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If Naito is healthy enough I can see him holding the title till Dominion and dropping it to Hiromu. Moving Hiromu up to heavy seems a lot more likely now
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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? EVIL
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Gaz-L posted:Kaito would be my pick if he's jumping over or even if NOAH are continuing to loan him out. Yeah, this would be my choice if only to see how pissed off Okada is about the entire thing. Alternatively, I think the world is ready for the Boltin Shock.
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Jan 19, 2024 18:38
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Let Goto finally win, because that is objectively the funniest thing they could do.
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Naito was always the better man for New Japan. Sad that it took everybody so long to realize but some of us always knew.
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MJeff posted:Naito was always the better man for New Japan. Sad that it took everybody so long to realize but some of us always knew.
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Jan 19, 2024 21:25
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Naito's always been Captain New Japan (no not that one), just think back to how he how spoke about NJ talent departures to Stamford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjLC0trXPI
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True, but he was also Captain New Japan. Which means he was also Bone Soldier.
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A Naito-led New Japan. A fate worse than death.
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NienNunb posted:A Naito-led New Japan. A fate worse than death. did it to themselves. shame
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I feel like they have two options: keep a rapidly breaking down Naito on top until January, or pull the trigger on ZSJ and/or a Reiwa Musketeer with a couple of relatively short reigns in the next year. The latter is a lot riskier financially (yet potentially extremely hot if it's done right), whereas the former is extremely boring but will keep NJPW stable until the point where they can pull the trigger on ZSJ and/or a Reiwa Musketeer. Granted, that raises the question of how exactly they'll keep the Reiwa Musketeers hot until next year, because I'm getting the impression that their moment is quickly passing. Maybe not, idk.
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Fans want a long Naito run so you have to figure he has the belt till Dominion. You probably don't want any of the new guys to face him before than so they don't get cooled down but I can see a Reiwa being the Dominion challenger and winning the belt to take it through the G1 The other option is to probably just move everyone up to heavyweight but keep the JR title as a high speed/flying title for light guys and push Hiromu to the moon. It's risky but Hiromu is super popular and I think people will take to him as the champ
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...nah, they would never abolish the weight divisions. They should, because weight divisions in wrestling are loving stupid, but this is NJPW we're talking about, and they won't. Would they?
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they should not abandon the weight divisions imho, just let the jrs main event more and dont treat them like a drat stepping stone!
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They probably won't but if Despy and Hiromu want to move up to heavy I don't think Gedo and New Japan says no
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despy should immediately be iwgp world heavyweight champion
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Suplex Liberace posted:despy should immediately be iwgp world heavyweight champion This is a good plan
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Suplex Liberace posted:despy should immediately be iwgp world heavyweight champion and immediately defend it in a deathmatch against Kasai
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the el desparado open deathmatch challenge will lead to an unprecidented run of sell out dome shows
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Like Hiromu and Despy are popular enough they can fill the void at the top of the card and Dominion main event of Naito/Hiromu feels like it has enough story to sell tickets
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yeah, it's not like KENTA/Marufuji, where neither were massive draws going into the Budokan. Besides, Osaka-jo Hall isn't the Budokan
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Hiromu's longterm character arc is that he wants to hold the IWGP Jr. and Heavyweight Championships at the same time. He explicitly wants to win the Heavyweight championship AS the Jr. Heavyweight Champion. It'll be really weird if they never pay that off.
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The last few times the NJPW main event scene has up and left the solution has been "megapush the head of bullet club" It's time.
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Lid posted:The last few times the NJPW main event scene has up and left the solution has been "megapush the head of bullet club" you’re right, push Gabe Kidd
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Lid posted:The last few times the NJPW main event scene has up and left the solution has been "megapush the head of bullet club" I can't tell if you mean EVIL or Finlay but I would genuinely prefer the former
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Suplex Liberace posted:despy should immediately be iwgp world heavyweight champion Rename it the IWGP Deathmatch Title, first defence Vs Hiromu
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Naito/Finlay title vs. title broadway at the anniversary show, got it
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Bro if they still don't put Zack and Shingo in the main event tier after all this poo poo If Gedo legitimately pushes Finlay over those two... I think I'll actually cry
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this kid is nuts posted:Bro if they still don't put Zack and Shingo in the main event tier after all this poo poo If Gedo pushes Finlay over ZSJ as top gaijin then the drat company will get what it deserves.
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Early show today, tentatively excited for this match even if Oka's last challenge for the belt was pretty dire https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1748548402856841280
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 NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya Start Time: 8:00am GMT/3:00am EST/12:00am PST Available in both English and Japanese. 1. Shoma Kato vs Katsuya Murashima 10 Minute Time Limit 2. Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma vs Ren Narita & Yujiro Takahashi 20 Minute Time Limit 3. Jeff Cobb/Francesco Akira/TJP/Callum Newman/Henare vs David Finlay/Alex Coughlin/Gabe Kidd/Clark Connors/Drilla Moloney 20 Minute Time Limit 4. El Desperado & Master Wato vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SHO 20 Minute Time Limit 5. KAZUCHIKA OKADA FAREWELL TOUR MATCH: Kazuchika Okada/Hiroshi Tanahashi/Tomohiro Ishii/Togi Makabe vs Zack Sabre Jr/Mikey Nicholls/Shane Haste/Kosei Fujita 30 Minute Time Limit 6. Tetsuya Naito/Yota Tsuji/Shingo Takagi/Hiromu Takahashi/BUSHI vs Sanada/Taichi/Yuya Uemura/Taka Michinoku/Douki 30 Minute Time Limit 7. King Of Pro Wrestling Openweight Championship Match: Taiji Ishimori(c) vs Great O-Khan 10 Minute Time Limit Ishimori Ring Fit Match 8. NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship Match: Hikuleo & El Phantasmo (c) vs KENTA & Chase Owens 30 Minute Time Limit Main Event: NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Tama Tonga (c) vs EVIL 60 Minute Time Limit STING 64 fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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SG Bamboo posted:Early show today, tentatively excited for this match even if Oka's last challenge for the belt was pretty dire Aw, I was hoping for a co-promotion with Nintendo. This will be fun too though. The main event and the semi-main though...woof.
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Nothing in wrestling is ever going to be as baffling to me as Chase Owens still having a job. What crime did he see Gedo commit?
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Lamuella posted:Nothing in wrestling is ever going to be as baffling to me as Chase Owens still having a job. What crime did he see Gedo commit? Gedo betrayed his Perfect Son, and thus is forever cursed 
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That transistion into the leglock from Kato looked vicious, he's got a couple of tricks even if Murashima looks the more comfortable in the ring
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Okada's shock exit has kind of taken the focus away from Tama's last tour as champ
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