Week 1 out of a 3-week break has passed. MJF wants Oiwa's attention, Kosei Fujita keeps calling Aaron Wolf fat, Jake Lee is still dead...Live on NJPW World (full cards are out but here's a summary of them):>Road to DESTRUCTION(*)SAT 9/5 12:00am(PDT) 3:00am(EDT) 8:00am(BST) Light Cube Utsunomiya*>YUJI NAGATA PRODUCE BLUE JUSTICE XIXSUN 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 NakaharaWED 9/9 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 HatazawaTHU 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 & Ishimori
>>21047165Previous thread forced off because jannies put a 5-day limit instead of actually fucking moderating >>21018948>BATTLE LINE HOKKAIDO ~ ROAD TO DESTRUCTION (NJPW BATTLE LINE HOKKAIDO ~Road to DESTRUCTION~FRI 09/18 11:00pm(PDT) / SAT 09/19 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Kuribayashi Shokai Arena (Irie Sports Park Gymnasium)>IWGP Tag Title Contenders Match: Most Violent Players (Togi Makabe & Toru Yano vs Knock Out Brothers (Yuto-Ice & OSKAR>Mura (not Noribetsu) RumbleMON 09/21 12:00am(PDT) 3:00am(EDT) 8:00am(BST) Kitami-city Sport CenterTUE 09/22 12:00am(PDT) 3:00am(EDT) 8:00am(BST) Yotsuba Arena TokachiTUE 09/22 11:00pm(PDT) / WED 09/23 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Yotsuba Arena Tokachi>IWGP Jr Heavyweight Championship: YOH (c) vs Taiji ishimoriSpecial Tag Match: El Desperado & Mistico vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (DOUKI & SHO)>DESTRUCTION IN KOBESUN 09/27 12:00am(PDT) 3:00am(EDT) 8:00am(BST) Kobe World Memorial Hall>IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c)vs Hirooki Goto>IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Gabe Kidd (c) vs Drilla Moloney>NJPW World TV Championship: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs Shun Skywalker>Jeff Cobb vs Callum Newman>Aaron Wolf, Yuya Uemura & Taichi vs Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita
>>21047165embarrassing summer fits on all of them
>>21047172Gedo gets the age pass. Shingo looks like he's going to try and sell me auto insurance on a golf course.
>>21047165>>21047179kek Shingo looking like the textbook example of a guy who doesn't care about fashion being forced to put in an effort by his wife.
>>21047165>*earn your respect over the course of the G1*
grim
>>21047197it just keeps getting grimmer
>>21047200>>21047209SYBAU, grimbitch.
I never wanna see Shingo in pink ever again
https://youtu.be/EqMkH4SvzXI
>>21047197I love that these guys are bros
>>21047224>gets outdrawn by broken down Tenzan>the first G1 final outdrawn by a semi>overall attendance of the tour is not even the best from the grim post-cough erayep, GRIM !
yep, GRIP !
How do you think Alberto Barbosa will react when his POORtuguese grimfaggot son finally commits suicide after winning the /pw/ poster KWABOTY award?
>DUDE LET'S DO TWO HECKIN' YUMMY SUBMISSION HOLDS WITH NO REAL STRUGGLE OR SENSE OF URGENCY FOR 35 MINUTES JUST LIKE A REAL FIGHTstrong-style is back!
yappari, grimtroon is an aew drone who desired more flips
kek he's BOILIN' today, must be hot in poortugalhe's gonna start posting his le heckin funny shota umino edits soon
>>21047541couldn't they pay for a decent AI to make a proper Inoki
>Soberano burying WWEThat's how you do it
>New Japan is b-ACK!>>21047507those are all pure facts you can't deny btw, now keep bubbling about your new boogeyman, first it was some polish dude, then some NOAHfag, then some AEW troon (that you actually are for supporting this ass penetrated company) and now some guy from Portugal. Now seethe and bubble.
>>21047564That's it, grimtroon. Let it all out.
