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Live on NJPW World

>Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVIII
SAT 6/20 1:00am(PDT) 4:00am(EDT) 9:00am(BST) Kimitsu City Gymnasium (Minowa Sports Park)
>Yuji Nagata, Aaron Wolf & Josh Barnett vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
>Goto Revolutionary Army (Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & YOH) vs Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Gedo)
>Taichi, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado vs Unbound Co. (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Daiki Nagai)
>TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita) vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Jakob Austin Young)
>Shota Umino & Ryusuke Taguchi vs United Empire (Jake Lee & Zane Jay)
>Master Wato & Masatora Yasuda vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (DOUKI & SHO)
>Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Satoshi Kojima, Hiroshi Yamato & Taisei Nakahara

>Road to G1 CLIMAX
TUE 6/23 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall
>G1 CLIMAX 36 A Block Play-In Match: Taichi vs Yuto-Ice
>G1 CLIMAX 36 B Block Play-In Match: YOSHI-HASHI vs Aaron Wolf
>IWGP Jr. Heavyweight No.1 Contender's 4-way Match: Master Wato vs Kosei Fujita vs Francesco Akira vs SHO
>Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, OSKAR, Shingo Takagi & Daiki Nagai vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
>Shota Umino & Satoshi Kojima vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson)
>Hirooki Goto, YOH, Ryusuke Taguchi & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs UNITED EMPIRE (Jake Lee, Great-O-Khan, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay)
>Yuya Uemura, El Desperado & Masatora Yasuda vs Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Taisei Nakahara)

>Road to G1 CLIMAX
MON 7/6 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall
>IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: YOH vs Winner of the 4-way match on June 23
>G1 CLIMAX 36 A Block Play-In Match: El Phantasmo vs Ryohei Oiwa
>G1 CLIMAX 36 B Block Play-In Match: OSKAR vs Yujiro Takahashi
>Tiger Mask Final 3WAY Tornado Tag Match: Tiger Mask & Jado vs Unbound Co. (Taiji Ishimori & Gedo) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Dick Togo)

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>>20668158
>Tiger Mask Retirement Event
TUE 7/6 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall
>Tiger Mask Retirement Match Ⅱ: Tiger Mask vs Black Tiger IV
>Tiger Mask Retirement Match I: Tiger Mask vs “Dynamite Kid” Tom Billington
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Kek
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>>20668161
It makes me sad how grim this is
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The Bushiroad card has been discarded. The Tony Khan, Rocky Romero, and Will Ospreay cards are next.
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>>20668213
Thank you, May J Blaster.
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>>20668448
Honestly I hope they keep ELP there.
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>>20667457
Will was responding to Josh from We Work Stiff of all people lol, this is definitely not a pure work at the very least
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>>20669355
>Josh from We Work Stiff
Are we supposed to know who that is?
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>>20669414
For the knowers yes, basically he's a passionate story/character geek and not someone who wants to get involved in kayfabe stories
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>>20669024
Why ya cryin’
Even. Geek Shota didn’t write a long wall of text
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so they really did try to get Nakamura according to Billy
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>>20669355
That's who he was responding to? OMEGAKEK. Josh talks to people relatively close to Will too
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Why would WWE work with New Japan? They are not in a partnership.
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>>20668158
Pirate SANADA is the best look btw
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>>20669645
Always has been. Also his best match when he beat Okada in the G1
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>>20669527
It's actually stunning how mindbroken he is by WWE.
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>>20669527
we knew this to be true, tana wanted shinsuke if they could get him
shinsuke tried to leave WWE to make it happen
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the NXT contract signing was all about D'Angelo giving EVIL shit for using House of Torture to win his matches in Japan
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>>20669527
It would do Ospreay good to just have an alt account to do all this dicksucking on
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>>20669527
people on twitter keep saying that everyone talking about this is getting worked into shoot, it's kayfabe etc but what kind of angle he's trying to take here?
to me sounds just a guy yapping and not some "beef" that leads to something
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>>20671819
wrestlers are idiots, that's the angle.

