>>19949243
2/27 The New Beginning USA @ CURE Insurance Arena, Long Beach CA (8:00pm EST)
>Yota Tsuji (c) vs Andrade El Idolo [6th champion, 3rd defense]
>IWGP Women's Championship: Syuri (c) vs Athena [6th champion, 2nd defense]
>IWGP Tag Championship: OSKAR & Yuto-Ice (c) vs Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun [111th champions, 4th defense]
>NJPW World TV Championship: El Phantasmo (c) vs Konosuke Takeshita [7th defense]
>KUSHIDA & El Desperado vs Alec Price & Jordan Oliver
>AEW National Championship: Ricochet (c) vs Taiji Ishimori [1st champion, 8th defense]
>NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship: Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs Boltin Oleg [8th champion, 2nd defense]
>Fred Rosser vs David Finlay

>New Japan Cup 2026
3/4 Opening Night @ Korakuen (6:30pm)
3/5 Korakuen (6:30pm)

3/6 Anniversary Event @ Ota-City General Gymnasium (6:30pm)
>IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: DOUKI (c) vs Master Wato
>IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship: Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita (c) vs Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori

3/8 Baycom Gymnasium (4:00pm)
3/10 Shigeto Arena Okayama (6:30pm)
3/12 Takamatsu City Gymnasium 1st Stadium (7:00pm)
3/13 Kanaoka Park Gymnasium (6:30pm)
3/14 Nagoya Kinjo Pier Arena (5:00pm)
3/15 Aimesse Yamanashi (3:00pm)
3/17 Big Palette Fukushima (6:30pm)
3/20 Aore Nagaoka (5:00pm)
3/21 Final @ Aore Nagaoka (3:00pm)

>>19948963
They showed this pic?

>>19949262
just for a second during the Creed video

yota tsuji fucking sucks

>>19949270
>>19949262
gotta plant the seeds for the Dominion build up

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>Mistico: "Everyone has a dream. I've come to Japan with the dream of becoming the world's greatest luchador. You know who I'm aiming to be like, right? That's Tanahashi-san. I want to make history in Japan too. Tonight will be the start of that. Because I want to become the 'main event' of New Japan Pro-Wrestling."

>>19949427
ey cabron, the gate to the top is guarded by a Wolf, aces aren't made lightly

>>19949427
I say give him the Global title at the anniversary show. That show looks dire as fuck rn.

https://www.njpw1972.com/630847
Valiente Jr. injured is knee and is off the show today.

>>19949744
all according to plan, now UE can insert Zane in that slot to get him "accidentally" in front of a crowd in a showcased spot and begin the rocket push up the Jrs

>>19949784
I think in this era Zane is big enough to go straight to heavy

>>19942976
>>19943309
My first Tenryu matches. He's based

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Why is New Japan afraid of trying out new stuff and instead content on relying on the same old same old. Love Dia, but he was in 2024 BOSJ & Jr. Tag League and 2025 BOSJ & Jr. Tag League

>>19950016
A new idea would be a block with gaijin and a block with Japanese.
Hell, just do CMLL vs Japan already.

>>19950097
That's what that one anon worked everyone into thinking was gonna happened at the G1 and we all seethed

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>>19950104
2/24 EDION Arena Osaka 2nd Stadium (6:00pm)
25 minutes till SHO-time.

>FANTASTICA MANIA Tag Tournament Final: Mascara Dorada & Mistico vs Magnus & Averno
>Relevos Increibles: Templario, Atlantis Jr., & Atlantis vs Soberano Jr., Hechicero, & Ultimo Guerrero
>Ryusuke Taguchi, El Desperado, Tatsuya Matsumoto, & Futuro vs BONE SOLDIER Jr., Shingo Takagi, PHILIP MARLOWE Jr., & Titán
>Shoma Kato Sendoff series 1.: Shoma Kato, Master Wato, & OKUMURA vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO, & Yujiro Takahashi
>Relevos Increibles: Tiger Mask & Satoshi Kojima vs Masatora Yasuda & Hijo De Stuka Jr.
>Stigma vs Daiki Nagai

oh shit it started early lol

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They really decided to pad out this tour with HOT and don't even include the member who wrestles in a fucking mask

>>19950190
not including guys like wolf or uemura is such a dumb move

You can tell how little SHO cares in the ring when he's with his group vs teaming with CMLL guys

why does shingo look so sad?

