>>19436666
GRIM

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WHERE MY TAG PUSH AT WHERE MY TAG PUSH AT

WHERE MY PINFALLS AT WHERE MY PINFALLS AT

WHERE MY TAG PUSH AT WHERE MY TAG PUSH AT

WHERE MY PINFALLS AT WHERE MY TAG PUSH AT


KEEP OUR SHOULDERS DOWN (WOOF)

>>19436666
>IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship No. 1 Contender 4 Way: El Desperado vs Taiji Ishimori vs Kosei Fujita vs SHO
?????????????????????

>>19436766
They have, for reasons undetermined, decided not to have either Jr title defended at their biggest show of the year.

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Evil really is a treasure trove of reaction images

>1,565人

>>19436789
>mfw the knockout brothers eat a pin

>>19436779
biggest shows. last time it ever touched a big show was wrestle kingdom this year lol

Im guessing it's Bishamon vs Zack/Oiwa and Gabe/Tsuji vs KOB if they have the logical sense to have KOB win after all this retarded parity shit.

shota umino is not bad

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fuck rocky

>>19437663
Bushiposting is off-topic now

Tsujicels, Umeurjins, and Shotababies. Who will succeed and declare shin ace desu.

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>>19437326
thanksh

Poomino is perfect for tag wrestling. He should stay there for a while.

>>19437663
Don't post NOAH in here.

>>19436666
OH MY GOD WHEN WILL THE TAG MATCHES END?!?

do did Naitetty finally got a clue and chose to come back to Japan instead of wrestling for indies in front of 20 people ?

>>19439197
He came back to Japan to wrestle in indies in front of 20 people

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NOAH has a much better roster than NJPW and shockingly enough is even better booked too.

>>19439206
Feeling arrogant when you won’t have Tanahashi’s retirement to fill your buildings next year? Interesting.

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>>19439403
Driller Baloney and Shota will save us.

>>19439184
This is the worst time of year for Japanese wrestling.

>NJPW
World Tag League

>AJPW
Real World Tag League

>DragonGate
Triangle Gate League

Even Zero1 is having a tag tournament for all 27 fans left.

NOAH was the only company NOT hosting a tag tournament in Nov/Dec... but only because they had a dimeless Jr. Grand Prix tournament.

>>19439403
Naito! Of course... because what NJPW desperately needs right now is a broken down old man that can take the main event spot away from the younger wrestlers. Haven't seen that before!

>>19439493
Real World Tag League has actually been pretty good and advanced quite a few stories in AJPW. I'm genuinely excited for Yuma Anzai vs Kento Miyahara since their tag match yesterday was solid.

>>19439791
I should give it a watch. The teams looked good on paper. I wish they'd do more with Ashino and Hideki Suzuki though. Why is the main storyline right now babyface vs babyface? AJPW has solid heels but they don't seem to do much with them. Who was the last heel champ... Nakajima?

>>19439403
to be fair, as grim as new japan will be after WK, noah is even more dimeless it's bascially a shindy right now and I doubt naitetty can ever change that

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NJPW is shit and grim !

>>19439521
>broken down old man that can take the main event spot away from younger wrestlers
do njpw fans not know puro is built off old guard vs new generation to get the new generation over, wonder why theyre struggling to get anyone other then tsuji over? Theyre having to shoehorn people like goto and zack into iwgp title reigns even though they were never that guy to fabricate a old guard of mfs who have only ever been NEVER contenders during their prime years with an occasional iwgp title match they lose because their is far more important people to push (i love goto dont get me wrong but hes always been the bridesmaid).

>>19440458
AJPW doesn't really have full time faces or heels right now. Who ends up more face or heel can depend on the specific feud. Just in Kento's current reign he was the face against Go Shiozaki but the heel against Hokuto Omori and arguably the heel now against Yuma Anzai since he was trying to duck Anzai a bit while Anzai has love from the crowd after the Aoyagi situation.

>>19440734
These dipshits were seemingly gonna just have Naito & Hiromu win the tag titles back at Dominion until Naito (rightfully) decided to fuck off, so they gave it to Ishii & Taichi while having 0 plans whatsoever to actual keep them credible. So they both lose their G1 qualifiers, Taichi only gets in because Goto withdrew, Taichi gets his ass beat for most of said G1 and Ishii does nothing but job in AEW.

They fucking gave Yuji Nagata a World title shot this year lol

Shane Haste should beat up Naito after his match in NOAH

>>19440734
Sorry, friend but that's just not the case. It's not JUST age but also credibility from the old guard that gets the younger guys over.

Muto vs Tanahashi in 2009?
Success because Muto, while older and slower at the time, was still protected.

Muto vs Kiyomiya in 2022?
Not so much because Muto couldn't move anymore and had already had his aura tarnished.

