Live on NJPW World:>World Tag League 202512/14 Grandmesse Kumamoto (3:00pm)>World Tag League 2025 Final: Gabe Kidd & Yota Tsuji vs Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.>NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Championship Match: Master Wato, YOH, & Toru Yano (c) vs SANADA, Ren Narita, & King of Darkness EVIL [31st champions, 3rd defense]>Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay vs Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan>Yuya Uemura, Shota Umino, & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Daiki Nagai, OSKAR, & Yuto-Ice>Taiji Ishimori, Drilla Moloney, & Shingo Takagi vs DOUKI, Chase Owens, & Yujiro Takahashi>Shoma Kato, Shuji Ishikawa, & El Desperado vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Don Fale, & SHO>Tatsuya Matsumoto, Katsuya Murashima, Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI, & Hirooki Goto vs Masatora Yasuda, Alex Zayne, Lance Archer, Satoshi Kojima, & Taichi>NJPW WORLD TV Championship Match Open Challenge: El Phantasmo (c) vs ? [9th champion, 4th defense]>Road to TOKYO DOME12/19 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 Ranbo1/5 New Year Dash!! @ Ota Ward Gymnasium (6:30pm)Previous >>19436666
>>19470969how did they make him fat
>>19470969chunky player
"Bomboclats could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this neighborhood before. There could be bomboclats anywhere."
>>19470969humiliation ritual
>>19471029chanko
Tenzan owes Meltzer an ass kicking
>>19471029Goto shoot put on all the weight and then lost it
hey dribbler baloney youre ride's here
>>19473045be careful, this upsets the bushislurper
grim
>>19470969>Gabe and Tsuji win the WTL >The heavyweight tag titles aren’t defended at Wrestle KingdomWouldn’t shock me at this point.
>>19473120Still not watching Noah
Haven’t watched New Japan since that mediocre Naito Okada WK 12 match. Did it get good again?
>>19473150lol no
>>19471345Them meeting in the ring would be retardkino of the highest order
A player with a real sumo body would be so fucking over
>The talk right now is about Hirooki Goto playing Edmond Honda in the live-action “Street Fighter,” but his acting in the cult oddity *Looking for Antonio Inoki* was also fantastic. At a demolition site he finds an adult video and grins from ear to ear, but when he plays it, it turns out to be footage of Inoki’s matches.https://x.com/majan_saitou/status/1999608793714557301
>>19470969FAT FUCK
>>19475718
>>19471345Remember when Yuto followed him, Nomura & Shota and everyone thought they were gonna be some brand new faction? lmao
tanahashi's retirement tour has been so much better then Cena's holy shit
>>19479127Tana's was absolutely dimeless but the matches were better
>>19479127nah it was mostly shit but at least he'll have a proper ending and not some goyslop finish and the crowd won't ruin the moment with some "bullshit" chants or whatever
bomboclaat
/puro/ died
WTL gamethread>>19480552>>19480552>>19480552
I MIGHT HIT THAT DRILLA RIGHT
O I W A SEXOOOOOO
Great main event and I'm glad Oiwa got that. Probably the best booked tournament all year apart from how they handled KOB
>>19482154The crowd getting behind him at the end really helped. Also I'm more of an idolmaster mark.
Whoever came up with that House of Torture bit should be publicly executed. They killed that crowd so dead they didn't care about Wolf choking out SHO and crawling with EVIL
>>19479807killed by cena and console war bs, tragic.anyway i'm happy for oiwa, the boy still have to grow but it's a good start. the booking was surprisingly good for this tournament
https://x.com/njpw1972/status/2000131642745295042>DOUKI: "I'm the Junior Double Champion and the god who completely dominated the Junior Tag League. So why do I, of all people, have to wrestle in the Tokyo Dome, which has devolved into some trivial event? (Omitted) It'll diminish the value of the Junior division. So, with that said, I'm not doing the match, but the 1.4 'DOUKI Game' will still take place..."
