Thread 17998294

Live on NJPW World:

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]
>Oleg Boltin & Toru Sugiura vs Toru Yano & Tomoya Hirata

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 >>17971582

>>17998294 (OP)
>Gabe going to AEW
>Finlay leaving
>Karl Fredericks returning
What's gonna happen to War Dogs? Is it over for the Bullet Club brand finally?

BOWENS IN THE G1 WHAT A GRIM FUCKING COMPANY LMAO

any last minute guesses for the G1 roster?
insider-kun aka Haste are you here?

My prediction: GRIM.

Incelbros...the main event is ours

>>17998310
Who is even gonna win the G1? Tsuji? Takeshita to become a new "champ to beat"?

>>17998365
The only logical choice

>>17998365
Tsuji will lose the belt at Tokyo Budokan, Yuya wins the G1 since everyone who beats Tanahashi transitions to a title match

HOT are getting pushed going into the 2nd half. Whoever wins the G1 wins the title from whoever in HOT has it.

>>17998310
I'm not leaking anything in here anymore until that weird Polish schizo leaves

t. West Texas Champion

>>17998294 (OP)
Who gets Gedo when Finlay leaves? One of the younger guys?

>>17998525
taichi

>>17998304
They don’t need the BC brand for merch sales anymore. HoT is the big seller now, followed by Desperado and special event (ex. Tana retirement town-specific shirts/wrestler produce show shirts). Might as well let War Dogs be their own thing until they are down to just Drilla and Ishimori.

Tony is gonna absolute waste Gabe. He is too abrasive for the AEW audience and will just end up as another Wheeler Yuta. He'll get paid, but he probably should have done another year or two in NJPW, won a big title and become a Meltzer darling before going to AEW. Shame

Losing your two popular units in less than a year is a certified New Japan moment

Grim Club
House of Grim
Grimshamon
United Grimpire
The Grim Brothers
Just 4 Grims
Los Grimgonables de Japon
Grimchiban Sweet Grims

Alright boys, let's count the amount of schizo posts saying GRIM or whining about AEW or NJPW being bad ITT.

There are 17 total posts ITT not counting OP. Let's see how many are schizo posts!
>>17998307
>>17998348
>>17998364
>>17998570
>>17998581
>>17998588
6/17. I left out a couple which were borderline as well.

>>17998588
Hiromu is crazy

>>17998581
Nigga calling CHAOS popular?

>>17998588
We get it, Ace. Go, Hontai.

Will the smarky Osaka crowd boo Gabe? He didn't really say anything to help him during that press conference

>>17998636
>will the crowd that chants THIS IS AWESOME in English boo Gabe Kidd for working two shows in America during the junior tour?
Yeah, i'm sure they will you fucking retard

>>17998645
Have they ever done the "Fight For-ev-er" chant?

>>17998636
his non answer is still better than a possible shit one so no

>>17998636
Osaka is gaijin country. They always support Bullet Club and have cheered for guys like Styles, Omega and Jay over Okada and Tana. They were also the first crowd to support LIJ Naito unironically.

>>17998491
Jake will win it from Goto at the main event of the SOUL tour

>>17998310
>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

>>17998294 (OP)
Grim shit

>>17998996
>no Jado
grim

looks badass, this card got that Finlay swagger

>>17999216
Jado has better things to do

I just want Taichi to be in

>>17999333
kek based

shots umino fucking sucks

>>17999333
SO WHAT?

I DONT CARE

FUCK MIHO ABE

30 YEARS THIS BUSINESS

Done completely dirty by Gedo panicking after Jake Lee went down

>>17999377
has he ever commented on this? was he going that slow just to pop the boys?

>>17999463
hah what do u mean?
that's literally as fast as he can move

>>17998655
I think Ospreay/Ricochet BOSJ 2017 match in Korakuen got that chant. That audience wanted to imitate American smarks for that match.

They did a bunch of dumb American chants a couple years ago at the ZSJ/Bryan Danielson match.

Osaka are the smarks of Japan. If they won't turn on Gabe no one will.

>>17999397
Sanada wasn’t over and it makes sense for Taichi and Yuya make sense as Hontai-adjacent

>>17999904
Fucking filtered

>>17999904
lolwat

>>17999904
Agreed, J5G only existed so I could buy a Just 4 Guys comedy shirt before they went out of production because it's funny unintentionally gay Engrish

>>17999904
Sanada was objectively not over don't listen to these mongs. J5G was a dimeless faction and deserved to be dissolved.

>>18000575
I don’t think Cobb is charismatic enough to pull off this gimmick

>>18000575
Why didn't he try to be this dimes when he was in NJPW?

