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Post by Digital Witness on Dec 9, 2013 19:11:15 GMT -5
Naito lost a LOT of steam with that injury. I would have honestly waited another year or so and built Naito up with some big wins. I know the general feeling is that Naito is supposed to be the next generation Mutoh, but build up is still necessary. Yeesh. No wonder he's falling short of expectations; no pressure or anything! I don't think a lot of Naito "falling short of expectations" is entirely his fault. He really just got injured at a bad time. Had Naito not gotten hurt, I think he'd have been an IWGP champion by now. I sense 2014 will be a rebuilding year for Naito. I think Okada retains at Wrestle Kingdom and Goto finally lands the big win sometime during the spring. Maybe Goto trades the belt with Okada a few times and then in 2015, Naito gets his chance with the ball.
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Post by Razor Gives It A 4/10 on Dec 12, 2013 17:38:09 GMT -5
YTR's mystery partner will be revealed on the December 21st Road To The Tokyo Dome show.
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Post by W?Y on Dec 13, 2013 9:02:21 GMT -5
YTR's mystery partner will be revealed on the December 21st Road To The Tokyo Dome show. I'm really curious as to who it could be. Charlie Haas, maybe?
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Post by Razor Gives It A 4/10 on Dec 13, 2013 13:07:28 GMT -5
YTR's mystery partner will be revealed on the December 21st Road To The Tokyo Dome show. I'm really curious as to who it could be. Charlie Haas, maybe? There's a lot of people who think it's MVP returning, but we'll see.
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Post by W?Y on Dec 13, 2013 15:29:31 GMT -5
I'm really curious as to who it could be. Charlie Haas, maybe? There's a lot of people who think it's MVP returning, but we'll see. Hmm, I'd like that, but it'd be odd to have Yano team up with the guy who beat him for the IC Title. Then again, that was a couple of years ago, and it's wrestling.
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Post by Digital Witness on Dec 13, 2013 17:18:53 GMT -5
This is a total long shot and I highly doubt it would happen, but I'd love Yano's X to be KENTA and we get Suzuki vs KENTA.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Dec 18, 2013 6:58:33 GMT -5
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Post by 543Y2J on Dec 18, 2013 11:06:56 GMT -5
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Post by W?Y on Dec 18, 2013 14:26:29 GMT -5
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Post by Andy Martin on Dec 18, 2013 18:35:11 GMT -5
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Dec 18, 2013 18:57:53 GMT -5
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Post by Razor Gives It A 4/10 on Dec 21, 2013 5:41:23 GMT -5
TORU YANO'S PARTNER IS THE GREAT MUTA!!!!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Dec 21, 2013 7:42:38 GMT -5
Road To Tokyo Dome - 12/21/13 Results
1. Sho Tanaka d. Yohei Komatsu via submission at 11:58 with a Single Leg Crab.
2. TenKoji(Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima), Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask d. Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, KUSHIDA & BUSHI via pin at 9:53 after Kojima hit BUSHI with the Cozy Lariat to win his team the match.
3. Togi Makabe & Kota Ibushi d. CHAOS(Takashi Iizuka & Yujiro Takahashi) via pin at 8:35 after Makabe hit Takahashi with the King Kong Knee Drop to win his team the match.
4. CHAOS(Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Jado) d. Suzukigun(Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi) via pin at 9:56 after Yano rolled up TAKA with the Arikiri Cradle to win his team the match.
5. Road To TOKYO DOME I: Tetsuya Naito d. Gedo via pin at 11:41 with the Stardust Press.
6. Road To TOKYO DOME II: Hiroshi Tanahashi d. YOSHI-HASHI via submission at 11:10 with a Texas Cloverleaf.
7. Road To TOKYO DOME III: Shinsuke Nakamura d. Captain New Japan via pin at 8:42 after 2 straight Boma Ye's.
8. Road To TOKYO DOME IV: Kazuchika Okada d. Tomoaki Honma via pin at 15:21 with the Rainmaker.
* That was Sho Tanaka's first victory in a singles match since he made his debut a year & a month ago.
* After the CHAOS vs. Suzukigun match, Yano announced that his mystery partner for his tag team match against Suzuki & Shelton X Benjamin at Wrestle Kingdom 8 would be none other than THE GREAT MUTA!! It will be Muto's first appearance in New Japan as Muta in exactly 5 years after he beat Hirooki Goto on the 1/4/08 Dome show.
