Attempt #2 at a Puroresu thread

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Right so, I'm gonna try this again. I don't give two monkey shits about wwe and tna anymore, but at the same time, I have no desire to go to a different forum and learn a whole new bunch of posters who are likely far less interesting than tpww people.

So yeah. This time I will keep it updated a lot better, so it won't drop off like last time. Hope it's more than just me and WWKD in here tho.

Full card for the upcoming NJ sumo hall show btw

NJPW, 2/15/09 (WPW)
Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan

0. Special Tag Match: Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Nobuo Yoshihashi vs. OKUMURA & Kazuchika Okada
1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title #1 Contender 4WAY Tag: Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt vs. Jado & Gedo vs. Milano Collection AT & Taichi Ishikari
2. Riki Choshu, Manabu Nakanishi, Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto vs. Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii, Karl Anderson & Tomoaki Honma
3. Special Tag Match - NJPW vs. TNA Augmented Reality: Masahiro Chono & AKIRA vs. James Storm & Robert Roode
4. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Tiger Mask (c) vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
5. Special Singles Match - Burn the Debt: Yuji Nagata vs. Hirooki Goto
6. CMLL World Welterweight Title - Lucha Libre Globalization: Mistico (c) vs. Mephisto
7. Special Singles Match - Wrestle-incident DIE OR BREED: Giant Bernard vs. Kurt Angle
8. IWGP Tag Team Title - Hardcore Rules: “Team 3D” Brother Ray & Brother Devon (c) vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano
9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

The 4 way jr tag match should be a fun sprint. Storm and Rude vs Chono and AKIRA could be good.

Really doubt that Tiger Mask will lose here. But a final Liger "thank you" reign could happen. He's in the final stage of his career, and isn't physically capable of having a really long reign, with epic matches anymore. Thats why he's competed mainly in tags the last few years. And I think characteristicly, Liger would be against winning anyway, as he has been utterly selfless throughout his career, and I could totally see him turning it down to put someone over.

Havn't seen Goto since his return from his excursion, but I've heard good things. I have the recent Goto vs Tanahashi match on my ipod, but havn't watched it yet, so I can't comment on him yet. Nagata being involved will carry it to a good match, regardless tho.

Hopefully the CMLL match impresses the crowd, because I'd love to see Mystico compete in some singles matches with the NJ juniors.

Bernard vs Angle will prolly be an alright match. A-train always seemed o have fun matches with the tchnical wrestlers in wwe. And since Giant Bernard >>>>>>>>> A-Train, this could actually turnout pretty good.

Definitely Expecting Makabe and Yano to win here. That is all.

Finally, you can never go wrong with tanahashi vs Nakamura, but it's pretty obvious that Tanahashi is going to win here.

This card looks pretty damn good, but so did the last big show. Outside of the main event, just about every match was under 10 minutes. Just seemed kind of underwhelming, for what looked like an amazing card. Hopefully they give some of the more high profile matches more time in this event.

Frankly I'm really hoping they take this TNA deal to the next level and include the heavyweight titles. As I said, I have no interest in TNA as a whole, but I still enjoy watching some of the matches. Its their shit writing that turns me away. And new and fresh match ups are never a bad thing, so I've really enjoyed this alliance so far.

Regardless, the prospect of a TNA Heavyweight Championship vs IWGP Heavyweight Championship match gets me giddy with anticipation, despite my aversion to their horrible booking. Personally, I think the best way to do this would be to put the title on AJ beforehand. He and Tanahashi are both homegrown taents, they both represent the face of the Young generation in their respective companies, their styles mesh really well, and if that isn't enough, they already have a history.They are 1-1 last time I checked. And I can't think of more epic tie breaker than this.