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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

ItohRespectArmy posted:

a DDT guy I'd love to see in AEW is Yukio Sakaguchi, obviously Eruption as a unit would be great also but a guy with the look and moveset of Sakaguchi has some real potential to get over with AEW's crowd.

hell yeah

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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

I am not sure of the last time a wrestler looked as cool as Yukio Sakaguchi

you could have just stopped the post there

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Lamuella posted:

Kenoh vs Sakaguchi in a "loser has to get their roots done" match.

sakaguchi with his roots done just looks wrong, it makes him look 9 million years older

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

sticklefifer posted:

To cleanse your eyes afterward:



:swoon:

The Dreamboat of Mad Blankey

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Jacky "Funky" Kamei...

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe76We0JOAo

Itoh and Brookes inducting Suzuki into the NEO IRA (with English subtitles)

drat no wonder brookes stays out of his home country

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

what's Taiyo Kea up to

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

NotQuiteQuentin posted:

Iirc during one of the exoduses he decided to go back to college or law school

drat, good for mannukea mossman

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Jerusalem posted:

Wait the Triple Crown is vacant? AGAIN!?!

yeah Jake Lee had to vacate it due to injury

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

Ryuku Dragon Pro

how dare you

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

I have no idea who that is but considering the roster NOAH have assembled is mostly extremely fun I am excited to see who!

he's a high flyer who can do a lot of cool flips but is insanely green

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Shoot-style Ninja Mack

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

It's a terrible gimmick & impossible to tell if there's potential talent there.

Just give the belts back to Stronghearts, they were great.

fun fact if you gis "Devil Murasaki" you get one picture of him and then a bunch of pictures of what i think is an anime porno game

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

TTBF posted:

I just get a bunch of images of a wrestler.

curious! maybe i need to watch more ajpw because it also happens in incognito

Alaois fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jan 25, 2022

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

Also the person who has Hibiscus Mii as their MVP, that's fascinating

thats just someone who knows exactly what they want

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

That's far too young.

In more upbeat news, GLEAT have created more incredible merch: T-Hawk & Irie came out in Okinawa wearing GLEAT logo Hawaiian style shirts.

With this and the BULK Orchestra aprons they have sealed best merch operation in wrestling

Hey buddy

They're kariyushi shirts

It's an important distinction

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

i love Tall Guy

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

the deadliest finisher of them all...

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Neodoomium posted:

https://twitter.com/ddtproENG/status/1536544578219962369

hosed up a big match and hurt the top guy so bad he has to give up his title while the company scrambles. All in a day's work!

Hideki Suzuki was right

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

I honestly think HAYATA is at this point under-rated by western fans. Not because he's great or anything, he's a firm "eh" wrestler. But the way some act you'd think he was Jenna Morasca

I feel this way about Yujiro Takahashi, and I suspect it comes from western fans having some kind of unrealistic expectation that every Japanese wrestler must be amazing so the ones that are just average or middling are seen as among the worst in the world

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

GLEAT announced tag belts, Flamita and Kento Miyahara

Oxford comma!

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Its all the drat cheering at sporting events

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Eventually it will only be defended in that one SoulCalibur 3 stage of a big stone platform floating on a lava flow underneath Mt. Fuji

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Stall_19 posted:

DragonGate fans seem quite insular. They watch Dragongate and don't interact with the wider wrestling community. I imagine DDT fans are the same.

90% women, 10% husbands

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012


kento rules because he makes this guy seethe

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Raeg posted:

No, this is correct, it's in a restaurant with every high flyer's enemy: a very large chandelier

lmao powerful

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Bonk posted:



:rubby: RDPW's Shuri Joe straight up hit his head on it during his entrance and it was very unsubtly swinging back and forth for several minutes. Amazing.

Either Okinawa didn't have any large gymnasiums available, or Gurukun Mask was doing a favor for the restaurant owner.

I kept hoping for it to explode like the Moneyball in the Stardom ladder match.

where does New Japan run their Naha shows? I assume at the Okinawa Prefectural Budokan, but maybe thats too big for a DGxRD show

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

or maybe dave just typed the wrong name

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

If youre going to refer to lio rush mononymically to save time why in the world would you pick rush instead of lio

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

I am physically & mentally incapable of understanding why Dragongate is so off in its own world. It's just lucharesu. Like, if you enjoy non-UWF GLEAT you'll enjoy DG, considering so much of its roster is ex-DG guys. It's just really well executed, (mostly) high flying exciting action, with big bold personalities & quite a lot of talking. It's just so bizarre. Wrestling is wrestling?

dragon gate is for the housewives

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

Smarks can appreciate attractive men in their 20s too y'know

no they can't, they love Tadasuke

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Pylons posted:

Tadasuke looks like he sells drugs to high school students.

but in that Yakuza substory way where after Kiryu beats him up for selling drugs to high school students, he looks down at the ground and starts talking about his sad backstory while the melancholy music plays because he had to sell drugs to support his sick sister

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

yea ok posted:



there he is

oh baby...

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

imagine Yakuza 4 when Saejima escapes the secret island prison in the Ryukyus, instead of washing up on the beach in front of Kiryu's orphanage, he ends up finding a wrestling ring floating in the middle of the ocean and El Lindaman is standing in the middle of it alone, waiting

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

The Cameo posted:

With every new Kaito humiliation I just think of Mutoh’s off-hand comment to Darby during their post-show presser as they left, “what are you, a young boy?” and Darby just laughing it off, probably thinking “you call me a young boy again and I’ll drive your wheelchair down a staircase”

Do you think Mutoh tried to buy Darby off Sting like Andrade but for shoot

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Bread Club civil war...

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Bonk posted:

I've been busting my rear end on an extremely short deadline, so I haven't had time to watch much this past week.

DG had 4/23 & 4/29 house shows which both had some good stuff on them.

The 5/3 KBS Hall show will be 100% free on the Network, and will have Shun's "3rd Game" for Kikuta ahead of DoA: They have to team together against KAI & ISHIN, so that should be a good time.

Ryukyu Dragon also put out their RDPW 10th Anniversary show for free, which includes Kzy & Jacky defending the Sou Ryou tag belts and YAMATO defending the Ryou championship. Jun Kasai and Tatsumi Fujinami are also on the card, and I haven't watched it yet but I heard the YAMATO vs Gurukun Mask title match is fantastic.

the RDPW show is blocked in the US due to copyright lmao

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

huge opportunity for a company to claim they've signed Okada and Yano

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Kento is what I would describe as a "classically great" wrestler in the vein of someone like Ric Flair, because he doesn't do anything insane and all of his matches are the same but he's so incredible at doing what he does and making his opponent look credible that he never has a bad match.

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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Lily Catts posted:

Has Kento Miyahara ever done a US tour? That said I've never heard of the current AJPW do a show overseas...

he's wrestled a few times in Mexico and the UK but never the US, as far as I can tell

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