>>19360214
11/30 Akita Terrsa (5:00pm)
>B Block: El Phantasmo & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
>B Block: Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay vs SANADA & Ren Narita
>B Block: OSKAR & Yuto-Ice vs Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan
>B Block: Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs Alex Zayne & Lance Archer
>Zane Jay, Masatora Yasuda, & Taichi vs Daiki Nagai, Drilla Moloney, & Shingo Takagi
>Shoma Kato, Shuji Ishikawa, & El Desperado vs Gedo, Gabe Kidd, & Yota Tsuji
>Tatsuya Matsumoto, YOSHI-HASHI, & Hirooki Goto vs Dick Togo, Don Fale, & EVIL
>Katsuya Murashima, Boltin Oleg, & Toru Yano vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Chase Owens, & Yujiro Takahashi

12/2 Aimesse Yamanashi (6:30pm)
12/3 Twin Messe Shizuoka North Building (6:30pm)
12/5 EDION Arena Osaka 2nd Stadium (6:00pm)
12/7 Kihoku General Park Gymnasium (4:00pm)
12/8 Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall (6:30pm)
12/9 Iizuka City General Gymnasium (6:30pm)
12/10 Dejima Messe Nagasaki (6:30pm)
12/12 Sun Arena SENDAI (6:30pm)
12/14 Grandmesse Kumamoto (3:00pm)

>Road to TOKYO DOME
12/19 G Messe Gunma (6:30pm)
12/21 Light Cube Utsunomiya (5:00pm)
12/22 Korakuen (6:30pm)

1/4 Wrestle Kingdom 20 @ Tokyo Dome (4:00pm)
>IWGP World Heavyweight & IWGP Global Heavyweight Double Championship Match: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs Yota Tsuji (c) [14th World champion, 6th Global champion, 2nd defense each]
>Hiroshi Tanahashi Retirement Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kazuchika Okada
>Aaron Wolf Debut & NEVER Openweight Championship Match: King of Darkness EVIL (c) vs Aaron Wolf [49th champion, 1st defense]
>IWGP Women’s & STRONG Women’s Double Championship Match: Syuri (c) vs Saya Kamitani (c) [6th IWGP Women’s champion, 6th STRONG Women’s champion, 1st and 2nd defenses]
>IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship No. 1 Contender 4 Way: El Desperado vs Taiji Ishimori vs Kosei Fujita vs SHO
>NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship Match Tornado Ranbo

1/5 New Year Dash!! @ Ota Ward Gymnasium (6:30pm)

The IWGP champ jobbed to fucking Roderick Strong, even Hobbs getting a title shot on Dynamite wasn't this grim

>>19360214
>B Block: El Phantasmo & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs OSKAR & Yuto-Ice
>B Block: Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. vs SANADA & Ren Narita
>B Block: Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan
>B Block: Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay vs Alex Zayne & Lance Archer
pretty good

>A Block: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano vs Gabe Kidd & Yota Tsuji
>A Block: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs Shuji Ishikawa & El Desperado
>A Block: Satoshi Kojima & Taichi vs Don Fale & EVIL
>A Block: Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi vs Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi
top 2 matches are good who could give a fuck about half this block though

>B Block: El Phantasmo & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
>B Block: Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay vs SANADA & Ren Narita
>B Block: OSKAR & Yuto-Ice vs Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan
>B Block: Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs Alex Zayne & Lance Archer
based

>>19360223
Yeah man because the iwgp champ famously never jobs to midcarders in a tournament setting

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another ibiru face to add to my collection

>>19360314
The AEW defense squad is already here

>>19360314
AEW midcarders like Roddy are actual Velocity level geeks.

Takeshita will lose to jeongmok but make it to the finals anyway where Okada beats him. Setting up Okada vs Tsuji in New Jersey in front of 1500 people where we get a 3rd part-time champ in less than 2 years

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>>19360551
LET'S FUCKING GO!!!

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Happy Thanksgiving to all /njpw/ lurkers and posters!

how to ungrim the world heavy belt instantly: give it to togo

>>19360805
If Despy was never gonna defend the jr title on a major show they should've just let Togo challenge for it in Korakuen or at a Tohoku show. YJK Despy's wanted to have a serious match with him too.

Desperado should go down the card after bringing these 2 horrible partners

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>>19360845
Despe should be the NEVER champ

>>19360872
In this moment, El Desperado was the happiest he'd ever been and ever would be

>>19360845
Shuji is based you uncultured trog

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>loses to a jobber on free TV

Takeshita should go on a losing streak in the C2 to set up all his future challengers for the first half of 2026, post WK he shouldn't return to Japan before Dominion

Update: There are conflicting reports on the match result for tonight’s Konsuke Takeshita vs. Roderick Strong match.

