>>19397832
>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)

>>19397832
Grim

>>19398297
He's FAT.

>>19398297
I can deal with him being fat, but its the autistic blank stare he always does. I hope they give him a manager

bomboclaat

>>19397877
That part

>>19398297
save us reiwa hashimoto

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>>19398297
All he has to do to get over massively is to come out with a long white headband on

I'm serious
He would get an earth-shattering pop

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>>19398534
>you should cosplay as a wrestlers infinitely more charismatic than you
What could go wrong?

Gente sin alma que se va a la capacha sin cocaina

>>19399159
One's a nepobaby shitter and the other is an Olympic gold medalist national hero

It could work if he can carry it

>>19399159
It depends on how you do it. Yuma Anzai leans into a look that reminds you of classic AJPW guys but it doesn't really feel like a cosplay either. It strikes a pretty good balance. I don't mind that Umino was going for a Tanahashi vibe but it felt like he never really gave a good twist to it and made it his own. Kaito had a similar issue where he was going for a Muto vibe but it wasn't really working.

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sad news in the world of wrestling as ELP has been found to be carrying HIV the virus that causes GRIDS

Do we tell them is done with made up statistics?

About secondary sexual characteristics

>>19398297
Yeeeeeaaah we're fucked

>>19398534
Once he establishes himself yeah

With contract season almost here who’s leaving?
My guesses
>Kidd, Connors and Finlay are gone
>Drilla and Callum are here for at least another year
>ZSJ, ELP, JAY and Akira are here to stay
Zack seems to want to stay in Japan and enjoy Chris Brookes’ bussy while ELP is unwanted by any American company at 40

>>19398297
so this fat twitch streamer looking ass nigga is supposed to be the future of new japan ? grim grim griiiiiim GRIIIIIM !!!!

>>19400056
Contract season isn't until June now

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>>19398297
>>19398304
I'LL MAKE HIM BLEED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8cMWB7kjq8

>>19399174
Being a gold medalist doesn't mean you're the next Kurt Angle unless you get a clue and grow a personality. Remember Humble Bear?

>>19400871
Japan actually has a sense of national pride and national achievement though in a way that America sadly does not anymore.

They absolutely get behind their guys in sports competitions.

>>19400871
>Remember Humble Bear?
who?

>>19400871
Good thing he’s spent the last few years going on panel shows on TV, running a YouTube channel and all sorts of work that requires a personality then

>>19400871
>Remember Humble Bear?
No

I googled it and found 1) A CRM App, 2) A British woo-healer 3) The Wikipedia article for Tardigrades

>>19400871
the dude from nxt and his brother?

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12/3 Twin Messe Shizuoka North Building (6:30pm)
50 minutes till SHO(Togo)-time, 32 days till retirement

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

Yuto, Daiki and Kosei all look like dudes you would see on Breaking Down. Im glad I saw them all in the same match

>0-5
maybe Yujiro shouldve been purged afterall

Togo looking good, bros

The ladies seem to be liking Dick Togo for some reason

>>19401627
japanese women are known to like older men

>>19401631
they just want his deep pockets

>>19401670
ok how u know

tsuji finally has a feud with some heat on it and it's with his tag partner

I like that they're fighting right before having to team up against the best team in the company.

MOOOONSTEEEEERRRRRRRR SAAAAAAAAUUUUUUCE

I did not know Tana loved Archer so much. Makes sense he always calls him in

alex is good but there's that 1/4 of his moveset that's just incredibly stupid

of course archer just drops him

Nice one Lance

where’s my hug at tana..

This Dick Togo II guy looks pretty cool

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Tana is beginning to tear up every time he goes around to do fanservice postmatch. I kinda feel bad for him.

>guy in the chair couldn’t be assed to move out of the way
kek

Tanahashi will have to be physically restrained from spending a whole hour slapping fans hands and wiping himself down with their towels

kek moloney burying the whiskey

OKhan of all people gets the guitar spot

anal with oiwa

Handsome high school honor student athlete vs street thug who skips class and sells fake weed in the parking lot

>>19401797
This is Japan. He's making sexual remarks to his female teachers and telling everyone he has family in the yakuza for cred.

bros, why does jp commentary keep bringing up brookes every time zack comes out now

>>19401805
because they're an item

>ate the pin again
REEEEEEEEEE

WHERE MY GRIPPERS AT WHERE MY GRIPPERS AT

they expect me to care about shota getting a win back against finlay instead of yuya

>>19401860
I expect you to kill yourself because you're annoying me with your obsession with everything that Shota does or does not

They could definitely not pin Hiromu anyday now in this

Why do all these "I need to beat this guy and avenge so and such" just lead to someone not involved in the story getting beat?

>>19401914
hiromu’s gonna keep eating pins as long as oiwa does

>811人

>>19401805
I heard he gave Zack a shoot groin stretch and back breaker

>>19400167
Didn’t ask

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>>19397832
when's my nigga Misawa coming out?

