Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[stro]

Hopefully Tanahashi gives Okada some hair tips

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Catching up on the Road to Power Struggle. The Genius is pretty bad on commentary.

@ The Okada/ Gedo/ Switchblade storyline being like ditching Wayne for Young Thug.

In for Okada suing for mismanaged money and Gedo telling him that they were dropping the Rainmaker's 401k from the rafters at every show.

"What yen, Okada-san? "

 

[Jmare007]

Of course Aoki won a belt in his first match for DDT

DDT "DDT LIVE! MAJI MANJI KORAKUEN HALL SPECIAL!!", 28.10.2018 (DDT Universe/Abema TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,106 Fans - Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Unit Counter 4 Way Match: Akito & Shunma Katsumata besiegen Antonio Honda & Kazusada Higuchi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata und Yukio Sakaguchi & Masahiro Takanashi (8:13) nach einem Sharpshooter von Akito gegen Higuchi.
2. El Lindaman besiegt Nobuhiro Shimatani (7:00) mit einem German Suplex Hold.
3. Loser Punishment Game Match: Makoto Oishi, Super Sasadango Machine & Gorgeous Matsuno besiegen Sanshiro Takagi, Yumeto Imasei & Michael Wolf (5:22) nach einem Jikiden Tornado Clutch von Oishi gegen Takagi.
4. Keisuke Ishii, MAO & Yuki Ino besiegen Kota Umeda, Mizuki Watase & Yuki Ueno (8:09) nach einem High-Angle Double-Arm DDT von Ishii gegen Ueno.
5. Iron Man Heavy Metal Title, Women's Battle Royal: Maki Ito gewann die Battle Royal (11:39). Cherry besiegt Yuki Kamifuku durch Pinfall (4:18). Emi Sakura warf Saki Akai über das Top Rope (5:01). Emi Sakura warf Mizuki über das Top Rope (5:20). Emi Sakura warf Cherry über das Top Rope (8:17). Yuki Arai (c) warf Emi Sakura über das Top Rope (8:33). Maki Ito besiegt Yuki Arai (c) mit einem Crab Hold - Titelwechsel (11:39).
- Iron Man Heavy Metal Title: Maki Ito (c) besiegt Yuki Arai (12:46 Uhr) mit einem Horizontal Cradle Cutback (1st defense).
6. KO-D Six Man Tag Team Title: CIMA, T-Hawk & Duan Yingnan besiegen Takao Soma, Tetsuya Endo & Mad Paulie (c) (13:09) nach dem Mad Splash von CIMA gegen Soma - Titelwechsel.
7. DDT Extreme Title, Wrestling Rules: Shinya Aoki besiegt HARASHIMA (c) (8:26) durch TKO (Triangle Choke) - Titelwechsel.
8. Special Tag Match: Naomichi Marufuji

& Konosuke Takeshyta vs. Daisuke Sasaki & Shuji Ishikawa - Time Limit Draw (20:00).

D King Grand Prix 2019 blocks:

Block A: Daisuke Sasaki, HARASHIMA, Kazusada Higuchi, Akito, MAO, Puma King & Go Shiozaki

Block B: Konosuke Takeshyta, Tetsuya Endo, Soma Takao, Masahiro Takanashi, Mike Bailey, Sammy Guevara & Shinya Aoki

 

[THE 101]

 

[The Rainmaker]

CIMA is staying with DDT? This fukking traitor

 

[Jmare007]

CIMA is staying with DDT? This fukking traitor

Jae got worked to oblivion

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Just finished the RevPro/NJPW show from a few weeks back. It was a solid show, but I don't know who any of these Euros are other than the ones that are already in NJPW.

I forgot this was the show Ospreay hurt himself. Landed right on his neck after doing a Pele kick but apparently it was one of his ribs that got injured according to reports.

I could watch Suzuki and Ishii kick, slap and throw elbows back and forth all day.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Bucks officially confirmed on Jericho's Booze Cruise that Cody, Bucks, Omega, Page and Scurll are officially "The Elite" and not BC affiliated anymore.

Kinda weird that this stuff is getting announced outside of an angle (and outside of NJPW) and that they are all wishing the BC well. Figured it would've come down to Elite vs OGs in a battle for the name. OGs have kicked the Elite's ass every chance they got and took two belts off them and the Elite are just like .

Where does this leave Owens and Takahashi? I could take or leave Takahashi but what about Muffin Ass? And I like Owens a lot. His sense of humor seems to fit in with The Elite, not sure why they don't really feature him on the YouTube show. I love the interplay between him and Ibushi when they tag.

 

[Jmare007]

Is it fair to think the whole BCOG shyt was just a last minute decision because the Bucks and their crew wanted to distance themselves from it and profit with The Elite stuff?

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Bucks officially confirmed on Jericho's Booze Cruise that Cody, Bucks, Omega, Page and Scurll are officially "The Elite" and not BC affiliated anymore.

Kinda weird that this stuff is getting announced outside of an angle (and outside of NJPW) and that they are all wishing the BC well. Figured it would've come down to Elite vs OGs in a battle for the name. OGs have kicked the Elite's ass every chance they got and took two belts off them and the Elite are just like .

Where does this leave Owens and Takahashi? I could take or leave Takahashi but what about Muffin Ass? And I like Owens a lot. His sense of humor seems to fit in with The Elite, not sure why they don't really feature him on the YouTube show. I love the interplay between him and Ibushi when they tag.

Muffin ass?

 

[Legal]

Is it fair to think the whole BCOG shyt was just a last minute decision because the Bucks and their crew wanted to distance themselves from it and profit with The Elite stuff?

That's pretty much solely it. If memory serves, NJPW owns the Bullet Club brand. I think All In showed them that they're capable of making far more money than they thought outside of the traditional Bullet Club umbrella. So, at some point, in order to truly capitalize, they had to leave the BC stuff behind.

 

[WaveMolecules]

Genius move by the the elite.

Bullet club was dying and without the elite, its dead. And i like tama tonga but nothing lasts forever.

 

[krackdagawd]

elite marks

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Genius move by the the elite.

Bullet club was dying and without the elite, its dead. And i like tama tonga but nothing lasts forever.

Nah. BC gonna keep going, they just won't be "cool heels" anymore or have any breakout stars other than White.

 

[MenacingMonk]

New BC is now nWo 2000.