Thread 18148006

Live on NJPW World:

>New Japan Soul 2025

7/4 Tokyo Budokan (6:30pm)
>IWGP GLOBAL Heavyweight Championship: Gabe Kidd (c) vs Hiroshi Tanahashi [5th champion, 1st defense]
>NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship: SHO, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita (c) vs Master Wato, YOH & Toru Yano [30th champions, 2nd defense]
>G1 Climax 35 B Block Play-in: YOSHI-HASHI vs Chase Owens
>G1 Climax 35 A Block Play-in: Satoshi Kojima vs Ryohei Oiwa
>Boltin Oleg, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado vs Hartley Jackson, Zack Sabre Jr. & Kosei Fujita
>Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs Jakob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan
>Tiger Mask, Yuji Nagata, Taichi, Tomohiro Ishii & Shota Umino vs Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, DOUKI, SANADA & King of Darkness EVIL
>Masatora Yasuda & Shoma Kato vs Daiki Nagai & Katsuya Murashima
>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay

7/6 Korakuen (6:30pm)
>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado (c) vs Kosei Fujita [98th champion, 7th defense]
>IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship: SHO & DOUKI (c) vs YOH & Master Wato
>Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road & Tiger Mask 30th Anniversary Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Tiger Mask

>G1 CLIMAX 35
7/19 Opening Night @ Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center (5:00pm)
7/20 Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center (2:00pm)
7/22 Sendai SunplazaHall (6:30pm)
7/23 Aore Nagaoka (6:30pm)
7/25 Ota-City General Gymnasium (6:30pm)
7/26 Ota-City General Gymnasium (3:00pm)
7/27 Port Messe Nagoya Exhibition Hall 1 (5:00pm)
7/30 Yamato University Yamato Arena (6:30pm)
8/1 Sun Messe Kagawa (6:30pm)
8/2 Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall (4:00pm)
8/3 FUKUOKA CONVENTION CENTER (5:00pm)
8/5 INTEX Osaka Halls (6:30pm)
8/7 Korakuen Hall (6:30pm)
8/8 Yokohama Budokan (6:30pm)
8/10 G MESSE GUNMA (3:00pm)
8/13 Act City Hamamatsu (6:30pm)
8/14 Korakuen Hall (6:30pm)
8/16 ARIAKE ARENA (5:00pm)
8/17 Final @ ARIAKE ARENA (3:00pm)

Previous >>18124139

>NJPW’s Tiger Mask had high praise for Olympic judo gold medalist Aaron Wolf (29), who recently made a surprise entry into the promotion, and even hinted that Wolf might inherit the Tiger Mask mantle in the future.

>Tiger, who sees Wolf every morning at the NJPW Dojo, sometimes coaches him on bumps and rope work.
>“What’s admirable about him is that he’s set aside the pride of being a gold medalist and started from zero. He listens to instruction with humility,” he said, describing how Wolf trains alongside the other rookies.
>He also praised Wolf’s dedication to weight-cutting and transformation, noting, “He understands that building a body for pro wrestling is different from judo. He’s a true raw gem.”

>When asked, “What if Wolf asked to become the next Tiger Mask?”
>Tiger replied, “If Sayama-san (the original Tiger Mask) says it’s okay, then I’d be fine with it,”
>giving a surprising conditional green light.
>This opens the door to the possibility of Wolf becoming the **8th Tiger Mask**, following Takeru, the former K-1 three-division world champion who became the 7th in 2023.

>That said, Tiger Mask also expressed admiration for “the real Wolf,” saying:
>“He already has something established. Rather than becoming Tiger Mask, I’d like to see Aaron Wolf shine as himself,”
>showing hope for his success under his real name.

>Tiger Mask will appear in the main event of Strong Style Pro-Wrestling’s July 10 Shinjuku FACE show.
>After the July 1 press conference, he declared with pride as an NJPW wrestler:
>“There’s no one else but me who should step into the ring of my teacher, the original Tiger Mask.”

