Thread 17971582

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6/12 Meeting of the Unaffiliated (6:30pm)
>Shingo Takagi, Hiromu Takahashi, & Yota Tsuji address their future

6/14 Dominion Press Conference / Tanahashi Talk Show

6/15 Dominion @ Osaka-Jo Hall (4:00pm)
>IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs Shingo Takagi [12th champion, 7th defense]
>IWGP GLOBAL Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c) vs Gabe Kidd [4th champion, 5th defense]
>Dog Collar Chain Deathmatch: David Finlay vs EVIL
>NEVER Openweight Championship: KONOSUKE TAKESHITA (c) vs Oleg Boltin [47th champion, 7th defense]
>IWGP Tag Team Championship: Great-O-Khan & Callum Newman (c) vs Tomohiro Ishii & Taichi [109th champions, 1st defense]
>IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship: Master Wato & YOH (c) vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SHO [78th champions, 1st defense]
>Tanahashi Hiroshi Final Road ~Tsunagu~: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Yuya Uemura
>El Phantasmo & Shota Umino vs Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa
>Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Chase Owens, & Taiji Ishimori vs SANADA, Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, & X
>Kickoff Match: Shoma Kato & Katsuya Murashima vs Masatora Yasuda & Daiki Nagai

>New Japan Soul 2025
6/18 Aomori Martial Arts Hall (7:00pm)
6/19 Hachinohe East Municipal Stadium (7:00pm)
6/21 Yamagata Big Wing (6:00pm)
6/22 Fukushima Toyota Crown Arena (3:00pm)
6/23 Korakuen (6:30pm)
6/26 Korakuen (6:30pm)
6/27 Shiga Theatre for Cultural & Industrial Development Event Hall (6:00pm)

6/24 "DEATH PAIN" invitacional @ Korakuen (6:30pm) [PPV]
>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado (c) vs Jun Kasai [98th champion, 6th defense]

6/29 Tanahashi Jam @ Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium (5:00pm)
>Hiroshi Tanahashi & Naomichi Marufuji vs Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa
>Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shota Umino & Ryusuke Taguchi vs Tatsumi Fujinami, Hiromu Takahashi & LEONA
>Yuji Nagata vs Oleg Boltin

7/19 G1 Climax 35 Opening Night @ Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center (5:00pm)

Previous >>17936596

can't wait for pole-kun to spam the thread to death again

>>17971582 (OP)
that's Es Con Field, home of the Nippon Ham Fighters

>>17971582 (OP)
Poi pet

>How come you never give up?

>Because he never did.

>>17971587
>isn't even sold out
Grim, somebody should post that RIZIN Tokyo Dome picture and then say something about Inoki being proud

It's not even funny anymore, it's concerning how NJPW is latching onto Stardom and DDT

>>17971582 (OP)
>Needs Poi in the OP’s pic to draw posts
Grim. Grimola even.

>>17971598
It's the other way around schizo-kun

women can't resist the allure of New Japan Pro-Wrestling

How come his hype is already dead? Too much too soon?

>>17971582 (OP)
>Nujamals have resorted to Poiposting in their OPs since they can't get people to post in their threads otherwise
lol I mean it worked, I am here posting lmao

>>17971686
I would rather NJPW have 0 fans than 10 million joshipedo fans

>>17971690
This.

I posted in here because I recognized the baseball stadium
I wouldn't have posted in a NJPW thread otherwise

i did not understand a single thing that happened during the yano vs superdango match but i did laugh at the slow motion and enjoyed the "get the young lions to wrestle so we can take a break" gimmick and match

Maybe if they ask really nicely Tony will loan then a few dimes.

>>17971724
Who's the most dimes AEW wrestler that can realistically do a G1?

>>17971593
タッグチームパートナーたち?

>Kaito drove off Okada
>general can no longer hit bump limit
NOAH defeated New Grimpan.

>>17971730
Swerve is pure charisma and top tier talent. Bringing him in and having him win the G1 would bring a LOT of eyes to NJPW. Problem is I don't know if Tony would be willing to part with one of his main eventers for however long this G1 may run.

Another good angle would be bringing Jericho in and giving him a G1 champion run. The fans love him and he would bring a lot of lapsed fans back to see the GOAT get one last run and win it all.

PLEASHE DON'T LAUGH AT SHIN NIHON PLEASHE SHTOP !! I AM THE SHIN ASHE ! I WILL SHAVE SHIN NIHON PLEASHE LOOK AT ME !!! IT'SH...IT'SH NOT GRIM !!! SHTOP !!!

>>17971822
NJPW seriously fumbled Kaito

>>17971582 (OP)
I love New Japan so much. I genuinely look forward to every match, even the pre-card stuff. The comfy atmosphere, the characters, the match quality, it's seriously the best wrestling out there right now. Just though I'd cut through a lot of this negativity.

>>17971863
no stories?

>>17971593
Cant wait for his son to join House of Torture on Sunday.

