https://www.njpw1972.com/642102 The Best of The Super Jr schedule has been released. The link gives details to the format and the main events and semi-mains of each show. Due to scheduling conflicts, Kasai is missing opening night, 29th & 30th while Hyo will miss the Hachioji show. Those dates will be made up for on opposite block days ala Takeshita missing day 2 of the G1 2 years ago.
>Night 1: Thursday May 14 – KORAKUEN HALL: Dual block. Akira vs Fujita, Despe vs Sasaki >Night 2: Saturday May 16 – ESFORTA ARENA HACHIOJI: Dual block. Despe vs Ishimori, Fujita vs Nick Wayne >Night 3: Sunday May 17 – Yoyogi National Gymnasium (2nd Gymnasium): Despe vs Eagles, Fujita vs Kasai >Night 4: Wednesday May 20 – KORAKUEN HALL: X vs Fujita, YOH vs SHO >Night 5: Friday May 22 – OSAKA (Asue Arena Sub Arena): A block. Fujita vs Wato, X vs Kasai >Night 6: Saturday May 23 – HIMEJI: B block. YOH vs Eagles, Despy vs SHO >Night 7: Sunday May 24 – KYOTO (KBS Hall): A block. Kasai vs Nick Wayne, Titan vs X >Night 8: Wednesday May 27 – NUMAZU: B block w/A block main event. Kasai vs Akira, Ishimori vs Eagles >Night 9: Friday May 29 – TSUBAME: A block. Valiente vs Fujita, Nick Wayne vs Titan >Night 10: Saturday May 30 – TOYAMA: B block. Ishimori vs SHO, Despe vs KUSHIDA >Night 11: Tuesday June 2 – KORAKUEN HALL: Dual block. Despe vs YOH, Titan vs Fujita >Night 12: Wednesday June 3 – KORAKUEN HALL: Dual block, Block Finals. Notable matches: Nagai vs Fujita, KUSHIDA vs Ishimori, Despe vs Kanemaru, Sasaki vs YOH >Night 13: Friday June 5 – G MESSE GUNMA: Playoff stage >Night 14: Sunday June 7 – OTA CITY GENERAL GYMNASIUM: The Final.
Gedo, what in the world are you thinking? Andrade is based, yeah, but you're the head booker for New Japan, your priority is to make sure that company is doing well, and right now NJPW is in dire need of a local hero in the top card. Tsuji has proven to be that hero! He was getting you out of dire straits yet you've had him drop both belts like you were messing with Naito! You're still in those dire straits and not close to escaping them. Is Tsuji really being shoot punished for disliking Cardfight Vanguard, or whatever he said in that one interview?
>>20389014 >>20389236 Yeah, Tsuji was never going to being holding long and he shouldn't, he never came across like someone who should be dominating the company and there are a bunch of guys to elevate. He ushered in a new era and got humbled, then fights his way back. The other factor is Yuya, either beating him to the punch or meeting him later on a big stage.
>"My wrestlers go over all of your champs. Your belts are my belts. The New Day will be going over the Knock Out Bros next" It's getting difficult to stay invested in NJPW bros. It wouldnt matter as much if the rest of the roster was booked well
>Shota, what do you even want?! You're all over the place, wanting the TV championship, the heavyweight title, or going global! >Making a loss on the big stage look good is the job of a top wrestler, like Tanahashi. Tsuji isn't cut out to be a top wrestler if he can't do that. >New Japan Pro-Wrestling is severely lacking in talent right now; there isn't a single wrestler who is popular with the audience. >I thought that at some point Umino's popularity would reverse, like Naito's or Tanahashi's, but that turn never seems to come. >I'd like to see more of Andrade, but he shouldn't be picky about his opponents. It's good that he can move even in heavyweight matches. >I think the plan was actually for Moloney to beat Gabe, since they were both former dogs, and that would have elevated Moloney's status. >I can understand Moloney's desire to step forward, but I wish he had saved it for tomorrow in case Takagi lost. >Umino always seems to show up after the main event of big matches, but I've never seen Narita, Oiwa, or Uemura. >I can appreciate that Wolf is taking his rookie wrestling career seriously, but his physique is sloppy. He doesn't seem to be doing any discipline or training at all. Someone should tell him off, but he's such a big star that I guess no one can say anything.
>>20390396 Im guessing it was supposed to just be Gabe vs Drilla but they felt like throwing Shota in there as an expandable, likely eating the pin (its all he's good for).
