Live on NJPW World:

>New Japan Soul 2025

6/18 Aomori Martial Arts Hall (7:00pm)
>El Phantasmo, Shota Umino, and Hirooki Goto vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, and Zack Sabre Jr.
>Tiger Mask, Tomohiro Ishii, and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Gedo, Drilla Moloney, and Gabe Kidd
>Ryusuke Taguchi, Yuya Uemura, and Taichi vs Jakob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan, and Callum Newman
>Katsuya Murashima, Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, YOSHI-HASHI, and Boltin Oleg vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SANADA, Don Fale, Chase Owens, and King of Darkness EVIL
>Shoma Kato, Master Wato, YOH, and Toru Yano vs DOUKI, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, and Ren Narita
>Masatora Yasuda vs Daiki Nagai
>Tatsuya Matsumoto & Zane Jay Debut Match: Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay

6/19 Hachinohe East Municipal Stadium (7:00pm)
>El Phantasmo, Yuya Uemura, and Hirooki Goto vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, and Zack Sabre Jr.
>Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomohiro Ishii, and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Gedo, Drilla Moloney, and Gabe Kidd
>Tiger Mask, Shota Umino, and Taichi vs Jakob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan, and Callum Newman
>Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, YOSHI-HASHI, and Boltin Oleg vs Dick Togo, SANADA, Don Fale, Chase Owens, and King of Darkness EVIL
>Katsuya Murashima, Shoma Kato, Master Wato, YOH, and Toru Yano vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, DOUKI, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, and Ren Narita
>Masatora Yasuda vs Daiki Nagai
>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay

6/21 Yamagata Big Wing (6:00pm)
6/22 Fukushima Toyota Crown Arena (3:00pm)
6/23 Korakuen (6:30pm)

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
>Hardcore Rules: Rina Yamashita & X vs Kenji Fukimoto & Masashi Takeda

6/26 Korakuen (6:30pm)
6/27 Shiga Theatre for Cultural & Industrial Development Event Hall (6:00pm)

Previous >>17998294

>>18021469 (OP)
kek the ref looks like he's about to join HoT

>>18021478
Insider here. He did.

>>18021469 (OP)
6/29 Tanahashi Jam @ Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium (5:00pm)
>Naomichi Marufuji and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Ryohei Oiwa and Kaito Kiyomiya
>Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino, and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs LEONA, Hiromu Takahashi, and Tatsumi Fujinami
>IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs Zack Sabre Jr. [12th champion, 8th defense]
>NJPW WORLD TV Championship: El Phantasmo (c) vs ? [2nd defense]
>NEVER Openweight Championship: Boltin Oleg (c) vs Yuji Nagata [48th champion, 1st defense]
>Katsuya Murashima vs Daiki Odashima

7/4 Tokyo Budokan (6:30pm)
7/6 Korakuen (6:30pm)

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

Fantasticamania in Arena Mexico this Friday

They should just allow random crowd members to get up and walk into the ring and join House of Torture at this point

I want to see refs join, I want to see the ring bell guy EVIL has bullied for years join. I want to see Miho Abe and random people like Walker join House of Torture. Maybe a few random BJW guys.
Fuck it, just make it a meme at this point.

>>18021469 (OP)
When Tana retires, who is NJPW's biggest draw? Goto? Despy?

is this true?
https://x.com/SmarkInfested/status/1934192563009003526

>>18021516
>1 retweet
>10 likes
NJPW is finished! Bushiroad has fallen!

The G in G1 stands for GRIM.

>>18021516
Very intriguing indeed

>>18021516
>tweet has such low engagement that i'll be able to stalk the twitter account of any new likers/retweets from the time of posting and associate them with /njpw/'s worst posters
Very interesting indeed indeed

Going to cheer for my boy Oleg at the G1

>>18021492
someone tell cmll lij is fucking DEAD

What program do I need to grab to watch TV Asahi for Tanahashi Jam?

>>18021503
>Walker and Don Fale representing HoT in WTL
Holy basedola

>>18021513
The brand

>>18021609
>every time EVIL used walker as a human shield he was recruiting the big man
kino

>>18021469 (OP)
New Japan Soul? The soul they sold to AEW? What a joke.

kek what a family man

>>18021628
>He has his own calendar on the wall

kek what a mark

is he though

>>18021628
Wholesome

>>18021686
El Presidente seems to think so

>>18021686

>>18021503
>Maybe a few random BJW guys.
They'll be dead soon so they as might pick some guys up.

>>18021691
This isn't one of your seethe threads filled with normies and casuals. Anyone who watches NJPW knows this is the only notable botch of Gabe's entire career.

Take that e-drone/aewtist console war energy somewhere else faggot

>>18021478
Honestly that's the one thing they don't have currently. They should get a Nick Patrick to really fuck with matches.

>>18021754
i feel like nwo era nick patrick was less lax with the rules then the average ref today

>>18021492
Komander got injured, so card changed

>Book Hontai vs HOT all year
>Add new members to each faction continuously throughout the year
>Soon almost all the roster is in either faction
>HOT ruin the G1 with constant interference for dat heat baby
>Your final match is against EVIL for the "soul of NJPW"
>Win and retire the hero who saved NJPW
>(EVIL and HOT return one month later but are now a completely bloated faction)
Ummmm, thanks.. Mr President

>>18021686
Annoying faggot. Can't wait for him to fuck off to AEW. The Global belt is being held by an AEW guy right now as far as I am concerned. This is why NJPW is so grim now. They keep building up guys like Takeshita and Gabe for AEW instead of focusing on guys like Narita, Uemura and Oiwa. Takeshita was fucking wasting away in AEW until New Japan revived his career last year in the G1 Climax.

