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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Bonk posted:

I've been busting my rear end on an extremely short deadline, so I haven't had time to watch much this past week.

DG had 4/23 & 4/29 house shows which both had some good stuff on them.

The 5/3 KBS Hall show will be 100% free on the Network, and will have Shun's "3rd Game" for Kikuta ahead of DoA: They have to team together against KAI & ISHIN, so that should be a good time.

Ryukyu Dragon also put out their RDPW 10th Anniversary show for free, which includes Kzy & Jacky defending the Sou Ryou tag belts and YAMATO defending the Ryou championship. Jun Kasai and Tatsumi Fujinami are also on the card, and I haven't watched it yet but I heard the YAMATO vs Gurukun Mask title match is fantastic.

the RDPW show is blocked in the US due to copyright lmao

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Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins
The RDPW show plays fine in Canada, so any browser VPN should do it. Must only be blocked in the US.

May 3: Tonight's free DG show card @ KBS Hall starts at 7:45am GMT / 3:45am EST / 12:45am PST:

1) Kzy vs B×B Hulk
2) YAMATO & Don Fujii vs Diamante & HYO
3) Ultimo Dragon & Genki Horiguchi & Kaito Nagano vs Masaaki Mochizuki & Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda
4) Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia vs Dragon Kid & Jason Lee
5) Big Boss Shimizu & Strong Machine J & Jacky 'Funky' Kamei vs Kota Minoura & Ben-K & Minorita
6) SSW Quest - 3rd GAME: Shun Skywalker & Madoka Kikuta vs KAI & ISHIN

May 4: Tomorrow's KBS Hall show is not free, but the 1st match will be, which is YAMATO & Susumu vs Fujii & Genki.

May 5: Dead or Alive 2023 in Nagoya, which will also have a free 1st match. I'll either make a GDT for it, or an effortpost in here.

The next show after that is a Korakuen on May 11.

Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins
https://streamable.com/t75xya

Kaito Nagano busted out a new soccer kick armdrag (legdrag?) and it looks cool as hell.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1653680957277216769?s=20

Power Windows
Dec 29, 2004

Brasky used to ride upon a steed, perchance to spy a lady.

Wow Endo vs KENTA

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro



Maybe it can be Stallion Rogers from NOAH.

Or maybe it's the long await Drake Younger Japan return...

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Maybe Mustafa Ali got stealth released from the wwe

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Matt Cardona.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Looking through the Japanese replies, the shortlist seems to be
- RVD
- Jeff Hardy
- Chris Jericho
- Yoshitatsu
- The Undertaker
- John Morrison
- Brock Lesnar

Goddamn if it's YT I will be so steamed

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





It'll be Kazma Sakamoto.

Dancing Peasant
Jul 19, 2003

All this for stealing a piece of bread? :waycool:

It also mentioned someone who held a WWE Title so:

Tajiri?

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


SG Bamboo posted:

Looking through the Japanese replies, the shortlist seems to be
- Yoshitatsu

Goddamn if it's YT I will be so steamed

The first thing this talent typed was "I have won many titles" and it's easily the funniest option of that selection if true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi_Tatsu#Championships_and_accomplishments

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


is Akira Tozawa still under contract?

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Lamuella posted:

is Akira Tozawa still under contract?

Yes :(

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


Six years out of the career of a man who was at one point in the top 5 junior heavyweights in the world. It's heartbreaking honestly.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Anyone else up watching NOAH?

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Loved that women's tag match. Ryo was so loving over.

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

Pylons posted:

Loved that women's tag match. Ryo was so loving over.

Oh I got to check that out

edit: It was pretty good

fez_machine fucked around with this message at 10:12 on May 4, 2023

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Funaki vs. Aoki ruled. Reminded me of when KENOH had the National GHC and his worked MMA matches.

