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Lamuella posted:poo poo got real, they're bringing a Dad. And in exchange All Japan got Yukio Naya for their show the same day, because Ren Ayabe has a collapsed lung & they needed another tall guy to team alongside Ishikawa & Sato
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# ? Sep 15, 2022 20:18 |
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# ? May 22, 2024 12:37 |
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Nagata doing double duty as well - working All Japan against their new rookie. VOW had a report on him - basically they think he’ll be something very special; New Japan also wanted him with Nagata in particular being a huge fan hence that match. Interesting that Nagata isn’t on the All Japan show: he left weirdly and I wonder if there’s actual heat there now.
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# ? Sep 15, 2022 20:23 |
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IceAgeComing posted:Nagata doing double duty as well - working All Japan against their new rookie. VOW had a report on him - basically they think he’ll be something very special; New Japan also wanted him with Nagata in particular being a huge fan hence that match. Assume you meant New Japan there, but he's only done a handful of shows since April. 3 in the summer & then the Blue Justice show this month. I figure that along with Kojima in NOAH this is just them moving on from the dads. I figure Nagata will be back in the dojo training guys but for now he still has the bug & New Japan would rather use Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi. Which if I am right then it's hilarious that Tenzan is still around despite being 1/100th of the wrestler of Kojima & 1/40th of the wrestler of Nagata right now.
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# ? Sep 15, 2022 21:04 |
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forkboy84 posted:it's hilarious that Tenzan is still around despite being 1/100th of the wrestler of Kojima & 1/40th of the wrestler of Nagata right now. How far down the list of desperate shindie promoters would you have to go before Tenzan would have any value as a full on multi tour regular invading guest?
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# ? Sep 15, 2022 21:10 |
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Tonfa posted:How far down the list of desperate shindie promoters would you have to go before Tenzan would have any value as a full on multi tour regular invading guest? Assuming NOAH pass on the opportunity to put the GHC Tag belts on TenCozy, he could have value to 2AW? I guess. He'd be useful in a dojo I'd imagine, there's a wealth of knowledge there even if his ankle is hosed up
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# ? Sep 15, 2022 21:21 |
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forkboy84 posted:Assume you meant New Japan there, but he's only done a handful of shows since April. 3 in the summer & then the Blue Justice show this month. I figure that along with Kojima in NOAH this is just them moving on from the dads. I figure Nagata will be back in the dojo training guys but for now he still has the bug & New Japan would rather use Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi. I meant Akiyama not working the All Japan show, actually.
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# ? Sep 16, 2022 07:11 |
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Lamuella posted:poo poo got real, they're bringing a Dad. Finally the answer to the age old question of who would win: Dad or Uncle.
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# ? Sep 16, 2022 10:35 |
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Update to the GLEAT MMA thing, Tetsuya Izuchi is going to get loving murdered by Yuki Kondo in December https://mobile.twitter.com/tospo_battle/status/1570735659190714369
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# ? Sep 16, 2022 12:34 |
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Why would they want him to do that?
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# ? Sep 16, 2022 17:01 |
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I'm guessing today's money marks have never seen Cro Cop/Nagata
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# ? Sep 16, 2022 17:45 |
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forkboy84 posted:Why would they want him to do that? Because Izuchi is already doing MMA fights and making money for someone else.
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# ? Sep 16, 2022 18:07 |
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Looks like Inokiism is back on the menu!
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# ? Sep 16, 2022 21:13 |
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They've also booked Luigi Primo apparently. The duality of GLEATism.
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# ? Sep 17, 2022 02:25 |
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:They've also booked Luigi Primo apparently. The duality of GLEATism. Do you have a source* on this? *sauce
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# ? Sep 17, 2022 03:02 |
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VOW are reporting it
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# ? Sep 17, 2022 05:22 |
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:VOW are reporting it That's great. Japan is getting the real meme freaks and stereotypes from overseas in the proud tradition of Pro-Wrestling instead of the greasy goobers that have dominated for the last decade.
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# ? Sep 17, 2022 06:11 |
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Asking a hard question. https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1570857914956664832
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# ? Sep 17, 2022 19:09 |
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Anniversary show merch https://twitter.com/alljapan_pw/status/1571303001607655424?t=pGKwq0kXV3kJVn0GTJWVkQ&s=19 Tickles me they have face Evolution Suwama on there instead of current VM Suwama but also I'd totally wear a Revolution/Evolution shirt
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# ? Sep 18, 2022 02:02 |
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Some pretty sick matches set up for the AJPW Korakuen that airs live tomorrow. Spoilers for people who want to wait to watch the Budokan show Kento Miyahara vs Naoya Nomura for the Triple Crown Gungnir of Anarchy vs The Saito Brothers for the tag titles.
