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>>20337485

>~Wrestling Hizen no Kuni~
>IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match: DOUKI (c) vs. Tiger Mask

>WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026 (5/3)
>IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship Match: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Andrade El Idolo
>NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Ren Narita (c) vs. Oleg Boltin
>Aaron Wolf vs. Don Fale
>Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney, Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X & Daiki Nagai vs. Callum Newman, Jake Lee, Francesco Akira, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay
>Konosuke Takeshita & Shota Umino vs. Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi
>Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Will Ospreay, HENARE & Great-O-Khan
>Yuya Uemura, Taichi, El Desperado & Mistico vs. Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson, Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita
>Tomoaki Honma & Masatora Yasuda vs. OSKAR & Yuto-Ice
>Toru Yano, YOH & Master Wato vs. Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi & Taisei Nakahara

>WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026 (5/4)
>IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: Callum Newman (c) vs. Shingo Takagi
>NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Oleg Boltin (c) vs. Will Ospreay, HENARE & Great-O-Khan
>NJPW World Television Championship Match: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Chase Owens
>Yota Tsuji, Drilla Moloney, Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X vs. Jake Lee, Francesco Akira, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay
>Yuya Uemura & Taichi vs. Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson
>El Desperado & Mistico vs. Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita
>Aaron Wolf, Toru Yano, Tiger Mask, YOH & Master Wato vs. Ren Narita, Don Fale, DOUKI, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
>Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma vs. OSKAR & Yuto-Ice
>Ryusuke Taguchi & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Gedo & Daiki Nagai
>NJPW World Television Championship Match: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Chase Owens
>Masatora Yasuda vs. Taisei Nakahara

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****3/4

>>20337498
grim

Im scared theyre gonna have some shitter team show up and take the belts now that theyve beat Bishamon. Theres legit no one left.

>>20337641
Huh what you mean? There's still Chase and Yujiro

>>20337664
gedo pls theres no reason for this gedo gedo stop

>>20337641
What's that? Did you say Monster Sauce?

>>20337503
>2026: 2,053 (KOB vs Bishamon IWGP Tag, TMDK vs Unbound Co. IWGP Jr Tag)
>2025: 3,018 (Callum & GOK vs Bishamon IWGP Tag, Naito's last Hiroshima match w/Hiromu vs Taichi & Ishii)
>2024: 2,145 (War Dogs & Jake Lee vs LIJ, Uemura vs GOK KOPW title, Shane & Mikey vs ELP & Hikuleo STRONG Tag)
>2023: 1,614 (Hiromu vs Nobu IWGP Jr, Catch 2/2 vs Jetsetters IWGP Jr Tag)
>2022: 1,118 (Shingo vs Taichi KOPW, HoT vs GoD NEVER 6s)
>2021: 1,111 (Naito vs GOK, SANADA vs HENARE)

>>20337790
grim

>>20337313
Just because they do it all the time, doesn't make it any less shit.

>>20337485
Last thread >>20295528

>>20337829
I feel like that's something a lot of New Japan fans don't get. Whenever you bring up a criticism they always go "but it already happened before ! that's how Gedo always books ! look I'm a real fan because I know they did it before !!'. This is exactly why New Japan is failing, they have the same old tired shit booking formula except now the roster has literally no star and no competent wrestler to make it at least a tiny bit interesting.

>>20337485
>>20338096
>>20338087
what's with the not posting links to the new thread in the old one lately

>>20337641
Wyatt 6 are available

>>20338244
I know this is a joke but their was a report going around not too long ago that NJPW won’t even bring in foreigners who were willing to work for peanuts and exposure.

>>20338244
I'll kill you.

AND NEWWWWW IWGP HEBBYQ CHAMPION MARAKAIIIII BURAKUUUU

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I tried to warn you that Wrestle Kingdom was a dead cat bounce. We haven't even entered the nadir of the Callgirl Gayman era.

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>>20338644
grim

Eagle Man and Fajita are already calling out the Motor City Machine Guns.
https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/386032

>>20338837
Too expensive

I think MCMG should beat KOB. I think every NJPW title should be held by average height slightly effeminate white men.

>>20338266
tbf I can see why they don't want to, they had Ziggler and Riddle show up once and never commit to return

>>20338887
Well the other option is every title being held by below average height slightly effeminate japanese men

>>20338944
The effeminate japs are extremely homosexual coded but at least they have personalities

>>20338964
Yeah...that still doesn't make them good

>>20338244
They can go to JCW.

