The Natural Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John E. Dynamite Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 (edited) On 12/14/2020 at 1:37 PM, Jiji said: Where is Desperado after the year he had? Fuck him. When El Desperado's mask came off, everybody cheered and called him handsome and gave him all the five-star snowflakes. When my mask comes off the only SNOWFLAKES I get are the ones trying to PERSECUTE my FREEDOM at the MALL KIOSK that REFUSES to THREAD my EYEBROWS Edited December 20, 2020 by John E. Dynamite 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Looks like it'll be Wato/Taguchi challenging Desperado/Kanemaru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 (edited) Per F4W: The full cards for Wrestle Kingdom 15 are as follows: January 4: Tetsuya Naito vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Great-O-Khan KENTA vs. Juice Robinson for the IWGP US title contract briefcase Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Guerillas of Destiny for the IWGP Tag Team titles Hiromu Takahashi vs. El Phantasmo King of Pro Wrestling Ranbo January 5: Winner of Naito-Ibushi vs. Jay White for the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles Taiji Ishimori vs. Hiromu-ELP winner for the IWGP Jr. title SANADA vs. EVIL Shingo Takagi vs. Jeff Cobb for the NEVER Openweight title El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi for the IWGP Jr. Tag Team titles 4-way match for the KOPW title Dark match featuring Stardom talent NJPW's New Year Dash!! event will take place on January 6 at Tokyo Dome City Hall (I honestly think they had a better card for New Beginning in Osaka this year, with Naito vs KENTA, Mox vs MiSu, and Hiromu vs Lee on top. I was more excited for that one, at any rate - mainly because I got to see it live. Still, I'm looking forward to both shows. I hope Hiromu vs El P and Shingo vs Cobb steal the show! I'm bummed about no MiSu and no Ishii. Loved their G1 match! Hopefully they'll both make the January 5th KOPW match or something). Edited December 23, 2020 by El Gran Gordi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Juice Robinson is off the Tokyo Dome shows due to a broken orbital bone per Meltzer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Night 1 looks much better than Night 2 currently. Hopefully the Never Openweight six man titles can be defended on New Year's Dash, I'm expecting most of them to be involved in the KOPW trophy stuff. Just give the belt to Kenta, he's defended the brief case more than anyone ever defended the title! Unless they have Moxley secured for a date I just don't see the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 3 hours ago, colonial said: Juice Robinson is off the Tokyo Dome shows due to a broken orbital bone per Meltzer. Looks like he's getting replaced by... Kojima? Ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archibald Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Roller coaster year ends with somewhat weird WK cards + new restrictions on audience size (NJPW can't sell tickets to WK anymore since they have passed the newly introduced limit) . On the positive side I think this show can easily over deliver since, I think, nobody is really expecting it to be as great as previous WKs. For 4-way I think, maybe Yano, Suzuki, Goto and Sho? Would be a bit weird with 3 Chaos guys, but I don't really see many viable alternatives, maybe Ishii, but thats replacing Chaos with Chaos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMark Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 6 hours ago, Raziel said: Looks like he's getting replaced by... Kojima? Ok. Odd choice but if it gives us BREAD KINGDOM AT TOKYO DOME I can deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Archibald said: For 4-way I think, maybe Yano, Suzuki, Goto and Sho? Would be a bit weird with 3 Chaos guys, but I don't really see many viable alternatives, maybe Ishii, but thats replacing Chaos with Chaos. I think that’s probably going to be close to the lineup for the match except replace Sho with someone for BC Fale/Owens/Yuiro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Suzuki as KOPW would be fun. It needs to be someone who can work weird gimmick matches. It would allow him to work matches that don't require a lot of bumping but still featured in singles matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Can we all agree that Yano slamming Fale was this generation's version of Hulk slamming Andre???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Press Conference for Wrestle Kingdom. https://news.goo.ne.jp/article/battle_news/sports/battle_news-20201223_65805.html "El Phantasmo" is there. Everyone does the do your hand gesture while standing next to your opponent photo op and then there's this: Spoiler 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 That picture is awesome. Too bad it will also represent, like, a solid 33% of the match. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 I'd rather see more Dick Togo than SANADA and EVIL anyways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Two Stardom Matches: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Have to be honest, this is the least interesting Wrestle Kingdom since I started properly getting into New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 2012. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 I'll also continue to skip Will Ospreay as I have Matt Riddle and the Velveteen Dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 2 hours ago, The Natural said: I'll also continue to skip Will Ospreay as I have Matt Riddle and the Velveteen Dream. Wasn't Ospreay somewhat exonerated regarding the allegations brought against him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 I thought it came out that a promoter was using his name without his knowledge regarding the blackballing situation and that Will himself became depressed due to it all because he didn’t have anything to d o with it, he just got pulled in because he had name value for the promoter to dangle over others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archibald Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Even if he was guilty it doesn't really make sense to put him next to a rapist and paedophile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, Sublime said: I thought it came out that a promoter was using his name without his knowledge regarding the blackballing situation and that Will himself became depressed due to it all because he didn’t have anything to d o with it, he just got pulled in because he had name value for the promoter to dangle over others. The supposed depression stuff happened before he was somewhat exonerated. It was later admitted the actual person who did the blackballing was the assaulter's trainer who also partially owned the building. I will say that while Ospreay may have been innocent of actual blackballing of Pollyanna he was still an asshole to her over the situation and made a poor apology for it this summer. That said, I think putting him in the same vein as guys like Dream & Riddle is a bit much. Edited December 28, 2020 by Eivion 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archibald Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 This promo makes Khan look rather cool: He is clearly going to be major player in following years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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