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4pm JST/6pm AEDT/8am BST/3am EST/12am PST Pro Wrestling NOAH Demolition Stage 2021 Fukuoka International Convention Centre, Fukuoka Hajime Ohara, Kai Fujimura & Kinya Okada vs Kongo (Haoh, Nioh & Tadasuke) Aleja vs Ikuto Hidaka Funky Express (King Tany & Muhammad Yone) vs Kongo (Kenoh & Manabu Soya) Los Perros del Mal de Japon (Eita, Kotaro Suzuki & YO-HEY) vs Stinger (Seiki Yoshioka & Yoshinari Ogawa) & Yasutaka Yano Momo No Seishun Tag (Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada) vs Sugiuragun (Kazushi Sakuraba & Takashi Sugiura) GHC Junior Heavyweight Title: HAYATA(c) vs NOSAWA Rongai Daiki Inaba, Kaito Kiyomiya & Masa Kitamiya vs M's Alliance (Keiji Mutoh, Masaaki Mochizuki & Naomichi Marufuji) GHC Heavyweight Title: Katsuhiko Nakajima(c) vs Masato Tanaka Live on Wrestle Universe Thought this deserved a thread. Card is packed.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:00
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Lamuella posted:Thought this deserved a thread. Card is packed. Nice, thanks!
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Oct 30, 2021 08:02
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Oh God keep that old man away from Kiyomiya 
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Oct 30, 2021 08:04
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Fully expecting Nak and Tanaka to skeletonize each other with strikes. Very much here for it.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:04
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Fujimura has really been maturing lately as a junior. Looking forward to seeing what he can do against the Kongoh boys.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:05
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Ohara sez: gently caress your backs
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Oct 30, 2021 08:14
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Haoh, Nioh and Tadasuke vs Fujimura, Okada, and Ohara was super solid junior nonsense. Not as crazy as they sometimes get, but Ohara brought the grappling, Okada brought the kicks, and Tadasuke brought his weird athletic sleaze energy. Fujimura is still a puppy, but he's growing into something special. Very strong opener.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:21
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Was it just me or did Okada look "bigger" than normal. Like he'd put on some muscle and lost a little leanness? I recall him having way more of an Ibushi style frame than that, but maybe I just haven't really paid enough attention to him recently and didn't notice.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:25
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Jerusalem posted:Was it just me or did Okada look "bigger" than normal. Like he'd put on some muscle and lost a little leanness? I recall him having way more of an Ibushi style frame than that, but maybe I just haven't really paid enough attention to him recently and didn't notice. No, he's got a filled out silhouette. Which makes sense with his positioning as a Muscle Junior.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:28
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I haven't really been impressed by Aleja yet. Not sure why.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:29
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Pylons posted:I haven't really been impressed by Aleja yet. Not sure why. He's..... fine. Which, yeah, I guess that's the "problem". He's just, perfectly fine and otherwise doesn't really stand out at all.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:30
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Aleja vs Hidaka. Aleja has impressed me so far. Hidaka is kind of The Other Guy from Los Perros Del Mal. This is slower and more deliberate than the previous juniors match, and the crowd aren't as into it. Aleja's version of the tope con hero always looks spectacular. Bit of a filler match.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:34
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OK, time for some absolute bullshit in the best way.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:35
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Kenoh has a constant expression like he got two scoops of ice cream and the other boy got three.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:38
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C'mon big boys!
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Oct 30, 2021 08:39
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Lamuella posted:Kenoh has a constant expression like he got two scoops of ice cream and the other boy got three. Being Kenoh he may actually be mad he got three scoops and the other boy got ANY, I don't think he's EVER happy 
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Oct 30, 2021 08:40
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When another boy has the GHC national title
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Oct 30, 2021 08:49
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If Yone still had his king powers he'd have kicked out of that 
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Oct 30, 2021 08:49
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Lamuella posted:When another boy has the GHC national title 
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Oct 30, 2021 08:49
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Last time they were in this building they did 1236 for Mutoh/Kaito which was their biggest draw in Fukuoka for almost a decade. If they can beat that, it'd be a really positive sign. (For comparison the only other company who runs this building are NJPW and they did 2211 and 2367 for Jay/Tanahashi and Ospreay/Shingo this year and claimed 2e67 as a sellout)
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Oct 30, 2021 08:50
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Kenoh and Soya vs King Tany and Yone. There's a moment early in this where Soya hits Tany, who just grins like "yay, I know this game!". And that's the sort of match this is. Beefy men having fun slugging each other. Kenoh looked great, because Kenoh looks great. Soya is looking increasingly disgruntled and that's good.
