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New Japan works the magazines all the time, you'd think people would learn by now
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some may be disappointed but in a way i'm kinda relieved they're still capable of booking a fantastic pro wrestling storyline without a veteran with clout going off script
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Benne posted:New Japan works the magazines all the time, you'd think people would learn by now Can’t wait for Naito to stick Dave with the bill at a restaurant sometime in 2024 when he can get over here next.
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Really glad to have Strong back, and for those who don't usually watch be sure to check out Eddie Kingdon vs. Gabriel Kidd at the very least. What a war!
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yeah the prior weeks were holiday clip shows so i completely forgot but definiely plan on watching this one
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Strongthoughts: Manageable length episode. We have Kevin! 1) DKC vs TJP. Lose the headband, DKC. But keep doing that running dropkick, that was beautiful. Wish this building was better lit. TJP is a better heel than he ever was a face. DKC has figured some things out, he's got way more fighting spirit than he used to, and his offense is more believable. 2) Keita Murray and Jordan Clearwater vs Hikuleo and Chris Bey. Hikuleo is very tall. I'm just pointing out his defining characteristic. Not seen Keita before. He's quick and agile and I think he and Bey would have a good singles match. Clearwater is growing on me a bit. It felt like he was treading water for a while but he's now stepping up as proper heavyweight. This is a pretty good fun tag, lots of fun size disparities. The more I see of Keita the more potential I think he has. But I keep thinking that commentary are calling him Kitamura. Solid, enjoyable tag. 3) Eddie Kingston vs Gabriel Kidd. Been wildly impressed by Kidd recently. King's Road vs Strong Style is a great simple story. This is great from the start. Kidd goes in technical, Eddie is full volume character. We get some superb strike exchanges. gently caress, this is great. Pissed off Kingston trying to start a fire, fighting spirit Kidd trying to stand toe to toe. Super physical, super emotional, and (and this is an odd word to pick) educated. This is a match that knows its history. Make the time to watch this one.
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I'm finally watching Wrestle Kingdom Night 1 because I guess I've got to face reality that Shingo is losing the title. I really should have just skipped the undercard because this is some real Road To... Korakuen Hall 15th Consecutive Night energy. Nothing is actively bad so far, even the Ranbo was...alright, but I'm 2 weeks behind on AEW, have 4 NOAH shows, 3 DDT, 2 Stardom, 1 AJPW & 1 DG show all to watch to be caught up. I'm wasting time here with a BUSHI match about to start.
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forkboy84 posted:I'm finally watching Wrestle Kingdom Night 1 because I guess I've got to face reality that Shingo is losing the title. I'd say between the two nights of New Japan only WK you have one event of very good matches: Shibata / Narita, Chaos / Tekkers, Despy / Hiromu, Kazu / Shingo Junior tag three way Saya & Tam / Mayu and Kid Naito / Cobb Tana / Kenta Kazu / Billy Brexit That's a tight nine match show. It's just that it was wallowing in filler.
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edogawa rando posted:The EVIL/Ishii match is worth watching, just to watch someone pull off the impossible and have a bad match with Ishii. It's not a bad Wrestle Kingdom, but it definitely feels lesser in quality than the last 4 or 5 years. They don't have the depth to do 2 shows of the WK scale. That's always been the case but especially so right now. Also Holy poo poo Ren Narita really is a mini-Shibata now. This rules.
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That corner dropkick from Shibata is such a thing of beauty. Violence can be a form of beauty under the right light, right? Somehow i avoided seeing this WASN'T a catch rules Match. That's a glorious swerve. Ren needs to learn to check those leg kicks. Rad stuff honestly. That said, and I know trying to work out the psychology of clap crowds is folly, but did the crowd seem a bit flat?
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forkboy84 posted:That corner dropkick from Shibata is such a thing of beauty. Violence can be a form of beauty under the right light, right? Shibata grabbed the microphone at the beginning of the match and changed the rules. Meltzer reported it was a shoot, but VOW says it was planned. Meltzer also reported that Shibata had his brain removed so I'm going with VOW. The crowd were into it, it's just that Tokyo Dome has poo poo acoustics for wrestling even when it's full of screaming people so only jesus pops like Naito winning the belt sound good there.
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I think the crowd was just respectfully watching the loudest pops I heard during WK was in the O-Khan/SANADA match whenever O-Khan did a cool babyface move, and it's no surprise that he does cool babyface moves even better than SANADA.
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Apologies for the shameless advertising, but for those who want to take part (hopefully all of you!), The Post Your Favorite Active Wrestlers for 2021 Thread is now up and running for the next two weeks!
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There is an entire family at TAKATaichimania, father, mother and daughter dressed as DOUKI. Excellent parenting. e: holy poo poo it's so weird being back in Korakuen Hall and not having personal space again please bring back social distancing GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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If you are a SZKG fan you really need to check out this show. Especially the main event and the Miho Abe birthday celebration. Miho was picking up random trash that fans left behind in Korakuen after the show so I think the gimmick of her cleaning up after Taichi is her real personality GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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I've fallen off of NJPW in the last two years. The only shows I watched during the pandemic was parts of the 2020 G1 and the New Japan Cup I'm thinking of getting back into it now. Have there been any standout matches in those last two years? I don't mean merely "very good" stuff but the royal kinda stuff. I'll watch this year's wrestle Kingdom in the next few days but I figured it can't be hurt to get some good stuff that happened in the timeframe that I missed out on as an appetizer.
