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Jerusalem posted:Gotta admit, I think the show peaked with Small Takeshita. Hmm, yeah on the balance I agree. Hardcore should have a level of intensity and melodrama these matches just didn't. Like I was making a big deal out of the ear piecer spots, but that was a bigger deal than they made of them. Still pretty fun, didn't feel like I wasted my time.
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Still mad at All Japan. Big week in wrestling (it's a holiday weekend in Japan, they are always big). TJPW have the first 3 shows of their Tokyo Princess Cup, GLEAT brings us DOUKI & Kanemaru, AJPW have a potentially great Tag Team Title match between Honda & Ashino and Stronghearts of Irie & T-Hawk, NOAH return to the Budokan with Kojima vs Kenoh, a match that will probably be good but will make me sad when Kenoh loses & then at the end of the week they have a Korakuen double header. Oh yeah & the G1 starts. That Sendai show looks grim but Nights 1 & 2 should be great. Zero1 also continue with the Fire Festival but hosed if I can tell if any of it will even be taped. Wrestle Universe, why are you not showing this?  16/7/2022, Saturday 10am JST/12pm AEDT/2am BST/9pm EDT/6pm PDT Gatoh Move ChocoPro 245 Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo Masahiro Takanashi vs Sayaka Obihiro vs Yuna Mizumori Chie Koishikawa & Shin Suzuki vs Mei Suruga & Sayaka Live on Youtube 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/5am BST/12am EDT/9pm PDT TJPW Tokyo Princess Cup Night 1 Ryogoku KFC Hall, Tokyo Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Haruna Neko vs Shoko Nakajima Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Hyper Misao vs Miyu Yamashita Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Mahiro Kiryu vs Yuki Arai Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Moka Miyamoto vs Pom Harajuku Rest of card TBA Live on Wrestle Universe 2pm JST/4pm AEDT/6am BST/1am EDT/10pm PDT Stardom Summer North Tour Stardom From The North Country Night 2 Sundome, Kitami Mai Sakurai vs Mina Shirakawa vs Saki Kashima Donna Del Mondo (Giulia & Maika) vs Queen's Quest (Lady C & Saya Kamitani) Queen's Quest (AZM & Utami Hayashishita) vs STARS (Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo) Cosmic Angels (Natsupoi, Tam Nakano & Unagi Sayaka) vs Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Ruaka & Starlight Kid) God's Eye (Ami Sourei, MIRAI & Syuri) vs STARS (Hazuki, Koguma & Saya Iida) Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World 4pm JST/6pm AEDT/8am BST/3am EDT/12am PDT DDT Summer Vacation 2022 Tour In Nagoya Nippon Gaishi Sports Plaza 3rd Stadium, Nagoya Yuji Hino vs Yuki Ishida Disaster Box (HARASHIMA, Kazuki Hirata & Toru Owashi) vs Eruption (Hideki Okatani, Saki Akai & Yukio Sakaguchi) 37KAMIINA (Shunma Katsuata, Toi Kojima & Yuki Ueno) vs Burning (Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku) KO-D 6 Man Tag Team Titles: Damnation TA (Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & MJ Paul)(c) vs Antonio Honda, Chris Brookes & Masahiro Takanashi DDT Extreme Title 3 vs 1 Handicap Match: Yuki Iino(c), Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari vs Akito Kazusada Higuchi & Naomi Yoshimura vs MAO & Yukio Naya Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe Pro Wrestling NOAH Destination 2022 Nippon Budokan, Tokyo Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harade, Extreme Tiger & YO-HEY vs Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Hi69, Shuji Kondo & Tadasuke) Daiki Inaba, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kinya Okada, Masaaki Mochizuki & Shuhei Taniguchi vs Anthony Greene, El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jr, Rene Dupree, Simon Gotch & Stallion Rogers Los Perros Del Mal de Japon (Eita & Kotaro Suzuki) vs Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu) Dante Leon vs Ninja Mack Los Perros del Mal de Japon (NOSAWA Rongai & Super Crazy) vs Masato Tanaka & Rob Van Dam Go Shiozaki, Kazuyuki Fujita & Takashi Sugiura vs Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya & Masakatsu Funaki) Kaito Kiyomiya vs Keiji Muto GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura vs Suzukigun (Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher) GHC Junior Heavyweight Title: HAYATA(c) vs Seiki Yoshioka GHC Heavyweight Title: Satoshi Kojima(c) vs Kenoh Live on Wrestle Universe with English commentary 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/9am BST/4am EDT/1am PDT New Japan G1 Climax 32 Night 1 Hokkai Kitayell, Sapporo Kosei Fujita & Yuto Nakashima vs Royce Isaacs & Tom Lawlor Bad Dude Tito & JONAH vs Ryohei Oiwa & Toru Yano David Finlay, Jado & Tama Tonga vs House of Torture (EVIL, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi) Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Juice Robinson & KENTA) vs Suzukigun (Lance Archer, Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & Zack Sabre Jr) Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI) vs LIJ (BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito) G1 C Block: Aaron Henare vs Hiroshi Tanahashi G1 D Block: El Phantasmo vs Will Ospreay G1 B Block: Jay White vs SANADA G1 A Block: Jeff Cobb vs Kazuchika Okada Live on NJPW World Also shows from Ice Ribbon, Dragongate, Michinoku Pro, YMZ, Tenryu Project & Heat-Up 17/7/2022, Sunday 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/5am BST/12am EDT/9pm PDT TJPW Tokyo Princess Cup Night 2 Ryogoku KFC Hall, Tokyo Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1[: Arisu Endo vs Miu Watanabe Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Nao Kakuta vs Yuki Aino Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Kaya Toribami vs Yuka Sakazaki Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Rika Tatsumi vs Yuki Kamifuku Rest of card TBA Live on 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& Kazuchika Okada G1 B Block: Taichi vs Tomohiro Ishii G1 A Block: JONAH vs Toru Yano G1 C Block: KENTA vs Zack Sabre Jr G1 D Block: Juice Robinson vs Shingo Takagi Live on NJPW World 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/9am BST/4am EDT/1am PDT Dragongate Hopeful Gate Night 6 KBS Hall, Kyoto Card TBA Live on DG Network 6pm JST/8pm AEDT/10am BST/5am EDT/2am PDT Ganbare Pro Bakuretsu Toshi Burst City 2022 Oji BASEMENT MONSTAR, Tokyo HARUKAZE & Makoto vs Moeka Haruhi & YuuRI Keisuke Ishii & Shota vs Shinichiro Tominaga & Shuichiro Katsmura Elimination 8 Man Tag: Ken Ohka, Kouki Iwasaki, Mizuki Watase & Sayaka Obihiro vs Soma Takao, Tyson Maeguchi, Yumehito Imanari & Yuna Manase Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe Also shows from JWP, Wave, 2AWxFreedoms, Heat-Up, Actwres girlZ, 2AW, FMW-E, Ryukyu Dragon Pro & Zero1 18/7/2022, Monday, Marine Day 12pm JST/2pm AEDT/4am BST/11pm EDT/8pm PDT TJPW Tokyo Princess Cup Night 3 Ryogoku KFC Hall, Tokyo Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2: Raku vs Misao or Yamashita Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2: Hikari Noa vs Arai or Kiryu Rest of card TBA Live on Wrestle Universe 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/5am BST/12am EDT/9pm PDT DDT Summer Vacation 2022 Tour In Nagano Art Centre Act Space, Nagano Akito & Saki Akai vs Antonio Honda & Soma Takao Damnation TA (Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & MJ Paul) vs Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Yuya Koroku Burning (Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada) vs Chris Brookes & Yuki Ishida 37KAMIINA (Toi Kojima & Yuki Ueno) vs Eruption (Hideki Okatani & Yukio Sakaguchi) Kazusada Higuchi & Naomi Yoshimura vs MAO & Shunma Katsumata Disaster Box (HARASHIMA, Kazuki Hirata & Toru Owashi) vs Pheromones (Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Iino) & Yasushi Kanda Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe Stardom Summer North Tour Stardom From The North Country Night 2 Chateraise Gateaux Kingdom, Sapporo Lady C vs Momo Kohgo vs Ruaka Cosmic Angels (Mina Shirakawa & Unagi Sayaka) vs STARS (Hazuki & Saya Iida) Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Saki Kashima & Starlight Kid) vs Queen's Quest (AZM, Saya Kamitani & Utami 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Shiryu & Sayuri Hagane Shinno & Shin Suzuki vs Sayaka Obihiro & Tiger Jeet Shinjuku Asia