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>>20853713
>Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji & Daiki Nagai) vs Unbound Co. (Yuto-Ice & Gedo)
>Hirooki Goto & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi & Taiji Ishimori)
>Konosuke Takeshita & Toru Yano vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young)
>TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
>Boltin Oleg & Masatora Yasuda vs United Empire (Jake Lee & Zane Jay)

Previous thread >>20806537

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>Goto and SANADA are the most charismatic and best characters in NJPW
>one is too old, the other is washed

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Tsuji won.

>>20853729
>the other is washed
GOATNADA lever lost it, son

>>20853751
He and Ice aren't the current leaders for MVP so far

grim

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save us TV Asahi

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>>20854457
does this guy looks like he would give a shit about Shin Nihon and want to ungrim them ?

The way Yuya rushes to leap over the top rope and scramble up the turnbuckles reminds me of Tanahashi so much............ i get emotional when he does. too bad the DIVE itself sucks. i hope Tanner just gifts him the high fly flow, a dive finish on a standing opponent is never, ever gonna get over

they STOPPED THE COUNT too early on the Reiwa Musketeers thing, it's clearly Uemura, Oiwa and Ice.

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I haven't watched a second of the G1.

Great crowd last night. Wish move native audiences were as vocal.

OLD Skull Sanada and Rampage Unc Shingo are inadvertently having kings road style matches because they're so old that even their second super finishers are cheapened by kickouts. All their wins now are just avalanches of super moves, it's pretty based.

>>20855008
I wish they would go to Sendai more instead of shit ass crowds like Hanamatsu and Gunma. There's not even a show in Nagoya this year.

Gabe Kidd's promo sank Takaichi's approval rating.

>>20853713
>G1 Climax 36 B Block: Shota Umino vs Ren Narita
and nothing of value was lost

>Naraku

WWWWWWWWWWWWW

>>20856466
I would take that over an antidraw bongslop main event. Should've switch Yuya/Drilla to main.

how fucking hard is it to call a jr to work a singles on short notice?

>Ice's facade is starting to crumble in G1; he's no good as a singles wrestler. Oscar is better suited for singles, though.
>It's Nakajima after all, so it was obvious. He's still just a young lion with just a few hairs growing on him.
>I wouldn't complain if Ice could kick like Katsuhiko Nakajima.
>Ice should aim to be like Chono.
>Speaking of the book, the fact that Yoshihashi and Taichi didn't take Umino's place means that the winner was already decided at that point.
>Yuto will probably end up with around two wins, but that suits his character better, and the more he loses, the more he can create a rivalry when they next win the tag team belts.
>The babyface IWGP champion loses to a heel wrestler in terms of fan support...
>Tsuji has beaten Takeshita many times, but it's a shame that he still doesn't have the image of being stronger than Takeshita. New Japan is strangely building up his achievements, but Tsuji will never become an absolute powerhouse like Okada.
>Shibata's wrestling in the old days was amazing! He didn't do stupid things like thigh slaps; he used a variety of kicks and put on a great show. Thigh slaps and kicks are just a way for unskilled wrestlers to cover up their shortcomings. Nagata didn't do thigh slaps either; he threw amazing kicks, and that's why the people receiving them also shone.

does shota withdrawing and letting all the guys in his block get a point let their career last longer? how many years?

>>20857035
>oskar sitting at fucking 2 right now not counting the 2 points from forfeit
maybe the ojisans are right..
>He didn't do stupid things like thigh slaps; he used a variety of kicks and put on a great show. Thigh slaps and kicks are just a way for unskilled wrestlers to cover up their shortcomings.
KEK

>1,555人
UP by 8 whole people from last year.

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>>20857579
still very grim I'm afraid

We don't talk enough about how Zack is an unsafe shitter considering he has on paper the safest wrestling style possible. It's not the first time he injures someone on the first day of the G1, he did that to Naito a few years ago.

Block B is the grimness containment block. They literally got all the gaijin niggas in it (Boruchin is honorary). It's the most obvious thing in the world that Yuya is going to the final now that Shokek is injured.

>>20855010
That's what made Okada's main events so good imo, the rainmaker wasn't an insta win move, and the story of a lot of his matches would be him fighting his opponent to exhaustion and trusting his superhuman durability to win out. You need to be already ded before the rainmaker can beat you if you're a strong opponent.
I do prefer cumulative punishment wins over video gamey "wait for the super bar to fill then win" type, so I too enjoy watching Shingo throw everything but the kitchen sink at his opponents to beat them.

