>No shows for the next 3 weeks at least of what we're able to see.>G1 CLIMAX 36 WINNER: Ryohei Oiwa (Runner-up: Yuya Uemura)>G1 Climax 36 Awards (Fan Voting):- Outstanding Performance Award: Oleg Boltin- Fighting Sprit Award: Yuto-Ice- Best Technique Award: Ryohei Oiwa YUJI NAGATA PRODUCE BLUE JUSTICE XIX>SUN 09/06 12:00am(PDT) 3:00am(EDT) 8:00am(BST) Togane ArenaROAD TO DESTRUCTION (09/05/2026 to 09/13/2026)>WED 09/09 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall>THU 09/10 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen HallSAT 09/12 23:00am(PDT) / SUN 09/13 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Sendai Sun Plaza Hall >BATTLE LINE HOKKAIDO ~ ROAD TO DESTRUCTION (09/15/2026 to 09/23/2026)DESTRUCTION IN KOBE >SUN 09/27 12:00am(PDT) 3:00am(EDT) 8:00am(BST) Kobe World Memorial Hall
24 hours later Im still gripping my shit
>>21018948I kneel, Grip-sama
best G1 of the decade by far. it was a terrific ride and i hope the boys get some well needed rest
Superhuman Taiji Ushimori cums inside Sayaka Unagi
>>21018948Please tell me it's not true that they had Oiwa announce he's cashing his IWGP championship match at KoPW instead of WK
>>21019052He did. They're reverting back to tradition and have been for 3 years now.
>>21019052newfag
>>21019052He did and unfortunately I think that means he's losing
anyone want to guess the politics, behind the scenes, or why koji retired tenzan and not someone younger? just too frail? Whos going to pin honma? who do you want to pin him?
>>21019095Because Tenzan chose his friend to retire himIt isn't that deep
>>21018948The Gabe and Drilla backstage promo is pretty good. Also the weirdest part is that neither of them say "AEW". Gabe just mentions "being on TV" or "wrestling in America" but they never name the company. Gabe even namedrops WWE. Also Wheeler Yuta just stands there like a Young Lion kek
>>21019095controversial take, because the newest generations are absolutely dimeless
>With Oiwa and Uemura generating so much excitement, it's a real shame about Umino. There's a high possibility that one of them could have had a chance if Umino had been absent.>Just as Muto revived the outdated figure-four leglock, Oiwa's headlock is truly valuable. It reminded me of what>Ten years ago, when Kenny Omega's wrestling was all the rage around here, I thought matches like yesterday's wouldn't be popular anymore, so I'm grateful to these two for bringing him back into the spotlight.>If Tsuji were to lose at Ryogoku in October, it would mean that the IWGP Championship title has been changing hands so frequently since Zack last year, with champions barely defending their titles. Is it normal for the IWGP Championship to change that quickly...?>I think the Dome would be a good place for Uemura to win the title, and I think Oiwa would be a good opponent, so please hold it at the Dome the year after next.>I think Oiwa has a lot of momentum right now, but if he were to win the belt at Ryogoku and be entrusted with the main event at the Dome, that would be quite a gamble lol>Watching Oiwa, you realize just how profound professional wrestling is... He's learned the techniques, structure, and presentation from Ogawa, stemming from the orthodox classic American pro wrestling instilled by Baba-san of All Japan Pro Wrestling, which is the origin of Noah. He's also embodied the modern strong-style pro wrestling established by Inoki-san of New Japan, which fully showcases emotion and fighting in the ring, making him an incredibly well-balanced wrestler. I suppose his being sent to Noah was a series of coincidences, including the pandemic, but in a good way, I feel like Oiwa has become a crucial figure, like a missing link in the evolution of the pro wrestling world.