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>prease understand we need more white piggu champions desu

>>20339656
Can't have this fat nigga running my company. Bring back President EVIL!

>>20339032
Depends on the context

Holy fuck, just buy this shit Tony and put it out of its misery

>>20338878
>indomitable lion
This his new nickname?

>>20338266
We already have JAY and Robbie X filling that quota

I think the worse aspect of current NJPW and its roster being shit is that they're way too deep in their current "in-house" style, and they'd never bring in anyone who doesn't "mesh well" or whatever. That, and bushiroad being cheap motherfuckers.
Like, ZSJ had a great match with Fuminori Abe on that Despy special show. You think they're ever going to book him again, to at least spice the midcard scene up a little? Hell no.

>>20340080
Abe is rumoured to come in at some point, it's not coincidence he matched up with ZSJ and TMDK

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I could never doompost about NJPW with my BROTHERS carrying this hard. God they're so fucking good bros

>>20339032
>>20338964
Yoh can be a based little fruit when he wants to be

>>20340710
The only two guys in wrestling worth a shit right now

>>20341270
Me when I hit my head and forget about Oiwa

>>20341318
Don't get me wrong there are a few other guys I like and Oiwa is one of them but he's not at the level of KOB yet. If I was Tana I'd have Ice kill Newman for the belt.

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>inexplicably fails upward everywhere he goes

>>20341318
>>20341343
Of all the guys who could benefit from being just a smidge taller it's Oiwa, he's just a tad short to really own his style and look

>>20341385
Kento has a GOAT case for giving this dude a career

>>20341318
Basically a job guy rn. When he starts actually winning then we can talk.

>>20342480
Wins/losses don't really matter to me, every match the dude has is incredible. Nobody quite wrestles like him right now when he should be the blueprint

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Desu love the ICESTER but commentary referring to his style as batibati is working me into a fucking shoot
It's like the new "calling anything that's stiff LE STRONG STYLE!!!!!!!!!!"

bomboclatticlatti

Naito seems to like OZAWA right now more than he ever liked Tsuji lol

>>20342615
Naito is a traitor, fuck him

>>20342615
Naito knew Tsuji is dimeless.

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>>20337485
>Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026
SUN 4/26 @ 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) KDDI Ishin Hall
In 30 minutes

>Main event: Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi, Yota Tsuji, Taiji Ishimori & Daiki Nagai) vs United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay)
>6th Match: Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf, Tiger Mask & Toru Yano vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Don Fale, DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
>5th Match: Yuya Uemura, Taichi, Master Wato & Masatora Yasuda vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson, Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita)
>4th Match: Goto Revolutionary Army (Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tatsuya Matsumoto) vs United Empire (HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Francesco Akira)
>3rd Match: Shota Umino, Ryusuke Taguchi & YOH vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi & SHO)
>2nd Match: Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs Knockout Bros. (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)
>1st match: Robbie X vs Taisei Nakahara

>>20337485
the inevitable KOB vs MCMG got me going BUMBACLAT

>>20342529
>batty batty style
Are they calling him a fag?

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>>20343615
I know this is bait, but bati-bati (or bachi-bachi) is the name for the wrestling style that developed in BattlARTS, which was influenced by shoot-style wrestling that predated it but also had a more direct influence from traditional pro-wrestling. Matches could only end by knockout or submission, so no pins. When NJPW commentary uses it to describe Yuto they usually omit the submission part and just generalizes it as "hard strikes lol" but that's completely ignoring the matwork which is incredibly integral to BattlARTS' identity and completely nonexistent in Yuto's work. Someone ACTUALLY working Bati-Bati today is Fuminori Abe, for example.

>>20343559
>2nd Match: Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs Knockout Bros. (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)
Why's Yano here?

Makabe and Ice in the ring together despite how washed Makabe is is like the 3rd most interesting thing on this tour

>>20343837
Seriously thought they were giving Geriatric Bash Heel a title shot

>>20343888
No one else is left, might as well

>>20342615
I'd like OZAWA as well if they paid me like Naito

>>20338897
both wanted to come back but they got uninvited/fired
big zig wanted to keep working nooj, but he went to AAA and won the belt and salvador had a melty over it, so they had to shitcan him
riddle is just a complete retard that did an unsanctioned defense of an NJPW title, can't have that

>>20344070
Neither were very good at the style desu, good riddance

>>20343559
>oh there’s a show today?
>it’s literally fucking nothing
can’t even muster up anything for oiwa with a filler card like this

They won't let tiger Mask pin anyone before a fucking title match so he gets to cut a promo after every fuck finish instead.

tana is at dream queendom

>>20344024
Ozawa's gimmick is zoomer naito. Not surprising he likes a guy that clearly loves him

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>>20344274
fat fuck went to watch a maki itoh match instead of supporting the boys

>100 things NJPW could learn from Stardom

>>20344952
What a fucking gay ass poofter and HG.