>>20857683
>8-person SKYROCKET in this economy
Definitely NOT grim

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>>20858315
>muh economy
very grim cope only used by puroresu fans because puroresu is dying and they can't accept this fact
last year's G1 was already grim beyond belief, this one is even more grim

>>20857765
Poor Yuya

>>20857035
These fuckers are dead wrong about Ice. Most over guy on every show and they want to bitch about how hard he kicks. This tag guy fresh from excursion is more over than the Reiwa Musketeers

>>20857035
God I'm starting to recognize 2ch's NJPW autist recurring posters now
>the guy who has a hard-on and won't shut the fuck up about Nakajima
Ice is more over right now than Nakajima has been his entire career anywhere

calling Callum as B1 and Yuya as B2 with both in the final

>>20859754
grim

My boy OSKAR getting pinned left and right like a bitch. Protect him like Fale and get that 5-4 G1 special going.

Block finals will be Goto vs Oiwa (Oiwa wins) and Geibu vs Yuya (Yuya wins)
Yuya wins G1 and KWABs pudding man at 1.4

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>protected commodity Aaron Wolfe gets beat by cocky heel Gabe fairly clean in 10 minutes with Gabe being fine and talking shit 20 seconds later

>>20859797
this is why i don't like the playoffs format. part of the joy of the g1 was the guys who had no chance to win anymore cucking guys out of winning out of spite. now they just completely assrape all the midcarders by giving them no wins and making them irrelevant days before the tournament is over. i remember how kino it was in 2019 when Goto and Jay were tied to win the block, and Goto had the tiebreaker over Jay, but on the last night Shingo just said "fuck your G1 LMAO" and rekt his shit. I remember Kojima cucked Kwab Anderson out of the block win in 2015 as well.

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>decided to look back on the good old days and watch a great event, WK10, where Okada, Tanahashi, Naito, Kenny, Goto, Ishii, AJ, Nakamura, Shibata, Makabe and Honma are all performing at an excellent level and putting on great bouts
>forgot the Young Cucks, Ricogay, Evan Bourne, Michael Elgin, Rocky Romero, Trent Beretta and that faggoty son of Scott Hall were all shitting it up back then

realizing now that the golden age's grims were actually grimmer than the current age, even though the highs are nowhere near as high.
Though i would definitely take back the nightly Tama Tonga pissbreaks in a heartbeat if it meant I could get a 200 mph prime Shibata sprint right after again.

>>20860188
Gabe is considered on the level of Tsuji, Uemura, and the top heavyweights. Aaron Wolf is not yet. Wolf is considered on the same tier of Yuto Ice and Oskar. They'll lose most of their matches but next year, they'll win most of their matches.

Gabe is considered on the level of shitter

>>20860441
Yes I understand he hurt your feelings by going to AEW

>>20860452
no he hurt my feelings by not staying there

>>20860457
He's a top 3 worker in this G1 and you yourself seem to have been worked by him

>>20860188
as Gabe said all along to Wolfcuck, it's pro wrestling, not gay ass judo, and Gabe is better at that.

>>20860197
This year has some fun fuck yous in play
>Ice over Goto
>Oka over Oleg
>Jake over Tsuji
>Oiwa over Takeshita
>Wolf over ZSJ
>Narita over Gabe
Not counting OSKAR/Yuya or HENARE/Callum because I doubt either happens

>>20860470
He's not even top 3 in his shitty handicapped block where nobody in it even cracks top 3 in the G1 as a whole.

>>20861452
Takeshita, Goto, and Gabe are the three best in-ring workers in this G1.

You might not like it but it's the truth.

Tsuji is the MVP of tournament and the top 5 is all A block guys.

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the only players i support to win their bouts are Drilla, Callum, Goto, Shingo and SANADA. but i think the best performers are Geibu, Take and Tsuji, so i enjoy their matches too even though i don't care if they win or lose them. everyone else, i don't fucking care brother. Ice, Oiwa, Wolftits, Oskek, Henare, GOK, Narita, Smart Bastard, Zack, Boruchin, Uemura, they're all dead weight. It's a shame Grimino got injured, he would probably be a top 5 worker.

i support gabe to win every time desu, i dont know why nujamals get so worked into an actual seethe when the actual live crowd clearly thinks he's good fun. yall some marks fr on that chris charlton shit lighten up suck your mum. gabe raping the mural of wolf is the most ive popped for anything so far

>>20861718
Tsuji's had one good match and he got carried by GOATo

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>>20862220
Don't deny the Snake his flowers

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>[Bad News] A comment from the person sitting next to me after seeing Yuto-Ice’s entrance
> “Is he drunk?”

There weren't many interesting comments on yesterday show, I was trying to look this morning but seems like there is a bit of a drama both on 5ch and X about some female fan's cheering getting picked by the audio (to be fair didn't notice that).
You gonna say, what's the problem? If you are accustomed you'll know that japanese fans often complain about 黄色い声 (shrill voice) as something uncalled for during for a wrestling match, often talking shit about female fans because of that.
>https://x.com/4duck_/status/2079928025630802297

First Tsuji sends Kidani to suicide watch, now Takagi has ended Natsupoi's career.

