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Post by chrom on Jan 8, 2023 21:07:23 GMT -5
Due to winning The Strong Survivor match, Kenta will get his Strong Title Shot at Battle in The Valley.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 8, 2023 22:28:31 GMT -5
Today is Bad Luck Fale's birthday. DEH UNDA BOSS Fale was a perfect bodyguard/henchman. Even his IC title run was brief but no doubt if Balor/Devitt stuck around you would had the picture of him sitting on Fale shoulders with the IWGP title I could see it. I think Bad Luck Fale's day are drawing to a close, hopefully at least his G1 days are over, but it'll be wild when he's really gone. |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jan 8, 2023 23:05:07 GMT -5
DEH UNDA BOSS Fale was a perfect bodyguard/henchman. Even his IC title run was brief but no doubt if Balor/Devitt stuck around you would had the picture of him sitting on Fale shoulders with the IWGP title I could see it. I think Bad Luck Fale's day are drawing to a close, hopefully at least his G1 days are over, but it'll be wild when he's really gone. If we got this current version of Tama Tonga 5 years ago, when they tested the water of him leading BC I think Fale would been a perfect heavy for him Fale/Devitt just had great chemistry tho. Fale was limited but did enough in his role and at this point is a big help to NJPW behind the scenes with bringing in talent |
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Post by chrom on Jan 9, 2023 8:44:59 GMT -5
It appears they won't be retiring the Strong Titles.
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Post by chrom on Jan 9, 2023 11:42:18 GMT -5
Battle in The Valley is sold out.
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Post by chrom on Jan 9, 2023 16:45:45 GMT -5
Yesterday at RPW's show, Gabriel Kidd made a challenge to Shibata.
Yota Tsuji will also be returning to RPW next month.
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Post by Heeltown, USA on Jan 9, 2023 19:06:46 GMT -5
It appears they won't be retiring the Strong Titles. Well the tags were just crowned and are still held by the 1st champions. The singles is on its 2nd. It would be a shame to sweep away Freddy’s story. But I also never liked the actual titles themselves. The top belt for a States based promotion should be the IWGP US & IWGP US tag team championships. It just makes too much sense. No US promotion has ever had an Asian or Japanese championship that was primarily defended domestically. I will always wonder how much Covid altered the US expansion plans. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 9, 2023 19:10:35 GMT -5
It appears they won't be retiring the Strong Titles. Well the tags were just crowned and are still held by the 1st champions. The singles is on its 2nd. It would be a shame to sweep away Freddy’s story. But I also never liked the actual titles themselves. The top belt for a States based promotion should be the IWGP US & IWGP US tag team championships. It just makes too much sense. No US promotion has ever had an Asian or Japanese championship that was primarily defended domestically. I will always wonder how much Covid altered the US expansion plans. I do imagine the US title still outranks the Strong title, but yeah, it's a little tricky in terms of figuring out hierarchies. |
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jan 10, 2023 0:55:41 GMT -5
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 2:06:56 GMT -5
The Yokohama PPV will cost 29.50 to order.
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 4:32:42 GMT -5
The lineups for The New Beginning shows have been announced.
Nagoya
Togi Makabe and Toru Yano vs Oskar Leube and Yuto Nakashima
Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado, Ren Narita and Tomoaki Honma vs House of Torture
Tomohiro Ishii, Bishamon and Ryohei Oiwa vs TMDK
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Master Wato and Jado vs Kenta, El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori
United Empire vs Just Four Guys
Los Ingobernables de Japon vs Kazuchika Okada, Yoh, Shota Umino and Ryusuke Taguchi
KOPW: Shingo Takagi vs Great O-Khan
Sapporo 1
Great O-Khan vs Oskar Leube
Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado, Ren Narita and Ryohei Oiwa vs House of Torture
Tomohiro Ishii, Bishamon and Yuto Nakashima vs TMDK
Tama Tonga, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hikuleo and Master Wato vs Jay White, Kenta, El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori
Los Ingobernables de Japon vs Kazuchika Okada, Yoh, Toru Yano and Ryusuke Taguchi
IWGP Jr Tag Titles: Catch 2/2 vs Douki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Will Ospreay vs Taichi
Tetsuya Naito vs Shota Umino
Sapporo 2
United Empire vs Just Four Guys
Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado, Ren Narita and Yuto Nakashima vs House of Torture
Hiroshi Tanahashi and Master Wato vs Kenta and Taiji Ishimori
Tama Tonga, Hikuleo and Jado vs Jay White, El Phantasmo and Gedo
Los Ingobernables de Japon vs Kazuchika Okada, Shota Umino, Ryusuke Taguchi and Toru Yano
IWGP Tag Championship: Bishamon vs TMDK
NJPW Television Championship: Zack Sabre Jr vs Tomohiro Ishii
IWGP Jr Heavyweight Championship: Hiromu Takahashi vs Yoh
Osaka
Great O-Khan and Aaron Henare vs Toru Yano and Oskar Leube
Los Ingobernables de Japon vs Shota Umino, Tomoaki Honma, Tiger Mask and Ryusuke Taguchi
Master Wato vs Taiji Ishimori
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kenta
Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado and Ren Narita vs House of Torture
Loser Leaves Japan: Jay White vs Hikuleo
Never Openweight Championship: Tama Tonga vs El Phantasmo
IWGP World Championship: Kazuchika Okada vs Shingo Takagi
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 7:55:21 GMT -5
Shota gets a big match facing Naito on February 4th.
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 11:11:10 GMT -5
Juice Robinson will be on tonight's episode of AEW Dark.
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 12:12:50 GMT -5
Shingo is gonna be having a busy month.
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 12:56:23 GMT -5
On the loser leaves match, they are saying that their Japanese Career will be ending, not that they have to leave the promotion.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jan 10, 2023 14:00:07 GMT -5
Looks like New Japan isn't going to stop until Tana and KENTA legit kill each other in the ring.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2023 14:07:18 GMT -5
It appears they won't be retiring the Strong Titles. Well the tags were just crowned and are still held by the 1st champions. The singles is on its 2nd. It would be a shame to sweep away Freddy’s story. But I also never liked the actual titles themselves. The top belt for a States based promotion should be the IWGP US & IWGP US tag team championships. It just makes too much sense. No US promotion has ever had an Asian or Japanese championship that was primarily defended domestically. I will always wonder how much Covid altered the US expansion plans. I think it altered them a lot, unfortunately. I remember in 2019 they produced a map of the US and shared their touring plans to hit virtually every region 1-2x a year, and they started making good on that too. Now we're back to mostly the California/NY markets like we were in 2017. |
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 15:00:16 GMT -5
Sounds like White's WWE or AEW bound.
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 16:07:03 GMT -5
All the events will be in English.
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Post by john84 on Jan 10, 2023 17:40:38 GMT -5
All the events will be in English. Well, that's a plus for me since unfortunately I don't speak Japanese. Would've watched it anyway but at least now I can understand the commentary. |
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