09-24-2018, 04:27 PM | #921 |
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Stupid sexy Sanada
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09-25-2018, 10:43 AM | #922 |
Grim Fandango
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SANADA is clearly TPWW's #1 New Japan hunk.
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09-25-2018, 10:50 AM | #923 | |
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ACH, Ryusuke Taguchi and Liger vs Roppongi 3k (Sho, Yoh and Rocky Romero) Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian vs Hangman Page and Chase Owens Jeff Cobb, Chris Sabin and Flip Gordon vs Goto and Best Friends (Chuckie T and Berretta) Naito, Evil and Sanada vs ZSJ and Killer Elite Squad Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kushida vs Gedo and Jay White IWGP Jr. Heavyweight tournament semifinal bout: Will Ospreay vs Marty Scurll IWGP Tag Team Championship: (c)Young Bucks vs Guerrillas of Destiny IWGP US Championship: (c) Juice Robinson vs Cody Main event: Okada and Ishii vs Omega and Ibushi |
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09-25-2018, 10:53 AM | #924 |
Grim Fandango
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All representatives of CHAOS seem to be with Okada, for now at least.
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09-25-2018, 10:55 AM | #925 |
Inno Knows.
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I can see Sho and Yoh going with White and Gedo
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09-30-2018, 09:38 PM | #926 |
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09-30-2018, 09:54 PM | #927 |
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10-02-2018, 10:19 AM | #928 | |
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Holy Emperor Taichi has apparently been scrubbing Suzuki-Gun references off all of his social media, is he about to get killed by the King for his insubordination? Interested to see who is joining LiJ, 100% sure they will not be as handsome as SANADA though. |
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10-02-2018, 10:45 AM | #929 |
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10-02-2018, 04:01 PM | #930 |
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10-02-2018, 06:55 PM | #931 |
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Kairi Sane is really "kawaii" (not to sound like Guru Dave). I know Vince doesn't watch other promotions, but someone should really show Vince some Japanese porn so he can "get it" with her.
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10-08-2018, 09:11 AM | #933 |
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Dome Show already sounds good!
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10-08-2018, 05:01 PM | #934 |
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Last Falconry looks pretty sweet as a finisher.
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10-08-2018, 06:20 PM | #935 |
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Forgot to mention it earlier but White vs Tanahashi from today's King of Pro Wrestling show was way better than their bout at Wrestle Kingdom 12.
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10-09-2018, 07:10 AM | #936 |
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Have they dialed back on the Switchblade stuff? I remember it didn't feel authentic for the guy, but I've heard he's been more "comfortable" since.
Lol, Shingo Takagi. Good for him. I remember he was a thing when NOAH was hot in the mid-2000's. |
10-09-2018, 08:20 AM | #937 |
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They transitioned him into a whiny teenager who plays with knives rather than the scary psychopath type they were originally going for. White is a lot more comfortable being a sneaky shitheel, the first iteration never felt genuine. His match against Suzuki in the G1 where he came up against an actual scary psychopath who absolutely crushed him was a cathartic moment.
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10-09-2018, 10:10 AM | #938 |
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Lol, that does sound great. I love Suzuki so much.
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10-09-2018, 11:52 AM | #939 | |
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10-09-2018, 11:59 AM | #940 |
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Are there any Japenese wrestlers that wear a maid costume?
Roppongi Japanese Maid Adult Womens Costume |
10-09-2018, 06:35 PM | #941 |
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10-11-2018, 10:13 AM | #942 |
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10-12-2018, 05:21 AM | #944 |
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Noah? Shingo Takagi has always been a Dragon Gate guy, up until his recent AJPW run.
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10-12-2018, 05:32 AM | #945 |
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Oh yeah, they were working with both around that time. Because I thought of him as bigger, I assumed it was a NOAH thing. I may have also been confusing his promotion with Go Shiazaki's.
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10-22-2018, 01:16 PM | #946 |
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11-26-2018, 09:30 AM | #947 |
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Meltzer will be attending Wrestling Kingdom live, so get ready for the first 8 star rating.
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12-03-2018, 08:51 AM | #948 |
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12-09-2018, 03:32 PM | #949 |
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Young Bucks are facing a lot of negative fan reaction after they refused to work World Tag League but then got put in the title match at the Tokyo Dome anyway. Cody was already somewhat of an unpopular figure due to only working the one off US shows and seemingly always being in a title match, while even Omega has caught some negativity for skipping most of the tours this year. If you look at the actual stats of actual tours worked by The Elite, it looks like this:
Omega: 2 Young Bucks: 0 Cody: 0 Scurll: 1 Hangman Page: 2 Compare that to some of the other foreign talent: Beretta: 3 (was out injured for 6 months, came back in late July, while the G1 was well underway) Chuck Taylor: 4 Juice Robinson: 8 Tama Tonga: 4 Elgin: 7 Killer Elite Squad: 4 ZSJ: 4 Chris Sabin: 2 (not even on the New Japan roster) They're pretty much doing the Brock schedule Probably doesn't help that their current schtick is that they are leaving for WWE. |
12-10-2018, 06:17 PM | #950 |
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It certainly adds fuel to the fire that they aren't going to be sticking with New Japan.