Dream Tag Team Titles: CDK (Chris Brookes & Masahiro Takanashi)(c) vs Ken Ohka & Yuna Mizumori Chie Koishikawa vs Mei Suruga Uploaded later to Youtube 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT Big Japan Bloody Musou Tournament Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Kaji Tomato, Kota Sekifuda & Tatsuhiko Yoshino vs Kazuki Hshimoto, Yasufumi Nakanoue & Yuji Okabayashi Daichi Hashimoto, Daisuke Sekimoto & Takuho Kato vs Kazumasa Yoshida, Kazumi Kikuta & Ryota Hama Barbwire Board 6 Man Tag Deathmatch: Abdullah Kobayashi, Jaki Numazawa & Yuichi Taniguchi vs Hideyoshi Kamitani, Kankuro Hoshino & Yuki Ishikawa Astronauts (Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura) vs Yankee Two Kenju (Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto) Bloody Musou 2nd Round Fluorescent Light & Weapon Deathmatch: Daiju Wakamatsu vs Masaya Takahashi Bloody Musou 2nd Round Salt & Lemon Deathmatch: Ryuji Ito vs Takumi Tsukamoto Also shows from 2AW, JWP, Basara, 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loving Voodoo Murders taking the belts away from my beautiful TE boys, well done Minoru you've made me dislike you
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SG Bamboo posted:loving Voodoo Murders One step forward two steps back. Fucks sake
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So it seems that NOAH, NJPW, AJPW and DDT all have some bullshit going on booking wise. Does that mean GLEAT, DG and the Joshi promotions are technically have better booking? Not to say that the four I mentioned suck or anything I'm sure that they are still more watchable than WWE.
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Crossposting: sticklefifer posted:
All the championship matches were posted a couple weeks ago, but this also includes Masato Yoshino's retirement match and all the undercards. Well worth your time, last year's was fantastic. edit: Japanese commentary is also free: Night 1 / Night 2 sticklefifer fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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NJPW's booking has been good this year. It seems like they have a clear direction, everything's made sense and they've retooled House of Torture as a midcard comedy goober act. The only complaints I've seen about it are people getting pre-emptively mad about a Bullet Club civil war they've been told is happening even when the only Bullet Club infighting so far has gotten Tama Tonga (and somehow Jado) over as entertaining, really popular babyface and Jay White repeatedly owning Adam Cole (also good) GLEAT's booking isn't as strong as New Japan's, mainly because they've decided to sacrifice their own stars to New Japan midcarders just like NOAH and AJPW
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To me the biggest flaws in DDT's booking are Pheromones (which are very popular domestically) and Takeshita steamrolling everyone over the last year(which hopefully his year in America away from the show to show grind will improve when he comes back full time). It's still by far my favourite men's promotion to watch even if frequent segments have go away heat I very much enjoy TJPW's booking, a lot of the matches can seem very random but they are all in service of the core of the promotion, the relationships between the roster members. There are still some things I feel were missed opportunities (Misao not challenging Rika during the PoP reign, starting to use Vanitas again for seemingly no payoff) but there's still time for these to be remedied as all the pieces are still part of the roster and that history doesn't go away. They just need another couple of people at the main event level, by the end of Miyu's reign there was very much a feeling that Shoko had to win, there was nobody else to challenge unless they started bringing in outsiders like ASUKA