>>20392104 The crowd booed once when he did botch and he’s an outsider so they would boo him for anything. It was a fun match and did more for Ozawa than whatever banger you try to force.
>>20393143 You're supposed to be hyped over Callme Woman vs the next guy who is jobbing to him at Dominion and then he loses the title against Assplay at Forbidden Door.
If I can interrupt the doomposting and/or falseflagging schizoposting Yuya has had too much consideration behind him even while losing this year for me to doompost since Tsuji is so tied to him and is now slumping himself, this screams second half year momentum. The first half of the year has been consolidating and establishing a a new top gaijin and heel faction, now there's room to play at the top.
>>20393458 Tsuji started late, he is still 'young' in terms of his wrestling career but you already know that and are just pretending not to understand like a liberal
>>20393404 You can throw in Oiwa and to a lesser extent Shota as well. I still assume Tsuji gets the belt back this year, but all these guys are in play for the G1
>>20393458 That's even more reason to establish him when he had the most eyes and hype around him which, to this day, is still the day he fucking came back before they cut him down so he can "scratch and claw" his way several notches below his starting point
>>20393455 I'm not here to troll. I enjoy both NOAH and NJPW. If anything, I have been a NJPW fan longer but I can't deny I enjoy OZAWA and Inamura today more than NJPW's current direction even with Shane Haste being the one to end Inamura's reign.Sorry that I'm not into tribalism.NJPW's young talent are exciting but the booking is still shit lmao.
Hiroshi Tanahashi was a 2-time IWGP champion with 5 other titles under his belt before he even beat Mutoh, compared to Yuya whose only accomplishment is beating the weird otaku cosplayer for a fake belt by eating lemons and flipping tires in an era with about 15 belts lying around.
Need more time to put guys over! Thank you for your understanding.
>expect Shingo to go into his Dragon Gate pocket again and have that match for 30 minutes and lose via low blow >get something not as good as that but still good and the finish is awful
5/3 WRESTLING DONTAKU >2024: 2,440人 (Nemeth vs Tanahashi Global, Finlay vs Tsuji, Zack vs Cobb TV Title) >2025: 2,903人 (HoT vs BCWD Cage Match, Shingo vs Shota, ZSJ vs Tanahashi, ELP vs Takeshita TV Title, Naito & BUSHI's 2nd-to-last match) >2026: 2,477人 (Tsuji vs Andrade Global, Narita vs Boltin NEVER, Wolf vs Fale)
5/4 WRESTLING DONTAKU >2024: 4,238 人(満員)(Moxley vs Narita WHC, Finlay vs Nemeth Global, Shinog vs Gabe NEVER) >2025: 5,407人(満員)(Naito & BUSHI's last NJPW match, Goto vs Newman, Tsuji vs Yuya Global) >2026: 3,603人(満員)(Newman vs Shingo Heavy, Bishamontin vs United Empire NEVER 6s, Mistico & Despy vs TMDK Jr Tag)
>>20390660 >>20390716 The problem also is once a talent starts to show signs of having "it", Tony brings out his checkbook and proceeds to run "it" in to the fucking ground on US television.
>>20395184 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH NO NO NO NO NO GRIMSTERS WON AGAIN AND THE NEXT TOUR IS BEST OF THE DIMELESS TWINKS AND THEN IT'S GRIMINION GRIMSTERS ARE TAKING OVER
I would rather have Sanada or even Cobb as champ instead of Pooman Pooman and Joshifucker being at the top of NJPW and NOAH is grim Tsuji and Inamura should be their aces Ozawa is gay
>>20395274 Actually shows what an anti draw shitter moxley is that with all the other talent helping he could only get 600 more fans than a fucking newman main event
>gets a big prime time TV slot again >"yeah let's show the casual fans the same thing that happened at WK20 but worse because now Tsuji is chasing a dimeless white piggu and Wolf is chasing that dude who doesn't have even 1% of EVIL's charisma and personality"
>>20395526 thanks for reminding everyone that puroresu is in a very grim state and will die in the next 5 years and all of these shitters will have to work at mcdonalds
>>20395657 Oh so you're that bushidrone who got humiliated again and again and just resorts to making up fanfictions about your boogeyman. thought you killed yourself after all the grim shit that happened. the fact is puroresu is dying and nujapoo being the big shark in a puddle doesn't make it less grim. can't wait to bully you over the griminion numbers.