>>18000575
Haven’t seen what Cobb has done in wwe outside of his debut and memes on this site, but neither him nor TJP are missed so I look forward to more shitposting about them going forward

>>18000716
They already had a Bad Luck Fale

Cobb has never been able to convey having gravitas. He is super PWG pilled. He probably greatly benefits from script writers.

>>18001206
Cobb is one of the few guys I actually felt like brought ZERO to the table when he was on commentary. He spent every second trying to get himself over while whoever was on main commentary was desperately trying to call the match

>>18001698
I hated his commentary to the point it ruined the shows in English for me. I had to watch JP commentary when he was on. He was incapable of being serious for even 2 minutes.

>>18001830
I think there's something to be said for shitposting on the undercard, that was my favorite thing about the KK/Chris duo back in the day, but they'd put the kibosh on that shit when actual angles or the main events happened.

>>18001857
I agree the commentary should match the importance of a match. Cobb was just doing the same meta nonsense regardless of if it was the opener or the main.

>>18001930
Weirdly enough I think Henare's the best wrestler-commentator they've got aside from maybe Zack. Henare's clearly some kind of MMA autist and adds all kinds of details because of that, and Zack's supreme at banter and clearly just a nerd about wrestling. Connors is surprisingly collected too given the fucking cokehead gimmick.

>>18001942
Henare is pretty good, I like Connors more personally, but both are surprisingly good.

>>18001942
For me it’s Henare, Connors and Eagles is good from a technical standpoint, but also can fall into the self-aggrandizing stuff.

>>18001942
Henare has been the best one in recent history
ELP fucking around is always amusing, Connors was great, and I thought Nick Wayne did pretty well in the one day of BOSJ he did
Akira struggled because of the language, and Knight was terrible the one day he did

>>18002225
>Akira struggled because of the language
I thought Akira was endearing as fuck, he's clearly just a really sweet kid, I thought it was cute

>>18002304
I swear I watched Kidd and Tsuji sign papers yesterday - _-
We getting an angle?

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only New Japan.

Bros Dominion is on in like 6 hours and I can't friggin wait

More like Griminion

>>18002590
>>18002794
Spamming the buzzword “grim” isn’t a personality.

You think anyone is /here/ aside from Haste and Charlton? Maybe TJP.

https://youtu.be/MJFFOzh6bT0
Would be nice

Kevin Kelly used to be so good pre scamdemic. Then he got way too comfortable shitting on the company and wrestlers.

>>18002835
>Desti-NOOOOOOOOO
>JADO WITH THAT DAMN STICK AGAIN

it's up

>>18002832
i'd pop

what if x is chase?

>>18003053
Grim

>>18002835
That's why I find it hard to shit on him. He got brain broken having to call stagnant new Japan with clap crowds, where he never knew if he'd have partners or not

>>18003053
The prospects look really grim or lame.
>Hiromu doing a bit
>Cowboy Chase Owens
>Machine Gun Karl
>Native American Karl
>Jake "The Traitor" Lee (Sanada stole his gimmick)

New Japan is allergic to doing cool stuff.

The story of Goto vs. Shingo is literally
>Alpha Chad breeder vs. lonely incel

>>18003147
Goto must win to save the Japanese birthrate. Prease Understandu.

>>18003153
Goto is too pure. Shingo is single and can spread his seed across the entire nation as champ

Hey, look. It's Honma.

Im hyped for tonight bros

I didn't realize the press conference happened. Whoops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8Hn9qpfrg

I got NJPW World tonight, rewatched Ospreay vs. Takagi BOSJ 2019.

I will watch Dominion tomorrow morning

>>18002826
TJP is definitely here
There was an anon who was super anti-Cobb and pro-TJP when their Twitter beef happened, right down to speaking positively of his wife as a great mother

>>18003411
you know its TJP if he says Aswang and not Asswang

>>18002835
He called Okada vs. Shibata incredibly well and it's my favorite match of all time.

I don't think any other wrestling commentator could've called it like he did, which was like he'd call a baseball game. He gave it a real sports feel.

>>18003053
>>18003077
We love the West Texas Champion here, buds

>>18003053
War Dogs still needs a job guy that's not Gedo tho

Gamethread >>18003778

drilla and oiwa for sure

whos next

>>18005011
onions face

>>18005073
pour Taichi

>>18005011
They're climaxing

>>18005011
Grim1 Climax

>Let me introduce you to the LonestarOutlaw

>After 10 years of Bullet Club, The Crown Jewel is no more......Ladies and Gentlemen Introducing the LoneStar Outlaw!!!

https://x.com/realchaseowens/status/1934195710804816295

>>18005181
Adam Page at home

>6,525人
>no Naito
>no Hiromu, Despy & Faijta for no fucking reason
>literally half the card dedicated to HoT heat
Looked like a great card quality wise but well deserved PLUMMET. I called the 2nd half falling off and it did so quality and crowd size

If you made DOUKI the singular X (even if Chase still turned) and just had Nobu win the tag belts that wouldn't have been so bad. Chase was brought in by Dripnada so fine, why is Fale here?