>From *Tiger* to *Wolf*, the soul of pro wrestling continues to be passed on.

Tana fumbled

>>18148041
What the fuck is this supposed to mean? Do you think Yoshi-Hashi should have been the one with the cinderella run?

>>18148041
YOSHI-HASHI and some fans

>>18148006 (OP)
Is this the Inoki vs Tiger King of modern NJPW?

It's grim out there, folks. Exceptionally GRIM.

>>18148041
Classic njpw sending a jobber like yoshi hashi

>>18148041
Oiwa is small by modern standards but he makes Kaito and Yoshioka look like babies in comparison

>>18149752
>by modern standards
He's average height standing next to twinks wdym

>>18148026
Going from smooth high flyers to a fat hafu would be a hilarious move. Should've gave the gimmick to Wato.

Why the fuck haven't they announced the G1 match schedule yet? They didn't wait for play-ins last year to announce them

>>18149752
you should've seen when okhan went to dragon gate and teamed with ben-k lol

>>18150553
They know its grim and they're desperately running damage control.

>>18150800
why is shingo promoting them so hard?

>>18150823
Let him spit game, nigga

>>18150823
He wants to leave the Bushiroad plantation.

>>18150576
Ben-K is in the Yamato tier where they look normal until you see them outside of DG or alongside an outsider. Then you get perspective on how tiny they are. Oka is also shoot 6’ right?

>>18148006 (OP)
is that tiger mask the 6th?

>>18148006 (OP)
Gaped Klitt vs Hiroshit Trannyhashi is a very GRIM main event.

>>18151822
THICC

G1のGはGRIMの「G」だ!

>>18152061
it's even more true after the dimeless twink shitter got the belt back
grim

>>18150908
Shun looks 6'5 everything I peek at DG then you find out hes about 5'11. He still looks tall DG but his saudi bodysuit is just playing tricks with my mind

>>18152205
Holy fucking sirs. Write whatever you want about me.

>>18149485
Shota is gonna win the G1 this time and people will cheer for him.

Shota GRIMino
Yota GRIMji
GRIM Narita
Yuya GRIMura
GRIMhei Oiwa
GRIMoki Goto
GRIM Kidd

>>18152061
No goto, no watch

I wish the Fajita title win was on today's show. Do something cool like an incredible tag with the G1 participants or something

>>18152438
Japan is getting split to pieces and drowned tomorrow so who cares

>>18152588
Tsunami warning or is this a /pol/ shitpost?

>>18152632
think he's referencing some manga artist that predicted a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting japan on july 5. for some reason a lot of people actually believe it

its okay if japan drowns in the ocean tomorrow. we already got the best new japan wrestlers out of japan in aew anyways.

>>18152809
Do people really believe that bullshit? It's 25 years since the start of the 21st century ffs

Inoki-sama unleashing a tsunami to ungrim Shin Nihon

AEW's biggest show of the year will happen in a half-empty arena, kinda like us with Wrestle Kingdom. Grim but poetic in a way. Yappari no one cares about seeing Kazuchiker Okama vs Kenneth Old Nigga. I hope they kill the poop dick wrestling promotion for good.

>NJPW is so bad at the moment that NJPW podcasters are refusing to talk about it
Is this all a part of Tanahashi's 10-point plan?

>>18153226
unironically what might be the last omega/okada match might draw less than the 1st one did

>>18152438
Despite being desperate need of creative and attractive ideas we must run the same booking formula for another 20 years.

the mentor worufu needs

>>18153402
Huh?

Wolf (Lobo) Mexico excursion when

>>18153419
Inoki would be proud.

>>18153435
One of the guys from the We Work Stiff podcast is "taking a break" from NJPW because its so bad at the moment (and he doesn't want to just be negative about it kek)

>>18153487
damn, njpw be so grim that bushidrones give up too

>>18151822
DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN that outlaw packing a crown jewel back there

>>18153487
Is NJPW not that cool anymore

>>18153576
one badly booked dominion and an untelevised title change broke some brains

>>18153487
Weak mind, weak spirit, tapped out before the G1

>>18153576
Japanese wrestling as a whole is uncool.

