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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!



The littlest brother of the CyberFight Family is betting on themselves in a quite frankly insane way. No longer content with running 2AW Square or Shin-Kiba 1st RING in front of 120 people, Ken Ohka and his team have decided to run Ota Ward Gym with a capacity of four thousand (for reference, sister promotion TJPW ran here yesterday and pulled 1100). In order to achieve this they've brought in names from a bunch of other promotions including DDT, Stardom, BASARA, GLEAT, AJPW and probably more i'm forgetting. In addition, this will be only the second show in the company's history (after Bad Communication in February) to have English commentary. Last time it was Chris Brookes and Mr Haku in the booth, but Chris is on the card here so we may see a familiar face from the assorted English teams CyberFight employs.

Commentary should be able to give you the minutiae of the performers, but the most important thing to remember about the promotion is right there in the name. Ganbare is all about trying your best in any situation and the core roster embody this. Stocisism is not the norm here, expect outpourings of emotion and a hell of a lot of shouting. More than that though, expect a well worked show that won't outstay it's welcome in front of a crowd that has had to restrain themselves for over two years. I'm excited too, I only started following GanPro last year so i've never heard the crowd at full volume either.

The main event should be great, Imanari is more than solid when he'd not in DDT and Ohka is a fantastic hoss when he needs to be, although my most anticipated matches come from the middle of the card. I only know Stardom's Unagi Sayaka from clips, but she seems very cool and is taking on Joshi hoss Yuna Manase, who can lean on comedy a bit much but when focused (check out her matches against Saki Akai or the Otani Benefit show) she is a great immovable object. The other potential sleeper hit comes from New Japan's resident MMA badass Minoru Suzuki, who is taking on former Shooto featherweight champion Shuichiro Katsumara. Very much looking forward to someone who has as well developed a submission game as Suzuki, but who is a decade younger and twice as fast.

Also Onryo from 666 is on the show.

forkboy84 posted:

3/7/2022, Sunday
2pm JST/4pm AEDT/6am BST/1am EDT/10pm PDT

Ganbare Pro Wrestle Sekigahara
Ota Ward General Gymnasium, Tokyo

Isami Kodaka & Shuji Ishikawa vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie
Black Tiger V & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs Kouki Iwasaki & Tyson Maeguchi
Ganbare Tamagawa, HARUKAZE & Nobuhiro Shimatani vs Onryo & YuuRI
Eruption (Hideki Okatani, Saki Akai & Yukio Sakaguchi) vs Mizuki Watase, Moeka Haruhi & Shinichiro Tominaga
Unagi Sayaka vs Yuna Manase
Minoru Suzuki vs Shuichiro Katsumura
CDK (Chris Brookes & Masahiro Takanashi) vs Romance Dawn (Shota & Soma Takao)
Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Title: Yumehito Imanari(c) vs Ken Ohka
Live on Wrestle Universe

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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Something I didn't think about, this will be the first time we'll hear a Japanese crowd sing Kaze ni Nare since March 2020 or so. Hopefully they remember the timing :ohdear:

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

This will probably be the first full Ganbare Pro show I've watched (I've seen a bit of them in other Cyberfight shows) so I'm excited.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Stream is live, let's GO!

e: Looks like Haku and Akki on English comms

Pinwiz11
Jan 26, 2009

I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.



I may not be able to stay awake for long but let's do this!

e: HI GANBARE NAMBA!

Pinwiz11 fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jul 10, 2022

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Haku teasing that the new GanJo member is Sasha banks :lol:

e: wow, Yoshiko Hasegawa

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
BAD COMMUNICATION

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Opener looks stiff as hell, Ishii and Kodaka are weird looking dudes but can take and give a beating

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

Big venue GanPro feels so wrong and yet so right.

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
lol Ganpro at a big venue turns the lights way down

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Irie's music rules

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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It's funny going from SenJo muting all the themes to GanPro not giving a gently caress and blasting Metallica

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Love that move from Ishikawa

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Jesus Christ that was a rough impact

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

very brave to put your main event first, holy poo poo

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Cannot believe he kicked out there.

This match fucks, what a choice to open the show

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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:derp:

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

That loving ruled

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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What a goddamn match :stare:

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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I really want to know who the crap is under that Tiger Mask

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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I hope Iwasaki gets a run with the title eventually, he is very cool

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Wow, was not expecting Tyson to get the win, nice job

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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YuuRI making Onryo do the pose with her

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Lingerie Mutoh

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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The best Shining Wiard i've seen Mutoh hit in years

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Watase looked quite a bit less silly with the shaved head, but then he decided he needed a flame pattern as well

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

SG Bamboo posted:

Watase looked quite a bit less silly with the shaved head, but then he decided he needed a flame pattern as well

absolutely being shown up by full red hair

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Jesus, the air on that

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Hell yeah Watase, get his rear end

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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:neckbeard:

Really enjoyed that, best match since the opener

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
That's the way the match had to go

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Interesting song choice for the VTR

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

Galaxy brain music choice.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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There's the shouting I wastch this promotion for

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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lol Rainmaker pose

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Very good match, didn't expect Unagi to take the win

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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This is so silly, I love it

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
KAZE NI NARE

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

KAZE

NI

NARE

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fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
Good Chocotalk on comms

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