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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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The continuing American adventure of Konosuke Takeshita

https://mobile.twitter.com/GardenStatePW/status/1522335439662862337

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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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If only they'd looked at the clip of Kenoh setting his kickpad on fire for a kick to get some tips

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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I would find it very funny if Itoh had to go to the other side of the world to get her first singles win over Miyu

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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That's a shame, especially since they announced last night that Takeshita was doing a show for them soon. I remember the Will Ospreay vs Jimmy Havoc (feat. Paul Robinson) feud (which holy poo poo started 8 years ago) to be great even if Jimmy couldn't back up his character work with ring work

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Very much looking forward to next month, we're getting Adam Brooks on the 16th for EPW and Ace Austin on the 30th for NHPW. Bonus points as the EPW show is like 10 minutes from my house rather than the hour plus we usually drive

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Any CZW/GCW aficianados know when this photo was taken? I had a doubletake after seeing it since I thought Wifebeater had been dead for over a decade, but Nick Gage looks pretty similar to now. Although my perception of time is all screwed up, I thought Justice Pain died around the same time as Trent Acid but it was only in 2020

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/1543324590209961986

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Wow, that guy got sent to the SHADOW REALM

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Ace Austin decided to set up his merch table facing the doors to the ring area, leading to a ton of people standing in a line blocking the exit for everyone else. Guess when you're the international star you can set up wherever you like.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Was going to put this in the Euro thread but it's been dead for months. On yesterday's DDT show, Cara Noir was announced as making his first trip to Japan in late September and challenging for the Universal Title

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Kvlt! posted:

Are non-aew matches part of AEW kayfabe? I'd assume if they let him wrestling in other leagues they don't really bring it into the AEW world. I could be wrong I'm just taking a guess, I don't watch AEW

When Thunder Rosa lost in TJPW as champ they replayed the match on their YT show and it led to Miyu challenging Rosa for the AEW belt on tv, but it's not a hard and fast rule. They last two times Hikaru Shida had bookings in Japan AEW just wrote her off with a storyline injury. Could go either way with Gage

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

Joey Janela going to get skewers stuck through his face. Love my Psychopath Boy.

Joey/Sakuda increases the chance the show will eventually show up on Universe so i'm all for it, we love that short king around here

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Joey Janela and Rickey Shane Page announced for D-Oh Grand Prix (DDT's version of the G1) in November

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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He's very polite out in the world, as long as you buy something from his shop after browsing

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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This card sounds rad. Miyu, MAO and now Shunma

https://mobile.twitter.com/WrestlePrestige/status/1589676710089592832

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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My local indie is having their 21st anniversary show in a couple of weeks so I've been looking through some of their earlier shows and got a laugh out of this, thought others might too

The poster featuring Hartley Jackson (Jag) and Mad Mikey Nicholls (Nick Miller in WWE)



The full card also has some pretty mid 00s names

quote:

August 27, 2005. EPW "Cause For Concern". Alma Venville Recreation Centre. Maylands, WA
Tommy Cartel def. Azazal's Protégé, who turned out to be Azazal in a mask
Justin Sane def. Los Freemanos
Three Way Tag: Awsome Inc. (Kiel E. Lectrifying & Shane Haste) def. AZ Vegara & "The Fluro Phenom" Chris Vice and The European Union ("Lord" Johnathon Wimbledon & "The Don" Michael Morleone)
Invitational Tournament - Round 1: Kiel E. Lectrifying def. Shane Haste
FN Carnage def. Devlin Reeves
BobbyBadBlood def. Davis Storm
Handicap Match: Jag, "The Rising Star" Mikey & Psychofett vs. Jimmy Payne & Richter.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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I was also interested in learning that Kiel E Lectrifying (now Kiel Steria) and Shane Haste used to team, because 17 years later they both twirl a rally towel around like a maniac during their entrance

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Just got home from EPW Re-Awakening 21 and feeling good, crowd was announced at 800 which blew the previous highest of 550 away. The surprise partner for the tag title match turned out to be Mikey Nicholls which was a big surprise, he worked a show for New Japan three days ago. It also made a bit of sense since Mikey along with his partner Davis Storm were two of the founders of the promotion back in 2001, with a fun wrinkle in the number 1 contenders being fellow members of TMDK