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IGgy IGsen posted:I've fallen off of NJPW in the last two years. The only shows I watched during the pandemic was parts of the 2020 G1 and the New Japan Cup I think no promotion I watched in 2021 had as many standout matches as New Japan to be honest with you. I have 8 matches at 4.75 & 2 at 5. Plus another 13 at 4.5 & 20 at 4.25 & 21 at 4*. So yeah, just focusing on the very best stuff 5* 7/6 Dominion Kazuchika Okada vs Shingo Takagi IWGP World HW 18/9 G1 Night 1 Shingo Takagi vs Tomohiro Ishii 4.75* 5/1 WK Night 2 Shingo Takagi vs Jeff Cobb NEVER Openweight 5/1 WK Night 2 Kota Ibushi vs Jay White IWGP HW/IC 30/1 New Beginning In Nagoya Shingo Takagi vs Hiroshi Tanahashi NEVER Openweight 6/3 New Japan Cup Kazuchika Okada vs Shingo Takagi 4/4 Sakura Genesis Kota Ibushi vs Will Ospreay IWGP World HW 4/5 Wrestling Dontaku Night 2 Will Ospreay vs Shingo Takagi IWGP World HW 19/9 G1 Night 2 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kazuchika Okada 6/11 Power Struggle Shingo Takagi vs Zack Sabre Jr IWGP World HW
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forkboy84 posted:I think no promotion I watched in 2021 had as many standout matches as New Japan to be honest with you. I have 8 matches at 4.75 & 2 at 5. Plus another 13 at 4.5 & 20 at 4.25 & 21 at 4*. So yeah, just focusing on the very best stuff Thanks for these. I probably wont be able to check out all of them in the interest of time so I'll pick some of them out. Man, Shingo really came into his own in these years I missed, huh? He was pretty good when I stopped watching but I wasn't feeling it yet.
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I'm totally biased on Shingo in fairness. He's a total bad rear end.
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You could check any major match Shingo had in 2021 and you’ll get something spectacular. Honestly, real MVP of any promotion the whole year, he made a NEVER title match come off as a legit main event (ever wanted to just hear El Phantasmo mark the gently caress out? Takagi/Tanahashi at New Beginning in Nagoya). It’s actually kinda awesome, you can go from WK15 to WK16, and watch him go from being the bottom-tier singles belt holder to walking into the Dome in 2022 as IWGP World champ on a six-month reign and, having watched his big matches throughout the year, you can go “yeah, he more than deserved this spot”.
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Also, watch Shingo's Dragon Gate run, it's tremendous work  I'm not so big on NJPW Shingo as other people are because I think the Bushiroad main event formula dilutes his intensity. He works best in shorter matches to highlight his explosiveness, and that's why my favorite New Japan Shingo match is still Shingo/Cobb in WK15.
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forkboy84 posted:I think no promotion I watched in 2021 had as many standout matches as New Japan to be honest with you. I have 8 matches at 4.75 & 2 at 5. Plus another 13 at 4.5 & 20 at 4.25 & 21 at 4*. So yeah, just focusing on the very best stuff Great list! Although it hasn't been a great couple years for juniors BoSJ has featured a great Despy vs. Hiromu match two years going. Both were better than their WK match this year, though that was still very good.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Great list! Although it hasn't been a great couple years for juniors BoSJ has featured a great Despy vs. Hiromu match two years going. Both were better than their WK match this year, though that was still very good. Yeah, Despy vs Hiromu from BOSJ & DOUKI vs Hiromu from Summer Struggle are probably my top Jr matches in the company. Not a great year for the division on the whole.
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Golden Series cards are out. The Sendai show has Master Wato's first big main event against El Desperado. The Osaka show has EVIL/Ishii in a lumberjack match as the semi main and Okada/Tanahashi vs. Naito/SANADA. Night 1 in Sapporo has Robbie/TMIV vs Ishimori/Phantasmo for the junior tags, Goto/Y-H vs EVIL/Yujiro for the tags and the main is Tanahashi/SANADA for the US title. Night two has Suzuki/Yano for the KOPW, HOT vs Goto/Y-H/YOH for the six man and Okada/Naito for the IWGP E: oh lol we're getting SHO vs YOH IV at Sendai too GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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That sure is a whole lot of EVIL matches, yep
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Some things of note. Cobb is on the cards but ZSJ isn't. Don't blame him if he wants to go home and visit family for a bit. Okada is not teaming with CHAOS all tour and is entirely teaming with Tanahashi and the dads.
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Rarity posted:ZSJ isn't on the shows cause he's going to make a shock appearance on Dynamite to challenge Danielson Actually that's why Bad Luck Fale isn't on the shows. In other SZKG news, the follow up to TakaTaichiMania (which you should all go out of your way to watch) TakaTaichiDespe Box Office has been scheduled for Korakuen Hall on March 4th.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXs2bdf-kCQ&t=1170s This is what everyone here has always wanted.
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fez_machine posted:and that's why I don't follow Stardom even though its in ring product is so good Yes, I also don't watch Stardom because their wrestlers don't look as attractive Hiroshi Tanahashi
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I forgot what thread this is and thought that was in response to the dumb triple threat match and was like "yeah thats fair" but lmao
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forkboy84 posted:Yes, I also don't watch Stardom because their wrestlers don't look as attractive Hiroshi Tanahashi No, it's the thinly veiled excuses for gravure poo poo. Which in this video it tries to pass off as a joke. I prefer women's wrestling not to be directly associated with pornography. Like shooting at the world famous porn pool.
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