Wrestling Official New Japan Pro-Wrestling Thread (& Indies...)

Started by Big Dangerous, Jun 25, 2017, in Sports Add to Reading List

  1. Pinhead
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    New Japan had their anniversary show tonight and MSG is a month away. Get hype people!

    Roppongi 3K vs Bushi & Shingo Takagi - 4.25
    Liger vs Ishimori - 4.25
    Naito/Evil/Sanada vs Okada/Tanahashi/Goto - 4
    Ospreay vs Jay White - 4.75

    The best match of Jay's career, near 5 but I question it so that tells me it's not quite there. So many creative spots, so hard hitting, and the guys work perfectly with each other.

    And Dragon Lee came out after the Ishimori match for Madison Square Garden. Killer match.
     
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    Bandido has been added to the Ishimori/Dragon Lee match
     
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    She's showing off so much right now :o
     
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    The NJ Cup has been pretty good so far!

    Even in the first round, that has had a lot of the older in it to take falls, there has been at least one great match per night.
     
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    Tonight's show looks like a stinker, but we've had

    Ospreay/Fale - 3.75
    Tana/Umino.- 4
    Elgin/Okada - 4.25
    Ishii/Nagata - 4.25
    Chase/Juice - 4
    Evil/ZSJ - 4
    Ibushi/Naito - 4.75

    I think their last match was slightly better, another near 5.
     
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    Big Dangerous World Heavyweight Champion

    Mar 11, 2019
    Wow
     
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    Ospreay vs Cobb announced for MSG - title for title, PCO & Brody King vs GOD - title for title, world title will probably be Taven/Jay/Marty, and Rush vs Dalton Castle was announced.

    Too much ROH for my tastes, but the PPV tonight was apparently great.
     
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    @Big Dangerous Okada/Ishii is my match of the year so far, just a war. Sanada vs Tanahashi and Suzuki were fantastic, as well as Okada/Ospreay. Standouts with Ibushi/Naito from the cup.
     
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    Ibushi/Naito and Evil/Ishii for MSG!
     
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    Okada/Ishii was everything

    It blows my mind Ishii has never been IWGP Champion. Dude it's so f---ing good. He always has my favorite matches every year
     
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    I've come to the conclusion he's top 10 for sure
     
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    What indy show are ya'll watching next week? @NJPWBros @WrestlingBros

    So far I've ordered:
    Bloodsport- which might have been my favorite show of WM weekend last year
    Wrestlecon SuperShow- which is always f---ing awesome
    Rev Pro- might have my favorite card of any indy show of the weekend
    I'll probably end of watching one of the Joey Janela SB shows too

    Btw- annual reminder you can get one of the shows for free on Fite by making an acct!
    https://www.fite.tv/invite/vwz95mz
     
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    Everything you mentioned is the plan, on top of whatever hot matches I hear about.
     
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    There's so many shows next week it's insane. All the shows I listed isn't even counting NJPW, NXT, Impact (which honestly has a good card Thurs), and MLW.

    Oh, and Wrestemania. That little show is happening too...
     
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    I took Friday/Saturday off and agreed to work Sunday. I'd much rather skim through in 3 hours after work than waste away my day watching it.

    That Impact show does look really dope, wasn't really aware of it. That Lucha Bro's vs RVD/Sabu match could be great or a disaster.
     
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    Outside of WWE/NXT/G1, I hope to check out Bloodsport and the Janela shows
     
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    This f---ing weekend is going to be bonkers. Going through the Observer and there's so much.

    Josh Barnett's Bloodsport (Thursday)

    Josh Barnett vs. Minoru Suzuki
    Dan Severn vs. Frank Mir
    Timothy Thatcher vs. Hideki Suzuki
    Killer Kross vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr.
    Simon Gotch vs. JR Kratos
    Jonathan Gresham vs. Masashi Takeda
    Andy Williams vs. Chris Dickinson
    Dominic Garrini vs. Phil Baroni

    WWE Access (assumedly on the Network somewhat soon?) [Thursday]

    Roderick Strong vs,. Tyler Breeze
    Luke Harper vs. Dominik Dijakovic
    Eric Young & Alexander Wolfe & Killian Dain vs. Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly & Adam Cole
    Kassius Ohno vs. Aiden English

    Wrestlecon (Thursday)

    Will Ospreay vs. Bandido
    Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Shane Strickland
    Masato Tanaka vs. Eddie Kingston
    Dragon Lee vs. Cavernario[

    Plus Jushin Liger, Penta 0M, Rey Fenix, Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, Scorpio Sky, Puma King, Black Taurus, LAX, DJZ and Sammy Guevara