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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For whatever reason the Young Bucks vs Colony (now Orange Cassidy and Drew Gulak) match from Chikara High Noon 2011 popped up in my recommended so thought i'd post it here. Very fun to see proto-YB offence, high energy OC and a very partisan crowd. Well worth taking the 15 minutes to watch, with the proviso that the audio isn't the cleanest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wU2re7yIs4

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Curiosity got the best of me and I checked out XPW's January 5th show, holy poo poo I will never think my Japanese indies are low rent ever again.

Feel bad for Colin Delaney

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Hell yeah Moonlight Express are back together for the first time since the pandemic

https://twitter.com/ddtproENG/status/1620606838554198018

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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It appears I need to start checking out Prestige. First Shunma and MAO now Thatcher and Irie, it's a conveyer belt of guys I like

https://twitter.com/WrestlePrestige/status/1620904942109343746

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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DDT's LA show on March 30th is coming out swinging, first two mathces announced are Konosuke Takeshita vs Yuki Ueno and Shunma Katsumata/MAO vs Chris Brookes/YOSHIHIKO

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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https://mobile.twitter.com/OBEYBrookes/status/1623403334798565376

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Hope that Princess Tag match ends up on Universe, really enjoyed Adora when she came over

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Speedball has a busy March 30th lined up

https://twitter.com/ScottEWrestling/status/1626311117243916289

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Oh yeah Irie is a monster, even in front of 75 people at BASEMENT Monstar or 2AW Square he'll give full effort every time and make his opponent look a million bucks

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Never seen these two before, are they good?

https://twitter.com/ganpro0417/status/1632577742553137159

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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How fun, hopefully the GanPro crowd treats them as well as the DDT crowd does their imports

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Jealous Melbourne is getting this, Untouchables are fantastic and The Parea were really impressive when I saw them in NHPW last year

https://twitter.com/mcitywrestling/status/1632932253994221571

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Watching some 16 Carat Gold from earlier this month, got a big lol out of the fact that they brought in Nikkan Lee to help with the Japanese talent since she's bilingual yet didn't provide her with a wXw ref shirt. She's out here in an All Japan shirt, a company neither competitor represent

e: never heard of Peter Tihanyi before but his catching Trey Miguel's top rope meteora with barely a stumble was real goddamn cool

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Mar 25, 2023

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Kazuchika Okada became a multi-time world champ after his time in Chikara, after that I'd say Jon Moxley or Claudio Castagnoli did the best

But for real most of the good guys from Chikara are now with AEW, with the rest either in the WWE system (Drew Gulak, Riccochet, Sara Del Rey) or hanging out with Ultramantis Black

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Apr 12, 2023

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Getting Wayne in before his AEW debut and the asking price triples

https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1657657428626886656

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Tossing up whether to go to this. On one hand, seeing Suzuki will be great even if Low Ki might not show. On the other hand, the rest of the card will probably suck poo poo since the NHPW roster is several orders of quality below the other larger indy in Perth EPW where I usually go

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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If you live in LA, go see MAO. MAO rules

https://twitter.com/Circle6_co/status/1669847143652139009

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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https://twitter.com/WCProOfficial/status/1678511284357046274

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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They still haven't announced if Kosei Fujita is going to make the trip west but I am very excited about this match, The Parea in particular I don't see enough of since whenever they come to Perth they work NHPW instead of the far superior EPW

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Hell yeah, they waited until three hours until the show starts but we finally have a match for big Fuj

https://twitter.com/WSWWrestlingAUS/status/1711640200756265105

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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To nobody's suprise Ichiban Sweet Boy is a real sweetheart

https://twitter.com/BambooFlash/status/1711731754720178295

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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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It was supposed to be Lee/Shawn Spiers vs Matt Cardona and Steph Delander but Steph got injured at the last show and had to miss the rest of the tour, so it became a three way match instead. Was happy to see Kross again, she was cool at the DDT show in Japan I went to but didn't get much time to shine

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