Raziel Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Block A: EVIL & SANADA - 10 - Block A Winner - 2017 World Tag League Winner Hangman Page & Yujiro Takahashi - 8 Juice Robinson & Sami Callihan - 8 Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI - 8 Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka - 6 Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens - 6 TenCozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) - 6 Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata - 4 Block B: Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) - 10 - Block B Winner Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr) - 10 War Machine (Hanson & Raymond Rowe) - 10 Tomohiro Ishii & Toro Yano - 8 Trent Berreta & Chuckie T - 8 Michael Elgin & Jeff Cobb - 8 Togi Makabe & Henare - 2 David Finlay & Katsuya Kitamura - 0 World Tag League Final: Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka Japan. MAIN EVENT: 2017 World Tag League Final Match Los Ingobernables de Japon (EVIL & SANADA) (Block A Winners) vs. Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) (Bullet Club) (Block B Winners) - (EVIL - Everything is Evil > Pin - Tama Tonga) SEMI-FINAL: CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Will Ospreay) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi) - (Takahashi - Time Bomb > Pin - Ospreay) Roppongi 3K (Rocky Romero, Sho & Yoh) (CHAOS) vs. The Elite (Kenny Omega, Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson) (Bullet Club) - (Omega - One Winged Angel > Pin - Romero) Kota Ibushi & KUSHIDA vs. Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes & Marty Scrull) - (Scrull - Small Package - KUSHIDA) CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, El Depserado, Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.) - (Goto - GTR > Pin - Desperado) Best Friends (Trent Beretta & Chuckie T) (CHAOS) vs. Juice Robinson & Sami Callihan - (Baretta - Strong Zero > Pin - Callihan) Bad Luck Fale (Bullet Club) vs. BUSHI (Los Ingobernables de Japon) - DQ via Low Blow Michael Elgin, Jeff Cobb & War Machine (Hanson & Raymond Rowe) vs. Bullet Club (Hangman Page, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens & Leo Tonga) - (Rowe - Fallout > Pin - Tonga) Togi Makabe, David Finlay, Henare, Hirai Kawato & Katsuya Kitamura vs. Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Yuji Natata, Manubu Nakinishi & Jushin "Thunder' Liger. (Kojima - Lariat > Pin - Kawato) *FINAL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevendaughters Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Much more of an open feel without all the WK headliners in but that is counteracted by it feeling completely second-rate. My guess is an EVIL/SANADA vs. KES final though I think for a better match I'd go EVIL/SANADA vs. Cobb/Elgin or War Machine - there's no point telegraphing the WK result by having KES lose in a final, and you could actually generate some steam by having some booking options rather than closing it down in a predictable fashion. Feel like I say the same thing every year though and this year doesn't really even have the WTF factor of Billy Gunn working it. Could have gotten an All Japan team in, could have gotten some Mexicans in, but no, gotta have Nagata/Nakanishi and Makabe teaming with a barely-recovered Henare. Sigh. Worst part of the New Japan year for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 I bet lowest points on the block go to MiSu/Iizuka because Iizuka is gonna fuck up every match he's in Ishii/Yano is an interesting pairing. Where's Ishii been at recently, anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 5 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: I bet lowest points on the block go to MiSu/Iizuka because Iizuka is gonna fuck up every match he's in Ishii/Yano is an interesting pairing. Where's Ishii been at recently, anyway? Ishii's been kicking ass all year in singles. He's part of CHAOS with Yano so it isn't such an odd pairing... they're like the Brainbusters of the faction to Okada's Flair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 It just seems like it's been awhile since he's been on AXS TV. Like, I feel like they didn't show a single match of his from the G1. I'm probably wrong and reviewed them but whatever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Ishii also just went to the US title finals in Long Beach and had great matches on the way - he's just been quietly been awesome all year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 Ishii/Yano also had a run as Tag Champs in the beginning of this year, so it's not an odd paring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Ishii has had a great year. Strong showings in the US title tournament and the G1. Also just had a high profile match challenging Naito for the WK shot, even though the outcome was 100000% predictable. I hope he doesn't get left out of a big singles match at WK (which pretty much just means the NEVER title, at this point), because he's earned a featured spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Ishii's the best bride's maid in wrestling, which is awesome--and still weird as hell, considering where he started--if perhaps a bit disappointing if you're a fan who really wants to see him... "do" things. Because his higher profile angles and matches are pretty much always about the other guy. So if a satisfying narrative needs progress, change, etc., then Ishii of recent vintage could seem a little stagnant, or maybe even a little invisible when he's not serving as a foil for whomever needs putting over, but that's just the nature of his spot. (And the nature of New Japan's rather strictly tiered booking.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevendaughters Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Ishii v Keith Lee from Rev Pro last week is definitely worth a look if you're into that sort of thing. Good G1 style match, Lee more a brute than doing flipz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 CHAKKU TEEEIIIIIIRAAAAAA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 22 minutes ago, Pete said: CHAKKU TEEEIIIIIIRAAAAAA No wonder Fale beats the shit out of NJPW ring announcers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 7 hours ago, sevendaughters said: Ishii v Keith Lee from Rev Pro last week is definitely worth a look if you're into that sort of thing. Uh, YEAH. You had me at "Ishii" and putting "Keith Lee" after that sealed it like it was welded. If that ever shows up in full post it because watching just clips are gonna tear me apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Dynamite Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Ishii's billed weight puts him in the Junior division. Every year I pray for his surprise entrance in the BoSJ so he can run the block and put somebody over in an insane final. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoeCristyV.1.6 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Great first day. The young lions are so good already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 -There were two nearly inseparable friends I knew in high school: one was very much a jam-band bro, the other a Juggalo. So I guess what I’m saying is Death Juice makes all the sense in the world to me. A tiny bit surprised they won, but Juice is over enough to make it feel immediately appropriate. -Goto getting the clean fall over MiSu means he’s challenging for the NEVER title at the Dome, doesn’t it? Put Shibata in his corner—and let him cut off some interference with just one kick—and you’ve got a nice moment, I suppose. -Chaos approved! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 It took exactly one suplex party for Jeff Cobb to get over with Korakuen. I'm glad Chuck is making friends in the back, because he looked totally out of place in his debut match and none of the Best Friends stuff got over in the ring at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 That Cobb shine was completely fucking ludicrous. Like, made in 30 seconds ridiculous. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 God, that was insane, wasn’t it? Getting a chant with less than one minute of ring action. And it wasn’t just the suplexes. Dude got to no-sell a couple Ishii forearms, then drop him with one. I can’t remember the last time Ishii did that for someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted November 19, 2017 Author Share Posted November 19, 2017 I never knew just how much I wanted an Ishii/Cobb match until this morning. Cobb's made already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Poor Matt Riddle, for missing out on this. Poor Michael Elgin, for having to team with the dude who is clearly going to take his spot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Only thing holding that back is the Lucha Underground contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Forget where I read it, but someone said Cobb looks like Toru Yano if he was designed by Jack Kirby and now I can't unsee that shit. Gotta love Kitamura selling the Awful Waffle like pure black death. That was great. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Just watched Cobb/Elgin vs. Ishii/Yano and holy shit, it is completely unfair how they can just toss Ishii around like that. Jebus. Between the ROH taping in Vegas and this month of NJPW, I have already seen way more Chuck Taylor matches than I've ever wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 There is no such thing as enough Chuck Taylor matches. Mwahahaha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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