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Barry Bluejeans posted:I don't know anything about this Dempsey guy but the video makes it seem like he won't be entirely out of place He's Regal's kid so that makes sense
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Barry Bluejeans posted:I don't know anything about this Dempsey guy but the video makes it seem like he won't be entirely out of place Started at the New Japan dojo before the pandemic, then when that started he went back to the US & ended up in NXT
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Charlie Dempsey, for those unaware, is William Regal's son. He's good for someone with only two years' experience.
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Edward Mass posted:Charlie Dempsey, for those unaware, is William Regal's son. He's good for someone with only two years' experience. But no Yuma Anzai
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Edward Mass posted:Charlie Dempsey, for those unaware, is William Regal's son. He's good for someone with only two years' experience. If he had gone to the Dragongate dojo he’d be ready for the main event by now.
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Stall_19 posted:He's Regal's kid so that makes sense forkboy84 posted:Started at the New Japan dojo before the pandemic, then when that started he went back to the US & ended up in NXT Neat, thanks!
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https://twitter.com/alljapan_pw/status/1739196017952858358 So Dempsey isn't only there for the Korakuen show on the 3rd, he starting on the Yoyogi show at the end of the month. And lol at WWE Hall of Famer Tatsumi Fujinami.
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Takao Omori is leaving All Japan at the end of the year, such coincidental timing. This is the one thing we didn't want to happen
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Funny poster for DDT's next big show. https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1739196414435951040
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26/12/2023, Tuesday 6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST Dragongate Fantastic Gate Night 12 Sambo Hall, Kobe Dragon Dia, Kaito Nagano & Ryoya Tanaka vs Natural Vibes (BIG BOSS Shimizu, Kzy & U-T) Mondai Ryu vs Takashi Yoshida BxB Hulk, Kagetora, Punch Tominaga & Shachihoko Boy vs Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi, Shuji Kondo & Ultimo Dragon M3K (Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda) vs Z-Brats (ISHIN, KAI & Yoshiki Kato) Dragon Kid & Eita vs Naruki Doi & YAMATO Royal Sambo: Ben-K vs Hyo vs Jacky Funky Kamei vs Jason Lee vs Kota Minoura vs Luis Mante vs Madoka Kikuta vs Shun Skywalker vs Strong Machine J Just because it's Christmas doesn't mean I'm not thinking about puro (OK, I took a break from watching my dad play the Hitman Trilogy I got him to be anti-social), saw DG post this card on Facebook. Not essentially viewing but hey, it's their last show of the year.
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That's a WAY more stacked Royal Sambo than usual. Instead we're getting... Mondai vs Yoshida singles lmao Hyped for YamaDoi vs DK/Eita, that's gonna rule. YamaDoi-led unit WHEN though 
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Brandon Cutler, Ikemen Jiro & Colt Cabana vs. El Lindaman, Kaz Hayashi, and someone else??? at GLEAT
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Pylons posted:Brandon Cutler, Ikemen Jiro & Colt Cabana vs. El Lindaman, Kaz Hayashi, and someone else??? at GLEAT Issei Onitsuka. He's pretty decent, think he came through Wrestle-1 before that died
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Doi put more effort into doing the Natural Vibes dance once than the entire time Susumu was in Vibes.
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Dimebags Brain posted:Doi put more effort into doing the Natural Vibes dance once than the entire time Susumu was in Vibes. That was the thing that turned me into a Susumu stan from a mere appreciator.
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Anyway way to get tickets overseas for the DDT show on the 3rd or do I need to wait till I'm in Japan?
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Lol at Jae bringing up the lady who got in the ring and yelled at Kaito for being a loser.
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So now that Tanahashi is president, we need a Sanshiro Takagi/ Tanahashi match at a big DDT show.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Anyway way to get tickets overseas for the DDT show on the 3rd or do I need to wait till I'm in Japan? Are you on the Observer board? I saw there's a poster in the Wrestle Kingdom Travelers thread who has a ticket for it
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 In which Kevin Kelly makes a big dumb sweeping assumption and gets schooled by a far better commentator. All shows that have major plot/unit developments have a separate English feed. The rest are basically glorified house shows that have the wrestlers goofing off on commentary just to give them something to do.
