Now a subsidiary of TV Asahi, with ownership shared with and investment offered by CyberAgent. https://www.njpw1972.com/649902Live on NJPW World>BEST OF THE SUPER Jr.33FRI 5/29 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Tsubame Civic Gymnasium>Valiente Jr vs Kosei Fujita, Nick Wayne vs TitanFRI 5/29 @ 11:00pm(PDT) SAT 5/30 @ 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Takaoka Techno Dome>B block. Taiji Ishimori vs SHO, El Desperado vs KUSHIDAMON 6/2 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall>Dual block. El Desperado vs YOH, Titan vs Kosei FujitaWED 6/3 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall>Dual block, Block Finals. Notable matches: Nagai vs Fujita, KUSHIDA vs Ishimori, Despe vs Kanemaru, Sasaki vs YOHFRI 6/5 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) G Messe Gunma>Playoff StageSUN 6/7 @ 1am(PDT) 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) Ota City General Gymnasium (EBARA WAVE ARENA Ota)>The Final>NJPW vs DDT PART2, Yano vs Super Sasadango Machine one matchMON 6/8 @ 3:00am(PDT) 6:00am(EDT) 11:00am(BST) Korakuen Hall>DOMINION 6.14 in OSAKA-JO HALLSUN 6/14 12am(PDT) 3am(EDT) 8am(BST) Osaka-jo Hall>IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Callum Newman (c) vs Yota Tsuji>IWGP Tag Championships: Knock Out Brothers (Yuto Ice & OSKAR) (c) vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan & HENARE)>IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship 3-Way Match: Andrade El Idolo (c) vs Drilla Moloney vs Shota Umino>NEVER Openweight Championship: Ren Narita (c) vs Aaron Wolf>Yuya Uemura & Taichi vs TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa)>NJPW World TV Championship: KONOSUKE TAKESHITA (c) vs SANADA
>>20556252Previous thread >>20539508
yota tsuji fucking WON
>You did trust the flan, didn't you anon?
>>20556277and the cardfags lost lol
a few more days of this shit, and then back to reality
>>20556282never doubted it
>>20556357he's thinkin fatsuko used to be cute
What's he thinkin' right now?
>>20556277>>20556352i hope you all are just doing it for the meme because even japanese are still making fun of tsuji after the latest news
>>20556368As long as TV Asahi or CyberAgent work him into their anime marketing stuff he'll be fine.
>>20556368hes thinking its time to restart the mongol empire and bring back the real khans (not the gay pakis like tony khan)
>>20556368"grim"
>>20556368I always forget this guy exists.I assume NJPW also does.
The aura of Callum Newman
Did Meltzer even saying anything about the NJPW sale? Maybe hes not got his talking points from Tony yet
>>20556635I don't think this guy even thinks about any promotion in Japan anymore except for big shows (but he'll be glued to the screen for 3 hour Collision specials every other week)
>>20556583
Eternal reminder that /pw/ is the only place that actively hates Based Finnerman Yota "Chad" Tsuji
>>20556710>except for big showsI legimately believe that he just watches clips on Twitter like most AEW fans
>>20556352isn't Uma Musume bigger than any franchise that works with Bushiroad at the moment? The only "loss" here would be Great O-Khan quitting because he wants to jerk off to Love Live or something
Do Asahi or CyberAgent have any card game interests? it would be funny of Tsuji had an irrational hatred and constantly shit on them from now on. Like Naito with the IC belt.
>>20556977>"chad">manlet anti-draw who never had sex
>>20557014the yakuza would clip him if he started talking shit about their horse girls
So what did Big Dave have to say about this?
>>20556635Some of you are obsessed about this guy that can't even check his account>https://x.com/davemeltzerWON/status/2059622472958574995>Bushiroad has sold al of its stock in New Japan Pro Wrestling The buyers are Cyberagent (parent company of Abema TV) and TV-Asahi (the network that owns the broadcast rights). It is believed both entities will own 46.3 percent of stock. At this point no changes are expected. A lot more to come.
>>20557282I see, he's playing it safe because he still hasn't talked about it to Tony
>>20557286There his paid shit that idgaf about where he talks about that>>20557014Last year Tana did the cosplay of a Cygames character from Granblue Fantasy. Cygames is part of CyberAgent group. IDK about Uma Musume's revenue, I know it bleeds a lot of money because horse royalties are quite expensive
Can't wait till TV Asahi is even more overbearing than Kidani/Bushiroad was
>>20557014CyGames has Shadowverse. Tsuji's comment was never even anti-TCG.
