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Now they have to clean it all up  Edit: "For gently caress's sake, Chris!" For a second I forgot that Brookes was wearing tape on his shoulder and thought,"What a weird sunburn he's managed to get!" 
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Brookes thanking the bar for not kicking them out 
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Hell yes, in typical Bishamon fashion they go to their limit and then beyond to take the win!
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SAITO BROTHERS HAHAHAHAHAHA Saito Brothers got more mentions than Kento Miyahara, the actual best wrestler in the world. Tokyo Sport is such a hoot.
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Naito feels like a pick they just gave to New Japan cause it's the top promotion and not cause he was actually the MVP. Though also lol Dave trying to say Will should get the vote when Will and Okada couldn't even sell out Ota Ward gym in the G1
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Okada had a heap of really good gates too. That stands out as his most disappointing of the year. Him and shingo sold out (admittedly somewhat restricted ) edion like 10 days early. The idea that ospreay is more valuable to Japanese wrestling than naito is silly. We've all been around the block we know exactly what criteria Tokyo sports uses. They went muto show and g1 final Bing bang naito wins because okada spent the back end of the year doing gently caress all and sanada has been up and down as champ.
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Yeah Will is easily my World Wide wrestler of the year based on match quality and having some decent gates (and MJF's back half of the year was disappointing and Roman disappeared after Summerslam except for Blood Money) but he's nowhere close to being a Japan MVP like say Kento or Naito. And his year was nowhere close to years where Foreigners should of won (Kenny's IWGP year and Vader in All Japan)
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When she left TJPW, who would have thought Unagi would end up 2nd for the Tokyo Sports top women's wrestler award a few years later? I'm still quite shocked at that.
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Hiromu getting as many MVP votes is good and they totally should have him win the big belt at Anniversay show
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Another pretty quiet week, before it all ramps up the next week. Especially if you don't have Wrestle Universe. 16/12/2023, Saturday 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/4am GMT/11pm EST/8pm PST Gatoh Move ChocoPro #345 Ichigaya Chocolate Square, Tokyo Card TBA 4:30pm JST/6:30pm AEDT/7:30am GMT/2:30am EST/11:30pm PST Pro Wrestling NOAH Sunny Voyage Night 35 Radiant Hall, Yokohama Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 vs GLG (Tadasuke & GLG) Daiki Inaba, Masa Kitamiya & Taishi Ozawa vs REAL (Saxon Huxley, Shuhei Taniguchi & Timothy Thatcher) Alejandro & Terry Yaki vs Extreme Tiger & Super Crazy LJ Cleary vs Ryohei Oiwa Kai Fujimura & Manabu Soya vs Kenoh & Yu Owada Junta Miyawaki vs Kaito Kiyomiya Live on Wrestle Universe 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/8am GMT/3am EST/12am PST DDT D-Oh Grand Prix Night 5 Nishitetsu Hall, Fukuoka Prelim: Great Tamu & Occult Daimao vs Ionazun Shirai & Tiger Nishiya Mask Akito, Azul Dragon & Kazuma Sumi vs MAO, Toi Kojima & Van Vert Jack Soma Takao & Yukio Sakaguchi vs Yukio Naya & Yusuke Okada Danshoku Dieno, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi vs Hideki Okatani, Takeshi Masada & Yuki Ishida D-Oh Grand Prix A Block: HARASHIMA vs Yuki Ueno D-Oh Grand Prix A Block: Daisuke Sasaki vs Tetsuya Endo D-Oh Grand Prix A Block: Kazusada Higuchi vs Yuki Iino D-Oh Grand Prix B Block: Chris Brookes vs Kazuki Hirata D-Oh Grand Prix B Block: KANON vs Rei Saito Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe Also shows from Ice Ribbon, BJW, JTO & Dragongate 17/12/2023, Sunday 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/4am GMT/11pm EST/8pm PST Stardom Year End Tour Night 6 Niigata City Industrial Promotion Centre, Niigata Card TBA Uploaded to Stardom World at some unknown point 2pm JST/4pm AEDT/5am GMT/12am EST/9pm PST DDT D-Oh Grand Prix Night 5 Sakurajuji Hall, Kumamoto Eruption (Hideki Okatani & Yukio Sakaguchi) vs Kazuma Sumi & Soma Takao Akito, Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada vs Danshoku Dieno, Kazuki Hirata & Makoto Oishi HARASHIMA, Rukiya & Yukio Naya vs Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo & Yusuke Okada 37KAMIINA (Toi Kojima & Yuki Ueno) vs Harimao (Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida) D-Oh Grand Prix A Block: Daisuke Sasaki vs Yuki Iino D-Oh Grand Prix B Block: KANON vs MAO Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe 5pm JST/7pm AEDT/8am GMT/3am EST/12am PST Pro