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kek what a dead general

How old is the child you're grooming for Tranny door?

Does Shota’s hip fracture heavily change his push going forward?

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>>14976155
>6.21 - Fantastica Mania Mexico
Will be nice for Hiromu and Ishimori to work in a hot fed for a change
ZSJ/Hechicero singles match is the next night btw

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run it back

BUMP THE THREAD EUROS

FUCK

shota umino fucking sucks

JEONG MOK

>>14976864
He'll get his push as soon as he's healthy

>>14976864
Hope he is injured. Unfair of New Japan to put Shota in the A block separate from the other three (Tsuji / Yuya / Narita Ren) which shows a bias

JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>14976864
Almost certainly changed their plans for this year at least

>wonders why the general dies and nobody bumps it
>>14977023
>>14977130
>>14977564
>>14978074
No idea what the reason could be.

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>>14978138
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>>14978138
Those are free bumps retard

>>14978417
Yes, I know they're your bumps. My point is that everyone left because of you -- you're the only fucking guy left with your shitty forced """memes""" and your endless repetition.

https://youtu.be/asnLY5eRnpo?si=R8EmA0kuU84RdNJ2
Kidani will tell us the companies are on equal footing then New Japan uploads this shit lmao

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Don't doubt them.

>>14978433
I think the Jeong Mosque Li guy is someone completely unrelated to the schizophrenic that we have in this general
t. the Jeong Mok guy

>>14978482
I've never doubted that Tsuji will be a star. I just think he needs Shota to be the clean babyface ace, so Tsuji can be the tweener, the anti-hero, the sort of Chono of the group which suits him better.

I don't know where Narita lands out of all of this. I really thought he'd be a long-running junior ace but too late for that now.

>>14978482
Narita needs a huge overhaul to his current gimmick before he inherits the throne of top heel from EVIL—he should lean more into the history professor aesthetic he gives off whenever he wears a suit (maybe keep the trademark House of Torture t-shirt as something under his blazer) and add more finishers to his kit rather than having the god damn X-Factor as his main finisher.

>>14978529
he's not going to change his finisher because some weirdos are obsessed with wwe

>>14978598
WWE is the only place where that shit move has ever gotten over. He dropped a clean, exciting finishing move and switch to the Bella Buster. It's worse than the Money Clip.
Maybe he switched finishes because Uemura's is too similar, but Togo has a million better-looking moves he can take from and use. SHO is doing Pimp Juice now so why the fucking facebuster

>>14978529
The top heel needs enough charisma to actually draw heat and Narita lacks that entirely. He draws the wrong type of heat: disinterest

Bump

>>14978824
He could never reach the kino heights of Ebiru or even the comedic stylings of SHO. They should've never turned him.

im happy that Umino is injured, now Tsuji will win G1, and rightfully so

>>14979010
No, It'll be SANADA

I wonder if the NJPW office are angry at Rocky for paralysing Shota?

>>14979161
Rocky controls the office now

Kino vtr from njpw as usual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnLY5eRnpo

>>14978433
This. Can confirm. Honestly we don't even need to have a general up at all times anyways, we had some decent G1 discussion in the last thread. Now to wait for the next shows. Spam bumping the thread is retarded.

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>random New Japan video gets recommended in my Youtube feed
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP1UBsok6mk
>uhh fine i guess i will give it a shot
>is a video about Tanahashi's 10 points to save New Japan
>guy says he has been watching New Japan for the past 7 or 8 years
>says he was a big fan of New Japan in 2018 and 2019
>ok so he is another meltzer drone
>uhhh fine i still give it a shot
>arrives at the point about increasing the status and prominence of NJPW Hontai
>"I don't know what that means"
>"I'm not familiar with NJPW Hontai"
>starts googling what NJPW Hontai is in the video
>claims he has been watching New Japan for 7 years
>doesn't even know what Hontai is
>areyoufuckingkiddingme.jpg

this fucking NIGGER made me install a browser extension JUST to block his channel

holy fuck is there ANY good new japan content left out there? i should have appreciated guys like showbuckle more back in the day. where the fuck do i even go to get my new japan drug dose now? these threads are infested with the schizo, twitter and reddit have somehow managed to become even more of a dumpster, everywhere else is shit as well. do i really need to start learning the nippon moonrunes? I EVEN INSTALLED DISCORD AND JOINED A BUNCHA SERVERS BUT THEY ARE ALL FILLED WITH AEW HORSESHIT AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCKKKKKKKKK

>>14979354
Honestly one of the worst thing about Forbidden Door is that NJPW discussion now means discussing AEW too. It's fucking gay

>>14979354
KEK
Had a good laugh at this. There are some decent videos on Youtube covering New Japan and Puroresu history but I don't know any good channel that regularly covers the current events in NJPW or Puroresu. It makes sense when you think about it though, Youtube is all about getting views and generating money. AEW and WWE content will obviously get more overall views than anything NJPW. Moreover, New Japan often acts retarded with their copystrikes and takedown notices on fan content.

Are you the same guy who posted about that one podcast in the previous thread? Because they are no good podcasts for NJPW either, it's all AEW marks. Don't waste your time.

Your best bet is to just subscribe to the official NJPW channels on Youtube, there are like 3 of them. And yes, start learning Japanese. There are probably some great Youtube channels out there focusing on Puroresu but they could be completely in Japanese. You can even just use Invidious or Piped and set the region to JP.

Same goes for Twitter, just follow the official NJPW accounts and people involved in NJPW like Chris Charlton. You can just use Nitter for this if you are not a Twitter tranny.

There are no good English speaking communities which discuss NJPW anymore. The threads here used to be okay but the schizo ran everyone away over the last two years. Hardly anyone wants to post in these threads anymore because of his presence. Just look at the last few posts of thread before the last one. He is proudly going off on how he will never stop ruining these threads. "Better a dead thread than a tranny thread" and that's what we have now, dead threads. That retard is the one who keeps forcing his tranny memes in this general instead of just ignoring AEW completely.

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>>14979500
>Better a dead thread than a tranny thread
i hate this faggot so much its unreal
we have the rest of the /pw/ to shit on aew every day
dont need this shit constantly in every fucking /njpw/ general

>>14979582
Kek. Exactly. His memes are not funny and he makes the thread unpleasant. He legit just enjoys the retarded console warring. He keeps accusing us of being the "AEW-sama" poster and I never even know who or what the fuck is he talking about.

>>14979602
it was back in feb or march earlier this year
around the time ospreay and okada jumped to aew
some tranny was making fun of new japan and saying shit like bend over for aew-sama
haven't seen him since

>>14976155
nice to see droz is gettin himself back into shape

>>14979610
Kek, is that it? Some shitposter comes in to make fun of New Japan for losing Okada and Ospreay and he manages to live rent free in his head for months? This is sad, let's just not talk about this anymore.

Is NJPW poaching Jake Lee? Because that doesn't seem like a particularly great "get"

>>14979655
he's a handsome korean man and they are popular with women

>>14979655
he is as tall as okada

>>14978138
Cry harder little bitch shota umino indeed fucking sucks

>>14979705
and he's still somehow half as charismatic as okada was in his later years

Chono vs Kobashi is, surprisingly, on World. Kobashi vs Nagata isn't though, unfortunately. anyway check them both out if you're jonesing for something good

>>14979354
Not reading all that
Lmao
or KWAB

>>14980822
why he has more 5 stars match than the other musketeers then huh

>>14981070
As long as Meltzer is alive, Will Ospreay could get a 5* out of anyone and anything, even a blow-up doll

>>14981070
He's carryable and that's what he coasts on

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>Shota needs to find himself and stop deriving his entire identity from other more popular wrestlers
>Tsuji needs to stop trying to wrestle like an underdog babyface and wrestle the more dominate style his moveset is made for (nobody wants to see the guy doing lucha shit and curbstomping sell shit and try to power up all match)
>Ren needs to be fired (or put on another excursion)
Agreed?

>>14979354
>It's that retard in that "why I quit watching New Japan" short YouTube keeps recommending me
Not surprised. You just know he's only watched like 6 shows a year and skipped the undercards.

>>14982854
shota already did that and the other two are retarded

>>14982854
I liked how dominant Tsuji looked against Goto

>>14983254
>still doing the Moxley entrance which doesn't make sense at all with the position he's being groomed for while also waving like a retard
>started doing Mercedes's fanfuck ritual dance every single time he's out there (he even did it while he was teaming with Makabe and fucking Nagata) just because it makes Ospreay laugh
No he hasnt. He's still the same clueless kid copying others, now he's also fat while doing it.

