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Stall_19 posted:Oh yeah forgot they take content down on Twitter, though maybe a good idea here lol. Holy poo poo I thought y'all were exaggerating but God drat. That makes Miz look like Bruiser Brody.
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Stall_19 posted:Oh yeah forgot they take content down on Twitter, though maybe a good idea here lol. What the gently caress is this poo poo? Why would Okada even sell that?
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1glitch0 posted:What the gently caress is this poo poo? Why would Okada even sell that? He was soft as hell through the tournament and constantly did that spot. He's just reverted back to the mean of being a pretty rubbish wrestler after being ok over the pandemic
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Burn Down Canberra posted:He was soft as hell through the tournament and constantly did that spot. Legit embarrassing. You'd think someone would make him knock it off.
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Time for him to help Reigns in WWE
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Is Tanga the worst of the 3 brothers now?
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Okada should’ve gone into business for himself, stop selling and just shoot pin the guy.
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Imagine being the toughest son of a bitch in wrestling and your kid goes out and does that in the ring
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ThePariah posted:Okada should’ve gone into business for himself, stop selling and just shoot pin the guy. Honestly he should've just done the Ishii dead eyed no sell until Tanga actually laid the chops in.
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Gaz-L posted:Is Tanga the worst of the 3 brothers now? I think the answer is that is pretty obviously yes.
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Gaz-L posted:Is Tanga the worst of the 3 brothers now? Always was
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SatoshiMiwa posted:
Yeah I'm going to go out on a limb and respectfully disagree with Dave's take on Hikuleo. For anyone who didn't hear WOR, he essentially said that it's a mistake to push Hikuleo for two reasons. The first is that it should be Yota instead in the playoffs (Dave's very much of the opinion that Gedo should have done rainmakershock 2.0 and had Yota win the title from Sanada also). The second reason is that if you push him and he stinks then you wasted time pushing a guy that stinks, but if you push him and he gets really good, then WWE will poach him because of his height. He later added that AEW would go after him too, so either way would be a mistake in his view. Where I don't agree is because WWE supposedly tried to recruit Hikuleo and Tama Tonga earlier this year and failed, Tama Tonga turned them down in 2016 as well. Their father was never in the cult of Vince McMahon, he got out of there right before the narrative was re-written to say that if you don't "make it" to WWE you're an utter failure in your profession. Meng also knows very well how lovely the job is when the chairman thinks your value has expired. So I don't believe Hikuleo grew up in a house where your worth as an artist was based around the recognition of The Vince, and it's entirely probably he'd be loyal to new japan. I also don't see AEW poaching anyone if New Japan wants to keep them. But that's just me. Anyway, not trying to bury Dave, but sometimes his reading of new japan's future is almost as weird as mine! and this might be one of those cases.
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Sooper Gila posted:I also don't see AEW poaching anyone if New Japan wants to keep them. They lost Jay White like 6 months ago
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Rarity posted:They lost Jay White like 6 months ago That was due to an unrelated Eddie Kingston rear end beating!
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The "it should be Tsuji" angle is totally understandable. He and SANADA have clicked with each other and you could spin it into this generation's Okada and Tanahashi.
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Rarity posted:They lost Jay White like 6 months ago
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The Cameo posted:Also Jay’s literally running around AEW wearing a shirt that is NJPW IP In addition to this I'm pretty sure the shirt has the NJPW logo on it plus he's still using his awesome NJPW theme as well so I don't think it's like they poached him.
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Dave is right about Tsuji on both counts  That return match was one of the damnedest things I've ever seen and after seeing the G1 it wasn't all SANADA. Tsuji is really loving good.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Dave is right about Tsuji on both counts I do think it would have been too soon to put the belt on Tsuji as we didn't even know the names of his moves yet. But he does rule.
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Strawberry Panda posted:I do think it would have been too soon to put the belt on Tsuji as we didn't even know the names of his moves yet. But he does rule. Counterpoint: Big man do big spear
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Big Man do Gene Blaster, respect the finisher name Anyway the rocket’s probably going on Yuya.