New Japan even made something interesting out of Jack Perry. They took shit and turned it into gol--,not shit. What did AEW do with Jungle Jack then? That's right, Tony fumbled him. An entire New Japan Cup and NJPW Strong show in America wasted over saving this choked bitch's career and it didn't do shit for him. Shota got sidetracked because of this too.

I am sure when Gabe reaching the playoffs this year will benefit New Japan a lot when he fucks off to AEW. Stupid fucking cunts.

>>18021820
you type like you've never had sex with a woman

Kidd will end in WWE doing nothing

The way you faggots have gone into hysterics over Gabe Kidd, taking him from one of /njpw/'s favorites to its most hated, because he worked 2 AEW shows is absolutely demented

It's like you're traumatized by this AEW shit, like a wife that's been beaten for 10 years
embarrassing honestly, woman behavior

>>18021851
gonna be honest bros, i do not care for this and am getting worked

>>18021851
>His smile and optimism gone

>>18021492
>>18021771
The actual show poster

>>18021922
>NJPW guys midcarding
>AEW guys in the main event
this is all Gabe Kidd's fault

>>18021922
Wow, two Rocky Romeros. What can't that guy do.

>Shota was/is hated for having an identity crisis, trying to be Moxley and Tanahashi at the same time and looking like a geek while doing it.
>Tsuji was liked but then he started acting too soft and polite, even refusing to say anything bad about the AEW stuff like he's scared or something. Feels like he doesn't even know what he wants to be anymore.
>Yuya Uemura joined Hontai and is now trying to look like Tanahashi by doing all sorts of gay shit with his hair.
>Gaped Klitt was criticizing Shota for being Moxley's bitch, was all "IM FOOKIN MENTAL FUCK AEW I ONLY LOVE SHIN NIHON BRUV IM BLEEDING FOR SHIN NIHON MATE" then he showed up in AEW and at Griminion he won the Global title by emulating Moxley.
Yappari, it's like Shota spread some sort of virus that makes all the young dudes soft and cut off their cocks. This is not the generation that will save NJPW from its grimness !

>>18021928
tbf New Japan has lowballed all 3 Fantasticmanias in Mexico

>>18021820
Promo's good

>>18021944
I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder

>>18021945
>blaming wrestlers for their booking
Marks are so fucking retarded.
Let me ask you something: if Gedo walked up to Gabe Kidd and said, "Go to AEW during BOSJ when we don't need you, work two matches on TV to build part a story for Forbidden Door later," what the fuck do you think he should've done?
>I'm sorry boss but I can't do that because I've said some mean things about AEW in some worked comments in the past in my capacity as a wrestler, playing a kayfabe character, so yeah, no, I can't do it. I have to stay loyal to my fake fighting character and I'm going to make myself a backstage problem to facilitate this and jeopardize my career by establishing a reputation that I am difficult to work with, something already perhaps in jeopardy due to my past mental health issues.
You're an imbecile. A fucking retard. A moron. I can't possibly express how much I hate idiots like you who are incapable of even thinking a single fucking irrelevant thing like a wrestling storyline through. You are beneath my contempt but I will despise you anyway, you absolute mental fucking midget. Use that space between your ears which is only filled with faggotry for something else, you nigger bitch.

>>18021922
>avoiding using the word Rush
KEK
>>18021928
shouldn't have jobbed Titan and Templario

>>18021969
that's a lot of words to say you're a retard

>>18021969
Promo's good

>>18021820
I just checked. This is all true.

>>18021969
based champion of /njpw/

>>18021820
No lies detected

>>18021969
looking grim for the grimposter

>>18021469 (OP)
>bad luck fale has a shoot white santa beard now
Grim. I'm getting old.

gabe kidd is a fucking weeb so he unfortunately might stay in nooj for a little while

>>18022398
nah the bushidrone had another meltdown because his precious gaped klitt got exposed as a tranny ass bitch and griminion did 6 thousy so the grimsters can't stop winning right now

The Grimsters are right. Anti-Smarks will continue to pretend HoT is good for business. It's time to give up on Gedo.

It feels like this G1 will have a lot of rematches from last year, or even from this year. In A block: Goto, Boltin, Finlay, Yota and Yuya are all rematches from last year's G1 and some of them already fought again this year. B block is a little bit fresher but we have Shota, Zack and Shingo facing each other again. Some of those matches happen a little too much in a small amount of time.

>>18021820
This is the only good post in this entire thread.

>>18022560
You can either blame the wrestlers or you can blame Gedo but you can't blame both

>>18022656
do you think New Japan is heavily scripted and that the wrestlers have absolutely no choice in what they do ? you can blame both. Gedo for his shitty retarded booking and the wrestlers for their lack of personality, charisma and shitty matches. You can also blame both sides for not drawing a dime.

>>18022722
Yes, they have basically no input on their own booking. This is known. They can refuse to do jobs but then they'll be benched or de-emphasized. See: TJP.