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Stone Punkbull 141 posted:So it seems that NOAH, NJPW, AJPW and DDT all have some bullshit going on booking wise. Does that mean GLEAT, DG and the Joshi promotions are technically have better booking? NOAH are the most frustrating of the lot for their absolute refusal to push younger guys up the card. Kinya Okada turns 30 in November & has been wrestling for 3 & a half years. He has 5 singles wins, all against Yasutaka Yano & Kai Fujimura. The use of Inamura is even worse although he's slightly above the young boys, it remains that his only win in a singles match this year came in ZERO1. 2021 was the same story, got 3 wins in the Fire Festival tournament & even a draw with Taniguchi in NOAH but he only actually beat the young boys. It's loving moronic. The wrestlers are good, for the most part (hiya HAYATA pal) but the booking is WWE levels of making it hard to be invested in what you are watching because you know something will happen to turn poo poo upside down in the favour of one of Mutoh's boys despite them being older than Methuselah. I love Satoshi Kojima but how the hell does having a New Japan after thought beating Go & presumably Kenoh tomorrow help the company? It's not like these old geezers are actually drawing much. If the Mutoh clique were the draw NOAH seem to think they are then Wrestle-1 would still exist. New Japan, well I gotta disagree with GWB here. The problem is perhaps less booking (though we'll come back to that) & more scheduling/business choices. Putting together the schedule every week my heart sinks every time I see 3 consecutive nights at Korakuen where they run almost exactly the same card back with usually 1 substitution per match. It's such an exhausting promotion to watch, nothing has heat, nothing has excitement. I still haven't watched the BOSJ Finals or Dominion which was unthinkable even 12 months ago, New Japan didn't just get me back into puro but back into wrestling full stop! I used to watch everything that aired & now I don't even watch every match on big shows. The bloat on the schedule hurts, Wrestle Kingdom at 2 nights is just another show. Ultimately, New Japan does less with more, by which I mean that their roster is tremendous & stacked when compared with All Japan, but All Japan gets more out of the guys they use. Part of it is that when AJPW books the Carnival they don't include Bad Luck Fale calibre wrestlers, & god bless them for that. Big New Japan singles matches are still worth watching but right now my interest in everything else is just through the floor. Getting rid of the IC Title still looks like a mistake. Far too much of their shows just feel unimportant & the wrestlers wrestle them like that. Which I get, when you're running essentially 1 show every 2 & a half days on average you can't be expected to go at 100%. But understanding it doesn't mean I like it. I'd also say there are so many guys who just shouldn't be wrestling anymore. Jado is immobile, Tomoaki Honma (despite being in 2 MOTYCs!) feels like 1 bad bump away from being paralysed (I know this is true for everyone but you get what I'm saying), Bad Luck Fale does not give a poo poo. DDT's problem is just Pheromones are the worst act in wrestling, & I include NXT2.0 garbage. Haha, he just pulled down his pants & stuck his naked rear end in that guys face for the 109th time since this gimmick began. But it's at least confined to the undercard for the most part. Otherwise they've hit a bump in the road with the Endo injury which was unfortunate but you can't blame the booking. They've brought on younger talent in a way that's only bettered by Dragongate in recent times, they still do the fun weird poo poo you expect from DDT like the train match & the street wrestling tournament & just yesterday the Shunma & Friends In Drag vs Prominence & Friends show. All Japan hurts because it's my promotion of the year. The Carnival was absolutely great from beginning to end. Kento has been Kento, the most consistently great wrestler in the world right now. Yuma is a bonafide main event guy now & he can go. Jake is Jake, a frustrating guy but still capable of some excellent wrestling. They've used outside talent/freelancers like Takuya Nomura, T-Hawk & Irie well, not dominating their own guys but still being booked strong enough. But gently caress. Ever since Voodoo Murders returned there's been a sinking feeling & it's come true. Right now I do not know if Total Eclipse or