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Jmare007
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I miss those days
One of the main reasons G1 tends to have the best matches from New Japan every year.
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The Rainmaker
Mr. Money in the Bank
It finally happened. Zero-Zero
I'm surprised they have lasted this long. They always can sell Masato Tanaka's body to science for them to learn how the fukk he's not a drooling, braindead human being at this point.
Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Yeah, I honestly have no clue how they survived the early to mid 2010's to be honest. And the last couple of years, even though they were still putting up a good number of quality matches, attendance was never really there for them for the most part.
Juiced up swagged up KENTA giving no fukks about CTE no matter the size of his opponent
Flippy gawd Marufuji when his body wasn't broken down and noodle armed just doing silly junior shyt 24/7, but also the odd couple team of Minoru Suzuki/Marufuji
Kensuke Sasaki and his surrogate son baby Nakajima chopping and kicking everyone to death
Baby Go
Fat Misawa not holding back in the least with elbows
Kobashi dumping everyone on their head
Freelancers and NJPW invaders
Prime NOAH
Flippy gawd Marufuji when his body wasn't broken down and noodle armed just doing silly junior shyt 24/7, but also the odd couple team of Minoru Suzuki/Marufuji
Kensuke Sasaki and his surrogate son baby Nakajima chopping and kicking everyone to death
Baby Go
Fat Misawa not holding back in the least with elbows
Kobashi dumping everyone on their head
Freelancers and NJPW invaders
Prime NOAH
Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Juiced up swagged up KENTA giving no fukks about CTE no matter the size of his opponent
Flippy gawd Marufuji when his body wasn't broken down and noodle armed just doing silly junior shyt 24/7, but also the odd couple team of Minoru Suzuki/Marufuji
Kensuke Sasaki and his surrogate son baby Nakajima chopping and kicking everyone to death
Baby Go
Fat Misawa not holding back in the least with elbows
Kobashi dumping everyone on their head
Freelancers and NJPW invaders
Prime NOAH
Takayama giving the last few good years he had left in him.
Vader doing Vader things.
Tenryu showing up.
Kanemaru not being a waste of time.
And it all went to shyt
TrueEpic08
Dum Shiny
I miss those days
One of the main reasons G1 tends to have the best matches from New Japan every year.
Why *did* New Japan just collectively decide that a main event wasn't a main event if it didn't go 30 minutes, anyway? That couldn't have just been Okada and Omega's doing.
Masato Tanaka not being a vegetable is one of the great mysteries of life.
Hate to hear about Zero-One, but they never truly recovered from Hashimoto dying and always seemed to be the promotion you'd hear about and ask, "wait, they still exist" despite the quality work coming out of there. Hopefully some of these companies will take the hint and consolidate for survival.
Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Nope. I was actually surprised how "short" all those matches were. The only one that comes close to getting 30 was the famous Goto match, that goes 28 minutes. I think Mutoh in 08' had a longer match average than Tana
From the top of my head I thought it started with Tanahashi in like 2012 when he faced MiSu in that incredible match.
But I checked on Cagematch to be sure and, from Tanahashi's first title reign till today:
-Up until 2011 it's all basically all 18 to early 20 minute matches with VERY few going over 25 min.
-Tanahashi's big reign happens in 2011 and he goes over 30 min. against Nagata and almost 30 against Naito. The rest is 25 min. or under.
-Okada's first reign is mostly 25-28 minute matches.
-Tanahashi's comeback reign is 23-28 minute matches, with the exceptions being against Okada, were they go over 30.
-Okada's first "Ace reign" gets different times depending on the challenger. Big title defenses went 30-35 min.
-The AJ/Tanahashi/Okada swapping titles phase is basically all 25 to 30 minutes. With big title matches going 30 or very close to it.
-2016's is when the BIG switch happens. Okada has 14 title matches (including title changes). 4 go under 30 minutes (one is vs Fale, the other vs Cody, vs Marufuji, basically all non big title defenses, the other one is when he beats Naito for the belt in 28 min). He has 4 matches go over 40 minutes and 1 that almost got there (vs Shibata, at 38 min.). The rest goes 30 to 35 minutes, with most of them being just short of 35.
-Omega goes over 30 every title match he has. So does White and Tanahashi.
-Okada's last reign has 1 under 30 minutes, vs Jericho. And the majority go over 35 minutes.
It sucks that the one thng New Japan copied from NOAH were unnecessary long title matches
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JerseyBoy23
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That coincides with NJPW World starting.