>>21017724It's afraid
>>21019313Word's can't describe how dumb it was that him and Cole main evented Wembley, and that they built it around a midcard friendship gimmick
>>21018948https://www.njpw1972.com/schedule>WED 09/09 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall>Special Tag Match: Hirooki Goto & YOH vs Yota Tsuji & Taiji Ishimori>Boltin Oleg & Master Wato vs Shingo Takagi & Robbie X>Yushin Hatazawa Debut (Kickoff): Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Yushin Hatazawa>THU 09/10 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall>Aaron Wolf & Taichi vs Ryohei Oiwa & Kosei Fujita>Special Tag Match: Bishamon vs Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi>SAT 09/12 23:00am(PDT) / SUN 09/13 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Sendai Sun Plaza Hall >Special Six Man Tag Match: YOH & Bishamon vs Tsuji, Takagi & IshimoriDESTRUCTION IN KOBE>SUN 09/27 12:00am(PDT) 3:00am(EDT) 8:00am(BST) Kobe World Memorial Hall>IWGP Heavy: Yota Tsuji vs Hirooki Goto>IWGP Global: Gabe Kidd vs Drilla Moloney>NJPW TV Title: Konosuke Takeshita vs Shun Skywalker>Jeff Cobb vs Callum Newman>Aaron Wolf, Yuya Uemura & Taichi vs Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita
>>21019437https://www.njpw1972.com/667007>BATTLE LINE HOKKAIDO ~ ROAD TO DESTRUCTION (09/15/2026 to 09/23/2026)9/19 Kuribayashi>IWGP Tag Title Cointenders Match: Most Violent Players vs Knock Out Brothers>Noribetsu Rumble9/21 Kitami>El Desperado, Mistico, Shota Umino & Masatora Yasuda vs DOUKI, SHO, Shun Skywalker & Dick Togo9/23 SapporoIWGP Junior: YOH vs Taiji ishimoriSpecial Tag Match: El Desperado & Mistico vs DOUKI & SHOYUJI NAGATA PRODUCE BLUE JUSTICE XIX>SUN 09/06 12:00am(PDT) 3:00am(EDT) 8:00am(BST) Togane Arena>Yuji Nagata, Togi Makabe & Toru Yano vs Unbound Co. (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Daiki Nagai)>Hirooki Goto, YOH, YOSHI-HASHI & Master Wato vs Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X & Gedo)>Aaron Wolf, Yuya Uemura & Taichi vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita)>Jeff Cobb vs Zane Jay>Shota Umino, Boltin Oleg, Satoshi Kojima & Jado vs United Empire (Callum Newman, HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young)>El Desperado, Ryusuke Taguchi & Masatora Yasuda vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (DOUKI, SHO & Dick Togo)>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Taisei Nakahara
>>21019437They could've found more creative ways to hold back on Fujita vs Wolf instead of running the same exact 6-man on almost every show in the tour.
>>21019437Obviously destruction looks good, and korakuen night 2 looks kino
Watching the G1 final. NJPW english commentators are so fucking bad. Why are they talking about shit that happened years ago instead of the match?
>>21019437>20 year old Hatazawa fights out of the northern climes of Hakodate in Hokkaido. With a view to getting into pro-wrestling, Hatazawa started sumo in high school, managing to compete at the national level. After graduating from high school, Hatazawa found employment while preparing himself to join New Japan. He passed tryouts in 2024, and officially joined the Noge Dojo in April of 2025. >Standing at 184 cm and weighing 95kg, Hatazawa's sumo training is an indication of his trending heavyweight heading into his debut match. He'll be wrestling Tatsuya Matsumoto for this special debut bout before joining cards on the Road to Destruction, including to his Hokkaido home prefecture. Whether in Korakuen Hall or live in English on NJPW World, show your support for this potential future star! Yay we got a big boy
>>21019437another grim tour
>>21019605>95kgHe better start eating his chanko if he wants to cash in on that sumo training. Also, wrestler using kimarite finishers as a gimmick would be hype as fuck, imagine hitting amiuchi for the 3-count in the budokan.
No response from TJP after Cobb mocked him upon return
>>21019667what did cobb do?