>>20345051
NJPW did the same thing that Stardom just did today and you hate it.
But to be fair Stardom has generally better storylines and joshi can sell shit while a lot of young guys in NJPW don't (Yuto is the exception)

>>20345111
>NJPW did the same thing that Stardom just did today and you hate it.
they put their world title on an average white shitter because they think gaijin shitters will draw a dime before going to the toybox fed ?

Yota Tsuji fucking sucks

Kurara could beat Newman in a shoot

>>20345111
they literally didn't.

>>20345131
i hate njpw doing that as well, but you'll have ton of people saying that's more "brave" to hard push a rookies like callum than trying to work better on the roster and showcase your younger talent in a better way

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>>20345131
Quite a few times, yeah

>Japanese
>Homegrown talent
>defeats the current biggest name in Japanese wrestling

Literally the opposite of NJPW booking

>>20345637
You described something closer to Yoshiki Inamura than anyone in New Japan in the last 6 years

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I would poach Senka and have her fighting the guys like Chyna

>>20345651
just have Starlight Kid do it

>>20345637
The point is to give a shot to a young talent, but Tsuji wasn't the well entralished ace of the company like Saya so the comparison fall flat just by that. Which is the biggest issue with NJPW, nor Tsuji or the brit are interesting.

Suddenly being young is the only important thing, after years of "trust the process".

>>20346471
Probably because Gedo was too much of a pussy to push the young guys earlier on instead of after those two traitorous fags Okada and Naito left

Naito put over one of the young guys (GOK) but NJPW never saw him as a big player, their fault. Other than that Naito beat Tsuji, Shota, Kidd and Callum multiple times. I trust Naito's judgment, he didn't see the other shitters as ready to make money. GOK is the one.

>>20346471
The problem in "trust the process" is the fact that not even NJPW bookers (geno, yano, tana or any suit) in the last years trust the process, and it shows in the way they are booking their young guys. People can't get behind them if they don't have enough opportunities.
The problem is not "young guys" but to create the right story in the right moment.

>>20346770
They get ple ty of opportunities now, the problem is all they do is choke.

>>20346575
O-khan has already proven that he cannot consistently perform at a high enough level and his G1 34 run was a fluke, so perhaps Naito's blindness got to him there.

>Trust the process
and the process is 9 months of DOUKI with a dead division

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>>20347890
Another case of Gedo being too pussy to pull the trigger before it's too late

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The Pokemon thread made me think of this but by the time I put it together the thread was deleted.

>>20348175
Is this supposed to be KOB? lmao

none of this would be happening if we had takeshita full time

>>20348525
We definitely could if Bushiroad weren't such cheap jews

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>>20345054

SHO shitting on Hiroshima went viral in japan https://x.com/carp_terry1/status/2048232672686915738

>>20350204
Why is wolf such a fat fuck?

>>20350227
For real. He used to look like a tough fat guy a few months ago and now he just looks like a disgusting freak that was let in from the crowds

Yota is right

>>20350227
isn't he half american

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>'If you aren't hot about the whole situation, you shouldn't have a title in NJPW'

>Yota Tsuji is never going to be anything less than opinionated- check out the interview!

>njpw1972.com/642095

>#njpw #njdontaku

https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/2048756551347847670

>>20350303
>He used to look like a tough fat guy a few months ago
No he didnt. Only thing that's changed is more hair

with tits like this, Wolf should consider doing JAV

Wolf is just setting up for his ugly bastard gimmick where he makes the fujos cry

>Tsuji hating AEW

every day

>>20350986
>“I don't like AEW, and I think the biggest problem I have with them is that we aren't seen to be on an even footing. It's a real problem if people think of NJPW as a subsidiary of AEW. It's a problem when NJPW is subservient to them. I was happy [Andrade] came to wrestle on an NJPW show.

>Now if we're fair, even partners, then I'll be really happy with our relationship, but not if we're being used to produce talent for them to take. And like Taichi said, if NJPW rolls over and says to guys that leave '0h please, the door's open anytime, sign with AEW and then wrestle for us when you're free' then of course more guys are going to go, because the money's better. It's that simple.”