UNBOUND.

>>20862899
getting upset at an enthusiastic fan is the most twitter/chanboard shit I've ever heard

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>shoots on Yota Tsuji in your path

>>20863445
Can't agree more on this. But it's not the first time I read about this kind of complain in different promotions.
I'm not sure it's old men being annoyed by women or boomer being boomers and not wanting to see any young person in their hobby.

yeah, is incels

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>>20862899
>fans are incels mad at cute women for trying to cheer and make the crowd sound less dead than it usually is
don't make me say the word again

>>20862899
if those japcels spend go to literally 1 aew, wwe event and see an endless wave of unkempt beardslobs they will never complain again

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>hits /pw/'s waifu's fertile womb with a devastating, career ending pumping bomber

THANK YOU BASED GOTO
INCELS LOST
TSUJI WILL DROP THE BELT TO A SEX-HAVING HUSBAND AND FATHER AT KOPW

which of Shingo's finishers is even the finisher anymore? i've seen them both kicked out of recently

>>20863788
All of Tsuji's opponents so far have been married men and Shingo is next. He must not fail.

>>20863857
He's beginning to do a 4 Pillars thing where he can finish with any of his signature moves which is based

>>20862899
>>20863752
They don't have to go overseas just send them to a sumo event and seat them next to some drunk oji-sans

>>20863861
Tsuji only loses to wrestlers with non-wrestler wives. Shingo is fucked

Poi's retirement announcement (with the implication that she's gonna be a stay at home wife and make babies) will either stoke Tsuji's incel rage and empower him to obliterate Shingo, or it'll awaken his inferiority and cause a mental block that will never let him defeat Shingo. It can go either way.

>>20864549
how is shingo doing so far? i havent had a chance to catch up on the G1 yet

>>20864582
He unc'd on Oiwa but got memed on by Jake and lost a hoss battle against Boltin. Matchwise, he's been very good as usual but has been leaning heavily into crowd work and getting women and kids involved. Not very intense but engaging and fun. Reminds me a lot of Kojima in his last few G1s.

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Can any /fit/cels tell me how I acquire the prime Shingo physique? i lift weights, but i'd rather be like this instead of some faggy ass gay porn star looking bodybuilder guy
become a powalifta?

jake's fortnite dance after he pranked goto was his best one yet

>>20862899
ojisans really need to go away, japanese wrestling is not made for them and that's why it's so much better, i bet these retards weren't complaining when on some shows in korakuen there was one singular annoying cunt booing everything that shota did

>>20856466
that's what your parents would say after hearing a gunshot in your basement you fucking subhuman

>>20862316
TURN
HIM
FACE

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>>20864623
Kojima was never in the G1 anon, but if he was it would draw Okada, Naito and Tanahashi level dimes and beyond.

>>20864891
he already is desu, he's the Toru Yano replacement

>>20862899
Do these uncs realise they're watching the world's premiere fujobait promotion? The housewives are bringing in the yen, brother. Go watch Stardom if you want a male crowd, ojisan.

>>20865117
The Toru Yano replacement but with good matches

>>20865117
SANADA's cheating being so over with the crowd must be blackpilling as hell for Ren lmao, handsome dudes get away with everything.

>>20865135
SANADA's cheating is just a quick cheeky low bow or weapon use. Ren's is drawn out boring sequences and run ins. He only has himself to blame

its funny how low aew fan standards are for wrestling. they talk about that bum kevin knight like he's superstar. if he stayed in japan he wouldn't even be wrestling in the G1. he'd be washing togi makabe's sweaty jock

>>20865584
You're probably right and that's kind of the problem with NJPW's "you must a junior heavyweight" shit

Kevin Knight was twice the size of other guys in the division, made no sense
also he did really really well in his BOSJ

>>20865584
I don't wanna hear it when O Khan and Wolf are in the tournament.

>>20865186
SANADA's shenanigans are cheeky and fun
Narita's shenanigans are cruel and tragic
which make them not shenanigans at all really

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>>20866306
This nigga done lost his mind!

>>20865584
It's literally only because he's black though. If he was a white boy that could jump like that he'd be a 2-time BOSJ winner.

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https://ameblo.jp/takayama-do/image-12973462697-15800836044.html
Tatsuya Matsumoto is also on the card vs Ryuma Sekimo from BJW.

>>20865135
>>20865186
Also in the Tsuji match he waited till he was out of options after wrestling straight up to deliver that surprise nutshot. Tsuji came back from everything including kicking out of Deadfall so the no-arm-having nigga used his legs to kick him in the dick. Perfection.

Narita is literally just mimmicking EVIL now without any of the character or expressiveness to get away with it to some extent. Just a boring sack.