>>20557510Of course it wasn't anti TCG, he was trying to do an metaphor and fell flat to the public on what he was trying to imply. And a lot of people made fun of him because the speech wasn't even that smart, he was trying to imitate Naito.
>>20556635>>20557203https://gofile.io/d/E35zp3First 15 minutes but there's not anything particularly insightful. I can't believe people pay for this. Summary anyway:>shocked at how low the sale price was>kidani fucked up by thinking they could ever compete with wwe/aew in terms of money>said something about how when bushiroad first bought njpw they expected that they'd actually be able to eventually compete with wwe financially, because kidani thought tv rights were a bubble that would burst and their focus on house shows would give them the advantage when it happened>thinks they sold because while it was profitable the margins were very small and they didn't think business was going to turn around>wk was their last chance at turning it around, and while it did great they paid the price of having failed to create any new stars and it hasn't lead to an uptick in business>blames their failure to create stars largely on too much parity booking>thinks they kept stardom because it has lower operating costs and is more profitable, also there's a much lower chance of anyone from their roster going to wwe/aew>aew content leaving njpw world is because of myaew>says he hasn't talked to tony about how it will affect the aew/njpw relationship but doesn't expect it to change
>>20557597Lotta words that could be summed up as: GRIM !
>>20557370>TV Asahi forces NJPW to drop the gay Toryumon cosplay in favor of bringing back a more grounded 80s and 90s strong style focus
anyway, visuals
>>20556252RIP
>>20557597>says he hasn't talked to tony about how it will affect the aew/njpw relationship but doesn't expect it to changeoh no no no no no no ahahahahahahahaha
>>20557753a literal, honest to God, bitch tits
Godwilling TV Asahi will fire all the fags and twinks shitting up the roster. Tell CyberFight to quarantine them in DDT then wall it off.
>>20557753[Zesty News] YOH player (38) be lookin' kinda zesty, be lookin' kinda moist
>>20557933they aren't going anywhere. just take a look at all the guys who have leading roles in their showshttps://www.tv-asahicontents.com/drama/
wtf did zsj mean by showing up for the first block match as a second and then fucking off for the rest of the tour
this nigga needs a bald bitch arc
>>20557984He's on vacation. He was in thailand with Brookes for few days and got booked for a DDT show.
>>20558031I'll ship anthrax to TV Asahi HQ just for booking the possibility
Things looking slightly less grim every day we are separated from Bushiroad...
>>20558761I wanna see how wacky/tucked this new system is. If Asahi isn't hands off the way Bushiroad was during the boom period then it really is same old same old and the boys won't be happy.
I don't think anything will really change. It will be the same old "bankai yoroshiku let's do our best" attitude and they'll do the bare minimum. It seems to be the old japanese mentality, they all do the same thing. Maybe the wrestlers will get paid a bit better though ?
does the TV Asahi CEO do shit like thishttps://x.com/kidanit/status/2060135258406916355
>>20559515>kidani is a faggotthis explains so much
>>20559515He seems like a pretty normal 82 year old Japanese guy. He was apparently good friends with Shinzo Abe which should please Shingo
ム
https://youtu.be/HHhalJbG4Zs>cuts the finish out of the upload againWhy are they so retarded?
If AEW ends up on their own streaming service do you think NJPW will start treating them like they did ROH?
literally nothing is going to change.not the product, not the money, not the partnerships
>BEST OF THE SUPER Jr.33FRI 5/29 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Tsubame Civic Gymnasium40 minutes till SHO-time>Best of the Super Jr. 33 A Block MatchKosei Fujita (3-3) vs Valiente Jr.(2-4)>Best of the Super Jr. 33 A Block MatchNick Wayne (3-3) vs Titan (5-1)>Best of the Super Jr. 33 A Block MatchRyusuke Taguchi (3-3) vs Robbie X (3-3)>Best of the Super Jr. 33 A Block MatchMaster Wato (4-2) vs Daiki Nagai (0-6)>Best of the Super Jr. 33Hyo (2-3) vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru (3-2) B Block Match>6-Man Tag MatchYOH, KUSHIDA & El Desperado vs United Empire (Zane Jay, Jakob Austin Young & Francesco Akira)>Tag Team MatchUnbound Co. (Gedo & Taiji Ishimori) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Dick Togo & SHO)>6-Man Tag MatchMasatora Yasuda, Toru Yano & Daisuke Sasaki vs TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Robbie Eagles)>Singles MatchTiger Mask vs Tatsuya Matsumoto
>>20560765Titan have a chance to make another finals?