>>21047564this nigga ain't ever been high in his entire life
>maybe if I call him a troon he will stop bullying meYou're literally supporting the company that has 3 troons holding Shin Nihon titles and your previous world champ is pretty much already a tranny. You're not fooling anyone, gapedkeeper.
grimtroon will never be the same after he got gripped in the sweltering summer of '26
kek what a frogposting BITCH
>i know, ill just post some more frogs to let them know how unbothered i am by being the frontrunner for /pw/ poster KWABOTYeven though Rovert fucking died somehow grimchan is still in first place
tanahashibros...
>>21047862They have to start booking my boy like Fale in 2016
damn, he seethed so hard he did 3 posts in a row, it really hurt him.
>>21047167*lat spread walks menacingly towards you*
>>21047862diarrhea cha cha cha
When the schizo's in the thread, you must GRIP itWhen he fills it with false dread, you must GRIP itPosts delusions in his head, you must GRIP it
what the fuck is this
>>21048876>YOH MAMA
Nu Japanlets are acting like the G1 stinker signals some sort of wrestling paradigm shift. Meanwhile, they got Grimtits doing yummy Canadian Destroyerinos.
>>21049166why are you even here man
dogshit OP
>>21047862Why is this german nigga so rude?
>>21048876some troon shit, as expected from this tranny ass penetrated companygrim !
>>21049175because somebody with a NJPW reaction image called him a fag for liking WWE once (not even joking)
Turns out Tsuji went to Vietnam to recruit one of their guys into the Noge Dojo.https://x.com/justixe26/status/2091203170668294274
>>21049519He's tiny but at least he looks stocky. Jr division could use some saving, I welcome Ares to us
>>21049519we don't need more small guys ffs, where are the big dudes
>>21049601There's that 6' YL debuting on the next tour.And Tsukamoto has stopped appearing for DDT for ~6 months now and iirc he was never injured, so maybe they snagged him too
>>21049519Looks like theyre actually getting serious about Asian expansion, 2 1/2 years after announcing it.
>>21049601Not in Southeast Asia historically
>>21050065now that Bushiroad doesn't own NJPW anymore maybe the things the company announce will actually get donewould be good if they also could get the TV title to serve its original purpose of being defended more often in smaller cities instead of just being another belt that they give to AEW wrestlers
>>21049519>Last night, history was made. >For the first time, a VPW wrestler will receive world-class training at the New Japan Dojo, changing what’s possible for wrestlers based in Vietnam.>Thank you @njpw_yotatsuji & @njpw1972 for this unforgettable moment.>More to come.https://x.com/VietnamProWres/status/2091358959022334403
Hahahaha look how stupid this fucker looks
>>21049519>>21049624obviously the scale of the companies are very different but it's kind of funny to invite a top guy from another fed to join yours and go from being company champ to getting whipped by everyone including probably Taisei Nakahara
>>21050661That's a bad case of Short Guy Tall Gear. The biker jacket suted him so much more
>>21050661>kickpads on under his trousersfucking geekola. TONE, we got a new toy for ya
>>21050661He's just missing his dumbass mask
>>21049624tsukamoto posted weeks ago on his x account that he failed whatever he was doing in these months while he disappeared. someone posted the thing on /puro/. don't remember the details but i remember he was one of the rumored guys who got poached around the time people were talking about dia
>>21050661>Oh No, please don't poach him Tony. We love that guy and would really miss him
>https://x.com/WONF4W/status/2091265778255327604>Kevin Knight explains why he’s done more in one year with AEW than five with NJPW
>>21051649not gonna bother with 5ch uncs but the comments under this post translating the article are interesting>https://x.com/hiroshifp0215/status/2091371268239208578>NJPW cultivates wrestlers who can properly entertain the audience through a period of training and apprenticeship, while AEW has the image of being a company that gathers talented wrestlers with money, so it seems like they have no intention of developing their own wrestlers...>This statement suggests that AEW doesn't train trainees from scratch. It seems to imply that they're an organization that relies on poaching already established wrestlers.>I think of professional wrestling as an epic drama, so personally, I find it difficult to empathize with wrestlers who don't have a story of working their way up from the bottom. The reason Wolf worked his way up, even for a short period, is probably because he understood the unspoken workings of Japanese professional wrestling and knew that this would earn him the support of the audience.>New Japan feels like a proper Japanese company. They train new graduates and turn them into top-tier professionals. In that respect, AEW feels like an American company, and in Japanese terms, it has the feel of a small to medium-sized enterprise that hires experienced professionals who can hit the ground running. It's hard to say which is better, but as a Japanese person, I still prefer the Japanese way. Maybe it's a difference in culture.