>>20351084
All I can think when I read this is a 5ch shitposter

>>20350986
>>20351172
>>20351237
Like he won't fuck off to WWE the first chance he gets, like the Fed drone mark he is. Those backstage photos ruined his company man gimmick forever

>>20351846
IDC about his preference but he keeps repeating the same script for a while and it's utterly boring.

>>20351846
worked tranny actually getting mad at this lol

he might go there if nujamal doesnt stop be subservient

>>20351237
He's not wrong, but i think it would be better for NJPW and its talent to just not knowledge AEW now. Its just getting depressing and making NJPW look like a feeder promotion

If you leave, you fucking leave.
Wrestlers should never be above promotions.

I hate Ren Narita more than I hate AEW.

>>20352185
>takeshita
>ospreay
>Andrade
>Gabe
Kind of hard to not acknowledge them when they're omnipresent

>>20355751
I love how Shota stopped complaining about Takeshita not being on the smaller shows and is now building up Takeshita's title defense on the tournament for him with no complaints.

>>20355817
tour*

>>20351846
WWE wouldn't want his bum ass, what's the sales pitch to them? "imagine shinsuke with none of the charisma but he thinks that he's carmen sandiego"

>>20355817
I love how you just make shit up and expect people to believe you, fuck you you fucking whore

>>20357179
So nice of Makabe to spend some time with his son

13 hours until Mistico saves the Dontaku tour

>>20357837
The only good thing that happened this year post WK

>>20359410
Naw NYD was great, KOB are great, every interaction between Oiwa/Yuto has been great

>>20359428
Fantasticamania was great too forgot to say

>>20359410
Stick to wwe and gayew you massive faggot

should new japan also use ai to write its storylines?

When are they giving the actual match schedule for BOSJ? What's taking so long?

EVIL just showed up in NXT

>>20361328
you mean Devious

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>>20361328
Im happy for my president

Humiliaton Ritual, as expected.

>nxtiny
oh no no no ahahahahahahahaha

>>20362201
>gets paid more than 90% of the New Japan roster

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>>20362201
>nerfs himself for an easy check with less travel

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>the start of EVIL's fed entrance song

cant believe they ching chong bing bonged his entrance, everyone joked about it here but I cant believe they actually did it! he will be doing INDEED promos next week lmao

OH MY GOD IT'S...IT'S KAWASAKI !!! LOOK HE'S THROWING RICE TO THE FANS !!!! DID YOU KNOW HE IS FROM JAPAN ???

what a bizarre timeline

Hiromu's WWE theme just leaked
https://youtu.be/kw9Z9ZSEHQQ?si=TRqN8yqg7OItKvWJ

>>20362471
Should've just played the Orient Express theme like they did for Morishima

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>>20337485
>>~Wrestling Hizen no Kuni~
>WED 4/29 @ 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) SAGA ARENA
Starts in 2 hours

>Main event: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Lumberjack Match- Tiger Mask vs DOUKI
>6th Match: Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi, Yota Tsuji, Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X) vs United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee, Francesco Akira & Zane Jay)
>5th Match: Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf & Mistico vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Don Fale & Dick Togo)
>4th Match: Goto Revolutionary Army (Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tatsuya Matsumoto) vs United Empire (HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young)
>3rd Match: Yuya Uemura, Taichi, Ryusuke Taguchi & Masatora Yasuda vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson, Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita)
>2nd Match: Toru Yano & Tomoaki Honma vs Knockout Bros. (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)
>1st Match: Shota Umino, YOH, Master Wato & Taisei Nakahara vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)

>>20363505
>main event
this is a rare case nowadays of a HoT match sounding so bad I'm curious to watch it

Tiger Mask wins thanks to Mistico

I like how they waited this long to realize calling 1 singular guy "The Tokyo Pimps" sounded dumb

no sho country bumpkin promo, yujiro is still tokyo pimp singular, and dookie is main eventing
this show is off to a bad start

thats right get his ass honma

They dared go to this building with Tiger Mask vs DOUKI

>AEW on the jacket
grim
>Wolf just slowly walking behind him
Ooof

what a fall from grace for wolf

>>20363995
>having a rise and fall from grace before even properly graduating
brutal

kek that was quick

Based Mistico

Zane Jay's voice is anti dimes

Tsuji and Jake in the same G1 block is gonna piss me off so bad

>>20363847
True it's been a boring ass show

GO GO TIGER
GO GO TIGER

They expecting us to think Tiger Mask actually has a chance here?