>>14983384
shota haters really care about the weirdest stuff, you could have a legitimate complaint that he hasn't changed his finisher yet but no you're mad that he's dancing and having fun with the fans before his matches (and the crowd loves it btw)

>>14983442
>HE'S HAVING FUN MAGGLE
Go back

>>14983442
It's not hating to point out the most surface-level issues with his own presentation especially when everyone else can see it you whiny bitch. When he comes out and acts like does, he looks like a midcarder taking a bunch of things bigger stars do and trying to mix it all into this sloppy idea of a star. Hes Japanese ELP when he was in Bullet Club but not even being ironic about it.
Forgetting about the stripper dance because only western cultists pretend it's funny or care, the entrance was fine for what it was for a bit but it needs to go. Him being the next Hontai figurehead while coming out from the crowd every show like an outsider and slapping hands for 4 minutes as his partners either stand there waiting for him after sauntering in with no one noticing. He's trying too hard. Compare those grating 4 minutes to how Desperado or Tsuji come out and look more like stars than him by just walking to the ring. Fanservice is fine and giving the armbands with the kids is cute, but you can simplify stuff like that. Shota just has to realize that. If he wasn't groomed to be the ace, I wouldn't care as much.

Shota Umino fucking sucks

you faggots honestly ruined this general

I think Shooter sees himself as the guy who will bridge the gap between American and Japanese wrestling because in reality, he's kind of a sheltered, "aww shucks" kind of guy. He's naive, just look at his interactions on social media, how he's always talking about how people are too mean like he can fix it.

I think Shota is the kind of guy who believes anime shit is real. He thinks he can change the world being the way he is.

>>14983813
Shota is a dork and needs to level up his presentation to be a convincing ace. He is not enough of a self mark.

>>14983284
and you will dislike when goto gets his win back from tsuji in the g1

who cares about shota? his ass got fractured and he will miss the g1

>>14983813
>active debate about the next Ace of the company
>ruined general
The Dynamite thread is that way

>Shota is supposed to be the next ace
>still hasn't won anything
very intriguing indeed

I like Tsuji, but Curb stomps have go away heat with me. I wouldn't be mad if he started wrestling more like Cobb, but honestly I think he is mostly fine. He just needs to work on his wind and pacing when he is in control. I wouldn't mind seeing him break away from LIJ and make his own faction, but as the successor to Naito I'm not mad at it.

I hope Shota gets a clue during the 9 months he’s out due to that hip fracture of his, and I hope Rocky suffers some repercussions for letting Shota get the injury through a fucking RAMPAGE

>>14984756
Shota is going to try and wrestle through it from the sound of it. If he does he could saw dust himself before he turns 30 so hopefully someone in that company has a brain.

>>14985029
They'll put him in if the severity isn't that much in their eyes

zsj is live in aew

>>14985713
Sometimes I wonder if NJPW is hesitant to put the IWGP on ZSJ in fears of him leaving for AEW, despite his prior loyalty

>>14986369
He literally said he'll be committed to them if they commit to him so that would be really funny.

shingo takagi vs danielson in forbidden door

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fuck rocky

My ideal scenario aside from Tsuji or Umino winning the G1 would be Zack. Earlier in the year they were clearly pushing Zack as a singles guy. He got a bunch of special singles matches where he went over early in the year. The Riddle fiasco aside he has been kept strong only losing to Narita via chicanery. It feels like they were doing something with him.

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>>14987323
based

JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>14987593
>Tsuji
They will never have someone win both tournaments in the same year
>Umino
He's fucked now so even if he was supposed to win they're going to hold off on it
>Zack
He'll beat Finlay for the Global Championship at WK

If Shota gets taken out of the G1 before it starts instead of him having to quit and give +2 to his remaining challengers, who will he be replaced with?

>>14988195
Whoever runner-up in the tournament is, so at least Ishii makes it in

Bump

Who's winning the play in tournament lads?

This was the year to invite Hechicero, NJPW is really out of touch

>>14988898
What's that? You want MORE Jake Lee?

>>14988747
B block needs Tanahashi for both star power and for Takeshita to finish the story HARASHIMA couldn't.