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this tour sucks

GRIMtasticamania

they should sign this soberano guy to a deal

sex with soberano

Match 5 of 6 and the show finally starts

this rudo (?) team is kino

I thought this dude unmasked. Someone rip that shit off him.

Great match

Magnus deserves to be Black Tiger, too bad his rival will end up being Shoma Kato lol

mistico in 43 years old moving almost as much as dorada

Misticowinslol

Last 2 matches made this mediocre New Japan show worth it

Okumura please translate

okumura please translate

https://x.com/njpw1972/status/2026254945637609620
>Desperado: "This wraps up my 'FANTASTICA MANIA' for this year. I'm heading off to America, you know. The dream that Místico talked about. When Hiromu Takahashi was leaving, he found his dream and went over there. (Omitted in the middle...) I've got a ton of stuff I wanna do too. But me, I'm gonna keep doing it right here in New Japan."
At least we got him

>>19950394
love our handsome, masochistic masked wrestler

>>19950679
>frat bro
Based on fucking what?

>>19950355
well since Shoma is gonna be the next tiger (mask X?) he gets to be an honorary black by proxy masked or not. and not meming have heard insider spec about it, that is Kato dont know bout Mag

>>19950679
>>19951181
was gonna say top right is veeerrryyy generous and saying frat bro is an upgraded compliment is already not a flattering to our bumbling subject;
the interaction between all his personas and how they both inexplicably somehow cover up the geekdom while it yet seeps into every facet should be studied {not to be replicated but for the safety of humanity so no one else can suffer from the state of this again}

Nu Grimpan looking extra grim these days

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>>19950013
Which one did you like the most? I can rec more if you want 'em

>>19951795
Kino

>>19951795
Yeah more would be sweet thanks. He's such a bastard in the best way. 6 think the Fujinami one, I thought Fuj was gonna get the big comeback

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>>19951806
Tenryu vs Riki Choshu 1993-01-04 - Bit sloppy with some major botches but they're shoot hitting each other and the crowd is molten hot. Total spectacle
Tenryu vs Inoki 1994-01-04
Tenryu vs Muto (c) 1999-03-05

I'll add some non-Nooj matches too

Tenryu vs Jumbo Tsuruta 1989-06-05 AJPW
Tenryu & Hansen vs Giant Baba & Rusher Kimura 1989-11-29 AJPW
Tenryu vs Hashimoto 1993-06-17 WAR
Tenryu vs Great Muta 1996-10-11 WAR
Tenryu vs Keiji Muto 2001-06-08 AJPW
Tenryu vs Satoshi Kojima 2002-07-17 AJPW

>>19950216
No poissy, no LIJ hombres

>>19951795
back when NJPW wasn't completely grim
now we have Yota Poojeet and Jade Lee shitting up the main events

>>19952796
It must be fun being a wrestler this tall. Too bad they won't treat him or Yuto seriously as singles guys

>>19951806
>the Fujinami one
the part where Fujinami locks in the dragon sleeper while his blood pours out onto Tenryu is so based

>>19951404
The grace period is over for new New Japan. Now their champion is an obedient cuck and every top heel in the country is the Joker.

https://youtu.be/8m_B05pmAVs
WHERE MY BROTHERS AT

>>19952796
The facial hair doing wonders

Bustah

>>19954831
quite salvaged despite the Tone demands and meddling and contract tampering and undermining and..... but seriously Nooj still has the touch and core feeling to get the job done. This Silver Era was finding its feet after the Tana Arc finale at kingdom and all the pieces are in place now to have the continued great wrestling begin to mesh with the new elite story that takes off from the cup tourney.

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>>19954831
This poster is beautiful.

>>19952796
based colossal kraut

>>19954703
Jay White effect

>>19954831
This genuinely isnt a New Japan show and they should stop doing these until they're able to actually have one in the US.

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>>19952796

[Catastrophic News] Rocky Romero is back