Kenta Kobashi to retire
 

I'm amazed Kobashi has lasted this long, some of the beatings he took in the 90s from Hansen and Williams then Misawa and Kawada were so brutal, how he has lasted another decade and a half since then is quite amazing.

one of the greatest wrestlers of the 90s and one of my favorites.

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Two significant press conferences were held today.

The first one was held by Kobashi, who announced his retirement show "Final Burning in Budokan" for May 11th. It was held at the NOAH office, so I assume some heat between both sides died down and we can expect NOAH workers participating in the show.

The second conference was the Bushiroad press conference were Kidani declared that he'd resign from his NJPW chairmanship. He added that the company still would back NJPW like before. Also, Bushiroad will produce a Sentai style show that'll include New Japan workers. Seems like Tanahashi will finally become the Kamen Rider he always wanted to be. New Japan will also create an english web page in the near future. Oh, and the April 7th Sumo Hall PPV now has a name: INVASION ATTACK, make of that what you want.

Poor guy. Loved Kobashi.

I don't know too much about Kobashi, but I was lucky enough to see him on a NOAH tour in the UK and he was a highlight of a great show. I've seen a few matches and always enjoyed them. A very charismatic man. His retirement's probably for the best though.

Can't wait for the deluge of shite semi racist posts to follow :roll:

You won't be seeing any racist posts from me, Kenta Kobashi is legendary. His chop fest with Samoa Joe was insane.

Kenta Kobashi would be so disappointed to see a faggot like Beth82 created a thread about him. For shame, Beth, for shame.

Yessir, it was just down the road from at the time. Had a great time. Were you there?

Thank fuck, thought I could see into the future for a brief moment and that wouldn't end well.

Seth always posts about wrestlers no one ever heard of. At least this time its someone recent and not 1920's legendary french wrestler Marquis De Brownpants who retired at 85 and is famous for his finishing move "the punch"

actually a lot of people have heard of Kobashi.

it'd be different if I posted a thread on say Masanobu Fuchi.

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That fits Beth, 3 weeks behind everyone else. :lol:

He had a GREAT match against Tamon Honda in June of 2003. Loved that match. Almost as good as his title victory in March of that year against the late Mitsuharu Misawa.

must you insist on calling me that. Grow up dude.

someone else posted about it too in 100k thread. I felt it deserved a thread

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Don't tell me to grow up when you can't even admit who you are...

I can and have. I just don't think it's any of your business who I am.

Well that's not convincing me to stop calling you Beth...

let's just agree to disagree. stay on topic in regards to the thread now.

Shut up Beth.

Back to the topic of the thread; Kenta Kobashi's match against Dr. Death Steve Williams was crazy.

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Mike A may have found the person to make his turn worth wild!

Beth, remember that thread you agreed to do with me? Not being able to keep your word is part of the reason your family wants you to die.

You know who I want to see Kenta Kobashi chop the shit out of before he retires? Beth

That actually made me lol.

Rip Mr Fuji

I totally was going to post in that thread. I just feel like the same usual suspects would type up their usual shit.

I have a lot of insecurities when it comes to TPWW. lemme dig up the thread and share a story.

Who? No offense, no time for indy jobbers. Sorry, hate to sound like a doucher here, but if its not WWE or I'll even give TNA a nod since they have a show on cable tv, then its a nobody.

If you weren't such a douchebag liar all the time you'd have nothing to be insecure about because no one would have any lies to pick on you about. Take your own advice and grow the fuck up, Beth.

I wish Kobashi would give Beth a burning hammer. Never have to listen to that fag talk again

Yeah nobody cares about this Jap. If he didn't wrestle in the bigs then he sucks.

Also, Beth82 wears dresses and his parents wish he was dead. He will die soon of AIDS. Mr and Mrs Staples will rejoice.

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Dylan Staples loves jap rasslin!

Where's DLVH when we need him

I bet if Kobashi knew Beth made a thread about him he'd chop the shit out of him.

Kobashi hates fags, Beth.

I seriously fucking hate the people on this board. If we're just going by guys who've made it big in WWE I assume you don't consider actors who make it big on television anyone because they didn't make a blockbuster movie? Fucking internet mutant retard motherfuckers. :nono:

Besides if you don't care who the guy is then why even take the time to click the thread? Are your lives that fucking empty that you just have to make stupid comments on ever thread you see just to get a higher post count?

Noah is dead in the water.