Salads Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 On 12/15/2021 at 5:53 PM, The Natural said: Lot of longest matches records set in NJPW this year: Longest Wrestle Kingdom match ever, longest NEVER Championship match, longest IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match, longest IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship match ever and now longest BOTSJ Finals as well. Less is more. For some reason this annoys me from a kayfabe standpoint of all things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 5 hours ago, D.Z said: Who is this in the middle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Ah GLEAT. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Eivion said: Who is this in the middle? Kyoko Hamaguchi, Animal Hamaguchi's daughter who is an Olympic wrestling bronze medalist. It's for a Tokyo Sports article. Edited December 17, 2021 by lostinube 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 The Giant Baba bar will be shutting down due to covid causing financial damages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kang Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 AJPW will renew their ring mat next year, but the current ring mat will still be used for next years Triple Crown match so they can use it to bleed on it. Kobayashi wanted to join AJPW years ago but was turned away by Fuchi for being too small. Abby Jr aims to surpass his master Abdullah by winning the Triple Crown, Abdullah the Butcher only won both the United National and PWF belts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 (edited) Onita declared Abdullah Jr must win the Triple Crown, Onita also called out Suwama. We will see what happens next, maybe FMW-E vs AJP or just Onita and some goons. Moving on, the only stuff of note left for what's left of this year in Japan are Stardom's big show and finding out who NJPW booked for Shibata to face in what kind of match. Anyways.. the first 70 years of Puroresu or Pro-Wres in Japan are finished, next year begins the next 70 years. Edited December 19, 2021 by D.Z 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 NSFW: Spoiler This is a legit photo, right? When was it? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 It was when he wrestled Vader in 2000. https://ameblo.jp/hajackass/entry-12603724908.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 2022 Slowly starting to see more for NOAH on stuff and less for AJPW. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) 16 hours ago, lostinube said: It was when he wrestled Vader in 2000. https://ameblo.jp/hajackass/entry-12603724908.html Cheers, @lostinube. Appreciate it. Wasn't sure if it was real or photoshop as I've never seen Mitsuharu Misawa do that and wear wrist bands. Edited December 22, 2021 by The Natural Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) The rules from Tokyo Sports for this year's last KOPW match this month " the rules of the match were decided to be the "year-end party match whiskey course" proposed by Kanemaru. Every two minutes from the start of the game, one shot of whiskey is drunk with each other, and in addition to the usual professional wrestling rule, if you can not drink it within 20 seconds, it is a unique match between drinkers who will be eliminated." Edited December 22, 2021 by D.Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 DDT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 60 years of Korakuen Hall, NJPW and AJPW will participate. The "Women's Wrestling Dream Festival" will be held on April 15th, and the "50th Anniversary New Japan Wrestling + All Japan Wrestling" will be held on the 16th. Further breakdown for the isolation walls for NJPW and AJP next year. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) Zero 1 will celebrate 20 plus years with OSU on Feb 12th. Masa Chono will be appointed as the shows ambassador. The card will include Tatsumi Fujinami, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Shiro Koshinaka, Dump Matsumoto and Shinobu Kandori. Multiple men's groups as AJPW, NOAH, and women's professional wrestling groups. Expected to be more than 20 groups in total. Edited December 23, 2021 by D.Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) NJPW will participate in the Zero 1 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan Tournament on April 10th next year, and this will be a big card where nearly 30 groups will gather. OSU wants to expand into rural area's later on. Edited December 23, 2021 by D.Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archibald Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 What kind of a tournament it is? Tag teams? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 No details yet for all cards posted above. "Tournament" in Japan can just interchangeably means the shows card 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 Multiple 128 man TNM-style tournaments to decide the ultimate wrestlers in Japan, DOUKI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 The big 50th AJPW show Is still on for this year, it most likely will be only AJP promoted and not a joint show. Remains to be seen if they stick with having multiple fighters/players/wrestlers from othe promotions in special matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Okada's new book will be released on Dec 25th. Contains his Toryumon days and discussion about Inoki and fighting and what he learned from Tenryu and more. Interesting description from some website "Okada, a hybrid professional wrestler who crosses strong style with splendid entertainment, is about to build a new era of professional wrestling." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 On 12/17/2021 at 1:14 AM, DEAN said: Ah GLEAT. This should be STOP THE MATSUNAGA only with shoot style guys instead of Karate Men. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Goddamit DDT... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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