American wrestling should be purged from existence
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MAKE WAY
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>>20669645
SANADA agrees, which is why he wore that outfit until the pants began to visibly wear and tear on the ass
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>>20671838
He's gonna turn himself into SANADA 2 if they somehow let him do it.
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>>20669645
I always liked his original look in LIJ the best. I popped hearing the Cold Skull music and thought he was going back to that look before realizing it was a fashion show and he came out looking unbelievably gay.
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>Dave Meltzer has reported onWrestling Observer Radiothat the United Empire's involvement on Dynamite was supposed to build to plans at Forbidden Door.
>"I was told this directly that when they came in on that one TV, it was to build to Forbidden Door... The plan was at that time they would be involved with something semi-big at Forbidden Door,"Meltzer said.
Forbidden Door Defence Force has begun
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>>20672107
Kek even in Dave's headcanon, the NJPW angle is only "semi-big"
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https://www.njpw1972.com/654668

>On June 17, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Aaron Wolf were guests of the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan (FCCJ), which was marking the 50th anniversary of hosting the Atonio Inoki and Muhammad Ali fight in 1976.

>Mainstream media from around the world were in attendance for the talk session, with Tanahashi outlying plans for the international future of NJPW in the years to come, and Aaron Wolf (while apologising with tongue in cheek that 'despite having an American father, my mother's Japanese and I don't speak English' to laughs from the attendees) talking about his regaining NEVER Openweight gold in Osaka and his goal to be a part of G1 Climax 36 via his play-in qualifier in Korakuen Hall next Tuesday.

>Questions from the media covered a wide range of topics, from Japanese wrestling's unique appeal compared to American television wrestling, to the potential for NJPW in the rest of Asia and much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPsMyxKqY1M
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>>20672328
Keep out of America, scum. We don't want you here.
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>>20672107
Is he implying that the retarded 6v6 match was gonna be UE vs Death Riders or something? Because how would Ospreay be involved if he had a tournament final match? I think Dave is just making shit up again (probably due to Tsuji shitting on FD and its lack of planning)
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AEW should invade New Japan and win all the belts.
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>>20668213
tsujimania's runnin wild brother
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>>20672004
Same, I was so disappointed
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>>20673294
AI slopa
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>>20673322
Small indie
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>>20668161
its official. NJPW doesn't have the roster to fill out a full G1 tour with interesting wrestlers
>Cut SANADA
>Cut Jake Lee
>Cut Newman
>Cut Drilla
>Cut Gabe
>Cut Henare
>Cut Aaron/YOSHI-HASHI
That's 7 out of your 20 wrestlers being pure fucking shit
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>>20673394
You're forgetting grimita and okwab
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>>20671838
They're not letting him in. Tranquilize Taichi so he gets his ass on that plane to Chicago
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Maybe new leadership should just offer Naito a pay raise.
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>>20673603
Isn't he held together with duct tape and Elmer's glue at this point?
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>>20673537
So now you've almost got half of your tournament being filled with shitters. Cut the format and make it a 5 day tournament or something
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NJPW tournaments have too much filler, I agree.
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>>20673394
huh? there's only two genuine shitters on here (lee and sanada) and for one of them it's not even their fault
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>>20673394
>Cut Aaron/YOSHI-HASHI
shut up faggot
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>>20673911
>fat green shitter or fat old shitter
no, fuck 'em and fuck you
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>>20673294
Man I wanted SANADA to slowly recover but here we are Japanese work ethic and all, CMLL main event and G1 incoming
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erm the guy that's extremely over doesn't do enough movez so i don't like him!!!!
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>>20674070
He can go at a decent level, he had some good matches in last year's G1 and the Takeshita match was fun. I don't know about a full G1 again
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>>20674082
You're getting angry at a strawman you invented in your head. Schizo.
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>>20674194
>>20674070
Take was going out of his way to protect the shit out of SANADA's arm that whole match. I worry about my boy in a G1 a lot
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Bets on Ospreay seething on the mic about Tsuji on Dynamite tonight?
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>>20674316
We aren't relevant enough to warrant attention.
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>>20674769
Last 3 days say otherwise
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Former IWGP champion and Brookes' lover is on Dynamite
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>>20674316
I think Ospreay will have his opponent do Tsuji's new finisher or a spear in the exact style like a Gene Blast and kick out at 1. Or he'll do nothing. I like the first option more though
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zsj destroyed on the mic by kenny omega
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protokada beat up ishii-e backstage and will miss forbidden door
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>>20673603
Naito sucks and is a traitor
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i believe we've ungrimmed ourself a bit with the mass-bailout of a failed champ lineup, chaps
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>I only have to add the cage match to the OP for Forbidden Door because Takeshita is in it
kek
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Forbidden Cuck Cage is literally just a regular aewslop show, i'm glad i don't have to watch. Thank you based Yoter for refusing to devalue our prestigious belt by granting Kip Sabian a title shot
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>>20674070
it's not Japanese work ethic, if he was in another place they would had let him stay out of the ring for a year before his arm got completely fucked up
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>>20674994
happy he had Mikey and Shane with him
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>>20675982
Naito stayed true to the ideal of what NJPW is supposed to be. He betrayed a betrayer. I respect him more than that prostitute Goto who hops on twitter to cry like a bitch every time Tsuji makes a slightly disparaging remark about cardslop or doesn't wanna put the heavyweight championship in a westoid style fatal four way gimmick match.
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APOLOGIZE
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did njpw only send zsj?
what an evil company who doesn't appreciate tony khan's generosity
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>>20676354
Tito. Shane is busy being the Michaels
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>>20676475
>Shuts the Forbidden Door just by saying "no thanks"
Was it that easy this whole time?
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>>20676475
WE LOVE YOU GOAT
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When are they telling us the G1 schedule?
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>>20676475
I'm still waiting to see if he really shut the forbidden troon door but if he really did he might be less grim than we thought
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>>20677589
I think Ospreay's weird twitter seethe (even if some of it was kayfabe) might be an indication that Tsuji at least turned down a FD match
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Is it even possible to ungrim New Japan at this point?
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NJPW related spoilers from the Collision taping
>Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Adam Priest
>Shota Umino vs. PAC for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship announced for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door.
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>>20677616
Honestly no, unless basically changing every single thing.
Japanese wrestling can't exist like this
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>>20677616
They need different bookers, for a start. And no more AEW nonsense.
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>>20677616
Tsuji's done a lot of work this week so far, trust the flan.
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https://x.com/CMLL_OFICIAL/status/2067435199365836943