>>20853713
njpw

>>20866333
JAKE REE

>>20866655
Black wrestlers prize athleticism way too much, him and Gabe are about the same size yet one was working on his wrestling and promos while the other was doing box jumps til failure in the gym so he can get a good vertical.
Also, even if Kevin was japanese he would still not have won BOSJ off Fujita or Despe. Maybe he could have won in the transitional period between both of those junior aces, but Wato had seniority that year while Kevin was on his first run.

>>20860330
>Young Bucks humping the air 24/7
Sexual harassment
>Gabe Kidd humping the air 24/7
Empowering

>>20865601
Their size thing is largely a work for gaijins desu, for japs yes it holds but if you're a foreigner it's just a question of starpower.
It's really just about where they can get you featured. Like Kenny looked ridiculous doing power moves against a bunch of skinny flippers, but you need to belt him up and there's a bigger gaijin star with the heavyweight belt, so he has to go down... and he becomes a heavyweight literally overnight when AJ leaves despite being the same size as his last Jr match. and Shingo was hilariously oversized too, but they just put him there as a showcase so they could fast track him to stardom for the audience. They kept Ospreay down farming Jr belts because they were focusing on Jay as well.
Knight was pretty big, but either he spends a few years winning belts in as a Jr to get himself over enough to warrant a heavyweight run, or he debuts as a heavyweight and never gets any airtime to get himself over.
Drilla wouldn't be as over as he is now if he didn't spend 2 years as a Jr. I doubt Knight regrets his decision to leave, but if he wanted to be in the G1 he probably just had to wait another few months lol

>>20868089
>Drilla wouldn't be as over as he is now if he didn't spend 2 years as a Jr.
I disagree and I don't think a Jr run has ever done anything for a guy t hat couldn't have been done better in the heavyweight division

You have the NEVER and the Global and the tags and a bunch of secondary belts to get over lower tier heavyweights, you do not need forced enrollment as a junior when you're twice the size of everyone. It's just as dumb as making a tiny guy a heavyweight

I say this as a fan of Dragongate - no one cares about the Jr division. This goes back to comparing the the BOSJ and World Tag League attendances at the same arenas, with WTL outdrawing constantly. The next Liger isn’t walking through the door, and at this point neither is the next Hiromu. Murashima should just return as a heavyweight and be the next Ishii.

>>20868140
disagree, one of the top 3 talents of the reiwa generation is a turbomanlet that couldn't be convincingly booked to beat even Chase Owens. if the jr division solely exists so that Fujita can get singles matches on big cards, then it deserves to exist. the division was practically the Despe Invitational for years and that justified keeping it. and a junior tour is good for roster rest time and scouting foreign talent besides

>>20862899
i can think of several other times some chick was cheering loud as hell next to the mic, why are they complaining about it now?
>>20863531
probably a mix of both

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I bet you missh me ! G1 ishn't the shame witshout the shin ashe !!

>>20868140
Forced enrollment in the juniors is literally just a "pay your dues, kid" thing

It's utterly ridiculous for example that they made Shingo do this when he came over

>>20868321
Shingo was only a junior because Bushi was hurt and LIJ needed a partner for Hiromu in the jr tag league if I remember it right.

Uncle Dave gave Yuya/Zack 5 stars.

>>20868341
Hiromu was recovering from Dragon Lee breaking his neck via botched Steenalizer, so Shingo was BUSHI's partner, but your general idea is correct on the why.

>>20868159
That's true. Where would New Japan be without Jacob Austin Young.

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he knows

>>20868613
>Drilla vs Gabe: ****1/2
>Goto vs Tsuji: ****1/4
Hack

jeongmok

>>20868613
Who?

>>20868321
>>20868341
Don't you remember how strongly Takagi was booked when he was a junior heavyweight? He went undefeated for several months. I think they used his time in the division as an avenue to push him. The match where RPG3K defended the junior heavyweight tag titles against Takagi/BUSHI was the former team's best ever match.

>>20860330
All those bottom guys you criticized were also really good in NJPW at the time (except for maybe Cody Hall, but he was just a young lion). Was Elgin one of anyone else's favorite wrestlers during his tenure with NJPW? I remember hating him as ROH World Champ, but he was like the second coming of Steve Williams in Japan. His February 2017 match against Naito remains as one of my favorites. I remember thinking it was better than the legendary Okada vs Omega match from the month prior.

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https://youtu.be/vj3XdjPcBRI?is=-NhpIMc5XKrFebFr

i really, really, really, really, really, really, really hope Goto wins the G1

>>20871786
>G in G1 stands for Goto
They named the tournament after him. He literally can't lose!

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Today

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>>20872225
Tomorrow

>>20872230
No Heat Storm, No Watch

>>20872230
uemura is teaming up with kojima tonight. for the love of fucking god just book them to face each other tomorrow.

