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  1. He also threw around hints about Brown and Hero so its not clear if he is doing that to "hide" Buddy reveal or its all bunch of bulllshit and his partner is someone else entirely.
  2. Wonder if there is big enough market for that. Looking at how they won't be doing more live events this year and in general how RoH works, maybe they should drop TV title entirely? There isn't much purpose for it now and with that title removed they could give more time to Pure matches.
  3. Cards have been revealed: https://www.njpw1972.com/103924 Looking at final night I think our realistic options are: Ibushi or Naito versus Okada, Cobb, Sanada or Evil. Maaaaybe Tanahashi as well from Block B.
  4. Maybe, maybe not. I guess mods could merge it to general discussions thread if they feel like it. Anyway, some more of my thoughts and where I think things are going. With addition of Bey in USA and Sho in Japan, Bullet Club now has 16 members. It was too big last year and this year it got even bigger. But I think that things might finally be changing with the addition of House of Torture. Asides of guys involved it does sound like The Elite/Firing Squad situation. White does not have an obvious opponent for WK and he is one of the main guys. Evil does not have obvious match either and he is not really pushed down the card since he just got a title match and looking at G1 blocks it is plausible that he makes the finals. There were lots of talking last year how Evil does not really fit Bullet Club and should have created his own faction. Well maybe House of Torture was that, but due to Covid and them being short on guys (even more than now, I know, hard to believe) they possibly delayed formation of this new faction. So you know, White/Evil for NEVER title and Bullet Club leadership at WK. White wins and Evil leaves with few guys to form a new faction that does lots of bullshit in their matches. On another side we have GoD and Good Brothers doing obvious work on Twitter and Resurgence show. In a way this does feel like a continuation of half-finished Bullet Club/The Elite feud since GB are associated with Kenny and Bucks now (or at least where when I last saw them). Big question here is can they get GB to Japan, if they can then I think that GoD/GB is happening at WK. Since GB are Impact tag team champions and we have multiple days to fill I think its likely that we'll also get some mini tournament for tag team titles that ends with GoD being double tag team champs just like they did after MSG, hopefully no Enzo/Cass this time. But as I said, if they can't get Good Brothers into Japan then none of it happens.
  5. I just hope that their every match doesn't start with "ok, I'll just give up, oh no, no no, I can't do it" segment.
  6. Ok, since it looks like I'm only person still fully watching NJPW in the current year then I'll try to explain what, in my opinion, is going on and whats the plan for ending this "season". Obviously this will contain spoilers. Since we started getting double domes NJPW started booking "gimmick matches". First time we had double dash tournament. Last year we had "Jay cheated" storyline. With Ospreay being back and declaring that he is real champ who never lost its fairly obvious that the plan here is to do "fake vs real" champ. 1/4 is likely to be champ vs G1 winner because thats the tradition. Ospreay wanted to beat Okada in the dome before shows got cancelled so thats likely going to be his match. Maybe it is semi-main on 1/4, maybe it is main on 1/5 and we get "fake vs real" on 1/8. Either way I feel like we are 100% getting Ospreay vs someone in main WK main event. This means that Okada is likely not winning G1. He rolled up Cobb at the Dome, then got beaten by him at Grand Slam. Now they are in same G1 block. I think that Cobb is going to beat Okada again and maybe screw him out of the finals. They have one final singles match at Power Struggle where Okada finally convincingly beats him. This would be traditional NJPW booking with challenger beating #2 guy and going to face the faction leader. Shingo is walking into G1 as the champ, but my suspicion is that he is not walking into WK as one. I think he is dropping it at Power Struggle to Ibushi because to me it looks like the overall plan is for Ibushi to beat Ospreay in main WK main event. If I'm not mistaken Power Struggle never had heavyweight title change so it has to happen at some point and now is as good opportunity to do it as ever. Who wins G1? I think it doesn't really matter in this situation since I have Ibushi being the champ and beating G1 winner. So can't Ibushi just win G1 then? I think its unlikely that he'd win 3 in a row. My wild guess would be that its either Naito or Sanada. So thats what my view is on main WK matches. Maybe later I'll try to write up what I think is going on with other titles.
  7. Yes folks, we are hitting three nights: https://www.njpw1972.com/103591 Thou from the text it is not clear if 1/8 is replacing NYD or is it going to be legit "final night" of WK tour.
  8. When Eagles won many people thought that the plan here is to "save" Hiromu/Desperado title match for the dome. I'm not sure if this show changes plans. Desperado now can win a rematch and Hiromu can win BotSJ since I think they are unlikely to do another Jr. title match before the dome.
  9. He and some others are now wrestling in NJPW Strong.
  10. I think that if we are counting in Chase and Khan then they need only 2 more guys. So can easily do without juniors or add someone like Desperado if they feel like doing it.
  11. Looks like first night is going to have Tanahashi/Ibushi for USA title.
  12. They are likely doing Super Juniors later in the year so having Hiromu in two singles tournaments after his injury sounds risky to me.
  13. I understand that Cage has some good history with TNA, but I wonder if there are lots of people from that era still watching Impact today. Either way it feels underwhelming.
  14. No, there was match against Hikuleo on AEW.
  15. They appear regularly on Strong episodes.
  16. I don't know, if you are buying tickets to that show then I'd assume that you are interested in Jr. tag tournament and both matches that are supposed to "sell it" are still there.
  17. Saw funny joke saying that maybe Lio signed 5 years contract with NJPW so he has lots of dates to fulfil. You can never know with guy like him. Looks like Ospreay is going to fight against Clark and Fredricks. Thats probably about as big as you can do with them at the moment. Production had issues, but I think I probably wasn't the only one who was glad that mic died on Good Brother's promo? It felt they were going to do the usual "we built this" stuff that they now have said on multiple occasions. GoD just shuting them down and Tama later trashtalking into the camera worked way better for me and it looked like the crowd bought it 100%.
  18. I don't know, with how NXT was going I think at some point they had to do something because otherwise what is even the point of it since it doesn't really prepare guys for RAW/SD? Vince's mistake was probably that he thought that HHH wasn't that bad at his job.
  19. Same here, but if they didn't want to give him G1 win this year then it might be better that he skips it instead of not winning it again?
  20. I think you could make a case that their trios run was one of the better title reigns in general. But I feel like they might be losing them to LiJ now.
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