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Elimination match is by far the best thing so far, Watase is a maniac slamming his head into the corner post e: Unless Katsumura's winning the belt back for GanPro I don't see how they're going to follow that up, awesome match SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Dragongate is running a new Big Show at Yokohama Budokan Jan. 27th called The Gate of Bayside. Shun/Mante for the Dream Gate and Jason/Jacky vs. Team Loser Kaito for the Twin Gate have been announced. Will probably get more coming out of the Jan. Korakuen.
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tbh if I were the AJPW top brass and I wanted to sell the company to the Fed, I would make sure I sold the belts - at the very least the Triple Crown - to NJPW or NOAH or Dragongate first sure, it'd lessen AJPW's value, but it'd hurt a lot more if Giant Baba's legacy was placed in the hands of the man who did Katie Vick Venomous fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Venomous posted:tbh if I were the AJPW top brass and I wanted to sell the company to the Fed, I would make sure I sold the belts - at the very least the Triple Crown - to NJPW or NOAH or Dragongate first it would be really funny if the reason WWE is now going after AJPW, and specifically sending one of their NXT guys to challenge for The Triple Crown is solely to spite AEW for introducing their own Triple Crown
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this is entirely the reason e: well, okay, that and folding it into NXT Japan when that happens Venomous fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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It's the last couple of days of 2023 & the first week of 2024, & that means boy oh boy, get ready for some professional wrestling from Japan! We've got a rematch of one of the best matches of the year from All Japan, plus the All Japan debut of Charlie Dempsey, we've got the debut of Actwres girlZ appearing in All Japan on 3/1, we've got a lot of great poo poo as well as 2 cards which we won't know the details of until the MANIAx show on Sunday is over. But it's not all All Japan, other companies choose to piggy back of them & also run around the Tokyo area: Stardom, New Japan, DDT, TJPW, hell, it's basically everyone except Dragongate. A pretty miserable collection of foreigners in Big Japan. A one night Triange Derby in Stardom, oh yeah, Wrestle Kingdom. GLEAT have Takehiro Yamamura's first match back from what was thought to be a career ending neck injury in 2019, plus 3 title matches (I assume. I haven't heard that Fujita Hayato has pulled out, despite needing to go back for treatment for his cancer coming back), a weirdly New Japan heavy NOAH show which I'd probably be madder about if we weren't getting 2 potentially banger matches in Kitamiya vs Ishii & Shiozaki vs Kojima, & DDT crown a winner of the D-Oh Grand Prix. Although it's probably going to Endo as they are finally rehabbing him from his concussion followed by extended period of just treading water. There's truly something for everyone. Well, except Dragongate diehards, but they start back up the following week Masaaki Mochizuki's 30th Anniversary show, with Aagen Iisou vs Z-Brats and Mochi vs Shingo Takagi, a rematch of one of the best singles matches in Dragon System history, so that's something to look forward to. 30/12/2023, Saturday 3pm JST/5pm AEDT/6am GMT/1am EST/10pm PST Gatoh Move ChocoPro #347 Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo Best Bros (Baliyan Akki & Mei Suruga) vs Hagane Shinno & Sayaka Choun Shiryu vs Tokiko Kirihara Emi Sakura & Masa Takanashi vs Miya Yotsuba & Mochi Natsumi On Youtube 6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST GLEAT Ver.7 Tokyo Dome City Hall, Tokyo Atsuki Aoyagi, JD Lee & Jun Tonsho vs BGI (Hartley Jackson, Keiichi Sato & Kotaro Suzuki) vs BULK Orchestra (Galeno del Mal, Quiet Storm & Ryuichi Kawakami vs Tomoaki Honma & Yan's Family (Takanori Ito & Yusuke Kodama) Brandon Cutler, Colt Cabana & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan vs El Lindaman, Issei Onitsuka & Kaz Hayashi Aoi & Unagi Sayaka vs MICHIKO & Yukari Hosokawa BULK Orchestra (Check Shimatani & KAZMA SAKAMOTO) vs SBK & TAKUMA UWF Rules: Riki Aitaka vs Tetsuya Izuchi UWF Rules: Azusa Inaba & Tomoka Inaba vs Hikaru Shida & Maya Fukuda LIDET