>>20872225
thread up >>20872842

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>2,027人
Well at least it's not the 7.25 incident from last year but doing 2 thousy in Ota-ku on a saturday, Shingo getting outdrawn by his wife and the heavyweights getting outdrawn by the junior twinks is still very GRIM I'm afraid !

>2,027人
More than A block last year in the same building which happened on a Friday (1,308). B Block with only 4 tournament matches was on a Saturday last year and drew 2,250.

Aisu/Oiwa > Takeshita/Boltin = Tsuji/Takagi >>>>>>>>>> that other shit

>>20873688
He spent like a whole year trying to prove the opposite but Tsuji's matches when he's either in peril or fighting even is not interesting.

great o khan fucking sucks

>>20873730
name more than 3 dudes who don't suck in this G1
they're all just going through the motion with the same old bangerino routine
we need more than that if we want to go back to the golden age days this fucking roster sucks

>>20873749
you're insane and need to be put down, genuinely

>>20873749
A block has about 6 of them

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I haven't watched a single second of the G1 (Grim-1) this year.

Yuto-Ice should win the G1.

>[New Japan G1] Yuto-Ice defeats Oiwa for his second win. His next match is against fellow stablemate Yota Tsuji. "We're friends who go to hostess clubs together"
https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/397136
oh he's THAT level of unfucked?

>>20874045
My champ is Kaito tier now. Grim

>>20874045
Hostess clubs with your homie sounds both lame and gay as fuck unless you take a girl home when their shift ends

>>20873941
That Oiwa match was the best Ice has looked, which proves the theory that he needs to be up and leading bouts. That O-Khan match was terrible because Ice got 5% of the offense. Him and Oiwa should run that back for the next 20 years.

>>20873898
Not a grimposter but this looks like two kids arguing on the playground

>>20873917
many people are saying this
and it shows, considering the grim attendance numbers

>>20873749
retard

>I don't think Uemura alone can become like Tanahashi. Maybe if you combine Umino and Wolf and divide by three, it might work.
>Tsuji's misfortune was joining Los Ingobernables. That unit used to be a collection of strong-willed, individualized wrestlers, but when he came back from excursion, this smirking uncle with no clear identity just absorbed all of Naito's worst traits and got a swelled head.
>It became clear at the Shinjuku FACE young wrestlers show that the young lions were inferior to the young wrestlers from other organizations.
>It became clear at the Shinjuku FACE young wrestlers show that the young lions were inferior to the young wrestlers from other organizations.
>If you put YUTO-ICE's match right after Boltin Oleg's, it just highlights how weak and incapable of actual pro wrestling he is—you need to sort out the match order properly!
>After watching the elbow battle between Takeshita and Boltin, seeing the one between Oiwa and ICE just hits differently, doesn't it?
>Ice's fighting style is basically just punching and kicking, so there's no room for improvement. Perhaps throwing techniques are difficult for him due to an old elbow injury.
>Today, Oiwa was superior to ice in every aspect, both offensively and defensively, and it felt like he only lost at the very end. I could see the result coming as a way to avenge the NJC loss, but Oiwa was just incredibly reliable, and I really hope he makes it to the semifinals.
>Looking at Ice now, KENTA , despite his small stature, had a pretty impressive presence with his powerful hitting.
>Go watch some videos of KENTA in his prime. He's incredibly convincing, and even though KENTA is hitting pretty hard, ICE's strikes are just pathetic.
>It's such a shame that a Tsuji vs. Takagi match couldn't draw a bigger crowd.

>>20874096
>That O-Khan match was terrible because Ice got 5% of the offense
It sucked because they're both too slow to make a singles match between them. Im glad they had that match in Chicago so I don't have to worry about it stinking up a JP show

>>20874064
the guy post picture of him playing golf, im not surprised about that in the slightest lol but ICE going to hostess clubs and not in western style strip club its kind of lame

>>20874173
the more I read these comments, the more I recognize individual posters from 5ch

and they're all just as sour, dumb, and autistic as the people here

>>20874216
its literally 10% of what is posted over 4/5 pages of NJPW general.
It's not all the opinions, since I skimmed thought a lot of hate comments on GOK and complaining about getting beaten by Stardom and so on

>>20874237
seems more like you just pick ones out that push certain agendas

you're always posting them bitching about Yuto Ice for example and his strikes
Why do you pick those out specifically? because you agree?

Final four will be Takeshita, Oiwa, Callum & Uemura

>>20874247
If had an agenda if i spent actual money on these guys KEK. (also 5ch is free and you can check it yourself)
I like ICE, he one of my MVP of the year, but I find interesting how despite being very liked right now some people find flaws in his style as solo wrestlers (also the other day he got compared to nakajima and now kenta, which i find hilarious)

>>20874216
>>20874247
>NOOOOOOOOO WHY DO THEY SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT MY YUMMIES !!! STOP SAYING THEY CAN'T DRAW !!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY YUMMY ICE COLD SHITTER NOOOOOO !!!!
kek
grim state of denial

>>20874271
Top 4 can be anything at this point since Tenzan sold out that show. The question is which final draws as much dimes as possible in 2026 New Japan.

