[1/4]NJPW Presents: Wrestle Kingdom 11

[Konnan]

Can't wait til July for G1 now

Solid two days of wrestling piff

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

Makes sense.

Just read that

Spoiler

Misu back

Gotta finish the show later on

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Naito still throwing the belt around like its garbage

Suzuki Gun with the fukkery at New Years Dash

Minoru coming for you, Rainmaker

I really fux with this faction warfare they have going - I don't know if Bullet Club v CHAOS v LIJ was a major part of the WK 11 marketing - if it wasn't it should have been.

And now Suzuki Gun are in the mix too

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Just read that

Spoiler

Misu back

Gotta finish the show later on

tf tho

 

[StarClout]

bout to feast on this wrestling piff

 

[DaylitoJames]

Guerrillas of Destiny were going bonkers

All the frustrations Toa had for dealing being Comacho in WWE and being in that wack ass stable The Rising in TNA he was verbally letting it all out in his WrestleKingdom match

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

After their match at Wrestle Kingdom 11, both Kazuchika Okada and Kenny Omega spoke with Justin Barrasso of SI.com about the match and more. Here are the highlights.

Omega on the IWGP Heavyweight Champion:

“This IWGP title means more with me than any WWE championship,” said Omega. “The WWE belt means nothing, it means absolutely nothing. They pass around that belt like a hot potato. I probably have a neighbor on my block who held that belt at one point. There is no prestige to that belt whatsoever.”

Okada on facing Omega:

“I haven’t wrestled as dangerous a guy as Kenny, so I needed to show my other face,” said Okada. “I still suffered from pain in my neck from his One-Winged Angel maneuver to me on the table in December, so I wanted to try dangerous moves like Kenny.”

Okada on being IWGP Heavyweight Champion:

“I should hold the IWGP title always,” said Okada. “I will fight in many cities and many countries and earn my title on the next stage. I’m the best, not Omega. I love New Japan more than Omega, and I will continue to prove that.”

 

[Superkick Party]

Im watching New Years Dash now and their faction game is unfukkwittable

LIJ is so dope

I wish Tanahashi would start a faction with like Elgin, KUSHIDA, Ricochet, Finlay etc

 

[stro]

I wish Tanahashi would start a faction with like Elgin, KUSHIDA, Ricochet, Finlay etc

I wish Gedo would lose his hard on for Kushida and push someone else as a top face of the juniors

 

[Apex]

bout to feast on this wrestling piff

Do you plan on watching all the NJPW PPVs?

 

[Sypress]

Started watching this

There's a lot of in the battle royale

Struggle spinning heel kicks

Scott Norton

 

[Adam3000]

I think I liked Tanahashi/Naito more than Omega/Okada. Main event felt like a PWG match in the dome. That kind of match has its place, but I don't feel like the dome on 1/4 is that place. Kenny being in those kind of matches is still fairly unique for the NJ heavyweight scene, but I don't really want to see it continue down the path of increasingly crazy spot fests and huge bumps for multiple reasons.

1. That can only last so long before dudes break down
2. That's going to limit who can make it to the main events and who can't way too much
3. NJ is a reprieve from that type of stuff that is prevalent damn near every where else in the world

All this 6 stars, literally greatest match EVER type of talk will die down in the next few weeks and people will realize it was an amazing spectacle and spot fest, but not some transcendent match like Okada/Tanahashi last year, or Nakamura/Ibushi the year before that. Kenny showed some flashes of brilliance with his selling and movements, and Okada is Okada. But let the dust settle before it gets a literal greatest match in the history of the profession type of tags. The prematch promo with English subtitles and talking about expanding, then the match itself felt like it was vying for the American audience as NJ continues to make in roads here, but I don't watch NJ to get something made for Americans, ya know?

I figured this would be your assessment because the match was more like a better version of Omega/Naito than it was Omega/Goto and I know how you felt about Omega/Naito.

Honestly, I have a tough time picking which match is the best between:

Okada/Tana
Okada/Marafuji
Omega/Goto
Omega/Okada

All 4 of those matches in a 12 month span seems like the pinnacle of wrestling to me. I know AJPW put on a million classics, but this is at that level to me.

I could never pick a best match of all time. All I can say is what is in contention and these all are.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Gotta go back and watch Shibata/Goto was watching that half asleep

 

[MenacingMonk]

Watching the show again since I'm on a high and the live stream I saw would stop.

ELGIN and Gunn calling their spots. I think one of them said "that was stiff, mother fukker!" when Bone Soldier was coming out.

 

[Lord Scion]

Anyone's got a HQ link/torrent? Tomorrow is my day off so I need to see what the fuss is about.