>>21047197Next World Tag League winners, Alpha Wolves.
>>21050661is this little twink ass shitter finally gone ?
>>21050661The Roman Ronin done fell off
>>21051714We need the Miracle Violence Connection rebirth with Boltin/Wolf
the whole process thing is a lie, to keep young talent down.If a worker is good enough to main event in their early 20s, there is no reason to keep sabotaging their career.
>>21052520basedi'd also be cool with takeshita/wolf because they're bros outside of kayfabe
>>21050724It'll probably be something like "he wants to do it all the New Japan way" to explain why a champion is going black trunks black bootsHowever the kayfabe explanation for him not being able to pin Yujiro Takahashi is that one of the entry tests for the Noge dojo is that you do squats under the Korakuen lights with Boltin Oleg until you become a mental retard
Miho Abe is posting AI slop of her and Taichi while admitted they haven't met up in years.
>>21051714WTL is the ultimate filter and this year could be better than usual>KOB>Bishamon>Shun & Ren>Wolf/Oleg>Oiwa/ZSJ>War Dragons>Umino/TaichiUnited Empire could field two teams but Henare is the only one I’m interested in seeing
Watching this old Showbuckle NJPW video about Naito and it makes me realize how closely the circumstances right now mirror things for Shota Umino.The one missing element for Naito's change was that NJPW was having a generational feud at the time with Tanahashi and Okada and there was little room for Naito to fit in. Well now, NJPW might've found that generational feud again. Hell, it might even have multiple generational feuds going in the new generation and a guy like Umino is ostensibly on the outside looking in.It's not that people hate Shota as much as him just not exciting people very much and lukewarm reactions are even more dangerous than bad ones apparently.If he doesn't emerge this coming year, there is a real danger that he will be left in the dust and will tumble down the card hard.
>>21053026grim
>>21053026i'm sure he's subbed to her myfans at least
>>21053441Stardust Genius Naito was a popular star for the first 3 years. He only cooled off after his 8 month hiatus and when the front office made him stop being a cocky tweener after his return. Naito went from star > polite support > star, Shota has always been in the polite support category... people who think that there's going to be a switch click with Umino are gonna be disappointment. He hasn't been exactly been chained like Naito was being for a couple years.
>>21053441that's the problem with niggas watching Showbuckle's videos, since you didn't actually watch Naito at that time you just believe what that dork says, his video is shit and completely rewrites Naito's story for the sake of selling some headcanon going into his WK12 match. Naito was very over for a while like >>21053598 said. It's absolutely not the same situation with Shota who was never over and never showed any charisma or personality. Showbuckle did a lot of damage with his shitty video because now a lot of people who didn't watch at the time are just fine with Shota being shit and they think history will repeat itself for some dumb reason.
>>21054125The fan vote said otherwise
>>21054168thanks for proving you're a retard who can't read
>>21053598>>21054125Why they wanted basically 2 Tanahashis with the real thing AND Naito at the same time idk. Even if you wanted a young babyface to rival Okada at the time, you're not exactly gonna be excited when you already have Tana still around and popular.Now we have Yuya who's pretty much complete for top white meat babyface role while Shota just kinda gets off with some gaijin fans by having good matches despite lacking every other quality for what the company wants out of him. It's hard to find a name to compare him to but it's definitely not Naito.
>>21054860>by having good matchesHonestly if he was I would cut him some slack, he's so insanely 5/10 in every aspect
>>21054868He's not doing anything unique or particularly standout in the ring compared to the rest of this generation but I like his big singles matches.
>>21055269His excursion should just be CTE-training in BJW because I like his stiff lariats and really nothing much else
>>21055278I wouldn't wish 2026 BJW on my worst enemy and that's just talking about watching it. They don't even have Okabayashi or Sekimoto anymore so what would be the point
SIGNS OF LIFE
>>21056001I wish I could be in attendance while the Silent Jester regales a riveted audience with devious yet thought provoking tales.
