. Shingo Ibushi vs. Jay White HM GoD vs. Dangerous Tekkers EVIL vs. SANADA Hiromu vs. Ishimori
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Actually I'm feeling generous and I liked it so why not hm: evil v SANADA
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Actually I'm feeling generous and I liked it so why not I'll nth it
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NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 January 5th MOTYC Jeff Cobb vs Shingo Takagi Jay White vs Kota Ibushi HM Taiji Ishimori vs Hiromu Takahashi
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Cerebral Bore posted:MOTYC: Shingo Takagi vs Jeff Cobb NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01 Jerusalem posted:HM: Drew McIntyre (C) vs. Keith Lee for the WWE Championship - Raw 1/4 nthing both of these
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SG Bamboo posted:NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 January 5th Burn Down Canberra posted:Actually I'm feeling generous and I liked it so why not nth
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RealFoxy posted:MOTYC Miyu Yamashita vs Maki Itoh (TJPW Korakuen 2021 - January 4th) Hey now that y'all have gotten the Wrestlekingdom out of your system, watch this match that RealFoxy did a great summary of why it's great.
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MOTYC: Jeff Cobb vs Shingo Takagi I am no longer afraid of the police.
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Cerebral Bore posted:MOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 05.01 nth
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:
I wasn't going to second this because I thought the action was fine and not worth the nomination. But then I thought about it again and now I have to agree with the nomination. It's not so much about the match quality, which wasn't catastrophic even if it wasn't good either. It's about the idea of doing this match with these exact wrestlers in it at that exact event. I like the concept of KOPW and think it's pretty fun and/or funny, or at least can be when the right people are involved. I don't think NJPW needs to intentionally try to inject variety into its shows because the wrestlers themselves can usually take care of that themselves by, you know, just having different matches with varying stories, pacing, psychology, atmosphere etc. But sure, KOPW matches can let the wrestlers try something new and bring out a different side to themselves. The match at Jingu for example was actually really fun and cool and different from what NJPW usually does. However, this match was just all wrong, including (and especially) its setup in the Ranbo. Give some of NJPW's best talent mere minutes in the ring to have some lame rumble action and then in the end have the dirt worst talent on the entire (incredibly talented) roster win. That's already hosed up. I understand why Yano was in the match, but like I said in the GDT, they could have had nearly LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE than Fale, Chase and BUSHI in this match. NJPW Dads vs Yano could've been awesome! Young Lions + Yano could've been awesome! Yano vs his fellow CHAOS boys could've been awesome! A healthy mix of those could've been awesome! Fine, put Fale in there and it could still be awesome! The participants could only have been worse if Yujiro had replaced Yano. Secondly, the event. If this match had happened at a random Road To show or even New Year's Dash!! it would've been much less infuriating. People don't expect greatness or the most amazing lineups from those kinds of NJPW shows. However, this was WRESTLE KINGDOM! The show that's routinely the best of the year! The one where you have to pull out all the stops because that's when you get the new viewers curious about this whole NJPW thing. That's when you get back the fans who for whatever reason couldn't keep up with the product. The eyes of the pro wrestling world are on Wrestle Kingdom, and then they book a lame rear end match with their worst talent to open the second day. They could've run just about anything else in place of this loving match and it would've been better. Like GWB said, don't put this poo poo on WK. Why would you? I guess the four participants might've gotten a nice paycheck from this but otherwise zero people benefited from this. Everyone involved is a joke, the KOPW is a joke and one of the opening matches of WK is a joke. No one tuning in to WK for the first time ever is going to think NJPW is good if they see that match first. Do not put this poo poo on Wrestle Kingdom. Anyway, that's way too many words about a match that didn't deserve them. a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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I reflexively posted an Nth to White/Ibushi since I watched it live when I meant to do a big nomination post. Whoops. From what I've seen so far, here are my nominations: MOTYC - Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay - WK15 Night 1 (1/4) MOTYC - Jeff Cobb vs. Shingo Takagi - WK15 Night 2 (1/5) Cobb/Takagi had me yelling at my TV. Absolutely astounding match. If it had more of a story ala White/Ibushi, I'd easily put it as my MOTY thus far.
