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Stall_19 posted:Wouldn't be All Japan without an exodus Looking forward to Pro Wrestling ABRAHAM
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Stall_19 posted:https://twitter.com/sg_oxxt/status/1741572261839319122?t=SsJHMsHTNBqLoW2Ca1W1nA&s=19 Losing Ishikawa is concerning. Mind you, when it comes to a promotion I really enjoyed in the last 12 months every potential change is concerning. I wonder if this has anything to do with the deal to work with Actwres girlZ? Because that seems a bit of a slap in the face of the work Suwama & Shuji have done with Evolution, especially considering AWG's weird isolationism (& insistence they aren't a pro wrestling company. I never really understood that). The Big Dawg going isn't a huge loss in & of itself, because he's clearly on the downside of his career, same as both Yoshitatsu & Takao Omori. But at the same time, I've always kind of assumed he was involved backstage, certainly post TAJIRI, & especially with the dojo. (Ditto Omori) You can see how tagging with Ren Ayabe has really helped Ren grow as a big man wrestler. Ah, I dunno. I'm trying to take the attitude of not catastrophising & just enjoying what we've got. If they start losing the guys on the rise or in their prime, then I might change. Anyway, All Japan have put out cards for their Korakuen double header 2/1/2023, Tuesday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/3:30am GMT/10:30pm EST/7:30pm PST All Japan New Year Giant Series Night 1 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Fuminori Abe, Rising HAYATO & Ryo Inoue vs Koji Iwamoto, Naruki Doi & Takahiro Katori GAORA TV Title: Minoru Tanaka(c) vs Black Menso-re Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, Seigo Tachibana & Shotaro Ashino vs Zennichi Shin Jidai (Atsuki Aoyagi, Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi) Davey Boy Smith Jr, Hokuto Omori, Jun Saito, Minoru Suzuki & Rei Saito vs Mitsuya Nagai, Osamu Nishimura, Ren Ayabe, Ryuki Honda & Suwama Charlie Dempsey & Yuma Anzai vs Hideki Suzuki & Katsuhiko Nakajima PWF World Junior Heavyweight Title: Dan Tamura(c) vs Hikaru Sato New Year Battle Royal Live on AJPW TV 3/1/2023, Wednesday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/3:30am GMT/10:30pm EST/7:30pm PST All Japan New Year Giant Series Night 2 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Black Menso-re, Dan Tamura, Rising HAYATO & Ryo Inoue vs Fuminori Abe, Hikaru Sato, Koji Iwamoto & Naruki Doi Hokuto Omori & Minoru Suzuki vs Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana New Period (Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai) vs Zennichi Shin Jidai (Atsuki Aoyagi & Yuma Aoyagi) Actwres girlZ Offer Match: Chika Goto & Kouki vs Miku Aono & Natsuki Jun Saito & Rei Saito vs Ren Ayabe & Shotaro Ashino Davey Boy Smith Jr & Kento Miyahara vs Hideki Suzuki & Suwama Triple Crown Title: Katsuhiko Nakajima(c) vs Charlie Dempsey Live on AJPW TV
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forkboy84 posted:Losing Ishikawa is concerning. Mind you, when it comes to a promotion I really enjoyed in the last 12 months every potential change is concerning. I wonder if this has anything to do with the deal to work with Actwres girlZ? Because that seems a bit of a slap in the face of the work Suwama & Shuji have done with Evolution, especially considering AWG's weird isolationism (& insistence they aren't a pro wrestling company. I never really understood that). The Big Dawg going isn't a huge loss in & of itself, because he's clearly on the downside of his career, same as both Yoshitatsu & Takao Omori. But at the same time, I've always kind of assumed he was involved backstage, certainly post TAJIRI, & especially with the dojo. (Ditto Omori) You can see how tagging with Ren Ayabe has really helped Ren grow as a big man wrestler. Ah, I dunno. I'm trying to take the attitude of not catastrophising & just enjoying what we've got. If they start losing the guys on the rise or in their prime, then I might change. The Tokyo Sports article did mention the AWG partnership without informing the wrestlers as an aspect of this yes. They put up this video on Twitter https://twitter.com/alljapan_pw/status/1741479527992430704?t=sDOboRFbfhicjGcgM6mVHQ&s=19 So it does seem like some changes are happening.