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# ? Sep 18, 2022 13:14 |
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All Japan drew 4870
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# ? Sep 18, 2022 13:39 |
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So you're telling me that All Japan did the 2nd best attendance in the Budokan in the COVID era, outdrawing 9 New Japan shows, 3 NOAH shows & 1 Stardom show? Which means it is the best drawing non-New Japan Budokan show since Kenta Kobashi's retirement? Could be worse. Obviously it'd be nice if they did better but honestly considering they didn't exactly over-burden the card with outside faces (MiSu, Nagata, Tiger Mask, Christopher Daniels, the old guys who are always on these shows, Manabu Soya), compare to all the outsiders/newcomers on the July NOAH Budokan. The only people All Japan flew in were Daniels (& I have a feeling he was probably going to be in the country anyway for TGS related to the AEW game) & the Saito brothers who were apparently due back from excursion anyway. As a side note, it's super loving hard resisting clicking on spoiler tags, I have no self-control. I already spoiled myself the Jr Title match result by going on Twitter & being greeted with a photo of the winner, despite being fully aware I'm going to have to stay off Twitter all morning & probably all day. And then all day tomorrow as well because no point watching tomorrow's show before I've seen todays.
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# ? Sep 18, 2022 14:45 |
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forkboy84 posted:So you're telling me that All Japan did the 2nd best attendance in the Budokan in the COVID era, outdrawing 9 New Japan shows, 3 NOAH shows & 1 Stardom show? Which means it is the best drawing non-New Japan Budokan show since Kenta Kobashi's retirement? Yes. It also happens to be the only weekend Budokan show of the pandemic which probably gave it a boost. Not to take anything away from them, it was also raining torrentially as a typhoon approaches which would have put off any people planning to buy on the day
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# ? Sep 18, 2022 14:52 |
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Yes. Oh yeah, it's mostly favourable conditions & I'm not sure 4,900 (that's right, I'm rounding up. Maybe I should round up to the nearest 1000 & go for 5,000...) is anything to write home about, but considering it'd didn't really have the freshest headliner & that Voodoo Murders suck rear end, & compared to the number of fly-ins for NOAH's last Budokan show compared to this, it's not bad considering...well, the number of times I've heard people write off All Japan. Also I just checked & both of NOAH's 2022 Budokan shots were on Saturdays, 1st January & 16th July. And the BOSJ final was during Golden Week I think? Maybe it was the first day after Golden Week though, my memory is shite. But yeah, it's still a fair point. I'm not taking anything away from the other companies, I just think it's funny All Japan did this well relative to almost everyone else, considering cruel facts like "weekend vs weekday" isn't as funny.
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# ? Sep 18, 2022 15:06 |
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I'm sure this is what everyone has been excitedly waiting for (except GW BUSHI who I'm sure watched it when it aired...), 2AW's latest Korakuen show is up online after airing on Samurai TV https://vk.com/wall-4499945_22889 Headlined by Kengo Mashimo vs Isami Kodaka for the Openweight Title, plus Yoshida & Excilio defending the tag straps against Niki & Hanami & then the women's match between Big Hash & Sasamura.
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# ? Sep 18, 2022 21:37 |
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GLEAT's UWF postmatch music is so good
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 00:17 |
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Wow, the Saito brothers look so different on their return
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 06:55 |
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All Japan had a pretty decent 2019. We were discussing it earlier but it's hard to get a read of where they are at because they have run so few shows.
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 12:08 |
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All I can say with All Japan is that in-ring, the undercard is thinner than the skin on your shins & the top half of the shows are usually pretty good to tremendous. I wish they'd use more outside talent like Ayato Yoshida & the Koen team of Niki & Hanami from 2AW, way more KumaDoi obviously, find some space for a guy like Leo Isaka from Marvelous, use the GLEAT connections more, have the 60 Seconds guys & bring back KAZMA, they briefly teased using Baliyan Akki which was fun, IDK, there's loads of freelancers you can use, and for the love of god never give me a match with both Izanagi & Black Menso-re in it again because it feels like I've seen them working either as partners or opponents 50 times already in 2022. In fact I checked on Cagematch. Not including today's show that isn't in their DB yet, these guys have been in the same match 23 times. All Japan have run 49 shows. So just shy of 50% of shows have them together. Bare in mind that almost every show they run ends up on AJPW.TV at the moment, & that I've watched nearly everything AJPW have uploaded & that's a load of these 2 guys. New Japan level low-effort booking
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 12:26 |
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Using NJPW talent more like they are on the next Korakuen would honestly benefit both promotions
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 12:40 |
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SG Bamboo posted:Wow, the Saito brothers look so different on their return My first time seeing them. They definitely won me over. And yeah, they look like they stepped out of 1988 in the best possible sense.
