Lazlo Woodbine Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 That'd make some sense, he was going to be Black Tiger in BOSJ that year he got lifted in Mexico, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bee of ephesus Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 its not Takaiwa he teamed with blacktiger the other day, its a bulky guy, its not nosawa either i dont think hes working w1 n fmw aint he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Could just be some random indy or BJW guy that Takaiwa loaned it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Christ, they're going to start a new promotion, aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 11 minutes ago, Control said: Christ, they're going to start a new promotion, aren't they? It's Japan. They're going to start at least two splinter promotions, probably three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Hasn't Hama worked Big Japan a lot the past year or two? Perhaps he will work there. Tajiri's departure makes me wonder if he is actually joining WWE again since he is currently in the CWC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgian_Waffle Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Surprised to see Hama leave after he was so vocally pro-Mutoh during the AJPW split. Why can't Soya leave and either rejoin AJPW or go to NJPW so we can see him trade fists with Suwama or Ishii?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 If Hama leaving leads to more matches like this one, Giddyup: (8) BJW Tag Championship Match: [42nd Champions] “Twin Towers” Kohei Sato (ZERO1) & Shuji Ishikawa (FREE) vs. [Challengers] “SMOP” Akebono (Oudou) & Ryota Hama (FREE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Tajiri, please take Hama to WWE with you so I can watch some really ridiculous shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 I think I mentioned this before but Kota Ibushi might make an appearance on this year's broadcast of SASUKE (Ninja Warrior) airing tomorrow night at 6:30 PM JST. I say might because he was there but there's no guarantee of how much he'll be shown if at all (which sort of tells you how he did). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Card for the first day of the Super J Cup (from Purolove.com):NJPW Produce "SUPER J-CUP 2016", 20.07.2016 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 1. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Matt Sydal vs. Kaji Tomato 2. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Gurukun Mask vs Kenou 3. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Yuma Aoyagi vs Taichi 4. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Jushin Thunder Liger vs Eita 5. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Titan vs Will Ospreay 6. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: BUSHI vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru 7. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Ryusuke Taguchi vs Daisuke Harada 8. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: KUSHIDA vs Taiji Ishimori I don't know. This sounded way more interesting, when it was first announced. I'm glad they changed it from a One-Day event to a Two-Day event, but I wish there were more wrestlers from outside NJPW/NOAH in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 As far as names out of the ether go, I had no clue Buffa was back in Zero-One after who knows how many years and is in the Fire Festival and won one of their belts 2 weeks ago. He's the former K-Pusha in ALL MONEY IS LEGAL. He's been around since last July showing how little I or most people pay attention to Zero 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Some of this (as always, with puro) is baffling. Kanemaru is still wrestling (much less even Liger)? Who is Eita? Who is KAJI TOMATO?! I know, these questions will probably be easily answered by someone, but it's just... strange. Puro has gotten so subdivided and obscure that even I have a hard time keeping up. You Joshi cats, I really don't know how you do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 Hey Joshi stuff is much easier to find these days. Now keeping up with all the wrestlers..... well I have a good memory Eita is an up and coming star in Dragon Gate, has a lot of buzz. Tomato is a long time wrestler in K-DOJO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Otto Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 I'm happy to see Kenou in there, he deserves the spotlight. Atsushi Aoki or Hikaru Sato would have been better picks from All Japan, but I'm guessing they want Yuma Aoyagi to get some attention, although he's still quite green. The Titan-Ospreay match has a ton of potential on paper, and Kushida-Ishimori could be nuts. It's not a terrible line-up, but like I'm sure others will say, it's certainly a bit underwhelming. I'm sure some matches will deliver, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Eita and Kaji Tomato are actually pretty well known DG and indy guys as stated, Gurukun Mask on the other hand is not. He's an older random indy scrub formerly of Okinawa Pro who gets around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 23 hours ago, The Z said: Card for the first day of the Super J Cup (from Purolove.com):NJPW Produce "SUPER J-CUP 2016", 20.07.2016 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 1. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Matt Sydal vs. Kaji Tomato Should be a fun match, Tomato is underrated. 2. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Gurukun Mask vs Kenou I assume Kenou is just going to beat the shit out of him. 3. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Yuma Aoyagi vs Taichi I have no clue how this will be. 4. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Jushin Thunder Liger vs Eita This may surprise people and don't be shocked when Eita goes over. 5. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Titan vs Will Ospreay This could be absurd. 6. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: BUSHI vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru Should be solid. 7. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: Ryusuke Taguchi vs Daisuke Harada Should also be solid. 8. SUPER J-CUP 2016 - Round 1: KUSHIDA vs Taiji Ishimori Should surprise people and be quite good. GURUKUN MASK FOR THE WIN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Fight Network in Canada has begun to air the NJPW shows that air on AXS TV in the USA, from the beginning of the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 So did anyone watch the Super J Cup? Spoiler Wow, like I feared, they eliminated every single wrestler from outside NJPW/NOAH in the first round. How lame. I thought the Super J Cup was about the best Jr. Heavyweights in Japan, not a New Japan circle jerk. I like Liger as much as everyone else, but does a 50 year old Liger really need to advance to Round 2 over Eita? Even with the NOAH wrestlers they made some awful decisions, advancing Taichi and Kanemaru, but eliminating Harada and Ishimori. You have to be kidding. At least the matches themselves were all pretty good. KUSHIDA vs. Ishimori was MOTN, Osprey vs. Titan was a proper spotfest. Eita went all out against Liger. Round 2 looks very uninspired. I expect the remaining three NOAH wrestlers to be eliminated in Round 2, so the semi-finals and finals will be exclusively New Japan guys. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
We Dem Boyz Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 5 hours ago, The Z said: So did anyone watch the Super J Cup? Hide contents Wow, like I feared, they eliminated every single wrestler from outside NJPW/NOAH in the first round. How lame. I thought the Super J Cup was about the best Jr. Heavyweights in Japan, not a New Japan circle jerk. I like Liger as much as everyone else, but does a 50 year old Liger really need to advance to Round 2 over Eita? Even with the NOAH wrestlers they made some awful decisions, advancing Taichi and Kanemaru, but eliminating Harada and Ishimori. You have to be kidding. At least the matches themselves were all pretty good. KUSHIDA vs. Ishimori was MOTN, Osprey vs. Titan was a proper spotfest. Eita went all out against Liger. Round 2 looks very uninspired. I expect the remaining three NOAH wrestlers to be eliminated in Round 2, so the semi-finals and finals will be exclusively New Japan guys. As someone who just subscribed to NJPW World I thought it was a fun show. After watching the first day of G-1 I was expecting them to respect outside wrestlers though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 They'll swerve you and have Kanemaru win for maximum boredom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerome Miller Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 God, it's so hard to take Kenny Omega seriously as a Main Eventer with that hair style of his. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 That's why he's better than us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgian_Waffle Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Just saw the J Cup results from today. Unless every match is somehow amazing or something I'm guessing this one will go down as one of the lamer J Cups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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