dragonzombie Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Mizuki Watase will move from DDT to Ganbare☆Pro (middle man) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ka-to Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 On 11/27/2021 at 8:27 PM, lostinube said: No word yet on when it might re-air. The title is 燃える闘魂 ラストスタンド https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/K6W16GLK53/episode/te/8LWJ2G9G66/ I just watched it on NHK4K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horangi Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 11 hours ago, Sublime said: Has anything worth seeking out happened during BOSJ or WTL? I just realized that I haven’t paid any attention to NJPW since ZSJs title match. I've been watching BoSJ, most of it has been fun but nothing worth going out of your way for. Night 4 (Aichi) and Night 6 Korakuen probably stand out as they had two really good semi-mains and mains (Hiromu/Desperado & Eagles/ELP for Aichi, Hiromu/Ishimori & Desperado/Eagles for Korakuen night 6). Night 5 in Korakuen was fun too for all the inter-faction matches. Stay away from all the SHO matches if you don't enjoy EVIL's shtick, because SHO is now just effectively junior EVIL. WTL on the other hand has not been great, only stand outs being Taichi murdering TAKA like he owed him money and the Dangerous Tekkers vs United Empire match from Night 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted November 30, 2021 Author Share Posted November 30, 2021 Is TAKA back back or just for the tournament? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 A sequel to the Inoki documentary post sickness may be produced. Not sure if Inoki will show up in NJPW next year stage wise but we will see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Endo is looking to start up a new unit in DDT. Wonder if he revives some old defunct AJPW faction from the 90's? Or maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Endo's new faction name is finalized, it is Atsumare Entetsu. He wanted Kobashi to unretire and join, Kobashi declined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 30 minutes ago, D.Z said: Endo's new faction name is finalized, it is Atsumare Entetsu. He wanted Kobashi to unretire and join, Kobashi declined. Well, it was worth a try I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Can add O Khan as another guy along with Tekkers and Naito and Sanada who all want to revive the tags division of NJPW. O Khan said the GHC tags have no value and he wants to throw them into the sea, and he said both champions can't walk too much. We might see him and his partner vs Marufuji and Muto..... He called NOAH indy. Tbh only NJPW is the true large scale Major. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 18 minutes ago, D.Z said: He called NOAH indy. Tbh only NJPW is the true large scale Major. I haven't paid much attention to Dragons Gate in years. Is it still the second largest, or has the pandemic given chance & time for NOAH to rival it again? Once NOAH fell DG kind of became no. 2 by default, and even they seemed far away from NJPW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Eivion said: I haven't paid much attention to Dragons Gate in years. Is it still the second largest, or has the pandemic given chance & time for NOAH to rival it again? Once NOAH fell DG kind of became no. 2 by default, and even they seemed far away from NJPW. Dragongate was always considered indy (even if they did drew more for awhile) in Japan last decade. My mind is blurry on this but Dragongate attendances went down last few years, for Kobe World Memorial Hall shows below 6000. Even before Covid. https://www.wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=zuschauer&sortart=1&kategorie=3&liga=260&land=&jahrzehnt=0&jahr=&sort=0&seite=1 Probably because of Cima and his boys leaving. It's a Ultimo Dragon Toryumon promotion again. Hasn't been a true strong number 2 in years in all of the metrics combined either. Most of non NJPW promotions have something over the others, bigger roster, combined attendances, big show attendances, sponsors, money backers, better tv reach etc. AJPW could have booked more Sumo hall shows the last few years, but they obviously decided on saving money not renting that building and not losing money. Edited November 30, 2021 by D.Z 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Kairi Sane is opening a 24-hour fitness gym in Japan. The gym is named “Para-Fit24.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Link below for CyberFight Co Ltd and their sub ltd's under that ltd and NOAH money related info, may need to let the machine auto translate... https://catr.jp/companies/277aa/36270 They make small profits/net income, and for NOAH. Now next year it will be more when covid is done away with, so even more money next year. The previous versions of NOAH (they had several ltds in the last decade and some bankruptcies and boughtouts prior to CyberAgent) from the last decade hammaorgaged money for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 DDT will have their own announcement for 12.5, for Nevermind. That BIG NAME everyone has been recently talking about is the hint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 50 years of AJPW 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 (edited) Suwama is gonna scout for wrestlers and develop them, he wants to pass down what Hase taught him, the Hase "ISM". To Olympic people and other sorts of athletes AJPW wants to hire. With the exceptions of Fuchi and old man Omori, not many contracted men left in current AJPW have links to pre NOAH split AJPW and no new rookies will have the training from deceased Aoki and his NOAH lineage, who was trained by old AJPW guys himself. Edited December 2, 2021 by D.Z 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Shibata interview part 1 https://www.njpw1972.com/110425 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Wonder if AJPW will hire Ashino this year? They usually make one of the regulars permanent, and he hasn’t worked for anyone else. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 (edited) Kinda kafabey, but Masa Chono wants to redo the wrestling association thing again with NJPW and NOAH and be the first chairman. Both NJPW and NOAH are the 2 strongest promotions now. He went on to talk about if he didn't got and called Misawa up to work in NJPW during the May 2002 Tokyo Dome show, NJPW probably would've collapsed. The rotten and dying upper top management of the time had nothing booked. NJPW vs U-Inter and NJPW vs WAR feuds of the 90's were brought up and "absorbing". Keep in mind nothing may happen in regards in forming this wrestling association. Edited December 3, 2021 by D.Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 HINO! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 The final teams in AJPW’s tag league are not surprises: Runaway SUPLEX (Suwama & Ashino) NEXTREAM (Kento & Yuma) TOTAL ECLIPSE (Kuma & Doi) Kengo Mashimo & KAZMA SAKAMOTO Not sure what the matchups are. Glad they’re getting a bit more behind Kuma & Doi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Part 2 will be out later in english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Could get something with Onita and FMW-E in AJPW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Lariato! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 On 12/3/2021 at 8:14 AM, Control said: The final teams in AJPW’s tag league are not surprises: Runaway SUPLEX (Suwama & Ashino) NEXTREAM (Kento & Yuma) TOTAL ECLIPSE (Kuma & Doi) Kengo Mashimo & KAZMA SAKAMOTO Not sure what the matchups are. Glad they’re getting a bit more behind Kuma & Doi. It’s Suwama/Ashino vs Koji Doi/Kuma Arashi Kento/Yuma vs Kengo/KAZMA Jake and Hokuto are facing the BJPW team again, for some reason. Maybe setting up a TC defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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