D.Z Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Mutoh will be participating in AJPW, at the 6.7 (Sun) Kobe show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 First CC replacement is Takao Omori, so everything is fine now. Get wild, indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Z Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 The first CC show will now be in Shin-Kiba 1st ring with no fans. The April 29th show will move to 2AW Square Chiba with no fans as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 The Dontaku parade event in Hakata has been cancelled. So far, NJPW hasn't cancelled this year's Wrestling Dontaku but with no parade, the number of people in the area during Golden Week severely decreases - some estimates say the Dontaku brings in two million people. Even if everything settles down by then (at this point it seems unlikely) I don't know if they would be able to draw two decent houses in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, D.Z said: The first CC show will now be in Shin-Kiba 1st ring with no fans. The April 29th show will move to 2AW Square Chiba with no fans as well. I love All Japan, but for fuck's sake, running the Carnival without Korakuen and without fans... Edited March 28, 2020 by Brian Fowler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Z Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 The last 3 CC shows are still normal Korakuen shows with fans. In other news, Wrestle 1's last show will proceed with no fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 The first 40 mins of the Fujita/Shiozaki match might be the greatest thing I've seen in wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 2 hours ago, nofuture said: The first 40 mins of the Fujita/Shiozaki match might be the greatest thing I've seen in wrestling. Just have to wait a few days until next month to subscribe to the streaming service because of the weird Japanese billing practice where if you subscribe mid month you only get the rest of that month before being billed again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 The only Fujita matches I’ve seen were awful, but I hear that he’s been good in Noah? Twitter is quite partisan when it comes to ol Kazuyuki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Dynamite Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 This is the Jarmusch of puroresu. The Tarkovsky. The Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. This makes Larry Zbyszko look like Will Ospreay. MY GOD. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Z Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 NOAH. April the 19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Bugg Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 I just watched Nagata vs Yasuda from Strong Energy 2003. How the fuck did Tadao Yasuda ever pull off an incredible match like this? Yes, he still sucked, but seriously, you can't fuck up a Yuji Nagata match- he was like Flair, able to carry any stiff to a passable match. And just like Flair, the crimson flows in this match. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Not a big fan of Nagata personally, but that match ruled. Yasuda was such an anomaly in terms of what he was, what he looked like, and how they used him and the Makai Club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintthecrippler Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 On 3/29/2020 at 9:22 AM, John E. Dynamite said: This is the Jarmusch of puroresu. The Tarkovsky. The Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. This makes Larry Zbyszko look like Will Ospreay. MY GOD. Fuck Tiger King, I want Netflix to do a 7-part series on that Fujita/Shiozaki match. If you asked me which promotions are going to try something that there is no way they could get away with in front of a live crowd, I would not have guessed Pro Wrestling NOAH, even factoring in new ownership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Dynamite Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) 15 minutes ago, clintthecrippler said: Fuck Tiger King, I want Netflix to do a 7-part series on that Fujita/Shiozaki match. If you asked me which promotions are going to try something that there is no way they could get away with in front of a live crowd, I would not have guessed Pro Wrestling NOAH, even factoring in new ownership. For real though, promotions like DDT have always trafficked in the avant-garde. And Fujita's reign as King of Inokism did, too, albeit avant-ing in a way different garde. If Shiozaki/Fujita didn't have significant input from Sanshiro Takagi or Dino (or whoever else is involved in their booking) I'd be shocked. It's as perfect a recipe of creative talent + in-ring talent + social circumstance that you'll eat all year. Edited April 1, 2020 by John E. Dynamite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Z Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Shuji Kondo might retire. Masayuki Kono said he is out of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notoriusvig Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) On 3/29/2020 at 3:54 AM, sabremike said: Just have to wait a few days until next month to subscribe to the streaming service because of the weird Japanese billing practice where if you subscribe mid month you only get the rest of that month before being billed again Is there a service with NOAH stuff attached to it? I decided to watch the Fujita/Shiozaki match and I liked it and kinda want to see some more. Edited April 1, 2020 by notoriusvig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 11 minutes ago, notoriusvig said: Is there a service with NOAH stuff attached to it? I decided to watch the Fujita/Shiozaki match and I liked it and kinda want to see some more. DDT World (Same company owns both promotions). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 1 hour ago, D.Z said: Shuji Kondo might retire. Masayuki Kono said he is out of business. Any news on Reika Saiki yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Z Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 28 minutes ago, Eivion said: Any news on Reika Saiki yet? So far, nothing is decided yet. She might end up in TJPW again, but she could choose another promotion "to graduate to". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Champions Carnival officially off, at least for now. They hope to run it later in the year. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 Figures. Hopefully they can reschedule the participants, but I’m sure it’ll be a challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgian_Waffle Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Glad to see people still remember and re-watch that Nagata/Yasuda match. I'm not the biggest fan of Nagata in that period myself (I prefer the older, grumpier Nagata of around 2007) but he carried Yasuda to a whopper that night. It's kinda ironic that the best Nagata match ever was his classic with Taue from around the same time---a match which is much less a showcase for Nagata than it is for Taue, and Taue being a guy who on paper has a lot of Yasuda's setbacks in terms of being an awkward, gruesome troll but was a genius at working around his own physical limitations. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 (edited) Forget Mutoh--Hama back in AJ, baby! I don't know the baldy at 8 o'clock, the handsome dude at 4 o'clock (Ashino?), or the masked man. EDIT: masked guy is Andy Wu and the handsome dude is Takanori Ito (W1 guys). Is the bald dude Alexander Otsuka? Edited April 3, 2020 by Control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Yeah. Otsuka but listed under his other name of Otoko Sakari. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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