>>17971582 (OP)
>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado (c) vs Jun Kasai [98th champion, 6th defense]

>98th champion
Kasai should win so Fajita can sizzle his way to being #100 since he can't be the youngest

>>17971730
Cesaro

>WK19 main event was a 40 minutes long soulless and dimeless bangerino
>Wrestle Dynasty was a huge flop and Kidani was already doing damage control the next day
>Zack Sabre Jr. is such an anti-draw shitter that they put the world title on Hirooki Goto
>President Tanahashi is so bad at his job that he failed to keep the biggest star and biggest merch seller (Tetsuya Naito) in the company
>Now they're even more desperate to push younger wrestlers
>Japanese fans don't like Kosei Fujita's push and compare him to Shota Umino
>Shota Umino being a complete failure
>Gabe Kidd gets backlash because his "Fuck AEW ! I fookin love New Japan bruv" promos won't feel real anymore now that he's already involved in an AEW program and begging for a toybox contract
>Ren Narita is a disgusting looking incel midcard shitter
>Yuya Uemura is now taking the path of Tanahashi cosplayer which is going to fail
>Yota Tsuji is a chubby manlet and the faction that made him slightly over doesn't exist anymore
>the promotion gets easily outdrawn by a Rizin show at the Dome with a card booked at the last minute
>NJPW is now doing shindy collab shows with DDT
Grim.
NJPW is the KWABOTY promotion of 2025 and it's not even close.

>>17971863
Based. I'm a newer fan. I know people are saying they're in a rut right now, but I still enjoy it when I watch it. I don't watch every show, but I keep my subscription active and I will watch Dominion.

>>17971882
I'd say him and Briscoe yeah

>>17971863
This but unironically

>>17971885
>Ren Narita is a disgusting looking incel
This is dimes though, he just needs to lift a bit more and bleed more frequently

>Yuya Uemura is now taking the path of Tanahashi cosplayer which is going to fail
Japs love this autistic nigga already so I doubt it

>>17971885
>doesn't know how to bend text in Photoshop
lol
lmao even

Polish technology

>>17971885
yappari, Shin Nihon will die in the next 5 years

>>17971885
>>17971988
samefag

oh he bubblin hard again

>didn't deny it
KWAB

I already exposed your mental illness last time and you said it didn't prove anything so I'll just let you bubble and fight against le evil pollock.

btw, don't forget, bushidrones.

Continue being a faggot, I will continue calling you out and KWABBIN' on your gay ass.

KWAB

>>17971974
NOAH fumbled Oiwa

the first post of this thread is literally le evil imaginary pollock living in your head rent free so I'd say you KWAB'd yourself bruv.

>>17972021
>>17972024
>>17972029
>>17972038
>>17972040
You okay buddy?

>>17972058
NJPW fumbled Oiwa
Oiwa probably wants to go back to NOAH

>>17972068
>wants to go back to NOAH
Goddamn western puro smarks are literally retarded. NJPW can't even afford to keep its heavyweight tag champs under contract and you think a wrestler wants to leave NJPW to go to a company that makes maybe 25% of its revenue, so he could get paid half as much by appearance only with no contract guarantees?

t. knower

>>17972073
NOAH can pay decent wages now and has handled their new gen better and they're getting first dibs on a repaired Naito

>>17972093
this
NOAH has enough money, it's just a matter of if they actually want to spend it. And they will.

>>17972093
>NOAH can pay decent wages now
No, they can't. And they don't. You don't know anything about the Japanese wrestling business.
AGAIN

t. KNOWER

>>17972103
They never did in the past, why would they start now?

>>17972116
He thinks because Cyberfight is a big company, NOAH must have a big budget. It does not have a big budget. Their revenue stream has been abysmal the last 5 years with the exception of Mutoh's retirement which is roughly the equivalent of a single Wrestle Kingdom gate.
They don't even pay their top guys, let alone young guys. The only people who get paid in NOAH are the guys attached to the front office (veterans who have politic'd themselves into that position like Marufuji). There's a lot of old guys patting each other on the back in NOAH and it's not just in the booking. It's part of a larger problem in the company.

You have to protect yourself when you work with Japanese wrestling companies. Any of them, NJPW included, but NOAH and AJPW are particularly bad about doing whatever they have to do to keep a small number of veteran guys paid at the expense of everyone else.

Say something nice about the big woofer.

Reminder

Overall Domestic Attendance:
New Japan - 109,957 (2,291 average)
Stardom - 33,279 (876 average)
Dragon Gate - 26,105 (502 average)
NOAH - 24,399 (813 average)
All Japan - 21,452 (1,021 average)
Kyushu Pro - 14,436 (1,031 average)
Marigold - 11,386 (438 average)
Tokyo Joshi Pro - 8,842 (384 average)
Big Japan - 7,227 (278 average)
Sendai Girls - 5,180 (2,590 average from 2 announced attendances)
Oz Academy - 4,236 (605 average)
GLEAT - 3,798 (253 average)
Michinoku Pro - 3,067 (613 average)
FREEDOMS - 3,018 (201 average)

>>17972217
It doesn't count because uuuuh MMA and baseball are more popular

>>17972258
Quick, post the image of RIZIN at the Tokyo Dome again! We need more buzzwords!

Surely the thread won't call me a fag anymore if I make a new Shota Umino face edit!

>>17972093
>and has handled their new gen better
They've handled exactly one guy well, maybe 2 but Ulka is like mid 30s already. The key though is he got hot, made an otherwise garbage can level stable with a nostalgiabait name hot and currently their only sin is having their regular retarded booking around him instead of directly affecting him (the tag title deal but that was WWE's fault even though they still let Omos pin Kaito for no reason, the Endo bullshit, Sugiura being shoehorned in).

New Japan is doing a solid job building up more than 1 right now in the middle of giving long-time fans love with Goto's title run and Tana's final year, but not a single potential hot angle has emerged to catapult any of them.

>our resident polish schizo got so butthurt about being ridiculed that he made a separate thread
>and then got ridiculed in that one too
KWAB
>>17972137

>Look ! New Japan is first in that very grim market that they always dominated because the other promotions are grim shindies !
Yep, still grim.