Tanahashi has been eating pins all year and it hasn't gotten anyone over because beating a crippled old man isn't credible. Naito could barely move before he left, that's why NJPW lowballed him. He's over the hill. He can't get anyone over in 2026 more than Tenzan or Nagata can.

How can KOB save face and retain the belts realistically

>>19442181
if you actually read what i said im talking about the credability of the people they are using to get young talent over. acting as if naito was on the level of muto 2022 broken down is wild, if naito was still there he would be fine and it would almost definitely help getting guys over, because thats what naito has done his whole career. absolute crazy cope to think hes on tenzan or nagata level of broken down. i said in my previous post that the people they are using to get guys over were never the guy in the past so it makes no sense, naito was literally in the dome main event in 2024 he is more then capable of that spot. not to mention the talent they have lost to aew, the wrestlers on the current roster cultivated relationships with these top stars that left as young lions and nooj is suffering the after effects of those relationships now not meaning anything with them gone. njpw are in a very strange position and its okay if you dont want to admit that desu. geneblast is our only hope

Bloata Pooji fucking sucks btw

>>19442593
nta but I really just don't see it with Tsuji, he still just feels forced, from his promos to his smile to his weird lucha shit. I'm still more interested in Uemura, Oiwa and maybe Shota if ever gets a clue and goes more heelish.

>>19442593
>help getting guys over, because thats what naito has done his whole career.
Who the hell has Naito gotten over in the past 5 years? You can only argue Tsuji and I wouldn't say he's anywhere near as over as he needs to be after all of the pushing he's received

The last people I remember Naito really putting over was Kenny in that G1 and those neck destroying matches with Ibushi and both of those are basically ancient history at this point

>>19442671
Tsuji would be my "least interesting" young guy if Narita didn't exist.

I rate everyone above him, even Shota (although just barely). But Oiwa, Uemura, Gabe, both Knock Out Bros clear for me easily. And a lot of the Young Lions coming up look great too like Murashima.
It's weird because Tsuji is one of my favorite Young Lions of all time. I thought he'd be great but his chosen gimmick was so different from what I expected and I don't think the lucha shit suits him at all. He was Tanahashi's cheerleader as a YL and he should've stayed with Tana.

>>19442106
>They fucking gave Yuji Nagata a World title shot this year lol
I actually liked the grandpas coming out to challenge Goto who was always coming up short in their day. Unfortunate how the reign ended though. It should have escalated with the younger generation aiming for Goto's head hard

>>19439493
yeah you're right. I wonder why they're all doing endless tags at the same time? is that normal?

>>19442711
I posted it when it happened and I still believe it, after his first tag match against Oiwa I felt he should have gone down a heel route, he and Takagi were such great bullies. That smile is offputing and works if you're an asshole/just weird, that curbstomp ain't a company leader face move. But at some point after Shota shaved his head and went quiet he basically took his talking points and became just another "ra ra ra we're New Japan, we're the future" guy, which makes even less sense when you realize he was in LIJ, a faction built on bucking the trend.

>>19442712
I did too. It's just an awful look after how they treated him and the other dads for years, especially given the extra context to how we came to having Nagata challenging *Hirooki Goto* in the middle of New Japan Cup

>>19442703
you do understand you can get someone over in a match without losing right anon?
however naito took a lot of losses in comparison to other top guys at the time, naito also gave a lot of people who were lower on the card some of their best work because of how captivating his matches were and changing audience perception on said lower card wrestler without him having to lose. naito would work all the tours and have these singles matches with the taichis and the juices of the world in these bumfuck areas of japan, and he would make it work because thats how naito was. he ate a pin to taichi in g1 while on his way to the double gold dash for fuck sake. he would have these matches with people who werent perceived as on the level of iwgp heavyweight title challenger worthy but good enough for naito to try get over as a threat to him and the ic belt before they nuked it. and naito literally put over zsj for the world title, he also put over jeff fucking cobb earlier this year in njc. naito has been getting guys over his entire career, its effected almost all his major title reigns

>>19442966
>he ate a pin to taichi in g1 while on his way to the double gold dash for fuck sake.
Yeah you don't watch a lot of NJPW if you think losing an upset in the G1 means anything at all

That's a big paragraph of cabron cope

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12/9 Iizuka City General Gymnasium (6:30pm)
40 minutes till SHO(go)-time

>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

rare yujiro pantsu

HE'S AN UNAFFILIATED MAN YOU KNOW

Just strap a rocket to Boltin and see what happens

Dick Togo II is looking like a star right now. Perhaps they should think of bringing him out of the gimmick some time in the future

BUT CAN THEY MUTUALLY ASSIST EACH OTHER IN A TAG TEAM ENVIRONMENT!?

now tsuji that was rude

Based Gabe "Fanservice" Kidd

that guitar is YELLOWY

I remember the good ole days of being salty when Naito put over Jeong in the G1. Frankly Naito is way more in the Tanahashi mold than Okada. It makes it even more ridiculous the company couldn't retain him. I am looking forward to his Noah run more than anything coming out of this company going into the New Year regardless of his state of sawdustness or lack thereof.

