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Another round of +reps to my brehs.I fukking love this thread. Thanks for getting me back in the loop.


Btw totally missed that Naito lost... or should i say Yujiro won... What... The... fukk...?

Yeah that's what my gif up top was about. Everything looked good, but that result needs some splainin. Especially in such a short period of time. Gonna have to check the match and see how it came off.
 

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Yeah that's what my gif up top was about. Everything looked good, but that result needs some splainin. Especially in such a short period of time. Gonna have to check the match and see how it came off.

Probably the knee thing which means Naito is eventually going to get pushed as a Bret Hart-like sympathetic face which they do NOT have to do.
 

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They needed a filler challenger for Tana (couldn't go with Anderson as he had the WK MITB storyline with Okada) and they are finally giving some rest to Naito, hopefully.

It ain't serious, this is like the Tanahashi/Yano feud from a couple of years ago. Just some filler shyt to keep them occupied.
 

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People on the Observer board were saying links to this would be hard to come by, I knew dudes would come through though :wow:

NJPW “POWER STRUGGLE”, 11/11/12 (WPW)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

1. Special Tag Match: Togi Makabe & Wataru Inoue vs. Kazushi Sakuraba & Katsuyori Shibata
2. IWGP Tag Team Title: Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (c) vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
3. Tokyo Dome IWGP Heavyweight Title #1 Contender Match: Kazuchika Okada vs. Hirooki Goto
4. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Karl Anderson
5. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Yujiro Takahashi

Okada putting it on the line again, I think this is a pretty cool angle :obama:
 

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The Okada-Goto IWGP match from earlier this year was slept on to me. Won't mind another match at all.

Just watched Suzuki-Tana.

Knowing the result ahead of time definitely affects how high I can rate it, as they did an incredible of selling a 50/50 stretch. Minoru with all the momentum but Tana always one counter away.
 

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I'm so used to knowing the results beforehand that it didn't affect my enjoyment of the match. It wasn't your typical "epic" title defense though so I'm sure a lot of people wont like it as much as others. I thought it was amazing but wouldn't call a surefire MOTY, other matches are neck and neck with this one.

Overall, the show was outstanding. It has a little bit of everything. Not one bad match, 1 good angle, 1 crazy old school New Japan brawl, 2 good Jr. matches and 3 great singles heavyweight matches.
 

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Kenny Omega vs. Hiroshi Yamato from the 10/7 AJPW show:


[ame=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu87uo_hiroshi-yamato-c-vs-kenny-omega-ajpw_sport]Hiroshi Yamato (c) vs Kenny Omega (AJPW) - Video Dailymotion[/ame]
 

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Ibushi, KUDO & Oishi vs Takagi, Honda & Nakazawa. On stage at a rock festival of course.

[ame=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xua2oi_ibushi-kudo-oishi-vs-takagi-honda-nakazawa-ddt-09-22-12_sport]Ibushi, KUDO & Oishi vs Takagi, Honda & Nakazawa - (DDT 09/22/12) - Video Dailymotion[/ame]

DDT stay at it :whoo:
 

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Okada vs Naito II

[ame=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xubqsm_08-tetsuya-naito-vs-kazuchika-okada-njpw-08-03-12_sport]08. Tetsuya Naito vs Kazuchika Okada - (NJPW 08/03/12) - Video Dailymotion[/ame]

Not as :ohlawd: as the first one, but still a great match.
 

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So I just watched the NJPW iPPV yesterday after work...

I'm not sure if Tanahashi/Suzuki is 5 stars like Meltzer rated it, but that was probably the most intense Puro main I can remember watching since Tana/Goto a year and a half back, and this was probably better than that. Great story with Suzuki beating the shyt out of Tana and just being craftier and harder than him, but Tana ultimately pulling it out due to sheer tenacity.

Also, did you guys notice that there were no pinfall attempts until the High Fly Flow that finished the match? That had me like :whoo: when I noticed it. Amazing how they built drama without those pins.

They needed a filler challenger for Tana (couldn't go with Anderson as he had the WK MITB storyline with Okada) and they are finally giving some rest to Naito, hopefully.

It ain't serious, this is like the Tanahashi/Yano feud from a couple of years ago. Just some filler shyt to keep them occupied.

The main difference here is that Yano was crazy over in Osaka, so it was a heated main, along with the fact that his pure heeling allowed for another dimension of Tanahashi to show.

Yujiro hasn't done a damn thing interesting; the only good thing about him were the two shirts he wore at the iPPV (I'm still looking for a screen shot of that Secret Service shirt that he wore before his match with Naito. Green to whomever can procure that shot for me).
 

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I havent gotten to watch any of the matches y'all posted in the last month hopefully i will get to tomorrow though. I cannot find what Secret Service shirt youre talking about @TrueEpic08. Which Naito match is it from? What date?
 
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I havent gotten to watch any of the matches y'all posted in the last month hopefully i will get to tomorrow though. I cannot find what Secret Service shirt youre talking about @TrueEpic08. Which Naito match is it from? What date?

Yujiro vs. Naito at the NJPW 10/08 iPPV. You'll understand why I'm requesting it when you see it.
 
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