g-word

>>20410031
You mean all that dumb booking that saw Tsuji get his ass beat only to fall backwards into another title shot in the most uninteresting way

>>20410031
Jakeley will never not suck

>>20410052
Why so serious?

>>20410031
Jakehausen

I really wish they had just waited to do KOB vs Bishamon for Dominion.

>757人

This shit is boring. Not even grim or anything else.

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>>20410107
grim desu

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wolf aaron got stuck scrambling down a steep hill and had to get the rescue rope

>>20410237
Why is the one guy Bushiroad is banking on to turn things around risking a knee blow out by scrambling around a steep slippery hill?

>>20410282
when they showed that video with some of the former champions before the match I gotta admit I thought "wow, things got so much worse"

Found an interesting take while trying to get how japanese NJPW fags felt about last show.
Any thoughts on this?
>Guys like Sanada, Taichi, Fale, Taguchi, Yoshi-Hashi, Yujiro, Yoh, Togo, Wato, and Chase would have been fired long ago under the WWE system—just like Jeff Cobb was. By keeping them on the payroll, the company is draining resources that could be used to prevent star talent from leaving for better pay elsewhere. The result is a flood of lethargic 4-on-4 or 5-on-5 matches featuring unpopular wrestlers. Even at big events like Dontaku, you’ve got 22 guys jammed into the 4th, 5th, and 6th matches, and they’re basically just going through the motions. That’s exactly why the regional tours lack any real appeal.
>Other promotions aren't even on the same scale as WWE; they’re just indies. New Japan is the only company that gets any real attention from the global market, but it's held back by an outdated, "Japanese-style" lifetime employment mindset that prevents the entire industry from evolving. If they don't start cutting loose the wrestlers who fail to deliver results—and using that saved money to foster competition among top-tier domestic young talent (like Ozawa, Shun, Ueno, or Anzai)—they’re going to end up a relic. If they keep stuffing the Tokyo Dome cards with unpopular, protected veterans like Yano, the promotion is finished.

>>20410337
Cobb really isn't a good example seeing how little he was actually utilized in-ring in WWE. Also
>Taichi, Yoshi-Hashi, Yoh, Togo, Wato
what is this nigga's problem?

>>20410237
Poor guy

>>20410450
You know how japanese are sometimes. Worse than us about not liking x guy for the stupidest reason.

But I don't agree on everything he said but I do get what he means about regional tours lacking appeal and how NJPW should foster domestic talent, mentioning guys outside NJPW

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>>20410337
>Taichi
JAPANON, WE COMIN FO YOU NIGGA

>>20410337
This guy failed to bring up the dads who are the most glaring example of this while naming some great, steady hands you always like to have around long term in any company. Imagine fresh faces tuning in and watching people sell for Honma these days, that's the real killer.

>>20410337
he is right in a way but some of the names he brings up make it a kinda retarded take
SANADA, Taichi, YOH, Yoshi-Hashi and even Wato can still deliver. They absolutely should get rid of the old dads and guys like Honma who is a wifebeating piece of shit and is a useless crippled dude anyway.

They should book a mega retirement show for Tenzan, Makabe, Honma and Nagata

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>>20410304
he's on an outdoorsy TV show with stardom's fuwachan

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>>20410337
I've been saying this for years.

If NJPW really wants to be the Japan number 1 company, the only "major league," then it needs to start aggressively poaching and going after the Japanese minor leagues the same way Inoki used to, and yeah, cut out the "forever grandpa" shit because let's be honest, Kojima and co aren't exactly drawing dimes anymore.

Would NJPW not be better off if it had Anzai, OZAWA, Ueno, etc? Of course it would. And there is less to worry about losing guys like that to AEW.
Their "nice guy business strategy" serves nothing but the outdated Japanese sense of personal honor.

I watch only for KOB, Jake, Taichi and Sanada.