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 19:01 |
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Using NJPW talent more like they are on the next Korakuen would honestly benefit both promotions Only if they put Jake in the next G1 so he'll stop embarrassing himself by going on about it
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 23:09 |
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Power Windows posted:My first time seeing them. They definitely won me over. The loving Dokken theme song definitely adds to the whole presentation. forkboy84 posted:Only if they put Jake in the next G1 so he'll stop embarrassing himself by going on about it No. I want Jake at 60 years old doing old man opening tags still talking about that time Tanahashi said he could be in the G1.
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 23:47 |
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Any word on when Jake Lee's contract is going to run out?
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 04:40 |
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Lily Catts posted:Any word on when Jake Lee's contract is going to run out? AJPW seem to do the NJPW thing at having contracts expire at the end of the year. Nomura and Iwamoto both ended their contracts on December 31st and they always announce new signings on their January 2nd Korakuen.
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 05:02 |
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Unless there's an ownership shake up I doubt Lee would jump to NOAH/DDT or NJPW since jumping to new companies is still looked down upon unless the ownership situation is in flux. Although I suppose Lee could do the comedy option of making his own promotion!
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 06:33 |
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I mean CyberFight didn't have a problem with Yusuke Okada jumping directly to them without having him pretend he wants to go to America and make it big like Shingo and Ishimori did before jumping to NJPW.
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 06:36 |
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forkboy84 posted:In about 12 hours El Desperado & Jun Kasai are going to try murder each other. Again. Blessed. I haven't been so moved by a wrestling match than this one. Absolutely beautiful, especially knowing how iconic Kasai is & how much Despy is a fanboy. From the moment I saw Despy vibing to Kasai's theme, I knew this was special. I highly recommend you watch Kyo-En - a documentary about Kasai and his life during the pandemic. https://shop.ponycan.com/products/detail/2051
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 07:43 |
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Kingston / Marufuji is now up on Wrestle Kingdom https://twitter.com/Hi5ame/status/1572117289482461184
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 07:57 |
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Watching some 2AW & Hiroshi Yamato's ring jacket looks like he stole his mam's shower curtain and cut two holes in it for his arms to go through.
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# ? May 22, 2024 12:37 |
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Fairly quiet week but with some variety at least: you've got big shows from DDT, NOAH & NJPW (all on Sunday), Ice Ribbon do Korakuen, TJPW, GCW in Japan nights 1 & 2 of 3, Big Japan continuing their tag league (with a retirement ceremony for Akira Hyodo which is a bit of a surprise, I'd noticed he hadn't been on any shows for a few months but didn't realise he was calling it quits), the 5 Star GP rolls relentlessly on & that's about it really. Picking an On Paper Match Of The Week is tricky, El Lindaman vs Takanori Ito could rule, Higuchi vs Takeshita has a really high floor/ceiling combo, & Kenoh vs Kaito is the meeting 2 men who always bring the best out of each other. poo poo, if it ends up being Tam vs Utami or even Ueno vs Noir I'd be unsurprise. But to get off the fence I'm sat on, I've got to go for Kazusada Higuchi vs Konosuke Takeshita: Takeshita is obviously having a hell of a year, they haven't actually meant too many times in singles matches (Cagematch says once in 2020 King of DDT & once in 2021 D-Ou), I'm excited. 