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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

Monday May 31st
6pm JST/8pm AEDT/10am BST/5am EST/2am PST

Pro Wrestling NOAH Mitsuhara Misawa Memorial 2021
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Haoh vs Seiki Yoshioka
Kongo (Kenoh, Manabu Soya, Nioh & Tadasuke) vs NOAH (Junta Miyawaki, Kaito Kiyomiya, Kinya Okada & Yoshiki Inamura)
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Stinger (HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa)(c) vs Daisuke Harada & Hajime Ohara
GHC Tag Team Titles: The Aggression (Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya)(c) vs Funky Express (Muhammad Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi)
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title: Atsushi Kotoge(c) vs Yuya Susumu
GHC National Title: Takashi Sugiura(c) vs Kazushi Sakuraba
M's Alliance (Keiji Mutoh & Masato Tanaka) vs M's Alliance (Masakatsu Funaki & Naomichi Marufuji)

With Mutoh's challenger locked in for CyberFest every other title is on the line in roughly 5 hours. Interesting to note that Saito isn't on the card considering his connection to Misawa, although I expect both he and Go will make appearances, perhaps even Akiyama or the other Pillars

You can watch it :
- Live on Wrestle Universe with English commentary
- Live & free with Japanese commentary on Abema
- Live on Fite for twice the price if you're into that, although I can't tell what language it'll be in

Here's a fairly in depth preview of the event

No doubt Hisame will be providing English language support to those people watching with Japanese commentary.

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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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A GHC defence would have been a foregone conclusion only a week out from CyberFest, plus you'd have to imagine Mutoh wouldn't have the body anymore to pull out two main event performances in seven days

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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I had both Universe and Abema up to make sure they were both working, WU's intro was maybe half the time

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Full Korakuen :stare:

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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I appreciate the graphic letting me know which stables the former members of Full Throttle each joined

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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That was fun, if real sloppy in places

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

Dildo over here was convinced this started at 10:30 so good job I checked the thread so I cam hear Kenoh's glorious theme

Yeah I made sure to change the times you'd written when I made the OP.

Kiyomiya looks good for losing half his blood the other week

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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It's nice to see Covid has not mellowed Kenoh out a single iota

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Jerusalem posted:

I am positive I've seen Manabu before and recognize his name, but looking at his history I'm not sure where I would have seen him in his major promotions. Did he do some ROH stuff in the mid-2000s maybe?

Not that I can find. He did some joint shows with NJPW in the early 2010s but he's pretty much AJPW -> Wrestle1 -> NOAH for his career

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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loving love Kinya Okada, boy's got so much heart

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Jerusalem posted:

Hey.... HEY this guy's a sore winner!

The other month he was in a 6 (or maybe 8) man tag that ended in a no contest. He got so lovely he had them restart the match, at which point his team promptly lost. Kenoh is an absolute treasure

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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It's awesome that Masato Tanaka is not only healthy after a decade of ECW and FMW in the 90s, he's still in absolutely incredible shape. Dude is a machine

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Did Fulton just mispronounce ZSJ's name on purpose :lol:

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Love me some weird Lucha submissions

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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That was a loving gnarly backbreaker

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Lamuella posted:

Just finished up DoN so jumping on this just in time to see Hayata absolutely miss a moonsault.

You missed Kenoh being a massive poo poo to Kiyomiya after their match, always a good time

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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That was real fun after a slow start

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Stay funky boys

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Momo no Seishun won the belts

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

And who turned afterwards? I won't believe you if you say nobody

Shockingly, the Juniors didn't do any junioring, perhaps in deference to the occasion. Suppose there's still time after the title match later.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Katsu has such great kicks

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Holy poo poo Yone, rad as hell

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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BETRAYAL

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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YOU'RE NOT A JUNIOR WHAT THE gently caress ARE YOU DOING

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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First Inamura, now Kitamiya. Why must the beefs leave the Kongoh?

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Kotoge keeps spiking fools with the Unprettier

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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This many fuckers around the ring you know shits going down

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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No brawl from 10+ jrs in the ring, but Kotoge chooses to challenge everyone in a rumble match for his belt, including his own stable. Wonders never cease with this division

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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https://twitter.com/Hi5ame/status/1399032948343648258

Killing Machine still going strong as an old man

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Holy poo poo, flying Sakuraba

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

gently caress me, that was a shocker

Also, isn't Saku younger than Sugiura somehow?

Nah, Saku is about 10 months older. Sugi only turned 51 today

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Sakuraba has been held together with tape and hope for a decade but he still does some real cool looking grappling

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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INVASION

It's my least favourite dude from DDT

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Sugi keeps trying to pop Saku, what a rotter :allears:

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Happy to see Funaki, he's not around nearly enough

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

Mutoh debuted when I was about 6 weeks old.

So old. By the time I was born he'd already won his first IWGP title

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Mutoh wins lol

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_PPdjD6mg

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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Good show let down at the last minute by Mutoh pulling his Mutoh poo poo to leave a bad taste in my mouth. Surely his reign has to end next week

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