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Squared Circle Sirens recently hinted NJPW might be debuting a women's division in the near future.
Another rumor elsewhere hinted that NJPW might have bought out all-women's promotion Stardom. |
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It's a blood match!
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I am hoping that the new on NJPW is related to a womens promotion rather than a deal with WWE.
I think I am buying the story that WWE is going to more of less buy BJPW as NXT Japan. Who do you guys think Liger will have his final match with? |
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President of Freedonia
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Grim Fandango
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Liger is going to come out for his retirement match against Ospreay, wrestle for 25 mins, win the Jr Heavyweight title clean, then take his mask off and reveal he was actually Hiromu for his entire career.
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Grim Fandango
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Best case scenario on this "big news" is that Bushi Road has bought STARDOM, they partner with New Japan and do a joint tour every year (get rid of CMLLs).
NXT Japan can fuck right off. |
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Wrestling Marks Rejoice!
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The New Japan/WWE working agreement is looking less likely with WWE trying to buy-in. It’s a shame, because it would have been smarter to prop-up New Japan, but they’ve got to do things their way.
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NJPW bought Stardom according to a report from Yahoo Japan.
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More details regarding NJPW's parent company purchasing Stardom via the Observer.
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Trickster Demon
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Very cool!
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Trickster Demon
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Seems odd they are skipping the East Coast considering how successful their last tour of the region was. They did have a big dud with a show in Charlotte earlier in the year as part of the New Beginning tour but that was due more to visa related issues. |
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Cool to see New Japan expanding.
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President of Freedonia
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And that should be the final death blow for ROH.
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Sweet.
But, yeah. They gotta hit the Northeast. Huge wrestling hotbed they can tap into regularly. |
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If it’s basically just American talent with the occasional Japanese name thrown in I’m probably going to struggle to stay interested.
But I don’t think the LA Dojo guys are ready, so they’re probably going to need to use the main roster pretty regularly for at least the first year or two until they have a crop of homegrown stars. |
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It's a blood match!
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Maybe I'm just being hopeful but I think that they will feature main roster guys because the US tours will be between Japanese tours. Maybe Tana will get to have his time off and someone else will get to play that big star role on the US tours... just as example.
Interested to see what this does for the light relationship with AEW. |
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He's Here
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I don't watch New Japan for Lance Archer, that's for God damn sure.
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President of Freedonia
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Lance Archer is excellent.
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Assuming its true, probably going to have a RevPro match featured on one night and a Stardom match featured on the other night. Doubt ROH is getting their spot back since NJPW went with RevPro instead of them at this year's Wrestle Kingdom show and that was before everything that has happened since the G1 Supercard show. |
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Good for Stardom and all that, but even with the two shows it’s going to be tight getting everything in.
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Depends on how many extra matches get added to the overall card since recent WK events have been 10-11 matches long and NJPW usually runs 7-9 matches for regular events.
If they do 7 per night, that's an extra 3-4 matches and plenty to pass around for their roster and partnership showcases. 8 per night might be overkill even with Liger getting two matches, 3 matches involving the IWGP and IC belts, and the extra partnership match. |
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I thought they’d be able to fit everything onto two nights of Wrestle Kingdom no problem but it sounds like they want all of the stars to work both nights so it’s not really going to alleviate much.
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Based on a recent poll, a sizeable majority of NJPW's male fanbase supports the idea of women's wrestling being featured in the company while a vast majority of their female fanbase opposes the idea.
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It does seem that women’s wrestling turns women off. Whether that’s because of its fetishistic undertones or because of the same principles that leads to women largely not enjoying women comedians and the like.
It’s not necessary and you can probably keep them separate except for a feature match here and there. |
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Hey Mister!
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Chris Jericho vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for Night 2 of Wrestle Kingdom 14 just got announced during tonight's on-going Power Struggle show.
Jericho made the announcement via video where he beat up a bunch of people dressed as Tanahashi while they were doing Tana's air guitar shtick. |
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NEVER Openweight title match was very good overall but also had arguably the worst looking GTS's ever done by KENTA.
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Naito/White for the IC and Ibushi/Okada for the IWGP on night one of Wrestle Kingdom with the winners competing on Night 2 to crown a double champion.
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Grim Fandango
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I'm still not into White, and I kind of hate that he's in he mix there because it would be so Gedo to have him be the guy to beat Naito and Okada to win it all, but at the same time I know he's going to lose, but there's a chance he won't and I hate it. I don't hate Jay White himself. It's more that I hate the concept of Jay White. |
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Grim Fandango
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Hiromu is still an absolute madman / sweet boy.
I have missed him. Ospreay really leaning into being the Kenny Omega replacement with that "mist extraction" spot. Almost thought he was going to plant one on Hiromu too. |
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The losers of those title matches will compete against each other for night 2's card. |
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Naito called it first.
Really hope he gets it. |
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I can see Okada/Naito happening, but I can also imagine Okada/White with Okada looking for redemption from last year. They could do that with either Okada beating Ibushi or not. I can imagine White beating Naito so that Okada and Naito can both win their matches.
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Grim Fandango
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World Tag League teams and schedule were announced yesterday. Competing this year (In order of importance):
DEATH PIRATE [EVIL / SANADA] Guerillas of Destiny [Tama Tonga / Tanga Loa] CHAOS [YOSHI-HASHI / Tomohiro Ishii] Fin Juice [David Finlay / Juice Robinson] Dangerous Tekkers [Taichi / Zack Sabre Jr] Boom Thief [Colt Cabana / Toru Yano] Suzuki-gun [Minoru Suzuki / Lance Archer] Los Ingobernables [Shingo Takagi / Terrible] Bullet Club [KENTA / Yujiro] The Mighty Don't Elgin [Mikey Nicholls / Jeff Cobb] The Area 51 Experience [Bad Luck Fale / Chase Owens] Great Bash Heel [Togi Makabe / Tomoaki Honma] TenCozy [Hiroyoshi Tenzan / Satoshi Kojima Team DAD [Manabu Nakanishi / Yuji Nagata] A Spade for The Ace [Hiroshi Tanahashi / Toa Henare] LA Dojo [Hirooki Goto / Karl Fredericks] Only the top four teams listed there really have a chance and I'm actually hoping EVIL and SANADA don't win. Instead, I want them to face each other at WK. Ishii has the most beef with Bullet Club right now and YOSHI desperately needs to win something so I'm pulling for CHAOS. Or GBH or Tencozy to help me out in Survivor. Look to Cabana and Yano for the upsets. No Goto / Ishii super team could mean we're getting Goto vs KENTA at WK, unless Shibata manages to get cleared. It's not like Goto is a priority though, sadly. Suzuki vs Shingo is also rumoured, we could see that develop here. Cabana's presence was set up back in January, but he's a ROH guy never the less. Partnership isn't quite dead yet, and that could partly be because they don't want to lose Cobb. CMLL still in the mix with Terrible too. |
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President of Freedonia
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As much as I enjoy EVIL and SANADA, them winning their tournament for a third year in a row right after R3K also won their tournament for a third year in a row won't exactly do much to dispel the opinion that Gedo totally phones it in with tag division booking.
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According to this week's Observer Newsletter, NJPW is rumored to have been trying to get Kenny Omega banned from working in Japan for the next 10 years.
3rd time he's traveled to Japan since leaving the company and each time he was initially stopped from entering the country.
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