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>BEST OF THE SUPER Jr.33 FRI 5/29 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Tsubame Civic Gymnasium >Valiente Jr vs Kosei Fujita, Nick Wayne vs Titan FRI 5/29 @ 11:00pm(PDT) SAT 5/30 @ 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Takaoka Techno Dome >B block. Taiji Ishimori vs SHO, El Desperado vs KUSHIDA MON 6/2 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall >Dual block. El Desperado vs YOH, Titan vs Kosei Fujita WED 6/3 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall >Dual block, Block Finals. Notable matches: Nagai vs Fujita, KUSHIDA vs Ishimori, Despe vs Kanemaru, Sasaki vs YOH FRI 6/5 @ 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) G Messe Gunma >Playoff Stage SUN 6/7 @ 1am(PDT) 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) Ota City General Gymnasium (EBARA WAVE ARENA Ota) >The Final
>NJPW vs DDT PART2, Yano vs Super Sasadango Machine one match MON 6/8 @ 3:00am(PDT) 6:00am(EDT) 11:00am(BST) Korakuen Hall
>DOMINION 6.14 in OSAKA-JO HALL SUN 6/14 12am(PDT) 3am(EDT) 8am(BST) Osaka-jo Hall >IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Callum Newman (c) vs Yota Tsuji >IWGP Tag Championships: Knock Out Brothers (Yuto Ice & OSKAR) (c) vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan & HENARE) >IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship 3-Way Match: Andrade El Idolo (c) vs Drilla Moloney vs Shota Umino >NEVER Openweight Championship: Ren Narita (c) vs Aaron Wolf >Yuya Uemura & Taichi vs TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa) >NJPW World TV Championship: KONOSUKE TAKESHITA (c) vs SANADA
>>20567304 > I really dont think they would book some zesty DDT shitter to be the top guy without outside influence. >Who is Kenny? Newfag please, this is as serious discussion. Takeshita had one purpose make the fans (who already hate him to death) hate him even more and lose the belt at WK to a NJ wrestler. It's simple business
>>20570021 >Takeshita had one purpose make the fans (who already hate him to death) hate him even more and lose the belt at WK to a NJ wrestler. And instead the fans hated the company (again) and Takeshita went in and out of the story completely heatless.
>>20575742 Miyahara and Ueno as far as I'm concerned at the best aces right now, and not just because they defending their title for that long but because they have a lot of charisma on top of other skills.
>>20575560 I thought turning heel in AEW would fix that, then he got the G1 and the title and was doing the same milquoetoast appeals he was doing in DDT in 2017.
>>20570021 so its just a coincidence that they had an AEW-contracted guy winning both the G1 and the world title when nobody liked him? I dont think so.
>>20576935 Takeshita's mic is not is strongest point. But in general acting more than one/two emotions. I'm not that negative on that guy, but he has the appeal when he's with the right people, I think he's that kind of guy and not bad, but clearly the chemistry he had with different people in DDT made him more interesting.
It's just such a stupid way to derail your own company's hype train. Callum Newman. What were they thinking? Championship lineage should have gone Tsuji -> Shota -> Aaron Wolf
>At the Best of the Super Jr. 33 press conference in Tokyo on May 13, Hiroshi Tanahashi made a special announcement that will give the fans more involvement in the junior tournament than ever!
>This year will see fans vote on three special awards based on tournament performances.
>The Outstanding Performance Award will go to the wrestler who fans felt best exhibited their full potential and ability in the ring throughout the league.
>The Fighting Spirit Award will go to the wrestler who fans feel exhibits a never say die attitude in the face of overwhelming odds.
>The Technique Award will go to the wrestler who best shows creative offensive flair within their matches.
>Voting will open for all three awards on JUNE 1 at noon JST, running to JUNE 4 at 11:59 PM. The results will be announced at the finals June 7!
>Antonio Inoki’s legendary North Korea “Peace Festival” to be screened at August 1 “Toukon Diner,” with Chono and Bull participating
>One of the legends of the late Antonio Inoki, the “Burning Fighting Spirit,” who died at age 79, is the “Peace Festival” in North Korea. The Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace, held on April 28 and 29, 1995, at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, drew massive crowds of 190,000 each day, for a total of 380,000 spectators.
>Inoki realized the North Korea event that his master, Rikidozan, had been unable to hold in his homeland. In the main event on the second day, he defeated the “Nature Boy” Ric Flair in 14 minutes and 52 seconds with an enzuigiri. The “Inoki! Inoki!” chants, which at first rose from the Japanese fans at ringside, eventually became a chorus of 190,000 people, and Inoki seemed satisfied, saying, “I was able to finish on the greatest stage.”