Aura
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>When someone has failed,
>and no excuses come from them,
>you must not blame them.

https://x.com/REALgedoWD/status/2067553999746929051
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>>20677851
Who's he subtweeting?
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>>20677851
King of Vagueposting
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>>20677930
what a peculiar four-way date
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stop spamming the board and necrobumping dead threads you mentally ill faggot
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>>20677284
I realized that after. I only glanced at the screen during the segment and saw 2 guys with Zack and Mikey's giant head so I assumed it was both of them.
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I keep saying NJPW should rip off this concept
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I keep saying NJPW should dispel with this fiction that there's a huge international audience for pro wrestling just waiting to be tapped. Barely anyone cares at all. Just focus on home and stop worrying about what faggots in jolly ol england think.
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>>20678440
there is an international market, but you're right its not big enough to try and cater to. The best way to appeal to those types anyway is to put on a good domestic japanese product, thats what they want to see anyway.
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If Moxley had any class would've already wrestled Umino and put him over at Forbidden Door. He knows the guy's been struggling to get momentum and he's supposed to be his former mentor and he's got heat in Japan as an unpopular champion so it's a natural story. They rewrote Shota's whole character to make him a Moxley fanboy, I feel like he owes it to him.
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No one gets over wrestling that white trash bum
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>>20676475
for what? wow, he sure told off his boss tony, he is epic. doesn't matter that he's a talentless retard that will never be a successful top guy i guess
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>>20678980
Tony's not his boss. TV Asahi is his boss.
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>>20679009
you dont actually believe this
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>>20679009
tv asahi answers to tony
he's where all the money comes from, he's the boss
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>>20679009
Tonikan is the shadow president of NJPW and has been for the last 7 years.
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>>20677647
so shota will actually step up and defend his belt unlike pussy tsuji huh?
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>>20679421
Defending against any shitter is the actual purpose of the Global title. He's doing his job as a lesser champion
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>>20679421
shota is tranny coded. it's only natural that he show up.
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japan isn't captured by your retarded culture war needledick. trans people are just people there.
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>>20680631
>t. never looked at Japanese twitter
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>>20681017
Has this guy EVER had a good look?
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>>20681017
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>>20668158
bumpola
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would be really funny is shota just told pac "no"
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>>20680631
Rightoids in Japan called Asahi a leftist channel/corporation.
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>do nothing
>win
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>>20681955
this roid-using-yet-still-tubby self-mark sneaking onto wrestling cards has go away heat with me
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>>20682932
which one?
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>>20682732
based
only faggots like card games
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>>20677851
translation
>Naito is a bitch lmfaooooo
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>>20683334
dare you to say that to great o khan's face
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>>20683334
I enjoy the Pokemon TCG phone game
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make the call, Asahi
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>>20682732
The ethering continues
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>>20684811
He tried to snatch New Japan off the network. They'd have him killed (rightfully).
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tonight
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>>20684920
idk maybe he sent the tweets as he was fucking her
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shota umino fucking sucks
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bushiroad fucking sucks
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>>20685396
You still have never said how much njpw makes off that deal
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>>20686994
What are you on about?
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>>20687040
You always use that against Harold but never say what's so good about being on that network and everything that's happened since he left tells me he was right
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Just announced
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>>20687116
They lose access to their entire video library spanning nearly 50 years, retard. That in itself clears why splitting from them would be stupid. This is why AJPW has no access to their library, and NOAH barely has its older shows on Wrestle Universe. And who the fuck is fiending for Japanese pro-wrestling on their service in 2019 besides ABEMA to compensate for ?
>and everything that's happened since he left tells me he was right
Right about what? He is literally the start of management being a pain in the ass to the roster.
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>dickriding a guy who was in charge for a cup of coffee and still caused 101 problems including that weird faggot who slid himself on commentary
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>>20687249
Basado
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>>20687249
this is specifically a CMLL versus NJPW show.
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Literally no excuse for Shota now
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3 hours till we're watching josh barnett wrestle yujiro takahashi
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>>20687481
could have had like Wolf and Nagata against Barnett and someone else but no gotta have some worthless, heatless HoT shit
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>Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVIII
22 minutes till YOH-time