>>20410337
I don't disagree with the core of his complaint and I agree that guys like Sanada, Fale and Yujiro add absolutely fucking nothing to New Japan in 2026, but I have a hard time thinking of almost anybody on the roster that "going through the motions" applies to less than Taichi and Yoshi-Hashi. Those guys are always giving max effort.

>>20410282
they also had that sumo champ hold it for like a month back in the early 00s, Tadao Yasuda was the guy
also Bob Sapp for some reason, a guy with 27 knockout losses in his MMA record, but he was really popular on TV o algo

>>20410337
Sanada, Taichi and /myguy/ Tacos are all based

>>20410733
The only flaw in the plan of getting fresh blood, even of people who are not young but are talented and high praised, is the fact minor promotions over the years build up a strong loayalty
while NJPW was working on his own guys.
As matter of fact the only promotion mentioned there, only DDT is on friendly terms (both officially and backstage) while NOAH has his own things going on, both outside (WWE) and inside while AJPW is isolating (or getting isolated, depend how you see things).
Can't speak on the state of DG because eI don't know much but I think things are fine?

>>20411059
But just look at sports across the world -- it's not just small, lovable losers and underdogs that build loyal followings. The New York Yankees, the Lakers, Real Madrid, etc, the big dog in the yard can also create a following that is just as loyal particularly if a high level of quality is maintained.

NJPW is already the leader in its market by a wide margin. Take advantage of that shit instead of trying to do this United Japan Wrestling we're all pals stuff.

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JUST

>>20410282
Would it kill him to put one single muscle on?

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I'm afraid I don't care about New Japan enough to pretend them trying to go full monopoly on the rest of the scene is an overall good thing. Thank god they're broke and nobody likes the execs beside Tana.

>And there is less to worry about losing guys like that to AEW.
In what fucking world?

Crazy to think EVIL and Hiromu's most recognized legacy tot he world at large become whatever half baked shit NXT/WWE throws them into

>>20411182
not sure Tana is even that liked when you see some of the guys who knew him the most left the company when he was president. They probably respect him because ancient elder culture prease understand but it's not like this guy is making talents stay either. Actually might be the opposite I think more people left under Tana.

I'm sorry, but there's no reality where Poomino is the future of anything

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Shota will boldly march us into the future of our sacred sport.

Shota is now Takeshita's friend and therefore a friend of AEW. He's a good guy in my book.

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>>20411642

>>20411182
>And there is less to worry about losing guys like that to AEW.
Guys who are native to Japan and do not speak good English are much more likely to stay than gaijin talent borrowed from the indies, or even grown in the NJPW dojo. Do you dispute this or something? Surely not

Yota Tsuji fucking sucks.

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>>20410031
*smooch*

>>20410237
Kwab

shota umino fucking sucks

>>20412166
vintage grim schizo, love to see it!

>Shota: why isnt this AEW guy working tours as a champion god I hate AEW
>BFFs with Takeshita after ONE (1) tag match and invites him to Hontai

>Tsuji: I fucking hate AEW so much bro I will kill any AEW guy thay shows up here
>gets beaten to death by AEW guy

Ryohei Oiwa and Yuya Uemura have never won a singles belt while "Callum Newman" is world champion

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>>20412201
Based Big Tone!

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>>20412206
trannyhashi cries for waito kokku prease understand

I’m not watching until the title is off this pudgy, baby-face looking geek. I can take it seriously at all. Dude looks ridiculous.

>>20410500
This cannot be understated. The Japanese really do have mind boggling stupid reasons for not liking things.

>>20412253
Like the little drama about Honma putting too much ginger in his gyudon. But I'd say that like here we are our brand of retards, it's the same on 5ch
On twitter there is still that NJPW dude who got called out by OZAWA in one of his video because he was a rabid hater (pretty much on anything, at that time was about Takeshita afaik)

>>20412201
Didn't Shota say that "he's not his friend" in the backstage promo?? Still, to me Takeshita joining Hontai is SO stupid like giving him that belt as excuse to book him time to time, when this kind of match format is not suited to him.