They have input on their gimmicks when they return from excursion but absolutely, guys who are young, just out of the Young Lion program? I think they have VERY LITTLE input in their own booking.
I also think it's in the best interest of your career to say yes to what is presented to you most of the time.

kek pole-kun outed himself as our old nemesis Bobboschizo
>>18020267
>>18020267
>>18020267
oldfags will remember, see picrelated and use the archive on the Image MD5 of the linked thread

>>18022750
Wrestlers have way more power in New Japan compared to the American major leagues. They were begging literally anyone to be the leader of UE.

great he made up another schizo, might be his way of coping with the grim reality don't laugh at him please.

>>18022750
TJP benched himself because he was hoping he could leverage himself as a commodity to become a heavyweight.

>>18022834
>Wrestlers have way more power in New Japan than the American major leagues
They have more power than WWE but not by much, and it's only because most of the guys aren't even under contract and are being paid per appearance. Need I remind you Aussie Open were tag champs for months while being paid per appearance?

Even Naito himself in his recent exit interviews verified that he didn't have much control over his booking. His only real option in disagreeing with NJPW on how he should be used was to leave the company. And nobody had more sway than Naito, so please explain that in this headcanon where NJPW guys all have creative control.

>>18022843
I didn't even make that image, another anon did. You're just a newfag or the schizo himself. Either way, please kill yourself and get off of our website, tyvm

>>18021851
Douki's entire japanese career has been lovable underdog. I hate this shit. I feel like Gedo went "oh, you have a signature weapon? you're in HoT now."
this better end with Despy feuding with HoT and eventually redeeming Douki. He just doesn't fit.

>>18022920
>Douki's entire japanese career has been lovable underdog.
???? What are you people even talking about?

>>18022878
Everyone is PPA. I don't know if people on "real" contracts have a garunteed minimum or number of dates, but this seems to be the case.

Docki in HoT is a legitimate waste of like 3 years of character development.

>>18022981
>Everyone is PPA
Not true, there are yearly contracts for most of the dojo guys and top players, very occasionally multi-year contracts. Okada had a 3 year deal at one point.

t. knower

It must suck to be a newjamal redditor and having a joshipedo spam your threads.

>>18023127
I like sending him into meltdowns and getting a bit of discussion in between, it's pretty comfy actually

>>18023105
Insider here: This is not true.

>>18023372
I'm the insider you LARPing retard

>>18023392
Ya seething Shota kun?

>>18023417
Shota is way too nice and sheltered of a person to know what this place this

>>18023383
I want some ice cream cabron.

>>18023432
this, for all the shit we give him at least shota has sex so he's never going to be here

Serious question. When is any Jap going to step up?

>>18023511
Doesn't matter, as soon as another one does you're going to dismiss him because he's going to work a Forbidden Door show or something, you already did that with Tsuji and Uemura because they "were too soft" (ie they didn't cartoonishly talked shit about AEW)

>>18023547
I'm not your schizo pal. I wish this board had flags.

Gomenasai /njpw/, my name is Francesco-san. I’m a 25 year old Italian puroresu senshu (pro wrestler for you gaijins). I practice in my dojo, and spend my days perfecting my art and practicing superior Japanese wrestling styles (Strong Style, King's Road). I train with hindu squats, this superior technique can create a body like steel because it is performed over a thousand times, and is vastly superior to any other form of training on earth. I passed my puro testo several years ago, and I have been getting better every day. I speak Japanese fluently, both Kanji and the Osaka dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about Japanese history and their fighting spirit, which I follow 100%. When I get my Japanese visa, I am moving to Tokyo to live in the prestigious Shin Nihon Puroresu dormitory to learn more about their magnificent company. I hope I can become a Battle of the Super Jr winner or even in the G1! I own several pairs of plain black trunks, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to Japan, so I can fit in easier. I dogeza to my elders and seniors after the match and speak Japanese as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond. Wish me luck in Japan!

>>18023627
Gambatte Akira Senshu

>>18023627
sugoi...

>>18023627
This guy really is living his best weeb life

>>18023627
Roman Ronin

>is so grim that no outsiders wanted to be in it

>>18023627

>>18023704
I'm actually glad we have enough people on the roster, but I still think it would be better with like blocks of 8.

>>18023721
Chase is going to be in it so I don't think they actually have enough people

>>18023704
A 1 - Shit
A 2 - Okay but booked shitty
A 3 - Okay
A 4 - Shitty overrated
A 5 - SHIT
A 6 - SHITTER
A 7 - SHIT
A 8 - GTFO Already Shitter
B1 - Zesty shittard
B2 - Cringe Shit
B3 - GTFO Already Shitter
B4 - Zesty shittard
B5 - Based shitter
B6 - Jobbed Shitter
B7 - Shitter
B 8 - AEW Shit stain

>>18023743
Yujiro and Yano were in the "good" G1s so I'll live. Plus it is probably gonna be YH.

>>18023757
why are you even here

why didn't they bring youngblood back in time for the grim 1 instead of giving us chase and that ospreay clone shitter

>>18023793
do you even watch youngblood matches in other promotions or do you like the image of them that you made up in your mind

>>18021820
true
njpw is grimmest of grims right now fr fr

that's why he's the ace

>>18023814
I don't watch them but it would be more interesting than getting chase or callum
nakashima and oskar were very good as young lions so if their new gimmick doesn't suck they can't be worse than these two shitters

>>18023997
Oh my...