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I miss Reiwa Inoki

>>14989131
I miss Showa Inoki

>>14989131
he's better as a comedy guy, this shows that gedo really can't book for shit

For me it is the Heisei inoki

>>14989131
I miss Captain New Japan

Shingo and Zack will be all elite next year

>>14989131
I miss Heisei Inoki
>>14989335
Based Hashimoto bro

>>14989131
I miss Meiji Inoki

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>>14989622

>>14984123
he's going all the way bros

>>14989649
He said Meiji Inoki (an era in Japan), not Harold Meij. Faggot ass retard.

>>14989622
Who would be the Meiji Inoki?

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>>14989685
The 10k yen man is the Meiji Inoki

>>14989678
sup harold

Bump

>>14979354
We Work Stiff have been the best I've heard and I was recommended from this thread. They used to be a bit heavy on the "positive community" tangents but toned it down. It's clear Josh is far more educated and capable as an analyst than most podcats where it's just people going off.

https://vocaroo.com/10DAcQWw14qt

>>14989131
I miss Alex Coughlin :(

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More CMLL/NJPW matched
Templario vs Hiromu will probably end up being better than the big Mistico/Hiromu match kek

>>14991478
are the rumors about him true?

>>14991508
good to know rocky isnt even pretending to give a shit about njpw canon anymore

>>14991778
I feel like if you're on a CMLL show then the CMLL angles and canon probably matter a little more huh

>>14991778
CMLL has always been loose with other promotions' canon.

>>14991778
Just call it Relevos Increibles and you can get away with anything.

>>14991508
>zsj vs virus
pounds and pesos innit

10 days left for Tranny Door's closure

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thank you Tana-san
thank you Rocky-san

>>14992495
Who's more washed?

>>14992495
A dream match that's happening literally 20 years too late

>>14992274
It's looking more non-canon than ever. Tana's request for all singles matches has paid off.

>>14993061
>one is Bangerino doing the job in a match he really wanted
>one is an easy win for Zack
>one is Naito winning the belt back
GO ACE

>>14993350
zack isn't winning against orange lol

>>14993645
Yea if Zack beats Orange, then Tony has poached him

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What if Naito doesn't win the title back and Moxley really skips the G1?

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>>14993756
Then tranny door season continues

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O my crystal ball
Show the face of the man who will WIN the G1 Climax and SAVE New Japan

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>>14993966

should've been Sanada beating Moxley and it should've happened already

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>>14993966

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>>14993756
we SHAN'T be watching the G1

>>14993664
No way Zack is jobbing to tangerine.

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>>14993966

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>>14993966

i can't believe potus Tana fumbled the TNA partnership

JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>14994290
They were fumbling it before Tana took office. Bring Ace into Bullet Club then only bring him back for 1 tour despite being over from the jump.

Bump

>>14994290
There's literally nobody valuable that they have except Josh, Bailey and Hendry

>>14995557
I hope we get to see JOYA again before Paul poached Hendry.

>>14994083
our based brother in Inoki-ism

You can tell Moxley is dropping the title because Tiny absolutely refuses to have him do anything on TV now

Insider here: Original plan was Moxley beating Naito at forbidden door and Umino who was suppose to win the G1 was going to lose to him in the co-main event. But because of Umino's injury plans are up in the air.

>>14995801
co-main event of what?

Jake Lee will be IWGP champion within three years I would guess.

>>14994080
One of the biggest victims of 2000s New Japan stupidity

>>14994083
I’ve never watched Fujita before his NOAH run, but that run from 2020 to 2023 was my favorite modern puro unironically. His feud with Shiozaki, him being an insane old man vs Nakajima and him being a pervert monster vs Kiyomiya, all with the Inoki theme remix as his entrance, shit was surreal and fun.

>>14995898
Wrestle Kingdom. Not sure what the plan for the main event was. But I have to imagine it was some big cross over match against Naito.

>>14995918
>Jake Lee (c) defeats Yuya Uemura (30:41)

How many stars, boys?

>>14996112
**1/2

>>14995918
Assuming he is leaving Noah he will achieve the triple crown before 2026.

>>14995801
Politic your way to the Hebby Q, Shane

>>14996151
Which is fucking insane. Being tall in Japan gets you a lot I guess.