>>17971974
Kaito is so good that he made people think that OZAWA is a great wrestler

>>17972314
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T COMPARE JAPANESE WRESTLING TO JAPANESE WRESTLING!
>THAT MAKES... NJPW LOOK GOOD!
KWAB

>>17972338
>that makes NJPW look good
It doesn't though ? Wrestling is dead in Japan. 100 000 tickets sold considering the amount of shows they're doing is not impressive at all. If they were in a good place they could afford to not let all of their main event stars go somewhere else, don't you think ? They're the big fish in a small, almost dry pond.

Your posts where you're sucking NOAH's dick are still up in this thread btw

>>17972378
So what do you expect them to do? It's not their fault japan is a weird alien country that's finally paying for its stupidity. They also can't work retarded money marks into paying them because they love American goyslop

>>17972378
>>17972409
kek BTFO

>>17972409
He also made another entirely separate thread sucking NOAH's cock but yeah I guess it's a small, almost dry pond when it suits his argument

I see you're trying to deflect to posts I didn't even make because you're mindbroken and have no actual answer to my pure facts. So to make you even more mindbroken and give you a better idea of how grim it is: NJPW booked 2 Tokyo Dome shows this year and right now with all the shows they have done they're not above the first 6 months of NJPW in 2020 that had 2 Dome shows, the New Beginning tour and then for the next 4 months no shows or shows with literally 0 fans because of covid.

That's right, it's so grim that even 2020 coofy NJPW outdraws current NJPW. Now you can bubble and talk to yourself again.

>i-it wasn't me!
>i-i didn't make those posts!
>sure i'm the only one who ever uses these same buzzwords over and over again but... it wasn't me!
kek what a pathetic bitch, can't even own up to his failed arguments

>>17972449
Yes the meme flu fucked everything up and I mentioned japan being a weird retarded alien country already. The damage is done what do you expect njpw to do?

this look would only work for me if he was an asshole at the same time

>>17972474
See 6 and 7 >>17972038
NJPW has not been able to create a star that can sort of draw a dime at the Dome since LIJ Naito. It's their own fault, blaming the coof is too easy. This will make the other retarded schizo bubble but again look at what other sports or businesses do. Look at what Rizin drew at the Tokyo Dome. A twink with a literal 4-3 winning record can outdraw the biggest wrestling promotion in Japan.

why are we comparing wrestling to mma though

>>17972678
The point is NJPW fans act like the coof is still a relevant excuse in 2025 when other businesses are doing totally fine or even better than pre-coof. Even in puroresu as grim and dimeless as it is right now, Stardom had some growth here and there. The coof and the weak yen is the easiest cop-out when the reality is that japs just don't want to spend money on wrestling because all they have is some Reiwa antidraw shitters and the only loyal gaijin is a complete dimeless faggot with no personality.

>>17971582 (OP)
look how small she is next to Goto...he could destroy her tight pussy right there...

>>17972781
>NJPW fans
If you're not one of these why are you constantly posting in /njpw/

Also, the numbers have gone up every year, the fuck do you mean? You've been BTFO I don't know how many fucking times about attendance and you're still in here seething like a woman with a bleeding vagina

>>17972902
>muh earnings
still grim, still weak profits (even though they get a big paycheck from the toybox company, KWAB), still can't draw a dime
now bubble

>>17972985
KWAB Pole-kun getting BTFO hard ITT, having a right old fashioned melty

Go clean my nan's toilet ya cunt

>>17971882
Who is that? Was that PAC's old name?

>>17973004
Bushiroad literally said profits are grim for the first part of the year. You get BTFO everytime no matter how hard you bubble and talk to yourself bruv. I'm literally just stating facts, like how twinks outdraw NJPW. You have no answer for all of this and you end up mindbroken everytime. So mindbroken that the imaginary pole-kun is the first thing you post about in this thread. You made yourself the KWABOTY poster of this board, just like NJPW made itself the KWABOTY promotion.

>>17973037
>Bushiroad literally said profits are grim for the first part of the year. You get BTFO everytime no matter how hard you bubble and talk to yourself bruv. I'm literally just stating facts, like how twinks outdraw NJPW. You have no answer for all of this and you end up mindbroken everytime. So mindbroken that the imaginary pole-kun is the first thing you post about in this thread. You made yourself the KWABOTY poster of this board, just like NJPW made itself the KWABOTY promotion.

Your first post is literally that though kek, you exposed yourself as a mindbroken bitch.

>I'm actually not your boogeyman schizo!
>Sure, I'm making seethe posts about NJPW in a NJPW general and there's only one guy who does that but...
>but it's not me! Actually, we all hate NJPW ITT!
As if the third world tier shoops and the buzzwords only you use doesn't give it away.

Some interesting ideas in this thread. How about you give me a call some time, we'll talk them over? Here's my card.

>>17973081
What is given away is that the imaginary pole-kun lives in your head rent free. (KWAB >>17971586 )
It's time for me to make an announcement that might ease your mind a little bit though: I'll go on a small trip for a few days so I'll be busy. Which means I won't be here to remind Bushidrones that NJPW is grim and that Griminion is a flop. I'll trust the other Grimsters to do the job though. (or maybe these threads will just die cause nobody cares about NJPW, grim)

Reminder that if Griminion draws:
7 thousy: very grim because there's still no growth since 2023.
8 thousy: grim because that's barely doing better than a card with Jeong Mok in the semi-main and juniors main eventing.
9 thousy and above would actually be alright to great but it will not happen because NJPW is in a very grim state.