Evolution or NEXTREAM still exist. All the units seemed to collapse in a deeply unsatisfying way: Honda & Ashino came out of a heated feud to suddenly start tagging together; it's a great team so I'll live with it but from a booking perspective why? Ultimately of all the changes the only one that seemed to get any time on screen was Suwama leaving Evolution. And even that, he turned on Ashino & then Dan & Hikaru left with Suwama & then...they weren't with him? Deeply unsatisfying. Why did Jake Lee win the Triple Crown only to drop it at the first opportunity to Suwama, in a match full of the worst Voodoo Murders interference garbage? That match yesterday drove me loving insane, it was good & then the ref gets yanked out of the ring & it turns to farts. Imma quote Voices of Wrestling's Gerard Di Trolio's review in full: "gently caress this. DUD". Why is Suwama champion again? Why didn't Yuma & Atsuki appear ringside to counter the Voodoo Murders? Why is Voodoo Murders back in this company 11 years on from their last run in AJPW? Who the gently caress wanted that? Also & this is a smaller thing because AJPW's Junior division has been an afterthought for the longest time, why the gently caress is Tiger Mask here? What does he offer? Susumu Yokosuka coming from outside to hold the title was fine, because he's actually really good & elevated everyone he worked with. Tiger Mask is here & loving up a top rope Tiger Bomb/Driver thing. It's been over a decade since he was in any way relevant. It's all the more frustrating because I thought they'd gotten over a spell of rotten booking issues, hard to forgive them for chasing both Koji Iwamoto & Yusuke Okada out of the company. So yeah, Dragongate are the best booked male promotion in Japan right now. I think GLEAT are excellently booked from the perspective of putting on shows that are worth watching but I do agree that their willingness to sacrifice their wrestlers to outsiders is frustrating. This post is long enough as it is but as far as joshi goes, TJPW has a problem where they seem utterly unwilling to pull the trigger on anyone outside of Shoko, Yuka, Miyu or Rika as PoP champion. It's well past time Maki Itoh was elevated to that group, Mizuki should probably be in it too. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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DG's booking this year has been amazing, yeah. Though it's been a little weird going into Kobe World, but they're clearly trying to build new stars this year. Is HARASHIMA still considered DDT's ace? I don't keep up with DDT much but there was a long stretch of time where every time I checked in he was at the top of the card.
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sticklefifer posted:DG's booking this year has been amazing, yeah. Though it's been a little weird going into Kobe World, but they're clearly trying to build new stars this year. Nah, Takeshita is firmly ace now. HARASHIMA's last reign on top ended January 2020, & he only had the 1 successful defence. He's still doing fun stuff in the tag division, both with Yuji Okabayashi & Naomi Yoshimura, he's kind of acting as a mentor figure to Yoshimura now.
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sticklefifer posted:Is HARASHIMA still considered DDT's ace? I don't keep up with DDT much but there was a long stretch of time where every time I checked in he was at the top of the card. The Sauna Boys are DDT's aces in terms of drawing power and their position as faces of the company. Which necessarily includes Takeshita but the others aren't all that far behind. Even Endo getting injured wasn't a huge bump in the road as Higuchi getting a coronation, a new killer tag team, and a two junior partner faction graduations simultaneously creates a lot of intrigue. fez_machine fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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I love me some 2010s Suwama, but yeah, he needs to step aside from the main event. And it would be nice if we get a 5th-gen Tiger Mask. There must be a Young Lion Junior with enough talent to pull it off somewhere. A changeover has been due for years now.