GO GO TIGER
oh shit yasuda getting some good bulking in
>>20560908Good move after the 50 or so injuries he's gotten already
nigga wheres the fucking leopard
Get his ass Gedo
>>20557597>>thinks they sold because while it was profitable the margins were very small and they didn't think business was going to turn aroundGrim
Was allowed to fuck somehow until the run-ins. Hyo should keep this look
We got Dragon Gate guy sucked into the vortex lol
Tonight is the FUCKING night daikesters you just know it
Wato can be aggressively meh but that german suplex is outstanding
>earrapes you>flips around you
Wtf
Ok hair wouldn't fix Robbie's look THAT much, confirmed
I'm in such deep defeat Titan is just gonna lose out
HUH HUHCALL ME NICK WAYNE
>>20561099they can't be that stupid especially after dominated this much that quick. he's still gon a make it out just narrowly
That has to be makeup on Nick's eye because who punched his shit to look like that?
>>20561125Kasai was heavy on him but I don't think he came out with that eye at Shizuoka
>>20561125humiliation ritual
oh fuck
>>20561099oops, they're doing it
valiente hasnt impressed me at all this whole tournament but this is looking good
Scary fucking landing.
Damn why was that so short
Valiente is eliminated
>>20560765nice to see a good wrestling show with no trannies, gonna have to run it back and watch the first part which i missed.
so is there going to be a new tiger mask when yamazaki retires?
>>20556277>>20556282I'm finna resubscribe to NJPW World for this nigga
>>20557597I love how he's avoiding saying what everybody knows, which is that Tony did a level of harm to NJPW that is unprecedented, and recovery will be a long and slow process, if it's possible at all.
>>20561419It's not Tony's fault that Bushiroad was run but a fucking moron who thought his house show business in the dying Japanese countryside would generate more money than big time US TV deals. You might as well blame capitalism and greed. No one forced Okada, AJ, Kenny, Osprey, Nakamura, and Naito to leave. It was all about cocksucking money at the end of the day.
>>20561438not buying this anymore, not after watching how tony khans influence ruined the last two indies that i actually liked. after that, i am ready to see everyone named khan skinned alive and fed to alligators and crocodiles.
>>20557597>when bushiroad first bought njpw they expected that they'd actually be able to eventually compete with wwe financially.Yeah that checks out, Bushiroad thinking they will succeed and become the next best thing while being retarded all the way through is their motto at this point.Every time they push out a new card game or reset one if their old ones(usually Vanguard) they try to make everyone including themselves believe that they will compete with the big card games like Pokemon, Yugioh, One Piece only to end up far below Digimon which is also far below than the ones mentioned above.They are a genuinely a grossly incompetent company in anything they do.
Can we stop talking about Bushiroad now? THey're not involved anymore.
>>20561479That anon is right, it's Bushiroads fault. Anyone who knows their track record from the TCG scene can tell that they are the problem.Tanahashi gave NJPW two stars in himself and Okada that provided stability and income for two decades and those retards chased the latter away.If it wasn't AEW picking up Okada it would be WWE.Hopefully Japan can now recover without Bushiroad getting in their way because so far the only wrestlers that could be classified as stars in the company are the Knockout Brothers and Tsuji(this one is still pending until we see the Newman rematch).
>>20561519No, the blood debt they owe to puro fans must be paid in full and then some.
>>20561530Keeping KOB when WWE was interested is the only NJPW win I can think of lately.
>>20557041Post Aika code
こっちに戻ってこい、このクソ野郎!
>>20561530its both. bushiroad's mismanagement and tony khan's exploitative bullshit was like a one-two punch of incompetence and sabotage.
>>20562125Explain the sabotage.
>>20562583taking a lot of their best talent, influencing the booking, and forcing new japan to put over too many of their dimeless shitters. the war dogs would be a good example. they were really starting to get over in a big way, I expected them to become a much bigger thing. however, as soon as they started to really get over, tony snatched their best talker and eventually their leader as well.
>>20562669>Company locks wrestlers into only 1 year contracts.>Lowball them>Bushi higher ups look down and insult your top talent.If someone becomes a free talent and chooses more money over you that's not a sabotage.If the KO brothers hadn't resigned with NJPW and instead did with WWE or AEW would you also call this sabotage? They were also locked in one year contracts.Japan going to shit is the fault of their incredibly shit management, Stardom went through everything NJPW went through and yet they are in a better place than before.
