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SAPP TIME: http://www.mmablogger.com/weird/bob-sapp-vs-tiny-japanese-girls Kenzo Suzuki is HADDO GEISHA?! http://www.sanspo.com/fight/top/f200602/f2006020404.html Oh man Hiroko is a striking woman when she isn't wearing the white makeup  edit: This site was advertised on the above site  http://fuzokudx.com/index2.htmlHwoodNG posted:Bless YouTube forever. I just watched Takehiro Murahama & Jushin "Thunder" Lyger vs Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA from the 2003 GHC Jr. Tag Team Title Tourney Final and thought it was an incredible match with fantastic action, striking and near falls that made me think the match was over, and I knew exactly how the match ended already.  and they did a better job keeping it interesting than a lot of the latter KENTAFuji matches.
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I watched the Kawada vs Hashimoto match, and although it was not great, I really like the camera shot where the ring looks like a diamond and I wish I could see it come up during American matches. Reminds me of Fire Pro 
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That match is all about Hashimoto being awesome. Focused offense, great selling, and he never shrugged off the injury. For most of their careers Kawada was way better night after night, but there it wasn't even close in favor of Hash. RIP 
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Kobashi: badass in all things http://columbia.jp/~charcoal/ram/50713v_cm.ram edit: Everyone watch what Mighty linked to Ditch fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Feb 6, 2006 |
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Check out what I found on youtube. http://youtube.com/w/Dragon27s-Gate-anime-opening.?v=cSdTYKJ2H08 I wonder what kind of kid movies Magnum Tokyo-kun does.
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As a companion, here's the anime PRIDE FC intro, which I think is pretty k-rad: http://www.youtube.com/?v=NeNvoFMNWvw
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Ditch, any impressions on PuroDVDSource's Best of 2005? For 12 bucks it seems like a steal, but seems a bit short... http://www.purodvdsource.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=3894 MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Feb 7, 2006 |
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Well that's just volume 1 silly And you're dealing with some long-rear end bouts. That volume is only matches which received a decent amount of praise. I'd say half of them are overrated but then I'm pickier than most. Disc 2 is solidly better but disc 1 has more important matches. Put another way, everything there is good and/or significant.
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Ditch posted:Well that's just volume 1 silly I assumed everything was long, but you never know with SOME tape/DVD sites that'll sell you an hour and a half's worth of content as a full tape. I love spending money.
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Honestly though, I'd say watch the 7/18, 8/19, 9/18, 11/5 and 12/4 NOAH shows, plus 1/14 Dragon Gate and suppliment liberally with downloads. So much of the rest is just missable.
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So I just watched the Lesnar/Chono/Fujita IWGP title match from 10/8/05 and was horribly underwhelmed. The match was just plain boring and it seems to me like the IWGP title deserves a match longer than 8:09. I figure maybe I just don't "get" Puro. What's the opinion on it 'round these parts?
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Nobody liked it. Literally nobody. The other Lesnar matches haven't been much better. Why must you suck now Brock  In other news, NOAH is more interested in the US. After the response they got in ROH and having seen the sales of pirated DVDs online (!!!) they're looking into how to capture the market and enforce copyright laws (!!!!!!!!!). KENTA, Marufuji and Kobashi now have visas that would allow for longer/more trips to the US. So that's a mixed bag. In Japan DVDs are crazy expensive. edit: New avatar. Thanks for making it Coffey! Ditch fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Feb 8, 2006 |
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http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/inoki Simon Inoki arrives at WWE Headquarters February 9, 2006 Today at noon, New Japan Pro Wrestling President Simon Inoki arrived in Stamford, CT, to meet with WWE Officials. WWE.com will have more details on Inoki's meeting with WWE as soon as they become available. "We velly solly for bollow block lesnal?"
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I'm honestly baffled. NJ and TNA was supposed to be the next big thing (lol block resna, WWE and NJ are going at it over the IWGP champ, lord knows NJ talent is useless in WWE... maybe they want to co-promote in Japan because both are struggling? Today's PuroPulse won't cover it because I'm flat-footed on the subject. Meanwhile I love this pic
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I may not like most of his matches that aren't against the crazy skytwistering clown ... But drat if I don't get all warm and fuzzy inside every time I see a picture of Ebessan in his gear outside the ring.
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New Puropulse! Check out the NOAH Budokan main events! Why come so many New Japan wrestlers left? And possibly pictures of Ebessan from ten years ago! (okay that is actually itt) http://wrestling.insidepulse.com/articles/46436
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New Puroresu Pulse which deals with whether I'm a biased rear end in a top hat, and a bunch of smallish news/results. http://wrestling.insidepulse.com/articles/46589
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Captain Tagon posted:"We velly solly for bollow block lesnal?" Hahaha, I want NJPW to steal Lashley and call him Block Reznor and have him and Brock feud endlessly.