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https://twitter.com/EasternLariat/status/1741864541531607463?t=1l9slfl01t8_e4Q0s2HWvA&s=19 Eastern Lariat looking for your picks for Japanese wrestling year end awards
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Jan 2, 2024 01:08
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Miyahara vs Nakajima 2 from 12/31 loving rocks. Nakajima puts in a career defining performance. Must watch ****3/4 from me
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sleep with the vicious posted:Miyahara vs Nakajima 2 from 12/31 loving rocks. Nakajima puts in a career defining performance. Must watch ****3/4 from me It's the fact they have done it twice this year. Two absolutely tremendous, heated battles but managing to feel quite different, at a huge part of that is on Nakajima. It was great
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/EasternLariat/status/1741864541531607463?t=1l9slfl01t8_e4Q0s2HWvA&s=19 A quick look at my ballot MVP - Kento Miyahara Joshi MVP - Arisa Nakajima Best Moment - Masa Chono vs Keiji Mutoh Best Wrestler - Kento Miyahara Best Jr. Heavyweight - Atsuki Aoyagi Best Tag Team - M3K (Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda) Match of the Year - Arisa Nakajima vs Sareee (SEAd, 8/25) Show of the Year - Stardom Allstar Grand Queendom, 4/23 Best Promotion - AJPW Most Improved - Yasushi Kanda Most Underrated, This does not mean most underutilized - I've no idea Rookie of the Year - must've debuted after December 31st, 2021 - Yuma Anzai Best Foreigner - Will Ospreay
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Stall_19 posted:https://twitter.com/sg_oxxt/status/1741572261839319122?t=SsJHMsHTNBqLoW2Ca1W1nA&s=19 Was furious when the President reserved banging himself on the head with pots for some women wrestlers instead of the boys.
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/EasternLariat/status/1741864541531607463?t=1l9slfl01t8_e4Q0s2HWvA&s=19 Yeah why not i'll do this while whatever this AWG segment is continues taking up time in my All Japan MVP - Kento Miyahara Joshi MVP - Arisa Nakajima Best Moment - Hirata pinning the IWGP Jr TItle Best Wrestler - Kento Miyahara Best Jr. Heavyweight - MAO Best Tag Team - Strong BJ (Sekimoto and Okabayashi) Match of the Year - Nakajima vs MIyahara (NOAH July 17th) Show of the Year - Wrestle Kingdom 17 Best Promotion - NJPW Most Improved - Saito Brothers (AJPW) Most Underrated - Kazuki Hirata (DDT) Rookie of the Year - Yuma Anzai (AJPW) Best Foreigner - Gabe Kidd (NJPW)
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forkboy84 posted:I wonder if this has anything to do with the deal to work with Actwres girlZ? Because that seems a bit of a slap in the face of the work Suwama & Shuji have done with Evolution, especially considering AWG's weird isolationism (& insistence they aren't a pro wrestling company. I never really understood that). What was the endgame of Evolution supposed to be though, with all 3 (t h r e e) of their talents? Partnering with a joshi(with an asterisk, I guess, with AWG being the way it is) company seems like the only way forward if Evolution is ever supposed to be anything but a vanity project E: Fell out of watching a lot of shows this year but going to say Mutoh vs Chono is the best in every category it's eligible for. Tonfa fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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I'm not really qualified, but here's what I did MVP - Kento Miyahara Joshi MVP - Giulia Best Moment - Shinsuke Nakamura absorbing Great Muta's mist Best Wrestler - Kento Miyahara Best Jr. Heavyweight - Rising HAYATO Best Tag Team - Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi Match of the Year - Katsuhiko Nakajima v. Kento Miyahara 7/17 Show of the Year - Wrestle Kingdom 17 1/4 Best Promotion - AJPW Most Improved - Jun & Rei Saito Most Underrated - Kaito Kiyomiya Rookie of the Year - Yuma Anzai Best Foreigner - Will Ospreay Excited to be more on top of AJPW, STARDOM, and others this year.
