Pete Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Ughhhh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Crown Shingo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Not sure if this is the right place to ask but who can tell me anything about Lato Kiraware and Lawi Napataya from Fujiwara-gumi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgian_Waffle Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Did Billy Black ever have any really good matches in AJPW? I was just watching a tv block from 1991 that had him and Deaton vs Kroffat and Furnas. Billy was kind of impressive. Gangly and stuff so his work never exactly looks "crisp" but for a bigger guy he could move, had a decent moonsault, had a good spinkick, timing was solid...any buried treasure of his worth checking out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, Belgian_Waffle said: Did Billy Black ever have any really good matches in AJPW? I was just watching a tv block from 1991 that had him and Deaton vs Kroffat and Furnas. Billy was kind of impressive. Gangly and stuff so his work never exactly looks "crisp" but for a bigger guy he could move, had a decent moonsault, had a good spinkick, timing was solid...any buried treasure of his worth checking out? I remember enjoying a RWTL match with Black & Joel Deaton vs Misawa & Kawada on Ginnetty's 1992 TV set! Gave me very similar thoughts: These guys aren't bad! Who are they? (Deaton, of course, was aka "Thunderfoot") I also seem to vaguely recall them doing a good job bumping and selling for Andre & Baba as a team. I found this online looking for the RWTL match. Haven't watched it yet but I was geeked to see Canada's Greatest Athlete Gene Kiniski doing the pre-match announcements. Edit: Aout 4 minutes in now, and I'm laughing because the handful of people in the crowd chanting for Billy Black sounds just like a weekday Osaka Pro crowd chanting for Billyken Kid. One more edit: Billy Black is way more athletic than you'd think, just looking at him. He also seems to have a solid grounding in chain wrestling. This match has a very hot finishing sequence. It's well worth a watch! Edited May 21, 2021 by El Gran Gordi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) The premier junior tournament in Japan, All Japan’s Jr. Battle of Glory, has been announced. This year it will be a single elimination tournament. Opening round matches: Atsuki Aoyagi vs SUGI Black Mensore vs Yusuke Kodama Dan Tamura vs Tatsuhito Takaiwa TAJIRI vs Akira Francesco Omori Hokuto vs Hikaru Sato Fuminori Abe vs Devil Purple (mystery Purple Haze guy) Izanagi vs Brahman Kei El Lindaman vs Rising Hayato Iwamoto isn’t in the tournament, which seems to tip their hat that they’re putting the belt back on him. The slightest outside chance that he moves to heavyweight, but he is very short. Edited May 21, 2021 by Control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgian_Waffle Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 11 hours ago, El Gran Gordi said: I remember enjoying a RWTL match with Black & Joel Deaton vs Misawa & Kawada on Ginnetty's 1992 TV set! Gave me very similar thoughts: These guys aren't bad! Who are they? (Deaton, of course, was aka "Thunderfoot") I also seem to vaguely recall them doing a good job bumping and selling for Andre & Baba as a team. I found this online looking for the RWTL match. Haven't watched it yet but I was geeked to see Canada's Greatest Athlete Gene Kiniski doing the pre-match announcements. Edit: Aout 4 minutes in now, and I'm laughing because the handful of people in the crowd chanting for Billy Black sounds just like a weekday Osaka Pro crowd chanting for Billyken Kid. One more edit: Billy Black is way more athletic than you'd think, just looking at him. He also seems to have a solid grounding in chain wrestling. This match has a very hot finishing sequence. It's well worth a watch! Thanks!! I'm gonna watch all that tonight. Here's a link to the Kroffat/Furnas match (JIP, starts at 18:35) if you're curious. Crowd is pretty hot and everyone is working super hard. https://youtu.be/0E82-SROmGQ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 30th Anniversary RINGS pop up store 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) FMW-E Women's 4 way tornado throwing money bunkhouse deathmatch. Viewer's decide with money which weapons get used. Edited May 21, 2021 by D.Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Otto Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 12 hours ago, D.Z said: Viewer's decide with money which weapons get used. That's some truly tremendous carny bullshit right there. Bravo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 LIDET UWF The UWF letters stand for nothing, kinda orphan initialism but this new version of UWF never had any meaning for those letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 On a whim decided to check out BJW Core today. Watched some of the Death Match Survivor tournament from this year. So far the best one was Hideyoshi Kamitani vs Yuki Ishikawa. I didn't know Kamitani was doing death matches now. I thought he was good there but he was great here. I loved him covering a spot where some light tubes didn't break, when Yuki finally broke them he fell forward like they were the only thing propping him up. Minoru Fujita does a kinda sorta comedy thing in his matches? I mean, I wouldn't kick out of a back slide on a nail board but it seemed odd given what lead to that. If you thought the clap only crowds sucked in the G1, try no cheering death matches! It is disquieting at first until you just kinda get into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 My 14th birthday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 (edited) Tied with Tenryu for my favourite wrestler of all time. The fact that they were never in the same match hurts me to this day. Edited May 23, 2021 by Control 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoae Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 (edited) Does anyone know what became of American Balloon? I thought of him today for the first time in a long time and am wondering what became of him. I vaguely remember him debating whether to stay in Japan or not, and I think he got a job teaching school? (For those who aren't familiar with him, he was a beefy boy high-flyer who went to Japan and worked the indies over there, culminating in kinda regular gigs with DDT and Zero-1. He used to post here under his gimmick name in the... late 00's, I guess. He retired around 2008 or so - DDT had a retirement show for him in 2010, per Cagematch - but I'm fairly sure he was still working DDT when he used to post here.) Edited May 23, 2021 by Eoae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Last I recall him posting, he was teaching in Mongolia. He's since came back to California and did shows at the Santino Bros. school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Not sure, but seems there will be chamionship deciding match for the IWGP World HW. With Shingo (I doubt he wins.) I am expecting Kota to regain the title later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Japan reportedly plans to extend the SOE for nine prefectures up to June 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Man just leave IWGP belt vacant and then give it to the winner of the G! That way everyone looks like they have a decent shot at winning James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 (edited) This may not mean anything, but: I play the NJPW Collection game that they always advertise on their streaming service. (It's a complete waste of time but I am kind of addicted to it). I noticed yesterday that all of Jay White's cards and all of Jeff Cobb's cards are marked as "sold out" which is the game's way of saying that those cards are no longer available. This happened very suddenly and even the newer cards of those two wrestlers are marked that way. There is a non-zero chance that this means (could possibly mean, potentially...) that both men have left New Japan. And, unless my memory is playing tricks on me, a bunch of Ospreay cards were marked as sold out yesterday but are not marked as such today. Edited May 28, 2021 by El Gran Gordi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Something watching this seeing Prince Devitt/Kenny Omega as Jr. Heavyweights and what both have gone on to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 FMW-E Onita's sucucessor Suzu Suzuki (18) of Ice Ribbon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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