Raziel Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 So, I'm doing a main thread for the tour this time, as they split the main title matches over the last 3 cards of the tour, instead of the PPV final show. So I'm just listing the highlight matches for the 3 main shows: 4/27 in Hiroshima: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Suzuki-gun (Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (c) vs. Roppongi Vice (Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta) (CHAOS) NEVER Openweight Championship Hirooki Goto (CHAOS) (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki (Suzuki-gun) 4/29 in Oita IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Hiromu Takahashi (L.I.J.) (c) vs. Ricochet Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. "King of Darkness" EVIL (L.I.J.) IWGP Intercontinental Championship Tetsuya Naito (L.I.J.) (c) vs. Juice Robinson 5/3 in Fukuoka IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 3 Way Match War Machine (Hanson & Raymond Rowe) (RoH) (c) vs. Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Guerrilla's of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa) (Bullet Club) NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Championship Taguchi Japan 2 (Ryusuke Taguchi, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ricochet) (c) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon ("King of Darkness" EVIL, SANADA & BUSHI) Tomohiro Ishii (CHAOS) vs. Kenny Omega (Bullet Club) IWGP Heavyweight Championship "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada (CHAOS) (c) vs. Bad Luck Fale (Bullet Club) There are also a bunch of neat multiman tags throughout, and 5/3 has David Finlay vs. Cody Rhodes, which could be decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zev Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Looks like the previous 4 Dontaku Specials are freely available for a bit on NJPW World. Any recommendations from any of these shows? http://njpwworld.com/c/t_0000_2015_41#googtrans(en) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Today's show was pretty fun from top to bottom but I'm going to guess that the main event will be tarnished a bit to some/most people because of the nasty looking unprotected chair shot to the head in it, I know it left a bad taste in my mouth. The two title matches were both good. Desperado was surprisingly entertaining in all his appearances. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Okada's streak of classic IWGP title defences ended today. Even by Bad Luck Fale carry jobs, this doesn't rank all that high. He's had better matches with Okada, Tanahashi, and Ishii in the G1 IIRC and the NJ Cup final was much better too. It wasn't bad and the story they told made perfect sense throughout but it just wasn't all that engaging. You just can't have Fale take the lion's share of a match and expect great things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 What a freaking WAR Omega/Ishii was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 I'm so looking forward to that. I thought the New Japan Cup match between those two didn't quite live up to expectations and they have a classic in them. I wanted to get to the main event first and now I'm going from the beginning. Why is David Finlay wearing mascara? The ALABAMA SLAM he took on the floor from Cody was absolutely disgusting. Full force and a sickening thud. Sweet second/third generation match-up though. When does Ibushi drop the Tiger Mask W gimmick? Answer: not soon enough. There are so many generic flippy dudes they could get to do that. It's a shame they're wasting his talents on that. I get that they're not going to commit to a huge Ibushi push while he's doing his crazy freelancing but it still screams missed opportunity to me. It's pretty obvious he's not comfortable in that mask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 On 4/27/2017 at 5:09 PM, Sublime said: Today's show was pretty fun from top to bottom but I'm going to guess that the main event will be tarnished a bit to some/most people because of the nasty looking unprotected chair shot to the head in it, I know it left a bad taste in my mouth. The two title matches were both good. Desperado was surprisingly entertaining in all his appearances. Read about this and seen the GIF for the first time today. Wasn't a happy bunny. 16 hours ago, Oyaji said: Okada's streak of classic IWGP title defences ended today. Even by Bad Luck Fale carry jobs, this doesn't rank all that high. He's had better matches with Okada, Tanahashi, and Ishii in the G1 IIRC and the NJ Cup final was much better too. It wasn't bad and the story they told made perfect sense throughout but it just wasn't all that engaging. You just can't have Fale take the lion's share of a match and expect great things. 16 hours ago, Pete said: What a freaking WAR Omega/Ishii was. Thanks for this, haven't watched them yet. Can't pass comment on Bad Luck Fale matches as I don't remember any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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