UWF World Title: Fujita "Jr" Hayato(c) vs Minoru Tanaka Kaito Ishida vs Takehiro Yamamura G-INFINITY Titles: Saito Bros (Jun Saito & Rei Saito)(c) vs Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu G-REX Title: T-Hawk(c) vs Hayato Tamura Almost certainly live on their Youtube, but otherwise uploaded later in the week 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/9:30am GMT/5:30am EST/1:30am PST Big Japan In Korakuen Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Kankuro Hoshino & Yankee Two Kenju (Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto) vs Kota Sekifuda, Tatsuhiko Yoshino & Zeke Andino Daichi Hashimoto, Hideyoshi Kamitani & Kazuki Hashimoto vs Kazumasa Yoshida, Ryota Hama & Yasufumi Nakanoue Daimonji So, Leyton Buzzard & Tempesta vs Daisuke Sekimoto, Shigehiro Irie & Yuya Aoki Street Fight: Abdullah Kobayashi, Kazumi Kikuta, Masaya Takahashi & Ryuji Ito vs Akira, Green Phantom, Necro Butcher & Satsujin BJW Junior Heavyweight Title: Kaji Tomato(c) vs Ender Kara BJW Tag Team Titles: Astronauts (Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura)(c) vs Crazy Lovers (Masashi Takeda & Takumi Tsukamoto) BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Title: Yuki Ishikawa(c) vs Mad Man Pondo Live on Nico Nico, uploaded to BJW Core later Also shows from Oz Academy, Ice Ribbon, Ehime Pro & Ryukyu Pro 31/12/2023, Sunday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/3:30am GMT/10:30pm EST/7:30pm PST Ice Ribbon RibbonMania 2023 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Elimination Tag: Mayuka Koike, Yuko Sakurai & Yuu Hanaya vs Momo Tani, Nanae Furukawa & Saran Arisa Shinose vs Yuuki Minami AKARI & Yappy vs Crea & Tsukina Umino Asuka Fujitaka & Totoro Satsuki vs Misa Kagura & Sumika Yanagawa Hoshi Hamuko vs Makoto International Ribbon Tag Team Titles: Ancham & YuuRI(c) vs Kyuuri & Mifu Ashida ICE×∞ Title: Ibuki Hoshi(c) vs Kaho Matsushita Live PPV on Ice Ribbon Live 2pm JST/4pm AEDT/5am GMT/12am EST/9pm PST All Japan #ajpwMANIAx 2023 Yoyogi National Stadium 2nd Gymnasium, Tokyo Astronauts (Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura) & Black Menso-re vs Koji Iwamoto, Minoru Tanaka & Naruki Doi Koji Doi, Kuma Arashi & Mitsuya Nagai vs Ryo Inoue, Ryuki Honda & Takao Omori Ren Ayabe & Shuji Ishikawa vs Yoshitatsu & Yuma Aoyagi Jun Saito vs Rei Saito Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana vs Shotaro Ashino & T-Hawk Charlie Dempsey & Yuma Anzai vs LEONA & Tatsumi Fujinami Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising HAYATO vs Toi Kojima & Yuki Ueno PWF World Junior Heavyweight Title: El Lindaman(c) vs Dan Tamura Evolution (Hikaru Sato & Suwama) & Hideki Suzuki vs Davey Boy Smith Jr, Hokuto Omori & Minoru Suzuki Triple Crown Title: Katsuhiko Nakajima(c) vs Kento Miyahara Live on AJPW TV 3pm JST/5pm AEDT/6am GMT/1am EST/10pm PST Gatoh Move ChocoPro #348 Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo Antonio Honda vs Minoru Fujita vs Baliyan Akki & Toru Owashi Choun Shiryu vs Masahiro Takanashi Emi Sakura, Mei Suruga & Sayaka Obihiro vs Miya Yotsuba, Sayaka & Tokiko Kirihara On Youtube 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/9:30am GMT/5:30am EST/1:30am PST Big Japan & DDT New Year's Eve Pro Wrestling ~ Toshiwasure Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Shuffle 6 Man Tag Tournament 1st Round: Lonely Hot College Students (Koji Iwamoto, Takeshi Masada & Yuya Aoki) vs Smile Lizard King Kong (HARASHIMA, Kota Sekifuda & Yuji Hino) Shuffle 6 Man Tag Tournament 1st Round: Team Katagi Returns (Kazusada Higuchi, Kohei Kinoshita & Yasufumi Nakanoue) vs The Kind People (Kazumasa Yoshida, Soma Takao & Trans-Am ★ Hiroshi Shuffle 6 Man Tag Tournament 1st Round: Anal Destruction Hidaka (Daichi Hashimoto, Danshoku Dieno & Ikuto Hidaka) vs Big Bombers Kai (Hideyoshi Kamitani, Minoru Suzuki & Yukio Naya) Shuffle 6 Man Tag Tournament 1st Round: Bati Bate F'N In The Sky (Daisuke Sekimoto, Fuminori Abe & Tetsuya Endo) vs Go For It! 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Oh for fucksake. I'd almost swear this last week has been All Japan spiting me for singing their praises so much. Seems pretty rotten that they've been advertising this show as part of the ¥900/month I pay only for it to get removed a couple of days before hand. Oh well, if it doesn't go up on AJPW.TV eventually it'll showup online otherways.