>>19443370
I love BARS like you wouldnt believe

>>19443370
Boltin getting KWAB'd by HOT to set up Wolf's debut match should tell you everything

>dick to the ace
Walker must be stopped

DICK TO MY ACE

They've should've had EVIL in there to be embarrassed too since he ruined Tana's last G1 match

>serious neck injury
>moving like normal
OK Walker

You buried KOB but don't bury oiwaanalanon's dreams tonight

>technicians attack the shit out of his legs immediately
>immediately recovers and starts his running spot with no issues

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>basically out mathematically
>still have them beat KOB anyway

>>19443426
well now I'm curious

I knew that bump at the end of the K.O.B. match was bad.

>>19443435
Gotta have everyone beat everyone. Unless you're DOUKI and SHO for some retarded reason.

>>19443443
What was it?

Drilla burying O-Khan with no qualms

Kino ofinfin control by Hiromu

>Hiromu tagged in
welp whatever then

kek great payoff

>>19443445
Zayne tried to do this no assist Stratusfaction thing but OSKAR dumped him out from that position and he hit the top of his head on the apron.

>>19443456
what did he say?

WHERE MY TIMEBREAKS AT WHERE MY TIME BREAKS AT

Knocked Out Bitches...

kino

number already in
>1,305人

Ref being dogshit as always as these 2 take 10 minutes to do a strike exchange

WHERE MY BROTHERS AT?

BROTHERS REPORT IN

THIS IS WHY WE DONT EVER BLINK

So why the fuck did they lose to Monster Sauce then?

DONT
EVER
BLINK

>>19443554
sauce was too spicy and zesty

Every time I think about who Yuto looks like with that look I forget the guy's name

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Knock Out Brothers (formerly Knocked Up Sisters)

if oiwa makes it to the finals..

>>19443563
made me laugh

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>Gabe Kidds final match in NJPW will be losing to the newly crowned World Champ Tsuji
>After the match he will tell Tsuji that he's the "spirit of Shin Nihon" now
>He'll then go to AEW and be an underling of PAC

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>>19443482
not the brightest bump

>>19443786
All for Taco Bell and a bow

>>19443754
Well he'll get paid more and be in a country with black women, no reason to go otherwise

>>19443596
Oiwa is never winning anything. Gotta pay his dues for 5 more years first

>>19443918
is Gabe an STD collector?

>>19443904
wasnt allowed to order off the cantina chicken menu either, smdh

more like new japan parity wrestling, grim

https://x.com/TIMEBOMB1105/status/1998410274949505450
Naitettybros...

>>19445547
Hiromu's foot steps in the sand partner except at the end there's a big ass Hiromu shaped dent in the beach

SHOTA-HASHI and YUYA-HASHI

>>19447687
The No Belt Brothers

why don't they put the rocket on Despy?

>>19448001
He had a great first half of the year leading the juniors which is when they are more relevant anyways, just fell victim to HoT booking like most of the roster

>>19448054
i see thanks for the summary. wasn't liger also leading the juniors for years?

>>19448098
Liger comes from a time when wrestling was more relevant and styles were less explored and innovating more heavily and he was central to that with juniors, hard to compare them. Despy is definitely one world class though, I don't know if there is another wrestler who can work as high quality in such a variety of styles as him.

>>19447754
Actually Yuya once won the lemon eating contest belt

>>19448322
You only really win if you hold it at the end of the year

https://x.com/i/status/1998623390660440299

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>"Outfield Stands" seats are almost gone!

>※If all seats are sold out in advance sales, there will be no tickets available on the day, including for elementary, middle, and high school students. We recommend purchasing early!

Confirmed to not reach 50k by their own design

>>19442980
if you dont think new japan picks and chooses who the upper echelon talent lose to in g1 you are delusional

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12/10 Dejima Messe Nagasaki (6:30pm)
25 minutes till SHO(go)-time

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

>>19449634
why the fuck is alex still on this card?

>>19448923
if only the did something, Fanmani aside

>>19449634
>1 semifinal per show
Suck my dick
The semimain here looks kino tho

>>19449634
I hope Tsuji gets new gear for WK/Next Year. That red fedora just ain't it chief

Walker perched upon his throne at the entrances lol

>another EVIL NEVER6 challenge
fuck off

>>19449814
There were some good matches back with Tana, Okada and Ishii holding the belts but they have been worthless ever since stuck in the Hontai/HoT vortex

BUT CAN HE LIFT THE BIG MAN??