Are there any bigger posers than the flagship? These people pretend to "know ball" as they put it only to be completely disconnected from every fandom of the shows they try to analyze.

smartbros...when is our korean nigga coming back ? I think he would solve the manlet problem

>>18023782
He's here because a few anons and a mod broke his mind a few months ago (I was one of the anons)

Before this, he never trolled /njpw/ directly and stayed to his own shitty threads which always died

>>18023762
Yano played a great role in those G1s though. Refreshing to not have a comedy guy now.

I think Tanahashi should consider asking Naito to come back. He should beg on his knees and agree to whatever he wants.

>>18024470
he wants to sell ice creams now, it's over

I already miss Naito desu. Would rather have him hobbling around then whatever that Dominion card was.

>>18024470
>>18024517
t. the same retards who killed Misawa by refusing to support young wrestlers and clinging to old stars

>>18024524
not our fault if the young wrestlers are fucking dimeless
it's their job to get good enough to the point of wanting to see them rather than an old fuck who can't go anymore but is somehow still more interesting than all of the young guys even as a fucking takoyaki shop employee

>>18024524
Nah I don't want him to get hurt more, but he stated he isn't retiring so that's his choice. As far as new stars I'm not gonna root for guys who suck. I do like Tsuji though.

yota tsuji fucking sucks btw

>>18024575
But...I'm wearing a fedora, I'm being a classy gentleman...

I finally got around to watching the WD vs UE dog pound match from last year. It was way tamer than I expected, the way people talked about it I thought it was going to be batshit crazy but it was just a brawl with some unprotected headshots and literally one (1) back bump onto the ring wood

>>18021469 (OP)
The ref's face says it all; Griminion was grim.

just hearing the crowd says it all
they barely got hot during the whole show except for the last minutes of Goto v. Shingo
how the fuck do you manage to kill the Osaka smark crowd. truly grim.

How many times are you going to post variations of the same thing ITT, you absolute fruitcake?

>>18024054
No aura left, truly grim

>>18024687
we don't have anything else to talk about, nothing happens
what do you want us to say ? "oh I can't hecking wait for Zack to face Goto again" ? shit's grim.

>>18024699
Usually when people don't have anything to say, they don't say anything instead of autisticly repeating the same words over and over again spamming a thread with the same opinion written the same exact way

>>18024713
but then the thread will die cause no one cares about that grim promotion

>>18024721
Try it

Damn, Daiki Nagai's post-match comments moved me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHHfxlcbgaU

I always enjoy G1, always, and I will enjoy it again this year

>>18024752
I like the way he is treating crying like something he is selling trying to fight through, kek

like someone is putting him in a hold that is making him cry

>>18024687

>>18024752
Unrelated but I jumped over to DOUKI's post-match comments and someone needs to make a capture meme of his thoughts regarding smart marks.

O-Khan is the only new gen wrestler Naito put over, he is the chosen one.

Unagi Sayaka's video of Naito at the takoyaki shop easily outdrew any New Japan video from Dominion.

>>18025475
Grim if true.

>>18025830

>>18025303
O-Khan just spoke about finally becoming leader of UE. A bit late but might as well at this point.

>>18021851
Well he's in the faction that best suits his look. Always was weird seeing him as a heroic babyface with the JUST guys while looking like some sort of psychotic anime villain.

>>18025980
surprising that DOUKI got the highest view. lowest one is boltin oleg which is understable

Who was in the wrong here?

>>18021820
I mean, folks...

>>18021857
It's called "pattern recognition"
Dude is leaving first chance he gets
No point getting invested in him
He's just wasting our time

>>18021945
Tonikan forced Tsuji to not say anything
Yuya is gigadimes
Oiwa too

Gedo just needs to get a finna clue and stop bothering with Shottetty

>>18024752
They really can't let this guy go off on excursion. Keep his ass here

>>18026940
The same guy spamming every thread about Gabe Kidd also calls Tsuji, Shota, Shingo, and everybody else on the roster shit. He doesn't like anyone and is just trolling. That's pattern recognition, faggot.

If you're not that guy, you've been worked by him. Of course he's going to leave, he's a gaijin. What gaijin ever stayed, even in the golden days?
NJPW's most loyal gaijin were guys like Scott Norton and do you think he stayed in Japan working for 15 years straight or some shit? No, he still spent most of his time in the US.
You're retarded.

>>18023511
You can't step up until Gedo tells you you can and he's too busy sucking Shottetty's cock

shota umino fucking sucks

>>18026958
Bad luck fale

>>18021469 (OP)
>HoT loses the right to be called Bullet Club
>Becomes Bullet Club anyway

>>18026977
Yeah that's because nobody else wants to book his fat ass

>>18021922
>still calling them LIJ
lol

>>18026958
First off, before I reply to you seriously... You're the guy that thinks Inoki posters, the Bobby Lashley cuck, Grimposter and the Shoto photoshop poster are all the same person. I can tell you're this guy: >>18021969 and this guy: >>18023547

You're easily the most tiresome poster in these threads, and, ironically, your gimmick is that you think everyone else that is annoyed by you or saying something you don't like is the same person. Every time you start trying to draw strings between different posts on whether they're the same person or not (I suppose you might be right 20% of the time, since you're constantly throwing shit at the wall), I roll my eyes. Begging you to take your meds and engage with the points rather than turning this shit into a /vg/-tier schizofest. We don't need our own "muh Ojama" crybaby.