>>19401767
>physically restrained
fuck you, let the man revel in it!

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>>19402122
Here, have a non AI Misawa smile

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So this is it
I say goodbye
To this chapter of my ever-changing life
And there's mistakes
The path is long
And I'm sure I'll answer for them when I'm gone

So when the day comes and the sun won't touch my face
Tell the ones who cared enough that I've finally left this place

That's been so cold
Look at my face
All the stories it will tell I can't erase
The road is long
Just one more song
A little something to remind you when I'm gone
When I'm gone

>>19401947
grim

>>19401834
Fairy tales

>>19401834
For Oiwa this one actually makes sense. I have no clue why Tanahashi pinned him, though.

And Finlay could've 100% been pinned in the main event. Even if he's a Jr he's still Hiromu. If you can castrate KOB in singles matches ASAP you can have Finlay eat a pin.

>>19402829
Overworked junior in heavyweight tag abused by his partner can take the pins, BC leader Finlay who has had enough hard times this year is worse off. Finlay also beat both Shota and Uemura in prominent singles matches this year, might want to save beating him for later.

Newman fucked up his knee and then didn't give backstage comments this morning. It's over yet again

GAPED
GAY
WAR
LADY

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BUT CAN THEY COEXIST?

>>19405336
I saw AZM in those Poi jeans. Callum's life is pretty good

>>19405336
good, he's a shitter
wish tiny con poached this dude

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Gaped Klitt
Trannyhashi
Okama
Naitroon
Poomino
Yota Chubby
Takeashit
Yuto-Ice Cold

...


GRIM !

>>19406855
You know Togo is looking less jacked and moving slower bros, what's going on?

>>19407081
that's Dick Togo II. Keep up.

>MUST WATCH- now in English!

>Konosuke Takeshita talks his double title match with Yota Tsuji at Wrestle Kingdom, desire to be double champion, the prospect of reviving the IWGP Heavyweight title and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZQ3V93Prbs

Okada wants Aaron Wolf to learn english and join him in AEW. Grim.

>>19407622
>Konosuke Takeshita
I literally forgot about this guy

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>>19407880
Tony starting the poaching process before the wrestler has even debuted. That's gotta be a new record

>>19407880
Just looked that interview up. Oh so NOW we can have an AEW/NJPW angle huh, real convenient in the aftermath of the Tana retirement match sweepstakes.

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Rain Returns: Kazuchika Okada Interviewed 【WK20】【ACE】

>Ten years to the day since their last Tokyo Dome main event encounter, two giants of the Wrestle Kingdom era will collide one final time on January 4 2026. Okada versus Tanahashi will see the end of Tanahashi's legendary in ring career and mark a decisive turning point in the history of New Japan Pro-Wrestling. While the two are well familiar with one another as opponents, this final encounter will be on the biggest scale in their history, and present an altogether different dimension to their incredible rivalry. After his surprise return at New Japan Road in Anjo and the subsequent Wrestle Kingdom press conference, we got the chance to sit down with the Rainmaker

>–First of all when we saw you in Anjo, it was a big surprise, and a real throwback moment, Gedo in tow and the old music as well. How did that all come together?

>Okada: Well, when I heard from Gedo about Tanahashi’s retirement, I thought back to all the times we had wrestled, and how Gedo was in my corner for so many of those matches, so thought Gedo should be with me. It just so happened that NJPW had a card in Anjo, in my hometown, on my birthday, I didn’t have any AEW commitment that day, so when Gedo suggested making that the day everything happened, I was more than happy to.

>–When you came out in the black shirt, a lot of talk was about you being in the same outfit from Wrestle Kingdom 6…

>Okada: No,. I just forgot my jacket (laughs) Really though, that night- recently in Don Callis Family, I’ve been wearing black a lot, the Anjo call came in, I was in that shirt, so it was like, OK this works. But yeah, that night (in 2012) I just had a shirt, no jacket, because I was running in. That night Gedo wasn’t with me when I challenged Tanahashi but I wanted to have that emotional, nostalgic note. Just for one night.

>>19407967
>–You were booed out of the building that night in 2012. Who was Tanahashi to you then? Do you remember how it felt?

Okada: Well, I truly believed I was going to be the champion. I just didn’t quite know then how great Tanahashi was. It’s something I only really got to grips with the more we wrestled.

–How does it feel for you to be Tanahashi’s final opponent?

Okada: Hmm, I’m not really sure I have an answer to that. It doesn’t quite feel like he’s retiring. I think I won’t know for sure until the day itself. If I was in NJPW all this time, perhaps I might get a sense that retirement was looming, but I’ve been over in America; I never really gave it thought. I think it’ll be at the end of the year, when I’m finished with the AEW schedule, and next is the Tokyo Dome, that’s when I’ll be able to give it more thought.