>>14996180
No shitter has ever gone further than Jake Lee

>>14996180
Some North Korean politician he's related to has got to be feeding cash into these places to push him. There's no way.

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Holy fucking dimes

>>14996855
>USA
I'd rather watch a fancam

>>14995801
>>14996055
Wait, so Shota would’ve lost to Moxley AGAIN, but this time in the Wrestle Kingdom main event??? Jesus, now I’m glad he got injured instead of having to deal with that

The prospect of Moxley dropping the belt to a long-haired football player who wins with Curb Stomps and Spears is intriguing. Imagine Charlton's commentary

>>14976155
>last edition started on sunday
>238 replies
grim

>>14997140
shoulda been Take and let him go to Japan for like 6 months

>>14994080
Still waiting on him vs Ibushi in an ankle brace on a pole match

I was just ribbing I'm not shane.

Hillary Iost

>Okada vs UG bombed
KWAB

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Gabros, it's already over

>>14997447
the fuck are you even referring to man

who is UG
what does 'bombed' mean in a wrestling context? it sucked?

>>14997493
>new render
Gabe making a duckface bros...

>>14997493
>>14997499
Fuck Rocky.

JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>14997494
Calm down, tranny

>>14997820
???

i dont know what you meant in your post and was asking for clarification
what the fuck is a UG

>>14997867
ultimo guerrero

>>14997493
Oyabun is going to go into business for himself kek

>>14997493
Both of these men will be in AEW by the end of next year

>>14998036
If Tony R Khan poached the 87-year old Ultimo Guerro I would piss myself laughing

Callum beats Yujiro
Hashi beats Chase
Oleg beats Yano
TJP beats Kojima

>>14997447
did you watch the match?

>>14998278
Oleg is so tantalizing in a G1, I don't care how lacking he may be in some departments some of the moments I've been most invested in the last shows are Oleg being able to unload on non-dads and young lions. Let him eat pins and get bamboozled and get shit for points but just having him out there putting the fear into people would be worth it.

>Gabe teaming with Roderick Strong on Rampage

OwariDa4R......

>>14998278
Ishii is gonna avenge his NJC loss against Chase, so poor YOSHIHASHI gotta lose

Only just got around to watching Soul. It was grim. Bring back Inokism.

>>14998490
Gabe was just playing hard to get with Tony ("notice me senpi")

How do we save New Japan? Obviously fire Gedo and end the AEW """partnership""" but what else? You really could get rid of about 30% of the roster and nobody would care. Get rid of the Bullet Club, stop the outside interference, get some non-shit English commentators...I think it might be unsavable tbqh.

>>14998541
>Get rid of the Bullet Club
What's your backup plan when merch sales drop from ending the most marketable faction merch worldwide?

>>14998552
People still buy that shit?

>>14998541
Inokism is the only way. Get rid of all the indy shitters. If every match didn't grind to a halt so that people could do long, boring forearm exchanges that would be nice too.

>>14998541
>>14998585
Also, ban thigh slappers.

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>>14998541
give Kaito the belt

>>14998541
Inoki-ism. Send your wrestlers to RIZIN or let them do boxing and hope they win matches. That’s the only way to save NJPW.

>>14998541
Sign every single talented or with potential guy from the others promotions.
And change the young lion system to something more fluid

>>14998625
Who?

inokists needs to be hanged

>>14998664
Not even leg slaps and flips for ya?

>>14998664
not enough homoerotic angles for ya?

>>14998692
>>14998694
just go watch gleat if you want boring ass "shoot" fights

>>14998711
brother I don't think the le inokism posters are here to do anything other than laugh at their autistic shitposting ruining threads filled with a handful of people like the AEW-sama spergs, it's not even worth it

He’s talking to himself again

>>14998711
Nobody wants dimeless shit like GLEAT, anon. Just for New Japan to be actual Japanese wrestling and not bad American indy wrestling.

>>14998798
Kek. Just hide the whole chain.

>>14998802
and how does removing outside interferences makes it more japanese?

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>Kota Ibushi will be competing in a 5 minute exhibition match in GLEAT to celebrate his 20th wrestling anniversary!
Such a fall from grace for our 1st IWGP World Heavyweight Champion

>>14998858
Because outside interference, especially the relentless burying of the refs and the lack of DQs, is not something that commonly happened in Japanese wrestling until recently.

