Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[MightyHealthy]

Elgin is too robotic in the ring for me.

Right.

It's like Tana's act. I caught it fresh and at the prime of his last G1 win.

If you're used to it, it's trite. When you're not, it seems more polished.

 

[Jmare007]

This is how were going to wind up with Juice Robinson and David Finlay as tag champs. Buy anything is better than War Machine

I don't think that's a bad thing though

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

I don't think that's a bad thing though

I guess because theyre technically not young lions in the traditional sense. Juice has always been solid to me but idk what to make of Finlay and they would scream "makeshift" too. Not really a slight against them but it would show how shallow the tag division really is.

 

[Jmare007]

I guess because theyre technically not young lions in the traditional sense. Juice has always been solid to me but idk what to make of Finlay and they would scream "makeshift" too. Not really a slight against them but it would show how shallow the tag division really is.

At least it's new people and you giving them a chance to work more relevant matches. No idea if War Machine is worth a damn or not, but I'm glad it's new people too.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Road to Sakura

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[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Tiger Mask IV &Jushin Liger wrap it up. Every match i've seen they jobbed out in the first match

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

At least it's new people and you giving them a chance to work more relevant matches. No idea if War Machine is worth a damn or not, but I'm glad it's new people too.

True. Theyre an ok brawling tag team and a brawling fight with TenCozy should be ok. Plus right now I cant think of a better tag team for it honestly... I just REALLY don't like Hanson

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

wonder what it's like for wrestlers in Japan in the public?

they smashing these japanese ring rats?

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

final match with Shibata's ode to TLC

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[Drones]

AKA "don't bring your American wrassling fan antics over here when you watch our shows."

 

[Apex]

Been catching up with 90's AJPW... great stuff. I can see why Meltzer raves about this so much.

I'm looking forward to watching more. This is the list I'm watching from (red for watched already):

Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (21.10.1992)
Akira Taue vs. Toshiaki Kawada (12.04.1993)
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi (14.04.1993)
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (03.06.1994)
Moshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi (19.1.1995)
Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (15.04.1995)
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (24.07.1995)
Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (25.10.1995)
Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi (24.07.1996)
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi (18.10.1996)
Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (20.01.1997)
Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (21.10.1997)
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (01.05.1998)
Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (31.10.1998)
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi (6.12.1998)
Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (11.06.1999)
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (23.07.1999)
Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (01.03.2003)
Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi (10.09.2004)

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Been catching up with 90's AJPW... great stuff. I can see why Meltzer raves about this so much.

That's a cool list to go off but I'd say add some Hansen in there if you have time. Especially vs Kawada from 2-28-93 and vs Kobashi from 7-29-93. Both of those are probably top 10 (at least) Kobashi and Kawada matches, and that covers a LOT of ground

93 AJPW was just

 

[Superkick Party]

• George Caroll (US Director of New Japan Pro Wrestling), was in Orlando and announced that the G1 Special Shows, will have PPV quality shows and will not be like the "Road To...." shows
  
  
• The June Dominion Show, will be the setup for the July shows
  
  
• A TV DEAL is also being worked on

 

[Jmare007]

Interested in that TV deal because New Japan TV is NOT made for weekly episodic television like the one US wrestling fans are used to. It's one thing to have "best of" shows like what they do with AXS (which is a spoof of what they do in Japan with the different TV Asahi channels they a deal with) but anything different would be major news imo.