>>21019687Cobb talked shit in the post-match comments >>21016006
>>21019712Aww, Makabe looks so happy that he gets to beat up his son. Kawaii
>>21019712What's TJP's wife's @? Rematch incoming
DDT wasting 0 time parodying the match https://x.com/ddtpro/status/2089303507237236844
>>21019832I'll be wasting 0 time watching DDT kek
>>21019832grim shindy promotion
>>21019832>"well you see, erhhhem, all week I've had a bunch of stupid geeks blowing up my emails telling me the Japanese are doing good quality wrasslin, and then Brian, you know Brian, I actually thought I'd watch, I'd fucking tune in, to see if there was anything to this, and you know what I saw Brian?">"What was that Jim?">"I saw two shrimp dick kids, in an empty BINGO HALL, dryhumping a championship belt. You get it? Errrrhem, no respect for the business, no credibility, but OH IT HAPPENED IN JAPAN THAT WILL BE TEN STARS PLEASE give me a fucking break, errrrhem, but yeah what a fucking disappointment."
Oiwa becoming a god of wrestling over the course of the G1 surprised a lot of people but Ogawa publicly pushed to retain him as a student for another year because he was confident that he could make him better than Kiyomiya in that timeframe.NJPW were super smart in putting him with Ogawa's student Zack so he could keep learning that style, and I imagine Hartley helped him gain a lot of mass as well. I remember Oiwa was still doing dropkicks when he first joined TMDK, lol
>>21019832Don't think they were trying to do that, especially since the concept of the match revolve around getting sasadango's belt kek but if you want to believe that you gonna sound like a schizo and I telling you by someone who watch both promotions
>>21020022Hartley is the unsung GOAT partner for the young guys. I'd give that dude as many dates as he wanted as long as he worked with the young lions. Hell I'd even give him a NEVER trios run (maybe with Zack and Fujita?) so he could have some gold when the young lions inevitably go over him
>>21020022>NJPW were super smart in putting him with Ogawa's student Zack so he could keep learning that styleHave you thanked ZSJ for saving NJPW?
>>21020022I had no idea Hartley has been coaching for the past 20 years until Kairi posted a photo of her getting swole with him a couple weeks ago. He's a humble chad for letting the Daikster get so much offense in on him and get a showcase this summer.
>>21020040Said it before and I will say it again, Zack actually understands the business. Exhibit fucking A of that, he understands that he personally represents the opposite of what most wrestling fans (especially in Japan) believe in and, instead of bitching and moaning out of character about how heckin problematic the business is, just realised that it is natural heel heat and played into it. Note that since becoming more of a face in Japan he actually downplays the Corbyn-greenpunk-vegan stuff in favour of a more generic pop punk and love of wrestling angle (in terms of his promo focus) while in Suzuki-Gun he was pulling heat with even the other heels by grandstanding about shit. He works minimal dates in the US because he knows that he can be a rare attraction there but wouldn't get over as a weekly character. He worked on learning (very basic) Japanese for years but held off on busting it out until it was time for his ultimate babyface promo. Guy is the opposite of what I like as a person, and that is fine, I have nothing but respect for him as a worker and want him training young boys for years.That said, >>21020028 is right as well, Hartley was doing great as a trainer in Australia (just look at how many guys and chicks that passed under his care ended up in major promotions after quite a dire period for Aussie wrestling that Hartley himself came up into) and it seems like New Japan are quite determined to keep him in a good visa and working.
>NJPW fans minded their own business on the board for the last 5 years but now WWE and AEW fans are bringing Oiwa and Uemura into their console warI preferred the exclusionary island we were on in terms of discussion, but I can't say it doesn't make me nostalgic, and I get a little bit of the 2019 vibes back from insecure people shitting on us again.
>>21018978playing a G chord for the G1now that's storytelling
>>21020212It's such deranged behavior. Better than the joshi gooner spam, at least.
