BurningBeard Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 On 9/19/2018 at 5:48 AM, Belgian_Waffle said: There was a great section of the old shoot tape George Hines did for Highspots where he describes working with True and says something like "I would never try a spot with Taue. He wanted to go in there, give you his backdrop, give you his big boot, give you his choke slam. Maybe take one bump. Then go back to the locker room and smoke a lot of cigarettes." Sometimes I think Taue must be one of the most self aware wrestlers of all time. He knew how to stay special: take it easy for the tour, work like hell in the big title matches/tournament finals. The Puro Kevin Nash </flameon> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevendaughters Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 heard we were praising the genius of Akira Taue and ran here as fast as I could. his attitude was totally understandable and it's not like he didn't have his share of utterly great tear-ups. guy that big is a spectacle to behold, and as well he just shouldn't be moving as hard as a Misawa. Kawada & Taue were in so many respects the perfect tag team, just the gold standard esp. for Japan. i like Nash more as the years go by. he had an X factor. he's an interesting mind on him. just wish he had like 6/7 more really good matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Zeus watched old AJPW (80s, Tenryu etc) matches. Zeus said he wants to do Showa era moves, one hand backbreaker, bearhug, scorpion death lock. To destroy Kento's back. But if he doesn't.. whatever. Noah news. Sugi retained. Global League 2018 (30.10. - 25.11.2018: Block A: - Naomichi Marufuji - Akitoshi Saito - Quiet Storm - Katsuhiko Nakajima - Kenou - Masa Kitamiya - Mitsuya Nagai - Kohei Sato Block B: - Takashi Sugiura - Mohammed Yone - Go Shiozaki - Atsushi Kotoge - Kaito Kiyomiya - Maybach Taniguchi - Cody Hall - Kazusada Higuchi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Based on everyone Sugiura's beaten already and who could conceivably win that thing, my money's on Sato. Anyone else would just be a rematch or a shocking result. Cody Hall is not winning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 Has Cody Hall progressed at all or is he still a lanky, lumbering oaf? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archibald Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 Twitter thread about Yoh/Bushi/Naito relationship. Might be interesting to biggest Yoh's fan @Beech27 , if its not old news to him already. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 They need R3K for the Jr tag thing, why break them up to form another team. They have too much merch to break them up already. Maybe it's Rocky Romero! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 On that subject, here's a little video of another person who probably isn't going to be the LIJ reveal: (It should totally be Komatsu, though...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 Maybe Hiroshi Yamato. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 So now that puroresu spirit is offline, is there a good site that keeps track of upcoming cards? Purolove is not so hot in this regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Real World Tag League 2018 (13.11.2018 - 11.12.2018): - Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa (Sieger 2017, AJPW World Tag Team Champions) - Jun Akiyama & Daisuke Sekimoto - Kento Miyahara & Yoshitatsu - Zeus & The Bodyguard - Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi (All Asia Tag Team Champions) - Takao Omori & Manabu Soya (Sieger 2016) - Jake Lee & Ryouji Sai - Joe Doering & Dylan James - TAJIRI & Gianni Valletta - Kengo Mashimo & KAI - Parrow & Odison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Super Crazy El Diamante (Diamante) Sam Adonis Super Ciudadano Ultimo Panda Will be at the AJP Lucha Feista. Old news but Dylan James isn't part of Sweeper anymore. Thought he was a odd fit, so it's nice he is with Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 On 10/4/2018 at 6:43 PM, Oyaji said: Has Cody Hall progressed at all or is he still a lanky, lumbering oaf? I wouldn't even call him that. A lumbering oaf would be more coordinated than Hall is. Watching Hall work is like what I imagine a 7 foot tall 9 year old trying to wrestle would look like. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 I sure hope he doesn't use his dad's finisher in that case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archibald Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Some NJPW guys have been paying visit to Ireland's OTT promotion recently. NJPW World now has uploaded Ishii vs Cobb and Ishii vs Juice from their events. And this weekend they'll have Kushida vs Ishii and some other matches involving NJPW talent. So, maybe those will find their way on NJPW World after some time as well. Maybe next year we'll get Strong Style Evolved: Ireland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Meltzer wrote in the latest WO that NJ talent is unhappy with new management and wrestlers who previously weren't thinking about leaving are now having to give it serious consideration. Seeming