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Oyaji's recapping of Sasaki's wild 2004 has me also recalling his tremendous 2005 Carny final the following year against Jamal/Umaga (RIP). 

 

Man I'm glad NJPW is making a big deal out of Lyger the Final. They should just let his final match be the main. What if they do Lyger vs the J Cup winner (so long as no one stupid wins the J Cup). 

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2 minutes ago, Tromatagon said:

Fuck his shitty looking cum tights

Man up and go full Scott Hall cum tights if you're gonna do it.  Volume not scatter coverage

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Scott Hall going without the internet for a week and finally sneaking on late at night. Ectoplasm. 

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You know what's kind of fucked up?

Google Liger unmasked.  Pictures of Tomonobu Itagaki come up.

There's even youtubers making whole videos about it.

 

I started that here as a joke and people believed me.  It had to be like ten years ago.

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20 people enter.

One person wins.

Not winning isn't a shortcoming.  That's like saying the 29 other guys in a royal rumble are jabrones.  As long as you're not Warlord or Luke you're good.

But one year Honma lost every match and was way more over because of it.

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Generally anything over 8 points is seen as a good showing.  G1 is sold as the most grueling tournament in existence with 9 matches over 20 days that matter and pinning a champ pretty much guarantees a title shot at said title, along with winning gets you a potential Main Event slot at NJPW's Wrestlemania.  Not winning isn't bad.  This also ended up being one of the more even tournys in a while, where no one sat in the "jobber" role of guaranteed 2 points.  Moxley had a pretty good showing since there were people, like me, that doubted his ability to turn out 9 good performances in a style that the crowd liked, and he brought it and brought me over to his side.  Hell, Mox grabbed a pin over the #2 Champ and arguable #3 guy in the company during this tourny, so he's all good.

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40 minutes ago, Raziel said:

Generally anything over 8 points is seen as a good showing.  G1 is sold as the most grueling tournament in existence with 9 matches over 20 days that matter and pinning a champ pretty much guarantees a title shot at said title, along with winning gets you a potential Main Event slot at NJPW's Wrestlemania.  Not winning isn't bad.  This also ended up being one of the more even tournys in a while, where no one sat in the "jobber" role of guaranteed 2 points.  Moxley had a pretty good showing since there were people, like me, that doubted his ability to turn out 9 good performances in a style that the crowd liked, and he brought it and brought me over to his side.  Hell, Mox grabbed a pin over the #2 Champ and arguable #3 guy in the company during this tourny, so he's all good.

Ran the #1 guy close too. He lost of course, but there's no shame in that.

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There's also the fact that booking circumstances (not all of which were political) were never going to let Moxley win the thing. Although I was willing to consider Moxley in the finals (and likely would have enjoyed the match), there was a non-zero chance that Moxley's shtick wouldn't get as over as NJPW would have hoped for - these were and still are his first matches since leaving WWE, and I think there was just too much risk involved to keep somebody else out of the finals for the sake of his name value.

I really wanted his match with Juice to go to a draw or a DCO after a big crazy bump. It wouldn't  diminish any intrigue for the IWGP US Championship rematch. Juice could  claim he kept Moxley out of the finals while still having Moxley finish a clear second in his block.

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Liger should challenge whoever is IWGP champ on the second night.

3 hours ago, Belgian_Waffle said:

Oyaji's recapping of Sasaki's wild 2004 has me also recalling his tremendous 2005 Carny final the following year against Jamal/Umaga (RIP). 

I had the same thoughts when reading through his post.

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I fell behind on the G1 Climax due to work and never got caught up. Tonight feels like a good night to at least watch White/Ibushi. That's the nice thing about not going to work until 12:30 pm; I don't have to go to bed early. 

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