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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1610979162382307329?s=20&t=24vFWWNB7xltly-IpUK8Qw Half of my prediction has come true, now we just need them to be intergender!
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Forgot to post this after I wrote it up yesterday, but good job I did because a couple of cards that had been listed TBA got confirmed, so that's handy. Not Dragongate though, so we're back to the peak of the pandemic era which sucks. Anyway, we're heading out of the crazy period although Monday is quite busy as it's a public holiday in Japan. Probably the biggest shows of the week are the Dragongate Korakuen Hall double header, with a unit disbands match one night (even one with a pretty obvious result) & then a Dream Gate match the next, & Yuki Yoshioka vs Shun Skywalker has a high floor, this should be MOTYC, no doubt. But else where there's a DDT show (not live sadly) featuring a match where if the Sanshiro Takagi side wins they get the rights to explosion matches from Onita & if they lose then the guy who pinned gets the job of the guy who got pinned. So Toi Kojima as Cyberfight President if he pins Takagi, or Onita working at the DDT-owned bar if he pins Takao. A properly DDT stipulation. NOAH have a shuffle tag tournament of their own, with Kongo members teaming with home team members. GLEAT have another G-REX title match with El Lindaman defending against the winner of a battle royal. 7/1/2023, Saturday 12pm JST/2pm AEST/3am GMT/10pm EST/7pm PST Tokyo Joshi Pro City Circuit Winter Night 1 Art Centre, Kobe HIMAWARI vs Nao Kakuta Kaya Toribami vs Yuki Kamifuku Hikari Noa & Maki Itoh vs Raku & Yuki Aino Arisu Endo & Suzume vs Mizuki & Moka Miyamoto Hyper Misao & Shoko Nakajima vs Mahiro Kiryu & Yuka Sakazaki Heidi Howitzer, Max The Impaler & Trish Adora vs Miu Watanabe, Pom Harajuku & Rika Tatsumi Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe 1pm JST/3pm AEST/4am GMT/11pm EST/8pm PST DDT New Year's Current Explosion! Tsurumi Fruit & Vegetable Market, Yokohama Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Iino vs Hideki Okatani & Kazuma Sumi Takeshi Masada vs Yukio Naya 37KAMIINA (MAO & Yuki Ueno) vs Burning (Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku) DAMNATION TA (Daisuke Sasaki & Kanon) vs Harimao (Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida Gota Ihashi, Kazuki Hirata & Saki Akai vs HARASHIMA, Saori Anou & Yusuke Okada Chain Deathmatch: Chris Brookes vs Demonio Uno Current Blast Trademark Right & Position Battle Time Bomb & Current Blast Bat Deathmatch: Akito, Sanshiro Takagi & Soma Takao vs Atsushi Onita, Shunma Katsumata & Toi Kojima Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe 6pm JST/8pm AEST/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST Dragongate Open The New Year Gate Night 1 EDION Arena #2, Osaka Card TBA Live on DG Network Also shows from BJW, Ice Ribbon, Michinoku Pro & Heat-Up 8/1/2023, Sunday 12pm JST/2pm AEST/3am GMT/10pm EST/7pm PST Gatoh Move ChocoPro #285 Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo Card TBA Live on Youtube Pro Wrestling NOAH New Sunrise 2023 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Daiki Inaba & Masa Kitamiya