as his sources are pretty well exclusively foreigners, we can assume he's talking about Omega and company. Big Dave suggests it's a combination of contract talks not going well and this Craven guy who Meij brought in as the head of talent relations is talking down to wrestlers and saying stuff he shouldn't about an industry he doesn't understand. Meltzer made the comparison to '89 WCW with Herd at the helm fucking things up and a great product starting to get spoiled. Awesome. Great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archibald Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Hope this is another case of "Timebomb is Suzuki" and "Shibata's injury is a work". Thou one has to wonder what exactly Dave means by product being spoiled. For my tastes it started getting spoiled since Dominion. Does it mean that things will get even worse with more DRAMA and less SPORTS? Or that it is going to revert more to how it was in 2016-2017? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 If we assume Meltzer's sources are primarily or exclusively The Elite--and I think we probably should--it could just be that they aren't being uniquely catered to as they feel they ought; it could be that they mostly wanted to leave anyway, and this provides easy cover fire to avoid fan backlash (we were loyal up until they weren't!); it could be that the new regime wants to focus more broadly on the New Japan brand in the United States, and less on Bullet club specifically; and of course it could be that the new regime are making bad decisions and are bound to ruin the company's trajectory. I really don't feel confident making a guess, but I don't think we can say it's necessarily awful news yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 16 minutes ago, Archibald said: Hope this is another case of "Timebomb is Suzuki" and "Shibata's injury is a work". Thou one has to wonder what exactly Dave means by product being spoiled. For my tastes it started getting spoiled since Dominion. Does it mean that things will get even worse with more DRAMA and less SPORTS? Or that it is going to revert more to how it was in 2016-2017? I guess spoiled wasn't the right word, more like the advances that should be made on the back of such a strong in-ring product aren't. I'm not a fan of the block quotes of paid content, but that's what I got from Dave's short blurb on it and his few minutes covering it on WOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaeBlazer Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 57 minutes ago, Beech27 said: If we assume Meltzer's sources are primarily or exclusively The Elite--and I think we probably should--it could just be that they aren't being uniquely catered to as they feel they ought; it could be that they mostly wanted to leave anyway, and this provides easy cover fire to avoid fan backlash (we were loyal up until they weren't!); it could be that the new regime wants to focus more broadly on the New Japan brand in the United States, and less on Bullet club specifically; and of course it could be that the new regime are making bad decisions and are bound to ruin the company's trajectory. I really don't feel confident making a guess, but I don't think we can say it's necessarily awful news yet. I’m pretty sold on this conspiracy theory going around that the Elite are feeding Meltzer a bogus story so they can go to WWE and get away without massive fan backlash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Very weird to see considering the Gaijins are the ones being catered to now. Also leave one soon to be overly micro managed fed for another aka WWE? They did try to work fans last time when Harold reportedly "tried" to change the tone. Assuming this is real, Natives not happy would more likely to leave and start a new fed rather than go to lower paid Feds where they might not even be in the top slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaeBlazer Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Just now, D.Z said: Very weird to see considering the Gaijins are the ones being catered to now. Also leave one soon to be overly micro managed fed for another aka WWE? Presumably the reason why many chose NJPW over WWE is because of the fun environment. It was personal enjoyment vs. money. Now that the personal enjoyment doesn’t exist, you may as well go to the one that will pay you more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 If the Elite do end up leaving, I'm going to strongly consider selling my G1 ticket and do some of the other shows WM weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 If they left before then I'd make sure and go because you know NJPW is going to go out of their way to try and make up for that. It'd be a historical show, one way or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 14 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: If they left before then I'd make sure and go because you know NJPW is going to go out of their way to try and make up for that. It'd be a historical show, one way or another. That's true. You raise a good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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