But everything about the Rainmaker started with Tanahashi, so it makes sense to end Tanahashi’s career.. Talking about it that way sounds a little self centered (laughs) but in the end, I feel this is a repayment in a way.

–You were Tenryu’s retirement opponent as well, and have been in several retirement matches. Can you talk a bit about that? Do you ever think about the time coming for you?

Okada: Hm. Yes, it’s a retirement match, but, and I don’t mean this in a weird way, in the end it is a normal match. It’s the same as it would be a tag match on a local house show, any match only exists in itself and never to be repeated, so I don’t think that retirement matches in themselves should be different in that sense. I’m just thinking how best can I really hit him where it hurts.

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>>19407971
>My retirement? I mean I’ve been around to be in NJPW and see people come and go, and then for me to leave as well, it says how much of a career I’ve had already. I don’t think I’m anywhere near retiring yet, but I am aware that day will come some time. Maybe I should ask Tanahashi to be my final opponent? Oh wait he’s finishing up. (laughs)

>–How did you react when you heard Tanahashi was retiring?

>Okada: Well, mainly, OK, makes sense his having a hard time moving (laughs) but seriously, when he became President, I thought because of that it wouldn’t be all that much longer. So I wasn’t all that surprised, as long as he could live up to that Ace status until it was all over.

>–Do you see Tanahashi’s influence on your career as invaluable?

>Okada: Yes. If it wasn’t for that first Osaka match, or if it wasn’t Tanahashi in that match then the Rainmaker wouldn’t have become what the Rainmaker was. Everybody would always say those matches were great. I do think in the end if you talk about the Rainmaker without mentioning Tanahashi, there would be a big hole there. He’s essential to everything about what the Rainmaker has been.

>–You were 24 when the Rainmaker Shock happened, and Tanahashi was 36. Now you’re about the same age that Tanahashi was then, does that give you much pause for thought?

Okada: I had a lot of fire then! But I would hardly say that I’m tired now, probably less tired than he was then. I’ve been able to keep going at a top level with no injuries. Tanahashi was sensational then as well. I think Anjo was a big surprise for him, but with me as his opponent it’ll be something special.

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>>19407973
>–What’s the biggest difference between you then to now?

>Okada: Experience is the chief thing. Physically there are changes, maybe a few more aches and pains now that I didn’t have then, but experience counts for everything in your career. I understand more about pro-wrestling now than I did then, and I think I’ve been able to enjoy wrestling a whole lot more than I did then.

>–What was one moment in your matches together that you really felt how impressive Tanahashi was?

>Okada: Just his endurance, that never tired nature. You feel that in the ring and out of it, him doing so much without ever getting tired is what has gotten NJPW to where it is. And the fact that here he is wrestling me, and he’s the champion, or he was able to be such a great champion, even though I’m far better in the ring. I think that speaks to how great he is.

>–So for the last of these questions, can you sum up who Hiroshi tanahashi is to Kazuchika Okada? In one word?

>Okada: Summing it up is hard. He’s a rival, a friend, a senior, all those. Is it a cop out to say the one word is “intangible?” He’s a rival in so many ways, but he was a senpai who looked after me, who had kind big brother vibes about him, but someone I’ve hated, someone who frustrated me with how good he was. There’s just so much you can’t contain it in a couple of words, you can’t put your finger on it in that sense.

>–Is there anything you want Tanahashi to do as President? Anything you want him to take note of?

>Okada: If I get a good payoff, I’m happy to come here (laughs). But I want him, now he’s president, to take the time to get tired. There’s a lot that NJPW will rely on him for, a lot that he needs to do.

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>>19407977
ok im skipping over shit now
>–This is a little off the topic of Tanahashi, but right now, your Don Callis Family teammate Takeshita is G1 winner, and IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. How do you feel about what he achieved this year?

>Okada: I think it’s great. I’m an AEW wrestler now. So I’m glad to see that he as an other AEW wrestler can come and show that AEW guys are able to perform at that level to win a G1 and win the IWGP. I’m grateful for that.

>You know, he likes to snip at me and we do butt heads. I understand how he feels, I understand that he would have me on his mind having won the G1 and the title. I think it would be weird if he didn’t. Maybe when we find out who’s in the main event in the Tokyo Dome, that will put a line in the sand of who’s the better man. To an extent I think that’s at stake here.

>–Have you watched NJPW much since being away?

>Okada: Not so much, no.

>–This March, CHAOS was officially folded into Hontai. Any thoughts on that?

>Okada: It is a little sad to hear. I was always a CHAOS member, but then nothing lasts forever. But yeah, it’s a little sad.

>–How did you feel when you heard Hirooki Goto became IWGP World Champion?

>Okada: He’s lucky I wasn’t there (laughs). But someone told me it wasn’t just that he did it, but he was so popular. It really speaks to the fact he pulled so many people with him. Goto was always great, it’s a shame it didn’t happen sooner.