They have Walker on a fucking platform like the interviewers on 80s WWF TV.

shota getting fat again

These 2 together fucking suck on commentary

ELP kidnapping kids now

WHERE MY PARITY AT WHERE MY PARITY AT

Nice fanservice for today's crowd

Actual good spot to have crowd brawling unlike the 99% of them every single show

BUT CAN LITERALLY ANYONE COEXIST!?

attacking their own partners kek

Fuckit have Oiwa's sexy ass pin Goto

>Oiwa pinned by YOSHIHASHI
Imagine

GOTO-OH
GOTO-OH
GOTO-OH
GOTO-OH

would've been so much better if the semifinals were on the same day

What????

The gay Oiwabros ate good tonight

They protect Zack way too fucking much for a guy that draws 0 dimes.

Oiwa winning something would be cool but K.O.B. pretty much have to take this.

>>19450129
All the main eventers leaving/retiring recently necessitates new top guys to be overcome, hence Goto and Zack's status

>1,282人(札止め)

>>19450222
Thanks for drawing the house, Hartley Jackson

>>19450224
>Thanks for drawing the house, Ryohei Oiwa
FTFY

>>19450198
True but I don't think Zack needs another tournament push after demolishing the G1 2 years in a row.

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rate his title run

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>Sugabayashi in Mexico again

Here we go with the yearly " our relationship and compromise are stronger than ever "

>>19451405
They already did it >>19448923
Still find it funny they gave Soberano a contract, theoretically paying him, and never booked him

>>19451310
Fizzled out by the time he got to the title

>>19451310
his booking is like the literal opposite of douki's. something like kai's wrestle 1 title reign

>>19451576
Not only Soberano but a few other wrestlers too.
Perfect example of the management of this promotion

>>19451405
Hermano looking sexy af

why isn't we getting the tiger mask vs dynamite kid match

I want Yuto to call Umino wack some more

Yuto Ice is like so cool and ghetto guys, BIG UP!!! LET'S GET HIGH!!! (If he really gets high he'll get fired)

>>19453201
May as well just sign to AEW if he keeps going over there and hurt himself there completely fucking his story with Taichi

Who should have the last Ishii certified Meltzer bangerino before he officially signs with AEW?

>>19453275
EVIL for the NEVER belt

>>19453445
The Tama special

>>19452563
>NOOOOOOO YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE A GIMMICK, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT THE HECKIN' WORKRATE BANGERINOS

>>19449819
It was shit for years
Then it was elevated for about 18 months by Yoshi-Hashi
Now nobody cares again

Now that Yasutaka Yano is wrestling for AJPW under a mask should New Japan bring back Marty Scurll

>>19453875
He fucking sucks so no

>>19453875
Scurll's was consensual and legal but NJPW will never touch him due to it being underage plus they don't really need Scurll. Yano groped the woman but she did drop the charges and he gave her an official apology though I imagine if AJPW wasn't desperate for young talent they wouldn't be taking this risk anyway. Yano's fellow trainee Okada has been MIA since the incident though so I kind of wonder if the majority of it got blamed on him or something. He didn't even try to go to any low rung Mexican indies like Yano did.

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>The complete history of: Hiroshi Tanahashi 1999~2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaIpyehoV-E

It's just this video the Japanese youtube channel uploaded for his 26th anniversary with Walker doing narration and giving a bit more context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLFO_3TFtic

>>19454763
I Remember when Rocky booked him on NJPW Strong during the pandemic and Chris got so pissed off he leaked it to the Super J Cast who proceeded to make a big stink and got the ending where he appeared removed

>>19455417
Tanahashi and his gamer son

the tanahashi retirement collection is fucking kino

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>>19455417
>Tanahashi faced Nakamura in the main event of the Tokyo Dome in 2005 for a belt centered around youth
>retires in the Tokyo Dome 20 years later
Everything lined up. The kino we were denied, that Tanahashi was denied, from politics...

>>19456012
okada is more of a draw then nakamura.

>>19456022
don't you have a "Tone Dog" thread to be in

[GOOD NEWS]

https://www.njpw.co.jp/617858

>>19455417
>"Don't talk to me or my autistic son again"

>>19454763
>NJPW will never touch him due to it being underage
No it's because the gaijins working for them don't like him

>>19456273
grim lineup desu

I hope one day they do an actual bodybuilding event, like CMLL.

>>19456273
Despy for the meme, his back is a work of art
honestly Zane Jay with how he's looked the past few shows

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theyre lucky he isn't bringing finlay in