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MOTYC: Shingo vs Cobb Man being a wrestling booker would be so easy, I'd just have Shingo wrestle every match.
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SG Bamboo posted:NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 January 5th Nth. White is literally the devil
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A 2020 match for you that just aired today HM 25th December 2020 Freedoms Blood Xmas King of Freedoms Tag Team Titles Mammoth Sasaki & Violento Jack vs Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu The other day I was bemoaning Brahman Bros being a team I'd only want to see in Great Space Wars matches but I was a fool. This is top shenanigans nonsense. Jack and Sasaki really go with it. It's a clusterfuck in the most joyful way. Jack and Sasaki are an underrated team forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Lily Catts posted:MOTYC Late on this, but yes to all of those.
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forkboy84 posted:A 2020 match for you that just aired today 2nd. I took my girlfriend to this show because she wanted to spend time together on Christmas and I was a little worried about her seeing FREEDOMS but she loved this match. Apparently the ending is a reference to some popular Japanese Christmas movie Also from the same show MOTYC: Jun Kasai & Kenji Fukimoto vs. Toshiyuki Sakuda & Takayuki Ueki This was Ueki's FREEDOMS debut and he pulled off one of the best individual performances of the year. Absolute madman. Sakuda remains an evil loving gnome of a man. MOTYC: Toru Sugiura (c) vs. Masashi Takeda for the King of FREEDOMS People who tell you that Go Shiozaki was the best champion in Japan in 2020 haven't been watching FREEDOMS. Sugiura had an absolutely stellar reign where he made it through all the pillars of FREEDOMS including beating Takeda himself via blood loss in August. The story going in was that Sugiura needed to beat Takeda to establish himself as the true champion and he told that story of desperation perfectly. https://twitter.com/b3rt4/status/1346478121000738820?s=19
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Wrestle Kingdom 15 night 1 motyc okada v ospreay motyc naito v ibushi hm hiromu v elp hm taich/zsj vs g.o.d night 2 motyc shing cobb motyc white v ibushi hm hiromu v ishimori
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:MOTYC: Jun Kasai & Kenji Fukimoto vs. Toshiyuki Sakuda & Takayuki Ueki 2nd Ueki was loving recklessly insane even by death match standards and that one spot with the lemons, good lord what a visual. I can't believe someone from this match is now.a champion in All Japan but I love it
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Finally got through to the finish of WK. Motyc: Kota Ibushi vs Jay White. I don't think I've ever watched a match where the outcome was so obvious yet the action was so good. I felt like Ibushi was White's superior all match but Jay just had that "Dark fighting spirit" which prevented him from being a total loser. What a loving match, NJPW will have a hard time topping this one in 2021 .
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:MOTYC: Toru Sugiura (c) vs. Masashi Takeda for the King of FREEDOMS 2nd this as well. I can't believe I ended up getting back into death matches. At least it is a higher calibre than watching fat dudes in the gross old IWA Mid South ring
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a cyborg mug posted:I wasn't going to second this because I thought the action was fine and not worth the nomination. But then I thought about it again and now I have to agree with the nomination. Your post absolutely convinced me and I'm seconding the WMOTYC nomination for The KOPW 4-Way at Wrestle Kingdom Night 2 now. It was absolutely the worst place and time to have this match, especially considering all the alternative participants they could have had.
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:MOTYC: Toru Sugiura (c) vs. Masashi Takeda for the King of FREEDOMS
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SG Bamboo posted:NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 January 5th Nthing these. I thought the main event was a little too long (specifically the first act) and more than anything else it would've benefited from the crowd noise. That said, hearing Shingo and Cobb beat the poo poo out of each other and have it echo all throughout the dome like that was loving awesome and BEEF BOYS #1!
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