Everyone ITT laughs at you and your gay posts grimfag. You can make 90% of the posts in these generals and it will still be true that every other poster than yourself thinks you're a massive loser and basically only comes here because you're a lolcow at this point
Set up for national TV and a building they set up 11k maximum for >Tsuji vs Newman >Andrade vs Drilla vs Shota >KoB vs HENARE & GOK >Wolf vs Narita >Takeshita vs SANADA >MAYBE DOUKI vs BOSJ winner >Zack & Oiwa vs Taichi & Uemura
>"i-it's not grim stop saying that !!!" >see >>20395184 >*has a bubbling schizo meltdown* Bringing up Pro Wrestling NO-ACK to cope and try to deflect is only making things look even more grim. We warned you when you had your little victory lap after Trannyhashi's dead body sold out the Dome. We told you it was all smoke and mirrors, we told you things were going to get grimer and we are proven right again. Just like we were right about Gaped Klitt. Now seethe and bubble, grimsters are going to bully Nujapoolets for believing they're not part of the grim and dying state of puroresu. You will all fall and become as relevant as GLEAT. Now you can bubble, wheeze and make another story up. Maybe act like your boogeyman is an All Japoo fan or that he's in love with some joshitter. >>20395815 grim >>20395831 The Grim1 will do even worse than last year. Don't forget there's also the tranny show before that so you can expect KOB to job to some poopdickresu team.
>>20395405 he should work on dropping those bitchtits he's got a month off now thanks to the juniors, if he doesn't come back with a bit of muscle and less fat, he's just a lazy motherfucker and not worth the investment
Wrestling can still become popular again in Japan even with them losing all of their top players to America. >okay how you know? Because Japanese baseball is currently at its highest popularity ever and they also lose all of their top players to America.
>>20396685 He was the only other redeeming factor of HOT besides evil. 1 armed sanada feuding with wolf would've been more beneficial, than this Narita shit
>>20397610 >>20397631 >>20397642 I'm not saying he's complete shit, he's had some good matches but you can't deny he lacks something to make him a bigger star.
which njpw wrestler is the best if they had to shoot fight ? I know wolf is a judoka but I think it's a fake tough guy sport and besides judo throws he probably can't throw a fucking punch
>>20398709 nigga NOAH isn't much better even without bowing down for the tranny rodeo, your world champ is an average white guy too, he might be a bit better than callum sure but that's like saying vomit smells better than shit
kek joshijeet twitter trannies still pissed at the poi spot. them posting gifs of her bad wrestling and saying shit like "they made THIS look like a weak woman!!!"
>loses the world title match against Goto because he doesn't have a wife and doesn't have sex >gets a wife and has sex >still loses his world title match what's his character arc ?
Let's just reset. Everything that happened after this reign was a fucking mistake anyways. Tsuji, Newbitch, Shitto, none of them could hold the belt like he could.
>>20400713 SANADA was awful. Even Naito couldn't help him. He was a terrible champion and the fact that it's the best that he's ever been tells you everything you need to know about the guy.
>>20402975 No way. Ziggler is one of the best sellers in wrestling history even if you take everything else away from him. SANADA has always just been an athletic guy with a cool look, that's it. And now, he's not nearly as athletic as he used to be.
>Tsuji loses the hebbyq to Callum >is just a +1 for the entire tour because his Global title challenger doesn't work here >gets destroyed by Andrade for the Global >just happens to come down ringside for the clowncar bit in the main event >Callum lays him out in the post-match then gives him a chance at a title shot Tsuji's obviously winning to set up a rematch Tsuji is obviously winning Did they forget they're booking shit for Dominion in Osaka Jo Hall on national TV, and not for some random show in the US that'll maybe draw 2.5k?
>>20409666 They legit think that LIJ guys in a faction with random Bullet Club leftovers m vs a faction that only stopped being on life support 4 months ago was gonna carry the company. If theyre not prepared to deliver for Dominion then the G1 is gonna be dire
>>20409756 >Tsuji was drawing just fine Sakura Genesis was down by 600 and that's with Ospreay's return. Nobody in that position really would be "drawing just fine" anyway but their own booking makes sure there's not even a chance
>>20409833 The drop from previous year's Dontaku means nothing since that was boosted by Naito and BUSHI leaving. Compared to what they normally do for Dontaku its the same drop as SG