DOUKI's background ass music

Tag titles dont get ring intros???

These babyfaces suuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

is sho on commentary too or is that just yoh?

wtf

>>20364132
Boltin and Wolf should be manhandling multiple HoT guys themselves instead of everything being even as always

So Tana yelled to get rid of HoT, said nothing about SHO who popped up 30 seconds later, and DOUKI just blatantly kicks the ref

These niggas ruined jr tag league with this black mirror shtick and they are still getting away with this

Tanahashi is incompetent

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What was the point of breaking every single faction to bolster Hontai and still book them all like retarded geeks?

>>20364161
retardedgeek fed

>1,058人

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>>20364146

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Hey remember when House of Torture refused to defend the NEVER 6 Man belts one time and the company threatened to strip them of the titles if they didn't? Well DOUKI can just do this.

Just have Mistico purge HOT.

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EBERYTING
IS
EBIRU

So a free spot on BOSJ, right? Or someone else was picked?
Anyway reading comments seems like not everyone is happy with the choice of Douki not participating/today show.
>I still think DOUKI's injury won't fully heal. It seems like he's just trying to create a character where he can continue even without being fully recovered...
>Considering the disappointing performance, I think it would be better if he didn't participate.
>Stardom has been genuinely more interesting for a while now. I wonder if DOUKI is sleeping with someone from the management? Also, Torture should take a cue from HATE.
>DOUKI has no stamina, his moves are weak, and he's not cut out to be a top wrestler. He doesn't win based on individual skill and is unremarkable. If New Japan continues like this, they'll lose fans. A fake champion.

I'm still mad they turned my babyface shampoo hero Douki into a heel without any build or even reasonable angle. Makes me want to say a 4 letter word, but I won't... I'm better than that...

>>20364433
JC Watanabe

>>20364472
>Stardom has been genuinely more interesting for a while now. I wonder if DOUKI is sleeping with someone from the management?


KEK

Tam didn't want big shampoo money going to anybody but her girls so she made the call

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>I love Ishii-san's pro wrestling and respect him so much—
>he's the object of my admiration.
>Every single day, watching matches, I thought to myself, "I want to become a pro wrestler like this someday..."
>and the only one I ever felt that way about was Ishii-san.
>Even when my heart felt like it was about to break, watching Ishii-san's matches allowed me to stand back up again and again.

>And the dream of standing in the same ring
>was finally granted to me at the very last moment.
>From here on out, he'll always be the object of my admiration.
>Tomohiro Ishii, thank you so much.

https://x.com/kashima_saki555/status/2049473974812512736

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>>20364662
>And then, amazingly, as he was leaving, he casually gifted me the GUCCI sunglasses he had been wearing,
>and when I went to the waiting room to say hello, he even gave me a gift along with the words, "Thank you for your hard work during your active career."
>He was truly a man of utmost "manliness" through and through, Ishii-san, and I was overwhelmed with emotion.

https://x.com/kashima_saki555/status/2049476966441779494

>>20364566
I can't stand a lot of their bullshit but Taro Okada somehow accomplishes the shit you'd expect a 26-year veteran has been failing nail for the last 2 years

>>20364966
I unironically would give the book to him

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>Nox Raijin

Nox Raijin > Callum Newman

NJPW needs a fresh roster ASAP
Bushiroad need to stop being such cheap jews and do a hiring storm, sign everyone that you can
Specially juniors, jesus christ, I'm tired of DOUKI and Gedo/Tanahashi/Yano clearly don't think Fujita is ready yet because it's obvious the one to beat DOUKI will be Desperado AGAIN

>>20365655
They don't have the cash to do a full overhaul plus they're afraid they'll just get raided by Khan if they do anyway. Stuck.

>>20365655
I think the roster is fine enough except for the Jrs (Tony and Paul should poach them more and heavies less) but the booking makes even somewhat interesting things dry.

They could use CMLL guys

They could use someone good as IWGP heavyweight champion

>>20365750
>>20365957
IWGP Heavyweight Champion Mistico

>>20366002
If Wagner Jr.'s Jr. can be GHC champ I don't see why not
>>20365957
Either way Gedo is a fucking retard because the Tsuji experiment failed one time and he panicked and already went for the generic white guy card

Sigh... Callum is champion because he's going to work AEW during BOSJ, how is that hard to understand?

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>spends 2 years in NJPW
>beats all your top guys and becomes world champion out of nowhere

>>20364302
Cool, I won’t have to watch any of his shit matches.

