JRV

Could it actually be worse? I'm having a hard time imagining a single more suck ass (non indy) announce team.

left: Val Kilmer in The Island of Dr. Moreau right: Dr. Moreau

That was dope but not Kentucky Gentleman dope

Aw man. RIP.

I love how I recognized Bronko just based on multiple viewings of the Freebirds/Von Erichs/Flair angle in World Class

Might check this out, based on the two basically opposite reviews! That is the most meta comment ever <3

OMG they are pronouncing Asuka with kind of a silent u, much better than back when Vince was talking about "the great sasookey"

You know it's a different guy than botch cara right?

I met Sabu a couple of times, a year or two ago, at some shows I was announcing and watching Wrestlemania at a friends place, and honestly he seems like a a-ok dude. He's maaaad fucked up physically and it sucks to see, like how he can't even sit down for ten minutes without having to get up and walk around, and he randomly dozed off a lot, but I have had some opposite experiences to what people are writing here. "Doesn't value his own happiness".. dude's in pain all the time, what the fuck do you want!

same here. It's by far some of the best wrestling ever, and also kind of ruined

SUPER AWESOME Where's the Billy Robinson audio from? edit: nm it's in the description

It was in a way so predictable, but still so surreal and painful to watch him go from possibly Japan's top gaijin to racist midcard variety character to "who?".

I read "Yoshihiko" and was momentarily baffled

Pete Sampras? Jon Moxley and Jason Jones

looks more like Dr. Moreau

kaori yoneyama always amazes me I thought for reals that was natsuki ps. I'm just curious but what about that was exposing/bucksy?

Uhhh yeah, I get high a lot

Yeah, that's not going away for a long time. NJPW audiences eat that up big time.

I'm happy with the tournament. I think Gedo did really great and everyone made good on what they were given. Yes, I actually snoozed through the final, but these two are so over that you can't blame a booker for having that final and having that finish. There were a couple of ways Gedo could have gone, and he chose for a classic 25th anniversary final between the two true aces of this era (made even more historical with Muto/Chono on color). It's not like we got a bunch of predictable shit, either. Okada jobbing twice in a row at big shows, setting up two other IWGP heavy contenders besides Tana, Elgin being given big opportunities and getting ridiculously over for a fresh gaijin, a LOT of fresh storylines set up for the future (LOVE the heat between Shibata/Naito), a bunch of little upsets and gems. To get back to the final, I think the idea of someone like Tenzan or Naito in the final is just a little silly. With Tenzan, I don't think even the biggest mark in Sumo Hall would have given him 1% of a chance, while Nak/Tana was truly 50/50 (Tana being the ACE OF ACE and Nak coming off a singles pin on the primary champ). Naito, the story is getting over big but that would have been a risky final in terms of crowd response and him winning would have really been a waste at this early point in his current story. I ate up his block matches, but all of that stalling and dead time in the G1 final would not make for a satisfying (tour ending!) main event either way. Also, like.. there's a lot of shows between now and then, but just brace yourself for Tana over Okada at WK, you know? Crowd energy for Tana is as high as ever, and with him out of the main event last time, I really wouldn't be surprised at a big Tana win on 1/4/2016 and that 30+ minute post-match air guitar, ai shite imasu, towel wiping bonanza that is so ridiculously over. Okada has been back for such little time and there is so much left to milk from Tanahashi for the next couple of years, it would be pretty inexplicable and premature to do this passing of the ace torch that people are talking about.

I got so behind on G1 viewings and avoided this thread, and still managed to read a spoiler.. LOL poor Kota. I popped really hard when YTR got Shibata. Anyway whatever I'm caught up to day 14 and about to kill day 15. I just wanted to say Goto/Ishii was hot shit and the shot of the two crying Ishii fans in the Korakuen bleachers was totally priceless.

oh man, that's how I felt bartending at a amsterdam pride party this weekend

I just can't look at Yoshiko and not be filled with rage

It's just not even a pro-wrestling show. ps. Yes, I understand now that I could have known this beforehand. It's just that I have fond hazy memories of KOTDM toruneys from the 2000s, saw this on XWT and decided to give it a chance. I realize now that IWA-MS has long moved into the backyard.

IWA-MS queen of the death match 2015 is really bad

loved the bloody sunday vs. destino finish and the little throwback to the 1.4 finish earlier on (AJ went for the 2nd rope styles clash again but Naito got deja vu and scrambled his way out) shibata/kota was solid but mostly kind of paint-by-numbers (besides a fun-ish finisher), and I'm getting pretty tired of Kota's corner quebrada where he barely grazes the other guy with his arm ishii/elgin/honma <3