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This match should rock. Imanari would probably retain but it'd would be great publicity for GanPro for Irie to wear the belt to every indie in Tokyo https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1548647941115727872
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https://twitter.com/LIDET_ENT/status/1549989732679307265?t=_lkCwJXKZNKwZ-FnOoO2UQ&s=19 The GLEAT show headlined by Lindaman & Soma vs DOUKI & Kanemaru will be airing on YouTube today at 8pm JST
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Apparently the Muscle Baby is killing it in the Fire Festival. https://twitter.com/noahglobal/status/1549998838861115393?t=8qfZrUN0EmtoMXT2B-xxcg&s=19
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Bad news, Ohka wrestled a couple of dates over the weekend. All involving ChocoPro personnel https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1550053502805807106
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Lamuella posted:Apparently the Muscle Baby is killing it in the Fire Festival. https://twitter.com/noahglobal/status/1549998838861115393?t=8qfZrUN0EmtoMXT2B-xxcg&s=19 So bummed I've only seen the one night of Fire Festival, because it was excellent. Man, Abe vs Tanaka, so violent❤
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 THEY'RE BRINGING THE GREATEST STIP OF ALL TIME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1550366077896609797 https://twitter.com/ddtproENG/status/1550365126213021697
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More Covid bad news https://twitter.com/ddtproENG/status/1550415665873358848
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You're gonna be seeing a lot more of this. Covid has exploded in Japan like never before. The site I'm looking at has Japan at 180,000 new cases today.
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Jul 22, 2022 11:16
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Its all the drat cheering at sporting events
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A relatively light week despite 4 nights of G1, Tetsuya Endo returning to DDT from his injury, more Tokyo Princess Cup, an absolutely stacked Stardom show that looks must-see, & Dragongate completing final preparations for next weekend's big double shot at Kobe Kinen Hall for Ultimo Dragon's 35th Anniversary & then the annual biggest event on the DG calendar, Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival. All assuming Japan doesn't go back into lockdown...(I have no idea if that's even a possibility being considered) Also I wrote this post yesterday so it still has the wrestlers who are out with COVID on it, because I've not seen who is replacing Kojima in that 6 man tag. Riko Kaiju is out of the SEAdLINNNG show during this week too, with a broken bone in her foot 23/7/2022, Saturday 1:30pm JST/3:30pm AEDT/5:30am BST/12:30am EDT/9:30pm PDT DDT Rojo Pro Wrestling Handmade In Japan FES 2022 Big Sight West Hall 1 & 2, Tokyo Falls Count Anywhere: MAO & Toi Kojima vs Sanshiro Takagi & Yuki Ishida vs Yukio Naya & Yuya Koroku Uploaded to Wrestle Universe 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/9am BST/4am EDT/1am PDT Stardom In Showcase Vol.1 Nagoya Congress Centre Event Hall, Nagoya Nagoya Rumble: Hanan vs Hazuki vs Hina vs Mayu Iwatani vs Miyu Amasaki vs Momo Kohgo vs Rina vs Ruaka vs Saki Kashima vs X vs X vs X Ami Sourei & Saya Iida vs Donna Del Mondo (Himeka & Maika) vs Queen's Quest (Lady C & Utami Hayashishita) Mina Shirakawa & Natsupoi vs SAKI & Unagi Sayaka I Quit Match: God's Eye (MIRAI & Syuri) vs Prominence (Akane Fujita & Hiragi Kurumi) Hardcore Match: Donna Del Mondo (Giulia & Mai Sakurai) vs Prominence (Risa Sera & Suzu Suzuki) Falls Count Anywhere 4 Way: AZM vs Koguma vs Momo Watanabe vs Tam Nakano 3 Way Coffin Match: Saya Kamitani vs Starlight Kid vs Some Mysterious Masked Demon Character Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World 