>>21020212It's getting annoying -_-
>>21019052wrestle kingdom main event is reserved for aew-sama wrestlers you fucking ungrateful nujamalospreay vs callum is the wrestle kingdom main eventand then we take callum away to aew in february
>>21020212>I get a little bit of the 2019 vibes back from insecure people shitting on us againAEW is in an obvious decline and their TV deals/future seem in trouble for the first time. While WWE has become an even more corporate slop now. No wonder they are lashing out after NJPW gets a bit of momentum. Hopefully NJPW will distance itself a bit more from AEW now
your wrestle kingdom main event is for aew storylines.njpw is aew's developmental. never forget that.dont get uppity just because tenzan retired and your g1 attendance went up because of it. g1 is a joke now that g1 winner doesnt get tokyo dome main event. imagine wrestler in wwe winning royal rumble and getting main event of backlash instead of wrestlemania lmaooooo.
kek grimposting bitch is having a KWABOTY worthy melty today i see
>>21019712>Hot Topic managerCobb isn't a good promo but he can shitpost with the best of them when pushed.
>>21020614He made sure to repeat over and over again that Shota was a bald bitch during NJC last year. He sees us.
>>21019712JC Mateo was in the wrong here
Take a lock, hit the clutch, get a grip.
>>21020614My sweet boy Cobb would never shitpost. He's just misunderstood
>>21020688shoot don't even remember that temu Ospreay's name, he was in the australian tag team.
can anyone reccomend me some suzuki gun stuff on world?
>>21020697Kyle Fletcher. I watched AEW PPVs sometimes to see their production botches and the occasional good match which mostly consisted of the Briscoes. Kyle's ok. Decent heel look, can do all the moves and cuts an ok promo. Needs a tard wrangler like most wrestlers though and AEW ain't got none of them so its kind of wash.
>>21020335i seriously hate and despise most current wrestling but this G1 was exactly the breath of fresh air i needed. oiwa winning was the right decision and most of the matches were enjoyable. i still think theres way too many tag matches but im trying to enjoy them as well because every american fed is just totally gay now.
>>21020135zack sabre is easily the least offensive faggot in wrestling today. he at least tries to behave like a respectable person instead of some dimeless degen like effy, and the guy is legitimately a skilled technical wrestler
>>21019122Just watched it, it was dimes. I popped when Wheeler Yuta tried to say something to Drilla and Drilla just shouts, "I don't even know who the fuck you are, boy"
>>21020022Kiyomiya is no slouch, but it's crazy how New Japan lions grow to be so damn good versus other promotions' trainees. I say this as someone who thinks Miyahara is an all-time great on the tiny pond of AJPW, and Ozawa would be a star anywhere.
There's no end to our suffering Yuyabros
>>21021084If you watch that FACE THE NEXT show they did a few months back you can see other rookies aren't that far behind New Japan's.
KWAB. https://x.com/JCup2013/status/2089054840567538049
THE GRIP1
>>21021157It wouldn't be NJPW if there wasn't suffering. It will just make the triumph sweeter T_T
Uemurabros, strap in for a long one>t. Gotobro
>>21021157>MIDCARD written right in front of his face on the ad backdropKino
>>21021157I was wondering who the next Naito was gonna be. Hope Yuya's belated coronation as the top guy doesn't trigger another coof.
Whatever Wolf has it got him removed from their Tokyo Dream Park event and replaced with Tenzan. Hope buddy is ok.
>>21023157shame, he only JUST got over with me right at the end of the tour kek
>>21023157Food poisoning from, of all things, a burger steak restaurant.
>>21023286>ribera gave him food poisoning
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>21023286i think he posted himself eating at the place and then deleted it lol
Grippa needs to learn to ignore the people trying to steal his momentum
So is oiwa a top guy and the main guy of tmdk now?
>>21020729>>21020697I liked Aussie Open and thought the big mustaced dude had a shot at being a upper card gaijinNot my proudest prediction
>>21024812Zack is a 39 year old NJPW dad now
>>21024877After his ridiculous push the last two years I'm glad
>>21024967I didn't mind it because they needed some new top guys for the younger generation to overcome. But they ended up just using Tsuji and Takeshita anyway. But its always good to have a few "former champs" who arent in AEW
you just know they'll have MJF going over Oiwa if they ever face each other
Cringe already
>>21024721That's a good response from Oiwa though. Not jumping at the chance to fight MJF just because he's on TV in America but telling MJF he's free to spend all of next August in Japan trying to win the G1 himself if he thinks it's so easy.