>–He had talked about wanting to defend the title against you.

>Okada: If you put in the call I’m happy to face him. If you make sure I get paid, of course (laughs). And he doesn’t have a belt anymore. We could do it for the (AEW) Unified title, I’m Unified champion...

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>>19407989
>–How do you feel about being so close to a sellout, which you didn’t quite get during your time in NJPW?

>Okada: It’s great. It isn’t just Tanahashi’s retirement, it’s Aaron Wolf’s debut, and it’s the result of all the other wrestlers and their efforts as well. So I’ll be appreciative of all that, and then take the credit for the next big bump in numbers.
>--You mentioned Aaron Wolf, he has said that you were the one to tell him to start out in NJPW; how do you feel about him making his debut?

>Okada: I screwed up, I should have told him to come to AEW. But you know, I started in Mexico, but it wasn’t until I got to NJPW that I really learned about the details and the finer points in wrestling, and those finer points are the most important part. So it’s NJPW that you really get the base to be the best pro-wrestler you can be and that’s why I said he should start in New Japan. And then he should study English so he can come to America. Can I say that?

>–There’s a lot of talk over match order. Nothing is decided right now, but you can definitely make arguments for the retirement match going on last and for the World Heavyweight title match to go last. What do you think?

>Okada: Right. I’ve always thought that the IWGP title should absolutely go on last, but in a situation like this Tanahashi’s last match should absolutely go on last. That’s what people are coming to see. Maybe this is pushing it a bit but it’s kind of like eating your meal, having dessert and then in comes a second entree. People might be stuffed, but even then, maybe because of that I like the main event better.

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>>19407992
>–So you’re the main dish of main dishes. What does that match look like?

>Okada: I think like I said in the press conference, there’s a lot of people that wanted to wrestle Tanahashi before he retired but won’t get the chance, and I have to wrestle for them as well. Naito, Nakamura, Shibata.. probably Ospreay wanted to as well, Kenny as well?

>–They didn’t wrestle on this Final Road.

>Okada: There really are a lot of people. I’m not a New Japan wrestler, so there’s every chance that if I wasn’t called, I wouldn’t have gotten to wrestle him again either. So I’m the last of a very exclusive list, and I want to enjoy every bit of that if I have the luxury to, but drink in that luxury and win in the end.

>–A message for the fans?

>Okada: Well, I hope they enjoy Kazuchika Okada again. There might be people that think because Kazuchika Okada isn’t in NJPW any more that I’m not wrestling, or that if I’m not in NJPW they’ve stopped watching wrestling entirely. So I hope they tune in or show up to see me back, see how great wrestling is and then stick around.

https://www.njpw1972.com/615079

>>19407989
>>–How did you feel when you heard Hirooki Goto became IWGP World Champion?
>>Okada: He’s lucky I wasn’t there (laughs).
He unironically is.

Also seeing all those names that didn't wrestle Tanahashi to make way for singles matches with Great O Khan and ELP is so tragic.

>>19407880
actually pathetic they left that in the publish

>>19407996
Its gonna be a bit weird having AEW outsider heel Okada beating Tanahashi in the main event (and then just using that for a storyline in AEW)

>>19407996
Its gonna feel a bit weird having AEW outsider heel Okada beating Tanahashi in the main event and then setting up a match with Takeshita (still champ)

>>19408755
No it won't. This is destiny

>>19407992
I get it makes sense in kayfabe for Okada to say he should've told Aaron Wolf to go to AEW over NJPW but that's a pretty weird comment to make when people complain about Tony's poaching all the time.

>>19409084
grim

>>19409258
love isn't grim, dickhead

>>19409268
seeing 2 dimeless indy mudshow shitters is grim though

>>19409279
njpw isn't a mudshow indy retard

>>19409330
He's an autistic joshipedo, pls understand

>>19409330
zack goes to wrestle in indy mudshows with his shitter faggot friend though, which makes them both mudshow shitters

>>19409084
fujocoin really skyrocketed this year

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>>19409510
shut up bitch

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>loses so much money you have to be carried by Starslop
grim

If Inoki-san was still alive he would probably commit seppuku if he ever saw that joshi puroresu made more money than pure puroresu. These are truly dark times. Imagine Hashimoto, Chono or Muto being outdrawn by some AJW shitter. Grim...

>>19409510
I love AJPW right now but their highest attendance for a single show this year was around 4000 or so. Their average show only has a few hundred to maybe 1000 people at it. That makes AJPW fairly competitive on average with what NOAH draws but NJPW still usually brings in more than both of them.

>>19409709
>New Japan stagnant during Tanahashi's final year

Attendance counts only for certain shows, WK 20 doesn't count because it just doesn't okay??