>>21056001I wonder what hes lecturing about?
>>21056134how to be a grim antidraw shitter
Naito was luck, Nakamura was luck.There was not long term build or a genius masterplan.Pure luck
>>21056134Neck safety
>>21056173more than luck, Naito was being able to get over despite Gedo's extremely shit booking of his run post-G1 23Gedo has to be the most overrated booker of all time, had tons of shit ideas that turned out to be saved because Naito was too good to stay a failure or too over to fail like after his WK12 loss
I didn't like them booking the same Oiwa/Yuya 6-man tag every single show on the next tour but if they get time and it makes more people start to shit on slop like Bandido vs Nick Wayne then I approve.
>>21056173Nakamura was a boring shooter getting a clue and showing some personality, booking didnt really affect him much either way. Naito was a purposeful refreshment to fill Nakamura's spot and that then turned into long term booking. How popular he got was lightning in a bottle.
>>21056207Booking wrestling is like making musicIf you make one truly great album every 10 years, people will forget all of the shit ones you made in between, even if they far outnumber your great ones
>>21058024He's so fucked
>>21058024>he didn't get in better shapekek this'll work out real goodcan't wait to see Hiromu back in 2027
>>21058024Ah. Thought he would use the six months off to trim up.
>>21058061>>21058157When has Hiromu ever been a body guy?
>>21058248I mean never but most people get pretty lean for a WWE run.
>>21058766based
>>21058024will his run last longer than cobb's?
HT Makoto will be a big players for the E.
>>21058986They don't really care to fire any of the nihongin players except Kairi for some reason.
>https://x.com/shupromobile/status/2092084552998977938>G1途中欠場の海野翔太が告白「健忘症も…」Maybe an amnesia will fix things up?
>>21060115damn how hard did zack slap him?
Now that Yutani is basically a maineventer, there is a place for Shota as Okumura and Kato partner.
The Kobe World Hall has always been more difficult to sell out even in less grim era for some reason, maybe the people of Kobe thinks wrestling is grim. I'll be generous, it has a capacity of 8 thousy but if they can get at the very least 5 thousy it will be a non-grim number.
>>21060305If Shun was fighting for a belt higher than 15-minute time limit midcard fodder it could be possible.
>>21060196Does that mean we not getting him for now?
Attendance will normalize back to what was going on pre-G1 (grim) without anything hot or interesting for live crowds can enjoy aside from Ospreay who'll be there for KOPW most likely.W most likely
>>21058024>somehow maintains the exact same build in you’re pathi admire the dedication bomberman>>21060115>hit him so hard that he factory resetwhat the fuck did zack do to him lmao
Shota will not change anything unless the company tells him to. That's why he and Wato are stuck forever
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Kek
NJPW Withdrawal kicking in
>>21063857>headlocked for a whole 17 hour flight>still doesn't tap>maybe MJF was right
>>21058024utterly cursed image
>>21047165Dude in the background looks like Gabe from the Office
>>21064543we had a thread about this and now i cant unsee it
>https://x.com/njpw1972/status/2092524168218865712
>>21064628>Yeah im a cool tough guy who's also a silly goose
>>21064628How does his merch get even worse? Rehire BUSHI.
>>21064628>>21064635So is Tsuji super popular and a draw? Anybody have that list of wrestlers in Japan ranked from last year? I only remember tanahashi being 1 or 2 like he was every year
>>21064697Right now nobody is a draw ticket-wise, not even Ice/KOB who are by far the top merch movers. I don't think Tsuji is even close to being the most popular individual guy in the company.
>>21064628grim
>>21064628>b-but at least I'm not a card !
>>21058024Giving it a year before he gets released.
>>21064754Really? Who's ahead of him besides ice?