Remember you live in a grim reality. If Griminion somehow draws at least 9k I'll kneel to Bushidrones when I come back but I'm confident this will never happen.

Anyway, I'll be busy in the next few days so I'm out.

NIGGERS !

>>17973213
Send Shota Umino to Mexico, ace. Let the spics bully this nigga into sharpening up. Never send young boys to the brits every again.
Don't rehire Karl Frederick's. He's too far gone.

>>17971730
After letting Rocky bring back Anderson I don't trust any realistic option to be anywhere close to dimes. Case in point >>17971882

>>17973213
ill only talk to kidani you puppet

>>17973248
Enjoy cleaning all of those toilets, Pole-kun

The thread will be infinitely better without you!
Bye bye now!

>>17973252
>Never send young boys to the brits every again.
Unironically has anyone turned out good being sent over there? Tsuji couldn't get out fast enough

>>17971582 (OP)
Poi should have the white belt still

>>17972066
buddy on njpw would be great

I'll be sure to check if Dominion has drawn 9k before I start enjoying it

>G1のGはGRIMの「G」だ!
How do you respond to this without sounding like a terminally online obese smelly Smark feuding with boogeymen living in his head?

SAVE US GOAT

https://youtu.be/kQXQOzIpX28
@ 4:23 he mentions Gabe in AEW. sorry to whoever wanted him to tear his asshole open, he literally goes "plans change"

>>17973445
soft ass bitch

>>17973445
This is the most polite youth movement I've ever seen. They talk way too much about being the future or the now or whatever and not enough of having their own beefs with each other. Kinda gay.

>>17973445
I'm selling all my Yota Tsuji stock. I bet this dude wants to get a check from Tony or Nick as well so he is covering his ass.

>>17971680
pretty much

>>17973477
listen to gabe in his interview bit, he sounds so lost trying to still be the rebellious guy. tsuji's just playing nice he doesn't crash out again

>>17971648
Looking at these girls makes me want a beer. Asahi is actually a really good beer, haven't drank one since I left Japan. But IMO the best jap beer is the red beer they serve in Iga City. Absolutely love that town more than I could ever describe, it's ninja paradise.

>>17971885
bro, there's tutorials all over youtube showing you how to curve text properly, it's not that hard.

What should we expect from this?

>>17971833
You know what I really hate about this smelly, toilet-scrubbing pollock? I can't even make fun of Shota Umino anymore because whenever I do, everyone thinks I'm the pollock and they start telling me to KMS lol.

>>17973555
I would expect a good match and possibly a return of the "two tsujis" gimmick.

>>17973555
>say they're still teaming together
>yapping for an hour and a half
>nothing changes
honestly if they establish a new faction and shingo and tsuji lose that's an awful start to it

>>17973252
Shota should go to DDT actually.

>>17973626
I watch DDT so no. Not even a DAMNATION run would save him.

>>17973555
I hope a clear breakup so Tsuji can be faction leader and Shingo can be an asshole

>>17973568
I will always make fun of Umino until he is good.

I love Grim Nihon

>>17973710
Shingles and Umino should start a faction of assholes.

They should fund Coughlin's visits to a stem cell place and he can team with Shota as DEADEYE. 2 androids, that would be based

Tsuji talks about Indonesia and other stuff. Nobody there knew what wrestling was until he said WWE and then they knew John Cena.
https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/1932815084608164274

>>17974535
tsuji don't gene blast the children

No lies detected
https://x.com/lovesongwriter/status/1932844808269172945

GABE GABE
DUB READY

>>17974535
>tfw Tsuji becomes a muslim

>>17971867
Ren Narita is already in House of Torture

>>17975041
Can't wait for him to debut after Wrestle Kingdom.
>2026 Gabe to the Dub
>2026 Clark to the Dub
>2026 Finlay to the Fed
>2027 Newman to the Dub

Luckily we are literally getting poached faster then we can find wrestlers. Maybe Tony will start going after thr Japs next.

>>17975482
Silence, foolish pole. You will never possess that Finlay swagger. If you were to witness even half of the swag that David Finlay possesses, the gloriousness of it all would blind your eyes and drive you mad, sending you screaming into the hills, never to be heard from again. When you got that Finlay swagger, you can no-sell everything because you just don't give a fuck. When you got that Finlay swagger, all the beautiful women fall at your feet and beg to suck you off for days. Oh yes, it does all these things, but such powerful swagger cannot be wielded or understood by a jabroni like you.

>>17974535
Apparently they had WWE in Indonesia but then everyone started sawdusting themselves imitating shit and it got kicked off. Imagine of they were seeing late 2010s New Japan.

>>17975609
I am not Polish, but you are a Jeet.

>>17975482
>>17976522
Pole-kun BTFO yet again

>>17976522
You wouldn't know anything about that Finlay swagger, because it doesn't exist in the filthy Karnataka slum that you call home.

>>17976704
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh unc got that swag on lock

Keep Japan Japanese

unaffiliated niggas

>>17978461
>posting like an obsessed ex girlfriend
c'mon now

>>17978368
what's wrong with this?

>>17978368
New interview made it sound like Shingo wanted to leave LIJ a few times, but Evil and Sanada left, so he ended up having to stay. Not sure why he would choose to keep teaming with these guys now that he has the freedom.