Wrestling NOAH Sunny Voyage Night 36 Act City Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu Taishi Ozawa vs Yu Owada Alejandro & Terry Yaki vs Extreme Tiger & Hajime Ohara Junta Miyawaki vs Kai Fujimura Atsushi Kotoge, Go Shiozaki & Hi69 vs REAL (Saxon Huxley, Shuhei Taniguchi & Timothy Thatcher) Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa vs Super Crazy & Yoshinari Ogawa Akitoshi Saito, Kenoh & Mohammed Yone vs Daiki Inaba, Manabu Soya & Masa Kitamiya Eita, HAYATA, Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura vs GLG (Jake Lee, LJ Cleary, Tadasuke & YO-HEY) Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe Tokyo Joshi Pro City Circuit '23 Kasukabe Performance Fureai Cube, Kasukabe Runa Okubo vs Shino Suzuki vs Yuki Kamifuku Arisu Endo vs Haru Kazashiro Hyper Misao vs Kaya Toribami Mahiro Kiryu vs Wakana Uehara HIMAWARI vs Suzume Shoko Nakajima vs Toga Juria Nagano vs Raku Pom Harajuku vs Yuki Aino Miu Watanabe vs Moka Miyamoto Hikari Noa vs Maki Itoh Uploaded later to Wrestle Universe 7pm JST/9pm AEDT/10am GMT/6am EST/2am PST Evolution Shin-Kiba Tournament #9 Shin-Kiba 1stRING, Tokyo Hikaru Sato vs Thanomask Toba Chanyota vs ZONES Chi Chi vs Nanae Takahashi Also Sunny's retirement ceremony Also shows from JWP, BJW, Secret Base, FMW-E, 2AW, Ryukyu Pro, Heat-Up, Ehime Pro, Dragongate, Wave & JTO 18/12/2023, Monday 7pm JST/9pm AEDT/10am GMT/6am EST/2am PST Pro Wrestling NOAH Monday Magic Ep.FINAL Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo Card TBA Live on Wrestle Universe Also BJW 19/12/2023, Tuesday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/9:30am GMT/5:30am EST/1:30am PST Dragongate Fantastic Gate Night 10 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Punch Tominaga vs Yoshiki Kato Daiki Yanagiuchi, Don Fujii, Eita, Genki Horiguchi & Kagetora vs Natural Vibes (BIG BOSS Shimiz, Jason Lee, Kzy, Strong Machine J & U-T) ISHIN vs Jacky Funky Kamei Demus & Super Crazy vs Ultimo Dragon & VIENTO Gold Class (Ben-K, BxB Hulk & Kota Minoura) vs M3K (Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda) D'courage (Dragon Dia, Madoka Kikuta, Ryoya Tanaka & Yuki Yoshioka) vs Dragon Kid, Naruki Doi, Shuji Kondo & YAMATO Hyo & Luis Mante vs Z-Brats (KAI & Shun Skywalker) Live on Dragongate Network Also shows from BJW & Basara 20/12/2023, Wednesday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/9:30am GMT/5:30am EST/1:30am PST Pro Wrestling NOAH Star Navigation Night 8 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Kai Fujimura & LEONA vs Taishi Ozawa & Yu Owada Hajime Ohara vs Hi69 Akitoshi Saito, Go Shiozaki & Mohammed Yone vs REAL (Saxon Huxley, Shuhei Taniguchi & Timothy Thatcher) Alejandro vs Extreme Tiger vs Terry Yaki Eita, HAYATA & Titus Alexander vs Super Crazy, Vinnie Massaro & Yoshinari Ogawa Atsushi Kotoge vs Naomichi Marufuji GLG (Jake Lee, LJ Cleary, Tadasuke & YO-HEY) vs Kaito Kiyomiya, Junta Miyawaki, Ryohei Oiwa & Shuji Kondo Daiki Inaba, Manabu Soya & Masa Kitamiya vs Kazuyuki Fujita, Kenoh & Takashi Sugiura Live on Wrestle Universe Also shows from Dragongate & Actwres girlZ 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Kojima vs LIJ (Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi) Just 5 Guys (DOUKI, SANADA & Yuya Uemura) vs LIJ (BUSHI, Tetsuya Naito & Yota Tsuji) KOPW2023 Title: Taichi(c) vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Title: CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii) & Hiroshi Tanahashi(c) vs United Empire (Great O-Khan, HENARE & Jeff Cobb) Live on NJPW World 22/12/2023, Friday 6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/9:30am GMT/5:30am EST/1:30am PST New Japan Road To Tokyo Dome Night 2 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo CHAOS (Toru Yano & YOH) vs Masked Boltin & Masked Horse Callum Newman vs Tomohiro Ishii Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) vs Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima El Desperado & Master Wato vs LIJ (BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi) Drilla Moloney vs Francesco Akira Clark Connors vs TJP Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada vs TMDK (Kosei Fujita & Zack Sabre Jr) Just 5 Guys (SANADA, Taichi & Yuya Uemura) vs LIJ (Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito & Yota Tsuji) Live on NJPW World Also shows from BJW vs ZERO1 & Diana
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The puro hierarchy has been established https://www.njpw1972.com/166568 New Japan Pro-Wrestling (New Japan Pro-Wrestling Co. Ltd.) All Japan Pro-Wrestling (All Japan Pro-Wrestling Co. Ltd.) Pro-Wrestling NOAH (Cyber Fight Co. Ltd.) DDT Pro-Wrestling (Cyber Fight Co. Ltd.) Ganbare ☆ Pro-Wrestling (Cyber Fight Co. Ltd.) Big Japan Pro-Wrestling （Yotsuba Industries Ltd.) DRAGONGATE (DRAGONGATE Co. Ltd.) STARDOM (BushiRoad Fight Co. Ltd.) Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling (Cyber Fight Co. Ltd.)