    MLW (Thursday)

    Tom Lawlor vs, Jimmy Havoc
    L.A. Park vs. Pentagon Jr.
    Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Teddy Hart & Brian Pillman Jr. vs. MJF & Richard Holliday & Alex Hammerstone
    Fenix vs. Air Wolf
    Sami Callihan vs. Mance Warner
    Minoru Tanaka vs. Daga
    Gringo Loco vs. El Hijo de L.A. Park
    Josef Samael vs. Ace Romero
    Rey Horus vs. Ace Austin
    Jacob Fatu vs. Barrington Hughes
    Kotto Brazil vs. Jordan Oliver

    Impact (Thursday)

    Fenix & Pentagon Jr. vs. Sabu & Rob Van d---
    Brian Cage & Moose & Eddie Edwards & ? vs Aerostar & Drago & Daga & Marty Martinez
    Johnny Impact vs. Jake Crist vs. Dante Fox vs. Jack Evans vs. Kotto Brazil vs.
    Rich Swann vs. Flamita for the X title,
    Sami Callihan vs. Jimmy Havoc
    Tessa Blanchard vs. Joey Ryan{/SPOILER]

    April 6th WWE Access (Saturday)

    Tyler Bate vs. Brian Kendrick
    Jordan Devlin vs. Akira Tozawa
    Flash Morgan Webster & Mark Andrews vs. Ariya Daivari & Mike Kanellis
    Gran Metalik vs. El Ligero vs. Albert Hardie Jr.

    RevPro (Friday)


    Zack Sabre Jr.& Minoru Suzuki vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Will Ospreay
    Sho & Yoh vs. Aussie Open
    Tomohiro Ishii vs. David Starr
    Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Rocky Romero
    Jonathan Gresham & Chris Brookes vs. Karl Fredericks & Alex Coughlin

    Takeover (Friday)

    Adam Cole vs Johnny Gargano
    Matt Riddle vs Velveteen Dream
    War Machien vs Ricochet & Black
    Pete Dunne vs Walter
    Bianca Bel Air vs Shayna Bayszler vs Io Shirai vs Kairi Sane

    Blackcraft Wrestling (Friday)

    Pentagon Jr. vs. Simon Grimm
    Masato Tanaka vs. Chris Dickinson
    Jimmy Havoc vs. G-Raver
    Johnny Blackcraft (John Morrison) vs. David Starr for Blackcraft title
    Saraya Knight vs. Maria Manic for the women’s title
    Teddy Hart vs. Fenix vs. Mecha Wolf vs. Matt Cross vs. Luchasaurus vs. Cortez Castro, Gangrel vs. Matt Justice

    House of Glory (Sunday)

    Great Muta & Pentagon Jr. & Tajiri vs. Low Ki & LAX
    Amazing Red vs. Fenix
    David Starr & JT Dunn vs. Private Party

    New Japan/ROH (Saturday)

    ]SPOILER]Jay White vs. Okada
    Jay Lethal vs. Marty Scurll vs. Matt Taven
    Tetsuya Naito vs. Kota IbushiZack Sabre Jr. vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
    Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa vs. Brody King & PCO vs. Mark & Jay Briscoe vs. Evil & Sanada
    Taiji Ishimori vs. Bandido vs. Dragon Lee
    Mayu Iwatani vs. Kelly Klein
    Dalton Castle vs Rush,
    Bully Ray vs. Juice Robinson
    Will Ospreay vs. Jeff Cobb
    Honor Rumble with Jushin Liger, Hazuki Kagetsu & Jenny Rose vs. Hana Kimura & Sumie Sakai & Stella Gray

    Janela's Spring Break Part 2 (Sunday)

    Battle Royal
    Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson vs. LAX
    L.A. Park vs.. Masato Tanaka
    Slim J vs. Australian Suicide vs. Shane Mercer vs. Jake Atlas vs. A-Kid

    @WrestlingBros

    Also, I possibly just saw the match of the week. Ospreay had a match against A-Kid that just got uploaded which I can't image being knocked out of my top 3 for the year. 5 stars, no question, would probably be top 4 or 5 last year. Haven't reacted so much to a match since Gargano/Almas and Omega/Okada. Ospreay used to come to these random shows and do eight million moves in a crazy sprint, but since this move to heavyweight he's been like God level Misawa wherever he shows up. He's definitively a heavyweight, New Japan style worker now. Crazy.

     
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    Can someone please use our wrestling tags, I'm out to lunch with these things @Sign Language @tomroe93
     
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