Yota Tsuji promises to bring back the v4 Heavyweight belt if he beats Konosuke Takeshita at WK20>“I think it’s critical to reconnect with our history. That means reviving the IWGP Heavyweight belt. If I win on January 4, I would merge the World Heavyweight lineage into the Heavyweight. Back then, I was just a Young Lion. I was frustrated but couldn’t speak up.>If I was in a position to say something, then I would have tried to stop the unification of the Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles. To me, the IWGP World Heavyweight title is a curse.”
take is my boy but at least if he loses it's still kind of a win. divas belt a SHIT.
>>19496213has the "new coke" angle ever actually worked?
>>19496240The New Coke angle did everything it was supposed to do.
>>19496213I like Take but Tsuji really should win, especially if they're bringing back the old belt
>>19496213I believe when I see it. Does it mean he also bringing back IC?
>>19496305He considers that to be Naito's belt, so no
>>19496213Cool nobody cares the damage is alrady done
>>19496213>Yota TsujiMore like Yota Shitji
so he's winning then. and NJPW finally recognized how stupid it was for them to create the power rangers belt.
>>19496213So /pw/ was right all along?
>>19496213wish they would just let it die. It's already been brought back once under Okada
>>19496381he is not winning, they literally put Okada in the main event for the post match angle
>>19496798He's absolutely winning because Takeshita isn't working a full time schedule and he's just there as the outsider to crown a new top star. It's also Tanahashi's retirement so they're going to make it a point that they're going to push the next generation now
had to google who Yota Tsuji is. not a good outlook for NJPW and their 20th restart since EVIL won the belt
>>19496213That looks like a butt to me but I'm also high as fuck in my Lincoln.
>>19496806>because Takeshita isn't working a full time schedule and he's just there as the outsider to crown a new top starHe'll do that at WK21. He's gonna have a year long reign where he barely shows up and the title is used as a prop for AEW storylines
>>19496213I love NJPW I am sorry for being rude. I never wear my NJPW hat that I purchased at Korakuen Hall anymore because it is red and I don't want to get jumped or murked. Why the fuck did Donald have to design his hat after a NJPW hat from several years prior? Now what am I supposed to do? I should have bought the black variant. Dumbass hat.
>>19496875kek
>>19496806Moxley had the title for months and was barely on anything. The English commentary bent over backwards to try to explain that Moxley never being around is actually good because if Evil won the title he would be around but he’s a big meanie.
I worked myself into thinking the new belt and lineage was all a galaxy brain booking decision where the person who restored the previous one (Naito probably) would be the biggest babyface ever but in reality New Japan has been nothing but retarded decision making for over half a decade now.
>>19496213This guarantees Take’s win. They aren’t going back, the belt represents the change of a cultural period.It’s moot either way, the true death of this version of the title happened years ago during that stupid world title unification thing with Ospreay, Shingo, and Okada at Wrestle Kingdom 16.Bringing back the old won’t fix anything. To resurrect any prestige, They first will need to find someone the crowd can get behind who can hold it for a year+ and give the belt proper stability.Unfortunately Tanahashi’s BWC fetish means the company is always going to be rocked by western stars who are given the world and then promptly fucks off to a western promotion.
>>19497050I seriously doubt that. I know Gedo has a reputation for being a retard as of late, but he's not this retarded. The visual is already there, of Tanahashi retiring and right before that the younger star has taken the belt to carry it forward. It would be absolutely retarded to end it with the heel outsider as champion on the same show that the ace is going away
>>19497067So did Okada.Who held the v4 as his G1 briefcase.Who (stupidly) won.And the belt still did not go back.
>>19497080It would not be the first or last time a wrestling company accepted they fucked up and going back to an older thing instead of stubbornly continuing forward
What's the point of having your main event roster publicly shit on the new belt design if you're not going to bring back the old design?
>>19497103But fucking up, teasing the return, have the guy teasing the return win, not actually do the return, then have another guy tease a return years later has never been done.Because it’s retarded.
>>19497113I don’t know ask Okada.
>>19497117Sure bro I'll just call him and ask. brb.
Anyone here buy one of those 3k replicas?
>>19496213Unfortunately, he's not winning. This failed Takeshita experiment will continue.
>>19497505If nothing else, at least this experiment isn’t going to a complete shitter.Takeshita is incredible.
>>19496213V4 is overrated
>>19496213when he says bringing back the old belt, does he mean the lineage or just the design? both are needed but i can deal with the stupid looking title, the destruction of the lineage is what gets me
>>19497538Not the prestigious lineage of Bob Sapp and Tadao Yasuda
>Kota Ibushi>Will Osprey>Shingo Takagi>Kazuchika Okada>Jay White>SANADA>Tetsuya Naito>Jon Moxley>Zack Sabre Jr>Hirooki Goto>Konosuke TakeshitaIt’s not that bad.They just need to have a guy who holds it for a year or more. Ibushi SHOULD have been that guy right off the bat but he just had to do it to em’ at the G1 final.
>>19497552it's about legacyas if will ospreay and jon moxley are any better
>>19497538Yes, both the design and lineage
>>19497558Lmao like 3 of those guys are still NJPW contracted wrestlers