>Yuji Nagata, Aaron Wolf & Josh Barnett vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
>Goto Revolutionary Army (Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & YOH) vs Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Gedo)
>Taichi, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado vs Unbound Co. (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Daiki Nagai)
>TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita) vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Jakob Austin Young)
>Shota Umino & Ryusuke Taguchi vs United Empire (Jake Lee & Zane Jay)
>Master Wato & Masatora Yasuda vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (DOUKI & SHO)
>Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Satoshi Kojima, Hiroshi Yamato & Taisei Nakahara
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>>20687920
till GRIM-time more like
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Kojima should replace Newman in the G1
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Tenzan!
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matsumoto's even doing his hair like goto lol
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kill sho's barber they fucked his shit up a bit
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Yasuda finally looking good out there
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>>20687920
Why is the English feed in Japanese?
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>just realized I have to watch Jake Lee vs SANADA
turbo grimoli
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>>20688288
Or autist kino
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follow tsuji's call, tell him no!
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>>20688274
There's no english so it's just stuck there from previous settings
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Shota actually being able to play to the crowd with some merit finally, feels kinda nice

>>20688274
Walker doesn't live in Japan and that's the only way he'd be on smaller, niche shows like this. Chris does other work for NJPW and only shows up on commentary for bigger shows and sometimes on what I presume are shows closer to his office/home like ones in Korakuen Hall.
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bald mongolian shitter
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I like a german suplex finisher and not just being a filler move in the middle of fighting spirit sequences
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it is so funny seeing families with Yuto's middle finger sign
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taking the belts off them is such a retarded move
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WHERE MY TAG BELTS AT
WHERE MY TAG BELTS AT
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if only you were a bit taller Nagai
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yuto getting bitched out this whole match
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>>20688528
well he's gotta fight uphill against Taichi and show his fire to earn his G1 his spot because the fucking G1 has to have an opener in the US and Taichi won't fly
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hell yeah it's YOHtime, nigga
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Gedo standing beside Shingo is fucking weird dude
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Man fuck this theme music lol
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>>20688567
erm you just don't like change tsuji having a shitty anime opening as his theme is great actually
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Catching up, clean shaven Nagai is weird af
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Also Ice and Taichi are gonna rock korakuen, and G1 Yuya is gonna be a kino machine
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Where is your belt motherfucker
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i'd say let this be the last of wolf vs these shitters but they have wolf facing narita in the fucking g1
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Wait that's it?
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>1,044人
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>our plebbit brothers are finally turning against the AEW invaders on their subreddit
Fucking finally, happy to see all of these "end FD, it sucks" messages
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>>20668158
>Leather jacket
>Waistcoat variation
>Cape
>Blazer with pointy shoulders.
>vest/t shirt
Pretty much every modern wrestler's entrance clothes summed up in one pic.
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>>20689113
we don't deserve either of these goats
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>>20688679
Yoshi-Hashi is obviously gonna win his qualifying match though
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https://x.com/madevonlak/status/2068255538690003166
More like Shota UmiDRAW
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Is it true that Yota Tsuji is pretending to have boycotted AEW because he didn't receive an offer?
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>>20689393
Perhaps we judged the Roughneck to harshly..
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>People getting upset that the hebbyq and global are being used the way Tsuji said they would be when he was double champ
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>>20689393
wouldn't trust as source for anything a guy who is mocked by pretty much everyone, even the most trollish dudes from 5ch kek
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Yota vs. Último Guerrero
Mistico vs. Desperado
Okumura, Shoma, Yutani vs. ???