>>20874285
Well those guys know nothing about KENTA or Nakajima

KENTA was still wearing red trunks and using his whole first name/last name and doing high-flying moves when he was 5 years into his wrestling career, he didn't even have the "striker" gimmick yet.
And Nakajima was still LARPing as Kensuke Sasaki's son, carrying his bags, and wearing a karate gi in the ring at this point

Ice only started training wrestling 5 years ago and has been back from excursion how long? It's ridiculous

>>20874271
Takeshita has to be final four because they don’t have permission to give him more than 3 loses all tournament

>>20872225
bout to watch this one now. im sorry japbros for not posting in the gamethreads but im just usually not awake at 5am.

>>20874362
does Tonikan allow a draw ?

>>20874173
>It became clear at the Shinjuku FACE young wrestlers show that the young lions were inferior to the young wrestlers from other organizations.
Not true at all. The only place that trains guys as good/better than NJPW is DDT and I still prefer NJPW's training style

because the Noge Dojo teaches fundamentals more than anything else. It lets guys build on top of a very solid base with their own talent. Now a lot of them fail to do that but it's still better for them to have good fundamentals because they'd probably fail just the same if they were trained in other ways.

>>20874362
god I FUCKING HATE takeshita. i always did. ill be fine with anybody winning as long as its not him.

I pretend I'm not watching NJPW and post daily in this thread and here's my opinion of the G1: GRIM!

I'm actually not watching NJPW but I think things are looking up so I post on occasion to make sure the thread is bumped.

nice to see that kojima is still very healthy

>>20863513
Traitor, I knew those filthy Mongols could never be trusted, Tsuji should Ghost of Tsushima him.

Oh yeah they dropped the full opening song https://youtu.be/1ZEKB62h0aM

>>20874045
What does OSKAR do all day while Yuto is off with Tsuji at the hostess clubs?

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lmao

>>20874362
If Oiwa wins on the last day and ties with Takeshita and Tsuji, Takeshita would be eliminated and not make the playoffs.

>>20876128
AI slop unit

>>20876128
went from Bullet Club and LIJ to AI fists breaking chains that symbolize.......nothing really with some Microsoft Word font.

>>20876128
can't see this without thinking of the goatse edit

>>20875083
Oskar is watching *Avatar: The Last Airbender* on Netflix.

>>20877474
No wonder he's so angry all the time.

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MY NAME IS YOTA TSUJI AND I INVENTED FIREBLASTING

B block is G block

Aggressively mediocre main event while Drilla is actually putting in decent work.

>>20873666
>1,580人
Down from last year with its main event canceled and not even being able to see Uemura at all. Total Ota attendance 3607, up from 3558 last year.

>>20878676
grim numbers
2 Ota shows combined can't even outdraw the junior twinks
very grim !

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>>20878871
Not enough zest I'm afraid

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yuya please we need this

Tokyo popping for the tombstone on Wolf was great. Then Wolf got choked out and they went silent. It’s like they are okay with him losing until he actually loses.

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>I was at the dojo with Hirooki.

>Me: Hirooki, isn’t the bar tilted?
>Hirooki: Is it?
>Me: Look closely.
>Hirooki: You’re right. I never noticed at all.

>I’m pretty careless myself, but Hirooki is even more careless.

>Peacefulー
>#後藤洋央紀 #njpw

https://x.com/kokeshi19761118/status/2081366737107464673

>>20879262
They were expecting him to keep going especially after the judo olympian got put into a choke. Kind of an "aww man"

why do they ruin their only mainsteam star by making him lose to some gaijin shitter by submission

>>20879676
Technical submission to a guy that’s a foot taller. Judo isn’t saving him from referee’s discretion, and Wolf will get his win back at Destruction.

>>20879237
Yuya's been off the market this year with his match structure but I hope he wises up for this.

>>20878105
When you fingerblast a redhead?

>>20881467
Hostess clubs kick you out for attempting stuff like that

>>20878105
Tsuji no, you'll get sued by the pokemon company

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>Tenzan, my sworn ally, is retiring.

>I have witnessed up close the physical suffering he has endured due to constant injuries of late.

>I became his final opponent.

>With the deepest gratitude.

>#njpw

https://x.com/cozy_lariat/status/2081535391929393456

>>20879676
Oskar is 6'7 and tombstoned him, this is like the least offensive loss Wolf has taken so far.

>>20883507
should main event desu

Its a real tell-tale sign about where both the G1 AND Gabe are that he did that fallout to Shibata after Ota and nobody cared.