>>20561557They have no reason to make the jump this soon into their careers if they even wanted to. This is also why introducing multi-year contracts is a good move theyre making now.
>>20557753This zesty playboy should win BOSJ imho desu
>>20563265The twink death is already setting in. I'm afraid it's too late.
>>20563725the Chinese Spanish teacher from Community
>>20563725>36 year old pro wrestler who looks 17
>>20563736Based ム looking good but those beans are decimating the plate
>>20563736Shoot could not tell who this was for the longest time. Holy shit my ム
hey dribbler baloney https://x.com/GlennJacobsTN/status/2060519403075068268
Cant believe that Goto is a bushidronehttps://x.com/510njpw/status/2060351470210613713
>>20563736British "cuisine" is disgusting
>BEST OF THE SUPER Jr.33FRI 5/29 @ 11:00pm(PDT) SAT 5/30 @ 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Takaoka Techno Dome45 minutes till SHO-time>Best of the Super Jr. 33 B Block MatchTaiji Ishimori (3-3) vs SHO (4-2)>Best of the Super Jr. 33 B Block MatchEl Desperado (4-2) vs KUSHIDA (2-4)>Best of the Super Jr. 33 B Block MatchRobbie Eagles (3-3) vs Daisuke Sasaki (3-3)>Best of the Super Jr. 33 B Block MatchYOH (3-3) vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru (3-3)>Best of the Super Jr. 33 B Block MatchHyo (3-3) vs Jakob Austin Young (2-4)>Tag team MatchUnbound Co (Gedo & Titan) vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Kosei Fujita)>Tag Team MatchSix or Nine (Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi) vs United Empire (Zane Jay & Francesco Akira)>Tag Team MatchMasatora Yasuda & Tiger Mask vs Valiente Jr. & Nick Wayne>Tag Team MatchUnboud Co (Daiki Nagai & Robbie X) vs Taisei Nakahara & Tatsuya Matsumoto
>>20566239>have Despy vs KUSHIDA on the card>make a SHO match the main event?????????
Nagai paired against young lions so he can finally win a match this tour
why does hardcam have the mexico piss filter on it?
Daiki finally did it!!
>Here's your BOSJ win, young boy
>>20566443dojo fuckboy probably didn't white balance it
HUH HUHCALL ME NICK WAYNE >>20561105oop
Is this an off tour for him or does Valiente kinda suck?
>>20566482He had that knee scare early in the tounramnet, idk most of the lucha guys just seem like they are going through the motions here, Titan is an exception
>>20566482him blowing out his knee against taguchi definitely didn’t help
CALL ME SHIT STAINI'M SHIT STAIN
zane jay kinda hot
>>20566488The contrast at Dontaku where Fujita is doing shoot headbutts and Despy is killing himself on dives as Mistico sleepwalks through his spots with Robbie.
>>20566482>>20566488He is a young lowcard guy in CMLL.He is good but inexperienced, I doubt he even had a single match in CMLL.The problem here would be NJPW selection process, 90% of the participants shouldn't be there.
>>20566502guy is a stud, I remember on an all female host episode of shinnichi champion he got picked as hottest by 3 of out 4 of them
NJPW tournaments just exist as time filler at this stage.
Akira I beg talk your shit in italian
>>20566543The junior tournaments are the only ones you can make an argument for in the past year
>another hair related match
Why was Fujita mean mugging Titan's crotch
oiwa sexooo
I get it's filler and padding out the lower cards for a tourney but trying to make Oiwa/Gedo a thing feels about as desperate as it gets
>>20566575fajita doing a little less sizzlin and a little more flaming
Tsuji squashed Gedo in 5 seconds a couple years ago
[News] JOI's JOI is no longer Dangerous and merely standard JOI
guess bro dont care about the leopard anymore
>>20566602this tournament made hyo so zesty that he stopped giving a shit about his girlfriend
>>20566602Dick Togo is wining and dining it
Seriously, what's so dangerous about him?
>>20566614He enjoys piping hot coffee
>Jakob has 6 pointsFor the love of god
>>20566624COMPLETEGLOBALPARITY
>>20566632this shit is why Tsuji lost all his heat he gained from WK
Walker, it's not "the charisma of DDT" it's just charisma
IN THE AFTERGLOW
>>20566645love this aussie El Donte dude and his DmC music
>>20566602classic New Japan. Find something that's naturally over and beat that horse to death in 10 days
>>20566638I'm pretty sure him not being able to carry Jake Lee and then following that up with a generation flub promo has more to do with it
>>20566654>I'm pretty sure him not being able to carry Jake LeeWho the fuck can?