those are happening
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Úmino Shottero
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Los Chavez vs KOB
Dorada vs Fujita
Kemalito/Perico/Tengu vs Umino/Uemura/Oiwa
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>>20690343
I cannot imagine Yuro doing lucha much less that big motherfcucker doing it too
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>>20690343
Titan vs Fujita again is what I desire
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>>20690767
they gave him a belt on the way out?
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>>20692563
Is he sick?
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>>20692563
So Gabe jumps him after
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Shota Cumino
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>>20692563
GRIM
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Not even joking but joining Tonikhan's Toybox might actually be the best move for Shota career wise.

The Mutoh path of going to America for like a year, or two years, might actually do wonders for his career. Moxley will make sure he's booked pretty strong there I imagine so it might actually help him.
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>>20693330
Sybau
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>>20693477
I think Shota sucks and if he goes to AEW I wont have to watch him

it's a win/win
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>>20693330
He already won a belt. It's too late for all that
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Yota Pooji

...

Ungrim !
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>>20693330
Not even joking but joining eternal nothingness might actually be the best move for you career wise.
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https://x.com/meraWRESTLING/status/2068626052654756090
Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Fights a 40 Year-Old Sayaka Unagi Because Why The Fuck Not
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>>20694280
Why is that so offensive to you? Shota sucks, obviously needs some kind of shake up
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get him a smokin hot latina gf and make him CMLL's El Grande Japanismo
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Douki leaving to lead the new Perros
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>>20694362
Hilarious match to agree to
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>puts out a tweet asking if anyone in AEW wants to fight
>waits 7 hours
>nobody says anything
>tweet this
>wait a few more hours
>GOA responds
KWAB and GRIM all at once
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>>20696175
Nobody ever knows when Tony wants to actually book them until the week of a given show and HENARE got over the last time he was here. O-Khan he might tell to stay home.
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>>20693330
>Mutoh
This is even worse than comparing Shota to Naito blindingly. Mutoh was an amazing athlete who unlocked something that took him to the next level. Shota doesn't have the mind or skill, he's just a decent wrestler
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>>20697547
did not compare him to mutoh in any way as an athlete or a wrestler aside from maybe it being a good idea for him to spend a couple of years in the US

He obviously isn't fit to carry mutoh's bag
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this nigga with the 4D chess excursion move
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https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/392870

>Shota Umino (29), the IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion of New Japan Pro-Wrestling, has taken on the responsibility of being a "global" champion. The champion, who will face PAC (39, AEW) in his first title defense at the joint event with AEW, "Forbidden Door (FD)" (28th, 29th Japan time, San Jose, California), understands the stance of IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji, who has hinted at "boycotting" the event. He has made it his duty to confront foreign opponents overseas.

>On the 14th at the Osaka Castle Hall event, Umino finally achieved his long-awaited first title after nine years and two months in the industry. However, he suffered the humiliation of being attacked by Gabe Kidd (AEW) immediately afterward. "If he's left New Japan, then he should just focus on AEW and do his best. He's also been selected to participate in the G1, so I don't think any wrestler would be satisfied with this situation. This is ridiculous. All Gabe has done this year, as far as the list of participants was at the time, was attack Tsuji in April," he said, expressing his anger.

>Thus, his opponent for his first title defense was decided to be PAC of the Death Riders, not Gabe. "I certainly wonder why he attacked me then," Umino said, expressing his very reasonable questioning of Gabe. However, PAC is a rival with whom Umino has a history, having challenged for the AEW All Atlantic Championship on the RPW mat in July 2022 during his training in the UK, and losing. "It's not like I owe him anything, but back then, the challenge itself was an honor for me. Now that I'm the GLOBAL Champion, he's the perfect challenger to raise the value of the belt," he said, his fighting spirit burning.
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>>20698188
>Meanwhile, Tsuji, the organization's top champion, has sparked controversy by suggesting a boycott, citing the way past IWGP Championship matches have been treated in FD. In response, Umino agreed, saying, "I understand his feelings, so I hope he sticks to them. The concept of the belt is important, and considering how the IWGP has been treated in AEW up until now, I think it's been looked down upon, so I think it's time to correct that course."