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hmmm https://twitter.com/SisterJessiee/status/1742008635830739155
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Jan 2, 2024 04:49
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Man, people REALLY don't like Charlie Dempsey I guess!
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This match is supposed to make me care about Charlie Dempsey challenging tomorrow but all I really care about right now is Anzai winning the belt off this smug fucker down the line
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Jan 2, 2024 05:05
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(Bear in mind I haven't seen any match Bryan Danielson wrestled before 2022) Is Charlie Dempsey doing a young Bryan Danielson type gimmick?
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apophenium posted:(Bear in mind I haven't seen any match Bryan Danielson wrestled before 2022) Is Charlie Dempsey doing a young Bryan Danielson type gimmick? He wrestles like his father, William Regal e:  Seems like the lad had no issue taking Nak's kicks. Tomorrow should be good
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SG Bamboo posted:He wrestles like his father, William Regal I haven't seen him wrestle either.  I saw the maroon trunks and mat wrestling and my mind went to Bryan Danielson.Pretty neat little match. The Anzai stuff with Nakajima was the most interesting part
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Jan 2, 2024 05:18
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Are they coming out to a Star Wars theme remix for this battle royale? e: that match was very silly but very happy with the winner SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 2, 2024 05:46
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I guess NOAH has a pre-show since it says on Wrestle Universe it starts in just over 30 minutes but there's a match on right now! Edit: The arrogance of wearing those white boots cost you, Young Boy!
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Jan 2, 2024 06:26
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Need to get some sleep before work tonight but will definitelt check out the top two matches from the NOAH show
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So... is the match over or not? 
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JAKE LEE WAS THE TOP CHAMPION LAST YEAR. WHY IS HE IN THIS MATCH
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Pylons posted:JAKE LEE WAS THE TOP CHAMPION LAST YEAR. WHY IS HE IN THIS MATCH They went out of their way during his title reign to make it clear he was absolutely a top tier guy in NOAH so putting him into this with a.... monocle...? is particularly confusing.
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Jan 2, 2024 07:36
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I swear the crowd got quieter for that Jack Morris plancha
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Jan 2, 2024 07:38
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Nevermind that bullshit, here comes STONE PITBULL TOUGH AND HARD BITE YOU
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Opening of this match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU4xW79ASsg
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Jan 2, 2024 07:48
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This is like the diner scene in Looper. Same guy decades apart.
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Jake lees monocle will be hard to top but I believe in kitamiya and ishii
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Jan 2, 2024 07:48
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Welcome to gently caress Your Leg: The Match
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Lamuella posted:Welcome to gently caress Your Leg: The Match These guys saw each other existing and they took that personally.
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I don't think there is a wrestler better at selling (and not selling) in the entire world than Tomohiro Ishii. He's incredible. Edit: COUNT OF ONE! COUNT OF ONE! 
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That was so loving good. Gotta admit I expected a Kitamiya victory but can't be mad about Ishii coming out on top.
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Jan 2, 2024 08:04
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Yeah, I could watch that match every two weeks forever, thanks.
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Jan 2, 2024 08:05
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Time for a hearty meal of Chops 'n' Bread!
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SG Bamboo posted:Are they coming out to a Star Wars theme remix for this battle royale? As consolation here's one from 1980 that finishes with Dutch Mantell against a new-ish Tenryu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZtbwEMGuQk
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Ditch posted:Dutch Mantell against a new-ish Tenryu Seeing both these guys young and thin is a real loving head trip I have to say.
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....Yone and crew coming out in response to Shiozaki's call was not what I was expecting. Edit: Oh, well... that's underwhelming 
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