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is Kenou good these days, NOAH fans?
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now all the matches are done for the year pretty much here's my top 10 matches of the year. I pretty much only watched New Japan this year.
01 Okada-Shibata
02 Okada-Suzuki II
03 Tanahashi-Ibushi II
04 Okada-Omega I
05 Naito-Tanahashi III
06 Omega-Ishii III
07 Okada-Omega III
08 Tanahashi-Naito I
09 Naito-Omega
10 Ishii-Nagatasome unreal work not even on the list. Okada-Omega II would be MOTY most years. Okada-Suzuki I was great. Nagata couldn't stop having good matches in G1. Ibushi-Tana I, Tana-Naito II, the other two Omega-Ishii matches, EVIL-Okada I. spoiled rotten.
Shibata gets the win not just for martyring himself but I was genuinely locked into that match like no other before.
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congratulations to Muscle Child Kitamura on winning the Young Lions Cup
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on the mirror version tip as outlined above by EVA, it occurred to me on a rewatch (friend wanted to see it) that maybe Snoke's death was as aware as Luke's was, a mirror-martyring to allow the new kid in town a run on top. idk, just tossing that out there.
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and Goto-Suzuki is hair vs. hair AND title on the line AND no interference allowed
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best punk of 2017 imo was ANXIETY
http://anxietyglasgow.bandcamp.comlot of people in the scene go on about RIXE but I don't hear it myself
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Cobb needed to next level like this
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10 hours ago, Control said:
I just started Dan Simmons’ Hyperion and I expect big things from it.
woah I was coming here to say this, wtf!
anyway yes I'm about a third through it and it seems like a nice updating of the Canterbury Tales and I am digging it
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that Tana-Ibushi match cracked my top 3 as it happens, I loved it.
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is there any worry as there was around this time last year of anyone jumping ship after WK? seems to me Vince has been altogether only too pleased to let things play out as they are...
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4 hours ago, Beech27 said:
Have to figure the Cody/Kota winner challenges for one of the belts later then. No shortage of angles if it’s Omega, obviously, but you could easily work with anyone else too.
maybe this is how they do the BC split & Kenny/Kota thing but I am not sure how?
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thought it a fine and occasionally stylish addition to the canon that strayed well away from being 'shit' but never got near being something I'm ever going to care deeply about. inconsistencies of plot are not something I've ever been concerned with. the humour was mostly really bad.
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Kojima is one of of the best workers in the biz imo and I mean that in all senses
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5 hours ago, Edwin said:
How have Sami Callihan and Jeff Cobb looked in New Japan?
Cobb got over in 30 seconds on show one. Callihan perhaps needs more time but he did look generally good from what I saw.
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Control is a cop, ALL Ryota Hama matches are great
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still feel the same. Dominion was a surprise and a well-structured match considering the length but not one I'm dying to revisit. G1 was a great and necessary conclusion that leaves the door open for more. But WK was completely unforeseen and radical and they smashed it out of the park. It may end up having a negative influence on the company and the biz but in that moment they had pretty much all of our hearts racing legitimately.
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8 hours ago, Control said:
What wuz the best part? I’ve beem reading good things about Yuma Aoyagi and Yusuke Okada.
they were good in their respective matches! the last four matches were good! and nothing outside that was bad! Kea looks good which is weird to me! it was a good show! don't know why every sentence ends like this but I am excited in All Japan in 2017 my god!
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just watched the final show of All Japan's tag league from today I think and while it is unfair to really compare like for like - because New Japan are setting up a show in advance rather than trying to do a great show per se - it was a far better show than the New Japan WTL final. Korakuen looked pretty near full too. I still have my reservations about AJPW outside of the top 5/6 guys but they're really doing their best at the moment.
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I think he went to Mexico because he wasn't allowed to start training in Japan until a certain age, but I presume he was sent there by someone in the NJPW office. Not every day a 6'3 handsome athletic kid walks in and says he fancies ago at this wrestling lark.
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lot of potential, fiery, technically sound, think maybe he looks too young to work the gimmick of some sordid nightstabber and is a small heavyweight/large jr. but you can tell that they love him and their judgment is usually pretty dead on and their hit rate in bringing excursioneers back and retooling them has been solid. honestly I thought when Takaaki Watanabe left he would come back and job for life but he's EVIL and he has a good look and a sick STO and he's a believable and safe brawler. R3K look like two members of a J/K-pop boyband and the girls dig it. And Hiromu is just wtf.
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on paper I think this could be the strongest WK from soup to nuts yet. surely the main is a lock to be great. two greats at their peak? yes please. i cannot wait. the year of Naito will be a thing to behold.
Omega-Jericho has sort of done what it needs to do already - get people invested. i don't think it's possible for them to have a blow away super match but i also think it'll be very good and smartly worked.
the wildcard is Tanahashi-White though I think Tanahashi is overstating his injury for effect because the build doesn't need him. Jay is a good worker but can he step up? I don't think defeat kills him as long as he shows he can hang with the master.
whilst I prefer 1 vs. 1, 2 vs. 2, etc., the 4-way for the Jr title is bound to be good because the British goobers in the match will drop their shtick and go all out. this is better than the random jr tags they do because it's had actual build. think it's all about Hiromu again.
R3K vs Yungbux is bound to be good
Ibushi is a good opponent for Cody. I have reservations about another year where Cody turns up and wins and gets a flat reaction. but surely this is better than defending against a random ROH guy and fighting in silence. would love to see Ibushi get a big win in 2018 though.
Goto vs. Suzuki in title vs hair is a novel spin and bald Goto would be hilarious
KES vs. LIJ for the tags is one of those matches whose floor is probably *** and whose ceiling is probably ****. would love to see LIJ win with a further starmaking performance or break up and start an EVIL-SANADA feud. notice how the WTL post-match was basically the EVIL show?
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guessing there'll be some NEVER 6 Man cluster? LIJ have had the belts a while and there have been some defences. I predict they'll drop them to Fale's crew at the Road to Tokyo Dome Korakuens.
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agree x 3. normally i suck at guessing winners of the longer tournaments.
part of me thinks that Jericho might be in it for a little longer, maybe taking the Bullet Club while Omegabuxxx hive off as faces. i think at least Gedo is smart enough to realise that the storyline just dropping dead after the match does nothing in the long run. think their match will be good.
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final was pretty good. Tama got to look tough in defeat. predicted three New Japan tournament winners in a row now (Naito, R3K, Evil-SANADA). Hope that's me being smart and not New Japan being predictable.
Purotopia General Discussion: 2017!
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that's why I asked, actually. I used to watch NOAH 4 years ago and thought he was capable of high level work but often phoned it in.