Callum said HENARE was coming back for that UE/WD tag at Wrestle Kingdom. No angle or nothing lol he just says it
>>19483344It'd be really funny if they put a gimmick match in this and Gabe/HENARE accidentally (not really) kill each other again.
>>19483344Finlay, Gabe, Hiromu, Takagi, Drillla vs Callum, GOK, HENARE, Akira, ??? I'm assuming
>>19483655jake lee
So what’s WK?>Tana/Okada>Tsuji/Takeshita>TMDK/KOB>EVIL/Wolf>Jr 4-way>WarLIJ/UE>TV title match>NEVER 6-man matchAnything else? Preshow Rambo?
>>19482915I love the combination of that translation with the face he's making. Like he has to read this super retarded script about how he DOESN'T wanna wrestle at Tokyo Dome but every sentence a part of him breaks. Why did they fucking do this?
>>19482915>Why wrestle in a sold out Tokyo Dome when I could wrestle in some bingo hall in buttfuck town at the bankai bonkatsu hall ?this shit is so fucking stupid, even for a heel
>>19484373kenni
>>19484613Throwing Douki into HOT was one of the dumbest fucking booking decisions they’ve ever done.
>>19484875Kenny can’t move
>>19485124As a worker I like him better as a heel but every single thing they've done with him as a heel is fucking stupid, especially letting him talk. Oof
>>19483344HENARE should come back with a hot new look and then get dumped on his head by someone spiritually channelling Mikey Nicholls
>>19487107People who always ask: why does Chase Owens still have a jobWell the answer is because he never does this to one of their guys
This heels makes me so mad ugh, they're really doing a bad job with him.
>>19487129Standards are that low?
>>19487506It's more a recrimination against how few safe guys there are these days which has raised their value.
>>19484373Uemura vs Umino?
>>19484373NEVER 6-Man is the Preshow Ranbo.
>>19484324I'm happy for Oiwa but NOAH and AJPW have way nicer trophies for their tag tournaments.
>>19487810The G1 and NJC trophies are nice. I hate how the Jr ones look and I don't even know what the WTL ones are so supposed to be
>>19487736That would actually be a great add and they avoided it during the G1
what a big fumble of a wk cardit's fucking sold out and they just put everyone in meaningless filler matches wtf
>>19484373>TMDK/KOBNope. New Year Dash.https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/370307
>>19488769grim
>>19488202tbf Tana's shadow looms over it so hard I can understand not wanting to try and slot in big matches that could use more time
>>19488818I was told this whole time this show was gonna be a massive showcase to sccop people into the new generation leading to Tana's retirement and instead I'm getting 80% of the champions and even set challengers with no matches while 2 AEW take main event spots. No wonder NYD isn't selling tickets (again). These geeks are too small time for Tokyo Dome spots why would I care for them in a 4k seat arena?
I can't believe the gay Oiwa posters won the narrative. >>19488769>get your big rise up moment>not on the WK card
>>19470969Are they finally going to unify some titles?
>>19489114TWO YEARS IN THE DOJONOW FINALLY THE KIDS BEEN GRIPPED
>>19488769>Sell out the Tokyo Dome>Put out the most unimpressive card imaginable
>>19489340They ain't booking for next year.
The FULL CARD for Wrestle Kingdom. They're not doing the Double Main Event billing. https://www.njpw1972.com/618058>Main event: Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi>6th Match: IWGP Global & IWGP World Heavyweight Double Title Match- Yota Tsuji vs Konosuke Takeshita>5th Match: NEVER Openweight Championship- Aaron Wolf vs EVIL>4th Match: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Number One Contender's Four Way Match- SHO vs El Desperado vs Taiji Ishimori vs Kosei Fujita>3rd Match: David Finlay, Shingo takagi, Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney & Hiromu Takahashi vs United Empire (Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan, HENARE, X, XX)>2nd Match: IWGP Women's & NJPW STRONG Women's Double Title Match- Syuri vs Saya Kamitani>1st Match: NEVER Openweight 6 Man Championship Tornado Ranbo (Feat. Kaisei Takechi from DDT/LDH Japanhttps://www.njpw1972.com/618811TMDK vs KOB will main event NEW YEAR DASH.
