Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[trick]

Anniversary of the GOAT match



Always liked this little bit Dean Rasmussen wrote about this match in one of the Death Valley Driver Video reviews


This issue is actually a pretty good read, been a while since I checked it out but I whenever I do I usually find some match I need to check out http://www.deathvalleydriver.com/dvdvr/dvdvr100.html

This is still my favourite match of all time

at all of the AJPW stuff on that YouTube account, I've never seen any of the other Misawa/Kawada matches besides this one. I'm about to eat

 

[3Rivers]

Has any more of the Best of the Super Juniors been put on dailymotion yet?

 

[The Rainmaker]

Has any more of the Best of the Super Juniors been put on dailymotion yet?

Nothing For the past two or three years all shows came out quickly. This year I've only seen day one. Sucks to be broke.

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Only thing I can think is that BoSJ is pretty low key this year so people aren't really in a hurry to up it. The last couple of shows of the tour are aired live on the network and are full shows with commentary etc so I think they might get up quicker.

 

[Silkk]

Who's Aj's next challenger?

 

[trick]

Who's Aj's next challenger?

Okada

They'll be wrestling on July 5th

. Matches[1][31] Stipulations
1 Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kazushi Sakuraba Singles match
2 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Toru Yano Singles match
3 Kenny Omega (c) vs. winner of the 2015 Best of the Super Juniors Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
4 The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Michael Bennett) (c) (with Maria Kanellis) vs. Bullet Club (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) (with Amber Gallows) Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
5 Togi Makabe (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship
6 Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship
7 A.J. Styles (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Who's Aj's next challenger?

Okada at Dominion, July 5th

EDIT:

Okada

They'll be wrestling on July 5th

Tanahashi/Yano again Decent looking show overall though.

 

[Silkk]

Okada

They'll be wrestling on July 5th

. Matches[1][31] Stipulations
1 Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kazushi Sakuraba Singles match
2 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Toru Yano Singles match
3 Kenny Omega (c) vs. winner of the 2015 Best of the Super Juniors Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
4 The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Michael Bennett) (c) (with Maria Kanellis) vs. Bullet Club (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) (with Amber Gallows) Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
5 Togi Makabe (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship
6 Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship
7 A.J. Styles (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Okada at Dominion, July 5th

EDIT:


Tanahashi/Yano again Decent looking show overall though.

Card look piff, anyway to watch live?

What % yall give Okada of taking it?

 

[trick]

Card look piff, anyway to watch live?

What % yall give Okada of taking it?

Watching live? Breh, you're not gotta wake up at 5:30 am after the fourth of July for this shyt

Just wait til it leaks or subscribe to NJPW World for a month afterwards

 

[Jmare007]

Anniversary of the GOAT match



Always liked this little bit Dean Rasmussen wrote about this match in one of the Death Valley Driver Video reviews


This issue is actually a pretty good read, been a while since I checked it out but I whenever I do I usually find some match I need to check out http://www.deathvalleydriver.com/dvdvr/dvdvr100.html

Gotta pay respect to that match. I watch it at least once a year and it never ceases to be amazing

When the crowd reacts to Misawa attacking Kawada's leg I alwats go such deep storytelling being appreciated by 16,000 people

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

An interesting what if, given the value of hindsight. Hiroshi Tanahashi did an interview on Samurai TV on 6/2 and said that in 2007, Gedo had an offer from WWE. He said that they wanted him to play a stereotypical sneaky Japanese character from the 70s so he decided to stay with New Japan, where his booking turned the company around.

There is some interesting politics going on right now. New Japan wasn't happy that ROH sent Moose & ACH to the AAA tag team tournament because they are loyal to CMLL as business partners and want a CMLL/New Japan/ROH alliance. That's the reason ROH never pushed that they were sending a team to Mexico. But what is weird is that NOAH, which is owned by New Japan, also sent Taiji Ishimori & Atsushi Kotoge (Yoshihiro Takayama, the third guy, is an independent) and referee Nishinaga to AAA. But New Japan thus far has not booked either Alberto El Patron or Rey Mysterio Jr., because they are AAA talent, even though Mysterio Jr. would be a good big show attraction and Alberto would at least be something different for a big show as well.

Something the company may have to consider is multi-year deals. When Finn Balor did an interview with Jericho talking about leaving, one of the things he noted was New Japan not giving him a long-term contract. It's been tradition in Japan because the wrestling business has its ups and downs out of nowhere, that New Japan always signed everyone for one year. But that dates back to a period when the mentality was the foreigners would come and go and were replaceable and the natives weren't going anywhere because of the loyalty to the company that was such a huge part of Japanese culture. But times have changed, in the sense WWE is going to be after anyone who is really good.

Crowds continue to be down this entire tour, between the non-turn away crowds for both Korakuen Hall shows and only one true sellout show this week, and with all shows in small buildings but one.

There are two live shows this week on New Japan World. The 6/5 Korakuen Hall show, which will determine who goes into the Super Junior finals, airs at 5:30 a.m. Eastern and 2:30 a.m. Pacific with Liger vs. Cavernario, Taguchi vs. Owens, Komatsu vs. Baretta, Gedo vs. O'Reilly, Tiger Mask vs. Finlay, Dorada vs. Romero, Fish vs. Jackson and a main event of Tanahashi & Goto & Makabe & Shibata & Honma vs. Nakamura & Ishii & Yano & Sakuraba & Yoshi-Hashi. The finals are 6/7 at the second Yoyogi Gym in Tokyo. The card won't be announced until after 6/5, but it's a 4 a.m. Eastern start.

As there's no new BoSJ upped yet here's an interesting match from a past tournament, Balor/Neville

 

[The Rainmaker]

Hope Minoru Suzuki will be back for the G1. For what I've read, his stable being in NOAH isn't helping them that much anyway.

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

KUSHIDA going to stop shyt from getting upped

 

[The Rainmaker]

KUSHIDA going to stop shyt from getting upped

Oh, crap, he knows I will jamp to NJPW World as soon as possible

 

[The Rainmaker]

BOSJ winner was

Spoiler

Kushida

G1 Climax participants were announced. No surprises (except the final name, maybe), no NOAH nor other company guys, no Suzuki-gun

Hiroshi Tanahashi [2007 Winner] (14th year competing)
Hirooki Goto [2008 Winner] (8th year competing)
Togi Makabe [2009 Winner] (12th year competing)
Tetsuya Naito [2013 Winner] (6th year competing)
Katsuyori Shibata (5th year competing)
Kota Ibushi (2nd year competing)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan[03, 04, 06 Winner] (20th year competing)
Satoshi Kojima [2010 Winner] (14th year competing)
Yuji Nagata [01 Winner] (17th year competing)
Tomoaki Honma (2nd year competing)
Shinsuke Nakamura [2011 Winner] (12th year competing)
Kazuchika Okada [12 & 14 Winner] (4th year competing)
Toru Yano (10th year competing)
Tomohiro Ishii (3rd year competing)
AJ Styles (2nd year competing)
Karl Anderson (6th year competing)
Doc Gallows (2nd year competing)
Bad Luck Fale (2nd year competing)
Yujiro Takahashi (6th year competing)
Michael Elgin (debut)