>>20886820
some japs were excited when they found out what he was saying but this is just him angling a match with Shibata for the title in AEW

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No G1 show that I can call grim today ?

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>>20887283
You can grim at the lack of conversation about the G1 till wednesday

ム

>>20888062
Keep Japan Japanese

>>20888062
This is it. This is where Shingo finally starts using Poi's moves

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WED 7/29 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Yamato University Yamato Arena
>G1 Climax 36 A Block- Yota Tsuji (2-2) vs Yuto-Ice (2-2)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block- Hirooki Goto (2-2) vs Shingo Takagi (1-3)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block- Konosuke Takeshita (3-1) vs Great-O-Khan (2-2)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block- Ryohei Oiwa (2-2) vs SANADA (2-2)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block- Boltin Oleg (2-2) vs Jake Lee (2-2)
>TMDK (Hartley Jackson & Zack Sabre Jr. vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita & Dick Togo)
>Unbound Co. (Drilla Moloney & Daiki Nagai) vs Unbound Co. (OSKAR & Gedo)
>Yuya Uemura & Masatora Yasuda vs Aaron Wolf & Tatsuya Matsumoto
>Toru Yano & Taisei Nakahara vs United Empire (HENARE & Jakob Austin Young)

FRI 7/31 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Takamatsu City Gymnasium 1st Stadium
>G1 Climax 36 B Block- Yuya Uemura (2-2) vs Aaron Wolf (2-2)
>G1 Climax 36 B Block- Callum Newman (3-2) vs Gabe Kidd (4-1)
>G1 Climax 36 B Block- Zack Sabre Jr. (1-3) vs Ren Narita (2-2)
>G1 Climax 36 B Block- Drilla Moloney (4-1) vs OSKAR (3-2)
>Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji & Daiki Nagai) vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Harltey Jackson)
>Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi, Yuto-Ice & Gedo) vs United Empire (Jake Lee, Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young)
>Hirooki Goto & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Konosuke Takeshita & Toru Yano
>Boltin Oleg & Masatora Yasuda vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)

>>20888134
grim

>>20888329
Tsuji
Shingo
Takeshita
Oiwa
Oleg

Uemura
Callum
ZSJ
OSKAR

>>20888134
Shingles only watched one Poi match until his life and he was on his phone for half of it. He's bound to mix something up.

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>>20888329
>Gabe Kidd (4-1)

>>20891720
They want le heat so expect him to at least be in playoff contention till the very end

>>20891967
This. Last night is against Narita, who will screw him out of the playoffs. Hopefully we get a glimpse of the Narita from the cage match.

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GRIPchads we did it!

Where tf is Hiromu??

Grim

>>20892719
EVIL needs to job to the italian guy 3 more times before unlocking Hiromu. I miss them both, though

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>Takaaki Kidani has stepped down as president of Bushiroad.
KWAB,Tsuji won.

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>>20893457

>>20893457
Goodbye, bitch

>>20893457
A Bang Dream producer runs the show now

>>20893726
Didn't one of their guitarists just die?

>>20893457
I always told you this bitch ass nigga was grim

>>20893812
Not one of their main talents, she was from a studio/backup band.

>>20892627
I think these are the two guys who will ultimately come out on top in this generation

And it's not necessarily because they have the best tools
but it's because they've built a believable feud between them, a hot feud, with what seems like a lot of real-seeming (but obviously worked) angst there

Jiei Huwaito really left being booked as the god emperor of NJPW to go and go get injured every match in AEW by botching shitters and job to David Finlay every time he's healthy enough to show up

NJPW's pay must be absolutely grim

>>20893457
Cardpedos got ding-dong diddly GENE BLASTED

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>>20893457

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>>20893457
He's been moved to handle the card game department ironically enough.

Better make Tsuji look strong when that NJPW/AEW card game drops, lil buddy.

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tomorrow's show will have a grim attendance number

>>20893457
Kek based

Fuck him and fuck Gotoetty. Wrestlers are NOT cards in a game

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>>20894822
I only concern myself with the grimness when the shows are terrible (B block). They emphasize why the attendance is grim, while a great show will show me that the grimness is or can be temporary as long as the hard work is put in. :)

I wish this general could make memes that are at least funny if we're going to shitpost them into the ground for years

>>20893457
>said all that shit just to step down 2 seconds later
lel, kekaroo even

Drilla Moloney is good actually

drilled bologna is going to the toybox next year

Watching Dribbla Baloney and Takeshita stink up the G1 last year is what finally killed New Japan for me.

My cope is that the remaining gaijin are such shitters that the talent raids must be ending in the next 3 years

Yuto Ice is obese, constantly reddit middle fingers like that fake tough guy Jon Moxley, thigh slapping 20 times per game, ugly, I think he is a good fit for AEW, if it's a place where a fat ugly fake shooter like Eddie Kingston can be a superstar, then a more talented fat ugly fake shooter like Yuto can be the company's ace.
Maybe in return they can send over Jay for a tour or two a year. He's an ikemen who can draw the housewife yen.