>>18004713
Yeah we watchin the Nigger1 Victory this year

>>18005229
based

>>18005181
>>18005210
>adam page at home when we already have clark connors
yappari

>>18004713
Switch SANADA & Narita around and I approve of this lineup

>>18004713
Drilla & Oiwa in A
Taichi & Newman in B

>>18005423
blud forgot about chase owens

House of Torture has officially jumped the shark.

>>18005716
HOLY SHIT ANON DID HOUSE OF TORTURE JUMP OVER A SHARK? THAT'S MY EVILSTER YOU KNOW IT HOLY SHIT WHAT WILL THE HOUSE DO NEXT? BRB BUYING ANOTHER HOUSE OF TORTURE SHIRT I HOPE THAT REN JUMPS A SHARK NEXT WEEK THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!

KWABOTY status check???

>>18005716
It would've been jumping the shark had EVIL challenged for world title. Right now they're in seasonal rot

>>18004713
>>18005011
>only Takeshita from AEW and he's on a dual contract
So what's the cope now? AEW is a bad partner because they're not sending enough guys?

>>18005073
This never would've happened if J4G started out as Deep Drunkers version 2.0 like it was supposed to. At least Taichi still has TAKA to eat pins.

Gabe is the new Shota

>>18006317
Shota got mild reactions from crowds, Gabe gets good reactions.
Shota is shit in the ring, Gabe is good in the ring.

The only similarity really is that they make you seethe

>>18005181
So is his HoT weapon of choice a branding iron or bullrope? Everybody gets something.

>>18006505
Gun

Current active Pole-kun seething about NJPW threads up on /pw/:
>>18006620
>>18005389
>>18002256
>>18005746
>>18005834

>>18006673
Your gimmick is dimeless.

For me it was the old guys
The youth movement sucked dick

Grim.

>>18007106
>Super J-Cast

>>18006673
How long have you been seething about me and attributing me to any random bait thread made on /pw/? This is the first time I see it, but I have a feeling you've been doing it ever since April 1st. I really mindbroke you, huh, champ? Literally haven't thought about you in months and I've been living rent free in your head that entire time.

>May 15
Based tonikan_scary.png poster
Based Shingo Korean Killer poster
Based Naitoposter
Meanwhile, this retard was obsessing over me when I wasn't there

For those that don't know but are interested in when this schizo learned of me and decided to try to make me into the next boogeyman in your threads, it's from link related. Sorry I mindbroke him so bad he's been living in fear of me ever since.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/502055292/#502055292

>>18006370
Gabe is the Moxley pet now. All Shota needs to do is mock him about it and he's in a better place than Gabe

>May 16
Becky Lynch poster literally isn't wrong. This guy is just obsessed with defending his beloved Tonikan so just goes "p-p-pole"

>>18006673
>>18007270
>>18007363
>>18007398
you're all faggots

>May 24

People this schizo has tried associating me with as if I'm all of them and I'm only on 24 May

>The "Okada is a fake bitch and not Inoki's successor, he's an anti-draw, he's a KWAB, Inoki would be ashamed, look at muh Tokyo Dome attendances" poster that has been crying about this shit for at least 6 years straight now
>The Haroldposters
>WWE fans

And now
The based Shota picture maker, our defining OC guy (Is it true jannies b& him or just more schizo delusions? Cringe as fuck if so)
What next, obsessed-kun? Am I also the suno.com guy? Am I the guy that takes 5ch screenshots? Why do you need to pretend that everyone that likes lightly jabbing Shota and thinks AEW sucks dick is one person? I know I called you shotageek before to troll you, but I didn't realize it'd get you boiling this hard.

>27 May
>Random Inokiposter makes another "Nu Jamal" thread
>POOOOLEEEEEEE
I like making fun of Shota for laughs and I hate your gAyEW and what they have done to NJPW. You're associating anyone that says anything that pisses you off with me. This is a sign of severe schizophrenia, for your information.

>Taking inspiration from the Rainmaker—
>it's the Rainmaker-style GTR!!
>The name: Goto Revolution!!
>I’ll be the one to make it rain gold once more in New Japan Pro-Wrestling.

https://x.com/510njpw/status/1934343954805494001

>>18005906
Brother he might just

>June 3
>Some shitposter makes up the ridiculous idea that Fujita sucks and YOH is better than him
>POOOOOLEEEEEEE
The more bait like this you fall for, the more they'll keep baiting you. You know that, right? They only benefit from you schizophrenically using me as a boogeyman for them. Just so you know, I watched BOSJ without visiting /pw/ and loved the finals. Fujita is dimes.

