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  New Year, new puro. Go Shiozaki is challenging his old buddy for the GHC Heavyweight to try and regain the belt he lost back in February before he took 8 months off to have surgery. The preview tags have given some indication of how deliciously stiff this match will be, and Go has added a wrinkle to the match during a press conference. If he wins, he wants Nakajima to reform AXIZ with him. It could be that he just misses his friend, but considering Katsu left AXIZ for Kongoh in 2020 in a misguided effeort to win the belt, Go might just be trying to take him off his game before one of the biggest matches of his life. In the semi-main event, birthday boy Kenoh has the best present of all, a match with his little brother Kaito Kiyomiya for the GHC National belt. Kenoh will no doubt be salty at this, as he recently went to a time limit draw with his Kongoh stablemate Nakajima for the right to main event this show but couldn't get the result. Kiyomiya has not had the best 2021, losing to Mutoh several times and losing to NOSAWA and not making the N-1 finals, so hopefully he can start turning it around today and make 2022 a good one. These to had a heckin rad match in the N-1 semi finals so got some pretty high hopes for this. And as a special treat, we are also getting the entire ZERO1 card broadcast live on Wrestle Universe since the two guys in the main event are NOAH guys. I can't comment much on this card because I only know about a quarter of the people, but ASUKA rules, Chris Vice is one of the few wrestlers from WA to make it outside of Australia, Imanari can be good when he's not being dragged down by Pheromones in DDT, and Fuminori Abe is an absolute beast. If his opponent Kitamura is even passable that match has the potential to outshine the main event, which should also be rad as hell as two 50 year old men pummel the poo poo out of each other forkboy84 posted:1/1/2022, Saturday
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I am going to try watching these shows live. No guarantees, my nap was shorter than planned coz someone set off fireworks despite it being way too foggy for that poo poo. ZERO1 New Years Day shows of the past are usually fun, last year had a 3¾ star match between Tanaka & Hayato Tamura, 2020 had Tanaka & Yuko Miyamoto vs Otani & Kitamura and Hino vs Okabayashi, 2019 had Otani vs Hino, Abe & Ikuto Hidaka vs Haganne Shinnou & SUGI and Sekimoto vs Kohei Sato. And really don't get to see enough Abe matches live, he rules
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Gonna welcome the new year watching friends just pummel the poo poo out of each other!
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Jan 1, 2022 00:27
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I will ring in the new year watching tough old dudes hit each other as hard as possible
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SG Bamboo posted:Show is live, doesn't look a massive crowd for Korakuen but not sure how Zero1 shows usually look Far as I can tell ZERO1 still existing is a minor miracle.
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Jan 1, 2022 03:34
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Oh Otani, it's 2:30am can you maybe cut me some slack with this show opening promo?
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This is reminding me of when I used to watch UFC shows live & I'd just get increasingly grumpy that the pacing was normal despite it clearly being 3am in my timezone & I need my beauty sleep. We've gone 15 minutes into the broadcast & not even had the first entrance for the opener yet. Not sure I can handle this so I will wish you well & hope that Abe defends.
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forkboy84 posted:This is reminding me of when I used to watch UFC shows live & I'd just get increasingly grumpy that the pacing was normal despite it clearly being 3am in my timezone & I need my beauty sleep. Have a nice nap, hope you're back to see Katsu kick Go in half. Supporting the team of not-so-giant Baba, I like his look
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Really hope the black trunks are showing that these guys are rookies because this has been real sloppy in a few places. Although that strike combination was deliciously stiff
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I gotta dip out for a bit in an hour but hell yes watching some Zero-1 live!
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I guess this is Asuka's new gear going forward, thought it might have just been something for SEAd
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Let's go Rampage, ChocoPro and this all at the same time a go
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Hey it's Veny! This match already good
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Jan 1, 2022 04:03
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Purple pants and bright red hair certainly is a look
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Jan 1, 2022 04:04
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Elbow through the face
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What a Veny sault! This match is a showcase for Veny and it rules
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Jan 1, 2022 04:09
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That match was very good, all four threw some goddamn shots
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Jan 1, 2022 04:11
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Hell yeah GanPro boys
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Hot take if you have to stand around the ring clapping yourselves you're not over GanPro in the mud
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Chris Vice does not know proper pushup form
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SG Bamboo posted:Kenoh will no doubt be salty 
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Dammit this match is too long, I want to get to Abe and the main event dammit 
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It's taken nearly two hours, but we're finally at the matches I was watching this show for Well, the Asuka match was really good
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Penguin Patrol posted:i'm here for the main, glad i didn't miss... i assume this is the japanese national anthem? maybe? Welcome friendo, you missed a real brutal semi-main and a very good Asuka match in the undercard, but everything else is skippable
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SG Bamboo posted:Welcome friendo, you missed a real brutal semi-main and a very good Asuka match in the undercard, but everything else is skippable i caught up with asuka thanks to the rest of the gdt before jumping up to join the live stuff 
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Jan 1, 2022 05:51
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These two old bastards were clearly jealous of how bruising the last match was
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Jan 1, 2022 06:01
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people keep texting me about something or other, my phone is blowing up, shut up i'm watching wrestling
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now some rear end in a top hat is shooting off fireworks... oh
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back on topic, this match rules e: and it's over, they hit each other a lot and it was good, happy new year
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That was great, hopefully Sugi keeping the belt means more partnership between NOAH and Zero1 in the future
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Oh hey, it's Asuka's partner from earlier. He was good, these two should have a great match
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Not knowing any Japanese, this VTR really feels like the ZERO1 is closing and a bunch of wrestlers are saying goodbye to the company
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