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fez_machine posted:Champ Ishii Tomohiro Ishii, asked to save the company after all those years never winning the title: https://i.imgur.com/bBuADRe.mp4
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Having pondered this for hours now I'm very torn between my main reaction being "between all the stuff going on with New Japan and all the stuff going on with All Japan it's looking a lot like we're in for early-2000s dark ages dire straits in the scene again, boys" and " Tanahashi's first three acts as president were Give Self Belt, Hire Riddle, and Watch Okada Leave"So. Both are extremely bad, but one's at least funny
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The worst thing about this whole situation is that Kaito will never get his win back e: Oh poo poo the thought just occured to me, does this news all but guarantee that Okada and Pals will be dropping the belts to Big Fuj and his Aussie Uncles at New Beginning? I've changed my mind, New Japan has been saved SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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He's not going anywhere, he just wants to win at Forbidden Door 3.
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Almost all the big names that were in NJPW when I had my first taste in Korakuen in 2018 are gone. Kenny Bucks Hangman Ospreay Juice Jay White Aussie Open (idk if they were there) Okada Suzuki, Naito, Ishii and a very busted, very corrupt President Ace are the last big ones standing. I got lucky getting to go to WK17 because now in retrospect it looks like that’s going to be the end of the era, the last Kingdom where almost all the big ones in the old guard (god that’s sad to say) were present. (18 was good but nothing on that card compared to Omega/Will) I’m also realizing that Kenny may be done and I may have seen his last dome match ever and that makes me feel sad and lucky at the same time.
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Does Okada like surfing?
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The main eventers from the last five years of dome shows who are still with the company are Naito, SANADA, and Shingo. Gone are Okada/Ibushi/White/Ospreay kinda. For reference, for WWE the last five years of Wrestlemania main events, still with WWE are Charlotte/Becky/AJ/Brock/McIntyre/Bianca/Roman/Owens/Jimmy Uso/Jay Uso/Sami/Cody, gone are Ronda/Undertaker/Sasha/Edge/Bryan/Stone Cold, and two of those are retirement. It shows how a great chunk of the top end of New Japan has left for various (money) reasons, but also there's room for people to grow. It's not an apples to orange comparison because Wrassle Kingdome had people maining both nights while Wrestlemania hasn't (yet), but there's room to freshen up the top of the cards for New Japan, mostly out of necessity. I said this in the prediction thread, but out of the new blood that's made their big returns in the past year or so, I'd say one to two get the big belt this year and one wins the G1 for certain. It's sink or swim for those kids whether Gedo and Co. wanted it to be that way or not.
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Tanahashi lifted New Japan out of the Dark Ages, and by god he's bringing bad times back so he can do it all over again.
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I think njpw will be fine and 2024 will be an all timer year and the return of two block G1
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STONE COLD 64 posted:I think njpw will be fine and 2024 will be an all timer year and the return of two block G1 insha'Allah
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It better be two block they don't have the roster for four block nonsense anyway
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I can't decide if the sheer madness of this makes it more or less likely Mox gets a short run with the belt. Either way, what the gently caress
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Hopefully less. Can't be doing with part-timers on top. Anyway, Naito should probably have a fairly long reign with the roll call being interrupted by increasingly comical people, culminating in Captain New Japan
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Here's hoping Okada' last match will involve him getting pinned by YOSHI-HASHI 
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naM sdrawkcaB posted:Here's hoping Okada' last match will involve him getting pinned by Yoshitatsu
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naM sdrawkcaB posted:Here's hoping Okada' last match will involve him getting pinned by YOSHI-HASHI https://www.njpw1972.com/168269 they've moved up the trios match and okada vs tana is on osaka
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 New Beginning in Nagoya January 20th at 3:00 EST/8:00 GMT/17:00 JST Dolphins Arena Kickoff Match 30 minutes before gong:Shoma Kato vs. Katsuya Murashima Shota Umino and Tomoaki Honma vs. House Of Torture (Ren Narita and Yujiro Takahashi) United Empire (Cobb, Henare, Catch 2/2, Newman) vs. BC War Dogs (Finlay, Coughlin, Kidd, Connors, and Maloney) DespeWato vs. House of Torture (Yoshinobu Kanemaru and SHO) G.o.D (El Phantasmo and Hikuleo) vs. Bullet Club (KENTA and Chase Owens) Okada, Tana, Ishii, and Makabe vs. TMDK (ZSJ, Haste, Nicholls, and Fujita) L.I.J (Naito, Shingo, Tsuji, Hiromu, and BUSHI) vs. Just 5 Guys (SANADA, Taichi, Uemura, DOUKI, and TAKA) KOPW 2024 Provisional:Taiji Ishimori(h) vs. Great-O-Khan NEVER Openweight Championship:Tama Tonga(c) vs. EVIL Road to THE NEW BEGINNING January 23rd at 4:30 EST/9:30 GMT/18:30 JST Korakuen Hall Ryusuke Taguchi and Katsuya Murashima vs. YOH and Shoma Kato United Empire (Cobb, Henare, Catch 2/2, Newman) vs. BC War Dogs (Finlay, Coughlin, Kidd, Connors, and Maloney) G.o.D (El-P, Hikuleo, and Jado) vs. Bullet Club (KENTA, Chase Owens, and Taiji Ishimori) Okada, Tana, Ishii, and Honma vs. TMDK (ZSJ, Haste, Nicholls, and Fujita) Tama Tonga, Shota Umino, and Togi Makabe vs. House of Torture (EVIL, Ren Narita, an Yujiro Takahashi) L.I.J (Naito, Shingo, Tsuji, Hiromu, and BUSHI) vs. Just 5 Guys (SANADA, Taichi, Uemura, DOUKI, and TAKA) Master Wato vs. SHO IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champiobship:El Desperado(c) vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru Road to THE NEW BEGINNING January 24th at 4:30 EST/9:30 GMT/18:30 JST Korakuen Hall Toru Yano and Katsuya Murashima vs. Boltin Oleg and Shoma Kato El-P, Hikuleo, and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Bullet Club (KENTA, Chase Owens, and Taiji Ishimori) Tiger Mask vs. Zack Sabre Jr. Tonga, Despe, Wato, and Honma vs. House of Torture (EVIL,SHO, Yujiro, and Kanemaru) United Empire (Cobb, Henare, Catch 2/2, Newman) vs. BC War Dogs (Finlay, Coughlin, Kidd, Connors, and Maloney) L.I.J (Shingo Takagi, Yota Tsuji, and BUSHI) vs. Just 5 Guys (Taichi, Yuya Uemura, and TAKA Michinoku) L.i.J (Tetsuya Naito and Hiromu Takahashi) vs. Just 5 Guys (SANADA and DOUKI) NEVER Openweight Troios Championhip: Kazuchika Okada, Hirohi Tanahashi, and Tomohiro Ishii(c) vs. TMDK (Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste, and Kosei Fujita) Shota Umino vs. Ren Narita
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Stall_19 posted:https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1748163432787202212?t=v3bcblM2sPJG9J2ihBc2RA&s=19 lmfao
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Looking forward to Yoshi-Hashi doing the Triple H "Shawn dropped the ball" promo in the coming weeks.