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
poo poo I forgot there's was an Funaki v. Aoki match

we got to go back Marty!

edit: pretty good

fez_machine fucked around with this message at 10:33 on May 4, 2023

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

This Dralistico vs. Rey Escorpion match is loving good.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


After the insanity of Golden Week things calm down a little show volume wise. A little. I mean, we've got the Champion Carnival Finals! We've got the opening matches of both the King of DDT & Best of the Super Juniors titles! And Dragongate goes to Korakuen Hall, for what is normally the start of King of Gate but this year is Hopeful Gate for whatever reason. We won't know the card for that until after Dead or Alive, which is on Friday & I wanted to get this up today

6/5/2023, Saturday

12pm JST/1pm AEST/4am BST/11pm EST/8pm PST

DDT King of DDT 2023 Night 1
Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
King of DDT 1st Round: Kazusada Higuchi vs Yusuke Okada
King of DDT 1st Round: Hideki Okatani vs Shunma Katsumata
King of DDT 1st Round: Sanshiro Takagi vs Yukio Sakaguchi
King of DDT 1st Round: Chris Brookes vs HARASHIMA
King of DDT 1st Round: Jun Akiyama vs Tetsuya Endo
King of DDT 1st Round: MAO vs Takeshi Masada
King of DDT 1st Round: KANON vs Kotaro Suzuki
King of DDT 1st Round: Naruki Doi vs Yuki Ueno
Live on Wrestle Universe

1pm JST/2pm AEST/5am BST/12am EST/9pm PST

ZERO1 Premium Pro-Wrestling Show ~ Shinjiro Otani Support Event
Bellesalle Takadanobaba, Tokyo
Astro & Ryo Hoshino vs Shoki Kitamura vs Takumi Baba
Hide Kubota, Takuya Sugawara & Yasu Kubtoa vs LEONA, Yuji Okabayashi & Yuki Toki
Aja Kong, Naoshi Sano & Satsuki Nagao vs Jaguar Yokota & Voodoo Murders (Chris Vice & Yoshikazu Yokoyama)
NOAH (Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura) vs ZERO1 (Junya Matsunaga & Tsugutaka Sato)
Crane Yu & Dump Matsumoto vs Sakura Hirota & Shinobu Kandori
International & World Junior Double Crown Title: Leo Isaka(c) vs Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Nanae Takahashi vs Unagi Sayaka
Daisuke Sekimoto & Satoshi Kojima vs Masato Tanaka & Takashi Sugiura

5pm JST/6pm AEST/9am BST/4am EST/1am PST

Gatoh Move ChocoPro #310
Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo
Card TBA
Live on Wrestle Universe

Stardom GoldenWeek Fight Tour in Kagoshima
Sakurajima General Gymnasium, Kagoshima
Aya Sakura vs Miyu Amasaki vs Waka Tsukiyama
Saki Kashima vs Yuna Mizumori
HANAKO & Jessie vs Mei Seira & Suzu Suzuki
Club Venus (Mariah May, Mina Shirakawa & Xena) vs STARS (Hazuki, Koguma & Saya Iida)
meltear (Natsupoi & Tam Nakano) vs STARS (Hanan & Mayu Iwatani)
Donna del Mondo (Giulia, Mai Sakurai, Maika & Thekla) vs God's Eye (Ami Sourei, Konami, MIRAI & Syuri)
Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Natsuko Tora, Ruaka & Starlight Kid) vs Queen's Quest (AZM, Lady C, Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita)
Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World

6pm JST/7pm AEST/10am BST/5am EST/2am PST

Ganbare Pro Inherent Vice 2023
Takashimadaira Ward Community Centre, Tokyo
HARUKAZE & Moeka Haruhi vs Riara & YuuRI
Hong Kong International Policeman vs Yoshiko Hasegawa
Shuichiro Katsumura vs Takuya Wada
It may be on https://www.youtube.com/@ganpro041