>>21064628they really need to get their shit together and have cool factions againTsuji would be more over if he had a real faction with a cool logo
>>21064687i think its village vanguard behind that. afaik last time i saw them doing a collab was with kota ibushi and looked alrightbut in general jp companies just buy the rights to use the images from the holder, depending on the character/franchiese etc it might be cheap or very expensive>>21064697depends when this collab was planned, usually this stuff take months before the actual release
>>21064815>depends when this collab was planned, usually this stuff take months before the actual release Huh? Did you reply to the wrong post?
would u let oiwa grip your cock
>>21064841you asked if he's popular and i told you that maybe it feels a bit off considered how g1 ended. maybe this kind of solo merch would made sense before losing his belt to callum
>>21064888I don't really think it feels off. I was just genuinely curious if fans were buying his merch and reacting to him like that. I also don't really think it matters when it's released as he's been the top guy all year
>>21065108KWABto is the clear jannetty to the guy who was supposed to be his jannetty during his NOAH excursion.
>>21065108If you saw the last NOAH show you could see that the Ogawa comments got to Kaito
Kaito is the true Reiwa Tenzan.
>>21065305What was he doing?
>>21065305This sequence with Ogawa's pin technique (that Oiwa uses) https://x.com/noah_ghc/status/2091445791722541120
>>21066525Not the cleanest application... A stint in njpw as Oiwa's second might do him some good :p
shota umino fucling sucks
Read the ShuPro interview with Shota, and he really did get fucked up hard from that concussion>Has zero memory of the day of his G1 match>Only remembers the morning he returned to Japan>Next day he threw up and went to the hospital, they gave him a CT scan and said he needed to stop travelling because of the concussion>Says he felt ok, but was forbidden from leaving his house, using his phone and watching TV (exposure to blue light would've been bad for him)>Doctor said the concussion was about the same severity as you'd find in people who've been in car accidents>"I would forget what I was going to do 5 seconds earlier, and although words come out easily now, back then, even when I tried to think and speak, it would still be somewhere in my head, and I'd think, 'Um, what was I going to say?' It felt like it took me about 5 seconds to finally get the words out and start a conversation.">"It took 3 weeks for me to recover, but after 2 weeks I did go out for short trips to the convenience store. But less than 10 seconds after leaving the house I couldn't even remember if I had locked the door or not. 'Ah, huh? Did I lock it?' I thought that 2 or 3 times before I got to the convenience store, and I was thinking that as I went into the store. When I got to the store, I realized I'd forgotten my wallet.">He watched the Hokkaido G1 shows but his doctor told him to not watch anymore, because watching it was making him frustrated and stressed>The doctor told him that because of the severity of the concussion, there might have already been "some strain" on his brain even before the match against Zack
>>21066844>there might have already been "some strain" on his brain even before the match against Zackwait does this mean it was the Gabe match or his brain was at least made very vulnerable going forward from it?
>>21066876Possibly. If he had a minor concussion shortly before the one he got in the Zack match then it would explain why it ended up being so severe
>>21066876Gabe alluded to this as a bit so this is extra funny
>>21066844>"It took 3 weeks for me to recover,Sounds like no the fuck you didn't, shin asheAt least he was off the road for 2 months
*gazes sternly*
>>21066844My wife literally Shibata'd the edge of a marble counter after our kid pushed her into it accidentally running past and she got so badly concussed that he was fucked for a solid two weeks, non stop headaches, light sensitivity, brain fog, you name itApparently the headaches are a real bitch if it's severe
>>21064628Tsuji you already changed your theme and your finisher, you better be asking them to make a new unbound co logo. We need some cool shit by WK
>>21068405easiest thing they can do is drop the Company part of the name, Unbound is fine. Still some sort of diet Hontai-Chaos though.
>>21068410I think the name would be fine if they had a more established aesthetic. There's no colour or symbol we associate with the group.
>>21068369This is why I refuse to get married.
He'll be alright, guys!
>>21068739Those bongs turned him into Takayama. Sad!
>>21068739He doesn't remember this
hes already investing in a new career path
>>21069033>"where's the headlock guy or the smiling guy?"
>>21068471Why would you disappoint Goto like that?
>>21069033while it's kinda fucked up this is something that can evoke real sympathy which is always something he's lacked with the general audience
He is OKhttps://x.com/lucha_mexikan/status/2092895017698472344
well 3 hours left to bump this thread, guys. Any last words?
>>21069247YesGRIM
>>21069146If he tries to color his hair up again he deserves another concussion
this board is so dead that even this grim thread can stay alive
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