>>14998858
>>14998888
Well you have Tana's ten point plan that brings up limiting interference with EVIL and SHO losing their belts in recent months and potential for a feud with Tana himself with all this "President EVIL" stuff and Hontai saving El Desperado against SHO.

Yeah yeah the blurring of shoot and work with this stuff but the groundwork could be there to change HoT

>>14998901
Also the literal barring of HoT from ringside in that cage match as well even if they tried to get in

>>14998901
>and potential for a feud with Tana himself with all this "President EVIL" stuff
which sounds like the terrible, illogical sports entertainment shit that we're trying to avoid here, anon

>>14998907
How about they just are banned from ringside? Or suspended? Or any of the things that would have happened in the past to prevent this nonsense?

>>14998908
The point, if you take if from everything else pointed out, is the potential for ultimately changing HoT from it. Yeah, doing so in a flashy fashion could sound hypocritical but honestly it's a way to keep kayfabe and not just try to awkwardly stop a group that, whether people want to admit it or not, are fairly popular in their own right and sell a lot of merch. Bring down and change HoT in a spectacle.
>>14998911
I mean if you want to nitpick this shit has gone on in various degrees for a long time all the way back with NWO Japan and Chono. It's not 100% freshly squeezed puro of the past, you have to follow small niche companies if you want something more akin to that.

>>14998541
My internet smark takes

Focus more on Japanese talent. Stop worrying about the US right now.

Cut the amount of titles in half. Being a champion means less if there's more belts. Also stop hot potatoing the belts.

Turn HoT babyface and stop the interference. Though EVIL might be unsalvageable as a main event act.

Maybe try a trial run of all clean finishes for a few months.

New booker. Shuji Ishikawa did really good in All Japan recently, maybe try him out. Gedo is an all timer booker, but he's completely burnt out and washed right now. Take a couple years off at least.

New Japan's partnership with AEW is kind of a forced one. Either they play ball with Tony and get a bone thrown their way every now and then or he goes to war on them. New Japan will not be able to outbid Tony. They really have no choice in this partnership. He's going to get whoever he wants no matter what.

>>14998541
I don't think it needs all that much saving, just get the young Japanese guys something compelling to do and a couple of long term stories and it's golden
>Muh titles
Sure there's too many but who really cares
>Muh interference
Is a proven draw, much to smark tears
>Muh Bullet Club
It barely exists anyway
>Muh commentators
Name better ones, all WWE, AEW, TNA commentators are shit. Give Walker time and hire a permanent play-by-play guy and it's perfect
>Muh bloated roster
Is it really killing the company that Tenzan wrestles on the under card every third tour

>>14999402
>Muh interference
>Is a proven draw
why are the buildings half empty?

>>14999402
>pretending to enjoy current New Japan
why are you doing this?

>>14998888
yeah bro japanese wrestling was all honorable fights between true samurais until bullet club happened, nwo japan didn't draw much more than all japoo 4 pillars shit, not at all

the concept of outside interference was introduced to Japan by Commodore Perry in 1854

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>>15000144
Before nWo Japan, there was the Ookami Gundan, who used to interfere in Inoki's matches in the 80s.

NJPW should just hire the best 20 Japanese wrestlers available.

Rocky Romero more like Cocky Cockmuncho

>>14999867
nips don't care for Jeong Mosque Li

Lol why are they sending Nagata to fucking Ice Ribbon?

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Safety Bump (for Dynamite's historic low)

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wine

>>15001078
The Inoki curse is a shoot, brother.

>>15000579
so you didnt watch moxley vs evil?

>>15001146
that wasn't the draw brother also that being Evil's first good match is AEW propaganda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopHHvxWb7k

Fire Rocky. Drop AEW.

The Tokyo Budokan show with Despy/DOUKI and Naito & BUSHI's homecoming match is very close to selling out

>>15002054
>gets the jr belt off of a house of torture shitter
>it becomes a draw
funny how that works

>>15002135
SHO main evented the 2nd largest Ota Ward crowd since 2020. Cope.

[Fantastic News] Dynamite barely did 500,000 viewers!

>>15002716
I'm starting to doubt him.