Dick Togo should be Dookie's proxy in the tournament desu

is YAMATO busy next month? Would love to see him in BOSJ

>>20366278
>Fale wearing a DOUKI mask
book it Gedo

>FREE on YouTube!

>Watch the latest #njpwAcademy Showcase, featuring Johnnie Robbie, Steven Borden, and the fast growing future stars of the Academy in action!

>youtu.be/ObiaRPte7V4

https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/2049632322279072109

>>20366147
I think bad timing stopped Finlay from getting the belt and if he did get it and stayed the Callum rise would have been delayed

It's so funny thinking about how this company cares more about setting up Forbidden Door matches than they do matches for Dominion on national TV.

>>20368091
what are the matches being set up for forbidden door?

>>20364302
https://www.njpw1972.com/643621
>Thank you for supporting New Japan Pro-Wrestling.

>After the main event of Hizen no Kuni on April 29, DOUKI announced that he would not be competing for the remainder of the Dontaku series.

>Yujiro Takahashi will replace DOUKI on remaining events on the Road to Dontaku, and on Dontaku day two May 4.

>New Japan Pro-Wrestling deeply apologises to fans for DOUKI's absence.

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>buries his entire division, himself and the company for a cheap, overdue payoff on a big show that won't boost business or interest one iota
Is he taking booking notes from Triple H?

The absolute state of this roster, they really had to scrap from the bottom for Fantástica Manía México.

So DOUKI is injured it seems, the justification for all of this and missing the BOSJ without penalty is weak though. Still, I don't want to watch DOUKI matches so this is fine even if he is holding the title hostage still.

I wonder why nobody from the new generation, except Tsuji, interacts with CMLL.
There must be something there.

https://x.com/CMLL_OFICIAL/status/2049694261231178087

>>20369824
even after last announcement is what everyone is saying. IDK instead of giving a lame main event and upsetting fans, couldn't he vacate the belt if his condition make him hard to wrestle

>>20369314
>>20369849
Fantasticamania Mexico has always been lowballed unfortunately

>>20369913
you will think Shota and co will be dying to get some international presence instead of doing literally nothing.
Just look at Kato already surpassing them

Pretending cmll is good or gives you any sort of boost compared to njpw is a new low

Yeah, CMLL wrestlers have zero demand compared to NJPW Japanese wrestlers.
They are everywhere

Njpw wrestlers not wasting themselves on shitty low rent indies is a good thing you dumbass tranny

FUCK YOU
NJPW is better than ever.

>>20370155
No but it still has somehow remained easily the best promotion in the world every year

>>20369849
I was shocked by the complete lack of participation from Uemura & Shota for Fantasticamania. Even SHO worked the whole tour and had working boots on.

Shota & Takeshita are the next IWGP tag team champions

is not even about CMLL, is about putting your name out there.

>>20370239
Ew

>>20370275
What the fuck does that even mean? Why do guys in the #3 promotion need to put their "name out there" you retarded esl. Unless you're a tranny that wants more toys for aew

>>20370226
Please Gedo, just let Wolf judo throw Fat Luck Fale onto Ren and then do the G1

>>20370434
What? You said you want Fale to beat Wolf in a G1 qualifier so he can draw some heat? On it!

NJPW is not the 3rd promotion in the world, by any metric

https://youtu.be/LAUX6Xnr9hw?si=r47FfWNBs2CGN_XW&t=437
Hilarious thumbnail choice for Fujita burying Wato 20 feet deep (he's right).

>>20370536
i love my japanese young punk husband

>>20370536
good speech

>>20370533
Who is then? And by what metrics?

>>20370745
It's WWE > AEW > CMLL > TNA > NJPW

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>>20371065
need this little nigga to never touch a title again

>>20371072
Explain in detail how a promotion of flippy shitters in a shithole country and loltna are in any way bigger than njpw

>>20371072
Low effort ragebait.

>>20371164
CMLL is like 10 bigger on attendance numbers only.
Not even considering structure, quality or momentum.

Is a battle (you) can't ever win.

>>20371683
Attendance doesn't matter when the tickets are so cheap and the currency is shit. What quality or momentum?

>>20371164
attendance? tv deal? popularity outside japan?

>>20371589
It's not "ragebait" because you disagree with me dumbass

>>20371072
>TNA
yeah nah i'm done with you retards, see ya next thread

>>20371746
I agree, its so low effort it barely qualifies.

>>20371780
TNA pays former WWE talent more than any NJPW contract

Noojapoolets really think they're still relevant huh?