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12-10-2018, 08:40 PM | #951 |
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“Kenny Omega-thon” Schedule (subject to change) – Friday, Dec. 28 at 2pE/11aP: · 2pE – G1 Climax 26 Final – Kenny Omega vs. Hirooki Goto · 3pE – Wrestle Kingdom 11 – IWGP Heavyweight Championship – Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada · 4pE – Dominion 2017 – IWGP Heavyweight Championship – Omega vs. Okada · 5pE – G1 Special in USA – IWGP U.S. Heavyweight Championship Tournament Final –Omega vs. Tomohiro Ishii · 6pE – Wrestle Kingdom 12 – IWGP U.S. Heavyweight Championship – Omega vs. Chris Jericho · 7pE – New Beginning in Sapporo 2018 – IWGP U.S. Heavyweight Championship – Omega vs. Jay White · 8pE – Dominion 2018 – IWGP Heavyweight Championship – Omega vs. Okada (2 hr) · 10pE – G1 Special in San Francisco – IWGP Heavyweight Championship – Omega vs. Cody · 11pE – King of Pro-Wrestling 2018 – IWGP Heavyweight Championship – Omega vs. Cody vs. Kota Ibushi |
12-11-2018, 09:50 AM | #952 |
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Aside from the participants in the pre-show, the Wrestle Kingdom card appears to have been finalized
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega [Elite] (C) IWGP Intercontinental Championship Tetusya Naito [LIJ] vs. Chris Jericho (C) Kazuchika Okada [Chaos] vs. Jay White [Bullet Club] IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club] vs. KUSHIDA (C) IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship Juice Robinson vs. Cody [Elite] (C) IWGP Tag Team Championship The Young Bucks [Elite] vs. EVIL and SANADA [LIJ] vs. Guerrilas of Destiny [Bullet Club] (C) British Heavyweight Championship Zack Sabre Jr. [Suzuki-gun] vs. Tomohiro Ishii [Chaos] (C) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship BUSHI and Shingo Takagi [LIJ] vs. Roppongi 3K [Chaos] vs. El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru [Suzuki-gun] NEVER Openweight Championship Will Ospreay [Chaos] vs. Kota Ibushi (C) Pre-Show - Gauntlet for #1 Contendership for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship I would assume there will be at least five teams for the gauntlet. If I were to guess: Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Beretta, Chuckie T) Elite (Hangman Page, Marty Scurll, Yujiro Takahashi) Taguchi Japan (Ryusuke Taguchi, David Finlay, Toa Henare) GBH (Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Toru Yano...they've just had Yano and Makabe get on good terms again presumably for this) Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr)...alternatively could be Taichi, Takashi Iizuka, and Minoru Suzuki...Suzuki on the pre-show feels weird and they might just have him do something at New Year's Dash instead) Then again the gauntlet is replacing the New Japan Rumble, which was always like a 25-30 minute match so there might be more teams to get the New Japan Dads onto the show. |
12-11-2018, 02:14 PM | #953 |
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Only thing I can see is Tana winning IWGP title and Suzuki coming in as the first challenger.
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12-11-2018, 07:24 PM | #954 |
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How has Will Ospreay been going? I'm kind of intrigued by the idea of him and Ibushi. It's certainly a different style of NEVER Title match. I've also got an interest in Tanahashi vs. Omega and how Okada vs. White goes down. A lot of these matches are going to be effected by contract situations, I imagine, which is going to make things interesting.
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12-11-2018, 07:26 PM | #955 |
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I dislike the idea of Kota as NEVER champ. I kinda took it as the tough guy belt.
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12-11-2018, 07:30 PM | #956 |
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That's where they've taken the belt, but from what I have seen of Ibushi, they seem to want to tease him being able to snap and hold his own in that realm. But I don't mind a different style of champ getting it for a while. Ibushi with gold is good, and you can't put too much on him because of his free agent status.
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12-11-2018, 09:26 PM | #957 |
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Fucking hate osprey with that belt. Wouldn’t mind Ibushi. He can throw down and have a slugfest if it calls for it.
Also, hoping Omega retains. His reign has been completely uneventful so far. Needs a big defense against a made guy like Tanahashi for it to be successful. As it is it’s just a defense against Ishii and another against Cody. Beating midcarders isn’t the best follow up to the Okada run. |
12-12-2018, 09:27 AM | #958 |
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Ospreay doesn't have it, at least not yet, and I wouldn't expect him to win it now as the plan was clearly Taichi > Ospreay > Ibushi. I'm interested to see what happens with it now that Goto has moved out of the picture and none of the other big boys seem to be after it. I'd imagine Ibushi gets a lengthy run as somewhat of a trial to see how committed he is before he gets a bigger belt.
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12-12-2018, 10:14 AM | #959 |
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Omega's reign has underwhelmed, but I don't really blame him for it. Dominion is a pretty terrible time to win the belt as G1 is only like a month away which means the champ will straight away need to eat a pin or two to set up title matches, but you already pretty well know they aren't dropping the belt until the Dome.
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12-12-2018, 11:31 AM | #960 |
It's a blood match!
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I wonder if perhaps Omega's reign has been booked "less strong" than we'd want because they knew he was leaving at the end of his current deal. Possible. Also possible they haven't had him in a Okada like spotlight because he's not Japanese.
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