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https://twitter.com/truesricosta/status/1740500238476153048?s=20 I guess we'll see on Sunday morning. I'm morbidly fascinated by how bad the English commentary could be, but not enough to spend money to find out. But I don't have particularly high hopes they'll use anyone who is overly familiar with the promotion in 2023, or be able to break down the history of Miyahara & Nakajima In brighter news, https://twitter.com/CiaranRH93/status/1740375955334689059?s=20 DO IT DESPY! Although not sure Death Worm would make the 100kg weight cut. We'll see. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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Yeah, but ARENA Shimokitazawa has alcohol so I guess he prefers that
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i impulse bought the baka gaijin 1st anniversary photo book and it arrived surprisingly quickly. it's a stupidly expensive thing to buy after shipping, but i live in a tiny cramped apartment with no room for collectibles and i've given up on anyone ever making a good wrestling t-shirt again, it's also the only merch i've bought all year  will try to OCR scan the interviews at some point. kinda curious: i've only watched a couple baka gaijin matches, does anyone have a best-of selection? basically wondering which matches work fine without japanese language knowledge lol, been lost trying to follow some of the bits at times
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If you want a straightforward wrestling match I'd maybe look at Hagane Shinno vs Maya Yukihi from Vol.7. MAO vs Death Worm from the first show and Brookes vs Drew Parker from the same show are also worth a watch. And there's a CDK vs Parker & Rina Yamashita match, forget which show that was on, 5 maybe?
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abraham linksys posted:i impulse bought the baka gaijin 1st anniversary photo book and it arrived surprisingly quickly. it's a stupidly expensive thing to buy after shipping, but i live in a tiny cramped apartment with no room for collectibles and i've given up on anyone ever making a good wrestling t-shirt again, it's also the only merch i've bought all year I have all the Baka Gaijin zines, and my only issue with them is that they're all wildly differing in sizes and presentations that are part of the packaging that make them not always great to keep together on a shelf. At least they ship pretty quickly; I've had vol. 8 and the 1st anniversary one hanging out at the shipping proxy I use for awhile now until I get around to ordering more stuff to put in a single package.
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Seeing the results of the crazy JTO tournament is getting me salivating, Hikaru Sato going 15+ minutes in both the semis and finals despite it being their 5th and 6th match of the day will be something to see, and the third round matches of Kota Sekifuda vs Yasu Urano and Tomoka Inaba vs Hikaru Sato could be fantstic as well
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SG Bamboo posted:Seeing the results of the crazy JTO tournament is getting me salivating, Hikaru Sato going 15+ minutes in both the semis and finals despite it being their 5th and 6th match of the day will be something to see, and the third round matches of Kota Sekifuda vs Yasu Urano and Tomoka Inaba vs Hikaru Sato could be fantstic as well There is no way a show that went that long is ever making it online.
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forkboy84 posted:There is no way a show that went that long is ever making it online. Cut the first two rounds and the battle royale to get it to a far more manageable 5 hours, outside of Inaba vs Miyacoco there's nothing in the first half i'd give a second thought to losing
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Dec 29, 2023 21:53
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fez_machine posted:The A in AJPW stands for All Elite
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Dec 29, 2023 21:59
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Not going to say the 26/12 DG has anything must watch on it, but the Royal Sambo featuring all big names is pretty fun
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Dec 30, 2023 01:21
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https://twitter.com/puwota/status/1740571261867348004?s=20 The wonderful puwota, who put together a schedule of what's on in Japan each week that I base my own schedule posts around, have posted this summary of their 2023. The top 2 columns are the 20 companies that appeared the most on their website, the bottom 2 are the prefectures that had the most & least shows. To try & make my best attempt at translating that, because it's either that or sleep before 3am. And trying to match the symbol is kind of fun problem solving. 1. Dragongate 2. New Japan 3. Big Japan 4. Stardom 5. DDT 6. Gatoh Move 7. Michinoku Pro 8. ZERO1 9. All Japan 10. 2AW 11. Ice Ribbon 12. NOAH 13. Osaka Pro 14. TJPW 15. WAVE Prefectures 1. Tokyo 2. Osaka 3. Kanagawa 4. Aichi 5. Chiba 6. Saitama 7. Hyogo 8. Hokkaido 9. Fukuoka 10. Iwate The Prefectures mostly correlate with population, though Iwate stands out, being the home of Michinoku Pro.
