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Lamuella posted:Pro Wrestling Noa that was the last match
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May 1, 2023 11:40
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Hikari Noa CDs. where would she get so many!
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Hikari said she wanted all the bumps
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every time someone gets thrown at the light tubes I tense up.
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May 1, 2023 11:43
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gently caress
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May 1, 2023 11:44
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gory special turned into a side slam.
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May 1, 2023 11:45
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turns out: Sawyer Wreck is loving good.
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May 1, 2023 11:46
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shouts out to excalibur's old "minecraft like structure" call.
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blood status: Sawyer Wreck
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May 1, 2023 11:48
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I'm enjoying this match a lot but Hikari really needs to be doing more deathmatches to get this ambitious with the spots.
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May 1, 2023 11:50
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Pylons posted:I'm enjoying this match a lot but Hikari really needs to be doing more deathmatches to get this ambitious with the spots. I'm fairly certain she would a thousand percent agree with you.
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not the strategic light tube reserve.
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at least they're no not being too phased by the things that don't work out
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Very much into the sleazy saxophone here.
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Turns out that using being an idol to get in to wrestling is probably also keeping you from doing the wrestling you want to do
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May 1, 2023 11:52
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HamburgerTownUSA posted:Turns out that using being an idol to get in to wrestling is probably also keeping you from doing the wrestling you want to do Idol producers and contracts suck
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May 1, 2023 11:53
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ahhhhhhhh didn't Noa do a deathmatch with Rina Yamashita? edit: maybe it was just a hardcore match
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oh poo poo such respect and cool poo poo. Jerusalem posted:As a big baby loser geek who feels queasy watching deathmatches, is this show worth catching up on? what makes you queasy, because aside from the deathmatch itself, there is a fun match for the semi-main and a rookie vs. rookie match that is interesting.
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fez_machine posted:ahhhhhhhh didn't Noa do a deathmatch with Rina Yamashita? I looked it up (for the OP), it was a hardcore match not a deathmatch.
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Jerusalem posted:As a big baby loser geek who feels queasy watching deathmatches, is this show worth catching up on? You should 100% watch the Gabai Ji-chan vs. Mahiro match.
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Jerusalem posted:As a big baby loser geek who feels queasy watching deathmatches, is this show worth catching up on? It was a lot of fun, not too gruesome. There is blood, but not excessive blood, some hard but well executed spots, and the matches leading up to this were very enjoyable.
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The deathmatch wasn't too gnarly there's blood but not all over the place mainly chair slam spots and exploding light tubes edit: if you watched the Hyper Misao deathmatch in DDT that was way more grody
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May 1, 2023 11:56
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Her back But then her theme song  Her back
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I will give the show a try after New Japan is over, hardcore matches I'm usually okay and from the description this match seems like it might be okay, but something about the aesthetic of a death match leaves me feeling gross, so if that match isn't working for me as I watch it I will use the mysterious power of... just not watching it anymore, to get past this problem!
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That one cut on her upper back on her right is probably going to need a stitch or two
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So I watched the clipped highlights of the Suzu Suzuki-Jun Kasai match from last week this morning before this which probably skews my views slightly but that... wasn't that good. It revealed that her moves lack the impact of others that do this stuff which really doesn't help; especially since her opponent, well, isn't exactly Jun Kasai. The issue is that they won't ever do more than one or two of these a year so Hikari won't get better at the stuff that's most relevant; and so its sort of diminishing returns once you tick off all of the firsts. I also think she's stagnated a bit (although perhaps Miu clearly improving significantly overemphasises this) and it honestly feels like she'd benefit from going somewhere else for a while - but the only realistic options for that are like a US run but promoters there would probably have the bigger names, or leaving TJPW to go somewhere else and that'd be being a Stardom midcarder which wouldn't be good or the indie grind where the risk is that you end up stuck on tiny Indies that no one watches. I'm pretty sure the fact you get one of these a year is probably more TJPW vs the Idol stuff at this point - the agency she's in isn't that big and I believe has downsized and didn't object to this. I think its a combination of TJPW being worried about doing more deathmatches causing issues with overall popularity (the Prominence/Ice Ribbon split initially was Ice Ribbon wanting to stop doing the deathmatches and Prominence wanting to carry on doing their own thing; Stardom only go to a certain point because they get fan criticism although they've definitely raised the bar I assume because they're getting more New Japan fans to counterbalance this a bit); and the fact that they are proud of their isolationism and would need to bring in outsiders to do this more regularly and there aren't exactly that many until you go intergender which would be a tough sell as a thing on regular shows - its literally Rina Yamashita which they've done, Prominence who were very strongly Stardom-linked last year although perhaps Suzu's departure changes that; and perhaps Yuki Miyazaki on the more Hardcore side vs Deathmatch side.
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Just watched the Ji-Chan/Kiryu match, absolutely loving incredible stuff. Can't pick a favorite spot, everything was just magical from start to finish. Kiryu may now be the most despicable heel on the roster!
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There's a few places to go for Hikari Noa within the Cyberfight group. Notably, both Hyper Misao and Maki Itoh have done hardcore/death match stuff in DDT (that seems to have died down though) but there is Ganbare/Ganbare Joshi, maybe Gake No Fuchi if that comes back and Baka Gaijin (on the extreme end of Cyberfight affiliated). Although, I don't know how Misao/Itoh got the leeway to branch out as much as they have.
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