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PuroPulse: http://wrestling.insidepulse.com/articles/46697 Highlights: New Japan 2/19 Sumo Hall results, more on New Japan's roster turnover, and an analysis of Akebono in New Japan. Next week: All Japan is dooooooooomed. READ IT OR OTANI CUTS YOU 
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This may have been noted already by somebody somewhere here but I forget where. If it was, it deserves to be restated. Everybody should watch The Calamari Wrestler. It's a movie about a dead wrestler who comes back in the form of a huge squid to fight for the IMGP title. I won't give away any other aspects of the main story 'cause it's full of hilarious developments. It stars Osamu Nishimura as The Calamari Wrestler and features a guest appearance from Takayama, one of the greatest men to ever live. It references Inoki's fighting spirit, and a Fire Pro style renaming of Rikidozan (Godozan). It has great quotes such as "But Calamari is banned from wrestling, how will he support me?" The storyline will be hilarious to anybody who's a fan of Japanese Pro-Wrestling. I got it for like 13 bucks from overstock.com
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Does it have subtitles? If so :kittyjig:
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How good of a wrestler is Jack Evans? I've only seen a few of his matches, but as far as I can tell, he does awsome flips and nothing else. Can he strike or grapple or suplex or ??
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Ditch posted:Next week: All Japan is dooooooooomed. I can't wait! 
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dokomoy posted:How good of a wrestler is Jack Evans? I've only seen a few of his matches, but as far as I can tell, he does awsome flips and nothing else. Can he strike or grapple or suplex or ?? He's a graduate of the last Hart Dungeon class, so I'd assume so. I haven't really seen it myself.
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Evans is a great whipping boy. First off he is the most bendable wrestler ever bar none, get ROH 6/24/04 (Survival of the Fittest 1) for proof. Second he bumps huge. Third he's unselfish. His offense is... limited, so I'm not sure how good he'll be in a less mat-worky Dragon Gate, but hey they like him. On a related note I just saw Cabana's Zero-One debut and I think he's gonna do just fiiiiiine
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Ditch posted:Does it have subtitles? If so :kittyjig: Yes. The audio is Japanese with English subs. dokomoy posted:How good of a wrestler is Jack Evans? I've only seen a few of his matches, but as far as I can tell, he does awsome flips and nothing else. Can he strike or grapple or suplex or ?? According to Josh Barnett he knows more than he thinks he does about grappling. Edit: Why is Hustle so elusive. Hardly any DVD sites sell them and they're never on the other thing or youtube. I just want to see more ridiculous comedy wrestling shows and I've only seen ONE. If anybody can tell me where I can see some Hustle, please let me know. Who Gotch Ya fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Feb 23, 2006 |
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I just came across this match on Youtube with Mr. Magician vs Naoshi Sano. I wasn't too impressed and was about to close the window when the finish of the match came. Easily the funniest ending sequence I've ever seen in a wrestling match. I just watched this stupid thing at least five times in a row. Check it out, the clip is only three minutes long - http://www.youtube.com/?v=8fTdaLE3CWg Monster Zero fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Feb 24, 2006 |
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Naoshi Sano is much in the line of Survival Tobita in terms of being the straight man against odd opponents. He once took a 619 from an 8 year old girl and sold it.  Naoshi Sano
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Ditch posted:Naoshi Sano is much in the line of Survival Tobita in terms of being the straight man against odd opponents. He once took a 619 from an 8 year old girl and sold it. Ah, Saitama Pro, you were the darling of the Internet for about twenty minutes in 1999.
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Ditch posted:Naoshi Sano is much in the line of Survival Tobita in terms of being the straight man against odd opponents. He once took a 619 from an 8 year old girl and sold it. I cut this clipped match from a Pro Wrestling 666 Halloween special show last year. Why it didn't get Match Of The Year 2005 is beyond me. http://www.badongo.com/vid.php?file=Match+Of+The+Year__2006-02-24_MOTYC.wmv
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I'm looking for the titles to 2 entrance themes: The one Keiji Mutoh used during 2001 TenKoji, same time period.
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http://wrestling.insidepulse.com/articles/46917 - Link to FREE PURO! Also ALL JAPAN NOT DOING SO HOT! And Yoshie + Corino = PINK FORCE~ NOAH has a big ol' show coming up on Sunday and the matches to watch are Kobashi vs KENTA, and Kanemaru/Sugiura vs Hidaka/Fujita. Plus to a lesser extent Akiyama vs Minoru Suzuki, Misawa vs Morishima and Taue vs Marufuji.
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Speaking of entrance themes, who came out to The Final Countdown? I remember it being in a bunch of Japanese wrestling games but I can't remember who used it.
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Someone from Japan used it?! Not anyone recently that's for sure. I thought Danielson was a trailblazer in that regard. Closest I can think of is Masa Fuchi using DANGER ZONE~. edit: Yahoo search tells me Mutoh used it in the mid '80s.
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Ready for some weird news? From puroresufan.com: quote:"Be afraid. Be very afraid. The front page of the newest Naigai Times says that Vince McMahon's WWE is making an aggressive attempt to buy out New Japan and make its biggest push into Japan yet. If this comes to anything, naturally I'll post an update..." 
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Captain Charisma posted:Ready for some weird news? A bullshit story from the Japanese press? Well, I never. You might as well tell me Santa Claus isn't real.
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http://wrestling.insidepulse.com/articles/47086 THIS WEEK: NOAH ran Budokan Hall on Sunday. How did they do? Also a link to like 3 gigs of free pre-split All Japan I'm hosting but don't mind that
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Ditch posted:http://wrestling.insidepulse.com/articles/47086  oh giant baba, how your promotion has fallen
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Russ posted:Why it didn't get Match Of The Year 2005 is beyond me. Edit: They play the Double Dragon theme at the end of the Mr. Magician clip. 
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