vs Taishi Ozawa & Yasutaka Yano Akitoshi Saito & Mohammed Yone vs El Hijo del Dr Wagner Jr & Timothy Thatcher Jack Morris vs Masaaki Mochizuki Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki vs Eita & Yoshinari Ogawa Scramble Shuffle Tag Tournament 1st Round: Hi69 & Naomichi Marufuji vs Katsuhiko Nakajima & Seiki Yoshioka Scramble Shuffle Tag Tournament 1st Round: Hajime Ohara & Takashi Sugiura vs Masakatsu Funaki & YO-HEY Dante Leon vs Ninja Mack Scramble Shuffle Tag Tournament 1st Round: Atsushi Kotoge & Manabu Soya vs Kaito Kiyomiya & Tadasuke Scramble Shuffle Tag Tournament 1st Round: AMAKUSA & Kenoh vs Satoshi Kojima & Shuji Kondo Jake Lee vs Yoshiki Inamura Live on Wrestle Universe 12:30pm JST/2:30pm AEST/3:30am GMT/10:30pm EST/7:30pm PST Tokyo Joshi Pro City Circuit Winter Night 2 Okayama Convention Centre, Okayama HIMAWARI vs Moka Miyamoto Kaya Toribami vs Mizuki Hyper Misao vs Trish Adora Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta vs Pom Harajuku & Raku Mahiro Kiryu & Maki Itoh vs 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presumably uploaded to Stardom World 5pm JST/7pm AEST/8am GMT/3am EST/12am PST Dragongate Open The New Year Gate Night 2 KBS Hall, Kyoto Card TBA Live on DG Network GLEAT Ver.5 EDION Arena #2, Osaka G Rumble: Yutani vs Septimo Dragon vs Hartley Jackson vs Keiichi Sato vs Quiet Storm vs Shigehiro Irie vs Gringo Loco vs Jack Cartwheel vs Soma Waranabe vs Minoru Tanaka vs Tetsuya Izuchi vs Kaito Ishida vs T-Hawk vs Hayato Tamura vs CIMA vs Issei Onitsuka vs Check Shimatani vs X Matches featuring Tomoaki Honma & Michiko Miyagi TBC apparently UWF Rules: Masayoshi Miyairi & Ryuya Takekura vs Takanori Ito & Yu Iizuka UWF Rules: Maya Fukuda vs Yura Suzuki UWF Rules: Hideki Sekine & Ryo Inoue vs Oji Shiiba & Seichi Ikemoto Kaz Hayashi vs Luigi Primo BUSHI vs Jun Tonsho G-Rex Title: El Lindaman(c) vs winner of G Rumble 6pm JST/8pm AEST/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST Pro Wrestling NOAH Reboot 2023 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Shuffle Tag semi-finals & final, rest of card TBA Live on Wrestle Universe Also shows 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10 Crimson Ring Shin-Kiba 1stRING, Tokyo Gabai Ji-Chan vs Mochi Natsumi Hardcore Match: Hiragi Kurumi & Itsuki Aoki vs Miyako Matsumoto & Violento Jack Akane Fujita vs Kohaku vs Miyuki Takase vs Risa Sera vs Yuki Miyazaki Deathmatch: Suzu Suzuki vs Toshiyuki Sakuda I'll link it when it's up Also shows from WAVE, Doutonbori Pro, Kyushu Pro, Michinoku Pro, Dragongate & YMZ 10/1/2023, Tuesday Show from JTO 11/1/2023, Wednesday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEST/9:30am GMT/4:30am EST/1:30am PST All Japan New Year Giant Series Night 3 Hodogaya Public Hall, Yokohama Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato vs Oji Shiiba & Yoshitatsu Masao Inoue vs Takao Omori Black Menso-re vs Black Tiger Ryo Inoue, Shuji Ishikawa & Yuma Anzai vs Voodoo Murders (Jun Saito, Rei Saito & Suwama) Gungnir of Anarchy (Ryuki Honda & Yusuke Kodama) vs Hokuto Omori & Minoru Suzuki Atsuki Aoyagi, Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi vs Kaz Hayashi, Kento Miyahara & Rising HAYATO Live on AJPW TV Dragongate Open The New Year Gate Night 4 