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My guess is that Seth got properly injured during the Jinder match and WWE made a stupid offer to save their big match with Punk. Shame, I enjoyed watching Okada
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ThePariah posted:Tanahashi lifted New Japan out of the Dark Ages, and by god he's bringing bad times back so he can do it all over again. Takahashi cutting the Vince "in gonna kill my creation / object a lethal dose of poison" promo
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Dango Bango posted:Takahashi cutting the Vince "in gonna kill my creation / object a lethal dose of poison" promo Tanahashi awkwardly taking the mic away from Hiromu and asking him to go take his seat.
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SG Bamboo posted:The worst thing about this whole situation is that Kaito will never get his win back Fuj pins Okada. This is AJ and Nakamura leaving after WK all over again, except Okada is more prominent than Nak and Ospreay is more homegrown and longer-tenured than AJ.
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Told Ultimo before he told the company
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Ultimo saying he hasn't decided yet makes it sound like he just rage quit NJPW after seeing a picture of Kaito Kiyomiya and doesn't actually know what he's doing next
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Fuj pins Okada. AJ and Nak leaving allowed for Omega to step up to HW which made room for Ospreay (and Takahashi) and they could really cement Okada as the top guy. Ospreay leaving should give Zack a boost and following him should be Gabe Kidd. Okada leaving should let Naito have a proper god tier run up top. If not Shingo is there. Major difference is theres no clear youngster to pick up the torch like with Okada. But they've got some great candidates.
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Kaveman posted:AJ and Nak leaving allowed for Omega to step up to HW which made room for Ospreay (and Takahashi) and they could really cement Okada as the top guy. I really hope this isn't true. Naito got the roll call, it was a great moment, have him lose to that young (tbd) NJC winner and force the future. Or that fanfiction that got posted about Mox winning the belt and turning heel on Shota. That'd be pretty funny
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SG Bamboo posted:I really hope this isn't true. Naito got the roll call, it was a great moment, have him lose to that young (tbd) NJC winner and force the future. That's fair, I'm not the biggest Naito fan but I just like to see if he could pull off a reign on top. He's had 3 reigns (HW) before this and lost it his first defense each time. I do believe it should be Tsuji to dethrone him so if they're ready after NJC I'm game for that.
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Kaveman posted:That's fair, I'm not the biggest Naito fan but I just like to see if he could pull off a reign on top. He's had 3 reigns (HW) before this and lost it his first defense each time. Naito won his first defense the last two times he held the belt, KENTA and EVIL. He should probably hold the belt awhile this time though he's by far their biggest star and they don't have a young guy built up to beat him right now. Do it right, don't rush it onto someone who wins the NJC.
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So if one of Okada's last matches is putting over one of the young guys, who should it be? Shota and Tsuji both feel like they have their own 'mountains' to climb, Ren Narita kinda just sucks. Is it Uemura by default?
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Pylons posted:So if one of Okada's last matches is putting over one of the young guys, who should it be? Shota and Tsuji both feel like they have their own 'mountains' to climb, Ren Narita kinda just sucks. Is it Uemura by default? Uemura's last match before excursion was with Okada so that's the answer, IMO
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SG Bamboo posted:Or that fanfiction that got posted about Mox winning the belt and turning heel on Shota. That'd be pretty funny That wasn't fanfiction, it's real and it's going to happen! 
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Pylons posted:So if one of Okada's last matches is putting over one of the young guys, who should it be? Shota and Tsuji both feel like they have their own 'mountains' to climb, Ren Narita kinda just sucks. Is it Uemura by default? Kaito would be my pick if he's jumping over or even if NOAH are continuing to loan him out.
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Is there any chance that Hiromu gets bumped up out of the juniors division because of all this?
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MassRafTer posted:Naito won his first defense the last two times he held the belt, KENTA and EVIL. He should probably hold the belt awhile this time though he's by far their biggest star and they don't have a young guy built up to beat him right now. Do it right, don't rush it onto someone who wins the NJC. My bad, you are correct. Thought they jumped straight to EVIL. I mean if they can give SANADA nearly a year they can give Naito some time. Has Takahashi showed any interest in moving up to HW? Edit: beaten
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