>>15002054
Surely after the BOSJ and Dominions slight increases over last year only the trolls are still doomposting about NOOMBERS

Shota Umino does not, in fact, have a slipped disc. The real story is much juicier and the office don't even know about this one. Instead, he was beaten up by Gabe Kidd for attempting to sleep with his girlfriend. Apparently hasn't told the office the truth due to the embarrassing nature.

Shota Umino got his broken hip after taking lessons from Tanahashi about how to deal with Tony Khan

>>15002716
this guy is sloppy and people overrate him because he does "impressive" moves

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>>15002716
>The best Reiwa Musketeer is still a shitter
Grim.

>>15003260
I like Tsuji, but he is honestly Goto tier. We have no one else who is even remotely close to peak Tana, okwaba, or Naito.

>>15003294
Let's hope these three keep the ship afloat for a decade until hopefully better Young Lions come around and take over.

>>15003260
Tsuji is based he just needs to stop spending entire matches selling

>>15003190
I want to believe

Truth is that New Japan was always the most "western" Japanese wrestling promotion from day one. It's also the most popular.

>>14998585
>Inokism is the way
>we should revert to the lowest drawing philosophy of all time
Huh, really are some retards in here

>>15003190
fake because shota wouldn't care about something being embarassing

>>15003190
The hip fracture is the main thing keeping him from doing the G1, but the visual image of Gabe doing a shoot spinebuster on Shota is hilarious

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>>15003490
this
when you post a picture of yourself crying like a little twink ass bitch for the whole world to see, despite the company trying to make you their new ace, I think we'd know from the geek himself if got beat up by a shoot schizo

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BTW the Inoki-fag hates Tsuji because he hates all "lucha ladyboy" wrestling

Hey didn't you get banned the other day, you massive retard? Don't you have some NXT to go watch?
KWAB

This is probably the last Forbidden Door event. TK will use it as a scapegoat for the rating collapse. Bad news for NJPW, since sugardaddy Tony is one of the few things holding them up, and he's got his own problems

>>15003635
It’s better for NJPW if Tony cuts them off himself rather than if NJPW were to cut ties at least—I could imagine Tony going on a vendetta rampage and poaching basically everyone of importance if Tanahashi slighted him, and Tony backing off from Japan by himself at least assures that there’ll be a few years where NJPW is safe.

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¡Feliz cumpleaños!

>>15000144
Nobody said there was no interference, retard. Learn to read.

>>15003488
>the lowest drawing philosophy of all time
objectively untrue

>>15003818
go watch some NXT bitch

Just have Oleg come out in his delinquent coat and start heeming throwing niggas to the top with Yano and delinquent school girl Pieter in his corner, the dimes will fall

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>>14998541
They should do something similar to what Inoki did in the late 80s, secretly hire a huge foreign monster, let him interferes outta nowhere and squashes Tanahashi/Naito, feed him the new Musketeers, make him the champ, and finally make Umino Shota defeats him in a rematch and establish him as the face of the company.

>>15003900
they should have done this with jonah

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>>15003922
>jonah
>huge foreign monster

>>15003635
>Bad news for NJPW
Sounds like great news to me kek

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the tranny door being closed forever?
can you imagine?

>>15004052
If only.

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>>15003635
>Bad news for NJPW
sez u

>>15003938
who do you think would be more fitting then, genius?

>>15004284
Go to downtown Kabukicho, look for a big black man, train him for some months and debut him.

>>15004299
He'll try and rape the Stardom players, though

>>15003635
>AEW dies
>New Japan scoops up tons of talent
what's the problem

Does New Japan have the most based retards in the business right now?

>>15004527
Finally Stardom can into the US market

>>15005352
I don't know, Kiyamiya from Noah is trying to Shibata himself on every show with those headbutts, Kenoh is a based retard

lots of based retards over there

>>15005352
>>15005382
tough market over here, AEW has tried to cut in but produces only retards

>>15003635
AEW ratings always drop before Forbidden Door. AEW is not dropping it. They need it to poach NJPW talent every year. The best we can hope for now is that Bushiroad looks at Marigold and NOAH working with WWE and realize that they should drop AEW and start working with WWE as well.