Korakuen Hall, 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forkboy84 posted:Forgot to post this after I wrote it up yesterday, but good job I did because a couple of cards that had been listed TBA got confirmed, so that's handy. Not Dragongate though, so we're back to the peak of the pandemic era which sucks. ① 8-Man: Don Fujii/Naruki Doi/Kaito Nagano/Yoshiki Kato vs M3K (this will be free on Youtube) ② Singles: Eita vs Ryu Fuda ③ 6-Man: Ultimo Dragon/Jason Lee/Strong Machine J vs Genki Horiguchi/Punch Tominaga/Ho Ho Lun ④ Tag: Kzy & Big Boss Shimizu vs Konomama Ichikawa & Shachihoko BOY ⑤ 6-Man: Dragon Kid/Takashi Yoshida/Problem Dragon vs KAI/BxB Hulk/ISHIN ⑥ New Year’s Dream Special Tag Team Match: Dragon Dia/HYO/Jacky 'Funky' Kamei/Minorita ⭐︎These competitors were selected by GM Saito as being top Brave Gate division prospects for 2023. The tag pairings will be selected via lottery. ⑦ New Year’s Dream Special Tag Team Match: Yuki Yoshioka/Madoka Kikuta/Kota Minoura/Diamante ⭐︎These competitors were selected by GM Saito as being top under-30 prospects for 2023. The tag pairings will be selected via lottery. Weird card, but interesting stuff going into the new year. [edit]Tomorrow has been announced too: 2023.1.8 Kyoto KBS Hall Live streaming ① 6-Man: D'courage vs Mochizuki Jr./Nagano/Kato (free on Youtube) ② 10-man: Kzy/Shimizu/Jason/SMJ/Kamei vs Horiguchi/Shachihoko/Tominaga/Ho Ho/Fuda ③ Tag: Susumu/Kanda vs Ultimo/Doi ④ Tag: Minoura/Minorita vs BxB Hulk/Diamante ⑤ HIGH-END vs Z-Brats 3-match Series: Dragon Kid/Yoshida/Mondai Ryu vs KAI/HYO/ISHIN *Each side will decide the order of appearance for their members for a series of 3 singles matches. The match series mains have routinely been really fun. There's also a cheer crowd in Mie for a house show on 1/9, which will have Diamante & ISHIN vs Nagano & Kato. Hoping that match makes it onto the free Youtube digest. GAORA has also posted Shingo's arrival at Korakuen from last month. Bonk fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jan 7, 2023 |
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quote:Heidi Howitzer, Max The Impaler & Trish Adora vs Miu Watanabe, Pom Harajuku & Rika Tatsumi Oooh! More Pom v Max! I can't wait to quote:Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe 
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Since DG is merged back here I guess I’ll shill Case and my coverage again lol. He just dropped the authoritative guide to Dragongate’s last year and looking ahead to this weekend’s season kickoff. https://twitter.com/voiceswrestling/status/1611388465890959360?s=46&t=u5tJ5B7s-V_qqYVyW1s_jQ Part of this was addressing Dave Meltzer’s haphazard and incorrect reporting. Since before his first NOSAWA-tinged Observer, we’ve been vigorously on top of this situation. Case released the fake Kaito Ishida email as a part of this article. I went into our process with this and more into how the sausage was made in a thread: https://twitter.com/fujiiheya/status/1611425982300229642?s=46&t=u5tJ5B7s-V_qqYVyW1s_jQ Anyways this weekend’s shows look really promising. It’s nice to do feature matches to kick off the year and not burning title matches in small venues or having made up tourneys (save rookie ranking leagues).
