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Dango Bango posted:I'll chime in as an AEW fan who used to watch NJPW but fell off hard during the pandemic. It's this: That was me. I think it was the AEW hellthread, actually. I was saying Tony Khan has a tendency to do the same, mostly thinking of guys like Lee Moriarty, the Martins and until very recently, Danny Garcia.
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Watched a bunch of matches from New Beginning: Tana vs Matt Riddle This sucked, none of Riddle's offense looked in place in a NJPW ring, his chops look and sound extremely rear end. Also does he really do that "I kick my slippers off upon landing into the ring" thing all the time? Disgusting. David Finlay vs Nic Nemeth I actually liked this one a bit? The superkick to Gedo spot was awesome (along with the stealth shillelagh pass). But it ran a bit too long and it felt like the match was unnecessarily padded (story of post-2018 Bushiroad NJPW matches really). Nic actually seems motivated though the knee selling felt a bit fake. I'm pretty higher on Finlay than the rest of the forum but he did look like a guy who was dropping the title lol Hiromu Takahashi vs DOUKI This ruled. The crowd went from backing Hiromu to being fully behind DOUKI in real time. Really well-earned. I adored the lucha-based counters, while they weren't super clean they kinda sold me on the story of DOUKI pulling out all the stops to beat the best junior heavyweight in the world. Him finally landing the Suplex de la Luna was magnificent. Mayu Iwatani vs Mina Shirakawa yooooooo wtf I really need to get into STARDOM. Instant fan of Mayu, wrestlers going into a trance-like state and going full murder mode is one of my personal favorite bits in wrestling.
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My only opinion of Jack Perry is that using the IWGP title match on Forb to advance a third tier AEW storyline loving sucked
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Jerusalem posted:David Finlay makes it to a Quarter Final and EVIL makes it to the Semi finals because I'm assuming New Japan will do so to spite me, personally. David Finlay will beat EVIL in the finals or vice versa because NJPW hates not just you, not just me, but all of us on a deep personal level
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Honestly, Nic Nemeth's biggest issue is he'd been in the fed for far too loving long past the point that anyone either in the audience or behind the scenes gave a poo poo. Like, he's never been bad in the ring, albeit very blatant about who he's cribbed from, but after the 25th time in WWE he cut the nearly-crying "I'm gonna put it all on the line ONE. MORE. TIME!" promo who on earth could care about him. (I pointedly remember him doing about 4 of these in a feud with the Miz about 5 years ago, leading to a 'he wins or gets fired' stip and everyone in PSP wanted him to lose. He was the babyface)
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despite everything telling me to stop caring about this dumb rear end company, im doing a catch up and i gotta say this callum newman guy seems pretty good for his experience. #Newman
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Just wondering, I know New Japan is in a state of change, but why are most if not all of you saying, "I wish New Japan would push (Insert Gaijin here)!" It's making it sound like you just want classic All Japan but without the Four Pillars!
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Gaz-L posted:Honestly, Nic Nemeth's biggest issue is he'd been in the fed for far too loving long past the point that anyone either in the audience or behind the scenes gave a poo poo. this is pretty much where I'm at, the guy's clearly talented but is ten years past his prime both in terms of wrestling ability and character freshness
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The man called M posted:Just wondering, I know New Japan is in a state of change, but why are most if not all of you saying, "I wish New Japan would push (Insert Gaijin here)!" It's making it sound like you just want classic All Japan but without the Four Pillars!  I think pretty much everyone's been saying 'they should push Shota/Tsuji/Uemura'?
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They should push Shota/Tsuji and Uemura, absolutely! Also Dave Meltzer just reported that Tama Tonga has decided to go to prison for a few years.
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Feb 27, 2024 21:11
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Njpw should sign this amigo fellow https://twitter.com/1UpCulture/status/1762468029722661281?t=2kL9TTlLdzhD97vTCQqnhQ&s=19
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Jerusalem posted:They should push Shota/Tsuji and Uemura, absolutely! Good for him. Now I don't have to see him for a while. And he'll get to spend more time with his family. Works for everyone. New Japan is in this weird place with me right now where I like lots of the wrestlers but just have no faith in the booking. Well, I say weird. It feels frustratingly normal, it's the NOAH bit.
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I think they should push them but also I think people here underestimate how successful Naito is and that those guys developing another year or two with him on top is okay.
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Njpw should sign this amigo fellow I dunno, he looks like a pretty desperate dude.
