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I don't get it. Haven't watched NJPW for a long time going now but their roster is quite thin and full of rematches every show I read about. 3 "mega" shows in one week sounds like overkill without a lot of outside talent coming in. I wish them well but truly I've just got no interest in NJPW anymore.
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They better get their covid situation under control by then.
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Yeah they haven't had a good roster shake up in quite some time.
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Like they should have merged their tag divisions during this pandemic even if only for the short term and that would have solved issues people have had with it over the years. Mostly about the lack of star power it has and being spread too thinly over 2 divisions. WWE has the exact same problem with their main roster tag divisions over the years. |
Your G1 31 Blocks.
A Block: Kota Ibushi Tetsuya Naito Shingo Takagi Zack Sabre Jr. Toru Yano Tomohiro Ishii Yujiro Takahashi Tanga Loa KENTA Great-O-Khan B Block: SANADA Taichi YOSHI-HASHI Hirooki Goto Jeff Cobb EVIL Tama Tonga Chase Owens Kazuchika Okada Hiroshi Tanahashi So along with the usual suspects, Chase Owens, G.o.D., and Khan got brought in to round it out. |
Wow, that looks like shit.
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Awful. Should have struck a deal with Noah or ajpw instead of throwing a bunch of midcarders in there.
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Apparently NJPW's recent creative woes and issues isn't all Gedo's fault and instead Dick Togo shares a lot of the blame as well since he's been gaining a lot of influence backstage when it comes to creative ideas and plans according to Voices of Wrestling.
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The only thing I got out of all that was that Gedo wants to keep the belt on Shingo for a while. Which I'm cool with.
Everything else just sounds like garbage. I might just tune into the G1 and probably opt-out of NJPW World for a little while until things stabilize/improve. |
Will Ospreay currently teasing Buddy Murphy will be making his debut soon for NJPW and as the newest member of Ospreay's United Empire stable
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’ve been talking to a ʙᴜᴅᴅʏ of mine.<br>Invited him to Dallas September 25th & 26th.<br><br>Think he would fit in great with the crew. <br><br>�� <a href="https://t.co/2dLQrHdJLr">https://t.co/2dLQrHdJLr</a></p>— ᵂⁱˡˡ ᴼˢᵖʳᵉᵃʸ • ウィル・オスプレイ (@WillOspreay) <a href="https://twitter.com/WillOspreay/status/1436672148450562048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Buddy Murphy was just a Kenny Omega premier skin, so while I think he’s boring in the ring, New Japan will probably get more out of him than anybody. Hope they call him Matt Silva. Buddy Murphy was a terrible name.
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Naito vs. Sabre Jr. was awesome and almost bit on it hitting a time limit draw with the way it went on.
Only downer was Naito might have suffered a legit serious knee injury during it. SPOILER: show |
Either Takagi owes Ishii money or both guys just said eff it and are trying to go for the stiffest hitting match in wrestling history.
Ishii basically beating the shit out of Takagi during their match so far. |
Think I need a smoke after that magnificent hoss war Ishii and Takagi had tonight.
Legit might have been a harder hitting stiff slugfest than WALTER vs. Dragunov was at NXT TakeOver 36 last month. |
I'll have to try and find Ishii & Takagi, thanks.
Was coming here to post about NJPW in the US. Seems like a complete flop right now. The attendance for the upcoming shows is going to be tragically bad. Crazy how the scene changed for NJPW without Kenny and The Bucks in the US. I think if AEW really wanted to help out they'd be loaning more stars to the NJPW US Tour. It's really tough going without some big names. I know they have a lot of old guard Japanese guys in for the tour but Omega and The Bucks would probably make a big difference. At least be able to get the attendances from 200-400 to over a thousand perhaps. The fucking HEAT of that NJPW show in California when Omega/Ibushi faced The Young Bucks. What a great show that was. It felt like a true rebirth for NJPW with possibilities of real major shows in the US. And of course MSG too. I was there. Didn't really feel like NJPW because of the huge ROH influence on the show. |
Oh and if Buddy Murphy joins NJPW that would be fantastic and the best possibly company for him. He's 100% an Omega influenced wrestler and if he can find and show an original character I think he could be a big hit for NJPW, particularly in Japan as opposed to the US tours.
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Shingo/Ishii match of the year every year
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People shitting on this G1 before it happened when it looked great are going to end up eating their words. Not every match needs to be Shingo/Ishii so that Shingo/Ishii stands out. And you still get Shingo/Ishii.
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NJPW first two days of the G1 tournament usually being the strongest quality-wise is nothing new.
That's not what people have big issues with and instead its the field in general since its the weakest in years which means the show lineups for the rest of the tournament are going to be weaker than what you would traditionally expect for a G1, especially this year's B Block. |
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People were shitting on the G1 before it happened because the field is a lot weaker this year than what NJPW usually trouts out, especially B Block.
