MoeCristyV.1.6 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 NJPW "Invasion Attack 2016"10th April 2016Tokyo, Ryogoku Kokugikan Tag Team Match:Ryusuke Taguchi & Juice Robinson vs Bullet Club ("Underboss" Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi)6 Man Tag Team Match:Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata & Jushin "Thunder" Liger vs CHAOS (Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Kazushi Sakuraba)Tag Team Match:CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto) vs Los Ingobernables de Japon ("King of Darkness" EVIL & BUSHI)IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match:Matt Sydal & Ricochet © vs Roppongi Vice (Trent Berreta & Rocky Romero)IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Match:KUSHIDA © vs Will OspreayNEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Title Match:The ELITE ("The Cleaner" Kenny Omega & Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)) © vs "Ace" Hiroshi Tanahashi, "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin & "Bullet Club Hunter" YoshitatsuNEVER Openweight Title Match:"The Wrestler" Katsuyori Shibata © vs Hiroyoshi TenzanIWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match:Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) © vs Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Roa Tonga)IWGP Heavyweight Title Match:"Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada © vs Tetsuya Naito (New Japan Cup Winner) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 If Shibata wrestles his usual match, Tenzan might die. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 If Shibata wrestles his usual match, Tenzan might die. I'm amazed Tenzan has managed to hold himself together this long. I thought injuries would push him into retirement (or, at least, out of New Japan) years ago. But, yeah, Shibata may finally finish him off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 "The Wrestler"? What, is Shibata gonna come out in Sasuke's Randy the Ram pants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 "The Wrestler"? What, is Shibata gonna come out in Sasuke's Randy the Ram pants? We can only hope! I'd rather he borrow Sasuke's Batman get-up and try and save Ultraman Robin! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I thought every NJPW card was required by law to have Captain New Japan on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 He's probably in a dark match or something. Or serving riceballs at the concession stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 To steal from DEAN, he's probably working his side job running a forklift. I dunno if even a solid midcard position on the card in New Japan can pay for a Tokyo apartment, much less the lowest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Results: Tag Team Match: Bullet Club ("Underboss" Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi) d. Ryusuke Taguchi & Juice Robinson vs6 Man Tag Team Match: Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata & Jushin "Thunder" Liger d. CHAOS (Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Kazushi Sakuraba)Tag Team Match: CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto) d. Los Ingobernables de Japon ("King of Darkness" EVIL & BUSHI)IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match: Roppongi Vice (Trent Berreta & Rocky Romero) d. Matt Sydal & RicochetIWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Match: KUSHIDA d. Will OspreayNEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Title Match: "Ace" Hiroshi Tanahashi, "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin & "Bullet Club Hunter" Yoshitatsu d. The ELITE ("The Cleaner" Kenny Omega & Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson))NEVER Openweight Title Match: "The Wrestler" Katsuyori Shibata d. Hiroyoshi TenzanIWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match: Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Roa Tonga) d. Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma)IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Tetsuya Naito (New Japan Cup Winner) d. "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada Didn't think they'd pull the trigger on Naito but there ya go. And now we know where Seiya Sanada is going to be for a bit. Only saw the last three matches. Nagata will be the next challenger to Shibata (shades of Shingo Takagi beating the different Dragon Gate generations there). Might be Ishii taking on Naito first. Crowd was behind Naito for the most part. Also, people on twitter will never tire of pointing out the fact that female fans are very loud when no one else is cheering/making noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 How was Ospreay vs Kushida? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 I had to go back and watch the match. It was good. The focus was on Ospreay's arm to set up for the Hover Board Lock and while it wasn't perfect (Kushida doesn't have a lot of offense that focuses specifically on the arm) Osprea's offense is such that he doesn't really need the arm to fly around. Jushin Liger came out to challenge Kushida at the end of the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Oddly pumped for Naito. Good for him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Liger vs. Kushida sounds like fun; a Liger match will motivate Kushida for sure. Did Tenzan's neck crumble into dust? Also, Shibata vs. Nagata with Yuji bringing the grumpy will be awesome. ...and sure enough, they already fought back in '03 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Ospreay/KUSHIDA was a pretty great introduction for Ospreay. Thought he showed some personality, connected with the crowd, sold his arm pretty well