Now, to be the change I want to see in the world and onto the meat of your post:
1) Shota is not very good. He could be great but he's been stuck in a holding pattern forever and refuses to go above and beyond. Not even because of the booking, the guy just refuses to improve. He doesn't have what it takes to do this gimmick he wants to do. Yuya mogs him there because of his purer soul.
2) Shingo Takagi is an interesting case of contrasts that I'm honestly not gonna bother discussing fully. He's way too inconsistent. He was great against Goto, though.
3) Gabe Kidd will be gone from New Japan by 2026. There is no reason to waste any fucking time with him. It's particularly pathetic when his gimmick is of NJPW Loyalist and yet everyone here knows he's full of shit. Gabe vs Tsuji was a boring match because I don't believe in Gabe anymore. Simple as.
Lastly, Yuya Uemura should win the G1.

>>18023627
kek

>>18027046
kek, compare the text of this guy's post to this >>18024437

Yep, you're the guy who claimed to be a mod and got BTFO. Also you're wrong, I am not both of those posters, just the first one.

>>18025980
Based Black Saints are still a draw

>>18027062
>Yep, you're the guy who claimed to be a mod and got BTFO
Another one to add to your schizo list of single-identity. You suck, dude.

>>18027075
Ut oh, look out! He's going to say he can see my IP soon and my MAC address!

>>18027084
Yeah, yeah, and I'm gonna post cuck porn of Bobby Lashley and then talk about how New Jamal is anti-dimes with an Inoki poster, so on and so forth, because you're schizophrenic and have kept track of everyone that has ever said anything that bothered you and decided to amalgamate them all into the same person.

I engaged with you honestly and directly, literally explaining my position on the wrestlers here. >>18027046
You would still rather participate in your delusions instead. I have no fucking clue what you think you're getting out of these threads.

>>18026958
He hasn't been calling shota shit, because I'm the one that calls shota shit.
>>18026973

>>18027120
>>18021945

>>18027120
Shota is shit until he finally gets a clue and stops trying to pretend he's a good boy
You ain't Yuya, lil bro

>>18027130
I'm thinking Tsuji's got the best chance at the G1 this year btw
I would rather Yuya win though

>>18027130
nvm I'm fucking retarded ignore the post above except for when I said I wanted Yuya to win but Tsuji probably will

>>18027046
>3) Gabe Kidd will be gone from New Japan by 2026. There is no reason to waste any fucking time with him. It's particularly pathetic when his gimmick is of NJPW Loyalist and yet everyone here knows he's full of shit. Gabe vs Tsuji was a boring match because I don't believe in Gabe anymore. Simple as.
Just posting this line again cause I feel like it
Fuck Gabe Kidd

>>18027138
I didn't say it was you. I said it was the same guy who spams the thread about "Gaped Klitt" and used all of these retarded buzzwords, so I linked you a post of him also shitting on Shota and basically 99% of the roster.

He's not a fan of NJPW.
He is legitimately just here to make this thread awful.

>>18027150
I realized that after I hit send my bad bro

>>18027150
Yet I find myself agreeing with him on his take of Gabe more than I do with the shit your defense of him

>>18027150
>Shoot whiteknighting that pale ass shitty tattoos bloated shitter
Grim. You're a cultist basically.

here we go again lol

>>18028036
it's gonna be Taguchi acting like Naito

Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens joining House Of Torture pretty much confirms War Dogs will die in the next few months. They probably did that because Clark Connors will go to AEW next year since Thekla is signed there, we know Gabe Kidd is already poached and David Finlay will go to WWE. Only question is who is going to definitely kill the War Dogs in kayfabe ?

>>18027131
He is a good boy though, they shouldn't turn him heel because of fat ass smarks like you, go fuck yourself

>He ish a good boy though, they shouldn't turn him heel becaushe of fat assh shmarks like you, go fuck yourshelf

>>18028443
The one who was pretending to be someone else all along was Gabe Kidd btw

>>18028449
if he brings this up in the G1 build he's dimes

>>18028036
Nah I'm done getting worked. Shit is gonna be Taguchi or something.

>>18028197
Yeah, it seems like HoT is absorbing War Dogs and bullet club will end with this group.
>Clark + Turkla -> AEW
>Gabe -> AEW
>Finlay -> WWE
>Drilla -> Hopefully not HOT, but he should stay heel adjacent

What's the likelihood Gabe puts over a young guy on the way out? I'm guessing he is dropping to Takeshita which I don't count for obvious reasons.

New YLs debuting in half an hour

2 new niggas for Daiki Nagai to get wins on

Matsumoto has great intensity

NAGAI FINALLY WINS

There's a cowboy in HoT now, whatever...

Any ikemen from the new Young Lions?

>>18025475
>>18025980
hahahahahahahaha
maybe they need to add even more members to HoT
or surely another wrestle dynasty collab with aew will bring in new fans

>>18028036
I like how the point of this match according to Tana is to spotlight the two former lions that he was closest to, and that he hopes will come to Hontai. I knew Tsuji was his boy, but I thought Wato was his cornerman in matches during that time, not Oka.