Whatever books you must be reading must be boring as hell or short picture books since you seem to keep coming back to TPWW in record times after all complaining and garbage you've been spewing these past few months about the place and wrestling fans who like things you don't. |
I’ve been here less and less and less. Easy to try and ignore that when it’s more convenient to just say “record time,” which is a blatant lie. I used to visit this board fucking daily, man.
The G1 field being weaker is purely subjective. What is weaker? Too many aces in a fucking tournament is boring and exhausting. You’re going to get great matches out of this G1, if that’s your thing. You’ve already gotten one. Tanahashi and Okada are wrestling again. It’s not doom and gloom because things are going to actually be paced out more reasonably. It can help the overall presentation of things. If every match was Shingo and Ishii, why the fuck do you want to see Shingo and Ishii anymore? |
Tanahashi vs. Okada was great.
SPOILER: show In terms of comparisons, Night 1 > Night 2 by a lot but Night 2 had a couple really good G1 matches. If you want more thoughts about Night 2 or the rest of this year's G1, ask TPWW's resident dipshit above since his tastes and thoughts are the only thing that matter these days based on how he's been acting. Everyone else is either babies, sheep, or whatever other garbage he spews these days if its a different opinion than him or they are having too much fun watching wrestling he doesn't like or actually watch. |
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My takes are usually spot-on, people insult the shit out of it for not falling into line with them, then I’m right and people never learn. Here is the final criticism consensus of the G1 for you to echo later: “The tournament turned out to be pretty good all things considered. Not as good as other years, but what could be? And there’s Covid. But in the end they had enough good workers in there to have some great matches and make the tournament worthwhile.” Look forward to hearing it. :y: |
I know I said before that I wasn't going to bother with my thoughts for the rest of this year's G1 tournament because of the dickhead above but HOLY SHIT at the ending of Night 5.
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You gotta build up ZSJ to that Danielson match that is obviously happening.
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Came up with a Wrestle Kingdom card in my head the other day:
* Shingo vs. Okada for the World Title * Tanahashi vs. Mox for the US Title * Danielson vs. Suzuki * Omega vs. Ibushi Good stuff there for that audience. |
My boy Chase with a big win!!!!!!!!!!!! Haha.
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Wrestle Kingdom Cards:
Night 1 IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Shingo Takagi (C) [L.I.J.] vs Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS] IWGP Jr Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado (C) [Suzuki-gun] vs Hiromu Takahashi [L.I.J.] IWGP Tag Team Championships: Zack Sabre Jr and Taichi [Suzuki-gun] vs Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] NEVER Openweight: Tomohiro Ishii (C) [CHAOS] vs EVIL [Bullet Club] Special Singles Match: Katsuyori Shibata [Main Unit] vs X Tetsuya Naito, SANADA and BUSHI [L.I.J.] vs Jeff Cobb, Will Ospreay and Great O-Khan [United Empire] Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ryusuke Taguchi and Rocky Romero [Main Unit/CHAOS] vs KENTA, El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club] YOH [CHAOS] vs SHO [Bullet Club] King of Pro Wrestling Rumble Night 2 IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Takagi or Okada (C) vs Will Ospreay [United Empire] IWGP US Championship - No DQ: KENTA (C) [Bullet Club] vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi [Main Unit] Tetsuya Naito [L.I.J.] vs Jeff Cobb [United Empire] SANADA [L.I.J.] vs Great O-Khan [United Empire] NEVER 6-Man: EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi and SHO (C) [Bullet Club] vs. YOH, Goto and YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] IWGP Jr Tag Team Championships: Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask IV (C) [Main Unit/CHAOS] vs Rocky Romero and Ryusuke Taguchi[Main Unit/CHAOS] vs El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club] King of Pro Wrestling Four Way (the final 4 from the previous night's Rumble) Stardom Match: Starlight Kid and Mayu Iwatani vs Saya Kamitani and Tam Nakano |
Night 1 looks damn solid. Night 2 looks like train wreck.
Has the night 3 NJPW vs. NOAH card been announced? |
Disappointed in the amount of tag matches there. Really would have liked to see a couple more singles matches. Keno vs Takagi would have been fantastic. Instead it seems like they're doing the wrestlemania thing of quantity over quality.
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It's about what I was expecting really. Feel like people expecting marquee singles matches were ignoring the realities of the politics.
As it is it is pretty obvious who is eating the pin in most of these. |
Fucking waste of Go Shiozaki.
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KENTA jumps to NOAH for one night only. Him vs. one of NOAH's best would have been a good idea. |
Very good for NJPW to be back on AXS TV again in March. I tried to watch Night 1 of WK but it was so late and it felt like the same show I've seen for the last 7 or so years basically just without any great American talents.
I cannot in any way see NJPW getting as hot as it was in the US previously without The Elite, and at this point that is so not happening. I feel that Japanese wrestling in general is in a huge rut. |
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