6pm JST/8pm AEDT/10am BST/5am EDT/2am PDT Tokyo Joshi Pro Tokyo Princess Cup Night 4 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo Haruna Neko vs Mahiro Kiryu vs Yuka Sakazaki Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku vs Raku & Yuki Aino Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta vs Hyper Misao & Kaya Toribami Arisu Endo & Moka Miyamoto vs Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi Princess Cup Round 2: Pom Harajuku vs Suzume Princess Cup Round 2: Mizuki vs Shoko Nakajima Live on Wrestle Universe 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT New Japan G1 Climax 32 Night 4 Ota Ward General Gymnasium, Tokyo David Finlay, Hirooki Goto & Ryohei Oiwa vs El Phantasmo, Juice Robinson & KENTA Bad Dude Tito & JONAH vs Royce Isaacs & Tom Lawlor Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens & Yujiro vs Lance Archer, Taichi & TAKA Michinoku Dick Togo, EVIL & SHO vs Great O Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jado & Tama Tonga G1 C Block: Aaron Henare vs Zack Sabre Jr G1 D Block: Shingo Takagi vs YOSHI-HASHI G1 A Block: Kazuchika Okada vs Toru Yano G1 B Block: Jay White vs Tomohiro Ishii Live on NJPW World Also shows from Ice Ribbon, BJW & Dragongate 24/7/2022, Sunday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/3:30am BST/10:30pm EDT/7:30pm PDT DDT Summer Vacation 2022 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Antonio Honda & Chris Brookes vs Eruption (Hideki Okatani & Saki Akai) vs Yuji Hino & Yukio Naya Gota Ihashi, Sanshiro Takagi & Toru Owashi vs Pheromones (Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Yumehito Imanari) Akito & Yuki Ishida vs Kazuki Hirata & Makoto & Oishi Burning (Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku) vs HARASHIMA, Soma Takao & Yukio Sakaguchi KO-D 6 Man Tag Team Titles: Damnation TA (Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & MJ Paul)(c) vs 37KAMIINA (Shunma Katsumata, Toi Kojima & Yuki Ueno) DDT Universal Title: Masahiro Takanashi(c) vs Yusuke Okada KO-D Tag Team Titles: ASUKA & MAO(c) vs Kazusada Higuchi & Naomi Yoshimura Live on Wrestle Universe 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/5am BST/12am EDT/9pm PDT All Japan Summer Action Series Night 4 2AW Square, Chiba Hikaru Sato vs Suwama Ryo Inoue & Takao Omori vs Seigo Tachibana & Shotaro Ashino Black Menso-re & Izanagi vs Cyrus & TAJIRI Dan Tamura vs Ren Ayabe Ryuki Honda vs Shuji Ishikawa Yoshitatsu vs Yuma Aoyagi Atsuki Aoyagi vs Kento Miyahara Hokuto Omori & Jake Lee vs REAL BLOOD (Mizuki Watase & Naoya Nomura) Live on AJPW TV 3pm JST/5pm AEDT/7am BST/2am EDT/11pm PDT New Japan G1 Climax 32 Night 5 Ota Ward General Gymnasium, Tokyo Dick Togo, EVIL & SHO vs Hirooki Goto, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI Chase Owens & KENTA vs Royce Isaacs & Tom Lawlor BUSHI & Shingo Takagi vs Bad Dude Tito & JONAH Aaron Henare, Great O Khan & Will Ospreay vs Lance Archer, TAKA Michinoku & Zack Sabre Jr David Finlay, Kazuchika Okada & Tama Tonga vs Gedo, Jay White & Juice Robinson G1 D Block: El Phantasmo vs Yujiro Takahashi G1 B Block: SANADA vs Taichi G1 A Block: Bad Luck Fale vs Jeff Cobb G1 C Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Tetsuya Naito Live on NJPW World Stardom MidSummer Champions In Nagoya Nagoya Congress Centre Event Hall, Nagoya Akane Fujita vs Hanan vs Hina vs Waka Tsukiyama Saya Iida vs Suzu Suzuki Oedo Tai (Fukigen Death & Ruaka) vs STARS (Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo) Captain's Fall Tag: Cosmic Angels (Mina Shirakawa, Natsupoi & Unagi Sayaka) vs Prominence (Hiragi Kurumi, Mochi Natsumi & Risa Sera) Goddess of Stardom Titles: FWC (Hazuki & Koguma)(c) vs God's Eye (Ami Sourei & MIRAI) Artist of Stardom Titles: Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Saki Kashima & Starlight Kid)(c) vs Donna Del Mondo (Giulia, Himeka & Maika) High Speed Title: AZM(c) vs Rina Wonder of Stardom Title: Saya Kamitani(c) vs SAKI World of