Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[stro]

If they have old school NOAH I might have to check it out for a month

 

[Jmare007]

Regal's a huge fan so I'm sure he's lobbying like a motherfukker to get him. Not sure what Hideki could do besides being a trainer there though. WWE nor NXT is ready for his grappling nor his "I don't care" attitude every time he's in the ring with someone he deems inferior. Only one that can do that is Orton and Lesnar, lol.

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

Regal's a huge fan so I'm sure he's lobbying like a motherfukker to get him. Not sure what Hideki could do besides being a trainer there though. WWE nor NXT is ready for his grappling nor his "I don't care" attitude every time he's in the ring with someone he deems inferior. Only one that can do that is Orton and Lesnar, lol.

That is actually a really dope possible stable

 

[TrueEpic08]

Don't know if you all saw this, but there's an interesting little Minoru Suzuki interview making the rounds: King of America? Minoru Suzuki’s war on Moxley (1/2) | NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING

Interesting excerpts:

-On Moxley:

Suzuki: He’s a guy who stepped in my house and didn’t take his shoes off at the front door. The “former WWE Superstar Dean Ambrose”. Changed his look up a bit and here he is. Look, I’ve been watching him for a while, yeah. Can he grapple? No. Is he strong? No. Tough? No. He can’t do s**t.

–No?

Suzuki: Not. S**t. But that’s created a spot for him.

-More on Moxley and present day training methods:

Suzuki: Why is Lance Archer popular? Why does Zack Sabre Junior have the support he does? Because there’s stuff they can’t do. Nobody in this goddamn business understands that. Wrestlers don’t understand that. Trainers, people teaching these kids don’t understand that for crying out loud!

–The system wants to create all rounders.

Suzuki: So the kids go in, and they train, and their trainers find what the gaps are in their games, and they try to fill those gaps right up. So you have this perfectly smooth, grey lump of boring trash. Fill in those holes on a wrestler and there’s no way in hell he’s filling seats with asses. It’s up to us to make people talk, to make them disagree. Make them argue. So Moxley? It’s because he can’t do s**t that he’s a good wrestler.

-On Japanese Wrestling and WWE:

Suzuki: In this day and age of wrestling being worldwide, it’s a match on a global scale. Let me say this: one thing I have, one strength that I have over anybody? History. Look at guys that are wrestling all over the world. Everyone wears kickpads, and they don’t even kick, right? That started in Japan. We started that. We shaped culture that way.

–It’s the influence of UWF, still being felt today.

Suzuki: UWF is part of it. Japanese wrestling. Particularly Japanese. Proprietary Japanese. I get this is for NJPW’s site, so maybe you don’t know, or don’t want me saying, but WWE are the biggest promotion in the world, right? And they want to blend all of the world’s wrestling together, fold it all in.

They’re going into all these countries, buying up promotions, snatching away talent, and sapping the business there. But the one place they haven’t been able to do that yet? Japan. Japan and Mexico are the only places that have carried a strong sense of wrestling culture that was uniquely theirs. Business is down in Mexico. WWE are getting their claws in there, too. But they haven’t come here yet, because Japanese wrestling has too much presence. Uniquely Japanese wrestling does.

–That’s an interesting point.

Suzuki: That unique Japanese wrestling is something that Rikidozan made, 50, 60 years ago. It used to be about two massive giants throwing hands, made into a show. But the basis of everything, absolutely everything is combat. Fight. Martial arts. That’s Japanese pro wrestling. That’s something only Japan has been able to maintain and protect. Now, you look at NJPW today. There’s guys that fly. Tag teams with elaborate combinations. Guys with female managers. Guys who are fair, guys who cheat, but they all, all represent Japanese professional wrestling.

You can try and deny that, but I think it will always be true. The moment it stops being true, WWE will swallow everything up here. And in all of that, what I’ve just said, the one, single person that doesn’t just know about all this, but has been about all this, is me.

There's another part coming later this week as well (I think). Some good stuff to chew on here.

 

[stro]

The feeling of when WWE gets MiSu to be the trainer at WWE Japan PC

 

[Jmare007]

Unfiltered MiSu is always the best


He's on his Roger Mayweather shyt....most people don't know shyt about wrestling

 

[Legal]

MiSu letting the choppa off

And those thinking he wasn't low key getting at someone other than WWE might need to rethink things.

 

[The Rainmaker]

How can you pose for a selfie with the man who interrupted your celebration at WK? What kind of kayfabe breaking shyt is this? No wonder why Korakuen was so empty during the road to shows. Kayfabe police, do your thing.

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

How can you pose for a selfie with the man who interrupted your celebration at WK? What kind of kayfabe breaking shyt is this? No wonder why Korakuen was so empty during the road to shows. Kayfabe police, do your thing.

Tranquilo

 

[Jmare007]

YujI Okabayashi vs Chris dikkinson - GCW Live Fast Die Young 2/3/20
GCW Live Fast, Die Young 2020 (2020.02.03) – смотреть видео онлайн в Моем Мире | Андрей Бочаров match starts at the 35 minute mark.

A pretty dope sprint with these two hitting everything with speed and force to try to put the other out. dikkinson was a little too Davey Richardsy with his mannerisms and no selling but Yuji either chopped him to death or lariat him to Bolivia to put him in his place most of the time so I wasn't that upset about it. Commentary was absolutely atrocious, play by play guy calling Yuji "Okoboyoshi" all match long pissed me off. Also, at the Japanese crowd doing neckbeard chants, so weird.

All in all 14 minutes worthy of y'alls time @TheGodling @Ace of the Metropolitan @Doctor Doom @Scottie Drippin @Legal

Can't wait for dikkinson vs Sekimoto II to hit the net too

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Ticking Rhyme Bomb with the bars ..........

 

[Legal]

Ticking Rhyme Bomb with the bars ..........

The crowd participation at the end

 

[TheGodling]

Anyone watching live now? Just came in to comment on Miho Abe in her Succubus shirt looking

 

[TheGodling]

SANADA almost broke his own neck.

Expected finish unfortunately.

 

[TheGodling]

This Hiromu/Lee chop exchange.