>"I think the concept of the IWGP was to 'accept any challenge' as a champion, but now that there are other belts with the IWGP name, I think it's my job as the GLOBAL champion to 'accept any challenge' overseas, as it transcends national borders. There is a risk of the title being lost if I lose, but I want to prove to the world that New Japan Pro-Wrestling and the IWGP GLOBAL are the greatest, including that responsibility," he said, expressing his views on the role of each championship.

>At the Sagamihara tournament on the 21st, he took part in a six-man tag team match and secured a decisive victory with a spectacular lariat. "I believe that the belt's significance and value will only increase if we can highlight its unique characteristics," Umino declared emphatically, opening the forbidden door with the pride of a champion in his heart.
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a lot of words to say nothing
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>>20698188
>>20698192
>joins Naito's faction
>somehow becomes a bigger flag waver than Umino
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>>20698371
Naito was literally the biggest flag waver, he was just more charismatic and knew how to use his words unlike Tsuji.
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>>20694654
Noone outside of your retarded bubble agrees btw, you definitely should kill your worhless self
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the boycott shit doesn't work because

-the one time they called him, he went
-this is an obvious EVIL situation where Tony just doesn't like him.
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>>20698650
https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/tony-khan-wanted-yota-tsuji-in-aew-title-match-at-aew-x-njpw-forbidden-door-2024/
“Last summer, I was looking at using someone who is not available at all this year, who I would have loved to use on the card, but he’s not available to come at all. It’s not like he wasn’t available for the TV, he wasn’t available to come at all. That’s Yota Tsuji. I think he’s an excellent pro wrestler. He participated in the event in the past, but I would have liked to have use him more. Last year, I had maybe envisioned a bigger role for him. I had considered him possibly as a title challenger for Swerve Strickland. A few people said to me, ‘He’s a great wrestler, but no matter how much we do on TV for a champion like Swerve, we think a more established wrestler, even if it’s not a New Japan wrestler, might be the best thing for Forbidden Door.’ I think they were right. Will Ospreay himself said, ‘I think I’d be a great challenger for Swerve and maybe it would help the event more if you’re interested in that even if it’s outside the traditional way we’ve done Forbidden Door.’ I thought about it and I thought it was right and I made the choice to do it. I think it was the right thing to do.”
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>>20698641
No, I don't think I will, portuANO
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>>20698650
there were reports years ago of Tony being high on Tsuji

He's a mark for lucha shit so it makes sense
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>>20699199
soon...
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>>20699245
Japan was really ahead of the curve before they become broke ass niggas
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>>20699245
such an amazing piece of editing
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>[NJPW] SHO Lawlessly Demands a BOSJ “Do-Over”: “YOH’s Name Must Be Removed from the List of Past Winners”

>SHO (36) of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s evil faction House of Torture (H.O.T) is making a lawless demand for this year’s “Best of the Super Juniors” (BOSJ) to be done over.

>In New Japan’s junior division, BOSJ winner YOH defeated DOUKI at the June 14 Osaka-jo Hall show to become the 100th champion. On the 23rd at Korakuen Hall, a four-way match will be held to determine the next challenger, with SHO battling Fujita Kosei, Master Wato, and Francesco Akira for the title shot. Speaking to this paper, SHO declared, “I’ll beat the hell out of the country bumpkins from Ehime, Osaka, and rural Italy and send them all back to the sticks. Wato, who interfered in the match at Osaka-jo and helped YOH win in that cheap way, especially needs a thorough beating.”

>YOH, SHO’s former partner from their once-famous tag team Roppongi 3K, has suddenly climbed to the top of the junior division. But SHO complained, “The BOSJ itself should be invalid in the first place. A referee’s bad call changed who advanced to the final.”

>SHO had aimed to win the tournament from B Block, and after all league matches ended, he was tied with YOH and others at 12 points, but was eliminated based on head-to-head results. In his official league match with YOH on May 20 at Korakuen, the referee believed YOH had been hit with a torture tool and disqualified SHO, making that loss fatal in the end. “If they did video review on that, they’d immediately see that bastard YOH was lying. If they don’t police fouls more properly, fans are only going to leave faster,” he argued, though if video review were actually introduced, H.O.T would be the ones most disadvantaged in New Japan Pro-Wrestling…
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>>20701567
>Unable to accept the situation, SHO laid out an extremely selfish blueprint: “Originally, I’m the one who would have won BOSJ, so time should be turned back. Once I take the belt, I’ll use my authority as champion to make them redo ‘BOSJ 33’ all over again. Of course, YOH’s name will be removed from the list of past winners. And naturally, I’ll become the 100th IWGP Junior champion too.” He promised the complete erasure of all records related to YOH. Restarting a league tournament with 20 participants from scratch would be unprecedented, and scheduling adjustments would likely be extraordinarily difficult.