>>18007476
Disgusting individual

Alright, last one I'm posting. This poster is based and he even recognized you as Shotageek. Honestly, not once did I think that "Shotageek" was an actual name for any one individual. It was just me using it to funpost about Tsuji vs Shota. You are still butthurt to this day that there is a """console war""" between different wrestlers, as if the whole point of pro wrestling shitposting isn't to cheer for your favorites and shitpost on the people in their way. The fuck do you want this website to be? Reddit? This whole mindbreaking happened because people were memeing Shota being a geek, which ended up being completely justified when he literally shaved his head bald, by the way. You were seething when fans were booing Shota. You were seething when Shota had a bad match at WK. You were seething when he turned bald. NJPW is telling a story and you are seething that people here are having fun with it. Or is your actual origin story as a schizo just that you hate that /njpw/ hates gAyEW? Kidd is about to repeat the Ospreay route and you still expect us NJPW fans to watch that shit unfold with a smile on our faces.

You're a fucking faggot, dude. I look forward to doing another archive search in a few months and seeing you obsessing about me in every single NJPW thread.

>>18007480
dude just kiss each other already

Gabe hitting the Death Rider on Shota during their G1 match is going to be very funny

>>18007531
I'm done. Just didn't realize I had been turned into an Ojama/Bitchtits tier boogeyman until now when I went to see what /pw/ thought of Dominion.

Also, /pw/ is dead as fuck nowadays. A 10 day old thread in the catalog. The webmbro thread was created 2 days ago and it's at 160 replies. Only threads that seemed more or less the same level of activity are the Stardom threads that get a new one made per day.

>>18007545
Is shota taking the title from Gabe at the dome? - _-

>>18007583
Which actually just benefits us cause it means /njpw/ doesn't get bumped off the catalog as easily kek. Now that I think about it, this is almost certainly because of all the cooldowns and other stuff they added to try to end with ban-evaders. The eternal WWE vs AEW shitposting is now probably done by multiple people and not just a tug-of-war between 2 schizos samefagging for hours on end.

>>18007583
I don't give a fuck, half this thread you two shitting on each other now, you can both fuck off now.

>>18007595
Alright, anon, but the difference is I made 9 (10 posts now) ITT and am not gonna make many more, if any. You'll still be reading about muh pole boogeyman for many threads to come when I'm no longer here and am too busy browsing other boards. Goodbye.

>>18007464
I thought GTR meant Goto Revolution already...

>named Bolt-ons
>chest flat as a board

>>18004713
A block looks so grim lol

>pole-kun is writing his schizo dissertation
KWAB what a mental breakdown, one for the record books
>>18007363
>>18007398
>>18007432
>>18007458
>>18007480
>>18007530
Sorry about Tsuji losing to "Gaped Klitt" bro! Must be a tough little weekend for you cleaning those toilets!

>>18004713
Drilla over Chase for Block A
Oiwa over YOSHI-HASHI for Block A
Newman over Taichi for Block B
Hiromu over Ishii for Block B

>>18007476
I hate how small that belt is

>>18004713
Who pins Goto and gets the October title shot?

>>18008994
Gabe-sama is just that much bigger than the average man.

>>18009116
EVIL

>>18007984
That’s what functional strength looks like. The chest muscles are mostly useless compared to back, arms, obliques etc. which is why Greek statues all have small chests

>>18004713
They should rename it to Grim Block and Dire Block.

Just got NJPW World. Pretty weak search function, ESL as all hell but of course it is lmao can't expect anything different.

Watching Liger vs. Owen from TOSJ 1991, never seen it before. Any other classics from yesteryear worth looking for?

>>18009467
>pretty weak search function
This bothers me so much. It's fucking insane that you cannot reliably search for a specific match on a fucking match archive

>>18009467
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shinya Hashimoto (4/29/96)
Great Muta vs. Jushin Thunder Liger (10/20/96)
El Samurai vs. Koji Kanemoto (6/5/97)
Minoru Tanaka vs. Takehiro Murahama (4/20/01)
Kazunari Murakami vs. Yuji Nagata (12/10/02)
Kensuke Sasaki vs. Yuji Nagata (1/4/04)
Togi Makabe vs. Yuji Nagata (7/6/07)
Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (11/11/07)

>>18009632
>Minoru Tanaka vs. Takehiro Murahama (4/20/01)
My fucking nigga, this is my favorite junior match of all time

>>18009116
I'm thinking he goes 6-3 and doesn't make it to the final based on tiebreakers. Losses to EVIL, Finlay and Tsuji.

I actually cannot fathom how New Japan managed to fuck up this bad. Like this should have been a show of a year candidate. What an utter disappointment.

>>18009987
>half the card was HoT
>I can't believe this wasn't show of the year!

