11-14-2017, 06:48 AM | #81 |
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Have they changed it? At first it was Cody vs. Ibushi becomes non-title.
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11-14-2017, 06:58 AM | #82 |
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Regardless, I think the match gets something from it being for the belt. Dalton Castle, good as he might be getting, doesn't really feel like he'd do as much for it right now.
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11-14-2017, 07:14 AM | #83 |
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Searching around now, I've seen conflicting things about if Dalton would face Ibushi instead or if it just becomes a non-title match. I agree about the belt adding something, but since Ibushi isn't currently signed long term by NJPW or ROH, it feels like it makes the result a little obvious. Unless Ibushi has had a change of heart, of course.
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11-14-2017, 04:11 PM | #84 |
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I don't think they'd be above putting the belt on him anyway. I doubt he's going to disappear into the ether. I don't know if he'd get a long reign anyway. I could see a short-term agreement and a bit of "North American exposure" for him.
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11-18-2017, 10:59 AM | #85 |
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Random prediction: Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi win the G1 Tag League, defeating Togi Makabe & Henare in the finals, who pick up a win over KES in the tournament. Makabe & Honma have won the past two years, and I can see them doing a bittersweet finish where Makabe just can't threepeat with a different partner. But because they picked up a fall against the champs and won the block, they also get added to the IWGP Tag Title Match at Wrestle Kingdom, and they win the belts there as a feel-good tribute to Honma.
My brain says that can't happen, because Henare is too new. They'll probably send him on some sort of learning excursion soon. But it would be a nice story. |
11-18-2017, 11:25 AM | #86 |
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No it wouldn't
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11-18-2017, 03:31 PM | #87 |
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Wish DLVH84 was still around to give his input on this. He loved Jap rassle
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11-28-2017, 12:52 AM | #89 |
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Just heard the interview with JR where he said hed never seen a omega match...lol
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11-28-2017, 12:52 AM | #90 |
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This will be the best jericho match in 20 years and the worst omega match youve ever seen
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11-28-2017, 04:01 AM | #91 |
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I think I'll be more emotionally invested in it than most other Omega matches.
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11-30-2017, 04:43 AM | #92 |
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Ticket sales for the show are up 80% compared to this time last year. They were already 20% up before Jericho with how red hot Naito has been, but Jericho combined with the complete card being released has skyrocketed the sales of the WK show.
Selling out the Tokyo Dome is a big ask still, but sales are tracking good enough to pull it off. |
11-30-2017, 10:33 PM | #93 | |
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Some details and numbers from the Observer about the current ticket sales for Wrestle Kingdom 12. Last time a show hit 20k in sales this quickly was in 1988.
Observer doesn't think they will hit legit sellout status because the Dome holds around 55k but if they stay on last year's tickets rate, the 30k goal will easily be broken. Quote:
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11-30-2017, 10:48 PM | #94 |
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11-30-2017, 11:01 PM | #95 |
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So happy for New Japan. They deserve it. Rebuilt themselves from near ruin, and have been pumping out great content for years.
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12-07-2017, 09:26 AM | #96 | |
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Might need to slap a mask on him and do a disfigurement angle. |
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12-07-2017, 09:32 AM | #97 |
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Looks like a Halloween costume.
Maybe his offence in a match will show why he is Switchblade, but yeah, not great so far. Which is a shame because he's a fucking talented dude. |
12-07-2017, 09:47 AM | #98 |
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12-07-2017, 09:58 AM | #99 |
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The gimmick was clearly reverse engineered from Gedo booking Jay White to perform the bicep surgery on Tanahashi.
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12-07-2017, 10:39 AM | #100 |
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12-08-2017, 05:35 AM | #101 |
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Way behind.
Gonna try and catch up before WK. On Destruction in Fukushima right now. |
12-08-2017, 05:36 AM | #102 |
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Tanahashi's theme is so fucking terrible.
RIP High Energy |
12-08-2017, 05:38 AM | #103 |
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2002 HBK level bad hair as well.
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12-08-2017, 05:39 AM | #104 |
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Felt safe and warm looking at Tanahashi's divine locks.
Now I only feel cold and empty. |
12-08-2017, 05:42 AM | #105 |
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Katsuya Kitamura is going to be a star. Look screams WWE, and I could see them trying to sign him.
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12-08-2017, 05:44 AM | #106 |
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for posterity
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12-08-2017, 06:49 AM | #107 |
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12-08-2017, 07:03 AM | #108 |
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He was in a tag match.
Is there a Zack Sabre match on Detruction in Hiroshima? |
12-08-2017, 07:09 AM | #109 |
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Yeah, ZSJ V Tanahashi is the main event. But you're right, Hiroshima one not Fukushima...
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12-08-2017, 07:11 AM | #110 |
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Cool. Look forward to that one.
Is Yoshinobu Kanemaru officially NJPW now, or is he just a a guest through Suzuki Gun? |
12-08-2017, 07:14 AM | #111 |
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I don't think he's got a long term deal with NJPW, just paid for appearances.
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12-08-2017, 08:30 PM | #112 |
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Tanahashi is such a good babyface, and I try to ignore that they changed his theme.
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12-08-2017, 08:32 PM | #113 |
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The Jay White stuff is weird. I haven't seen much of him, but I don't "buy" him yet. But then again New Japan are good at making stuff stick. They went hard with Okada and it worked.
I wonder if the Switchblade stuff is kind of...Japanese. He reminds me of the kind of girlish bad-asses they have in anime sometimes. Kind of effeminate and ""pretty," but presented as dangerous. I dunno. |
12-08-2017, 10:10 PM | #114 |
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Tanahashi suffered a knee injury yesterday during a World Tag League show and got pulled from the rest of tournament's shows. NJPW doesn't know how serious it is at the moment nor if its going to jeopardize his match at Wrestle Kingdom 12.
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12-09-2017, 06:16 AM | #115 | |
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Not sure if that works with real people, however, but at least I can almost see what they were going with now. |
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12-10-2017, 03:11 PM | #116 |
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There's the Bishonen psychopath trope but even they tend to look batshit insane when they're not putting on the pretty boy act.
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12-11-2017, 05:34 AM | #118 |
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For god sake, let Tanahashi rest. Give him time off until Wrestle Kingdom, let him work that match, put over the young guy and then give him time off until the G1 or whatever.
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