>>18028520
Drilla probably goes out drinking with ZSJ and Newman like we saw Gabe do in that fan cam on YouTube. So he has other groups to choose from if he’s the last guy remaining.

>>18024122
Jake is back this weekend - making his first public appearance since the injury by literally walking around
>https://sp.njpw.jp/575967/

[Grim News] CMLL is now also getting poached by AEW.
[Good News] New Young Lions.

>>18029017
Yeah but one of the Young Lions is a gaijin so we'll get our resident psychopath ranting about how he's leaving for Tonikan's toybox any minute and it's useless to get invested in him or his matches!

>>18029079
which is absolutely true btw

>>18029143
Yeah if you're some console war retard who has never watched Japanese wrestling

There is really only one gaijin of significance in the history of Japanese wrestling that "stayed in Japan", Stan Hansen, and even he left often to work American dates when he was younger
Everybody else went back and forth, from Vader to Terry Funk to Dr Death to Scott Norton to Dynamite Kid to Hogan. Literally all of them.
>wahhhh Terry Funk is going back to work a NWA tour, he's not loyal to AJPW! WAHHH!!!!
Imagine being like this.

gaijins are disgusting trannies and it'll be the same for that Zane Jay rookie. Or should I say...Jane Gay ! He'll be begging to get that toybox paycheck very soon. Grim.

Boy this post above me sure seems like a genuine post and not something made by some demented troll retard

>>18029171
>>18029175
obvious samefag

>>18029079
At this point I'm hoping we can at least get 5 years out of Zane. (YL days included)

>>18029155
NTA and i hate these grim posters a lot too. But I feel like the difference is that when stan went to the US (or Japan if you were an AWA guy) and you followed him there, you were still getting stan hansen. It seems like when anyone gets poached for AEW they just start to get sloppy or booked like shit immediately. It's not so much losing an NJPW roster member, its like losing a wrestler entirely.
And to reiterate, i hate the grim posters and im not at all mad that Finlay is going to leave and go to WWE or Gabe ends up with the death riders. It just sucks that I'm probably not going to be able to enjoy them in these positions. This is especially true of Gabe, I think, since hes really only a face in Japan. The strong crowd always seemed to treat him like a heel and rocky seemingly booked him like one. I'm happy to be proven wrong though.

>>18029292
Almost nobody who mainlines Hansen or Funk AJPW matches goes and watches a ton of their contemporary American stuff (Funk's later in ECW sure), though. A lot of this was happening in the territory days and a lot of it wasn't even on television. To the Japanese fans, these guys were lost entirely, even moreso than someone is lost when they go to AEW and are booked like shit.

To the Japanese fans of the 80s and 90s, when a gaijin left, they had no way to follow their careers at all really unless they were super smark tape traders for western wrestling or they just kept up through photos in wrestling magazines.
So yeah I think my point stands. It's really no different than it's ever been in Japanese wrestling.
You don't think Scott Norton was booked like shit in WCW? He was the top gaijin at NJPW in their height when they were outdrawing everyone in America, when American wrestling was at its highest drawing power ever, and when he went back to WCW, he was just a guy who stood in the background with 30 other nWo guys and rarely even got a featured undercard match. There is nothing new under the sun.

New Japan worked with Kyushu Pro a few months ago so I was hoping their big nigga Kodai Nozaki would be in the G1.

Maybe Shota Umino is not to blame. Maybe it was the dogshit booking all along.

I TOLD YOU I WASH ALWAYSH GOOD ! I AM SHIN ASHE ! DO YOU BELIEVE IN ME NOW ?

>>18029339
I'd say it's actually about 75/25 Shota's fault. He picked a horrible gimmick for himself on his return from excursion, just terrible. He's a charisma vacuum and while he can perform a lot of wrestling moves well, there's just something noticably missing in his game. Him selling ZSJ's armbar with a blank expressionless face comes to mind, just weird lapses in the ring.

The 25% for the office is because even despite all of this, they did try and smash him over a bit too much.

Anyway, the lads have arrived in Mexico

>>18029364
Umino probably belongs in the NEVER division for the time being. But they are still just chomping at the bit to make him the guy at the first signs of life. Whatever the whole promotion is just turning into Hontai vs. House of Torture. Trash.

>>18029364
>He picked a horrible gimmick for himself
lol, weird how shota is the only wrestler who people are blaming for his booking, weird as fuck honestly

>>18029393
Tsuji has a lot of the same issues
>picked a horrible gimmick for himself after excursion
>still carrying on with the dimeless fedora shit
Narita, another terrible gimmick for himself. He comes back as dime store Shibata and is so bad they have to throw him in House of Torture to learn how to have a character.

You now realize New Japan has not had a successful heavyweight dojo class since 2006/2007 almost 20 years ago.

I'm sure everyone is free to do whatever they want in New Japan, Bushiroad is so nice after all

>>18029416
yeah anon I'm sure Bushiroad said
>here you go kid, you're going to be working a Phillip Marlowe gimmick, an obscure character from early 20th century dime-novel crime fiction that hasn't been popular in 80 years
>also please start wearing fedoras
If there is any part of his gimmick he didn't choose, it's the kaiju/gene blast stuff.

He is very clearly into the Marlowe stuff

>wearing clothing is a gimmick
you're so fucking retarded, just kill yourself already

>>18029412
It do be the truth. Grim desu.