>>18009987
>Despy/Fujita added to the Hontai/TMDK tag
>WD/HOT is just a normal tag match
>Jr tag titles is just a normal match and HoT wins (DOUKI or Nobu I dont care)
>Finlay/EVIL have their match without it being a fucking lumberjack match on top of it and also not no DQ fo no fucking reason, Chase & Fale make their first appearances on the show but it's a swerve like the GoD betrayal so the fans are at least up for the active swerves
Fixed

At least it is G1 season I suppose.

>>18009116
No one
The G in G1 stands for Goto motherfucker

The G in G1 stands from GRIM.

>>18007458
This Inoki meme in particular is universal here and been posted since 2017.

The G in G1 stands for GRIM.

Unironically the TMDK vs. HONTAI match was like a top 3 match on that card.

>>18010092
>>18010141
KWAB

Pole-kun is a retarded ESL faggot as usual

>>18009467
Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito 1987
https://watch.njpwworld.com/details/41811
Riki Choshu vs. Tatsumi Fujinami 1983
https://watch.njpwworld.com/details/41803
Great Muta vs. Hiroshi Hase 1992
https://watch.njpwworld.com/details/49596
Masahiro Chono vs Rick Rude (with Madusa) 1992
https://watch.njpwworld.com/details/37736
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Genichiro Tenryu 1998
https://watch.njpwworld.com/details/47051

Kek AEW stole all of their talent

>no Shota angle
>no Shingo angle
>no Young Blood
>HoT suffer no real consequences from any previous losses
We're gonna have to to change to /neh/ nothing ever happens general at this rate

Hopefully Chase and Fale are going to get injured and not qualify for the G1

There will be a play-off section of the G1. The first 2 nights are pure block matches.

6/18
>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay (double young lion debut)

6/23
>Callum Newman vs Taichi (A Block Play-In)
>Tomohiro Ishii vs Drilla Moloney (B Block Play-In)

6/29 Tanahashi Jam (not on World)
>Goto vs ZSJ IWGP WHC
>ELP TV Title Open Challenge

>7/4
Ryohei Oiwa vs Don Fale (A Block Play-In)
YOSHI-HASHI vs Chase Owens (B Block Play-IN)
IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Gabe KIdd vs Hiroshi Tanahashi

>>18009467
search by date where possible, it's the only consistent way to get shit to show up I've found

>>18009467
youre an idiot, just go to series

finally some heavyweight YLs

>>18011135
>Tanahashi Jam (not on World)
Not even as a PPV? Tf?

Hey, I'm the main Grimster that mindbroke the Bushidrone schizo. I'm back from my trip. Now let's take a look at Griminion's tickets sal-
>6,525人
OH NO NO NO NO NO NO KWAB KWAB KWAB
Not gonna lie I honestly thought they would do the usual grim 7 thousy, that's why before I left for a few days I didn't even talk about a potential 6 thousy but they actually did worse than Griminion 2023 which was main evented by an NPC looking SANADA vs a chubby manlet who just returned from excursion. They also did worse than Griminion 2024 which was main evented by fucking juniors because Jeong Mok was so dimeless he got relegated to the semi-main.

Yappari, Shingo Bangerino is an anti-draw shitter and it's another a proof that hecking bangerinos don't draw a dime when you can't build an interesting storyline to save your heatless promotion.
Therefore, I declare that Griminion was indeed extremely GRIM ! A dark day for the Bushidrones and they can now bubble and suck my dick !

>>18011159
TV Asahi exclusive. If there was Taima instead of these baked fags there'd be someone to stream it but there probably won't be

the chasester is taking it all this year

>>18011185
>>6,525人
Grim. Grimola even.

>replying to your own post
>fucking it up
KWAB
now THAT is grim

>>18005181
>>18009488
finally a heterosexual cowboy in wrestling

>>18011350
Connors wasn't gay enough for you? Not even Page?

>>18011359
hold on i read that as homosexual nvm

>>18011135
>Don Fale

>>18011152
Looked up the article and it’s literally 5’11” vs. 6’
Matsumoto is already 24 but Zane doesn’t have an age listed

>>18011138
Weird change from how they did it last year. We could have a final match that is a rematch of a block bout.

is Jon Moxley a bigger draw than Goto

>>18010292
This, and the Osakan smarks seemed to like Shota, I feel like if they give him a long TV title reign or something and then transition him to the main event scene he has a chance to be well received the next time he challenges for the IWGP. So that means they're probably going to make him a G1 finalist and fuck it all up lol

>>18011432
Nah Despe is

Who here /Oleg/?

what if goto wins and names big yosh as his opponent for the tokyo dome

>>18011413
>Looked up the article and it’s literally 5’11” vs. 6’
So it's shoot 5'8" vs 5'10". Got it.