But the Hontai thing is even more nonsense when never tagged with his former stablemates in DDT and tagged with the heel faction once kek (don't think that Sakuya Konohana tag w/ Ueno counts because it exist before Sauna Kamiina)

NJPW needs to hire like 20 wrestlers, then you can use the veterans and low carders on their ideal roles.

Small roster is the main problem to fox.

>>20412474
*Fix

>>20412474
yeah this
theres a reason why Chase Owens is a 3 time IWGP Tag Team Champion

>>20412783
Yeah, he actually thought that Gabe was honest when he said all that "SHIN NIHON ICHIBAN" shit. What an idiot.

Flip Gordon is in CMLL but he never goes to AEW and he never comes back to NJPW. Was he MeToo'd or something at one point or he had a bad falling out with everybody or what happened there?

>>20412474
with what money?

>>20413641
They have money, they're just being jewish about it

>>20413653
yappari, thank saya-san for drawing the entire bushiroad house

>>20413662
Japan is in recession, prease understand

https://www.njpw1972.com/645986
Boltin is out with a elbow injury.

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Our boy having fun in Mexico

Can someone explain to me what the FUCK is going on with Yota Tsujii? Is this Gedo booking Tsuji like Okada or is he been punished like everyone on twitter says?

>>20410698
Japanese Logan Paul and Japanese Kurt Angle got lost in the forest

>>20415839
the Tsuji card has been discarded

>>20415839
The War Dogs were leaving and they wanted a new top foreign heel and they had to separate those two belts, given Tsuji just pinned Callum and has a rematch now I don't see this as some humiliation ritual

This company is AEW's bitch.

MAKE WAY, MAKE WAY

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TAICHI NO

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This is it...

>>20416594
He must've gone crazy with the stem cells to randomly come in for lucha.

UWA legend and AAA legend.
Crazy that this is their Arena México debut.

I don't buy the conspiracy that Callum only won the belt to lose it at Dominion back to Tsuji on TV, because first of all that would be stupid, second of all they're clearly setting up a long angle between Callum and Ospreay that needs the belt

>>20417804
Stop posting this shit you faggot

>>20417918
Why would that be stupid? Njpw has done this shit many times. Why does Callum and ospreay need the belt? They shouldn't have a match longer than 20 mins at wk

>>20418027
It would be very bad, lazy booking to literally try and reset everything so you can have a repeat in real time of Wrestle Kingdom and expecting it to have the same effect when it's so artificial. Then again, you do have a point that modern New Japan has done some stupid shit

>>20417918
If anything the Newman and Ospreay needs to not have the belt involved. Because there's no way Ospreay is losing

>>20410031
It's Stink!

>>20418027
>>20418042
NJPW wants Ospreay as champ/contender.
Is that simple

>>20418036
Nothing at WK had any effect. What are you talking about? It's not even a repeat because take a shit a wasn't a heel

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>>20418060
>Ospreay will be the joint AEW World Champ and IWGP Heavyweight Champ
>The G1 wont involve the champ
>Tsuji, Yuya, Callum or Shota win the G1 to challenge Ospreay for the title at WK
>Ospreay loses the AEW title on a PPV before WK (the IWGP Heavyweight Championship isn't on the libe for some reason)
I can see this happening unfortunately

>>20418060
Yeah that's why they gave him the trios belts

https://x.com/i/status/2052213139983470798
OSKAR is so fucking brutal, man

>>20418104
they want him to make appearances, that's why using his family as leverage

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>>20415777
KEK

Leaving Japan must be amazing

>>20418139
one day OSKAR is going to pull an austin vs lance storm and bury a dude so deep he aint never coming back

>>20418139
kek

OSKAR is such a good promo bro, he says the same things as us!!!

>>20417112
Hot af

>>20417918
They are retarded but absolutely not retarded enough to have a gaijin vs gaijin match main event WK, it'll be Tsuji for sure vs hopefully a G1 winner Uemura. Newman vs Ospreay works perfectly fine as the second or third last match with no titles on the line since they're building up the story behind it already.

Still weird to bring back people that decided to leave this easily.

