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  1. The Dragon Lives Again is on one of the discs. https://severinfilms.com/collections/pre-order/products/the-game-of-clones-bruceploitation-collection-vol-1-exclusive-8-disc-blu-ray-box-set-book
  2. People were getting bent out of shape on twitter about the stips and it's like, chill out people. They're not even showing this show live on NJPW World. The only Road to show that will be aired live is the Korakuen show where LIJ EXPLODES and Naito gets to pin BUSHI.
  3. Must have been watching too many Britpop videos recently because I'm watching Robbie Avila and thinking "What if Jarvis Cocker of Pulp was a center?"
  4. One thing I've noticed over the years is that the Bruceploitation fillms often have decent action because they were peppered with people like Lo Lieh, Phillip Ko Fei and Michael Chan doing work between bigger movies for Shaw Brothers and the like. Of the guys shown, Bruce Li was probably the best. Dragon Lee was too short to be a believable Bruce but he was ripped. Bruce Le was in Inframan! Bruce Liang/Leung was so fondly remembered (for various things) that Stephen Chow used him as the baddie in Kung Fu Hustle. I'm not sure why there is a clip of Heroes of the East in there.
  5. May 6th (the last day of the Golden Week holiday) at the Budokan UJPW will hold it's first show, an All Together charity show for the Noto Earthquake that occurred on January 1st. Shota Umino/Kaito Kiyomiya/Yuuki Ueno vs Yuya Uemura/Shun Skywalker/Konosuke Takeshita Tomohiro Ishii/Daisuke Sekimoto vs Masa Kitamiya/Jeff Cobb Naomichi Marafuji/Sanshiro Takagi/Hiroshi Tanahashi vs HOT (EVIL/Narita/Takahashi) The show will be on ABEMA PPV.
  6. I think there are enough freelancers who can fill out cards for a couple of months without having to raid other promotions all at once. Or god forbid, put some dudes on some shows. But perhaps Stardom giving Saori a contract (albeit a short one) was them announcing to those interested in becoming Global Amazing Hathletes or whatever it will be called that Bushi Road is open for business.
  7. Or they got orders from above for a preferred outcome. All I know is that this story went warp speed from "something is fishy" to "ban him for life" and/or "he has MJ-esque gambling addiction." Were that many people waiting for him to stumble? If he were still on a bad Angels team would people be charging into this story with their knives out?
  8. The second game only drew a 17.7, possibly because of Yamamoto's poor start and no Darvish/Ohtani parlays. It was also going up against a Japan/North Korea World Cup qualifier match which also has some drama as North Korea abruptly said they are not hosting the second leg which was to be played in Pyongyang.
  9. In it's own way, the Pete Rose case is iconic, and the fact that everyone goes straight to it shows how much Shohei transcends the game.
  10. The change of story is a bad look and will fuel the takes for weeks, if not months, But the main thing is that within baseball gambling is synonymous with one person and people are still fighting and will keep fighting about Pete Rose until he either gets into the HoF or the heat death of the universe. There are people on twitter (I know, I know) who already want Ohtani banned for life.
  11. Oh yeah, Umino is telling Perry that "It's clobberin' time."
  12. The game garnered a 24.9 rating last night in Japan, going as high as 29.9. Ippei Mizuhara is betting that tonight's game might beat that.
  13. Full Sakura Genesis card has been released: Naito vs Tsuji for the IWGP title Takagi vs EVIL for the NEVER title Mox/Shota vs Perry/Narita YOH vs SHO for the junior title Bishamon vs KENTA/Chase for the tag titles KUSHIDA/Knight vs Akira/TJP vs Maloney/Connors for the junior tag titles Finlay gets shunted all the way down to the 2nd match, teaming with Gedo against BUSHI and Hiromu. Speaking of all the way down the card, ZSJ Jr/Fujita vs Taguchi/Despy opens. Nemeth vs Tanahashi is postponed due to Tanahashi being old fat injured.
  14. I didn't know Fanatics made gloves too. That error was brought to you by the Secret Committee to Get Shohei One More At Bat Before All the KIds In Asia Have to Go to Bed.
  15. Hey now..I just got to hear NHK play an All Time Low song while they did a between inning recap. They also cut to Shohei's wife during all his at bats.
  16. Yota wins and will face Naito at Sakura Genesis. Goto tried to do a Rainmaker on Yota which got reversed into a close-range Gene Blast and then the actual Gene Blast for the win. Probably Takagi/EVIL for the NEVER title and SHO/YOH for the junior title then or on the Road To shows.
  17. Yeah, Oz runs once, maybe twice a month and Saori has been on almost every show since she started with Stardom. It helps that Oz does the majority of their shows in Tokyo. It's only a one-year contract so maybe it's there to off-set whoever leaves in April. The two of the bigger text blurbs from the article state that the main difference for her is that she won't be considered "free" for the time being and that in a year she may feel differently.
  18. For better or worse, SANADA was on the road to being Goto'd until he got a haircut and left LIJ. And he got to win the title over Okada which now in retrospect was the beginning of the end of the Okada era. If Goto goes through Tsuji and Naito though, they may as well just give him a chyron that says "Transitional Champion." Or "Lifetime Achievement Award Before Moving on to Limit Break."
  19. Finals are set as Tsuji and LIJ finally got the best of EVIL and Goto beat SANADA. Tsuji and Goto have never met one on one and even then Tsuji only has one win out of a number of tags (mainly six-mans). Since the beginning Naito has been waiting for either Tsuji or Takagi to get through to face him at Sakura Genesis. On the other hand, Goto is Mr. New Japan Cup, having been in the finals six (now seven) times and winning three..but his last visit was eight years ago. And also the announcers played up his father passing away earlier in the year a bit.
  20. Yota and EVIL in the other semi. We are still on track for the worst possible final of SANADA/EVIL where EVIL would have to win because even NJPW has to realize that they can't do SANADA/Naito again. Or maybe not. On the other hand, relative to most HOT matches, Shingo made it work.
  21. And....Finlay had to pull out of last night's match due to illness. So one side is SANADA/Goto. The other side will be decided tonight.
  22. Other than EVIL and SANADA, aside from having lower case letters in their names everyone else would represent a relatively fresh match-up for Naito. He and Goto have gone at it in the G-1 and tags mainly. He and Takagi had one G-1 match four years ago and that's it. He sent Tsuji away overseas but that was also a while ago. He's never had a singles with Finlay or Narita. I don't think he's ever had a match with Jungle Jack.
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