The 3 Road to Tokyo Dome shows are all being streamed. The last one on the 22nd in Korakuen will be free.https://www.njpw1972.com/61809912/19: Tanahashi vs Hiromu12/21: Tanahashi vs Desperado12/22: Tanahashi vs Fujita, ELP TV Title Open Challenge
>>19489404>3 singles matches in 4 daysForget Gabe, Tanahashi is the true madman
>>19489393>no KOB>no Zack>no Goto>no Oiwa>no Yuya>no DOUKI>yes spot show 10-man tagWhat the fuck is wrong with them?
>>19489393I just realized we're gonna have THREE (3) different double champions at the exact same fucking time.
>>19489393EVIL winning and then the double AEW wrestler win would be pretty funny. But would also kill NJPW
>>19489429gedo has gone insane
>>19489429just bare with me I'm not booking or approving the whole card but in the ranbo you could have KOB and GedoZack, Oiwa and HartleyBishamon and their young boyYuSho and Murashima
>>19489487I’m sure most of the HOT members are showing up in the Evil match to get thrown around and this is where everyone else is ending up. These matches were fine when they were just gauntlets but when you throw in the Royal Rumble rules and everyone in at once they just turn into shit shows.
>>19489491Yeah and with team rules it can be a true clusterfuckAlso I forgot ELP isn't even involved too, he'd probably go with YuSho
>>19489393no shota, yuya or oiwa? showcasing future top guys to the biggest audience you've had in decades isn't a priority i guess
>>19489497>>19489500fuck me I forgot no Boltin or Taichi either.Well with EVIL and AEW's Okada, who had interference spots in his last match with Kenny, I guess they might go full WWE on run-ins with guys off the card
why is takeshita not working a single preview match?
>>19489578Continental Classic
>>19489393I get that it's Tana's retirement match but seeing the heavy belt match as the semi-finals hurts me.
>>19488918oiwa sexo confirmed>>19489393>all that hype just to put takechi in the ranboi figured as much but it’s still funny, he’s only gonna be there for like 5 minutes kek
They're gonna have to run Dominion in EDION Osaka #2 with this type of booking
>>19489393I think we can say it.GRIM !
>>19489393in kayfabe Callum has to be pulling some keikaku doori illuminati shit to fuck with this stacked War Dogs/Unaffiliated team
Goto and Zack should leave ASAP, maybe they'll finally start to push someone who wasn't there 10 years ago (Tsuji ain't winning btw)
jeongmok (pls call out shota via video for a tag so yuya can be in a real match)
>>19490244the never 6 ranbo isn't a real match huh???? you nujamals really are ungrateful
>>19490340we love AEW so much we want our new ace to come to your promotion and finish his story!
>>19490389Your new Ace is Takeshita, bitch. That's because Shota, Yuya and Yota all suck so much. Be grateful we're even letting him work in Japan.
>>19490421Ah, I see it’s Jeet hours and Rajneesh is is wide awake.
>>19490649He didn't lie though
Callum calling AMAKUSA "the worlds most boring wrestler" it's fucking funny
Would a Jumbo Goto gimmick work?
