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So, on NJPW World, they were showing the WK setup and testing the graphics and stuff and you could see some of the wrestlers warming up. Okada has blonde hair again... I think we all know what that means.

Okada/White with the heated feud could also be a big brawl. I imagine if there isn’t plunder, there will be lots of interference and cheating. The 3 headlining matches could all be filled with that kind of fare.

Or in the same vein of Okada beating Naito at WK 12. Omega with how crazy hot he was, seemed to be the favorite against Okada at WK 11 too. Now that I think about it, other than the passing of the torch Okada/Tana match at WK 10, most of the recent Dome main events have not went the way people expected.

You guys should catch the Kaito vs. Sugiura match from the NOAH show. It’s really fantastic. One of the best Sugi title matches in this reign and definitely the best match of Kaito’s career. And it wasn’t even the match of the night... The Junior Heavyweight Title match between Kotaro Suzuki and Daisuke Harada is must watch shit. One of the best Junior matches that I’ve seen in all of wrestling this year. That match is nuts.

The NOAH show in Yokohama headlined by Sugiura vs. Kiyomiya for the GHC Title is now up for viewing.

https://imgur.com/a/Tyw5aww I made a photo album of my top MOTY. Because why not.

So the Golden Lovers finished the show in the snow. If history’s any indicator, that likely means they’ll lose. Seriously. Go look back at like the last 4 Road to Tokyo Dome shows. The one who is the lasting image at the end of the year. The one celebrating in the snow always loses in the Dome match.

Tokyo Sports 2018 Awards are out. MVP: Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW) MOTY: Omega vs Okada Dominion 6.9 (NJPW) Tag team: Violent Giants (Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa) (AJPW) Outstanding Performance: Naomichi Marufuji (NOAH) Fighting spirit: Kaito Kiyomiya (NOAH) Technical: Tetsuya Naito (NJPW) Joshi: Tsukasa Fujimoto (Ice Ribbon) Rookie: Utami Hayashita (Stardom)

Gonna be honest. Your Inoki profile pic led me to some assumptions.

Really? Why? I thought you were against the “Westernization”.

The main issue with Ibushi/Ospreay opening is that on paper, it’s the 2nd strongest match on the card. If a MOTY opens the show, it’s going to really hamstring all the matches following it. Junior Tag will be cold. ZSJ/Ishii will be great but I wouldn’t expect a hot crowd for that one. Tag Titles will probably get a few pops but I doubt anybody will be invested. Cody/Juice will be the show’s bathroom break. I could see the crowd not getting back into the show much until KUSHIDA/Ishimori.

They’re really doing WWE match order now. Putting one of the top matches on the card early to “pop the crowd”.

Even at Power Struggle, OSAKA wasn’t that hot for Kenny/Tana confrontations. This match doesn’t have a lot of heat. This match might be the least over Dome main event on years. Okada/Tana, Okada/Omega, and definitely Okada/Naito all felt like way bigger matches and got better crowd reactions.

Tanahashi vs. Ibushi G1 Finals or Gargano vs. Almas NXT Philly? Which is better and why? They’re both tied for my #2 MOTY and I rewatched them and I’m not sure which is better.

@Archibaldmentioned this but there really are only two ways this goes. LIJ win and YBs weasel their way into another tag title match. Or... the worst case scenario.... GOD wins and challenges the Bucks leaving LIJ without anything to do at the Dome.

Bucks say they’ll be at WTL Finals. Get ready for them to shoehorn their way into the title match after missing the whole tour.

What is the rationale behind the Best Friends angle? It seems very odd to do something like this at this point of the year with no buildup at all. Are they getting a Dome match or something?

You’re continuing with BOLA? I thought you were done with PWG for the time being. Your opinion doesn’t seem to be growing fonder, ha ha.

Am I really in a small minority in not liking the WarGames match at all? I thought it was way too long, boring, contrived, nonsensical, lacked brutality and intensity, and had an extremely underwhelming finish. I frankly thought it sucked. I’m kinda surprised by the praise it’s getting. It was probably the worst NXT TakeOver match this year to me. Up until then, I was gonna have it as the #2 best TakeOver ever and that one match dropped it down to like #9 for me.

If you wanna see how good PWG used to be, you may as well just watch NXT TakeOver lol.

Have any of y’all watched BOLA yet?

So they’re gonna start the main show with a team with a 1-0 lead or are they not doing that scoreboard thing again?

KES is going straight to the Rumble, I think. They don’t matter that much to NJPW. But yeah YB are getting shoehorned in there for sure.

This is random as hell but Sycho Sid’s entrance in MSG at Survivor Series 1996 is one of the hypest things I’ve ever seen in wrestling.