>“Toukon Diner ~ Knuckle Part in Otemachi ~” will be held on August 1 at Ore no French Grand Maison TOKYO in Otemachi, Tokyo. The event will feature the first screening on a 300-inch super-large screen of an HD upconverted version of the legendary VHS Inoki-Do, which closely followed Inoki at that event and recorded a digest of his path. After viewing footage including Inoki vs Flair, “Black Charisma” Chono Masahiro and WWE Hall of Famer Bull Nakano, both of whom actually visited North Korea and competed there, will participate as guests, with Babaen Azusa and Mori Kazuya serving as MCs for a talk show. Towels, ring shoes, and flags used at the match venue by Inoki will also be displayed at the venue.
>The event includes a meal. For inquiries, contact K-Park, the planning and production company.
>>20585169 What does that have to do with anything? He's damaged. Sending him to a partner for 2-3 months would at least give fans a little time to forget how much of a clownish failure he is, and he could get a bit of help with his mentality that's holding him back.
>>20586039 >>Inoki realized the North Korea event that his master, Rikidozan, had been unable to hold in his homeland. I always thought Inoki's affinity to NK was thanks to Rikidozan.
>>20588401 honma, taguchi and wolf (but him only in the merch/autograph) but goto was also confirmed afaik considered its yano and sasadango more people could show up
>>20589551 When New Japan was super hot a few years ago it felt like Gedo didn't wrestle often. When he was still Okada's hype man. Not sure when exactly that changed or if I'm misremembering.
>>20589581 Gedo started being more involved with and then getting over as part of the War Dogs which I think corresponds to when he started doing more tour matches.
>>20586280 >The nWo Typhoon led by Masahiro Chono was a cultural phenomenon in Japan. According to Japanese statistics, the nWo Typhoon had an economic impact of more than 37 million dollars in just one year, 1997.
>Celebrities from both entertainment and sports, such as soccer, baseball, and sumo, became members of the nWo Typhoon. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, a legendary entertainer who was a member of SMAP (one of the most influential idol groups in Asia), also joined the nWo Typhoon in a high profile segment in one of the most popular tv shows in Japan, Waratte Iitomo, where Masahiro Chono invaded the studio and recruited him.
>The success of nWo Typhoon had a significant impact on NJPW that year, and 1997 is still regarded as one of NJPW's most profitable years.
>>20590314 >be japanese >could marry and impregnate a beautiful nippon woman >chooses to impregnate a german woman (basically a man) grim, Harold was right to ignore this disgusting old faggot
>>20560121 his return, as nothing from the nothingness, shall be the void that fills the emptiness, and the vacuum that once was now is again mu
but seriously if I had to translate the message from moon into Ludwig's 4th fluent language of english, it means returning yen-belly murashima is going to be the capstone that ties all the recent changes together and starts the new quarter-century boom for first NJ, then by osmosis from his aura cmll will get momentum again, then the rising tide will refresh the rest of the jap scene, then burger and euro indies (that means the toybox too) will be forced to ride his coattails and course correct, and lastly this can all coincide with the mounting pressure to expose and excise the Fed for its slop and usury leading to its demise. TLDR fellow blueskyers is that in no more than 2 years look for wrestling to be fixed again plus mainstream worldwide and yes we are all going to be thanking old inoki and neo inoki for it.
>>20590825 1. Shingo is waiting to speak with you out back 2. if you meant the new japan corporate leadership and not governmental leaders, apologies for the 'talk' with Shingo earlier 3. since >you< survived, explain if in this scenario robo-inoki is currently mecha-murashima in synthetic-flesh disguise OR is he a seperate individual android who will book murashima vs. wolf daddy cool as the main event feud for the next 10 years as soon as the former comes back from excursn?
>>20591013 shingo would be a fine leader too, he could rule japan as an emperor while robo inoki sits on the global throne. he could also book new japan in his spare time. it would be beautiful to see gedo on his knees bowing and scraping before the dragon emperor. and to answer your question, robo-inoki would be a separate individual android which would contain a cloned version of inoki's brain.
>>20592384 sorry bro, only Despy matters and hes not in this block Fujita might get his moment in another 5 years >>20592179 the chart has a mistake, Nagai already lost to Robbie and isn't marked. Chris really needs someone to proofread the english stuff before it gets posted, theres one or two mistakes in every new post.
Parity is unironically a good thing and people who don't like it have pea brains. It means anyone can beat anyone and adds an excitement to the matches due to the unknown factor.
>>20593508 they got carried by the double tranny show last year and this year trannyhashi's retirement is saving their ass on paper if you actually look at how most tours are doing, they're losing fans, which is very grim because they already don't have much fans
>>20593752 Can I get a source for this? >>20593756 Apples to Oranges. NJPW died anyway because of the Pride boom and Inoki working himself into a shoot.
>>20594294 The scariest part about Dontaku along with Sakura Genesis is that Ospreay was supposed to be a tool to give attendance an extra push, and both were still down astronomically. Now Dominion is coming and he won't even be there despite centering the world title around his own story.
>>20594302 Bushiroad sold NJPW because it has no future (grim) and it now belongs to the same dimeless puroresu tranny rodeo circus where you can find NO-ACK, DDTroon and TJPooW (grim), so you're in the same boat as these other shindy promotions now. (very grim)