>>21024721I think MJF in Japan (sans-AEW albatross) would be really interesting. He's a good wrestler who can do the long epics or just short and sweet matches. I don't know if or how it would translate to the Japanese crowds. Any match he has with Yano, HOT or GOK would be hilarious though
>>21021630New Japan getting so good this asshole rather off himself than speak positivity about the product is The Grip’s ultimate achievement.
>>21024995Maybe it was because of everything else that happened but his push also contributed to me being down on njpw. It was also confusing how people would shit on njpw while being zsj fans
>>21025218>Drives twitter troons to suicide Maybe he is the Ace we've been waiting for
>>21025157thisGabelet was straight up begging Tone to let him on AEW tv so he could fight. based Gripmeister is saying "come work a schedule i know for a fact you can't work you weak pussy".
>Ogawa: "But there's no one in NOAH right now who can do pro wrestling like Oiwa did yesterday. Dory Funk Jr., who passed away recently, was my teacher, and it feels like the pro wrestling I learned from Dory has been passed down from me to Oiwa (rather than NOAH's pro wrestling). If you compare Dory's matches and Oiwa's matches, you'll see that they're doing similar things.">Speaking of Oiwa, there's Kiyomiya, and Kiyomiya is also one of the wrestlers that Ogawa taught...>Ogawa: "I taught Kiyomiya too, but he's gone in a completely different direction, and there's quite a gap between him and Oiwa. Oiwa is on a higher level. There's a difference between a wrestler who's happy beating a rookie in the first match and a wrestler who wins the G1, right? Well, we're talking about Oiwa, so let's leave Kiyomiya aside."Somehow Kaito manages to KWAB himself worse than Shota does and Shota hasn't even held the top belt
>>21025759Jesus Ogawa is brutal. Even if it's kayfabe I'd be a bit sad from that.
New Japan doing Dory Funk Jr. cosplay is definitely less cringe than them doing PWG shit, but we still need more Inokiism.
So like his finisher is a headlock?
>>21025787He has a lariat, a headlock, a wrist lock, a single leg boston crab and a couple more finishers I don't remember. He's Zack's student so he has a bunch.
>Muhammad Ali closes in on Inoki.>The fierce men of New Japan who block him.>The sharp eyes of Fujiwara Yoshiaki, Killer Khan, and Kimura Kengo. Standing in Ali’s path are Kurisu Masanobu, Kitazawa Motoyuki, and Hoshino Kantaro.>On both sides of Inoki are Sakaguchi Seiji and Sayama Satoru, the original Tiger Mask.>A scene of the heated New Japan Pro-Wrestling of that era, condensed into a single photograph.https://x.com/jobin33375/status/2089491874939801677
>>21025787Its either you get your skull crushed or you eat a discus lariat trying to get him off of you. Its a great formula.
the shining elbow is the ultimate hype signature move, the desperation of pulling it out sends the intensity to another level
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eytJaVyF4d0They finally dropped Fujita's theme, nice
>>21025975Oiwa was probably going for something like this but didn't know an actual band and ended up with shitty AI lyrics
>>21025759Is the general sentiment that Kaito has platueued? Crazy seeing him get shat on like this
>>21026145afaik ogawa was always been hard with kiyomiya so people who were there when he was still active are not fazed by that kind of comment.that aside, over the years i read people saying that kiyomiya's star image got dull (but depends to whom you talk to desu)
You are planning to pack on mass like the stars of the New Era, Oiwa, Wolf and Yuto Ice, arent you /njpw/?
>>21026197I'm way ahead of them. I was doing it before it was cool.
>>21026145It's been like that for years. NOAH booking him like a bitch was one thing but I think his response (reverting to a young boy mentality and wanting to be Muto's bitch bag carrier, becoming a Muto cosplay wrestler, never moving on from his Misawa mark white meat babyface phase) has left his loyal fans feeling like he has given up on himself. But no KWABing he gets will ever top when some fujo fan of his invaded the ring crying and begging him to fucking stand up for himself and start acting like an ace.