>>19491440it's already working
>Kyoko Hamaguchi’s “wavering woman’s heart” — her favorite EVIL faces Wolf Aron on 1/4… and Animal Hamaguchi gives a shocking “run-in order”!>Kyoko Hamaguchi (47), who won bronze medals at two Olympic Games in wrestling, continues her popular column “Kiai de GO!” This time she focuses on Wolf Aron (29), the Tokyo 2021 Olympic men’s judo -100 kg gold medalist who will make his pro wrestling debut on January 4. As she cheers on a fellow Olympian, she also can’t hide her feelings for EVIL —who will welcome this major rookie. Olympic medalist or villain? Where will her wavering heart land…?>[Kyoko Hamaguchi — Kiai de GO!] Hello, everyone~! It’s already the end of the year before you know it. Pro wrestling has so many talked-about matches too. The other day, at a certain dinner gathering, we got really fired up talking about Showa-era pro wrestling. We played the entrance themes of wrestlers from my dad’s era and did impressions. Pro wrestling talk really gets people going.>Now then—on January 4 next year, Olympic judo gold medalist Wolf Aron will debut. I’m excited~. After last year’s Paris Olympics, we were together at a TV station studio. Wolf had just returned from Paris, and when I greeted him he was so big that I remember thinking, “If he got a hold of me in wrestling, I wouldn’t stand a chance.” If I had to compare him to something, he’s like the Incredible Hulk. He had both that intimidating aura and presence.>We were also together recently on “Odoru! Sanma Goten!!” (Nippon TV). He had his hair slicked back, and he looked even wilder. He’s a funny guy—unpretentious and not trying to act cool. I wondered what kind of training he’s doing for pro wrestling, and when I looked at his muscles I was shocked by how his thighs bulge when he sits down. His pecs were clearly trained too even through a T-shirt, but those thighs—no surprise. With the legs and hips he built through judo, I think he’s getting even stronger.
>>19491514>His opponent is EVIL-kun. Will calling him “kun” be forgiven? (laughs) Secretly, you know, I follow EVIL-kun on social media, and on his Instagram Stories I always hit “like.”>(Suddenly, loudly) “Keep it up just like that! Go, go—GO~! EVIL~!!”>Sorry about that (laughs). No, but he’s cool. He has that vibe. He does whatever he wants—awful things, bad things, total free rein—but in wrestling he fights and he’s strong. I can’t help looking at things like his muscle condition. Like, “He’s training properly~,” you know? I bet he’s practicing a lot. And it makes me happy seeing so many people supporting him—starting with the big star Kumi Koda. He’s loved by so many. An EVIL-kun who’s being supported is incredibly strong.>I was surprised at the Ryogoku show in October when the two confronted each other. Wolf suddenly got into the ring, threw around the House of Torture (H.O.T) guys, and stood there boldly right in front of EVIL-kun. The tension was incredible. I love scenes like that. Pro wrestling is so fun, isn’t it? Stir things up and stir them up again until you’re like, “What’s going to happen, what’s going to happen?”—that nervous excitement. I like that atmosphere. You don’t get that kind of thrill in everyday life.>Even on 1/4, how will EVIL-kun and his crew mess with Wolf? What kind of match will it be? I’ve sparred with women’s judo athletes in the heaviest weight class, so I know how overwhelming the pressure is at the top level of judo. I’m also watching to see what techniques he brings out. But EVIL-kun has been doing pro wrestling for years—he’s battle-hardened. I want him to do his best. Who’s going to win? I’m looking forward to it.>(At this point, Animal Hamaguchi barges in to coach trainees at the Hamaguchi Dojo.)>Hey, hey! Kyoko, what are you talking about! You’re the one who’s going to run in at the Tokyo Dome! ORA! Go run in with Naito (Tetsuya) and BUSHI—three of you! KIAI!!https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/370308
Sad that Goto's not gonna be on the card after he was one of the only good things about new japan this year.
>>19491531I can only assume hes gonna be an early opponent for Tsuji. But yeah it still sucks he's not on WK
My sub lapsed and im catching back up watching the Tag League final right now, so United Empire are bad guys now with War Dogs/!not_LIJ are good guys? Is UE really down to juse Oka, JAY, and Newman? I know he was devisice but I really enjoyed TJP and AKIRA.
Tanahashi should tap out to the money clip
>>19489429You forgot Shota Umino. Even if I hate him, it kinda sucks that he’s not booked just like goto