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This the United Nations of Japanese pro wrestling?Pylons posted:That's wild. Worried about a possible NXT Japan? I think it's more a response to the decline in popularity of wrestling in Japan post covid
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Pylons posted:That's wild. Worried about a possible NXT Japan? They're pretty explicit that it was COVID and less explicitly the softness of the market in Japan. Having to negotiate with each prefectural government on venue regulations/hire on a promotion by promotion basis and enduring way longer clap crowds than other sports is the problem that this organisation is meant to solve. If they're smart they won't do cross-promotional shows under the banner. It's a lobby group.
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quote:The formation of the Group will be marked by an event on May 6 2024 in Nippon Budokan under the banner of United Japan Pro-Wrestling.
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Before people get too excited I'd remind y'all of the Global Pro-Wrestling Alliance from the mid 2000s. Which included NOAH, ZERO1, AAA, ROH, Dragongate, BJW, K-Dojo, Diamond Ring, & some others. Plus some DDT guys turned up on the 3 whole shows run under that banner
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Pylons posted:That's wild. Worried about a possible NXT Japan? Always a possibility, Big Japan was probably the most likely promotion to get bought out and used as the shell for NXT Japan so anything that protects it is good.
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Testekill posted:Always a possibility, Big Japan was probably the most likely promotion to get bought out and used as the shell for NXT Japan so anything that protects it is good. I always think of Abby Jr in NXT when I'm reminded of this
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forkboy84 posted:I always think of Abby Jr in NXT when I'm reminded of this We could have potentially gotten WALTER vs Daisuke Sekimoto again which would have been nice.
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gently caress, that's a proper scunner.
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fez_machine posted:They're pretty explicit that it was COVID and less explicitly the softness of the market in Japan.
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Ditch posted:I have no idea to what extent they're still restricting things ~4 years on. They're not restricting a ton now, but wrestling was designated as Theater instead of Sports and the restrictions were much much heavier on them for much longer. Kidani (I believe) had to personally lobby the government to get cheering restrictions reduced for 1.4.23 and the finances for every company were impacted for a lot longer than necessary
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yea ok posted:They're not restricting a ton now, but wrestling was designated as Theater instead of Sports and the restrictions were much much heavier on them for much longer. Kidani (I believe) had to personally lobby the government to get cheering restrictions reduced for 1.4.23 and the finances for every company were impacted for a lot longer than necessary https://twitter.com/njpw1972/status/1600114306015670272?s=46&t=_akPFYiqAqKbxYd3RPf4Jg I like to think the Diet were just terrified of Yuji Nagata so they lifted the restrictions
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https://x.com/EasternLariat/status/1736017268801175579?s=20 We're apparently losing another really talented young wrestler, though this is at least hiatus rather than retirement like Takuho Kato. Big bummer though, Shoki Kitamura is hands down the young guy in ZERO1
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https://x.com/noahglobal/status/1736711836945481995?s=20 Main event of the show is Kaito vs Ryohei Oiwa Also there's a Gedo match so it's not all winners
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forkboy84 posted:https://x.com/noahglobal/status/1736711836945481995?s=20 I lolled when gedo came out to the war dogs theme. Imagine being there and gedo comes out
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Spoiler from today's Korakuen Hall Dragongate show Masaaki Mochizuki's opponent for his 30th anniversary next month is Shingo Takagi, going back home!
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The Net Pro Awards are dead for the foreseeable future. RIP the Japanese smark awards. However, the blog still ran a best quote vote and it might be indication of where smark sentiment lies in Japan. Google Translate quote:Pro Wrestling Buzzword Awards 2023 DEEPL quote:No. 1: AMAKUSA [NOAH] "Isn't that a stupid question?" 59 votes From here: http://blackeyepw.com/article/190694164.html#more fez_machine fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Dec 20, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/DragonGateEN/status/1737274164808183821?t=CFbnuNe2PiUzhUULrDsQ6A&s=19 Dragongate bringing in Gianni Valetta is uh surprising. To say the least.
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