>>20371730
Japanese currency is dogshit too

>Will Ospreay calls YOSHI-HASHI the greatest member of CHAOS:

>“I’ll say this to the day I die- YOSHI-HASHI was the greatest member of CHAOS.

>He was so kind, I loved him. I always hoped he would do well, and he became one of the best tag wrestlers of all time.”

He says he'll do his best.

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>no korean flag

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NJPW is NXT Japan CONFIRMED by Will Ospreay who SHOOTS HARD in a new interview

>>20374866
Shingo threatened to quit if that flag was added.

>>20374878
AEW Japan you mean

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[Great News] Shota is taking his talents to Stardom

see, literally confirming why NJPW should work more with CMLL instead

>>20374915
Yeah but not for your dumbass reasons

>>20374943
One would elevate your brand, the other just wants to cannibalize you.
Exactly my point, but enjoy Ospreay vs Callum in a future Dynamite.

>>20374914
The pink hair that made him look like Hana works much better than whatever this is

>>20374966
OK continue being a retard and thinking that working with a smaller company will somehow elevate njpw. What the fuck is it that you even want exactly? Does cmll have any actual good wrestlers?

>>20375236
Does NJPW?

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>>20346471
>>20346770
>>20347890
It's not about being young or the process

What they need to embrace in their booking is the actual hot feuds they have going, and that means more Oiwa, because Oiwa is capable of generating dimes feuds with people way more than anyone else. He's got the feud with Uemura and the feud with Ice and both are really hot feuds that come across as high-stakes and very filled with emotion and dislike.
Build great feuds and rivalries and push people around those. There's a real opportunity to use Oiwa like Choshu used to be used, as a real violent, roughouser that is kind of a tweener but generates great vitriol and feuds from other wrestlers (like Choshu/Hashimoto, Choshu/Tenryu)

>>20375244
Yes. Now will you ever answer a question honestly?

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Ending this stupid discussion unilaterally

grim

>Oiwa is capable of generating dimes feuds
PFFFFFFT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA noojapoolets really are fucking delusional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAxKOLQ3JUE

I will NOT any support CMLL slander
NJPW and CMLL are BROTHERS and have been for longer than many of you have been using the internet

>>20375638
it's not slander it's just some retard who still think it's the 2010s and the new japan is relevant worldwide

>>20375662
No just still better and more relevant worldwide than cmll and fucking tna. You still haven't said what it is you want you dumbfuck esl

>>20375548
guys who can generate hot feuds are rare and priceless in japanese wrestling

sorry if you don't understand puro faggorino

>April 2026 Attendance rankings by organization
1st: New Japan Pro-Wrestling: 15,968 people
2nd: Stardom: 13,822 people

Uh oh

>>20376294
I'm surprised women's wrestling isn't already more popular than men's wrestling in Japan

it's a country of lonely sexless gooners after all, way more of them than fujos

>>20376332
3dpd, brother

>>20376294
even the biggest Nujapoos can't tell me this shit is not GRIM

>>20376426
call me when your roodypoo favorite lil guppie company sells out the Dome kid

>>20375698
you don't live in the real world

Happy for Daiki for getting that BOSJ spot, I hope to see him there wearing a gear instead of the young lion panties.

>>20376494
Nah you don't dumbfuck esl. Nobody watches cmll aside from the same poor beaners in attendance every week and that retard meltzer

why the fuck is that guy so hellbent in shitting on CMLL topkek

I call him Konnan.

>>20376738
Being honest about its quality and place in the wrestling industry is not shitting on cmll

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Pooya Gooeymura
Yota Pooji
Shitter Poomino
Poopoo-Ice
Ryohei Pooiwa
Great-Poo-Caca
Ren Naripoo
DOOKIE
Caca Pooman
Shitgo Cacagi
ELPoo
El Despoorado

>>20374914
kojima kinda cute
>>20375462
never noticed taichi had that on the inside of his coat

>>20376332
Well
A. They're women. Both genders have their reasons to not care for it
B. Only one promotion had widespread TV coverage and it crashed and burned before the new millennium started
C. Most of the wrestlers today are half-trained where the standards are made up and the execution doesn't matter

>>20375301
>Tenryu/Choshu in the webm
>spitting pure facts
This guy is my nigga

>>20377037
factual post

>>20377037
Enough with the scat fetish, YOH.