>>20418776
Oba will go to prison for beating his wife he wont last long.

>>20418776
I only know of Oba through brief clips and this board's irrationality but I don't see an avenue where this would be true. In ring Callum will likely be fucked up from his Ospreay style bumping way before Oba who works fewer dates and doesn't really need to do much but walk funny and hit a power move. Character work wise Oba has a much flashier presentation plus the WWE production machine behind him. Asahi shoots wrestling more to my tastes but you can't deny WWE has a way bigger and impressive production overall. I don't know Oba's promos, but since Callum has to cut promos himself he's probably stronger? Hard to say since he's never cut one that I remember.

>>20418776
lol no

The Callum/Ospreay stuff never needed the belt and their insistence that it does has fucked up Dominion and fucked up Tsuji

>>20418877
white piggu promotion prease understand

>>20418776
Oba Femi is 28, that's pretty young for wrestling but Callum is 23 years old. His age makes him a better prospect.

>>20418877
They needed to elevate Callum in kayfabe to have him come anywhere close to Ospreay's power level and the easiest/laziest way is to give him a short Jay White-esque title run (assuming Tsuji gets the win back at Dominion which seems very likely)

>>20418060
i'm honestly surprised that NJPW hasn't dual contracted ospreay yet
i guess he's enough of a mark to do a lot of NJPW dates without a contract so why give him one

>>20418877
pooji fucked up pooji

worst of the stupid jew nerds

>>20418770
Focus on your boat ride, Taichi

>>20418877
How did it fuck up Tsuji? God you're all such dramatic retards. They also had to get the global belt off him after they didn't just have him vacate it

>>20420457
>Yota "I hate AEW so much and also if I lose on my 2nd defense I'd be suuuuuch a geek" Tsuji
>loses hebbyq on 2nd defense like a geek, then jumped by Gabe Kidd
>get destroyed by Andrade and loses the Global title
>show up the next night to beg Newman to stop hurting Shingo, gets laid out
>gets a title shot immediately after all this
Shockingly (for you, maybe), Japanese fans dont give a fuck about this and hate the booking of all of this. Newman isnt facing a strong main eventer on the comeback. Hes facing some geek who got lucky.

>>20420715
>a strong main eventer
serious question, do we have any of these left????2

>>20420715
>>20420721
Yeah everyone on the roster is a fucking geek

>>20420715
I don't give a fuck what Japanese fans think. They're fucking retarded and can go watch pooah if they don't like njpw. Tsuji isn't a geek because he lost to a cheating heel you retard and you didn't address the fact that he had to drop the global belt

>>20420721
True. The strongest heavyweights in terms of protection might be KOB and fucking Drilla. Everyone else is some form of fucking loser, whether it's incessant cheating for jobbing out.

>>20420715
The only part they really fucked up is not giving Tsuji another defense at the anniversary show

Reminder only /pw/ dislikes Tsuji

>>20420771
>I don't give a fuck what Japanese fans think.
3,603人
>you didn't address the fact that he had to drop the global belt
If he has that to worry about don't put your dumbass in a corner and make him double champion then have him get his ass beat twice in 1 month for 2 belts.

>>20420808
Why are you ignoring and not adding the first night noahfag? Yeah well they didn't and it honestly isnt a big deal

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save us captain

Captain New Japan was supposed to be a joke but he could kick Callgirl Gayman's ass.

>>20420808
Why would you want me to post the number that's 1200 less?

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Callme Woman
Yota Pooji
Shitgo Cacagi
Joke Pee
Shitter Poomino
Transdrade
Drilled Bologna
Grim Naripoo
Balloon Wolftits
Poopoo-Ice Cold
Konosugay Takeashit
Pooya Gooeymura
Oy Vey Goywa

grim !

