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English commentary for the Together Special is out. It's Kevin Kelly solo. He's good, but it's always nice having Rocky Romero and/or Chris Charlton there too for their traditional and cultural context they can add.

Since the deal is to have Kelly call the shows solo and then send the commentary on, you're probably looking at there being a two day wait for English commentary. Not the best, but better than the wait has been in the past for previous shows to get commentary when he isn't able to physically be there.
yeah i feel ya. i don't mind waiting since I'm not tryna be up at like 3 in the morning watching the whole show anyways. and yeah i agree that having Rocky Romero there helps. Don't think I know Chris Charlton but I'm only a casual fan so maybe I've heard him before and just not noticed.
 

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Looks like watch wrestling only has the japanese version on there. might just get the njworld for like a month then cancel until the G1 comes on or just keep it.
 

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yeah i feel ya. i don't mind waiting since I'm not tryna be up at like 3 in the morning watching the whole show anyways. and yeah i agree that having Rocky Romero there helps. Don't think I know Chris Charlton but I'm only a casual fan so maybe I've heard him before and just not noticed.

He's the nerdy sounding white dude you've probably heard that does their translating most of the time.

He's actually a pretty good NJPW historian, and adds a ton of context to stuff. There'll be times that he'll concisely break down two wrestlers' history with each other in the span of an entrance.

A good example is when he explained that Ibushi's finisher is called Kamigoye because he wants to surpass Nakamura (and Tanahashi, but that isn't the point here), someone he supposedly views as a god.

Kelly's great at selling a moment in a match and getting heels over as pieces of shyt, but he just plain doesn't have the cultural and historical knowledge Charlton does.
 

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I think Kevin Kelly is annoying as hell and doesn't fit in with NJ's style at all. He still calls matches like a WWE announcer from 1998. But when he's not doing that, he's super casual like he's looking over a newspaper or something.
 

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Yeah, not a fan of Kelly either. If you watch more than two matches with his commentary you can pretty much take his place because he sticks to such a basic formula.
 

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Kelly is the best play by play guy in the business. Him and Don Callis were a fantastic duo.
 

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shyt, is Japan even allowing inbound international travel right now?

Border enforcement measures to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

Yeah I was wrong. They aren't allowing foreign nationals but they are allowing nationals to return under rules.

(1) All nationals arriving from the countries and regions listed in paragraph 1 above within 14 days prior to their application for landing into Japan are subject to conducting of PCR tests for the time being

(2) All nationals arriving from all regions are called upon to wait 14 days at a location designated by the quarantine station chief and to refrain from using public transportation until the last day of June. (The period may be renewed.)

For further information, please see the following website (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)
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I think under that criteria, only KENTA can come back after quarantining since it's so hard for foreigners to become citizens.
 
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Are the first two nights of the tourney out already in English? Might have to catch up until last nights show then catch up with last night and tonights at the end of the week and thru the weekend.
 
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