lostinube
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Teasing is one thing. But I guess Hiromu is crazy enough to get his head shaved just because.
Storyline - Hiromu loses his hair to Mistico sometime next year. Maybe during Fantastica Mania in the states. No longer champion, Naito has too much free time and constantly makes fun of Hiromu, leading to a mini-LIJ civil war where BUSHI is on both sides so he can lose every single match. This will lead to Hiromu and Naito finally having their singles match at Wrestle Kingdom 2026.
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I wonder if they would ever actually do a mascara contra cabellera between Hiromu and Mistico.
The fact that DOUKI handled HOT on his own is pretty indicative that New Japan believes in him..to a point. Because I can't see a returning Master Wato not finally getting his moment at Wrestle Kingdom.
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WWE jobber Shinsuke Nakamura will be back in NOAH for their New Year's Day show to face former MMA guy Ulka Sasaki.
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Having everyone and their mother come out to cover for the fact that it's hard to cut a long NJPW big show main event promo in another language will work a few times but it will get tiring after a while.
Interesting how the crowd started to turn on Umino when he came out. SANADA and Shingo were expected but it sure seems like putting Umino on top right now might be a bad idea.
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I'm going to assume that since Max is not a streaming service in and of itself in Japan this won't really affect the weekly shows getting put on NJPW World (on a delay and depending on how busy New Japan is at any given time). In order to see all the seasons of Larry's Midlife Crisis, people here have to subscribe to U-Next, which is a mish-mash of the old U-Next which had like movies and stuff, TBS (the Japanese one), some NHK and some Max (and not TV Asahi, New Japan's main TV partner). On the other hand, U-Next does handle PPV (UFC, Bellator) and currently, other then Forbidden Door, you have to get the AEW PPVs via Fite. So as a U-Next subscriber I would at least have an easier option (and also a way to use my monthly points) if they started carrying the PPVs there.
Similarly, unless something has drastically changed Netflix Japan is not getting the WWE anytime soon as it appears that ABEMA has the WWE locked in for the time being.
And just as an fyi, when it becomes time to go to PIP on the AEW episodes, NJPW World just shows a title card, like someone at TV Asahi was offended at the very idea of PIP.
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Longtime Hong Kong actor Norman Chu passed away at 73.
Shaw Brothers fans will know him from the Bastard Swordsman movies and the various parts he played. He is one of the students recruited by San Te in the 36th Chamber of Shaolin.
Outside of Shaws, he may be best known for his role as the Japanese swordsman Hashimoto in Ching Siu-Tung's Duel to the Death.
He kept making movies up until last year. He was the Black Judge in 2022s CGI kung fu fest Song of the Assassins.
https://www.hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4442&display_set=eng
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Jake Lee has officially signed with New Japan.
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Didn't see this at the time but Naruki Doi plays a bad guy who gets to throw down with Saori Izawa of the Baby Assassins movie (and soon TV) series.
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Much like Voldemort, JKR has risen...to tweet out an article about Khelif and her photoshoot from a substack so pretentious it should be a Nick Bockwinkel heel promo. JFC.
This and the Raygun story have fueled separate machines that will keep chugging until the end of the internet.
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I was out of town last night and only got back today so thank goodness NJPW World is sensible and only uses placeholder graphics for the semis and the final so as not to spoil people. And then I sort of ruined it by skipping ahead too far to see Zack with the trophy. Oops.
Anyway, 2024 Zack can credibly throw bombs when he wants to. He's come a long way since his NOAH days and he even got to give that Ogawa shout-out.
Also, he got the guy handing him the trophy to technically flip-off everyone.
Tsuji will be fine. Zack had to literally tie up all of his limbs to get him to give up. I wonder what will happen when Yuya comes back. Do they go back to being rivals or do they bro it out. As much as LIJ is a license to print money - every show is absolutely packed with people in LIJ merch - it has to end sometime. On the other hand, if Naito retires, getting Yuya out of J5G and into LIJ could be a way to give him some color while also giving SANADA a bit of his own medicine.
Zack says having to wait to get to the Tokyo Dome after the G1 is boring. He does want to do it Ryogoku. He wants to defnd the title at Royal Quest.
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Not to be crass but JK Rowling is rich enough to afford protection, unlike the boxers at the Olympics that she pointed her keyboard at and tried to cast "transphobius!" at.
Anyway, clearly, the only solution to all this is for Elon Musk to have to box Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting in a triple threat match.
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Takagi beats O-Khan and Tsuji beats Takeshita. Saturday is Takagi/ZSJ and Tsuji/Finlay and Sunday is the finals.
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Tsuji/Takeshita is the main event tonight with Takagi/O-Khan as the semi-main. Before that, Hartley Jackson, who has been doing shots with AJPW, GLEAT, Zero-1 and others, will be teaming with Zack against Finlay and Gedo in a meeting of the block winners.
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The diver case was in the US though. She's filing this in France. And Elon didn't own his own social media platform at the time. And he's already in hot water with the British government over misinformation.