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does dragon gate still have a dogshit streaming website though cuz I vaguely remember that being an issue back when everyone was setting them up
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abraham linksys posted:does dragon gate still have a dogshit streaming website though cuz I vaguely remember that being an issue back when everyone was setting them up It's...less bad? Events stay up for longer than they used to which is great, service still costs more than AJPW TV, NJPW World, Wrestle Universe or Stardom World (1,650 Yen a month). A bunch of non-Korakuen house shows in places like Kobe, Kyoto & Osaka plus some others are 1 or 2 camera shoots with the only commentary being wrestlers, but that doesn't really bother me, not like I can understand Japanese anyway. It's still hard to recommend to someone who is DG curious rather than already into the style or having at least some familiarity because of the cost, but hey, they have to at least break even & unlike NJPW, Stardom & NOAH/DDT/TJPW Dragongate don't have a big company behind them who can to some extent other subsidise the cost or just find savings through economics of scale. Ultimately they have multiple live shows a month, usually at least 1 Korakuen Hall show that has English commentary & is where most storylines advance, those are easy to find, there are Infinity episodes of stuff back to 2017, lots of big shows from even further back, & they are still drip-uploading Toryumon episodes, we're up to November 2002 now. I'd rather they came out much quicker but they've not got a big video team & are having to digitise this stuff as they go along according to Jae. It's not the easiest to navigate but then honestly that's true of basically every wrestling VOD service, even the WWE Network can be a royal pain in the arse when you're trying to find a specific WCW show from 1995 or whatever.
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sleep with the vicious posted:Are you on the Observer board? I saw there's a poster in the Wrestle Kingdom Travelers thread who has a ticket for it Not on the board no 
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Looking at Steve "Doctor Death" Williams wrestle in the 1990 Real World Tag League is tripping me out. Dude's 30 years old and looks like he's creeping up on 50. And lmao his partner Terry Gordy is a year younger. What were they feeding these guys
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apophenium posted:Looking at Steve "Doctor Death" Williams wrestle in the 1990 Real World Tag League is tripping me out. Dude's 30 years old and looks like he's creeping up on 50. And lmao his partner Terry Gordy is a year younger. What were they feeding these guys Cocaine, cigarettes & beer. It's always impressive how poorly guys aged in the '80s & 'early '90s.
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Yikes and they've invited a tiger into the midst of everything with that WWE partnership
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fez_machine posted:Yikes and they've invited a tiger into the midst of everything with that WWE partnership Assuming that is linked to everything else. I dunno, if there's a Japanese Dave Meltzer they don't get translated into English, business goings-on are always much more opaque. I have no idea what it's actually like behind the scenes, but the company feels like it's been more stable than a while where the company seemed to burn bridges, with Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada, Koji Iwamoto, even Naoya Nomura when he had his comeback it was with Capture rather than AJPW. And in isolation a 54 year old leaving, and the same for a ring announcer who is 57 and has been doing the gig for nearly 35 years. But there's always a lingering fear of it all derailing. loving hope not
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Alaois posted:nitter isn't letting me see that tweet, that's it about Couple of long time veterans leaving and ToSpo giving a pretty dire warning 
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Alaois posted:nitter isn't letting me see that tweet, that's it about Basically Fumihito Kihara, the AJPW ring announcer, has not renewed his contract. Combine that to Takao Omori also going and the Charlie Dempsey thing and Tokyo Sport are speculating something is happening in the office.
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forkboy84 posted:Japanese Dave Meltzer デーブー・マーラツァー
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I have a hard to believing wwe has anything to do with these people leaving. Feels like people are projecting.
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Great Space War is such amazing nonsense. Taro Nohashi as Thomas The Tank Engine. Winnie The Pooh. Abdullah Kobayashi as Piglet making a small child cry. The ring mat coming off so Sasuke can do an absolutely idiotic dive. Is it good? Dunno, but it's entertaining
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Stall_19 posted:I have a hard to believing wwe has anything to do with these people leaving. Feels like people are projecting. It's the reverse. The worry is that the weakness that's lead to people leaving also leaves All Japan vulnerable to WWE. fez_machine fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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I decided to make an early start on next week's puro schedule & holy gently caress Big Japan. Here's a selection of some of the North Americans appearing for BJW next week: Akira, Green Phantom (holy poo poo I haven't even heard that name since IWS was picking up steam online 15 years ago), Necro Butcher (yikes), Mad Man Pondo (challenging for the Deathmatch Title), Drake Younger (apparently wrestling primarily for XPW, always a good sign) & Violent J (of ICP). So that's at least 7 flights from North America (because Necro is being accompanied by Jasmine St Clair) BJW are paying for, plus whatever payouts for 2 or 3 dates (Younger & J aren't on the December 30th show, others are, plus all are on 2nd & 3rd January). I dunno, seems like that money could be used better, because 2023 Necro Butcher is just depressing.
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