and still managed to get a lot of his shit in. My main critique of him is that he plays to the crowd too much, almost begging for a reaction instead of trusting that it will come (which it would have). That's just inexperience. Shibata/Tenzan was damn good. They kept it short and Tenzan basically gave it everything he had. Shibata kicking Nagata in the face may be my favorite moment of 2016 so far. Naito/Okada was solid. It was funny that they build up this big reveal and the crowd is totally silent. Finish was definitive enough despite all the interference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 To be fair, it is a pretty different look for him. He was sporting the full hair and shiny pants as recently as the week before this show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoeCristyV.1.6 Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 And EVIL got the same reaction. And when Naito said all LOS INGOBERNABLES members names, the pop for SANADA was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterien Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Thought Naito/Okada was a fun match. I kind of only watch the big matches so for me it was different than the matches Okada/Tana/Naka/AJ put on but i really liked it. Naito is a great heel too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 I've watched Naito/Okada and Ospreay/KUSHIDA. Naito/Okada was a solid wrestling match mixed into a weird amount of overbooking, which I hope is not a consistent route for where New Japan is going, but Gedo has shown with the Bullet Club stuff that he wants to lean on that a bit too heavily. I love heel Naito, and watching G1 last year really helped to set the stage for the evolution of that character. Ospreay/KUSHIDA was a match I enjoyed more than I thought I would. KUSHIDA matches run very hot and cold with me, but this one thankfully didn't involve KUSHIDA having to sell any leg offense. I realized watching this that this was the first time I had seen an Ospreay match. He's good, but I'm by and large not a fan of the show off "look at me, I can do this because it looks cool" stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Shibata/Tenzan was so good (of course) that I had to watch it twice. Maybe not as crazy as the Ishii matches but you worry for Tenzan's neck. Especially for some of what Shibata does to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 5 hours ago, Chaos said: I've watched Naito/Okada and Ospreay/KUSHIDA. Naito/Okada was a solid wrestling match mixed into a weird amount of overbooking, which I hope is not a consistent route for where New Japan is going, but Gedo has shown with the Bullet Club stuff that he wants to lean on that a bit too heavily. I love heel Naito, and watching G1 last year really helped to set the stage for the evolution of that character. Ospreay/KUSHIDA was a match I enjoyed more than I thought I would. KUSHIDA matches run very hot and cold with me, but this one thankfully didn't involve KUSHIDA having to sell any leg offense. I realized watching this that this was the first time I had seen an Ospreay match. He's good, but I'm by and large not a fan of the show off "look at me, I can do this because it looks cool" stuff. I see what you're saying but he's very young and trying to get noticed so it's the smart thing to do, IMO. He can always tone it down a few notches and figure out which of his stuff he can do without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superkicks All Day Long Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 5 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: Shibata/Tenzan was so good (of course) that I had to watch it twice. Maybe not as crazy as the Ishii matches but you worry for Tenzan's neck. Especially for some of what Shibata does to it... Yeah, this was probably my favorite match of an otherwise underwhelming show. Shibata didn't hold back on Tenzan and while Tenzan's offense is nowhere near as cringeworthy, Shibata still sold it like it was. I thought KUSHIDA's performance was strong. He looked like a million bucks as champ. Ospreay is just a fill-in-the-blank opponent but he sold the armwork well enough. I'm just bored of that style. Nahito/Okada was okay. You're basically just watching to see Nahito win the title. The crowd was hot but nobody cared about Sanada. I don't blame them. Should've pulled the trigger on the Goto betrayal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Quote while Tenzan's offense is nowhere near as cringeworthy, Shibata still sold it like it was. Tenzan did bust out some nasty shoot headbutts. The big one that the announcers marked out over wasn't the only one. Not all of them landed as nasty, but I don't think Tenzan needs to be wrestling like Hashi (who incidentally retired due to neck injury, heh). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I dug the Tenzan match. Though I felt like maybe I was watching a G-1 match from 2003. I do dig Tenzan's loyalty to the mullet. Seriously, his hairstyle has aged worse than the rest of him. And the rest of him isn't aging all that well either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 That thing isn't JUST a mullet. It's a work of art. And seriously, what do you think about the looks and questions he gets walking around with that on his head for literal years? Dedication isn't the word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I finally caught Tenzan/Shibata. I almost felt bad for Tenzan at his age having to just take the stiffness of Shibata's offense, and Shibata did a good enough job of playing the unrelenting dick heel throughout the whole ordeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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