>>17979054
Because the booking got eroded by Naito leaving and they couldn't bring themselves to at least get creative and have LIJ guys team with others in the aftermath of it.

twitter is getting turbo worked over gabe being dismissive of tsuji doing charity work in indonesia lol

>>17975609
>Gedo leaving him hanging
KWAB

>>17979101
>>17979054
The immediate aftermath was the BoSJ which had it's own focus and stories, including Hiromu being a bit lost, so it's understandable to play into the guys not knowing what to do yet and just banding together for preview tags for Hiromu's sake

90 minutes before this thing I guess >>17973555

>>17978461
I thought AEW was supposed to be an alternative to WWE

>there’s a polish yokai in nooj general now
april fools day was a fucking mistake
by the way hiromu is about to whore himself out to every willing man and faction after the meeting

>>17980155
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzsV5my9518
Oddly enough they're streaming it on youtube too until the middle portion of whatever they're doing.
It's most definitely a new faction name.

Shingo's got skinny ass legs

yea this is just some special programming

>>17978461
i dont watch aew so the last time i saw these two they did an unannounced tag match to a pumped crowd. why they hell is okada trying to kill him?

translationbros?

>>17978461
Sad that Okada and Kenny’s aura is gone

>>17980756
>What factions are you most interested in right now?

>Tsuji: Hontai and HOUSE OF TORTURE
>'As a wrestler I respect them. They're pros. What they do might suck, but they've chosen a path and they commit'

>Shingo: 'none'
>'I'm open to suggestions. But I like these guys and want to team with them for the time being'

>Hiromu: 'anywhere but Hontai'
>'I have my reasons but I'm not telling. There was... an incident'

https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/1933114916594241942

>>17980852
>an incident
So... who molested young Hiromu in the dojo?

>What wrestlers interest you right now?

>Tsuji: Yuto Nakashima
>'He's another one who's choosing his own way. If he's open to it I want to team with him.'

>Shingo: Daiki Nagai

>Hiromu: Yoshinobu Kanemaru

>>17980884
>Shingo: Daiki Nagai
why am i not surprised

>>17980979
Nagai comes across like a wrestler that is made for Dragongate - smaller than average but with charisma and mic skills. Makes sense Shingo would connect with him.

>>17981092
i meant the part about nagai enlisting in the self defense force

so are they still going to be together post dominion or what

>>17981509
At this point we’ll either know by the end of Dominion, or they will have us wait for the lineups on the Soul tour. After that is the G1, so they could find a way to just hold out.

>>17979916
Boner inducing

zannen da...

Shingo interview with English subs
https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/1933177478568411615

>>17980852
It honestly feels like everyone sees the value in HoT and wants in on the merch money + easy gimmick work

>>17982167
Money and Miles. Very few guys on the roster are actually willing to sawdust themselves for the business. And no one from the G1 aside from Gabe falls in that category for me. New Japan needs to really reassess their dojo. They almost fumbled Hiromu back in the day and in modern times completely fumbled Ozawa who is now the biggest star outside of the company aside from maybe Kamitani. Then you had guys who showed interest in joining the dojo who they never picked up like Mao and Takeshita.

>>17982227
Holy shit how retarded can a tranny be?

>>17982245
So do you have an actual point to say or no?

>>17972217
TOTAL BUSHIROAD VICTORY

>>17982227
>Ozawa who is now the biggest star outside of the company aside from maybe Kamitani
Do dronies really believe this shit?

>>17982266
And who might you then suggest?

>>17982294
Everyone in STARDOM and Dragon Gate

>>17982317
You do not understand the difference between a brand and a person. Noah went from being lucky to hit 1000 at Korakuen to routinely selling them out. Dragon Gate is lucky to do 1,200; they just run a billion shows.

>the biggest star outside of njpw's greatest feat is selling out korakuen for a ghc title defense
wow

>>17982359
Maybe a dozen shows a year do 2000+ outside of New Japan. But fine here are some other numbers YOY.

Noah 2024 Kokugikan show: 3,512
Noah 2025 Kokugikan show: 4,521

Noah 2024 Yokohama Budokan show: 997 (N1 show was even lower)
Noah 2025 Yokohama Budokan show: 1,605

Noah 2024 Nippon Budokan: 4196
Noah 2025 Nippon Budokan: 5088

>>17982227
>Ozawa who is now the biggest star outside of the company aside from maybe Kamitani
>maybe
Lmao

Fuck NOAH

>>17982997
calm down jado-san

Speaking of NOAH they recently uploaded a Tanahashi vs Sugiura match from 2009 to WORLD and I thought it was pretty good and that y'all should watch it

>According to a poster in the NJPW Toukon Shop, 4 names have bee confirmed for the G1 Climax
>Konosuke Takeshita
>Ren Narita
>Shota Umino
>Hiroshi Tanahashi
What do you guys think about Tanahashi working a fucking G1 at his current level of health, with the big retirement Dome show coming up?

Definitely seems risky to me but pure kino

>>17983173
No way is Tana doing the G1. Not only can he physically not put on a whole tournament full of matches up to the standard he'd want, but it would make a bunch of the "final match with..." matches he'd had with guys on his retirement road meaningless because he'd likely have to face them again in block matches and at least theoretically in the finals.

>>17983173
maybe hes gonna do the yano role and just eat pins with an occasional upset? he has been playing up that his shits fucked in a lot of his matches

>>17983173
Do you mean those local promotional posters that usually don't mean anything?

>>17983278
He said he was going to wrestle every guy on the roster this year when he started the tour. He meant it. I think this is part of that plan, crazy plan though it is.