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Like I get why they didn't put the belt on him cause Sanada reign still has legs on but they should 100% have Tsuji be the one that beats Ospreay for the US title which would still be a big deal cause it's Will
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Like I get why they didn't put the belt on him cause Sanada reign still has legs on but they should 100% have Tsuji be the one that beats Ospreay for the US title which would still be a big deal cause it's Will For sure they're gonna need someone to beat Ospreay for it after he wins the G1.
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I still think Shooter is gonna catch up and be Ace Level eventually (you can just tell the raw material is SO GOOD) but I feel like Yota is more refined. Which theoretically makes sense, Tsuji is a few years older.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:I still think Shooter is gonna catch up and be Ace Level eventually (you can just tell the raw material is SO GOOD) but I feel like Yota is more refined. Which theoretically makes sense, Tsuji is a few years older. Tsuji also has that smile.
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Strawberry Panda posted:Tsuji also has that smile. True. Shooter has the crowd pose though. It really is Irresistible Force v. Immovable Object in terms of intangible star power. And I love it.
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Shooter’s got such higher expectations of him than Tsuji has had, it’s unreal. Like, people will consider the kid’s career disappointing if by the end of it he’s not regarded on a Muto or Tanahashi level of being The Guy You Think Of when you think New Japan Pro-Wrestling. It’s bugfuck nuts what the company expect out of him just by how they’ve tied him to figures like Tana and Moxley (down to the “ignition” hook opening to his entrance music being the same as the ignition that starts “DEATH RIDER”) and most recently having Chono “teach him the Chono STF”. It’d be like Vince telling a guy graduating from NXT “so we’re gonna give you a gimmick in which you’re gonna be both Bret Hart and Steve Austin at the same time! You better work out to be as good as both of them! Ha! Good poo poo.” But, I reiterate: don’t sleep on Yuya Uemura, this card was his and Tsuji’s send-off card, and considering who sent him off and what happened when that guy “graduated” into the Rainmaker… The Cameo fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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 apologies for the delay, but i had to wait to get my computer back from repair. c block finals in a few hours G1 Climax 33 August 9th at 5:30 EDT/10:30 BST/18:30 JST Yokohama Budokan Kaito Kiyomiya and Ryohei Oiwa vs. United Empire (Jeff Cobb and Great O-Khan) Most Violent Players vs. Bullet Club War Dogs (Alex Coughlin and Gabe Kidd) Shota Umino, Hikuleo, and Jado vs. Strong Style Hirooki Goto, YOH, and Oskar Leube vs. TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Shane Haste, and Kosei Fujita) Hiroshi Tanahahi, Togi Makabe, and Master Wato vs. L.I.J (Tetsuya Naito, Yota Tsuji, and BUSHI) G1 Climax C Block Match:Tomohiro Ishii [2] vs. Mikey Nicholls [4] G1 Climax C Block Match:Tama Tonga [7] vs. HENARE [4] G1 Climax C Block Match:Eddie Kingston [8] vs. David Finlay [8] G1 Climax C Block Match:Shingo Takagi [7] vs. EVIL [8]
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Edit: Whoops! Welcome back Thauros! Key MATHTM takeaways from tonight will be:
Math ain't getting any easier! 
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) and needs to beat Mad Mikey in order to avoid a last place finish in C Block.
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ChrisBTY posted:If Finlay and EVIL win how sad will you all be? Gedo comes home after a long tour: 
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Best case scenario: Eddie and Shingo Worst case scenario: Finlay and EVIL Most likely scenario: Finlay and Shingo
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Still incredibly far behind on the tournament, watching Night 5 just now Have to say I expected Owens vs Hikuleo to be rank rotten but Chase's stooging at the start was pretty fun. And there's something very funny about Chase as the longest serving non-Gedo BC member who is still acting like it's Kenny's merch selling machine BC, running around trying to two sweet everyone, rather than Gabe Kidd being an obnoxious bastard. The wrestling isn't exciting but the character is funny, something very pathetic about how on the outside he is between the War Dogs & House of Torture
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