Updated Card for "NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome"
0. 8 Man Tag Team Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Tomoaki Honma, Captain New Japan & "Masked Bushido" BUSHI vs. Manabu Nakanishi, Jushin Thunder Liger, "Golden Tiger" Tiger Mask & Super Strong machine
1. 4 Way Tag Team Match for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: The Young Bucks(c)(Matt & Nick Jackson) vs. Suzukigun(TAKA Michinoku & Taichi) vs. Forever Hooligans("Mr. Forever" Rocky Romero & "The Russian Hooligan" Alex Koslov) vs. Time Splitters("Made in Detroit" Alex Shelley & "New Japan Supernova" KUSHIDA)
2. IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships Match: Killer Elite Squad(c)("American Psycho" Lance Archer & "Bulldog II" Davey Boy Smith, Jr.) vs. Bullet Club("The Machine Gun" Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows)
3. NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match: Rob Conway(c) w/Jax Dane vs. Satoshi Kojima
4. Tag Team Attraction: The Gracies(Daniel & Rolles, Jr.) vs. "Blue Justice" Yuji Nagata & "The Gracie Killer" Kazushi Sakuraba
5. Special Tag Team Match: Suzukigun(Minoru Suzuki & Shelton X Benjamin) vs. "YTR" Toru Yano & The Great Muta
6. King of Destroyer Match: "The Underboss" Bad Luck Fale vs. "Bousou King Kong" Togi Makabe
7. Special Singles Match - Goto Return Match: "Aramusha" Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata
8. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match: "The Real Rock 'n' Rolla" Prince Devitt(c) vs. "Golden Star" Kota Ibushi
9. Double Main Event I - IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: "The Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada(c) w/Gedo vs. "Stardust Genius" Tetsuya Naito
10. Double Main Event II - IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match: "King of Strong Style" Shinsuke Nakamura(c) vs. "100 Nen ni 1 no Itsuzai" Hiroshi Tanahashi
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Post by W?Y on Dec 21, 2013 12:38:40 GMT -5
Yeah, posted the Yano announcement in the wrong thread. Whoops.
That's awesome! A totally unexpected announcement.
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Post by Razor Gives It A 4/10 on Dec 23, 2013 7:23:42 GMT -5
You can add BUSHI/Captain New Japan/Tenzan/Honma vs Nakanishi/Liger/Tiger Mask/SUPER STRONG MACHINE to the dark match for WK8 Also results to the show tonight: 1. Yohei Komatsu d. Sho Tanaka 2. TAKA Michinoku and Taichi d. BUSHI and KUSHIDA and Gedo and Jado 3. Yano and Iizuka d. Liger and Tiger Mask (Iizuka painted the announcer like a strawberry, and Iizuka demasked Tiger Mask) 4. TenKoji and Captain New Japan d. Honma/Nakanishi/Nagata 5. Makabe/Ibushi d. Takahashi/Ishii 6. Suzuki d. YOSHI-HASHI TACOS (Afterwards Yano trolled MiSu by showing up dressed as Muta) 7. Okada/Nakamura vs Naito/Tanahashi ended in a draw. FANTASTIC MATCH! This was the ending to that match:
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Dec 23, 2013 7:52:37 GMT -5
Road To Tokyo Dome - 12/23/13 Results
1. Yohei Komatsu d. Sho Tanaka via submission at 11:08 with a Single Leg Crab.
2. Super Jr. 3 Way Tag Team Match: Suzukigun(TAKA Michinoku & Taichi) d. BUSHI & KUSHIDA and The World Class Tag Team(Gedo & Jado) via pin at 7:33 after TAKA hit BUSHI with the Michinoku Driver II to win his team the match.
3. CHAOS(Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka) d. Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask via pin at 8:01 after Iizuka hit Liger with the Iron Fingers & Yano rolled him up with the Arakiri Cradle to win his team the match.
4. TenKoji(Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) & Captain New Japan d. Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Tomoaki Honma via pin at 10:34 after Tenzan & Kojima hit Honma with a TenKoji Cutter, followed by Kojima hitting him with his Cozy Lariat to win his team the match.
5. Togi Makabe & Kota Ibushi d. CHAOS(Tomohiro Ishii & Yujiro Takahashi) via pin at 10:13 after Makabe hit Takahashi with the King Kong Knee Drop to win his team the match.
6. Minoru Suzuki d. YOSHI-HASHI via pin at 10:35 with the Gotch-Style Piledriver.
7. Road To TOKYO DOME Final: CHAOS(Shinsuke Nakamura & Kazuchika Okada) fought the team of Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tetsuya Naito to a 30 minute time limit draw after all 4 men hit the others with finishers consecutively(Naito's Stardust Press on Okada, followed by Nakamura's Boma Ye on Naito, then Tanahashi's High Fly Flow body press variation on Nakamura & finally Okada's Rainmaker on Tanahashi) & neither of the 4 could recover before the time limit expired.
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Post by 543Y2J on Dec 23, 2013 10:53:22 GMT -5
7. Okada/Nakamura vs Naito/Tanahashi ended in a draw. FANTASTIC MATCH! This was the ending to that match: Holy shit!
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Post by W?Y on Dec 23, 2013 11:28:42 GMT -5
Great finish!
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Post by metylerca on Jan 1, 2014 18:09:45 GMT -5
I'm terrible with time conversion. What time would this show begin on the west coast Pacific standard time?
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Post by Razor Gives It A 4/10 on Jan 1, 2014 19:38:38 GMT -5
I'm terrible with time conversion. What time would this show begin on the west coast Pacific standard time? 11:30pm on January 3rd. I'm pretty sure that's right.
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