Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[THE 101]

Has the tag league been worth watching...i'm crazy behind. Have Suzuki's and ZSJ's teams faced each other yet?

 

[krackdagawd]

Tag league getting sold like the A block of the g1 in here

 

[Jmare007]

Tag league getting sold like the A block of the g1 in here

It's a yearly tradition

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

Tag league getting sold like the A block of the g1 in here

I just dont know how to give a fukk about the tag league. I'm not sure if I ever will

 

[MenacingMonk]

Excalibur on NJPW commentary.

 

[DoubleJ13]

Meltzer

Kushida is a name has been talked about for weeks and we’ve been hearing more and more about it. Kushida is the current IWGP jr. champion and faces Taiji Ishimori at the Tokyo Dome. He’s under contract to New Japan until the end of January so we shouldn’t be hearing his name, but WWE has been more forward about trying to get people and not caring about contracts. Basically the feeling is that nobody with the possible exception of Sinclair, and MLW, would take any action against them, and for NJPW, it’s a difficult process based in Japan, but that’s not saying what NJPW would or wouldn’t do. Kushida is hardly the only NJPW person WWE is looking at getting right now for all the obvious reasons. This isn’t to say this is a done deal, just a name WWE is earmarking but enough that unlike other New Japan guys who they are after, this is one where the confidence level is at the point where it’s being talked about more prominently, at least one idea has been talked about which would involve him at NXT, as opposed to the obvious guys they want but probably aren’t in the end going to get

Pretty much in the same spot Nakamura was in where there's really nothing left for him to do so maybe he wants to give it a go

 

[stro]

Kushida in NXT would be a good move for him, but only NXT where he can have main event matches with all kinds of guys regardless of size. On the main roster he'd for sure be 205 Lived and in the same purgatory as Itami.

 

[Jmare007]

It would be smart move for KUSHIDA. Worst case scenario he leaves for 2-3 years and come backs for, at the very least, one more big push once he returns He'd be able to get good paychecks at other promotions besides New Japan too, which is harder to do for Jrs.

 

[TheGodling]

Yeah, Kushida going to WWE (specifically NXT) would be good for him because even though he's almost guaranteed a fill-in Junior title run every year in NJPW it does absolutely nothing for his career.

 

[The Rainmaker]

That's the last name I'd expected to be in the interest of WWE, to be honest

Well, no, that would be Yujiro.

 

[stro]

I wonder if a successful NXT run as champion could get NJ to push Kushida in the heavyweight division when he comes back regardless of size

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

It would be smart move for KUSHIDA. Worst case scenario he leaves for 2-3 years and come backs for, at the very least, one more big push once he returns He'd be able to get good paychecks at other promotions besides New Japan too, which is harder to do for Jrs.

Yeah I guess 205 live for a few years is better than where he is. The matches with Hideo would probably be dope too

 

[FRIED MASON]

Kushida to WWE... just another talent lost on a bloated roster.

 

[stro]

Kushida to WWE... just another talent lost on a bloated roster.

In this case, it'd be a good move since he's done literally everything possible to do in New Japan and they're never going to let him jump to heavyweight, so he's stuck in this position for the rest of his career until he gets old enough to fill the 2010-Liger role. A NXT run for Kushida could transform his career and let him go to heavyweight when he gets back to Japan.


6 time Jr champ
3 time Jr tag champ
2 time Best of the Super Junior
1 Super J Cup
1 Super Jr. tag league

They won't even let him do NEVER matches

 

[DoubleJ13]

Honestly Kushida going to WWE would probably hurt ROH more than NJPW. You can pretty much pencil him in on ROH shows at this point & he's the break glass in case of emergency guy in the NJPW Jr division


He could have a good run in NXT with all the guys they have there, & then have a bunch of good matches nobody watches on 205.