>>19409799
'fraid so
at least his retirement match will draw a dime but then they'll be stuck with proven anti-draws who get outdrawn by fucking joshis (grim) and at the end of 2026 they'll somehow manage to barely make a profit in a year where they had their first sold out Tokyo Dome in more than 2 decades

>>19409709
>>19409799
You say NJPW is stagnant, I say it's a miracle they're breaking even more or less after losing Naito

It could be so much worse than it is. NJPW is doing really well right now and that's just a fact

facts are within Bushiroad's own financial report and it tells a very grim story
oh dearly dear, 'fraid so...

>>19410346
The G1 was a historic low wdym

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>>19410876
'Stagnant' means unchanged, not growing. They didn't say NJPW was decreasing in value.

For them to hit the same marker as 2024 in a year when they lost the biggest draw in Japan, Naito, in a time when they haven't made any new stars yet, a sort of purgatory period? Oh, and then they sell out the Tokyo Dome for the first time in forever for Tanahashi's retirement? There is no world in which these things combined amount to a bad or 'grim' year.

Quite the opposite really. I would say things are looking up but that's because I'm not a seething anti-fan faggot that hates NJPW.

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>when Rocky strolls out during Tana's retirement match

>>19409099
There's money to be made and an actual use of the partnership to finally have both sides work with this but of course the AEW fanbase thinks they are the "good guys" in all situations so it probably wouldn't work outside specific situations like this with heel Okada in Japan

If there was an image board back in the 80s, I could absolutely see someone posting picks of young lion Hashimoto and saying stuff like "This guy is a geek, he'll never amount to anything, what a horrible look compared to Muto and Chono," etc

And they would have been dead wrong

gotta defend the fatty by comparing him to hashimoto
you noojies are desperate
grim

>>19398297
He looks just like me frfr

>>19411875
you're right, it's unfair to compare Hashimoto to him

Hashimoto never won an Olympic gold medal in a national sport

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30 days...

>>19412731
the final aishitemasu in the dome might actually kill me

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>>19410935
I think NJPW has been on a bit of a holding pattern this year, due to Tanahashi's retirement and the belt going onto Takeshita. But I think this means there is a strong chance that next year is a breakout year for NJPW, with lots of the wrestlers trying to step up and be the one to "carry the company" now (unless they do something retarded like keep the belt on Takeshita all year).

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12/5 EDION Arena Osaka 2nd Stadium (6:00pm)
18 minutes till SHOgo-time

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

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I bought New Japan World for the Tokyo Dome leadup

>Tana's last Osaka show is in Itty bitty Edion Arena #2
grim

Oskar is fucking based

dont call them the knockouts, walker

no jacket from zack. must've forgotten it at chase's place

>>19413398
fuck, i meant chris

Why doesn't Hiromu just reverse Finlay's moves?

finray's hairline is flying away

Finlay and Hiromu's absolute kino teamwork

>>19413398
>>19413400
can't blame Zack for cheating on him with the Lonestar Cowboy, he's just too much

oiwa sexo btw

>>19413420
BUT CAN THEY COEXIST

Who in Hontai you think has aura?

>>19413444
Well I'm classified as an unc so I don't know who is bussin or whatever

>>19413444
Bolchin

Taichi my GOAT

>>19413465
Punished Taichi, a man denied his tag partner

if these shitters beat kojima and taichi of all teams i swear to god

you can see Walker and Alex in the balcony lol

>>19413468
lol

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>>19413468

Has Dick Togo done something with his hair?

Togo II looking fresh asf

EVIL corrupting the youth

nice tom and jerry laugh by evil

those corner stomps and landing on his knees man, this dude is fuckin 50, tall and doing that

IMMA HIT THAT DRILLA RIGHT

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>cmon you gonna take the fuckin corner pad off or what
fuckin Drilla

the absolute meat slappin with these guys

All of these men are fucking awesome

All of these men are fucking

has drilla hit his finish once this tournament?

Pretty good match

Drilla > Gabe, Shingo > Tsuji

>>19413570
In fairness he says he MIGHT hit that drilla, right

Get his ass, GOATo

BUT
CAN
THEY
COEXIST

great main event

GAME
DAY
PIN
EATER

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>>19412731
Bros I’m still not ready..

>1,002人(札止め)

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https://x.com/njpw1972/status/1996912429515845744
>Hiromu: "Do you remember the thing with Shizuoka? Right before the match, when I said 'Happy birthday' and spread my arms wide, a fly came out from inside, right?"
>Finlay: "I prepared something even better."
>Hiromu: "(※Pointing at the Finlay doll that was presented as a gift) What an ultra shitty partner."
>Finlay: "What did you say?"

>>19413136
This is showing the young guys: you CAN become a big star. You CAN sell out the Tokyo Dome. The future of Japanese wrestling can be as big as it ever was.

I think it'll light a fire under their asses, a lot of them anyway, and if guys like Shota don't gain some intensity, they will fade and guys like Yuto Ice, Uemura, Oiwa and later Murashima will rise.