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Dec 30, 2023 04:37
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forkboy84 posted:To try & make my best attempt at translating that, because it's either that or sleep before 3am. And trying to match the symbol is kind of fun problem solving. 16-20 are PURE-J, Sportiva, KOBE Meriken, Diana, and Ryukyu Dragon. I'm not at all familiar with Sportiva but they run out of Nagoya, Ryukyu Dragon is like the only wrestling in Okinawa so they get decent numbers, and MeriPro isn't surprising because even though it's only like a 10 seat venue, they run every Friday night.
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Dec 30, 2023 06:36
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The biggest question from 2023 has to be directed at Noah and cyberfight and its basically what's the plan here guys. Depending on how you count gates from joint shows than stardom either snuck past Noah for second place last night for the year or just fell short (essentially if you give noah the 6.5k for the all together again show) Noah had a whole 40k from 3 muto shows as a head start. It's actually bizarre they had this huge show and did nothing with it. Njpw got more momentum out the show. Cyberagent has the money to run shows to try and build on this. Kiyomiya worked about 30% of his matches this year in new japan. They just don't seem to have a plan Like people can say bushiroad was too greedy with stardom and the roster fell to bits but I'd personally rather the aggressive grow grow grow attitude of BR than whatever it is that's going on at Noah. At least one is ambitious
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Dec 30, 2023 07:18
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Burn Down Canberra posted:The biggest question from 2023 has to be directed at Noah and cyberfight and its basically what's the plan here guys. Step 1: Humiliation for loser Kaito Step 2: ??? Step 3: Barely break even
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Dec 30, 2023 08:05
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It begins  https://twitter.com/alljapan_pw/status/1740972022279331918
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/puwota/status/1740571261867348004?s=20 Lmao number 6 most shows promotion Gatoh Move. Those girls racking up that match count (Who worked more this year? Cody Rhodes or Mei Suruga). Weird that Big Japan has so many shows though.
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Dec 30, 2023 11:44
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fez_machine posted:Lmao number 6 most shows promotion Gatoh Move. Those girls racking up that match count (Who worked more this year? Cody Rhodes or Mei Suruga). Weird that Big Japan has so many shows though. Big Japan run everywhere, constantly. Like most companies hit Hokkaido they do a couple of nights in Sapporo and maybe Hachinoe because it's on the way back to Honshu, but BJW are out there running a show every day of the week in the North East of the island and in the mountains & all that. And then they do 3 days in a row at Ueno Park in Tokyo 3 or 4 times a year, & they do frequent BJW vs shows with 2AW, ZERO1 & someone else I'm blanking on. I'm convinced their margins must be incredibly tight. Honestly the one that stood out to me was ZERO1, but as far as I can tell a lot of their shows are sold shows, often in shrines or for charities.
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Dec 30, 2023 11:59
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I suspect a lot of BJW are sold shows as well: last year they had two shows at the same time at opposite ends of the country and I assume that’s them double dipping. I don’t know about modern Stardom but into the Bushiroad period I think most Stardom shows outside Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka (and especially the weird small shows they’d do) were all sold shows done by a local promoter and I suspect that’s still the case for some. I know that Zero-1 and BJW have both sold title changes to sponsors as well (as in if you pay them enough money they’ll make someone a champion) and I suspect that’s part of them surviving as well: trying to monetise as much as they can.
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Dec 30, 2023 13:28
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Talking of Big Japan, spoilers for their Korakuen show from today Motherfucker. They put Mad Man Pondo, 54 year old Mad Man Pondo, who wasn't even that good in 2003, over Yuki Ishikawa for the Deathmatch Title. There's a rematch booked for the 4/1 show at Shin-Kiba so I'd assume he drops it right back, but what's the loving point of that. And yeah, Necro Butcher was waving his Trump 2024 flag again. loving cracking stuff. Oh yeah, & Astronauts dropped the tag titles
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Dec 30, 2023 16:42
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forkboy84 posted:Talking of Big Japan, spoilers for their Korakuen show from today Given Japan's strict anti-drug laws, how the gently caress did that brainfucked drug addict get into the country?
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Dec 30, 2023 18:00
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Watching yesterday's GLEAT show and wow does Takuma Fujiwara have a bad look, especially next to SBK He did do a loving bonkers springboard SSP to the outside so at least there's that
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