>>20566638>>20566654Callum was always the plan, it's not a coincidence all of Tsuji's defences before Callum were other UE heavyweights
>>20566658Working SO well for them
That top rope pedigree tease was tempting fate a lot
>>20566661I'm not arguing good or bad just that they weren't pivoting from Tsuji
Sasaki is pretty good
Ron Miller would've been proud of that match. RIP king.
Could tell they never had a match because it was a bit off at times but was ok
>>20566669He's terribly underrated. His match vs AMAKUSA (NOAH), Dick Togo for his own produced shows are REALLY good.
Why has nobody thought to simply tickle KUSHI's feet for the submission win?
>>20566678The DDT club's two blocks down
Despy going full heel for this makes me so happy
holy fuck what a counter
>>20566677that match between him and amakusa was great>>20566682brother despy just got toes shoved in his mouth, this is ddt jr at this point
Despy has one of the best one-two punch finishing sequences
****1/2 good fucking shit right there
I'm labeling this a dark main event and getting some food
>>20566708>dark main eventKEK
>>20566699No one in DDT has a feet fetish tho, please keep that within NJPW
the public is way too quiet but the venue doesn't look empty
>>20566729The dome design while looks cool fucks with the acoustics but don't forgetA. You can hear the crowd during the last 2 matchesB. This match has SHO in it
>957人
>>20566736It's not completely dead but expected more heat even in the matches before the semi-final and final
SHO is salvageable.
They really eliminated the best worker in B block and possibly the tournament before Jakob Austin Young...
>>20567008lol, lmao even
>>20562824I believed that too, until they had takeshita win the G1 and the world title. I really dont think they would book some zesty DDT shitter to be the top guy without outside influence. nobody wanted that shit except tony khan, which is probably why takeshita was eventually made to drop the title by submission.
>>20564388kek
>>20567304>takeshita was eventually made to drop the title by submissionlmao
>>20561479Even George Floyd?
>>20561530Wwe would not care about Okada.Stop pretending otherwise
>>20567175>4 guys at 8>4 guys at 6>best worker at 4>biggest star at 10NONSTOPJOBBERPARITY WRESTLING
Meltzer said this is a star driven business and parity booking is bad so that's what I believe.
>>20568424He's right. Parity only works when you have a stacked pool of talent going against each other.
>>20568424winning and losing doesnt matter at all, real stars dont need a title. they also dont need to work in the wrestling business in 2026
>>20569443I think wrestling stars do need to work in the wrestling business.
>>20567304> I really dont think they would book some zesty DDT shitter to be the top guy without outside influence.>Who is Kenny?Newfag please, this is as serious discussion.Takeshita had one purpose make the fans (who already hate him to death) hate him even more and lose the belt at WK to a NJ wrestler.It's simple business
>>20570021>Takeshita had one purpose make the fans (who already hate him to death) hate him even more and lose the belt at WK to a NJ wrestler.And instead the fans hated the company (again) and Takeshita went in and out of the story completely heatless.
>>20570021do they really hate him? seems more that they just don't really care about him either way
HYO-KUN
This was the first slightly-less-grim weekend in years... Nihon is healing...
>>20570396No one's fault NJ fans have autism.
>>20570768>blaming autism for bad bookingAutism would've probably helped them in this decade
>>20572236El Hijo del Harry Potter and The Great Brian Last
>>20572236>every 3rd gay couple I see in public
>>20566543WTL is actually kino now, NJC elevated like 4 guys, and the G1 is the G1
>>20566656Miyahara and... That's it. That's the list.
>>20570768Takeshita almost never evokes emotions out of me. He's a worse Kota Ibushi with worse talent around him
Callme WomanYota PoojeetShitter PoominoGaped KlittDrilled BolognaShitgo CacagiPoofter KWABtoKuso Futagrim
I, for one, am glad that the two best matches of the year happened in Japan and Mexico, and not Am*rica
>>20572236They sell faggot new japan shirts?
>>20575665ass penetrated company prease understand
>>20575529Yeah because Miyahara is top tier and unironically the best active ace in Japan right now.
>>20566656>>20575529His matches with Nakajima and Gabe were good.