Poopy Pooji

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2iURmhakSg
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

>>20421532
>no Akira
I was wondering if this was gonna be the time they finally push him with the rise of UE

SEX with SHO

Is Sanada just never going to be a body guy ever again? He was jacked as fuck during his world title run but I think his injuries have stopped him from working out as hard, it definitely slowed him down

>>20421532
yeah, Master Wato was a joke

>>20422205
His neck is fucked to the point where his right arm is atrophying. Its over

El Despoorado
Sister Wethole
Kuso Futa

grim

>>20412884
He questioned le vax and even worse, le round earth

>>20421045
Couldn't have said it better meself

dookie

>>20422747
He has been very good in Mexico.
He and Tessa are wins for CMLL

Wato and Shota are the same guy just in divisions

>>20423606
No, and you're an insanely stupid fucking retard for saying that

Master Shoot-o

As today, Shota is way below Wato

>>20423606
Did you see the promo Fujita cut on Wato by any chance? Sounds extremely similar to what people have been saying about Shota for years.

Shota has been improving constantly for the last 2 years and if you can't see it and think that Wato is better in any way you're a genuine retard that needs to end their life

The last time Wato had a good match was the BOSJ final against Titan. Shota had 4 good matches just this year.

>>20423756
Hes a better wrestler but I still dont give 2 shits about him and there's been no effort in changingthat since he shaved his head then went back to being the exact same clueless guy. Hes Wato if Wato got a random title shot every other month.

>>20423789
I don't give a fuck about your retarded opinion, shut the fuck up.

>>20423789
If you think Shota hasn't changed you aren't actually watching his matches. Just say that you dumb cunt. And fuck off. Fucking waste of space.

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>If you think Shota hasn't changed you aren't actually watching his matches. Just say that you dumb cunt. And fuck off. Fucking waste of space.

>>20423820
use the red one its funnier :) faggot

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>use the red one its funnier :) faggot

>>20423841
i wasn't thinking abt this one but it's still better than the previous one desu

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>>20423805
>If you think Shota hasn't changed you aren't actually watching his matches.
>le heckin bangersh

Why haven't they announced the partial Dominion card yet? They set up like 5 matches already.

tanahashi and gedo are Dumb Minions of tonikan

>>20426613
Press conference in a few hours

Everyone had theories about how much influence TV Asahi had over the WK card and how they loved Takeshita so much but with what they have planned for Dominion it doesn't seem that way

nothing wrong with Takeshita, he is actually putting people over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZFLr8JF2lA

I'd be fine with Takeashit if he were a midcarder who maybe got an upset win or two in the G1 like pre-hebbyq SANADA was. I don't care how many stars he gets or how many moves he can do, he makes me feel nothing. Dude belongs nowhere near the world title scene, especially at the expense of actual NJPW talent.
>le triple contracterino!
If he's not making Road To shows, he's not an NJPW guy.

>>20412248
Same. I was so excited because I thought Shota would win the cup, turn heel, and then win the title but as always they have to ruin it by putting the title on somebody nobody gives a fuck about

It seems the press conference is only on NJPW World https://watch.njpwworld.com/live-event/62775/player/events?assetType=live&playlist_id=2335

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>Artist Makoto Horimatsu is responsible for the awesome traditional Japanese stylings of the #njDominion key visual!

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Dominion is airing on terrestrial TV Asahi at 10:15pm

Card so far
>Uemura & Taichi vs Oiwa & ZSJ
>NJPW World TV: Takeshita vs SANADA
>IWGP Global: Andrade vs Shota vs Drilla
>NEVER Openweight: Narita vs Wolf
>IWGP Tag: KoB vs O-Khan & HENARE
>IWGP Heavy: Callum vs Tsuji

narita sucks so fucking much

https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/2053059042214551667
>Narita has attacked Aaron Wolf!

>'You lost to me and think you can fight for my title again! You weak little worm! You have your own belt right, that judo black belt of yours. Put that on the line- I'll make you choke on it. That's what you deserve!'

>Tsuji kicked in the balls again
geek

griminion

>>20425350
Yeah he's having "bangers" by removing moves like ignition or other stupid ospreay-like moves from his repertoire, you really are a fucking subhuman, kill yourself

>>20429017
grim