Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[The Rainmaker]

But YOSHI-HASHI was announced for the next shows. Weird.
"Walk it off", Gedo said .

Dave's wife threw out his Ribera gear

Reason for divorce.

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

@TrueEpic08

People ignoring Gedo's booking because they love the matches and the company in general is something that has been going on for 5+ years. At this point I don't think it will change unless the company goes to the shytter business wise, and no one wants that to happen.

I wouldn't go that far in terms of how bad this move was. Not now at least. Making your product shyttier by forcing a push no one wanted is never a good thing. But if this shyt only lasts 1-3 months, it wont really matter in the grand scheme of things.

Let's wait how the G-1 shapes up, how it does business wise and then what's the status of the company heading into Wrestle Kingdom. If anything, Gedo's pattern is that he will go back to normal and this angle will be an anecdote.


I'm all for making fun and shytting on EVIL being the chosen one, but the sky ain't falling...at least not for the time being.

You do realize im STILL mad at Inoki for pushing Kazuyuki Fujita right? So much to the point that for years i went with Gedo's stupid booking because "well at least it isnt Inoki".

I get that this is an emergency plan but this comes directly from Gedo pulling the trigger on hot stars a years too late. And all of this for another probable Okada run. Its too much.

 

[Jmare007]

You do realize im STILL mad at Inoki for pushing Kazuyuki Fujita right? So much to the point that for years i went with Gedo's stupid booking because "well at least it isnt Inoki".

I get that this is an emergency plan but this comes directly from Gedo pulling the trigger on hot stars a years too late. And all of this for another probable Okada run. Its too much.

Fujita and Tadao fukking Yasuda () getting the belt were mind boggling bad decisions during a time New Japan kept doing those over and over again, which were accompanied by the whole company shifting to everything bad about Inokism full force.

I don't think we are close to that right now. If Fujita got the belt but was beaten 3 months later by a Hashimoto that wasn't ruined by the Ogawa feud, I don't think much would've been made about such a random dude getting the big belt. That's kind of were I'm coming from. When Nagata got the title and they did that big title run after Fujita and Yasuda, he was already damaged goods after getting beat to a pulp by Cro Cop in a real fight. New Japan ain't going through the kind of fukked up fukkery the early 00's had.

 

[TrueEpic08]

You do realize im STILL mad at Inoki for pushing Kazuyuki Fujita right? So much to the point that for years i went with Gedo's stupid booking because "well at least it isnt Inoki".

I get that this is an emergency plan but this comes directly from Gedo pulling the trigger on hot stars a years too late. And all of this for another probable Okada run. Its too much.

Jmare gets it, but some motherfukkers just don't understand. Booking like that sticks with you like 'Nam flashbacks.

I personally didn't believe Fujita was all THAT bad, but I hate that entire era so much that I almost didn't watch the fukking awesome match he had with Shiozaki a few months back (maybe the only truly unique COVID era match since this madness started).

 

[stro]

This guy really was about to end it all for being exposed as a scumbag, typical scumbag reaction

 

[Bryan Danielson]

You know what....
I’ve thought about it.... And like buying shares of stocks low early before they rise.

Im gonna “buy in” on blue guy Master Wato

And I suggest y’all should too

 

[Jmare007]

I hope he gets help, mental health ain't nothing to fukk around with. And wrestling is a business were shyt can go wrong really fast considering how fukked up the biz is and how some fans are.

You know what....
I’ve thought about it.... And like buying shares of stocks low early before they rise.

Im gonna “buy in” on blue guy Master Woto

And I suggest y’all should too

Terry Funk damn breh, of all the people you could stan you gotta choose this fool

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Terry Funk damn breh, of all the people you could stan you gotta choose this fool

People laughed at the concept of buying shares of Apple, Amazon and etc early on

He could be bigger than Okada 3-5 years from now


So ride with my now breh! He need that Jmare cosign

Low Risk, High Potential

 

[Phantom]

This is the look of a guy who already knows his gimmick is shyt. Didn't even need a crowd to no-sell it, just knows it.

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

I had the same exact reaction while watching Dominion, didn't know who the blue guy was until they referred to him as grand master
This motherfukker is suppose to be the martial arts expert that was from the vignettes?

How you call yourself the Grand Master and get stomped out in a debut loss?

and @ Naito being a transitional champ

 

[Bryan Danielson]

I had the same exact reaction while watching Dominion, didn't know who the blue guy was until they referred to him as grand master
This motherfukker is suppose to be the martial arts expert that was from the vignettes?

How you call yourself the Grand Master and get stomped out in a debut loss?

and @ Naito being a transitional champ

And warriors journey up is always entertaining.

Will be a co main eventer at WK one day

 

[stro]

Maybe Gedo's plan is to build underground support for Wato because everyone feels bad for him getting stuck with that gimmick, leading to the day he sheds it and becomes a top star in 2053

 

[Jmare007]

the carny master barely lasted 1 year "reitired"

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Hirai Kawato returns to NJPW as Master Wato

Future GOAT

 

[Legal]

English commentary is up for the NJC final.

Bout to bear witness to some good Kevin Kelly overreacting.

I'm counting on at least one "SON OF A bytch"

 

[DaylitoJames]

You know what....
I’ve thought about it.... And like buying shares of stocks low early before they rise.

Im gonna “buy in” on blue guy Master Wato

And I suggest y’all should too

Breh I'll say this, I remember when Jay White first popped up as the "Switchblade" and I was like "Who the fukk is this and why they got him facing Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom?" Now a few years later I'm stanning Jay White and posting up memes and gifs everytime he pisses everyone off so you have sound strategy with the early stanning of Master Wato. That being said for Naito being screwed over I gotta post this meme...