24/9/2022, Saturday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/3:30am BST/10:30pm EDT/7:30pm PDT Ice Ribbon Ribbon Knights 2022 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Kiku, Totoro Satsuki & Yuna Manase vs Saran, Sumika Yanagawa & YuuRI Dalys, Hikari Shimizu, Kaho Matsushita & SAKI vs Rebel X Enemy (Maika Ozaki, Maya Yukihi, Ram Kaichow & Rina Yamashita Triangle Ribbon Title: Yuuki Mashiro(c) vs Cherry vs Matsuzawa-san A'min, Misa Kagura & Nao Ishikawa vs Asahi, Kyuuri & Tae Honma International Ribbon Tag Team Titles: Hamuko Hoshi & Makoto(c) vs Hikaru Shida & Ibuki Hoshi ICEx∞ Title: Saori Anou vs Stephanie Vaquer[/i] Live iPPV 12:30pm JST/2:30pm AEDT/4:30am BST/11:30pm EDT/8:30pm PDT Tokyo Joshi Pro Autumn Tour '22 Ryogoku KFC Hall, Tokyo Card TBA Live on Wrestle Universe 1:30pm JST/3:30pm AEDT/5:30am BST/12:30am EDT/9:30pm PDT Stardom 5★ Grand Prix 2022 Night 18 Belle Salle Takadanobaba, Tokyo Oedo Tai (Rina & Ruaka) vs Queen's Quest (Hina & Lady C) 5★GP Blue Stars Block: Ami Sourei vs Suzu Suzuki 5★GP Blue Stars Block: Hanan vs Mina Shirakawa 5★GP Blue Stars Block: Mayu Iwatani vs Momo Watanabe 5★GP Blue Stars Block: Giulia vs Saya Kamitani 5★GP Blue Stars Block: Saya Iida vs Starlight Kid High Speed Title: AZM(c) vs Fukigen Death vs Hazuki 5★GP Red Stars Block: Maika vs Momo Kohgo 5★GP Red Stars Block: Himeka vs Unagi Sayaka 5★GP Red Stars Block: Tam Nakano vs Utami Hayashishita Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World Also shows from Zero1, Basara, Freedoms, BJW, 2AW & Dragongate 25/9/2022, Sunday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/3:30am BST/10:30pm EDT/7:30pm PDT DDT Who's Gonna Top? 2022 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Hideki Okatani & Toi Kojima vs Yuki Ishida & Yuya Koroku Antonio Honda, Kazuki Hirata & Toru Owashi vs ASUKA, MAO & Saki Akai Damnation TA (Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & Minoru Fujita) vs Makoto Oishi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuji Hino Burning (Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo & Yusuke Okada) & Takeshi Masada vs HARASHIMA, Sanshiro Takagi, Soma Takao & Yukio Sakaguchi Akito & Yukio Naya vs Osamu Nishimura & Shinichiro Kawamatsu Shinya Aoki vs Shunma Katsumata vs Yuki Iino DDT Universal Title: Yuki Ueno(c) vs Cara Noir KO-D Openweight Title: Kazusada Higuchi(c) vs Konosuke Takeshita Live on Wrestle Universe 12pm JST/2pm AEDT/4am BST/11pm EDT/8pm PDT Stardom in Showcase Vol.2 Belle Salle Takadanobaba, Tokyo 5★GP Blue Stars Block: Hanan vs Saya Iida 5★GP Blue Stars Block: Starlight Kid vs Suzu Suzuki COLOR's (Hikari Shimizu & SAKI) vs COSMIC ANGELS (Mina Shirakawa & Unagi Sayaka) vs COSMIC ANGELS (Natsupoi & Tam Nakano) Falls Count Anywhere: AZM vs Maika vs Mayu Iwatani vs Ram Kaichow Hardcore Match: Giulia & Rina Yamashita vs Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe & Ruaka) There may be other matches mad, their website isn't clear Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World 12:30pm JST/2:30pm AEDT/4:30am BST/11:30pm EDT/8:30pm PDT GLEAT G Prowrestling Ver.35 Diamond Hall, Nagoya 60 Seconds (Jun Tonsho & Keiichi Sato) & Shinya Ishida vs Stronghearts (CIMA, Issei Onitsuka & T-Hawk) UWF Rules: Maya Fukuda vs Michiko Miyagi Oji Shiiba vs Tetsuya Izuchi BULK Orchestra (Check Shimatani, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Ryuichi Kawakami) vs Minoru Tanaka, Soma Watanabe & Yu Iizuka Abdullah Kobayashi, Kaz Hayashi & Yuji Okabayashi vs Dan Tamura, Hayato Tamura & Rising HAYATO G-REX Title: El Lindaman(c) vs Takanori Ito Live on Youtube 4pm JST/6pm AEDT/8am BST/3am EDT/12am PDT New Japan Burning Spirit Night 14 Kobe World Kinen Hall, Kobe BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi vs El Phantasmo, Hikuleo & KENTA Doc Gallows vs Toru Yano Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens vs Great O Khan & Jeff Cobb SANADA & Tetsuya Naito vs Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr Bad Dude Tito, JONAH & Shane Haste vs Kazuchika Okada, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma Jay White & Taiji Ishimori vs KUSHIDA & Tama Tonga IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Francesco Akira & TJP(c) vs Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi NEVER Openweight Title: Karl Anderson(c) vs Hiroshi Tanahashi IWGP US Title: Will Ospreay(c) vs David Finlay Live on NJPW World Pro Wrestling NOAH Grand Ship 2022 In Nagoya - Pro Wrestling Love Forever.2 Outbreak Aichi Prefectural Arena, Nagoya Manabu Soya vs Taichi Ozawa Kai Fujimura & Yasutaka Yano vs Los Perros del Mal de Japon (Eita & NOSAWA) Akitoshi Saito & Mohammed Yone vs Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura Alejandro, Extreme Tiger & Ninja Mack vs Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Hi69 & Tadasuke) Daiki Inaba, Masaaki Mochizuki & Masato Tanaka vs El Hijo del Dr Wagner Jr, Jack Morris & Naomichi Marufuji GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Stinger (Chris Ridgeway & Yoshinari Ogawa)(c) vs Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka GHC Tag Team Titles: Sugiuragun (Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher)(c) vs Satoshi Kojima & Takashi Sugiura GHC Junior Heavyweight Title: HAYATA(c) vs YO-HEY Kazuyuki Fujita & Keiji Mutoh vs Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masakatsu Funaki) GHC Heavyweight Title: Kenoh(c) vs Kaito Kiyomiya Live on Wrestle Universe Also shows from Ice Ribbon, Secret Base, Osaka Pro, 2AW, Dragongate & BJW 26/9/2022, Monday 7pm JST/9pm AEDT/11am BST/6am EDT/3am PDT Game Changer Wrestling Planet Death Shin-Kiba 1stRING, Tokyo Daisuke Masaoka & Takashi Sasaki vs Effy & Shlak Jimmy Lloyd vs Joey Janela vs Jordan Oliver vs Kikutaro vs Nick Wayne vs Toshiyki Sakuda Cole Radrick vs Violento Jack John Wayne Murdoch vs Masashi Takeda Alex Colon vs Drew Parker vs Toru Sugiura GCW Ultraviolent Title: Rina Yamashita(c) vs Mance Warner If it streams live I'd assume it'll be an iPPV on FITE 27/9/2022, Tuesday 7pm JST/9pm AEDT/11am BST/6am EDT/3am PDT Game Changer Wrestling Dead On Arrival Shin-Kiba 1stRING, Tokyo Joey Janela, Jordan Oliver & Nick Wayne vs Stronghearts (CIMA, El Lindaman & T-Hawk) Abdullah Kobayashi & Ryuji Ito vs Cole Radrick & Mance Warner Jimmy Llyod & Kikutaro vs Masato Tanaka & The Great Sasuke ERE (Drew Parker, Toshiyuki Sakuda & Violento Jack) vs Mega Bastards (Alex Colon & John Wayne Murdoch) & Rina Yamashita Masashi Takeda vs SHLAK Effy vs Jun Kasai If it streams live I'd assume it'll be an iPPV on FITE 28/9/2022, Wednesday Shows from YMZ & Ice Ribbon 29/9/2022, Thursday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT Big Japan Saikyo Tag League Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Fluorescent Lighttube Deathmatch BJW (Jaki Numazawa, Masaya Takahashi & Ryuji Ito) vs GCW (Alex Colon, Effy & Mance Warner Isami Kodaka, Kazuki Hashimoto & Yuko Miyamoto vs Kaji Tomato, Kota Sekifuda & Tatsuhiko Yoshino Daisuke Sekimoto, Kazumasa Yoshida & Ryota Hama vs Kazumi Kikuta, Takuya Nomura & Yuya Aoki Saikyo Tag League A Block: Andy Wu & Yasufumi Nakanoue vs Hiroyuki Suzuki & Takuho Kato Saikyo Tag League B Block: Abdullah Kobayashi & Daiju Wakamatsu vs Kankuro Hoshino & Yuuichi Taniguchi Saikyo Tag League B Block: Masashi Takeda & Takumi Tsukamoto vs Michio Kageyama & Yusaku Ito Saikyo Tag League B Block: Chicharito Shoki & Yuji Okabayashi vs Okami (Daichi Hashimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani) Live on LineLive 30/9/2022, Friday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/10:30am BST/5:30am EDT/2:30am PDT Pro Wrestling NOAH Sunny Voyage Bandajima Multi-Purpose Square, Niigata Taichi Ozawa vs Yoshiki Inamura Kai Fujimura & Yasutaka Yano vs NOSAWA & Super Crazy Alejandro, Extreme Tiger & Ninja Mack vs Hajime Ohara, Hi69 & Tadasuke Daiki Inaba & Shuhei Taniguchi vs Satoshi Kojima & Takashi Sugiura Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka & YO-HEY vs Stinger (Chris Ridgeway, HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa) GHC National Title: Masakatsu Funaki(c) vs Masa Kitamiya Jack Morris, Kaito Kiyomiya & Naomichi Marufuji vs Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh & Manabu Soya) Uploaded late to Wrestle Universe Also YMZ & Toru Sugiura Produce show
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