>>19413350
Is despy out now?

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>>19414508
Everyone under 8 points is out

>Winner of Bishamon/War Dragons advance. Bishamon take 1st place if they win.
>Gabe & Tsuji move on at 2nd place if they beat Taichi & Kojima
>HoT need to beat Boltin & Yano and for Gabe & Tsuji to lose. If Bishamon beat War Dragons then HoT is in 2nd place, if War Dragons win HoT finish in 1st and WD 2nd.

>>19414713
Bishamon and HOT it is then. Grim.

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>【NJPW】 Hirooki Goto discusses generational shift:
>“We veterans must be the ones who don’t let them reach the top so easily.”

>Fireworks are flying in the ring as winter arrives. The tag-team tournament to determine the strongest duo, “WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2025,” has produced nonstop hard battles since its opening, and on December 9 it heads to Iizuka General Gymnasium in Fukuoka.
>Competing in A Block, Hirooki Goto (46) spoke openly—about how he deals with “antis” on social media, his love of spicy food and saunas, and his feelings toward his family—revealing sides of himself not usually shown in the ring.

>――On the generational shift in New Japan Pro-Wrestling

>Goto: I understand that younger talent needs to rise. But I think it will still take time. That’s why, until the younger wrestlers are fully developed, we veterans must be the “wall” that doesn’t let them reach the view from the top so easily. I feel a strong responsibility to be that presence.

>――On hearing Hiroshi Tanahashi’s retirement announcement for January next year

>Goto: Honestly, I couldn’t help but wonder if my own goal is getting close too. Tanahashi-san is four years ahead of me, but he’s always stood as a wall right beside me. When someone like that retires, it really makes you think.
>But lately he’s looked in good condition, so part of me still can’t believe he’s really retiring.

>>19415856
>――Something that has changed significantly within yourself in the last year or two

>Goto: Definitely. The biggest was when my father passed away last February. He ran an electrical contracting company, and he constantly told me, “Take over. Come back home.”
>I still regret that I kept wrestling without being able to answer that wish. That’s why advancing in the NEW JAPAN CUP 2024 helped push me forward.
>The finals against Tsuji were chosen as last year’s Tokyo Sports Pro Wrestling Awards Best Bout, and it was a match that changed me.

>――Your way of dealing with “antis” on social media is unusual

>Goto: Antis are important too. I basically never ignore or block them. Some people have actually become fans after talking with me—and the opposite has happened too. That’s similar to pro wrestling, and I find it interesting.
>But if someone crosses the line and hurts a third party, I block them temporarily as a kind of “suspension.”
>I always unblock them eventually. They interact because they’re interested, and I believe people can change.

https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/369101

>>19415860
based goto making his haters become his waiters at the table of success

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>(You)

G word

GLEAT

>>19417551
>I can feel his pinche loco

>>19417487
>beats TJP in GLEAT
>"THE G IN GLEAT STANDS FOR GOTO"
I will now watch your product

>>19416513
tubby

>>19413662
I rewatched The Okada match at WK10, and the G1 final against Ibushi. The way that man brings out emotion. The GOAT

jeongmuk vs shota at wrestle kingdom

>>19421673
got a source there insider-kun or is it your dream match

>>19421709
if the bald drunk is dropping falls now it only makes sense za roughneck gets 1 in on him too

>>19421957
nothing makes sense with this "partnership" and there sure as shit is no consistency with character

>>19421971
moxley and shota is somehow actually consistent since shota doesnt ignore what the death riders do

Kinda funny that everyone expects Shota to be Moxley's underling but instead it was Gabe Kidd

no million tickets?

>>19422255
People had a bunch of expectations for Shota and he proceeded to do nothing with any of them and just kinda be old Shota again.

>>19422250
well of course the guys on the NJPW side often try and make sense of it but there's little to nothing on the AEW side

>>19422255
Gabe's whole shtick with Shota was mocking him for ripping off Moxley. Then he beats Tsuji by using Moxley's finish after Shota stopped his codplay act completely lol

>>19422818
>after Shota stopped his codplay act completely lol
The problem with Shota was that he was trying to cosplay like 5 things at once

Now he's just back to being Tanahashi-lite again

>>19422826
You're blind, disingenuous and retarded.

>>19422926
fuck rocky

>>19422826
I wouldn't even say he's trying to be Tanahashi anymore, that's Yuya (who does it much better). He's just a generic babyface with a weak story.

Yota Tsuji fucking sucks.

>>19423422
True. Clark Kent player is better

>>19422926
I haven't seen them wrestle but it was nice to see Naito's legs dont look like Tenzan's yet in Unagi's new video

>>19422826
The problem was he was doing that without any original spin whatsoever. His stuff now isnt very original but its basically enough that he can survive with it.

