Curt McGirt Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 When photos of all this crazy shit come up they must be posted to the photo thread. Let a brother know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Full results since y'all were too lazy to post them (he says as he lazily copies/pastes results from puroresufan.com): NJPW “WRESTLE KINGDOM 8 IN TOKYO DOME”, 1/4/14 (WPW/PPV/iPPV) Tokyo Dome 35,000 Fans – No Vacancy 0. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Tomoaki Honma, Captain New Japan & BUSHI beat Manabu Nakanishi, Super Strong Machine, Jushin Thunder Liger & Yohei Komatsu (8:11) when Tenzan used a modified crab hold on Komatsu. 1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title – 4WAY Match: Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson © beat KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley, TAKA Michinoku Kaientai Dojo & Taichi and Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov (10:35) when Matt pinned Taichi after the More Bang For Your Buck (1st defense). 2. IWGP Tag Team Title: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. © (10:27) when Anderson pinned Archer after the Magic Killer to become the 64th champions. 3. NWA World Heavyweight Title: Satoshi Kojima beat Rob Conway © (8:27) with a lariat to become the 85th champion. 4. Special Tag Match: Yuji Nagata & Kazushi Sakuraba beat Daniel Gracie & Rolles Gracie (9:50) when Daniel was DQ’d. 5. Special Tag Match: Great Muta & Toru Yano beat Minoru Suzuki & Shelton Benjamin (12:04) when Yano used the Uragasumi on Suzuki. 6. King of Destroyer Match: Togi Makabe beat King Fale (15:05) by KO. 7. Special Singles Match – Hirooki Goto Return Match: Hirooki Goto beat Katsuyori Shibata (15:33) with the Shouten Kai. 8. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Kota Ibushi beat Prince Devitt © (16:22) with a Phoenix splash to become the 67th champion. 9. Double Main Event I – IWGP Heavyweight Title: Kazuchika Okada © beat Tetsuya Naito (30:58) with the Rainmaker (7th defense). 10. Double Main Event II – IWGP Intercontinental Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Shinsuke Nakamura © (23:24) with the High Fly Flow to become the 7th champion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Yeah, it was a live version of MUTA, the Muta version of Hold Out. Speaking of Muta, I don't know how he does it. They showed a close up of his legs as he was walking to the ring and he was basically dragging one leg. And then he has a stand off with Suzuki and basically falls on his ass. But he doesn't miss a beat with the slashing elbow or dragon screws. Just as an aside, he is nuts. One of the worst things with him starting his own promotion is that he is wrestling more since he is one of the few "draws" of the promotions. He hasn't been able to run in probably ten years, he just hops from place to place, and the fool is still doing moonsaults. He is a slightly less crazy version of Funk in that regard. If he still loves wrestling, cool, and at this point I doubt he is damaging himself too much further as his knees are already gone anyway and at least its not his back/neck. But he really really needs to be one of those "fights four times a year in super important matches" guys, not someone that wrestles on normal tour events. I love Mutoh, I still enjoy his matches since his psychology/charisma is still there, but his physical limitations (like limping badly after doing a moonsault) are hard to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Devitt - Ibushi A new dude, El Desperado came out to challenge Ibushi after his Jr. title win. He debuts today. Okada-v-- Naito Tanahashi-v-Nakamura Who is your favorite wrestler, and why is it Shinsuke Nakamura? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 MOAR. SakuGata! Devitt! Yano & Muta! Harley Race meets NWA President Bruce Tharpe! Karl Anderson Welcome back, Alex Shelley! Most pix and gifs by @SenorLARIATO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 And your main event. Your King of Strong Style and Master of Swag, Shinsuke Nakamura http://youtu.be/OxXSZ2opq8Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Territorial Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Eh, didn't think it was a horrible show, but it was far below my favorite Dome shows and one of my least favorite from the past several years. Entrances were the best part. The first six or seven matches were forgettable and wasted a lot of big names in what amounted to cameos (booking Mutoh and Minoru Suzuki in a 4 min tag match?). I was looking forward to some of the undercard matches, and was mostly disappointed. Last four matches delivered, but a couple suffered from "nothing we haven't seen before" syndrome (there have been a lot of great Tana-Naka matches over the years). Nakamura's entrance was.... something. Something good, though. If you'd told me a couple years ago that Lance Hoyt. Harry Smith, the Young Bucks, and the guy best known as Festus in the WWE would hold tag belts at roughly the same time, I'd have laughed it off. Any particular reason Devitt was made up as Carnage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 So, how many dicks did the Gracies' match suck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Welcome back, Alex Shelley! Most pix and gifs by @SenorLARIATO Shame he wasn't dressed as "Baby Bear" Alex Shelly to play up the time travel gimmick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollinger. Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Any idea when this will likely hit Youtube? Or what channel to be keeping an eye on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 If only the New Breed had gotten out of the Delorean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin877 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Alex Shelley should have come out with some "Blast Goggles" to complete the ensemble. 1.21 Gigagwatts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 I posted an average quality version of the full show in the Matches thread, once something better comes up in the next few days I will cut the matches up so you don't have to download the whole thing if you were only interested in one match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakigatame Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 The first six or seven matches were forgettable and wasted a lot of big names in what amounted to cameos (booking Mutoh and Minoru Suzuki in a 4 min tag match?). The Muta tag was 12:04, not 4 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Oh man you're right, and the Fale/Makabe match was 15, not 5. Everywhere just posted the same wrong times from whoever did it first I updated the post above to reflect the right times on those two matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Any idea when this will likely hit Youtube? Or what channel to be keeping an eye on? Just search through Google video every so often using the "Last 24 Hours" option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 To add to what's already been said, I thought the Bucks 4-way opener was perfectly good and the Makabe match was at least decent. Man that undercard was a slog to get through though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogwelder Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 FWIW, it looks like Devitt dressed up as a Titan from Shingeki no Kyojin / Attack On Titan (although I don't remember a Titan emerging from a coffin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Any idea when this will likely hit Youtube? Or what channel to be keeping an eye on? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDT4l1sSyc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-T3bgu3kJ4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 So, how many dicks did the Gracies' match suck? All of them. Seriously, this match was just awful. Everything else on the card I thought ranged from solid/fun to great. I didn't expect much from Fale/Makabe and Kojima/Conway, but both exceeded expectations. I thought the last 4 matches were damn good. For some reason I love the Yano vs Minoru matchups. I was really really missing Yujiro and Ishii on this one though. The presentation for the whole show brought it up a few notches for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKash202 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 The show was cool. With Ibushi climbing the ranks and having every female in the arena scream his name, would it be safe to say that an eventual Ibushi/Tanahashi matchup could be as heavily anticipated as the 96 Liger/Muta match? No, I am not saying Ibushi now is on Liger in 96's level. I am simply saying that match could be on the radar. Best Jr. vs Best Heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harbinger Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 As heavily anticipated as a Tanahashi-Devitt matchup is more likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 So, how many dicks did the Gracies' match suck? All of them. Seriously, this match was just awful. I actually didn't hate it. But then I might be the only one that liked IGF and their random MMA tags. What I didn't care for was the late 80's/early 90's Wrestlemania non-finish to that match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 My biggest problem with the Gracie match is that they just really looked like they didn't belong. They seemed lost a few times, and the smaller Gracie actually looked afraid at times. It just never clicked. I think a singles match with one of them versus either Nagata or Sakuraba would have worked alot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parties Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Show was pretty bad. Great spectacle from a production value standpoint, esp. the entrances of Nagata/Sakuraba and the main event. Of the matches, I thought Goto-Shibata and the main event each had good moments, but the undercard was worse than expected. The Tag Title match in particular was lousy, especially for a Luke Gallows outing. Bullet Club does nothing for me. Opener was a waste of Honma. The less said about the juniors 4-way, the better. I'm a proponent of IGF and the MMA-tinted years in NJ, but the Gracies were totally awkward and untrained, and a waste of Sakuraba. Makabe-Fale went on forever, with Fale looking like a guy who would be quickly fired from NXT. Crazy to not have Ishii booked on a show with so many bad performances and listless matches. On the upside: Kojima deserves a lot of credit for making that NWA title match into something the crowd got behind, given how lame Conway was. Kojima's charisma came through and he was working his ass off. I have no idea what Meltzer was talking about when he called it a so-so match due to Kojima's injuries. Dude was hitting harder and working smarter than 90% of the workers on the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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