>>18011459
lfg

>>18011459
>nine twinkle star match incoming, the hacks in the IWC will just be too blind to see

>>18011453
#KazakhAttack

>>18011453
best ogre to spit BARS since ra the rugged man

>>18011453
Boy is based and is believable at a threat to everyone. Hope he does well in A Block, but he has the current hebbyq champ and a bunch of guys that would be solid challenges for the NEVER belt, so he's going 4-5.

>>18011366
BARS was one of the only dudes who delivered so I'm with him.

>>18011459
I look at the current field and don't know if anyone excites me as Goto's WK opponent. Feels like it's a new gen talent or Takeshita, but none of them feel ready to be world champion.

>>18011159
its a TV exclusive show as the last event in Dolphins Arena before its torn down
>>18011413
hes 27

>>18012178
True. The new gen is grim for now.

>>18012178
the main event will be tana vs goto, tana wins and joins house of torture

Literally the only professional wrestling promotion

we need Naito back

>>18013259
Nah we're good

>>18013599
The recent grim attendance rates say otherwise

>>18011459
>big yosh
The last thing NJPW needs is to be more grim than now

6.5 at Dominion seems bad. Last year was 7.2 with the juniors main eventing. Most attendances have stagnanted with last year which isn't terrible, but this show was notably down.

>>18013893
You gotta think they would've at least equaled it had they not sat so many people out

Not having a BOSJ follow up is just weird to me

>>18014244
Yeah that annoyed me cause Despe needed to play Death match with Kasai.

No Hiromu in the G1. But we might get Chase! This company sucks ass.

>>18013893
Neither of their top 2 Jrs and the only things attempting to be "hot" leading to the show is EVIL trying to kill Gedo and that one single Shingo/Goto promo battle. Finlay nowhere to be seen, Gabe tanking his own character and Tsuji being to pussy to use it as heat for the match.

>>18014577
Chase has like a 0% chance to make the G1 and you know it kek

I will agree that the G1 is full of safe picks this year.
No NOAH guys, no DDT guys beyond Takeshita? I would've liked to see more guests.
Surprised we didn't get stuck with an AEW guy.

>>18014591
I was Naive to think that HoT wasn't just gonna derail the whole show and kill the crowd stone dead. I don't remember a time hearing a crowd as silent as they were after Finlay vs Evil.

>>18011135
>Callum Newman vs Taichi (A Block Play-In)
The sheer kino of over as fuck Taichi in A Block lost for overselling Ospreay boy

>>18014577
>>18014599
>they dont believe in the LoneStar Outlaw
It's the time of the Chasebros

>>18014599
I'm just disappointed that they teased Hiromu passing the torch to Fujita only to continue having him float around and maybe fued with HoT. The crowd was so molten for him against Henare last year. They could easily make him a star. Gedo has always struggled to book outside of the main event, but he has really lost his fastball in recent years.

>>18014654
The only coherent push that is happening right now is Tsuji. He should be losing up to win the G1 maybe in a final against Takeshita.

I'm losing faith in Tsuji. That Gabe match was trash because of the flaws each of them have, but even worse is there is no Reiwa talent that is ready instead of Tsuji. Umino and Newman suck. Uemura and Oiwa feel like young lions in new costumes. Oleg is great but he's holding the NEVER belt. Narita is fun in his own way but he's #3 in HoT and not meant for a big push with this character.

>>18014715
I blame Gabe more than Tsuji, but yes it was underwhelming. I thought Gabe thinking way too much about rectifying is AEW nonsense.

>>18014981
his* not is.

>>18014715
Tsuji is seriously lacking in charisma, that's his main problem these days. He has very little presence and once you know he's a smaller guy the whole kaiju presentation just seems kind of silly, almost insulting even. He doesn't even wrestle like a power guy, so I don't really get it.

I think sending him to CMLL was awful for him. He doesn't benefit at all from the lucha part of his arsenal and I liked him more as a hard-hitting intense Young Lion who was more of a pure hontai, fire guy than whatever the fuck the smiling fedora man has become.

>>18015005
My main problem is he can't decide if he wants to be nonchalant like Naito or a traditional babyface.

>>18014244
I think this is what hurt the attendance the most. Sure Naito leaving and LIJ being done must hurt them but the BOSJ is a whole tour that's supposed to lead to Dominion. The champion wanting to do some mudshow bullshit in Korakuen instead of defending at the Osaka-jo Hall is super retarded.

>>18015014
Yeah I've only really cared about Tsuji when he's been more of a prick which is in line with LIJ but he's just a bland corporate babyface right now

gabe kidd fucking sucks

This is why Weekend Webmbro doesn't hang out with us anymore

>>18015005
it's weird because when tsuji debuted he was oozing charisma, but then he started doing his weird gimmicks like the marlowe pudding shit which feels like a gimmick you'd do after being over for a while (eg. naito really hammering on the okamoto gimmick in his later years) to capitalize on your overness, rather than trying to force it to work so early on

>>18015144
Hard not to want to do an autopsy after that show.

