Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

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NJPW World not available on Iphone?

I think theres an app but its just a link to the mobile site

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Usually the champ will drop a couple of matches during the G1 to set up title defenses the rest of the year, now with the Dome shot on the line I don't think we'll have an IWGP champ win the whole thing again.

New Sekimoto

Sekimoto, Sugiura & Tanaka vs. HARASHIMA, Okabayashi & Hino



Thought this was an interesting review in the latest classic Observer posted:

Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka beat Tatsumi Fujinami & Satoshi Kojima in 13:28. Almost the entire match aired on television. Very stiff work and very much a brutal match. The idea of the match was to break Kojima's nose and then he'd get all fired up before losing. Tenryu kept kicking him hard in the face, and both Koshinaka and Tenryu were throwing hard short punches trying to hit the spot and what made it brutal is he took about five punches and two kicks before the nose finally broke. It turned into one hell of a match, particularly with Kojima selling and making comebacks. When Fujinami got in, he used both his dragon sleeper and brought back the old mangigatamae (octopus submission) on Tenryu but Koshinaka saved both times. The crowd was really into seeing the old moves and seeing the old legends, Fujinami and Tenryu, using those spots. Finally Koshinaka hit Kojima with a butt bump off the top rope and Tenryu used a lariat and power bomb on Kojima for the pin

Imagine going into a match knowing a couple of dudes are going to break your nose

 

[HereWeGo2]

@3Rivers @trick


NJPW World not available on Iphone?

You can watch it on your IPhone by just going to the NJPW website on your phone. Works fine for me that way.

Don't think they have an app except one that opens up right to the webpage. Not sure if it's for IPhones anyway.

 

[JohnB]

Usually the champ will drop a couple of matches during the G1 to set up title defenses the rest of the year, now with the Dome shot on the line I don't think we'll have an IWGP champ win the whole thing again.

New Sekimoto

Sekimoto, Sugiura & Tanaka vs. HARASHIMA, Okabayashi & Hino



Thought this was an interesting review in the latest classic Observer posted:



Imagine going into a match knowing a couple of dudes are going to break your nose

You know when the kojima match took place?

 

[3Rivers]

Nakamura's pole dancing fan
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Marilyn is a cosplaying, pole-dancing, NJPW superfan, and oh…jeepers…haha, whoops, just about lost my grip on my kinsey scale rating for a second. Wrestling and burlesque have had a long relationship, even today with places like Lucha VaVOOM and Lucha Britannia. As a fellow enthusiast of dressing up like dude wrestlers (and doing a fantastic job of it), I’m pretty sure she might be my new favourite lady on the internet. Check out her Shinsuke Nakamura themed-act, and try your best not to fall in love

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

You know when the kojima match took place?

Dave was reviewing the May 2nd 1998 TV show (not sure what date it actually took place). IVP have the show:

http://new.ivpvideos2.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_757&products_id=9849

Can't find the match online unfortunately.

 

[JohnB]

Dave was reviewing the May 2nd 1998 TV show (not sure what date it actually took place). IVP have the show:

http://new.ivpvideos2.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_757&products_id=9849

Can't find the match online unfortunately.

Thanks

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

Looks like the dude who uploads the shows to dailymotion got SamuraiTv filing TOS violations on his videos.

 

[Numero Deux]

Looks like the dude who uploads the shows to dailymotion got SamuraiTv filing TOS violations on his videos.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

They going all in

Black Excellence and Asian Swagnificence on the same team. We're not worthy, brehs.

Anyone who only fux with The 'E these days lost on levels they can't even comprehend.

 

[3Rivers]

Anyone who only fux with The 'E these days lost on levels they can't even comprehend.

Wrestling fans are eating real good between NJPW/ROH/Lucha Underground/TNA

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

So badass

 

[3Rivers]

From last years G-1. I couldn't find the Japanese commentary version

 

[3Rivers]

Haven't checked it all but it looks like breh has a lot of the g1 climax 23 tourney uploaded

 

[The Rainmaker]

I want to play Jenga with CHAOS. That must be lots of fun.