>>19360980
God Bless him, but what's the standard here.
You can't bring these guys when your own Japanese talent is floundering

>>19361431
Bringing in Ishikawa for meaningless tag matches does nothing to affect the pointless young talent booking endemic to modern NJPW. He's not taking the spotlight from anyone, he's not winning any titles, etc.

bumping this thread to slide gay porn

>>19360223
very grim

>>19361649
Based slider

>>19361277
how does this even happen

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>>19361750
Bad actors trying to reclaim the narrative

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>>19360322
>when the ref goes catatonic for the fourth time in your match

>>19361431
Inoffensive outsider brought in to be something different in a tournament that's bone dry every single year is fine with me

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Trannyhashi. Gaped Klitt. Shitter Poomino. Yota Chubby.

Grim.

AEWtists really didn't like that Tsuji interview

>>19362550
What Tsuji interview?

>>19362600
https://monthlypuroresu.com/features/qa-with-yota-tsuji-on-konosuke-takeshita-wrestle-kingdom-20-teaming-with-gabe-kidd-hiroshi-tanahashi-more/
He calls Okada an AEW guy and it made some of #them really mad

>>19362652
where are you seeing people get mad about this? seems people barely know this is a thing

>>19362867
everywhere

>>19362652
I'm sure this either has no traction or is being handwaved on r/njpw because that place is completely taken over by AEWtist "fans"

>>19360223
>fell for fake spoilers
LMAO

>>19361625
>>19362298
if everything is filler and doesn't matter, why people should care about NJPW

>>19364543
That's the issue right now. Many fans are wondering why we're supposed to care when it's clear that nothing matters and every wrestler is booked in a holding pattern.

>>19363138
Dont worry the dub fans are seething on sc.

>>19364553
I agree. They desperately need to do literally anything interesting.

>>19363881
I mean I did but whoever poster spoilers on the Wrestling Observer website also did so..

>>19364601
When they do something interesting you call it filler, you're a knuckle dragging negative IQ monkey

>>193647700
Tell me what story they are conveying with Ishikawa and Desperado and how it will effect the long term booking of either.

Everything needs to be about le long term booking or else they shouldn't even bother with it, that's such a smart mindset and definitely wouldn't create even more stagnation than what we have now

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11/28 Kakuhirio Group Athletic Stadium (7:00pm)
23 minutes till SHO-time

>B Block: El Phantasmo & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs OSKAR & Yuto-Ice
>B Block: Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. vs SANADA & Ren Narita
>B Block: Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan
>B Block: Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay vs Alex Zayne & Lance Archer
>Katsuya Murashima, Boltin Oleg, & Toru Yano vs Gedo, Gabe Kidd, & Yota Tsuji
>Tatsuya Matsumoto, YOSHI-HASHI, & Hirooki Goto vs Shoma Kato, Shuji Ishikawa, & El Desperado
>Masatora Yasuda, Satoshi Kojima, & Taichi vs Dick Togo, Don Fale, & EVIL
>Daiki Nagai, Drilla Moloney, & Shingo Takagi vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Chase Owens, & Yujiro Takahashi

yujiro's theme kinda bangs

They tried to blind everyone in the fucking building right there

my eyes hurt now

put your fuckin leg off the rope kid, you're going to dojo court after this

Gabe Kidd and missing a senton, name a more iconic duo

Have Gabe and Boltin ever shared a ring together before this? This feels brand new

Lance still moves pretty well for a big guy who has been around the block, in Japan too no less

>>19364982
He always as if you ever saw in in 2005ish TNA. Thankfully hes not dropping himself on his head trying moonsaults anymore

Good to know the tag team champions can't beat them but "Alex Zayne" can

they shouldnt show the crowd during yuya's becky lynch intro

Tana-san you can leave Hontai to u- AHH NEWMAN STOP KICKING ME AAAH UEMURA HELP ME

oiwa sexo

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>i missed shota getting dropped on his head
Damn, ya'll.

Sanada kicked the wrong rope again

Kanemaru is about due now

>>19365081
hey look he brought yujiro along with him

The whole house for this shit?

Whyyyyyyyyy (no seriously)

WHERE MY LEAGUE POINTS AT WHERE MY LEAGUE POINTS AT

ELP sucks

GO ICE
Meh show

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>>19365123
WHERE MY DOUBTERS AT WHERE MY DOUBTERS AT

finally some points lol

>Tanahashi: “Yuto, Yuto—coming from the same junior high, becoming pro wrestlers, ending up in the same company… that’s fate. I don’t like staying on the losing end, and we’ve still got about a month and a half, so let’s do it again.”

>#njwtl

https://x.com/njpw1972/status/1994393830481862877

>>19365296
Naritabros...

>>19366185
grim

>1,187人

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breh

>>19366420
He won something, good for him

>>19366420
he looks so happy :3

>>19366420
Grim for all parties involved. This is coming from someone who trained with that company.

So presumably Naito got his knee fixed and all went well but his vision is still fubar (double vision). Has anyone seen if he can still go?