Right now, the coolest thing is Lucha.

>>18153581
Funny thing is it was televised that’s why it wasn’t on world. More people watched that title match than any of Goto’s other title matches. New Japan finally prioritize domestic fans and spoiled gaijins have a melty kek

How much backstage pull does he have?

Charlton begging TV Asahi to put the show on World behind the scenes lol

>>18153629
The issue is a lot of Japanese couldn't watch it either since it was on a specific channel some people didn't have. They complained when SANADA's title win was exclusive to that channel but also cuz we could still watch it on World

reckon tana wins the global today?

>>18153642
He’s literally one of the bookers

>>18153679
No wonder the grimness

nagai and murashima are dimes as a team

5 minutes till

>>18153705
I don't really care desu

>>18153708
I didn't ask dattebayo

we need more Hayao Miyazaki type dads in wrestling. If not we get Shota Umino and LEONA Fujinami

>>18153705
HOT vs Hontai for the Never 6 Man is such an awful move

>>18153705
would mean a lot more if they werent in the same g1 block immediately after

>>18153723
they aren't though?

>>18153723
Gabe is in B, nigga

this nigga shota acting weird now

still using the mat with finlay's coughed up blood

>Douki's pipe in his hand
Pause.

Taichi may get another former bald bitch over it seems

can shooter just shave his hair, he looks so bad right now, i hate it.

newman pls just tweak your knee just a little bit, just a little

that bald nigga hanging with okhan has a pretty mid looking VA career

Niggas in the crowd wearing the LIJ Adachi shirt. Let it go, lads

>>18153830
he's more known to be a MC/host, writer for 4gamer and have a popular youtube channel with tomokazu sugita.

i think hartley is really neat

I wish Zack and Yuya were in the same block I really do

>>18153879
he's gonna die on commentary it sounds like

Kojima still fucking got it somehow

>>18153924
Yeah Death Stranding 2 is great

>>18153924
I didn't watch a second of his MLW title run, was it good

>>18153924
>>18153935
KEK

wtf is this?

first case of a HoT theme change being a downgrade

ai generated song

YOSHI HASHI getting revenge for Goto in the G1 would be a great story but obviously Chase is winning

chase pls just tweak your knee just a little bit, just a little

>Nagai: "Right now, there’s a huge damn opportunity in front of me. (...)
>L.I.J. no more—now unaffiliated—and among them, Takagi-san has his eye on me.
>I truly believe this is a massive, once-in-a-lifetime chance.
>So Hiromu-san, Tsuji-san, Takagi-san—please let me join the unaffiliated group."

https://njpw.co.jp/584742
https://x.com/njpw1972/status/1941087317839794673

Did Bobby Eaton teach Chase to clap his hands while he's getting hit?

I forgot he did Canadian Destroyers
Fuck it, go Chase

too much offense, he's losing

DEPLOY THE CLOWN CAR

thank God

HEADHUNTERBROS LETS FUCKING GO!!!!!

ZSJ vs YH will be dimes

Ok now announce the match cards

Glad to be in big 2025 watching Toru Yano pin Yujiro Takahashi for championships

nigga where's the dr death robe

looks like gabe finally decided to get rid of that fucking gut

Tana is getting fucking bodied

KOI YO

>>18154159
It doesn't fit with the Death Riders aesthetic

Holy fuck he can still hit that

ace
you have to wrestle another singles in 2 days
chill tf out unc

>>18154205
They're all cosplayers anyway so it still fits

>9 straight G1 matches full of missed High Fly Flows
He's not gonna make it

>>18154016
New Japan is saved

Tana's knees ate that heavy

GO ACE

Really good match for that old man and his fucked up knees. Please chill on the HFFs

nice little message

>>18154253
That was my favorite Okada feud in years. I was so sick of his epics by then.