>“Everyone who supports that pervert is a pervert too, and right now the morals of the pro wrestling world are being questioned. Just airing his matches is definitely a compliance violation, and it might even run afoul of broadcast standards. With TV Asahi becoming the parent company now, I, the savior, have no choice but to save the juniors from this crisis. I’ll take the belt, and from now on I’ll make him wear a mask.” SHO, who even clearly remembered that YOH had wanted to be a masked wrestler in his younger days, will seize the right to challenge and bring an end to the eccentric champion’s reign.

https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/393004
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>>20698662
lmao this was from last year? Blow it out your ass Tiny you would never book him meaningfully.

>>20701567
>>20701571
Slowest week in tokyo sports history huh
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>>20668158
wasted
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6 hours till G1 qualifiers but they already spoiled that Wolf is in the tournament so I shant be watching.
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>[ Tiger Mask's Classic Matches Streamed for Free ]
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>>20702019
Well Yahoo Japan has this
>A soccer boy who went to Mexico to admire Keisuke Honda becomes a professional wrestler on the spot! Interview with Luchador Yutani, who is on the rise in popularity, "I will not return to Japan until I am called to New Japan"
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/bd7f456875d3b66c02b501f0aeac6b8abbce2994
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>>20703871
I'm afraid how current NJPW would use him, but he is great
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>>20703871
>Abe
>Yutani
With competent bookers the Jrs would hit a Golden Age
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>Road to G1 CLIMAX
TUE 6/23 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall
35 minutes till SHO-time

>G1 CLIMAX 36 A Block Play-In Match: Taichi vs Yuto-Ice
>G1 CLIMAX 36 B Block Play-In Match: YOSHI-HASHI vs Aaron Wolf
>IWGP Jr. Heavyweight No.1 Contender's 4-way Match: Master Wato vs Kosei Fujita vs Francesco Akira vs SHO
>Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, OSKAR, Shingo Takagi & Daiki Nagai vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
>Shota Umino & Satoshi Kojima vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson)
>Hirooki Goto, YOH, Ryusuke Taguchi & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs UNITED EMPIRE (Jake Lee, Great-O-Khan, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay)
>Yuya Uemura, El Desperado & Masatora Yasuda vs Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Taisei Nakahara)
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>>20704009
Ungrim for once
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>>20703366
You really thought Yoshi-Hashi had any chance to beat Wolf?
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Despy and Uemura as a team is a funny visual to me
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>>20704009
Singles look great though bittersweet knowing it likely stops Taichi and big Yosh

Hey remember when Uemura and Makabe randomly seemed to have huge heat at the end of match but nothing came of it? Weird.
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>Jakob picking Jake instead of Newman or calling Jake vs Newman Final
Yeah Newman is out lol
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[Shocking News] Jake Lee doesn't speak English
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great insight from jake?
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Decisive victory from United Empire leader Great O-Khan
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>Chris advertising Dynamite
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wtf they like shota now
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>Gabe is still in japan
kek his visa's fucked huh
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Fuck this music dude
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>>20704135
I'M A TRAPPED MAN YOU KNOW
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Came in just in time for YOH game
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Rooting for the SHOster here so they can get their yaoi match out of the way
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>>20704093
They said he's doing extensive rehab for some ligament damage and internal bleeding but he's not taken out yet
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I would love to see YOH's big assets
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SHO being a retard in kayfabe is great
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god i wish the jrs got never reigns
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>>20704167
>internal bleeding
what the fuck
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why does Fujita hate this nigga so fucking much
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That night sleep
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this shit is picking up nicely
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COME ON SHO
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DOUKI is such a bitch now lol
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Great match
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always get confused when pizza boy do that move, in my brain its a somato but they call it fireball??
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I have UE fatigue
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I wouldn't mind lil italian nigga winning this but YOH is a drawoli so we're gonna have a comedy champ for now
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>>20704206
Funny because everyone who doesn't watch DDT calls it Meteora
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Wolf Time
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WHERE IS YOUR BELT YOU FAT FUCK
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>>20704213
LOL interesting, I think outside ddt some wrestlers call that move like that, afaik harashima is not strict about lending it
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>47 matches vs HoT out of 50
I need niggas beheaded
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I'm here for Yoshi-Hashi, sorry Urufu
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>>20704221
Someone on X tweeted that just the other day kek and everyone had the same reaction
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The wily veteran Yoshi-Hashi
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Do you think Wolf debuts an outfit for the G1 or do they wait for his rematch with Ren at WK?
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this wolf's selling is pretty good even if you could feel the awkwardness
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Wolf is selling the chops well (probably because they really hurt on his titty meat)
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An awkward falling splash saved by YOSHI-HASHI clipping his legs as he was falling down
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>Low Fly Fall
kek
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That didn't look good
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Some based ne-waza from Wolf there
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>had to wait 6 months to see him wrestle like this
fuck you
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Why don't make him stick to strong style, he doesn't have to that shit
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god bless this ugly fuck yoshihashi
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DESTIII