>>17980867
Yano

>>17983173
Could just be featured on the posters because they know his retirement tour is a draw, even if he’s there to work undercard tags.

>>17981488
Found Shingo’s next faction gimmick

>>17983173
Idk if a poster would confirm that. Tana was on the NJC posters yet wasn't in the tournament.

I think it would be bAced if Tana went into the G1 and laid a goose egg.

>>17983173
Wouldn’t overthink it
Tana was the big reason why they held that mini tournament last year that removed most of the old guys
He knows he can’t go at this stage and people beating him is no longer a big deal

>>17984162
Counterpoint, no Naito and AEW/NOAH arent sending someone of solid value if anyone at all so they at least need him to be in the tournament to pop a crowd, eat losses and probably do a winless gimmick to give him a proper story

>>17982227
This really triggered the bushidrones.

>NJPW’s Taichi (45) has revealed his ambitions for a major milestone as he eyes a “top division comeback.”

>On June 15 at Osaka-jo Hall, Taichi will team with Tomohiro Ishii to challenge IWGP Tag Team Champions Great-O-Khan and Callum Newman. At the Hiroshima event in April, they defeated the mentor-student duo of Tetsuya Naito and Hiromu Takahashi. “I’m the last man to beat Naito before he left, and the last to make him cry. Though I also ended up being the last to take his Destino… Well, I want him to go focus on his own journey now, knowing we’ve got things covered,” Taichi said, vowing to win the belts.

>O-Khan had taunted him: “If you’re only fired up now because Naito’s seat is empty, it’s too late,” calling him a “window seat guy.” Taichi fired back: “I wasn’t waiting around for any seat to open. This past year I’ve been fighting hard to make my comeback. I went after every opportunity, and I think I left a strong impression in the NEW JAPAN CUP with the matches I had.”

>His sumo-inspired phrasing—“top division comeback”—refers to a return to the G1 Climax (kicking off July 19 in Sapporo), which he missed last year. “Whether I get into G1 or not, this match might be my final chance to make a case. I’m teaming with Ishii, and both of us weren’t in it last year. If we beat guys who were, no one can argue we don’t belong. And it would make things more interesting if I targeted Callum, who just challenged for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title,” he said, underlining the stakes.


https://x.com/okamotospo/status/1933282956539539604

>>17984970
>One reason he’s so focused on getting into G1: the shot at breaking Riki Choshu’s record as the oldest G1 winner (44 years, 8 months). With Fujita Jr. Hayato just becoming the youngest BOSJ winner, Taichi sees an opening on the opposite end of the spectrum. “Fujita just set the youngest record—I want to go the other way. Even Daiki Asato’s historic yokozuna promotion got people excited. If there’s a record I can go after from the *reverse* direction, I want to take that challenge,” he said definitively.

>Once known for pushing back against generational change, Taichi says his mindset has started to shift. “When the older guys fire up, it lifts the younger ones too. Instead of yelling ‘This is our era!’ we should all be working together to rebuild. NJPW right now can’t afford to be split by generations. We need to keep our feet grounded and rise together.” With pride in his heart, Taichi heads into the Osaka showdown.

>>17984970
He's got the very last pin over Naito and he never works outside shows so there's no reaosn he shouldn't be in the G1 this year

JEONG MOSQUE LI (and his employee Gabe Kidd)

>>17984988
>Fujita Jr. Hayato just becoming the youngest BOSJ winner
Wha

>>17986965
Outside of beating cancer is he anything remarkable?

This is the match

>>17980852
Tsuji and HoT make no sense on multiple levels, going from stuttering us young guys need to carry le flag forward guy to cartoonish bad guy overnight

>>17987642
how is this real

What are we expecting Sunday?

>>17987929
Grimness

>>17987929
1 NOAH and 2 AEW guests

>>17987929
Takeshita
Kaito
Anthony Bowens
Higuchi from DDT (I fucking wish)

>>17971648
SHAKE SHAKE

>>17987998
this but ddt instead of noah

>>17987929
Hiromu beating Ishii on the qualifiers

SHEEEEEEEEEEESH

>>17988047
>Anthony Bowens
No.

theyre selling the unaffiliated shirts

>>17988643
with variants as well

>>17988646
what’s with the milano looking one on the left

>>17988688
thats the mexican flag, hermano

Who is the most grim wrestler in the roster now?

>>17988734
Chase Owens
>>17988736
Sex with Enako

>>17988734
Objectively it's Tenzan but I feel bad giving him that label. Yujiro on the other hand, yeah it's probably him.

>>17988779
yujiro actually seems less healthy than jado at times. bushiroad should cough up some plane tickets to south america or something if they want to keep using these guys. get some ground up babies pumped into those muscles

>>17988779
I think they just keep Tenzan around so he doesn’t end up like Nakanishi

>>17987929
Goto
Oleg
ELP
Uemura
Umino
Tsuji
Shingo
ZSJ
O-Khan
Newman
Finlay
Kidd
EVIL
SANADA
Narita
Takeshita
NOAH Guest (Kiyomiya)
CMLL Guest (Hechicero)
+ SOUL qualifiers that end up adding Oiwa and Drilla

>>17988626
He's been talking about the G1 on AEW constantly

He's in I'm afraid

>>17989110
This is worse than Blake Christian in BOSJ

>>17989110
Like on AEW TV? Because just about every AEW guy talks about wanting to do the G1, even brittle Cope.

>>17989180
Yes, on AEW TV, but he's talking about it openly and the commentators were also acknowledging and speaking on it which tells me he's almost certainly participating.