Stardom Title: Syuri(c) vs Tam Nakano Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/9am BST/4am EDT/1am PDT Dragongate Hopeful Gate Night 10 Sambo Hall, Kobe Card TBA Live on DG Network Also shows from BJW, Secret Base, Kyushu Pro, Ehime Pro & 2AW 25/7/2022, Monday Shows from Hard Hit & Diana 26/7/2022, Tuesday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT New Japan G1 Climax 32 Night 6 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Kosei Fujita & Yuto Nakashima vs SHO & Yujiro Takahashi Bad Dude Tito & JONAH vs Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano Aaron Henare, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay vs Hirooki Goto, Jado & Tama Tonga Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI vs Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & Zack Sabre Jr Bad Luck Fale, El Phantasmo, Gedo & Jay White vs BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito G1 B Block: Chase Owens vs Great O Khan G1 C Block: EVIL vs KENTA G1 A Block: Lance Archer vs Tom Lawlor G1 D Block: David Finlay vs Juice Robinson Live on NJPW World SEAdLINNNG Shinkiba Night Shin-Kiba 1stRING, Tokyo Card TBA Live on iPPV 27/7/2022, Wednesday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT New Japan G1 Climax 32 Night 7 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Dick Togo, EVIL & SHO vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ryohei Oiwa & Yuto Nakashima El Phantasmo & KENTA vs Royce Isaacs & Tom Lawlor Bad Dude Tito & JONAH vs Great O Khan & Jeff Cobb Chase Owens, Gedo, Jay White & Juice Robinson vs David Finlay, Kazuchika Okada, Kosei Fujita & YOSHI-HASHI BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs Lance Archer, Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & Zack Sabre Jr G1 D Block: Will Ospreay vs Yujiro Takahashi G1 A Block: Bad Luck Fale vs Toru Yano G1 C Block: Aaron Henare vs Hirooki Goto G1 B Block: Tama Tonga vs Tomohiro Ishii Live on NJPW World Also shows from Zero1 & BJW 28/7/2022, Thursday A Vamostar show 29/7/2022, Friday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT All Japan Summer Action Series Night 5 Shin-Kiba 1stRING, Tokyo Black Menso-re vs Hokuto Omori Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato vs Izanagi & Yoshitatsu Cyrus & TAJIRI vs Ren Ayabe & Shuji Ishikawa Ryuki Honda & Shotaro Ashino vs Voodoo Murders (KONO & Suwama) Atsuki Aoyagi, Jake Lee & Yuma Aoyagi vs Kento Miyahara, Rising HAYATO & Takuya Nomura All Asia Tag Team Titles: Voodoo Murders (Minoru & Toshizo)(c) vs Ryo Inoue & Takao Omori Uploaded later to AJPW TV Also a Dragongate show forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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You can remove the Gatoh Move/ChocoPro shows, they've ben cancelled. Sayuri came down with Covid and I wouldn't be surprised if others did as well.
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fez_machine posted:You can remove the Gatoh Move/ChocoPro shows, they've ben cancelled. Sayuri came down with Covid and I wouldn't be surprised if others did as well. And Sunday was meant to be their season ender too, that's a shame.
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Significant changes to the Stardom card. Utumi Hayashita, Natsupoi, Mochi Natsumi all out due to illness. (+ others out due to injury and X is absent) https://twitter.com/wwr_stardom/status/1550442774574403586
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If that is all the absences to those Stardom cards, then somehow they will still have all of the top matches intact. Like the card is in no way worse with the changes and you can argue that one match got better. Though I wouldn't be surprised if there are more changes.
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Holy poo poo that is the PERFECT use of Janela 
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YESSSSSS!!! LET'S loving GOOOOOO!!!
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