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jk-rowling-elon-musk-imane-khelif-lawsuit-1236105185/
QuoteThe lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. That “ensure[s] that the ‘prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages under pseudonyms, said Boudi. The complaint nevertheless mentions famously controversial figures.
“J. K. Rowling and Elon Musk are named in the lawsuit, among others,” he said, adding that Donald Trump would be part of the investigation. “Trump tweeted, so whether or not he is named in our lawsuit, he will inevitably be looked into as part of the prosecution.”
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Block B is set:
SpoilerFinlay finishes on top. Despite HOT shenanigans Takeshita beat Narita and Tsuji beat Cobb. Takagi/Khan and Takeshita/Tsuji tomorrow.
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17 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
Man, why would you take the name of a puro legend, even if it's your own?
Different kanji for Yuki, so no foul.
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Dunno but it's kind of sort of associated with GCW? Anyway, the long sleeved version costs 7,700 yen (can't find the short sleeved one).
https://store.haoming.jp/?pid=178410472
That reminds me, in the early Marigold behind the scenes training stuff, someone (Mirai? I forget) was always wearing WWE t-shirts that were most likely souvenirs that Rossy brought back from Wrestlemania.
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There's a Eurosport piece of art that has memorable moments from the Olympics that has gotten criticism online because it completely ignored the Chinese and Japanese teams (the only Asian is Kim Yeji, the Korean shooting gold medalist who went viral) but does have Raygun.
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18 hours ago, Joe vs the Algorithm said:
I feel like there are a lot of 44 year-old’s out there that could do Raygun’s routine. Age may not be much of an impediment, I’m no expert on breaking, but Raygun looked to me to be performing at a much lower level than the other competitors I saw.
With a couple of exceptions (mainly the situations happening in their home countries), most of the competitors on the b-girls side were in the upper ranks of the World Championships held in 2023. Raygun and her main competitor, Holy Molly are way down there. I've seen stuff online that say it should have been Holy Molly but either way, Australia was going to get smoked. At least this way it was memorable, I suppose.
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It was confirmed by the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers
Jackie Chan mentioned his passing very briefly in a post he made to Weibo about celebrating the anniversary of the Yuen Clan and that was how the general public found out.
Of the "bunch of HK martial arts movies" that he directed:
Ninja in the Dragon's Den, Yes, Madam!, Righting Wrongs and the Fong Sai Yuk movies. He was the martial arts director on Dragon Lord, Zu (the original one) and Eastern Condors. He was also the action director for John Woo's Red Cliff movies. And he introduced Jean-Claude Van Damme to the wider world via the first No Retreat, No Surrender movie.
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They actually did it.
SpoilerO-Khan beat Naito in the main event to take the final spot in the A Block.
ZSJ beat SANADA to solidify his place at the top.
Takagi beat Lee to keep the hope alive that EVIL didn't advance. (if Lee had won, EVIL was in no matter what)
Umino finally overcomes EVIL with Tanahashi's "help" to finally end that fear.
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8 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:
The US also needed that Gold to tie China in the overall count, for those that root for such things. And maybe now people will leave the high jumper alone that didn't do anything wrong.
And also Americans getting whiny about how China racks up medals in sports that are either too niche or aren't "real" sports. MFers, if you stopped treating badminton and table tennis like they are backyard sports and took them seriously like Asia and Europe (you know, most of the world) maybe you'd be more competitive in those areas.
1 hour ago, ohtani's jacket said:Well, New Zealand had a record 10 gold medal haul, and Japan had its best overseas Olympics, so Paris 2024 was bountiful. Time to count our booty. Shame on you LA for not including Breaking.
Japan almost doubled it's total number of fencing medals in this Olympics, picking up 5 in Paris after coming in with only 3.
They missed out on a couple of judo medals but overall they got a lot of medals that they were favored to. Still can't break through against the Chinese in the women's table tennis team final though. It was the third time they've met in the finals.
The new system of allowing the host countries to pick and choose which events will be interesting. Baseball and softball will be back in 2028 and the US will look to avenge their finals losses in both to Japan in 2020. With all it's internal turmoil, boxing has not been officially announced. But I imagine that if Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting came back the outrage machine will be ready to fire-up. Or maybe not.
Also, no breaking although now all the Americans complaining about it should be actively trying to "bring it back home." It may come back in 2032 in Brisbane so we may get..the return of the Raygun.
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14 hours ago, hammerva said:
France might not win this gold medal game but we will be seeing Lebron get posterized on a particular dunk constantly
Also, Embiid getting caught flat-footed at the top of the key.
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The G in G1 is for Goto! Block B now has five guys (Goto, Finlay, Tsuji, Narita and Takeshita) with 8 points and Jeff Cobb with 10 with two nights left.
NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2024. Contains G1 Climax 34 spoilers.
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Getting a Global title shot is a good consolation for TAICHI after having to sit out the G-1.
I'm getting kind of tired of the War Dogs constant swearing and giving people the finger. It's just cheap heat. And while doing it to Goto's kids was a heel thing to do, it was a bit excessive. Other than that, I think match-wise, Finlay is a fine champion.