>>18029427
People don't have "Red Rooster" style gimmick sin Japan often if you haven't noticed

Care to explain Uemura's gimmick to me?

>Care to explain Uemura's gimmick to me?
He's doing his best, he talks like a good salary man and he's trying to look like Tanahashi.

>>18029456
>he's trying to look like Tanahashi.
Yeah, that's what I mean. In Japan, yes, the clothes you wear is kind of your gimmick.

Hashimoto was fat guy in bell bottom black and red tights that kicked people hard. That was his gimmick, nothing else was necessary.

Tsuji is kinda a generic babyface with noir inspired visual trappings (Needs more black and white desu). And he likes pudding. That is pretty much the extent of his character.

>>18029469
These reiwa niggas are really lacking character work. Even Narita who's in a heel faction kinda comes off as shy and lame.

>>18029487
All the reiwa guys (Ren excluded) feel like the same character archetype with different clothes. Umino is at least grumpy now.

>>18029469
He could really play it up. Lean into the black and white thing, like a Two-Face kind of half black, half white suit. Give him a mask that's half black, half-white, maybe on opposite sides from the suit, a cane or something

You could make his gimmick very visually distinct and then it wouldn't be so bad.

But right now he's just a guy who wears a regular wrestling robe and walks to the ring smiling in a funny hat.

we should poach yuma anzai he's tall, young and already pretty good

>>18029616
Anzai and Higuchi are at the top of my "NJPW should poach" list

>>18029374
https://x.com/CMLL_OFICIAL/status/1935341578991845452

Yota looks genuinely happy in Mexico

We Work Stiff said they are offering most of the roster spots in HoT. Maybe the Rock did buy shin nihon after all.

>>18029692
>We Work Stiff is a storyline podcast, not a dirtsheet rumor podcast
You said this literally in the last thread, or the one before.

>>18029692
They don't know shit, but Shingo must be talking to Gedo if they are trying to copy the Dragongate style of booking a giant home army and a giant heel army with small factions in the middle.

>>18029722
Nah I'm a different guy. They do talk to some people Robbie, Walker, Knight

Young Lion debut matches are usually KINO, but this one in particular was great.

>>18029155
>Terreddit Funk
Kek I knew the resident no-life-having, terminally online schizo was you

>>18029664

>>18030057
that granny must have been really disappointed in Yota

Dick Togo wants me in the house, should I join them?

let's all join house of grimness to kill shin nihon for good

>>18030122
>>18030199
Make that merch yen bros. The only real things in this business are the money and miles. Fuck the meme stars and entertain the modern audiences.

I'm also joining the house. The smarks are going lose it.

they should have an actual house

>>18030305
>House of Torture brought to you by History Channel

>>18026914
I need context of both guys. Wtf is this

The Android 2.0 will save New Japan.

>>18030122
Togo seems like a great trainer. I'd accept.

New Japan World shit the bed during today's show so they ended up streaming the rest of the show on Youtube and then uploaded the matches individually afterwards.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhNsz0B-tjoSjGnhsaDCLr9WiyvI_AeMU

>>18030489
Started watching an hour ago and the highlight so far is how upset Milano is about Chase joining HoT

>>18030519
I think Nagai finally winning was better but to each their own

>>18030489
>HOT matches by far the highest viewed
Lmao

>>18030707
Actually grim. Maybe New Japan just isn't for us anymore.

>>18030830
>us
who does blud think he is

>>18030707
It's not even close either. They are 4-5x as many views as everything else from today.
>>18030830
Yeah it's not for fags that started watching after Okada/Omega. Chono's shit was just like this and the crowds loved it then too.

>>18030707
God what an unintimidating uninteresting boring lame tubby midget failure of a shitter

>>18031006
Bro is pretending he didnt start watching in 2020. It's alright to admit you just like slop.

>>18028443
lmao

>>18031006
It's Chinese bots paid by EVIL so it doesn't count

>>18030043
What lol

>>18031023
iyofag seething, now tell us about his supposedly broken dick

>>18031023
Monitor status is clearly off anon

pov you ruined New Japan Pro Wrestling and your monitor's off

>>18031120
What the fuck is an iyo? And what does it have to do with evil being a massive failure shitter faggot? I wouldn't be surprised if the soft tubby little guy had a broken dick
>>18031157
I'm on my phone

If you don't like New Japan, anon, then step up and do something about it.
https://x.com/NJPWofAmerica/status/1935441221985714460

>>18032109
Based, I'll be debuting by the time I'm 45

>>18032127
Ah, the DDP strat

>>18032109
if i can debut as yujiro or jados replacement im in

>>18032109
New Japan doesn't need more juniors.

>>18030489
>that ELP botch save followed by a full botch on Oiwa

Fujita's shirt looks like Fujita
https://x.com/njpw_Fujita/status/1935322629445194025

He's got the look

>>18034763
He's turning into a short little Kobashi

>>18034763
Just missing the attitude. Zero personality or clear style.

>>18035265
He shows fire, last year he was really going after some guys like Gabe but yeah when they goes away he's just a guy. I don't know how much is him or the booking but obviously he hasn't really gotten much meat on the bone to work with. The G1 could solve that but this House push...

Aura

>>18035330
Oiwa is headed for Block A, so he’s going 4-5 in his first G1. At least we’ll get an interesting match versus Uemura.