6:30pm JST/7:30pm AEST/10:30am BST/5:30am EST/2:30am PST

GLEAT G Prowrestling Ver.51
Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
Issei Onitsuka & Kaz Hayashi vs Yan's Family (Masato Kamino & Takanori Ito)
Unagi Sayaka vs Yukari Hosokawa
Jun Tonsho vs Yusuke Kodama vs Yuya Susumu
Jun Saito & Rei Saito vs Minoru Tanaka & Yu Iizuka
Soma Watanabe & Tetsuya Izuchi vs STRONGHEARTS (El Lindaman & T-Hawk)
Black Generation International (Hartley Jackson, Kaito Ishida, Kotaro Suzuki, MAZADA & Yutani) vs BULK Orchestra (Check Shimatani, Hayato Tamura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Quiet Storm & Ryuichi Kawakami)
Uploaded to Youtube later in the week if it isn't live

Sendai Girls in Tokyo
Shin-Kiba 1stRING, Tokyo
Riko Kawahata vs Yurika Oka
Momo Tani vs Sakura Hirota
Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Nanami
Manami & Ryo Mizunami vs Maya Yukihi & Miyuki Takase
ASUKA & Mika Iwata vs Team 200kg (Chihiro Hashimoto & Yuu)
Uploaded to Youtube later

Also shows from COLOR'S, 2AW, Land's End, Ice Ribbon, JTO, Dragongate & Actwres girlZ

7/5/2023, Sunday

12pm JST/1pm AEST/4am BST/11pm EST/8pm PST

DDT King of DDT Night 2
Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
King of DDT 2nd Round
King of DDT 2nd Round
King of DDT 2nd Round
King of DDT 2nd Round
Rest of card TBA
Live on Wrestle Universe

6pm JST/7pm AEST/10am BST/5am EST/2am PST

All Japan Champion Carnival Night 10
Ota Ward General Gymnasium, Tokyo
Atsuki Aoyagi, El Lindaman & Rising HAYATO vs Kaito Ishida, Kotaro Suzuki & Yutani
Hikaru Sato, Kaori Yoneyama & Yuu vs SAKI, Unagi Sayaka & Yoshitatsu
KONO vs Manabu Soya
Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Hi69 & Kenoh) vs Voodoo Murders (Jun Saito, Rei Saito & Suwama)
PWF World Junior Heavyweight Title: Naruki Doi(c) vs Dan Tamura
Champion Carnival Final: Shotaro Ashino vs T-Hawk
Rest of card TBA
Live on AJPW TV

Also shows from Osaka Pro, Kyushu Pro, Dove Pro, Dragongate & Doutonbori

8/5/2023, Monday

Nothing

9/5/2023, Tuesday

6:30pm JST/7:30pm AEST/10:30am BST/5:30am EST/2:30am PST

Stardom GoldenWeek Fight Tour Bonus Track
EDION Arena #2, Osaka
Donna del Mondo (Giulia & Thekla) vs Mei Seria & Suzu Suzuki
Aya Sakura vs Saki Kashima vs Waka Tsukiyama
HANAKO & Yuna Mizumori vs Queen's Quest (Lady C & Miyu Amasaki)
God's Eye (Ami Sourei, MIRAI & Syuri) vs Queen's Quest (AZM, Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita)
Club Venus (Jessie, Mariah May, Mina Shirakawa & Xena) vs Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe, Natsuko Tora, Ruaka & Starlight Kid)
COSMIC ANGELS (Natsupoi, Saori Anou & Tam Nakano) vs STARS (Hazuki, Koguma & Mayu Iwatani)
Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World

10/5/2023, Wednesday

Shows from YMZ

11/5/2023, Thursday

6:30pm JST/7:30pm AEST/10:30am BST/5:30am EST/2:30am PST

Dragongate Hopeful Gate Night 5
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Card TBA
Live on DG Network

12/5/2023, Friday

6:30pm JST/7:30pm AEST/10:30am BST/5:30am EST/2:30am PST

New Japan Best of the Super Juniors Night 1
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
BOSJ B Block: Clark Connors vs Kevin Knight
BOSJ A Block: Ryusuke Taguchi vs Taiji Ishimori
BOSJ B Block: BUSHI vs Dan Moloney
BOSJ A Block: DOUKI vs KUSHIDA
BOSJ B Block: Francesco Akira vs Master Wato
BOSJ A Block: Lio Rush vs SHO
BOSJ B Block: Robbie Eagles vs YOH
BOSJ A Block: Titán vs TJP
BOSJ B Block: El Desperado vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru
BOSJ A Block: Hiromu Takahashi vs Mike Bailey
Live on NJPW World