>>18015251
I hate to say it but it seems like Naito's mentorship steered him wrong.

He was better as a Young Lion as Tanahashi's protoge, he seemed a more natural fit for a generic babyface kind of thing.
For whatever reason, they decided to make Uemura that guy instead.

>>18015266
now that you mention it, a world where umino and tsuji have their roles reversed would probably be a lot more interesting (assuming we ignore umino being jeong mok's stepson)
I still think uemura is a natural fit for his role though, if anything I think he might be holding back a bit from seeing the reception the r3m got

It is indeed quite grim that Tsuji is having a sort of identity crisis and that his stock is crashing down at the worst time possible. They might have to keep the world championship on Goto-san for a while until one of these Reiwa dudes gets a clue.

*leaves and kills NJPW in your path*

>>18015583
Honestly? based

>>18015368
Goto is the most over in the company and his matches (aside from the Umino one) have been kino
Let him keep the belt for a long time and maybe someone else will get a clue during that period

I think we underestimated how important Naito was/is. Maybe he was a botching shitter near the end of his run but he still had that charisma and strong character. Meanwhile you see Tsuji trying to be all nice and very polite about Gabe Kidd going to the poop dick wrestling fed and now people start to doubt him.

>>18015583
if all Naito accounts for is 500 people, that's pretty grim

We should be criticizing Tana's retirement tour if anything. Noah popped tons of houses with Muta. Almost no individual wrestlers in the modern day are by themselves business changing stars. It really is mostly about building momentum for the overall brand. Having hot acts on top can do this, but at the level New Japan is at they need more than 1 guy because they are aiming to routinely sell out much bigger venues than other promotions.

>>18016978
>posting AI sloppa
cringeola

>>18017052
Just wait until Oleg gets hot

>>18017052
He wants to uplift who New Japan has now over anything else but it's to a fault where his matches at these big shows feel wasted on the young guys instead of being used to pop houses for nostalgia matches

>>18016978
kek based

>>18017052
Mutoh's rivals and biggest matches had nothing to do with NOAH and was purely to sell houses in a vacuum. Tana's is the complete opposite but both approaches have issues. I'd hope post-G1 Tana starts getting some legacy matches in.

>>18017789
I would say the hope is pack people into the building then hope you can convince them comeback. Much harder to just hope people show up with no special draw. But in either case they require people on the card who are worth getting invested in aside from the oldies.

evil will win the g1

How grim is the situation right now?

>>18017917
One might say. It's so over.

is the heel in the gabe kidd angle aew?

>>18018403
there's only one heel here and it's you for ruining this thread with your 70 IQ third world spam

>>18017917
New Japan somehow has even less hype than last year before the G1. Knowing last year had Jeong Mokusu Lee shitting up the promotion. It wasn't supposed to happen, we were supposed to get hyped as hell and see the reiwa guys do some kino magic but they failed to step up and Gedo is so scared of making anything of note happen that they massively disappointed everyone with Dominion.The G1 might have to be renamed as the Grim 1 if they still can't create a new main event superstar with it. It's over.

>>18018438
based i'll be bullet club leader and sex with many nubile young japanese girlies

>>18017877
That comes with good booking as a whole, though. NOAH didnt have it then, New Japan's while doing fine up until literally the 1st of June but has now seemingly plummeted.

mao, nakajima, konosuke working full time and more giant plushies fujos can spend thousands on would fix everything

>>18018707
I think Mao is a faggot indie shitter but to be fair he seems to do something for the fujos. Takeshita mogs the homegrown NJPW talents so yeah they need him full time.
But Nakajima is literally the Japanese KWABOTY, proved that he's a complete bum anti-draw shitter. There's a reason why he's rotting in GLEAT.

>>18018707
>more giant plushies fujos
i got just the guy for ya

>when Gabe hit the Death Rider
He'd been my md4r since G1 33 till like a month ago and I felt nothing when he won. All for an angle where no one who isn't watching NJPW gives a fuck. I'm still bewildered.

>>18018894
you could even hear Charlton getting annoyed as he was talking about the Death Riders logo on his gear

where are all the hot babes

BAHAHAHAHA

uh oh STINKY
somebody's gonna have a big SEETHE today! Looks like the JP fans still love Gabe-u!

>>18019367
Left for Marigold

>>18019367
Not in this picture

>>18019081
Yeah that was super lame. Including his whole "You are either on the ride or you are against me." AKA: I am leaving next contract season.

Captcha: KARP4
I miss Naito bros...