You will see.

>>17989188
So that's why TK has started to job him out... and during pride month too... yikesola...

>>17989190
I'm not sure what a gay man is going to do for the fujos

But he's not a bad wrestler, at least from the very limited amount of ring-time I've seen him in. I'm curious if he is up for it or if he'll be a completely drag who wastes a bunch of matches.

bowens seemed decent enough in ring the couple tag matches i saw. i cant really think of anyone from aew id care to see in the g1 right now. lashley maybe? i dont know if his gas tank is still up for that though

Bowens is a guy you stick in tag league cuz you gotta have a guest team that work decent but are otherwise uneventful. Getting an AEW guest for the G1 and it being a jobber with no storyline or character is the type of shit that ruined the tournament's reputation 2 years ago when they stuck a who's who of who gives a fuck into it to fill 32 slots.

They nuke Gabe Kidd's identity and send a guy they don't care about. Riveting.

what if the story is that he's pushing for a g1 spot and then he gets ignored haha

>>17989298
I think they DO want to push him though, AEW. He's at the very start of a slow singles push, kind of getting the Kyle Fletcher treatment (lost a lot until he joined Callis and then turned it around and is now pretty high on the power level list). They'll probably give him a medium-to-strong performance in the G1 as part of his story to help build him up back in America which means that a few of /ourguys/ are going to be jobbing to him.

Unfortunate. Hopefully he is capable of making them look good. He's a decent hot tag but being a singles wrestler is way harder and you need a gas tank in the G1. He's a beefy power guy though, so I expect good matches with Boltin and Takeshita.

>>17989121
Does New Japan want to make me find a new hobby? GRIM^10.

>more AEWslop in the G1
Come home, puro man.

>>17989435
Can't wait to see which NXT shitter you're going to get in the N-1 this year lmaooo

>>17989435
>come home and watch some NXT guy with 2 years of in-ring experience shit up our knock-off G1
Yeah no thanks, fuck off Nosawa

>>17989435
>Champion Carnival full of shitters and ended with the other fatter Saito brother pinning Kento
>G1 (might) be filled with shitters and guaranteed less star power w/o Naito
>NOAH shoving mid NXT geeks in the N1 for Kaito to job out to
Grim all around

>>17988950
Jake will definitely be added to this.

>>17987929
>Hontai
Goto
Umino
ELP
Boltin
>J4G
Uemura
>Unaffliated
Tsuji
Shingo
>TMDK
Zack
Oiwa
>UE
GOK
Callum
>War Dogs
Finlay
Gabe
Drilla
>HoT
EVIL
SANADA
Jake
Narita
>AEW
Takeshita
>Dragongate
Skywalker

>>17989588
It truly is the grimmest timeline in puro

>>17990055
In actuality we are getting to the point in roster strength where you need to make hard cuts again which is good. O-Khan and Sanada I expect to be on the bubble going forward. Truly a generational downfall for that overpushed shitter.

Not feeling all this Taichi erasure

I'm thinking we are getting no play-ins this year which means the soul tour is gonna be GRIM.

>>17990282
Most of the tour is airing live so I doubt that

>>17990291
Here's hoping. They were dimes last year.

>>17990277
I would actually like Taichi to be in the G1, and feel he would be a better addition than someone like ELP or Oiwa at this stage, but they want to go younger and ELP is for whatever reason a champion so it's less likely.

>>17990322
I like Taichi well enough, but over Oiwa? No thanks. I'll take him over Drilla, Jake, or GOK though.

>>17990322
how did Oiwa going to NOAH make him lose any believable fire

>>17988950
>>17990055
Finlay is gone bros

We Work Stiff's last ditch cope for Gabe is the only thing I can see salvaging him somewhat, punching up at the only thing he can: Bushiroad. Just fucking let loose at the press conference how Mox threw money at him to come in and he took it and then go off about how him rising to the top of NJPW will force Bushiroad to loosen the pursestrings and save the company blah blah blah. It won't save him fully and it's obviously dangerous territory but he's got nothing else.

>>17991632
>We Work Stiff
>Keeping It Strong Style
>Super J-Cast
If you combine the listeners from all 3 of these it's still less than 100 people

What is wrong with you, man? Why do you listen to this complete bullshit rumormill shit from lying smarks?
Also that guy's point is fucking retarded, nobody in Japan is angry that Gabe Kidd worked an American booking in America while the BOSJ was going on.

>>17991710
nah there was 3 random japs mad on twitter the entire coutnry hates him now trust me bro

>>17991710
WWS are a character/story podcast, they aren't dirtsheet scrapers and they have a better track record at emerging stuff in NJPW than le anti-smark midwits who have no insight into anything besides scoffing at anyone who even attempts a critical thought. I care about Gabe having a consistent character where his core trait that got him over, authenticity, isn't completely shit all over with this AEW nonsense. Gabe's shit Dominion promo showed he's already lost the plot and you're naive if you think there aren't more than a handful of the domestic audience raising an eyebrow at this, especially the potshot at Tsuji over the Indonesia stuff

>>17991744
Amazing insight, I at least hope you're not some AEW apologist faggot but these threads pull them in sadly

Not that AEW hasn't fucked over story telling, but Bushiroad let's people like Despy do whatever they want and big dog their new junior ace. They have always been feckless with follow through.

Poi getting chunky

>>17991534
This. I think EVIL is about to send him off.

Shota Umino was a bald fraud, but now he has hair.