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forkboy84 posted:Good for him. Now I don't have to see him for a while. And he'll get to spend more time with his family. Works for everyone. To be somewhat fair to New Japan the guys they have beating Tsuji/Shota/Uemura are under 40 unlike NOAH. It's just you know House of Torture! Rick posted:I think they should push them but also I think people here underestimate how successful Naito is and that those guys developing another year or two with him on top is okay. Yeah they're in a weird spot in that even if Okada wasn't leaving this feels like it should be a long reign for Naito and they really can't push it down the road given how banged up Naito is. But they 100% also need to get the young guys up to main event levels
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Yeah I don't quite get the take the title off naito asap discourse from the English speaking fanbase. I appreciate his eyeball/knee/straw hair isn't long for this world but they absolutely need him on top. The guy can still go (although he's obviously not as good as he was) and is still the most popular wrestler in the country. Not that they can't start pushing the young guys but Naito holding for the year is probably sensible. Njpw has actually had a strong start to the year at the box office
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I am thoroughly uninterested in Naito on top, but with Okada gone he's indisputably NJPW's #1 draw. Milk it at least until Dominion, probably could go all the way to WK with it. I might lose interest by then but hey, that's a me problem
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Yeah I don't quite get the take the title off naito asap discourse from the English speaking fanbase. I appreciate his eyeball/knee/straw hair isn't long for this world but they absolutely need him on top. No one's saying Shota absolutely needs to win the world title but they need to plant a flag soon to show that Naito isn't the basket holding literally every egg. It'd be a big swing, and leaving it on Naito is absolutely safer, but putting it on Mox and then having him pass the torch to Shota would be bold and could cement a new top star who isn't falling apart. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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...why would you not want Umino getting the rub of beating the top dude in the company, but instead to have him go over a part-timer?
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lmao every idea a western fan has is put the belt on my fave non-japanese wrestler
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forkboy84 posted:...why would you not want Umino getting the rub of beating the top dude in the company, but instead to have him go over a part-timer? 3 reasons: 1 - You can save Naito/Shota for a main event, maybe in Osaka, next year. 2 - In my idea both title changes would be in the US, and Mox is just a bigger star there than Naito. 3 - There's the storyline aspect of Shota beating his mentor to finally come into his own as The Guy. fez_machine posted:lmao every idea a western fan has is put the belt on my fave non-japanese wrestler I didn't say to put the belt on Orange Cassidy or Eddie Kingston, but it would be rad. (Also my idea was to use the non-Japanese wrestler as a belt pillow to put over the young Japanese guy)
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its shin nihon bro not shin chicago
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If Mox is willing to commit to touring I'm not completely opposed to it But I disagree with Shota winning the iwgp title for the first time on Monday mid morning japan time when the vast majority of the fanbase is at work. Surely his first win should be in Japan
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all the lovely fantasy booking ideas could be solid gold that belt is going on EVIL again
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Thankfully EVIL is stuck in NEVER belt land now so I doubt he gets a shot till late spring or fall
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whats the consensus on fat boy walker? seems like he's improving pretty quickly with the nerd guiding him along
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fez_machine posted:lmao every idea a western fan has is put the belt on my fave non-japanese wrestler I mean Gedo's gonna put it on his new pet project THE REBEL DAVID FINLAY so why shouldnt it go on an actually better non japanese wrestler even if he is part time. like 8 of the 13 titles are on non japanese talent and of the tag teams all of them are non japanese besides kenta who is teaming with chase loving owens KungFu Grip fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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yea ok posted:whats the consensus on fat boy walker? seems like he's improving pretty quickly with the nerd guiding him along He has an odd way of speaking sometimes. I still chuckle at "aswang most loyal of the Filipino cryptids" But I agree he's improving. I think he's quite solid on solo calls. That said I really didn't like Kevin Kelly for most of the post pandemic era so I'm probably being overly generous. Walker has a nice voice so at worst it's just white noise. Where Kelly actually wound me up
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Yeah, Walker is growing on me pretty quickly, he seems to gel pretty well with Charlton which is a big help.
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Matt Riddle just going on Ariel Helwani's show to admit to failing multiple drug tests in WWE. For cocaine. Smart choice for a champion Gedo.
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forkboy84 posted:Matt Riddle just going on Ariel Helwani's show to admit to failing multiple drug tests in WWE. duh quote:For cocaine. oh
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drat this gabe kidd/henare match from 2/4 was great
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yea ok posted:drat this gabe kidd/henare match from 2/4 was great Yeah, incredible violence.
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Gotta admit, never saw Matt Riddle: cocaine user coming.
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yea ok posted:drat this gabe kidd/henare match from 2/4 was great It owned.
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Edward Mass posted:Gotta admit, never saw Matt Riddle: cocaine user coming. To be fair, it might have been a mistake, it's very easy to mix up cocaine with entirely harmless products.
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yea ok posted:whats the consensus on fat boy walker? seems like he's improving pretty quickly with the nerd guiding him along He is kind of just there for me, I don't love or hate him. He pretty wisely just shuts up and lets Chris talk when it's time for the announcer to help make the story.
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