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Decided to not add Wrestle Kingdom 17 to my ever increasing backlog of NJPW stuff I need to watch "some day" and instead watched it "today". This was my first full NJPW show in probably 20 years. Overall thoughts / impressions: the sound mixing on NJPW shows is weird as hell, awful even. You can barely hear the audiencem, and not just because they're quiet. Even when they're popping it's just such a muted sound which makes the show feel duller than it is, and the entrance themes also sound awful since they're apparently just recorded from the house mics rather than a direct feed? To finish the trifecta, the commentators also sound like you're watching a pirate video someone dubbed in their bedroom. Then again the actual commentary was also on that level so it worked on a meta level. The pacing of the show also felt rushed from the perspective of someone who is used to AEW stuff. The previous match participants were still walking out when boop, here come the next guys. Not hating on it, just weird not to have lengthy talking head segments or any video recaps of the feud between matches with the exception of the main event. Overall it was what I vaguely remember NJPW shows being back in the day. The highs were high, but the overall event was surprisingly low key for what is their biggest show of the year. If I didn't know that Wrestle Kingdom is the NJPW top show, I wouldn't have guessed it watching. For a four hour+ show most of the matches felt extremely short and almost all of them could've benefited from more time, but I guess that's what happens when you devote like an hour and a half to two matches on a seven match card. Lio Rush / Yoh vs TJP / Akira. Fun little match, but didn't get as much time as I would've liked to see. Kinda weird that Rush is now wrestling in NJPW after quitting the pro wrestling industry about 60 times, but Rush is gonna Rush. I'm glad he's wrestling somewhere, because he's just too god drat good not to be doing this. KAIRI vs Tam Nakano for the IWGP Women's World Championship. A good match but again didn't get enough time. Stiff shots, good chemistry and Kairi still has the best elbow drop in the business. Would've loved to see a much longer match from these two. Kairi's entrance theme sounded especially bad here, it might be weirdly low energy in general but the NJPW sound mixing sure didn't help. The Mercedes Moné spot after the match fell flat as a pancake for me. She had an insanely good look, but then that botched weird DDT and that bad promo, and standing around... uhh. Tag Titles: a big letdown. Some good spots but never felt like it really got past first gear. Bishamon didn't really do anything for me, and based on this match I don't get the hype surrounding them. Then again, if this was the only FTR match I had seen, I also wouldn't understand why they were probably the best tag team in 2022 so maybe this was just an off day for everyone? Zack Sabre Jr vs. Ren Narita. Another drat good match. I love strong style stuff and we had plenty of it on offer here. Stiff kicks and elbow shots, and I loved the finish. Just a lightning fast submission out of nowhere which makes for a welcome change from the "nobody submits, everyone just passes out in submission holds" stuff people are doing these days. Tama Tonga vs Sour Boy. I liked the ring crew and announcer ducking out of way for Karl Anderson's machine gun miming. Other than that this was something you might see on WWE Main Event, which is also where you'll probably mostly be seeing Karl Anderson in the future. Keiji Muto's Last NJPW Match. Decent for what it was, but mostly it made me appreciate how good Sting's run in AEW has been. Four way for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight. Why does Master Wato have a big-rear end bedbug symbol on his entrance outfit? Why is Takahashi dressed as a beholder peacock? At least El Desperado is here to ground me as a cool wrestling skeleton. The match itself was fun, but suffered from the problem of most four ways: just isolated spots of everyone hitting their poo poo, and then switching around for the next guy to hit their poo poo with little connective tissue. Many of the spots were great though, like the combination powerbomb / avalanche suplex, and Wato hitting one of the sickest German Suplexes I've seen. Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay. Holy gently caress Kenny's entrance. I can't believe they got One Winged Angel for his entrance theme. Hell of a match by two of the top guys in the world right now. Such a great match from start to finish with a ton of cool spots ("Heeere's Kenny!") and both guys beating the poo poo out of each other from the start, but still building logically to a crescendo. Just a brutal match, so good. Legit MOTY contender. Don Callis was also great on commentary. "He dropped the ball! People didn't even cheer for him", lol. Okada vs Jay White. Aside from Omega vs Ospreay, Okada was the reason I bought the show. The dude won me over at Forbidden Door, what can I say? Much like I'm sure everyone else in the world I was going "lol good luck following the last match", and this was definitely different. Not bad, but different. It was actually fun to get such contrasting styles in back to back matches! One match just loving brutal poo poo from the start, the main event with a slower and more gradual build. This was what my mental image of a NJPW main event is and while it wasn't as good as the previous match, it was still a drat fine match. As someone who hasn't seem too many Okada matches, his drop kicks and lariats are so loving crisp and good. He gets insane airtime on the kicks and hits the lariats so well, of course it also helps that Jay was selling like a motherfucker. Best match? Well there's only one guy called the Best Bout Machine and he lived up to his name.  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How much NJPW have you actually watched? Have you watched the Omega/Okada series? Maybe watch a pre-pandemic G1 or the Shingo Takagi Best of Super Jnrs?
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If youre going to refer to lio rush mononymically to save time why in the world would you pick rush instead of lio
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fez_machine posted:How much NJPW have you actually watched? Have you watched the Omega/Okada series? Practically nothing since the change of the millennium. I have not seen the Okada/Omega series, I always understood that they kind of build on one another and it doesn't make sense to just watch the last one because what makes it so great are the callbacks to their earlier matches, so I never got around to it. But that does sound like a good starting place!
