Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News
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I find it literally impossible to believe that WWE is paying WALTER 1.2 million a year just to keep him away from New Japan. That immediately puts him in the top 5 paid WWE guys, and he doesn't even wrestle for them? I'm calling bullshyt on that number. I could see 100K a YEAR being reasonable. Ish.
Jmare007
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What's worth keeping up with is kinda hard to answer because most promotions have a "house style" of some sort, so it really depends on what you like in your wrestling.
All Japan: Probably the most consistent promotion right now in terms of quality after New Japan. They have a stacked heavyweight division and the best young main eventer in the country (Kento Miyahara). They also have a nice crop of young dudes and 1 legend/veteran that can still put on a show if the situation calls for it (Jun Akiyama). The ONLY problem with them is that right now, it's almost impossible to get their shows and matches without being subscribed to their streaming network
I'm pissed I haven't been able to watch the last 3 months - besides 1 show - of their stuff. Their style used to be very unique a long time ago, but at this point is largely what you could find in NJPW. Main difference to me is that they are way more into having shorter matches and sprints for their big encounters, which makes them much, much easier to watch/sit through. Booking is very traditional: rivalries based on who is a champion, from time to time they get invaders from others promotions and start a feud, it can be get too trigger happy when it comes to title changes, specially the last 18 months, though.Dragon Gate: A lot of flippy and fast paced stuff, it's pretty much a promotion of Jr heavyweights doing crazy shyt. Not sure how booking is these days because they are going through some important changes right now, but for the longest time it was heavily based on stable wars and fukkery around them. @The Rainmaker is the resident expert.
DDT: A mix of fukkery, comedy and japanese
stuff. They have serious wrestling too and have interesting talent that can put on very good matches. 2018 has been a down year for them (business and quality wise) but they can always turn it around. They are the most accessible promotion to watch their stuff nowadays, every show they have is uploaded ASAP. They have a big show on 10/21 if you wanna check it out 
Big Japan: There's too sides of BJW: the Deathmatch division and the Strong division. The first one is pretty self explanatory, gory hardcore stuff with blood, light bulbs, barbwire, thumbtacks, and more. The second one is my personal favorite and it has been for almost a decade now. It also has the best dojo in Japan, imo, the amount of talented motherfukkers that come out of here is staggering for such a small company. You get a mix of very different wrestlers - literally any kind you can imagine, including a dude that did Sumo for 10 years - going into battle with one premise: make shyt matter. There's a hierarchy - traditional in any puroresu promotion - that's respected, but at the same time, it can change any day because the style let's everyone on the roster play a different role depending on who they are working with. There a hoss battles, very technical mat based matches, spotsfests, sprints, even a hybrid of shoot style. There's also a uniqueness on their finishes, even though every wrestler has a finishing move, it's VERY common for a match to end with a "random" move because the story of the match called for it. Most of the matches are really short too, so it's easy as fukk to watch. You won't find a bunch of MOTYCs, but you will always find a fun match that's short and has something memorable. They also free lance a lot, and given how awesome their style is, they ALWAYS bring a breath of fresh air and dope matches to the companies they are "invading". Because they are a small promotion, booking is pretty straight forward.
NOAH: I haven't seen them in a long ass time. All I know is that their booking is very predictable because if I can still see the shyt they'll book before they do it, so can anyone else
I don't see enough of the rest of the promotions (Wrestle-1, Zero-One, BASARA, Joshi promotions) to give a review. You can hear and read positive stuff coming from some Wrestle-1 shows though.
Scottie Drippin
Should Never Mention Me
First, 1.2 doesn't put him in the Top 5 WWE guys. It wouldn't even be Top Ten. Second, you're not thinking this through. WWE paying him to not collect NJ checks (big checks) OR RPW checks (very aight indie ones), and he's told bookers he can't work NJ only guys (more lost checks). This is the Albert situation all over again. They're overpaying to offset the good money and the convenience working NJ has to offer. NJ running US shows has the NXT money going all the way up.
The only guys making over 1M: Cena, Taker, HHH, Roman, Brock, and I think Ambrose had a year over 1M based on working more than anyone else on any roster. You think it's reasonable or believable that WWE is paying WALTER, a guy who has never even worked for them, in that range just to NOT work somewhere else?
WaveMolecules
Superstar
Dope vid. Guy has lots of dope vids on his youtube page.
Kitamura had retweeted posts about Bullet Club OG recruitment. 
Suprise down the line?
Suprise down the line?
Jmare007
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Kitamura had retweeted posts about Bullet Club OG recruitment.
Suprise down the line?
Hopefully, would be shame if he can't even try to have a career.
krackdagawd
Inspire.
NOAH GHC Heavy this morning
Sugi beaten Nakajima.
Jmare007
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I thought you had the link
I sure Real Hero will have it up soon.
Jmare007
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Someone gotta tell him to upload All Japan, I'm
at their last Korakuen Hall. Jake Lee and Nomura in big showcase matches, I need it 
Breh ain’t the All Japan sub like $10?Someone gotta tell him to upload All Japan, I'm