>>21026227jesus christ, never heard about thistalk about embarrassing
>>21026227I remember when people were saying this was fake, and then her info dropped because Japan doesn't fuck around with audience members interrupting shows of any kind. It was a "nail that stands out gets hammered down" moment for NOAH's fanbase.
>>21024222How much longer should he stay in tmdk? Maybe its just me but they've always been a bit of a geek group.
>>21026186I've heard that he's never been the same after that Muto series. And getting kwabbed by okada in the followup didn't help either
>>21026227>>21026425reading this and im not surprised kiyomiya got paired up with shota when it's about njpw, and im not saying it in a malicious wayi still remember 2024 ALL TOGETHER and i thought that ueno was weird pick but lol
>>21026395TMDK could die tomorrow, but I would like Oiwa and Fujita to start the next faction together
>>21026395>2 G1s>BOSJ>both Tag LeaguesDon't seem like a geek group to me.
Why is he so insecure about being a little chubby?
>>21027363i think his plan was to "im going to wear a shirt or vest or whatever while im a heel and i will continually put on mass and get bigger and bigger then when i go face i will take it off and go back to the son of strong style"but he still just looks kind of pudgy
The knock on Narita coming out was that he was too small compared to the other two and maybe should've been a Jr Heavyweight, at least for a while. I think that is why he put the shirt on and basically cultivated mass for a couple of years.
>>21026145Eh, I think he’s still young enough to where he could turn it around.
>>21027363Dick Togo and SANADA keep walking around with yakbaks that only playback the Steiner HES FAT promo
What's the cope gonna be when New Japan goes back to heatless thigh-slapping bangerinos in two weeks?
>>21027698
win one for the gripper
>>21027698Takeshita isn't on the New Beginning tour
>>21027698We have Hontai vs. TMDK matches for the next tour, with Takeshita not showing up until Kobe. You can skip the rest.
>>21025759Okada reign of terror was 100% worth it for the Kiyomiya feud Funniest match in wrestling historywhat the fuck was NOAH thinking?
>>21028332The only thing that mattered to/for NOAH that night were Mutoh and maybe Kento/Nakajima.
>>21028418Kiyomiya not mattering to Noah is kind of the problem tho
>>21028332/r/ing pictures of Okada's pure expression of joy getting to treat Kiyomiya like a young lionEspecially that one face he made setting up the rainmaker
>>21028533It's... It's... GRIPPY https://youtu.be/9wn_ARfYMw4
>>21027470Yeah the problem is he's nto doing anything with it. He made himself look more like4 a heavyweight but he didn't actually improve his look at all. Infact his look may have gotten worse.
man, Japanese wrestling is so bad an unpopular that everybody desperately holds on any slightly positive thing.
>>21029084yeah maybe we should just become transgender aew fans like you lmao you fucking faggot shut the fuck up
>>21029084hello sirs
>>21029143WWE sucksAEW sucksNOAH sucksNJPW sucksetc
So assuming Oiwa loses at KOPW, who is Tsuji fighting at WK?
>>21029469Yuya
>>21029484And does he win?
>>21029469Either someone high profile from elsewhere that he can beat or Yuya. Im more concerned with what Oiwa does knowing hes not winning the title.
>>21029520I think so. I can see him beating Callum at KOPW, since he's lost to him twice this year, and then winning the belt.>>21029527I can see him and Zack winning WTL again, and beating KOB at the dome. Which I think is a pretty good full circle moment, considering that NYD match basically set the tone for the year
The Shun Skywalker vs SANADA match at WK is gonna be fun
>>21029696Not feeling fajita with this new color
what am I supposed to call grim during these next few weeks without any show
>>21030006Kaito Kiyomiya
>>21030006your retarded face reflecting back at you in the mirror as usual
Lucha Kingdom news latter today
>>21030006The state of the board which is so dead this general might actually never get bumped off in the next 3 weeks
>>21030629indeed, very grim.
>>21030625As long as CMLL handles most of it then we wont have the awkward bullshit with the card that we do with STRONG shows.
I love how Tiny purposefully left O-Khan at home despite him being NEVER 6-Man champion and bringing Akira instead