>>19428840
why is this kindly old man teaming with those rapscallions JOI and Callum

>>19428840
I can't even tell if this is O-Khan or a shoot Mongolian. good gimmick

>>19428840
that's gedo

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I'M A MADMAN YOU KNOW

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12/7 Kihoku General Park Gymnasium (4:00pm)
40 minutes till SHO(go)-time

>World Tag League 2025 B Block – Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino (3-2) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (SANADA & Ren Narita) (3-2)
>World Tag League 2025 B Block – David Finlay & Hiromu Takahashi (2-3) vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.)(2-3)
>World Tag League 2025 B Block – Knockout Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) (3-2) vs Monster Sauce (Alex Zayne & Lance Archer) (2-3)
>World Tag League 2025 B Block – Hiroshi Tanahashi & El Phantasmo (2-3) vs UNITED EMPIRE (Great-O-Khan & Callum Newman) (3-2)
>YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs War Dragons (Drilla Moloney, Shingo Takagi & Daiki Nagai)
>Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano Katsuya Murashima & Zane Jay vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL, Don Fale, SHO &, Dick Togo)
>Satoshi Kojima, Taichi & Masatora Yasuda vs Gabe Kidd, Yota Tsuji & Gedo
>Shuji Ishikawa, El Desperado & Shoma Kato, vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)

Namba

BUT CAN THEY COEXIST: The Match

>>19430558
so far no

There's way too much crowd brawling in New Japan now

>>19430374
surely he’ll win today, right oiwabros..?

i think geibu is overreacting

THERE'S 3 DICK TOGOS NOW???

>the togo disease is spreading

>SHO: Shut up all you Shikoku hicks! Listen to me, Dick Togo II! I'm amazed we're having a show in this dump. Man this place is hellish. The original Dick Togo refuses to come here. So we have the presence of Dick Togo III!

>But the original Dick Togo wrote a letter!

>"Dick Togo": Is everybody here OK? Nobody here is catching colds? They do say that idiots never get sick. This place reeks of poor people. I pray that HOUSE OF TORTURE gets out of here as soon as possible. Sincerely, Dick Togo.

Dick Togo III looking kinda old

Bishamon are winning tag league btw

drilla is the only stable british person on this tour

>>19430690
>british people
>mentally stable
pick one

>>19430710
>gay boy zack
>gaybu kitto crashing out over his partner like him crashing out
>call em numan hating life despite getting azm pussy
drilla is the only one with his head on bruv

Sloppiest Slingblade in a while

>neither O-Khan nor Finlay get their win back on Tana
>Tana pins Oiwa again for no reason
THESE MY KWABs FOR REAL
THESE MY KWABs FOR REAL

go ace :(

tana’s gonna have a whole flower shop in his house by the time january comes around

WHERE MY SAUCES AT WHERE MY SAUCES AT

Yep, too much brawling

Oh fuck

What the fuck...

what is this booking

KEK

kwa o b

so which teams AREN'T getting title shots after this tournament

Legend says he took a burning hammer to the sideway before the event still made it

So much for the badass thug tag team

Hey Lance this is New Japan you do that shit backstage if you aren't in the main

OIWA SEXOOOOO

anal with oiwa cant be as rough as how much the booking fucks the young guys

Zack and Finlay work so effortlessly together

>>19430886
Yeah all their matches are great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUH31kN5pY

>>19430864
it’s okay, oiwa can take it

has anybody in kayfabe ever called out that marty gets like every important HoT match

oh my fucking god

>1,354人(満員)

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Fucking just

>>19431280
>another "everyone beats everyone" tournament in a tournament with 0 stars in it
>KOB 3-3 with one match left
Nice way to keep hype for you new tag team you fucking retards

>>19431334
aura completely gone

>>19431854
Took about as long as I thought it would. for NJPW to make them not feel special anymore and just become two guys.

>>19431334
Even some japs couldn't believe how buried these 2 looked

>>19431334
grim

>>19431334
i'm more surprised they let them act like tough guys for this long when they just two guys who came back from excursion

WHERE MY AURA AT WHERE MY AURA AT

>>19431334
kek what a knocked out bitch

>>19431334
Knocked Out Brothers

>>19431891
All they had to repeat the Okada 2021 G1 run where they air out the block then run into Shota & Uemura and have their record ruined, then you can justify them losing in the playoffs and set up whatever you want. Instead theyre losing to a heavy/jr comedy routine and HOT. That was fine if they were gonna win out after that and win the tournament, but then they got buried by Lance fucking Archer. It doesn't even matter if they win now, they're just another team.

>>19431334
When we posted "grim"... WE WEREN'T FUCKING KIDDING!

Well there's enough teams for a 4-way tag title Dome match now anyway

If anyone is watching the tag tournaments in other puro promotions alongside WTL how is WTL comparing this year compared to everyone else?