Oiwa worked in Noah just being the stoic guy who power bombed people. That being said he feels too much like Zack's little brother. He needs to get away from TMDK desu.

It's crazy how almost every wrestlers loses all their fire after going on excursion. Even just watching Matsumoto vs. Jay the level of try hardness is just nonexistent from almost everyone on the roster.

>>18036154
He was made to be in a heel faction with Shingo. But alas...

>>18036162
sounds like a management problem

We cant let Matsumoto or Nagai go on excursion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9LYKoos4aM
Another free show I guess

>>18036162
Did you know people tend to be more passionate about things when they are younger/new?!

>>18036162
So you're calling Boltin the Reiwa Inoki

>>18035654
Wins against those first five names in A block are the ones that really count though. It's not enough to just valiantly lose like he always has, Uemura was in no man's land despite getting much bigger spotlight moments than Oiwa and a belt until he got a bunch of shock G1 wins. He ain't turning heads just beating HoT, Tana or Callum.

Actually NJPW should send like 3 or 4 YL to Mexico soon.

With no Ingobernables, they have no links anymore

Where the FUCK is Fujita? Why isn't he on this tour?

>>18021922
>two rocky romeros
>two action andrettis

>>18037154
Wrestlers are not machines. People like you and the retards asking for Hiromu to work both BOSJ AND the G1 need to understand this.

El Phantasmo knee injury, out for at least today's show
https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/1935639593585664241

>>18037249
KWAGB (Kek what a grim bitch)

>>18037249
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND NEEEWWWWWWW KWABOTY

These new YLs are kino

>>18037259
This reddit mentality of calling everything "kino" from the get-go is what made the Reiwa Musketeers, and NJPW as a whole, absolutely grim. Basically, you're jinxing them.

these new YLs are puro

The Chasester's new gimmick is kino

>>18037266
>grim
I won't take anyone's post seriously if they utter this word

>>18036841
My guess is wins against Uemura, EVIL, Tana and Finlay.

>>18037413
Signing the mark contract?

>>18037019
Yasuda is definitely going to CMLL to reconnect with his lucha dad

>>18038677

>>18038677
>>18038683
Did Tsuji go there to eat? He’s not wrestling on these cards.

>>18038719
Maybe he's going to work Collision to set up some kind of forbidden door angle

>>18037413
is he going to do the hakuna matada dance

>>18038766
probably this

>>18037249
El Dimeless Homo trying to go up in the Japan KWABOTY rankings

cards for next 3 shows

6/21 Yamagata Big Wing (6:00pm)
>El Phantasmo, Shota Umino, & Hirooki Goto vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road 〜Kinship: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Tomoaki Honma
>Ryusuke Taguchi, Yuya Uemura, & Taichi vs Jakob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan, & Callum Newman
>Tiger Mask, Togi Makabe, & Tomohiro Ishii vs Gedo, Gabe Kidd, & Drilla Moloney
>Katsuya Murashima, Shoma Kato, Jado, YOSHI-HASHI, & Boltin Oleg vs Dick Togo, SANADA, Don Fale, Chase Owens, & King of Darkness EVIL
>Daiki Nagai, Master Wato, YOH, & Toru Yano vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, DOUKI, Yujiro Takahashi, & Ren Narita
>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay

6/22 Fukushima Toyota Crown Arena (3:00pm)
>El Phantasmo, Yuya Uemura, & Hirooki Goto vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomohiro Ishii, & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Gedo, Drilla Moloney, & Gabe Kidd
>Tiger Mask, Shota Umino, & Taichi vs Jakob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan, & Callum Newman
>Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, YOSHI-HASHI, & Boltin Oleg vs Dick Togo, SANADA, Don Fale, Chase Owens, & King of Darkness EVIL
>Katsuya Murashima, Shoma Kato, Master Wato, YOH, & Toru Yano vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, DOUKI, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, & Ren Narita
>Masatora Yasuda vs Daiki Nagai
>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay

6/23 Korakuen (6:30pm)
>G1 Climax 35 A Block play-in: Taichi vs Callum Newman
>G1 Climax 35 B Block play-in: Tomohiro Ishii vs Drilla Moloney
>Boltin Oleg, Shota Umino, & Hirooki Goto vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Jado, El Phantasmo, & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, & Gabe Kidd
>Ryusuke Taguchi & Yuya Uemura vs Jakob Austin Young & Great-O-Khan
>Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, & YOSHI-HASHI vs SANADA, Don Fale, Chase Owens, & King of Darkness EVIL
>Katsuya Murashima, Shoma Kato, Master Wato, YOH, & Toru Yano vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, DOUKI, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, & Ren Narita
>Masatora Yasuda vs Daiki Nagai
>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay

>>18038936
El Phantsmo hasn't been removed yet so there will likely be changes.

>>18037181
YOH wrestled 2 matches on that DDT PPV a week after BOSJ ended, retard. This isn't keeping them healthy its cooling guys off, if not we wouldn't see any Jr work this tour

>>18038956
wrestling a DDT PPV is not the same as wrestling two round robin tournaments back to back

>>18039112
Shingo did it.

Official RIP

>>18039938
Fitting to end in Mexico.

>>18039112
Ospreay did it.

Jeong Mosque Li

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