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The crowd sounding quiet like that is mostly because the Tokyo Dome is a cavernous building. It’s not usually that bad
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Practically nothing since the change of the millennium. I have not seen the Okada/Omega series, I always understood that they kind of build on one another and it doesn't make sense to just watch the last one because what makes it so great are the callbacks to their earlier matches, so I never got around to it. But that does sound like a good starting place! Definitely watch the Okada/Tanahashi series in that case then as well (make sure you watch Okada's terrible Tokyo Dome debut first). fez_machine fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jan 7, 2023 |
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Practically nothing since the change of the millennium. I have not seen the Okada/Omega series, I always understood that they kind of build on one another and it doesn't make sense to just watch the last one because what makes it so great are the callbacks to their earlier matches, so I never got around to it. But that does sound like a good starting place! Okada vs Tanahashi is probably where to start. But do you intend to continue watching New Japan? Coz if so I'd focus more on recommendations around the current important wrestlers so you can get an idea of who is who & all that. If not then just fire into Okada vs Tana (you probably don't need to watch their last 2 matches, that was mostly wrapped up by end of 2018), Okada vs Omega series, stuff like Shibata vs Okada from 2017 (yes, the match that ended Shibata's career is still one of the all-time great pro-wrestling matches), Tana vs Suzuki from KOPW 2012, Golden Lovers vs Young Bucks from March 2018, any of a hundred Ishii matches, be it against Shibata, Omega, Goto, Suzuki, Honma, Nakamura, Naito, Ibushi, Naito, Takagi, Taichi, he's an absolute machine. Where as if you intend to keep up with NJPW (& you should, it's very good & posting with goons is nice & chill & fun) then focus more on the dudes at the top of the cards & still active. So still Okada but also Takagi, Takahashi, Desperado, El Phantasmo, ZSJ, Ospreay, Taichi. Watch Hiromu Takahashi vs Will Ospreay and vs Dragon Lee (skip the one in the US where Hiromu breaks his neck though...) to get an idea of "why is Takahashi dressed as a beholder peacock?" for example. (The answer is only that "he's Hiromu Takahashi", which doesn't really help) Watch Shingo Takagi take the company by storm since his debut, with amazing performances as both a Junior Heavyweight & Heavyweight. The reason to watch 2021 New Japan. Honestly, you could just pick any G1 from the last decade, look at the top rated matches on Cagematch for that tournament & go buck wild with 10-15 amazing wrestling matches. Same is basically true for BOSJ too.
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Watching this DG Osaka show was a mistake. Other than the large rookie beating Mochizuki Jr there has been nothing of note and there's only 2 matches left on the show. It's not been bad by any means, but I'm definitely not really into DG house show matches anymore. Oh, and now I have to get up & go to my bedroom to skip past intermission, will these indignities ever end?
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forkboy84 posted:DDT flying in Samuray del Sol to shout LUCHA is a hell of a choice I think he flew in to support Mercedes
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forkboy84 posted:Watching this DG Osaka show was a mistake. Other than the large rookie beating Mochizuki Jr there has been nothing of note and there's only 2 matches left on the show. It's not been bad by any means, but I'm definitely not really into DG house show matches anymore. Oh, and now I have to get up & go to my bedroom to skip past intermission, will these indignities ever end? I enjoyed the last two matches - lottery tags are the closest thing we'll get to Doi Darts nowadays. I'm very curious about some of the matches on the KBS Hall show tonight though, especially the opener and the main.
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Dralistico will be appearing on some Noah shows. https://twitter.com/Hi5ame/status/1611939161178624000?t=BbTs6fc_xLXV7iXDjFyTFg&s=19
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Lamuella posted:Opponents for the Sting / Muta / Darby match announced: That seems painfully underwhelming for the Dome
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forkboy84 posted:That seems painfully underwhelming for the Dome It’s not at the Dome
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:It’s not at the Dome Ah. OK, all these last matches are getting mixed up in my head
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forkboy84 posted:Okada vs Tanahashi is probably where to start. But do you intend to continue watching New Japan? I do. I've wanted to get into it for ages, and especially hard after Forbidden Door. Thanks for the recommendations!