>>19367852
there's no fixing those knees. the lack of regular bumping has probably actually made him even more sawdusted than he was when he left

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save us oh Humble Wolf

>>19367949
the true reiwa inoki

>>19368024
he's the reiwa hashimoto

big hashi > bigger draw than inoki ever was

>>19367852
He said he was getting stem cells done but only on 1 knee. I doubt it worked

>>19366420
why the fuck is he doing that
what the fuck is going on with this dude
seriously

>>19366420
>>19368336
I think this might be one of the greatest mysteries in wrestling in the modern era.

>>19368333
I thought i read somewhere it was successful.

>>19369251
It was on his blog he said the treatment was going well back in July. Guess its possible it could have failed since I don't know if he gave any updates. Might be in ToSpo but I cba.

>>19367910
>>19368333
>>19369383
if he can just pull off the Cabron Combinacion and Destino decently again that's all that matters, he's smart enough to work around it

save us Muffin Ass

>>19367949
>>19368024
>>19368037
'fraid so

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11/29 Aomori Mutsu Maeda Arena (5:00pm)
30 minutes till SHO-time

>A Block: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano vs Gabe Kidd & Yota Tsuji
>A Block: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs Shuji Ishikawa & El Desperado
>A Block: Satoshi Kojima & Taichi vs Don Fale & EVIL
>A Block: Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi vs Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi
>Katsuya Murashima, El Phantasmo, & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Gedo, Hiromu Takahashi, & David Finlay vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SANADA, & Ren Narita
>Daiki Nagai, OSKAR, & Yuto-Ice vs Jakob Austin Young, Callum Newman, & Great-O-Khan
>Shoma Kato, Yuya Uemura, & Shota Umino vs Zane Jay, Alex Zayne, & Lance Archer

MOOOOOONSTEEEERRRRRRRRR SAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUCE

>>19366420
A guy who was there said he was moving better than he had in NJPW

The youtube stream is absolute shit

I have no bad things to save about Newman anymore (besides the hair)

not this little nigga jakob trying to act vicious

>>19371101
A bit unmannerly, might even say unsportsmanlike

These guys are turning on O-Khan aren't they

All Yuto does is get his ass beat

jakob stop you are not hard

>>19371126
didn't you feel bad for the vicious heel war dogs as UE tore into them?

>>19371128
Don't fuck with Dangerous JOI

Kill him Murashima

oiwa sexo

But who inherits the Dragon Screw after Ace retires?

that senton can kill a man

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>crowd distracted by skinny whitebois in the crowd fucking around and don't see murashima slam hartley

>>19371189
excuse you ELP made a demonstration pre-match that he is a FAT FUCK

dropping pins in the middle of this match so at least someone is making noise

i think murata just called moloney's dick a .44 magnum

Dogshit match

>>19371177
tsuji i guess? none of the new gen have a leg submission

>>19371222
Turn your monitor on jabroni

>>19371167
Here’s to hoping sexo player doesn’t eat any more pins
>>19371177
Me

Wait. Where is Togo?

retarded ass taichi lol

>>19371255
He evolved into Kanemaru apparently

What are you mad about Taichi that was your fault

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Taichi...

The problem with HoT is everyone has to become retarded for it all to work so everyone is retarded every night. You can say that's a heel thing in general but they dial it up to11.

i do implore you uncultured niggas to dig into shuji's match catalogue when this tournament is over

>>19371307
i do like what big mang has been doing in the tournament so far, anything in particular that you recommend?

Shuji's theme is Battery but the dub sounds like Fuel For Fire lol

he's shorter than yano lmaooooooooo

Early number this time
>1,208人

Why is Yano getting so many main events?

>>19371316
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb8YK-KPFOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnvwWnEC56U&pp=ygUOc2h1amkgaXNoaWthd2E%3D
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9lifow
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5wr9mz

a few links off the top

>>19371370
He's based

>https://x.com/njpw1972/status/1994700494946931086
Comments (and quotes) under this tweet are interesting.
Sometimes I think intl fans are unnecessary too mean towards Shota, and I'm the first who is indifferent towards him, but also japanese don't joke around.

>>19372110
Stupid for either of them to talk like that (especially Yuya, I know what to expect with Shota) since Zayne is a fucking freelancer.

>>19372110
The only negative tweet I'm seeing about Shota is saying that he should win more before talking shit which is true.

>>19372180
I thought the same.
>>19372185
>I feel like Uemura's strengths aren't really being brought out in this tag team.
>I don't really want to say this, but... is Yuya having fun teaming up with Shota? Yesterday's Kakuhiro also had a "what if the other person wasn't Shota" kind of feeling, but Shota is doing his best in his own way...
>Before you look up, look down at your feet.
>Uemura was good in the first half of the year. But he's become less and less appealing since teaming up with Umino... Umino continues to say things that don't change whether he says them or not. Above all, he needs to stay away from easy drugs like lariats, get in shape, and fix his slapstick hand-raising and vows. This is no time to be worrying about other organizations.

Shota should stop being in shape and doing lariats because uhhhh he just should! Idk what it is about this guy that make some people insane