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Oct 30, 2021 08:50
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Ogawa, Yoshioka, and Yano vs Yo Hey, Eita, and Kotaro Suzuki. Yano had a coming out party of a match the other night. Wonder how he'll do tonight. Perros are suitable scumbags, and it's a pretty good fun Stinger /Perros match, but we've seen better tonight.
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Oct 30, 2021 09:10
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I'm not entirely sure why pouring water on Ogawa is a terrible insult but okay!
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Oct 30, 2021 09:12
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Wish they never changed YO-HEY's theme because that scene would play out better with Africa playing over it
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Oct 30, 2021 09:13
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Was YO-HEY one of the people who tortured the monkey, or do I just think that because he looks like the kind of person who would torture a monkey?
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Oct 30, 2021 09:21
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Lamuella posted:Was YO-HEY one of the people who tortured the monkey, or do I just think that because he looks like the kind of person who would torture a monkey? YO-HEY took the fall for the monkey torture. There has been some suggestion that he was the fall guy and guys higher up the food chain like Shingo and Tozawa were more to blame but nobody really knows for sure.
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Oct 30, 2021 09:22
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drat that delayed vertical was great
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Oct 30, 2021 09:30
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Sakuraba and Sugiura vs Kotoge and Harada. A deliberately lopsided match, pitting power and technique against speed. Harada and Sugi are remarkable together. Kotoge is a solid enough foil, but is rarely the most spectacular part of a match. Sakuraba goes full grapplefuck at points of this, which is always lovely. All in all this is a nice cool down from Sugiura's National title run. Decent fun, ending in a Doomsday Device.
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Oct 30, 2021 09:36
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Oh sweet, time for the Jr Titl.... oh right, the challenger is NOSAWA...
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Oct 30, 2021 09:39
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The ref was looking DIRECTLY at that chairshot....
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Oct 30, 2021 09:55
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Hayata vs Nosawa. It's messed up that I'm rooting for Hayata. That they've driven me to this. This isn't a *bad*match, but it's slow. Nosawa is as dirty a fighter as always, blades relatively early, and overall wrestles a Nosawa match. Hayata doesn't quite have the stylistic confidence to put his own imprint on the match. There's good stuff in here, but Nosawa could make a handshake feel overbooked. Thankfully Nosawa resisted his worst urge here.
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Oct 30, 2021 10:05
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Aleja being the next challenger doesn't really fill me with too much excitement, I have to admit.
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Oct 30, 2021 10:06
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Being English and tired, Tadasuke starting off with an "oi oi!" was funny to me.
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Oct 30, 2021 10:07
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Jerusalem posted:Aleja being the next challenger doesn't really fill me with too much excitement, I have to admit. "Hayata, you must face the fourth most impressive of the Kongoh juniors to fight tonight!"
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Oct 30, 2021 10:08
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I actually don't need to see Kiyomiya beat Mutoh in a wrestling match. I'd be entirely happy just seeing him beat Mutoh with a car battery.
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Oct 30, 2021 10:10
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Hey look, Mutoh fighting off the entire opposing team all by himself.
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Oct 30, 2021 10:33
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Beefy six man. Inaba is coming into his own as a weird muscleboy, Kita and Kito, the Miya twins, are both on top form. Marufuji is always excellent, and Mochizuki's bag of weird tricks is always fun. Keiji Mutoh was also in this match.
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Oct 30, 2021 10:36
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Oct 30, 2021 10:36
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There is a commentator in Mutoh cosplay in the picture-in-picture
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Oct 30, 2021 10:37
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If Mutoh takes a tag belt off Kiyomiya I swear to loving god
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Oct 30, 2021 10:38
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