Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[Legal]

Man, between Dominion and the Yano fukkery, Hiromu got NJPW on his back via pure fukkery.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Man, between Dominion and the Yano fukkery, Hitomi got NJPW on his back via pure fukkery.

He might be getting some much needed help, after two weeks of quarantine of course.



For some reason the tweet doesn't show the most important part.

The government plans to soon extend the scope of non-Japanese residents eligible for re-entry to the country to include expatriate workers and educators, sources said Monday.

At the very least that should allow Ospreay and Juice to return.

 

[Jmare007]

Abe and Isami Kodaka faced each other in BASARA today

But they went 30 minutes for a draw


I'll still watch it but those two having a 15-20 minute match would've been fukking incredible.

 

[The Rainmaker]

I like this fanart, but if it was going to be more realistic, Hiromu should be the only one mad and the rest should have a face

 

[EL REY]

@Jmare007 I don't post much but can a breh get put on that Big Japan newsletter?

 

[stro]

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

@Jmare007 I don't post much but can a breh get put on that Big Japan newsletter?

Cultural Appropriation is EVIL

 

[Jmare007]

@Jmare007 I don't post much but can a breh get put on that Big Japan newsletter?

No problem breh

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Can someone put me on to to who that Blue Ninja dude is and the guy he was feuding with?


When I was watching this weekend and saw them come up I was like “who the fukk are these guys”

Plus not having the English commentary kept me in the dark

ASAP please

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Can someone put me on to to who that Blue Ninja dude is and the guy he was feuding with?


When I was watching this weekend and saw them come up I was like “who the fukk are these guys”

Plus not having the English commentary kept me in the dark

ASAP please

This might be the first and last ever request, anywhere, for more information about Master Wato.

He was Kawato as a Young Lion. I think he went to Mexico, then came back to Japan just in time for a pandemic and a super trash gimmick

Douki - the guy he's feuding with, is the Suzuki Gun guy that El Desperado sends to the store for blunts.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

This might be the first and last ever request, anywhere, for more information about Master Wato.

He was Kawato as a Young Lion. I think he went to Mexico, then came back to Japan just in time for a pandemic and a super trash gimmick

Douki - the guy he's feuding with, is the Suzuki Gun guy that El Desperado sends to the store for blunts.

I just remember watching then their vignettes came on but since everything in Japanese im sitting there with the face the entire time


Yea that shyt was so out the blue..... cuz I been watching NJPW for atleast a short minute now and recall some of the Young Lions but I dont remember him so then I was thinking was he just someone from another company

 

[mannyrs13]

I'm gonna have to watch this show in Japanese cuz for some reason NJ World has the 12th in English but not the 11th. Don't know how that makes sense. They got some young lions show for the 11th instead.

 

[stro]

Why would you even want to watch it in English?

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Some news notes from the past week (my retirement lasted longer than some of Terry's )

With the folding of Wrestle-1, Shuji Kondo surfaced here and is back full-time. He started back on the 7/4 show in Kyoto where they set up for 306 fans with Kondo joining the Toryumon faction teaming with Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi to beat Eita & Takashi Yoshida & Hyo in the main event when Kondo pinned Hyo with a lariat in 14:21. The next night in the same building Kondo & Dragon Kid beat Ben K & Jason Lee when Kondo pinned Lee with a lariat

Yoh suffered a torn ACL taking a fall outside the ring on 6/23 and will undergo surgery, so that should put him out of action six months or longer

Yoshi-Hashi will also be out of action with a serious knee injury. They did a cover angle on the 7/2 show so he probably hurt it in his win over Bushi on 7/1. He lost to Evil in 2:00 and it was clear watching the match that they went to short because he came in injured and the entire match was really an injury storyline.

Jaguar Yokota, 58, the first true Hall of Fame-level female worker inside the ring during her early 80s run as the world champion for All Japan Women, celebrated her 44th anniversary in the industry at a Diana show this past week. What was notable is that flowers for the ceremony were sent by Saree (who is under contract to WWE but hasn’t debuted yet) and from NXT at the entrance of the arena. This led to speculation that maybe she’s going to WWE. She was involved in training a lot of the great workers of the 80s and 90s so as a trainer that could make sense. But we’re told Simon Inoki, who works for WWE, was the person behind it and that’s all there is to it. Simon Inoki was the WWE rep who was the one making offers when WWE attempted to buy Stardom, but Rossy Ogawa sold instead to Bushiroad

Dave's wife threw out his Ribera gear

The Japan Times had an article on the wrestling landmark Ribera Steakhouse, which was the place to be in Japan in the 80s and early 90s, but even though a large percentage of the wrestling photos are of the golden age with Stan Hansen, Bruiser Brody, The Funks, The Road Warriors, Harley Race, Hulk Hogan and Vader, it’s still a tourist place for pro wrestling fans today. Toshihiki Yamaguchi, who runs the larger Meguro restaurant noted that its fame in pro wrestling was a fluke. Norikazu Yamaguchi, who most people thought had the last name Ribera and that was the name the wrestlers called him, opened up his steakhouse in Gotanda in 1972. He was not a wrestling fan at all. In the late 70s, Bruiser Brody was just looking for a place to eat while walking around in the area. The place was just a hole in the wall place. Brody loved the food and Yamaguchi loved that a big celebrity showed up. Brody would continue to come, bringing his All Japan wrestling buddies. Yamaguchi then gave him a Ribera jacket. Brody was notorious for not spending money on the road in those days. He would come to Japan with tons of cans of tuna for lunch, and very few clothes. Because he was a big star, people would give him clothes and because he was friendly to reporters, understanding the game, and his face sold magazines, he was constantly photographed with clothes he was given. With Brody wearing the Ribera jacket, the first restaurant became famous to wrestling fans, and Yamaguchi would photograph the wrestlers when they’d eat there, put the photos on the wall and give the wrestlers jackets. Wrestling fans would come after matches and for wrestlers, having a Ribera jacket meant you were somebody important (yes, my wife threw out all of mine because she thought they were ugly). Soon, big stars like Hogan, Hansen, The Funks and Road Warriors would eat there regularly and wear his jackets. While Japanese fans and wrestlers sometimes ate there, it was very much the place for foreigners more than natives. In the old days, you would get two types of wrestlers, those who were very nice and low key, just wanting to eat a nice steak at a familiar place. Others would hang out at bars, get drunk and show up late at night blitzed. Yamaguchi noted that police were called at times when wrestlers who didn’t like each other and had too much to drink may show up at the same time. Yamaguchi also noted that these days, most of the customers are not wrestling fans, let alone fans of the 80s and 90s, and younger customers don’t even know who Brody, The Undertaker or The Road Warriors are. But during big weeks like the first week of January, or G-1, the place is loaded with overseas fans.

 

[TheGodling]

Yoshi-Hashi will also be out of action with a serious knee injury. They did a cover angle on the 7/2 show so he probably hurt it in his win over Bushi on 7/1. He lost to Evil in 2:00 and it was clear watching the match that they went to short because he came in injured and the entire match was really an injury storyline.

Hold up, I was right about this too?

Yoshi Hashi must have gotten injured again considering the way they jobbed him out.

Yo He Trash B must've seen Master Wato's gimmick and wanted to be sure he kept the crown of biggest walking L in the company.