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https://www.njpw1972.com/642102
The Best of The Super Jr schedule has been released. The link gives details to the format and the main events and semi-mains of each show. Due to scheduling conflicts, Kasai is missing opening night, 29th & 30th while Hyo will miss the Hachioji show. Those dates will be made up for on opposite block days ala Takeshita missing day 2 of the G1 2 years ago.

>Night 1: Thursday May 14 – KORAKUEN HALL: Dual block. Akira vs Fujita, Despe vs Sasaki
>Night 2: Saturday May 16 – ESFORTA ARENA HACHIOJI: Dual block. Despe vs Ishimori, Fujita vs Nick Wayne
>Night 3: Sunday May 17 – Yoyogi National Gymnasium (2nd Gymnasium): Despe vs Eagles, Fujita vs Kasai
>Night 4: Wednesday May 20 – KORAKUEN HALL: X vs Fujita, YOH vs SHO
>Night 5: Friday May 22 – OSAKA (Asue Arena Sub Arena): A block. Fujita vs Wato, X vs Kasai
>Night 6: Saturday May 23 – HIMEJI: B block. YOH vs Eagles, Despy vs SHO
>Night 7: Sunday May 24 – KYOTO (KBS Hall): A block. Kasai vs Nick Wayne, Titan vs X
>Night 8: Wednesday May 27 – NUMAZU: B block w/A block main event. Kasai vs Akira, Ishimori vs Eagles
>Night 9: Friday May 29 – TSUBAME: A block. Valiente vs Fujita, Nick Wayne vs Titan
>Night 10: Saturday May 30 – TOYAMA: B block. Ishimori vs SHO, Despe vs KUSHIDA
>Night 11: Tuesday June 2 – KORAKUEN HALL: Dual block. Despe vs YOH, Titan vs Fujita
>Night 12: Wednesday June 3 – KORAKUEN HALL: Dual block, Block Finals. Notable matches: Nagai vs Fujita, KUSHIDA vs Ishimori, Despe vs Kanemaru, Sasaki vs YOH
>Night 13: Friday June 5 – G MESSE GUNMA: Playoff stage
>Night 14: Sunday June 7 – OTA CITY GENERAL GYMNASIUM: The Final.

>ONE (1) main event for Wato
KWAB

KUSHIDA is based

>>20380466
The DOUKI shit is fucking retarded but at least we got Nagai in the tournament

if the final is Desperado vs Kushida I'm cutting my veins

>>20380769
Theyre in the same block and it's KUSHIDA in 2026. Why would that be the final?

>>20371164
he didn't mention dragon gate though

at least we are not fucking NOAH

>>20381110
...what did they do now?

UH UH
I'M NICK WAYNE

>>20380769
>>20380820
Yeah but you should still cut your veins

>>20381151
nothing he's just seething because they have naito

>>20381151
I watched after a long time, and they are basically WWE now.
With the camera cuts and all

>>20381230
Lmfao

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NOAH last year without Naito: 4,521
NOAH this year with Naito: 4,539
He brought 18 fans.
Yappari, Naitetty is not a draw anymore.

>>20381564
and thank god he wasn't main event because holy shit

but happened the same thing to last big stardom show, the numbers for attendance in comparison to lat year wasn't much of a difference

>>20381230
having 2026 naito is nothing to brag about homie

>>20381564
>>20381728
Naito is a good 5 years past his expiration date, probably more.

Hell, he was almost entirely sawdusted when he got the Ingobernables gimmick in the first place and had maybe 3-4 years before his body started to entirely give out on him.
I love the guy and he is clearly beloved but nobody wants to see their former hero be unable to do his finishing move in a wrestling ring.

He's got one more big draw in him, a retirement show, and that's about it. He won't move the needle a bit otherwise.

>caca pooman as iwgp champion
>shane haste as ghc champion
the absolute state of "japanese" professional wrestling

>>20381863
I can understand how a lot of wrestlers can't let it go when their body can't keep it up, considered how many (noticed mostly from big companies, like njpw) don't have anything planned on the side.
But to me companie and fans play a big role in this. Which is why I wasn't much bothered about Higuchi from DDT leaving right now than getting crippled.

>>20381937
What a shame about Higuchi though, loved that guy and kept waiting for him to go to NJPW and make at least a little bit of money before retiring. alas.

niggas be like "we don't need Naito we got Drillher Baloney"

>>20381961
Naito being broken down and no longer a draw has nothing to do with anyone but him. Also it's not that 'we don't want Naito,' would love to have him for a big retirement show for example, but do I want him involved in the cards every show for the next 2-3 years? Nah you can legit have him for that lol