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


I'm well mad I spoiled the NOAH show yesterday for myself because I would have popped so freaking hard for the AXIZ reunion. Well, I still did, but seeing a photo of it on Twitter isn't quite the same

Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins
Last night after the DOA main event, Dragongate basically spelled out the new "Big Six" carrying the company into the new era: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka, Shun Skywalker, Kota Minoura, Strong Machine J, and Ben-K.

For reference, the previous Big Six: Masato Yoshino, YAMATO, Shingo Takagi, Akira Tozawa, BxB Hulk, and Naruki Doi.

Half of those have moved on, Doi's a freelancer now, Hulk's injuries have stacked up over the years, and YAMATO is still great but is aging out of the ace role, so it's really smart to solidify this new era of top talent, especially with such a strong rookie crop coming up fast.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

https://twitter.com/justinmknipper/status/1654739148903956481

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


https://twitter.com/LIDET_ENT/status/1654810781014425603?s=20

No big deal, just one of the coolest violence men in the business, Fujita "Jr" Hayato, coming to GLEAT!

Barry Bluejeans
Feb 2, 2017

ATTENTHUN THITIZENTH
Watching this Ganbare show and giggling as commentary repeatedly says one of the few Japanese words I know (otousan) as Dan the Dad makes his debut

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


https://twitter.com/judekilgour/status/1654936863356903425?s=20

Well that's really interesting, Unagi Sayaka in the Fire Festival. Fair play to Sayaka, she's really found a niche since leaving Stardom.

Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins

Barry Bluejeans posted:

Watching this Ganbare show and giggling as commentary repeatedly says one of the few Japanese words I know (otousan) as Dan the Dad makes his debut
My favorite puro commentary-ism is that they don't seem to have a native term for "over the top rope elimination", so every time there's a battle royal you hear them say "oba-za-toppu-ropu" a whole bunch of times.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Watching the Champion Carnival finals, very funny that there's a mystery partner and the silhouette is quite clearly Black Menso-re

e: Oh wow, Kotaro Suzuki is bruised to hell. Guess Ueno caught him with a real good shot at this morning's DDT show

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 08:30 on May 7, 2023

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

I can't believe Black Menso-re was the mystery partner :geno:

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

This chump Kenoh getting bodybagged

gripebomb
Dec 13, 2006

I wanted to fight the world.

- Eddie Kingston
AJPW show has been pretty awesome.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Naito gave Anzai a lot there, bit hard after the jumping knees and the German Suplex. Huge huge hopes for the main event, but if the last two years have taught me anything it's that being an Ashino fan is pain

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Think he might have been a bit late kicking out there

e: Very happy with that ending, the tournament may not have been great show to show but they definitely stuck the landing

gripebomb
Dec 13, 2006

I wanted to fight the world.

- Eddie Kingston
Now that's a loving trophy

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Watching the Big Japan Sapporo double shot (or at least the SamuraiTV edit that summarises 2 full shows into a 2 hour block) & first thing we see after the intro is Mad Man Pondo and Necro Butcher, and Necro is waving a Trump 2024 flag and wearing horrendous looking stars and stripes pants. Meanwhile Pondo is apparently too fat for his old boots as they won't lace up properly.

Necro just had a metal trash can lobbed at his skull. Man, I do not know what possessed BJW to bring this pair back, they sure ain't what they used to be

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


And then there's a disappointing Okabayashi vs Sekimoto match for the Strong title, and an interminable deathmatch between Abby Jr & Ito, a match with a combined age of over 90 that felt every bit of it. These guys should only be in singlew matches against younger guys who'll work their butts off

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom

SG Bamboo posted:

This chump Kenoh getting bodybagged

https://twitter.com/judekilgour/status/1655383600148144133

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Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
https://twitter.com/noah_ghc/status/1655377583935201282

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