My guesses for WK matches based on the how things are currently trending:
IWGP World: Goto vs. Tsuji (G1 winner)
IWGP Global: Kidd vs. Takeshita (Beats him in block play)
Television: Sabre Jr. vs. Umino (They have teased this feud continuing and Zack going after the TV)
Tag: Ishii & Taichi vs. Fale & Owens (WTL winners because lol)
Junior: Kosei Fujita vs. Hiromu (Fujita beats Despy and gets his win over Hiromu in a big moment)
NEVER: Oleg vs. Oiwa (Gets a win over Oleg in block play)
Junior Tag 4 Way
Tanahashi does something with Uemura in his final match
Some potential unforeseen developments: Tanahashi wants to do something Umino. Gedo decides to give Newman and O-Khan the runback.

>>18019794
Oh yeah Hiromu and Nobu teaming could be a thing so maybe that factors in if Hiromu isn't in the junior title match.

NJPW sucks because of their own mistakes, stop blaming other promotions

>>18019894
No one is blaming gAyEW for Griminion as a whole. Only for it derailing Kidd which it objectively did. The crowd was way less into it compared to the draw earlier in the year.

>>18019949
stop giving titles to people on their way out

>>18018707
>mao
lol
lmao even
he dgaf about njpw, he used bosj to publicity for himself and ddt. he said that don't want to get a double affiliation
>https://www.010-sports.jp/archives/14280

https://x.com/okamotospo/status/1934816808504316075
>[Breaking News] Former New Japan Pro-Wrestling wrestler Tetsuya Naito (unemployed) has been hired as a one-day employee at Tako Q, a takoyaki shop in Oshima, Koto Ward.

>>18020253
>Japon
lol

>>18020253
Grim news

>>18020414
Why, selling takoyaki and sorft serve ice cream is less grim than be in NJPW >https://x.com/okamotospo/status/1934859299702100071

>>18020430
Absolutely grim. What's next? Asking Nakanishi-senpai for work at his gas station?

>>18019794
Ishii & Taichi aren't making it past V1 muchless to Tokyo Dome

>>18020430
>We miss you GOAT

he shoot looks happier serving ice cream than wrestling

>>18020989
Only thing he has to look out for on the ice cream machine is a big button in the middle, much less taxing on the eyes.

>>18020430
>>18020989
yappari it really is less of a grim life than sawdusting himself for the Bushislop fed
gambare Naito-san !

>pole-kun ignoring the truth so he can rant
>has made like 4 new grim japan threads seething
KWAB
GABE KIDD
WAR READY
>>18019469

>>18020854
>>18020989
I know these have to be nightmares in the summer, but these tiny ass restaurants and bars japan has are awesome.

>>18020569
This. Those titles are being kept warm for YoungBlood’s return.

>>18020841
according to you and like 5 fat smarks on the podcast you like

meanwhile the Japs are putting him on magazine covers

you know it's really grim when the biggest bushidrone thinks being on the cover of shupro is a big win when even dimeless ddt, noah or all japan faggots regularly have a cover. this grim 6.5 thousy delivered a huge blow. yappari, they might turn fookin mental like gaped klitt.

>>18021247
the japs are also silent when he's wrestling though

>>18021251
>>18021255

>>18021276
did you not watch the dominion match???

>>18021278
Did you? They both got good reactions.

>We have received more customers than expected at TakoQ, so we have temporarily closed the line and are distributing numbered tickets. Currently, customers are waiting more than one hour. We appreciate your understanding.
>Numbered tickets for TakoQ will be closed when about 70 tickets remain to be distributed. Naito-san has already confirmed that he will be working overtime! Thank you for your understanding
>All numbered tickets have been distributed for today. Thank you very much.
kek what an unrelenting draw

>>18021296
>70 people
Wow, a whole DDT crowd showed up

Opinion on Shota Umino?

>>18021296
damn, he really is drawing dimes even as a fucking takoyaki shop employee
maybe it should be his new gimmick when he comes back to wrestling

So why did Gabe show respect to Tanahashi when he's supposed to hate him because of his friendship with Tony Khan?

>>18021322
Never forget

>>18021335
what a faggot

>>18021322
Gabe is a confused young man. You could even call him a mad man you know

>>18021322
Because he recognizes Tana believes in him despite everything.

>>18021335
grim

>>18021335
>when you realize that you have to work the g1 because you couldn't keep naito

Is that why Pole-schizo is so angry? Is he an Ace hater?

Have we gotten to the bottom of his autism?

>>18021322
because tana stopped him from killing himself when he was having a mental breakdown

>>18021335
someone post his reaction after the shota umino match

>>18021316
he fucking rulesh !!

>>18021395
true

kinda crazy to think that naito at the takoyaki shop probably outdrew most puro promotions
wrestling is dead he should keep working at that shop

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