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Don't put this guy with HOT again please
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Give this man a singles title reign for god sake
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I'm not surprised Wolf works well with veterans who are good workers. It worked with EVIL and now It works with YOSHI-HaSHI
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what a fucking match
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Looking forward to them running that back for the NEVER belt at some point
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We've now seen how carryable Aaron Wolf is. Whoever fails to do so this summer should be fired.
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This one gonna be good
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Let’s go Taichi!!
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WHERE MY BROTHERS AT WHERE MY BROTHERS AT
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>music has been altered
What?
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I'm so torn with this match. Why can't they both be in the G1
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>mute licensed theme to play his other licensed theme
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I will be supporting taichi
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Taichi is so damn good lads
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Vkei vs Cholo
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>>20704276
Apparently it was Malice Mizer, a different group
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Kek
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I'm so used to see Yuto next to OSKAR that he looked always so small now without him he tall (average, taichi is 177cm)
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KICKA PHASE 2 ENGAGED
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Get those fucking pants off, GOAT
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Taichi Gear 2 (pantless)
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These are really just promotions for these veterans at heart. Please Newman be out of action so one of them can move in
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HOLY FUCK
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Oof he fucking bounced off his dome there
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SHEEESH
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>Taichi finds himself in G1 via someone's injury: Part 2
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Ice needs a new finish
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>Kick out at 1
He's losing then
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WAN WAN
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>1,195人
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YUTO WHAT THE FUCK
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jesus fucking christ
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Fucking hell
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JESUS
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OSKAR talking like this shit is real
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Taichi :(
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Ice's offense needs so work but this shit was kino
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Taichi...
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Taichi needs a Goto Revolution style push
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OSKAR should squash Yujiro like when Hikuleo did
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>we can skip that whole AEW thing
OSKAR LMAO
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>"we can skip the whole AEW thing"
Chris is gonna get in trouble for OSKAR's words there
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Sounds like it was a good show
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>Yota has conquered the world, and Umino is soaring globally, so why is Uemura still clashing with Makabe?
>Wolf is the type of wrestler who has strong expressive abilities as well as technique. In terms of controlling the flow of the match, YOSHI-HASHI's storyline and meticulous inside work shone, and it seems like a good first singles match for a non-torture wrestler, although he's only been in the ring for six months, so I hope he gains more experience in the G1.
>Well, it was an exciting match, but Taichi was clearly superior in terms of skill lol. Ice fell apart too much towards the end, so thank you Taichi, and I hope he continues to hone his singles skills. His expressiveness is a strong point.
>It's a shame this was the main event, because YOSHI-HASHI Wolf was so entertaining.
>ICE has a lot of attacks that don't connect. It's not very convincing.
>What Ice is doing is that WWE thing where even if the match is lame, they make up for it with their mic skills.
>The general atmosphere was one of sympathy for the underdog toward YOSHI-HASHI, and my impression was that since Wolf couldn't control the flow of the match with much nuance, he used small, detailed movements to create shifts in pace. In terms of match flow, it was definitely YOSHI-HASHI who held things together. That said, I think Wolf was surprisingly good at selling and conveying emotion. I found myself naturally drawn in, so it was a solid performance overall. His moves still pack the same intensity; you definitely wouldn't think he’s only been at this for six months. It would be nice to see him get a better handle on controlling the pace, but perhaps that’s asking for too much.
>ICE poured all his effort into his tag with Oscar, where his weaknesses are covered, so he’s never really had to face the kind of challenges that help a solo player grow. When it comes to singles play, Ice is significantly lagging behind Oiwa, the very guy he keeps calling a "nobody."
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