>>15005561
>The best we can hope for now is that Bushiroad looks at Marigold and NOAH working with WWE and realize that they should drop AEW and start working with WWE as well.
kek what a fucking mark

UFC doesn't pay its fighters, TKO is notoriously cheap.
I guarantee you WWE is paying NOAH mostly in exposure right now.
WWE cannot be milked the same way Tony Khan can be milked, so Bushiroad would be insane to cut off Tony for the sake of WWE.

WWE wants to expose the Japanese audience... to them, so they can eventually enter the market themselves. NOAH also needs exposure with the mainline Japanese audience so they're teaming up in that regard, most likely thanks to Mutoh. But the TKO jews will not part with their profits easily, nor will they share them with Japanese companies the way Tony does.

>>15005780
I just want AEW to suffer my man

>>15005823
AEW doesn't need anyone's help to suffer, it will kill itself off, or drive itself into irrelevancy thanks to Tony's retarded booking and decision making processes.

But AEW will have a giant life bar thanks to Tony's money, that's the real issue there. AEW definitely running a 60 Vigor build

THE ASWANG IS SO FUCKING COOL

>>15005382
You can't be a top guy in NOAH without being a based retard.

JEONG MOSQUE LI

Best of luck to Hikuleo!

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bathroom break match

CEO IS HERE IN ARENA MEXICO! NJPW LEGEND MONE IS HERE!

>>15007943
Imagine they start the show with this

>>15007943
Christ almighty

Bump

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A CARD FOR THE AGES

>>15009098
My dimes are flying back into my pockets, and are then being reduced to their base elements, and returning back to the earth in mineral form.

CMLL is the top promotion in the world right now.
And Mistico is the GOAT

>>15009199
I don't really care for the pure lucha style. I find it low-impact and boring.

Hiromu had his best match in forover

https://x.com/D_Wrestlingifs/status/1804375315357032533

>GOK in the mma shorts again
Are they actually warming him up to be serious again?

Taka had to endure the BBC (Big Boltin Combat)

Ospreay Jr bros we did it!

>>15009771
not yet bros, we still got Kenta to worry about

chase owens has been compromised to a permanent end

>>15009827
go to bed Cena, the qualifiers are over

This arena and the way it's lit is kino

>YOSHIHASHI vs Ishii in Korakuen
holy dimes

>Newman as a pseudo-young lion has better and more coherent booking than any of the Frozen Musketeers

No one in the qualifies has a chance of winning G1 but I hope it’s Yoshi-Hashi and Taichi going through for match quality. A lot of people probably want Ishii but his matches are all the same.

>>15010120
>dimes
Where?

>>15011049
in korakuen

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>>15000977
kek what a relentlessly charming man

>>15009199
>>15009506
It's amazing to see how over Mistico is. Like the Mexican Naito. He really dragged Hiromu kicking and screaming to a great match
I'm excited for ZSJ vs Hechicero. I hope njpw sends guys to cmll more often

Menhera's like Shota can be successful, but only for a short period of time. Think Ibushi or Omega. However, I fear Shota may have already flown too close to the sun.

so who are house of torture facing at forbidden door?

These two new young lions. I feel like they are the ones.

jew napan

>>15013385
Tiny doesn't have the money or the cheeto fry to get EVIL to come back to America

>>14994032
Unironically just put the belt back on him

Those G1 qualifier matches were grim. Glad Gedo got rid of the shitters early.

JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>15015208
this nigga willingly watched yujiro and chase owens matches lmaooo

>>15015208
>>15015692
Chase vs. Yoshi-hashi was very good

As usual, you can tell who the casuals are who just repeat social media/podcaster opinions like vomit.
Yeah, bro, we get it. "Tacos" sucks.
Now see yourself out of my thread.

>>15015770
nah Yoshi-Hashi does not suck, he was one of the best workers in the g1 last year, chase is just fucking dogshit

>>15015785
Chase is every bit as good as Yoshi-hashi. He's just fat and looks like shit. But Yoshi-hashi also looks like shit, so honestly there's little difference between them in my opinion.

It's just that one's Japanese and one isn't, so you're being a weeb contrarian.
Also, make a new thread NOW. That's an order, kid.

New thread when

>>15015823
I thought chase did well in this years NJC, but I have zero desire to him or Yoshi. Both are WOAT contenders for aesthetics. Thought the match between the two of them was not very good though.

>>15010921
Based YH is the most underrated wrestler of all time and Taichi is damn good…but I’m curious about Aswang in G1