>>17992039
They could've very easily got the belt off Depsy before Kasai and Despy would've probably agreed.

I am balding, just like my hero "Based" Shooter Umino.

>>17993387
Unironically his best looks are buzz cut Shota and pride parade with Ospreay Shota. Someone put the razor to his head, give him a fade

>>17993957
He should get a low taper fade with a middle part. Maybe consider carrying around a sword like his mentor.

>>17994884
how come the AI could see what NJPW, NOAH, and All Japan couldn't

He's getting paid multi-millions a year to do this while Grim Japan is dying under Trannyhashi.

>>17995512
>He's getting paid multi-millions a year

>>17995512
Who even is that?

>>17995562
Chono bad ending

I'd gladly take Mark Briscoe for the G1

aint no way lol

>>17995873
Briscoe would be based, he delivers, can do comedy, is a versatile guy and he can lose a lot without it hurting him

The Dominion press conference in 1 hour

>>17996521
Grim shit ahead

>>17996521
more like the grim conference

>>17995512
Only like 5 guys on that roster make actual life changing money. TKO sells people on the allure.

>>17996521
I'm very excited for Grimminon. Maybe the best card New Japan can put on right now on paper and we get G1 announcements.

They should make the bottom 2 from last year's block do play-in matches

>>17995512
>He's getting paid 70,000 a year to do this while Grim Japan is dying under Trannyhashi.

https://x.com/njpwworld/status/1933727062352937215
We're all rooting for the incel dragon, right?

>>17996758
No. The Goto revolution roles on. And Shingetty continues to fumble like he did with Vaquer.

>>17973370
>Unironically has anyone turned out good being sent over there?
I think Kidd came out good but he was good pre-excursion and he spent half of said excursion in the mental ward so like half a point

>>17996808
>replying to that obvious bait
also even 4chan is calling you a faggot

All jokes aside, a really good story would be for AEW to send someone over like Kyle Fletcher or some other credible heel who is a dominant force and makes it to the final. All of the NJPW fans would think: are they really going to cuck out to AEW and let them win the G1?

You make it a real threat and so you build up a guy as the savior of NJPW by winning the final and defeating the Great AEW Satan, could be Uemura or Kidd or whoever really.

why not, G1 already lost its prestige

just a charming boy

>>17996901
Yeah, but AEW would rather give us Jack Perry to try to rehab and a glorified young lion who gets to pin Despy. Let us also not be quick to forget Blake everyone's favorite ROH jobber. There is no interest in sending anyone credible. Tony wants keep Knight and Takeshita out of New Japan if he could.

>>17996923
They sent Eddie Kingston, the god of puroresu

But all jokes aside, I do like outsider G1 stories if they're good. One of my favorites of all time was Marufuji in the 2016 G1, how he dominated Okada which led to their great KOPW match later

It started
Gabe started

To quote the kids, "what is blud talking about"

>>17987789
Nazi chic was (maybe still is, though I expect far less if so) a huge thing in Japan.

Did this brit just quote Teddy Roosevelt then move on?

The fuck does that have to do with you going to AEW Gabe?

While I agree this is a good time to make Gabe look like a geek, sadly the guy with the job to do it is this fucking NERD

*tips*

>>17996956
Is that Sugizo?

>>17996966
Nah, it's THE EIGHT or √eight, another visual kei band. X Japan's almost an outlier for NOT doing the nazi chic thing.

>>17996911
Bland faggot with a retarded shit look. It's a good thing he's the best wrestler of the young guys

>>17996956
SS look was dimes, GOAT tier even
SA Mann look was grim. Just left over army surplus from Africa

Takagi said he'd consider joining Hontai if he loses tomorrow

>>17997069
Shingo bangerino should fuck off back to DG for tanking the buyrates during his reign a few years ago.

>>17997073
Stupid dumbass with shit taste. Shingo's reign was one of the few bright spots of the memdemic. Also still easily the best reign of this new belt and that was with the retarded crowd restrictions.

>>17997119
Your yummy wummy bangarinos mean jackshit if your champ is an anti-draw.

The only world title matches to sell out arenas in advance since 2020 involve were
>Naito vs EVIL at Dominion 2020 (barely counts)
>Ospreay vs Shingo at Dontaku 2021 (in 24 hours)
>Shingo vs ZSJ at Power Struggle in 2021
>Okada vs Shingo at New Beginning in Osaka 2023
>SANADA vs Hiromu at Dontaku 2023
>ZSJ vs Goto at New Beginning in Osaka 2025
>Goto vs Newman at Dontaku 2025 (thanks to Naito)

Gabe Kidd copin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8Hn9qpfrg

Tanahashi out here getting his boys Kamen Rider merch model jobs

>>17996901
The "savior" would probably go to AEW later so why bother

>>17997367
>"If you're with me, then we gonna rocket. We on a rocket ship. If you're not with me fuck you"
Kek he's absolutely going to AEW. His whole quote was basically about striving to achieve and going to a better place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPy2fzfSVmE
War Dogs shopping stream

THESE MY DAWGS FR
THESE MY DAWGS FR
THESE MY DAWGS FR
THESE MY DAWGS FR

>>17997741
Finlay, Drilla and Gabe are drunk already and wheel san is here

Tanahashi with a young Heat Storm
https://x.com/Im_YuyaUemura/status/1933796835937955973

>>17997408
finna cop these bros

>>17997367
I laughed when he started with the, "man in the arena" quote.
>>17997531
Absolutely KEKKED here

How grim are things on a scale from grim to maximumgrim?

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