>>19434703
In AJPW, the tag team champions are undefeated and not getting buried by a team that doesn’t work there.

Naito joining Noah. Looks like he was holding out signing incase they wanted to use him for Tanahashi's retirement. Maybe it's time to give up on Shin Nihon after Tanahashi until Gedo or whoever is booking this slop gets fired.

>>19433677
When Acher was holding Oskar up for Blackout at the end Oskar looked like a giant baby and that was it for me

>>19434936
I hope he does just to see how spectacularly he fails to draw there

>>19431334
GRIM

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FOUR SAVAGE GENERATIONS

TAKE THIS AS MY DECLARATION

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>>19435363
>the njpw seether actually watches WWE

>>19435363
Is that not the British Strong Style guy?

Post your predictions you louts. It's an absolute clusterfuck of "If A wins and B loses and the Orion constellation is in position" so here's some r*dditer who broken it down https://www.reddit.com/r/njpw/comments/1ph2ghi/world_tag_league_2025_ab_block_standings_analysis/

>>19435915
Bishamon

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12/8 Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall (6:30pm)
50 minutes till SHO(go)-time

>Main event-World Tag League 2025 A Block – BISHAMON (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) (4-2) vs War Dragons (Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi) (4-2)
>World Tag League 2025 A Block – Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano (3-3) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL & Don Fale) (4-2)
>World Tag League 2025 A Block – Team 100 (Satoshi Kojima & Taichi) (1-5) vs Gabe Kidd & Yota Tsuji (4-2)
>World Tag League 2025 A Block – Shuji Ishikawa & El Desperado (3-3) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi) (1-5)
>Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura & Shoma Kato vs OSKAR, Yuto-Ice & Daiki Nagai
>David Finlay, Hiromu Takahashi & Gedo vs UNITED EMPIRE (Great-O-Khan & Callum Newman & Jakob Austin Young)
>TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson) vs Alex Zayne, Lance Archer & Zane Jay
>Hiroshi Tanahashi, El Phantasmo & Katsuya Murashima vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (SANADA, Ren Narita & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)

Drilla Killa status: possible

>>19436032
might*
as it always is

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH

Tana looks so sad tonight

SANADA has been in HoT for over a year, idk why but that's kind of mindfucking me right now

I'm mirin' Zane Jay's core

time for a shining example of true teamwork

Bad boy Callum facing Finlay for his last block is curious though Finlay is in a weird face leaning tweener alliance thing

WHERE MY KWABBERS AT WHERE MY KWABBERS AT

Knocked up Sisters (formerly Knock Out Brothers)

ARCHER PUT US ON LOCKDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWNNNNNNNNNNNN

Look at all these fickle "brothers" suddenly turning on the best tag team in New Japan because of one loss

This rematch just has no heat now that we know KOB are schmucks who got lucky against jobber champions

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>>19431334
BASED
MON
STER
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAUCE

Yuto Ice needs to beat Shota to death to redeem KOB

>>19436254
>one loss
>0-3 collectively in singles
>3-3 in the tournament

>>19436258
Remembering it is a rematch against these two who can get their win back who doesn't instill any more hope in me either

>>19436271
Continue being a miserable bomboclat then BITCH

oskar stunting like he didnt get picked up and slammed by this geek and didnt get his win back after

it'll be FUMBLECLOT if it doesn't get better

>>19436258
I expected more losses than usual because they're young. This is based if it means they beat everyone once the title matches roll around, gay if they lose the titles in any of those upcoming matches

Please let Despy win this

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>when Chase's theme hits

>>19436303
Pray to maradona

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>Chase's poncho is an airplane blanket

i don’t want ishikawa to leave bros..

>gabe answers to nobody but me
what about jeongmok, finlay?

>>19397832
for next:

Live on NJPW World:

>World Tag League 2025

12/9 Iizuka City General Gymnasium (6:30pm)
>B Block: Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay vs Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan
>B Block: Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. vs Alex Zayne & Lance Archer
>B Block: El Phantasmo & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs SANADA & Ren Narita
>B Block: Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs OSKAR & Yuto-Ice

12/10 Dejima Messe Nagasaki (6:30pm)
>World Tag League 2025 Semifinal: A Block Winner vs B Block 2nd

12/12 Sun Arena SENDAI (6:30pm)
>>World Tag League 2025 Semifinal: A Block 2nd vs B Block Winner

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)

I hope Kojima pins that shitter for cutting him off

Yeah somehow that's just ok to do

that was.. something

why did they drop the handcuff bit 1/4 into the match. why even do it?

>"You know what's famous here in Hiroshima?"
Froze for a moment

come on son hit that drilla right

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MY GOAT

>>19436450
IT'S CARP NO ANON NOOOOOO

next >>19436666

>>19436265
Obsessed cunt, fucking kill yourself you worthless shitstain

>>19436717
oh im not that guy. I was actually typing in Yuya's name before he tagged Shota in