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>【Sold Out】

>Tickets for the 8/15 (Sat) Ryogoku Kokugikan event "NJPW Rumble Card presents G1 CLIMAX 36 ~Tenzan Hiroyoshi Retirement~" are sold out for all seats

>*There will be no tickets available on the day of the event

>>20897926
His suffering will finally end. Well deserved.

>>20897926
thank you for drawing the house one final time Tenzan

>>20897926
>previous guy who could sell out the house was 49 and retired
>current guy who can sell out the house is 55 and about to retire

Grim. these young bucks AIN'T it.

card for tonight

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BOLTIN OLEG, WE COMIN FO YOU NIGGA

day 8 thread >>20898858

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>>20897926
it's very grim to see the only way they can sell out a venue is with old broken down niggas retiring
a 5 minutes time limit match with 2 old dads draws more than anything Yota Pooji, Shitter Poomino, Yuya Gooeymura, Callme Woman, Konosugay Takeashit or Gaped Klitt did.
GRIM !!

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>2,025人
Although it is much better than their previous show in this venue, it is, I'm afraid, still half-empty and a very weak number for a G1 show in the second biggest market of the country, where they could at least do 5 thousy a few years ago.
Therefore, I officially confirm that this show validates its grim status. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

>>20899362
Arbitrary ass rules lol that ain't a grim, nigga

God forbid ya try something new.

>>20899427
I can't say I wasn't captivated but I'm not even sure if I liked it or not. If Yuto was actually fighting back while getting chopped it would've been a different story.

>>20899411
It's less grim than last year's show but just because they're up from last year doesn't mean it's not grim, especially considering last year's G1 was one of the grimest of all time. New Japan has been digging a hole of grimness for years, you can't get out of it easily. 2000 people in Osaka is not great at all if you know anything about the promotion's history. A few years ago during the G1 they could run 2 Edion Arena shows and do a double 5 thousy (sold out). If current New Japan could do that it would be considered the biggest achievement of the year, which is saying a lot.

How are things so grim? People were swearing that the Wrestle Kingdom ticket sales meant New Japan was freakin' back!

>>20899484
The remaining nujapoos never learn. Old broken down shitters are bigger draws. Tenzan's retirement will outdraw the G1 final and they still won't realize that people can actually buy tickets if they really want to, it's not because "le hecking economy", people don't want to pay for 2026 NJPW with its grim ass penetrated roster.

What happened to EDION Osaka anyhow? Didn't they just do renovations?

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*headlocks you*

>>20899554
Thanks daddy

>>20899554
If every move can end a match every move matters more
Though I did look away during the ending headlock and missed SANADA tapping

>>20899524
NTA but of course Tenzan would outsol the younger generation. I think he was known even by normies in the same way that Tanahashi was known, he drew more people, both current fans an old ones (that might not follow njpw like they use to) for a good reason

>>20899536
More renovations, both EDION 1 and 2 are closed till January. No Power Struggle again.

>O-Khan should join HOT.
>Putting aside whether he's entertaining or not, O'Khan does his job as a heel, so I appreciate that.
>Goto is amazing. I wonder if the current generation will be able to move like that when they reach Goto's age?
>Well, maybe they were a little too keen on trying something different. But it would probably be exciting to watch it live at the venue. On the other hand, watching it on a screen makes it seem like a match that was planned too much. It's difficult, isn't it?
>It's funny how Twitter is raving about it, but 5ch is giving it the cold shoulder.
>There's long been a lot of sentiment on 5ch saying that Yuto couldn't handle wrestling, and since this result basically confirms that, that's probably why things turned out this way. I imagine quite a few people feel he got carried solely by his popularity and emotional expressiveness. Personally, I would've liked to see a slightly more concise performance, though.
>As someone who saw Kensuke Kobashi's match live at the Dome...
>There are quite a few English speakers saying that it was good, like an Ibushi-Taichi match.
>Even the way Ice loses is taken into consideration, isn't that a bit overprotective?
>I had high hopes for Yuto-Ice. I figured that once he went single, he'd unlock pro wrestling moves other than just strikes.
But he didn't. Well, "he couldn't" is probably more accurate. His shoulder must be in really bad shape.
>I remember Tsuji's performance against Oiwa in last year's G1 race was pretty interesting, but I wonder how it will be this year.
>I think it will probably be a high-quality match. This G1 tournament has made me realize once again that Tsuji is a wrestler with consistently high average scores. However , as a champion, that's not enough for Tsuji. Especially since Oiwa has already created a masterpiece with Uemura, Tsuji needs to have a match against Oiwa that is on the same level.