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Jan 8, 2023 11:47
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I do. I've wanted to get into it for ages, and especially hard after Forbidden Door. If you more recent match, FTR/Aussie Open from Royal Quest earlier this year was easily FTRs best match for New Japan and second only to the third Briscoes match as FTRs best last year
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Jan 8, 2023 11:50
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:For a four hour+ show most of the matches felt extremely short and almost all of them could've benefited from more time, but I guess that's what happens when you devote like an hour and a half to two matches on a seven match card.
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Jan 8, 2023 15:04
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Got spoiled on yesterday's GLEAT show scrolling through twitter and now i'm a bit confused over the choice to have Ishida win the belt through a Rumble the show immediately after he lost his conventional challengeShaman Tank Spec posted:The pacing of the show also felt rushed from the perspective of someone who is used to AEW stuff. The previous match participants were still walking out when boop, here come the next guys. Not hating on it, just weird not to have lengthy talking head segments or any video recaps of the feud between matches with the exception of the main event. Bit late, but I absolutely love this about the promotions I watch. When I was watching the AEW after WK i kept wishing they would stop talking and just get to the next match already because i'm so used to match match match with backstage interviews something I seek out
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Jan 9, 2023 10:09
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SG Bamboo posted:Bit late, but I absolutely love this about the promotions I watch. When I was watching the AEW after WK i kept wishing they would stop talking and just get to the next match already because i'm so used to match match match with backstage interviews something I seek out I watched SmackDown a few weeks ago to see WALTER v Ricochet and there were three matches in two hours But yeah, if I had to choose it would be Japanese style
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Jan 9, 2023 16:36
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SG Bamboo posted:Got spoiled on yesterday's GLEAT show scrolling through twitter and now i'm a bit confused over the choice to have Ishida win the belt through a Rumble the show immediately after he lost his conventional challenge Yeah, this is dumb 50/50 booking and I'm surprised they did it. I guess they wanted Lindaman to stay looking strong all through 2022? Then they can have a rubber match later? Good for Kickboy anyway, but he should've just won it at Ver.4 instead.
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Jan 9, 2023 17:26
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GLEAT result explanation Ishida is from Osaka and is a local draw. DG did this for years with him. Still think this is incredibly dumb but this promotion shouldn’t exist sooooo
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Jan 9, 2023 18:29
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:Still think this is incredibly dumb but this promotion shouldn’t exist sooooo  (this isn't necessarily a counterpoint)
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Jan 9, 2023 20:36
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I'm glad GLEAT exists, it gives me an easy place to watch Hartley Jackson and cool UWF style matches. It also gave us Soma Watanabe getting exposed in a kickboxing match but no promotion is perfect
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1/9 DG house show in Mie (card changed because Diamante's resting a knee issue) D'Courage vs. Shimizu/Jason/SMJ ISHIN vs. Nagano KAI/Hulk/HYO) vs. Dragon Kid/Yoshida/Mondai 1/11 Korakuen: ① 6 Man: Strong Machine J, Jason Lee, Jacky “Funky” Kamei vs. Naruki Doi, Eita, Punch Tominaga ② Singles: Big Boss Shimizu vs. Kaito Nagano ③ 8 Man: M3K vs. Ultimo Dragon, Genki Horiguchi, Kenichiro Arai, Konomama Ichikawa ④ Tag: Kzy & Yoshiki Kato vs Don Fujii & Shuji Kondo ⑤ 6 Man: D'courage vs Gold Class ⑥ Losing Unit Disbands: High-End Alliance vs. Z-Brats ⭐︎All available members of both sides will participate ⭐︎Match format to be decided No idea if Kagetora is healthy enough yet to be in the main, but the "all available members" thing means we can probably rule out SBK, Diamante, and possibly Shun if he's still in LA. Wonder if they'll put Kato over Fujii since they've only had him beat low-card guys and rookies so far.
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