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  1. I popped SO FUCKING HARD at Ishii's rainmaker counter to armbar, FIGHTING NETWORK PITBULL IS HERE Great NJ Cup, I feel alive.
  2. only seen Tana-Umino and Ibushi-Naito and both were joyous wrestling of the kind I very much enjoy.
  3. I rewatched it and still liked it; I didn't expect White to have everything nailed by now even though I could see he was pegged as a top carder from his return. But it wasn't perfect and I do also worry that it may be rejected. NJPW are probably due some high profile failures, creatively. However I am now sort of the opinion that maybe NJPW is past a very high recent peak for me. My working theory is that 2012-2017 represents the era where full shows were often very good and you were absolutely guaranteed some kind of great match, big emotion, and narrative continuity that was something to look forward to rather than puzzle over. Now I kind of skip through stuff and get a little tetchy. How this squares with Okada's big title reign and last year's G1 I am not sure. Maybe I am a bit hurt that it seems like Omega et. al. have used NJPW to boost their cred and then jump off? I also note that those years squarely align with Shibata being around. Not saying he was the best, though not far from it, and he seemed to give the whole thing a spice that it has sorely lacked.
  4. this show looks better than any individual show since WK and that's without Hiromu's great tease
  5. Nomura needs to get on the cigs and sunbed plan
  6. TMDK's rivalry with Dangan Yankees (Sugiura and Masato Tanaka) was excellent, one of the best tag feuds of this decade in my lowly opinion. Nicholls isn't stellar but he's a good hand. Maybe Meij's policy for 2019 is GREEN JAPAN - spend less on airmiles.
  7. My read on Adonis is he basically did the same thing he did in Mexico where people aren't so bothered about PC (or at least people who go to wrestling shows) and transposed a very successful formula to a crowd who REALLY care about that. Which strikes me as careless, but I forgive him for that. He's a Brian Dixon guy (whose crowds are not 'modern Britwres crowds' and more working class family audiences) so I think he'll be fine - good, even - out on the spot shows where no real action needs to happen, but as soon as the lads put their working boots on he will get eaten alive. I quite liked Cyber Kong, for what it's worth. He stood out in Dragon Gate. Maybe not so much here. We are notably missing KAI, Akiyama, Hino, Sekimoto, maybe even Kohei Sato. 2 of those 5 and we have a real tourney.
  8. while I have 20 minutes spare at work here is fantasy bracketeering (what I expect, not what I want). caps indicate winner. NAGATA v Ishii Honma v TAICHI Nakanishi v YOSHIHASHI JUICE v Chase OKADA v Elgin MIKEY FREAKING NICHOLLS BAYBAY v Leo OSPREAY v Fale Henare v ARCHER UNIVERSE ACE v El Hijo de Zapatos Rojo Tenzan v FINLAY IBUSHI v Naito Evil v ZACK Makabe v COLT YANO v El Hijo de Bulldog Británico KOJIMA v Suzuki GOTO v Sanada Nagata v TAICHI Yoshihashi v JUICE OKADA v Nicholls OSPREAY v Archer TANAHASHI v Finlay IBUSHI v Zack Colt v YANO Kojima v GOTO Taichi v JUICE OKADA v Ospreay Tanahashi v IBUSHI Yano v GOTO Juice v OKADA IBUSHI v Goto OKADA v Ibushi
  9. his kani-basami counter to Rainmaker was worth price of admission alone. wouldn't have minded if he'd done a proper ceremony and shook off his decade long kayfabe mental illness, but also it was kind of cool they stuck with it to the close.
  10. results are slightly wrong inasmuch as Mil & Dos were on the same team. Dos can still go a bit, and the finish was...something. would go **** on the main
  11. Baba show, or at least what I saw of it, was great fun. Recommended.
  12. I see Okada winning NJC and the title back at MSG, with Ibushi v Tanahashi there too.
  13. I enjoyed the Osaka show on the whole. White is being booked as Okada was, right down to the bookerman in his corner, winning the title against Tanahashi in Osaka, and the population not being entirely certain about whether he is too callow to play youthful asshole or being a future GOAT. Time will tell and the shit needs tweaking, but his last two big matches have shown me something. Good to see Fale Dudley too.
  14. really think the Kitamura leg story is full of shit, he's been posting full body shots on insta. I can understand why they'd do it, btw. that he disappeared during his Best of 7 series makes me think it was something that happened in-ring, probably cumulatively, that he struggled to deal with.
  15. it's a strong poster so maybe this rich conglomerate knows what they're doing
  16. i can see that but i can't see at all!
  17. ie. not NOAH and becoming GHC? I can't see much NOAH there.
  18. I daresay you are right, meaning their hope to chase NJPW remains but an idle hope. Probably. Also, Jun, if you're reading, Katsuya Kitamura is available.
  19. I've seen Ridgeway twice on the Tetsujin shoot style shows. He's not really a worked-shoot guy but someone who can work in that general mix in Japan now. Chris Brookes is better though as he has actual catch in his arsenal. A proper merger between just two of those three All Japan/offshoot companies would be a real rocket up the arse of the Japanese scene. I don't want to see Vince style hyper capitalism but I think New Japan could use a domestic threat to remind them of the fans that served them in the hard times.
  20. fan of Oka but not the gimmick, NO IDEA what they're doing there. jr tag title match was good i thought. hope Despy becomes Mikame or Namajague because this gimmick is holding a talent back.
  21. that Baba card is a total mess but of the kind that appeals to me. I also think it's a legitimately hot main event. DAVE was putting Masa Fuchi, of all people, over huge on WOR today. Says he's heard D-Bry calling him a big inspiration to his post-comeback in-ring work. Gets loads of out little.
  22. I think he'd be best as a freelancer, but I can see him in LIJ.
  23. that match rules hard (watched it for the first time now, Hijo is so good and thank fuck the rudos had Casas)
  24. Fumi Saito seems to think KENTA is going to New Japan
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