Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[Jmare007]

 

[Jmare007]

Be a carny at your wedding behs

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Be a carny at your wedding behs

The cake wedding probably had thumbtacks in it. Jun Kasai caught the wedding garter, set it on fire and put it around his head.

 

[Jmare007]

The cake wedding probably had thumbtacks in it. Jun Kasai caught the wedding garter, set it on fire and put it around his head.

 

[TrueEpic08]

Might have to go to the LBC show. I'll have a lot of free time in August.

 

[The Rainmaker]

AJPW will hold a memorial show for Atsushi Aoki on August 11, and he will be recognized as the junior champion for 6 more months.

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

AJPW will hold a memorial show for Atsushi Aoki on August 11, and he will be recognized as the junior champion for 6 more months.

So they're just not going to have a title match for 6 months?

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Or maybe dudes will be jobbing to a legit tombstone

 

[The Rainmaker]

So they're just not going to have a title match for 6 months?

Or maybe dudes will be jobbing to a legit tombstone

 

[Jmare007]

All Japan's next Korakuen show looks, uhh, weaker than usual

AJPW "DYNAMITE SERIES 2019", 30.06.2019
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

-. Hokuto Omori vs. Dan Tamura
-. Hikaru Sato & Takuya Wada vs. Koji Iwamoto & Hokuto Omori
-. Jun Akiyama, Osamu Nishimura & Atsushi Maruyama vs. Takao Omori, Masanobu Fuchi & Black Menso~re
-. Gianni Valletta & Kotaro Suzuki vs. Yuma Aoyagi & Atsushi Aoyagi
-. Zeus, Dylan James & Nobe Bryant vs. Jake Lee, Naoya Nomura & Ryouji Sai
-. AJPW World Tag Team Title: Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa (c) vs. Parrow & Odinson
-. Triple Crown: Kento Miyahara (c) vs. Yoshytatsu

I'm at "Nobe Bryant" :laff, checked who he was and dude is a 15 year veteran wtf.

So they're just not going to have a title match for 6 months?

That title holds no weight nor impact in sales. Doing this kind of thing out of respect to Aoki is better than any match or program for that belt

 

[Jmare007]

BASARA breaking away from DDT. I hope they keep developing shoot style stuff

 

[TrueEpic08]

Or maybe dudes will be jobbing to a legit tombstone

You dead wrong for this, you know that?

All Japan's next Korakuen show looks, uhh, weaker than usual

AJPW "DYNAMITE SERIES 2019", 30.06.2019
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

-. Hokuto Omori vs. Dan Tamura
-. Hikaru Sato & Takuya Wada vs. Koji Iwamoto & Hokuto Omori
-. Jun Akiyama, Osamu Nishimura & Atsushi Maruyama vs. Takao Omori, Masanobu Fuchi & Black Menso~re
-. Gianni Valletta & Kotaro Suzuki vs. Yuma Aoyagi & Atsushi Aoyagi
-. Zeus, Dylan James & Nobe Bryant vs. Jake Lee, Naoya Nomura & Ryouji Sai
-. AJPW World Tag Team Title: Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa (c) vs. Parrow & Odinson
-. Triple Crown: Kento Miyahara (c) vs. Yoshytatsu

I will never get used to Yoshytatsu challenging for top belts. Ever.

Also, Nobe Bryant kind of looks like Slyck Wagner Brown if he shrank in the wash.

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

I think Naito/Ibushi is MOTY, far above everything else for me. Everything after the apron spot was incredibly dramatic. Amazing they were still able to hit all their spots after that one, and there were some awesome spots. The first ten minutes were much better than their last matches, largely due to the character work of Naito, added that bit extra to Kota's comeback. Then he got killed and STILL battled back. Another neat detail was Naito punching while he was up for the powerbomb and fighting right until he got dropped on his head in that tombstone, these little struggles added a lot to the match. Great selling throughout the finishing stretch.

I'm bitter about this but Osp/Dragon Lee was outstanding too (apart from the lame stand off spots). Perfect amount of time for a match like this. The tope was absolute lunacy.

Jericho/Okada was terrible, almost offensive in its layout. Jericho trying numerous times to get an Okada chant going was painful. The ''codebreaker'' over the railing was comical and there was no build or drama towards the end. Then we had Tana hobbling in for a terrible pull apart. Barely average match. Vince right to pull the plug on Jericho and his gimmick ideas? (aging alcoholic with a gut and face paint is the gimmick I think).

Moxley/Young lion was exactly what it should've been. Shingo had a real good showing. The tag team title match was totally awful.

And look! Arm over his head, maybe he wasn't crippled in this IRRESPONSIBLE match???

And I know I went at the Bix tweet in the other thread but it actually gets dumber over time. ''Praise enables them'' Like Ibushi and Naito trawl US twitter and give a single fukk what Americans think of how they perform.

 

[Jmare007]

I mean, puro been about dropping people on their heads, hitting the other as hard as possible or some fukked up deathmatch shyt for almost 30 years.

I guess some people put a line on what's "too far" but they ain't changing for shyt

And I don't think Ibushi/Naito was better than the NJ Cup match. It had a better first half but the second half wasn't as good as the march encounter.

I actually don't remember anything from their MSG match and I know I watched it

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

I think the apron spot added a lot to the match for me, just wondering what was going to happen next, how the finish would develop etc. I remember feeling the first little bit of the March match was a little pedestrian. Still great though.

So was Kota supposed to flip all the way over and land on the floor? (I'm thinking this one). Or was it supposed to be flat on the apron? Flat on the floor? On his HEAD on the apron? Definitely the worst apron spot/botch since Kobashi/Saito waaaay back