This nigga actually sounds competent without screaming lol

This shirt is actually sick

>>18154428
mmmm that's badash

Gabe is the most yookay wrestler

>>18154016
Shingo previously called him out as the best of the lions, so it would make sense to be the pin-eater for the new group. It would also keep him in Japan and speed up the graduation similar to Fujita.

>>18154428
man why do they have to give him a cool shirt

>>18154621
Is that specifically an Umino shirt or just a Hontai one?

Gabe still doing his "I am New Japan" shtick then?

Why they are still teaming?
Break them or use the Ingobernables name

>>18154681
>why is New Japan still beating a dead horse

>>18154681
Probably get a new faction name and Nagai added at the Destruction tour

>>18154668
Still a hyprocrite

>>18154681
They don't belong to any group but they prefer to team with each other. Just because Naito isn't there doesn't mean they all flip on each other immediately. Dropping the name makes sense since El Ingobernable is nowhere to be seen.

chicks dig the KoD

>>18154723
>>18154754
they will always be LIJ every time they work together.
Just break them and keep them apart

>>18154760
>House of Torture
>Castle of Torture
>Train of Torture
EVERYTHING is becoming Torture

>>18154785
Why should they? Outside of your deranged obsession I mean

Tonight was a 43% reduction in audience from last year's Tokyo Budokan show. The main event of this show was built from the Tokyo Dome semi-main event.
clear signs that New Japan is on a major decline in quality and commercial interest

>>18154946
>homecoming show for Naito & BUSHI in an LIJ vs LIJ match which was the selling point of the entire show
>G1 play-in finals that didn't involve Chase Owens
>Jr title in the main event so Naito doesn't get ALL of the credit (even though it belongs to him
Vs
>no Naito or BUSHI, their former stablemates in the undercard
>G1 play-in matches that were not tournaments and had Chase Owens in them
>Global title in the main event after they let Jungmok kill Gabe's entire gimmick
>NEVER 6 Man tag title match in the semi main
Main event was good bit well deserved. The Jr title should've been on the show

>>18154785
no nigga theyre unaffiliated

>unaffiliated
junk drawer ass faction

>>18154988
they should add Titan

shota umino's stf fucking sucks

It's been a year now since njpw announced the 3 reiwa musketeers. say something nice about them

https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/1674614523700076544

>>18155068
>shota umino... fucking sucks

>New Japan Soul
>it's actually soulless

>>18154985
excuses
aew lost their biggest draws cm punk and sting and they still make a milly every week
don't try to blame everything on naito

>>18155400
Gedo did it again
He needs to be removed as booker

Are the rumors about NJPW shoot?

>>18156638
The rumors that its gay and soulless and coasting off ten year-old nostalgia and buttressed by AEW Twitter tranny gif-watchers who need to justify pilfering it? 'raid 'o.

attendance at the Tokyo Budokan
>1,377人
last year with fucking DOUKI main eventing
>2,423人
yappari, Gaped Klitt is an anti-draw shitter
grim

>>18156638
Yeah, they’re grim.

>>18156638
Afraid so

>>18156638
Grim so

>IWGP
>Not a car race
>G1 Climax
>Not a horse race

>>18156685
He missed on purpose. This was a worked botch. You are being disingenuous.

>>18155068
He literally did a John Cena style STF at first and I was ready to shitpost. Then he tightened the 2nd one and I put my gun down

>>18156685
what did he mean by this?

you know it's grim when juniors are bigger draws than the new generation of heavyweights

JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>18157540
maybe we need him after all yappari senpai desu

>>18157366
if only the main event matters then zack vs shota was the draw of WK 19 right? does this mean shota is going to outdraw all in?

>>18157823
difference is the tokyo budokan cards were literally one match cards, nothing else mattered
also zack and shota were the anti-draws of WK. performing in a half empty arena is shameful. even more when 1.4 happens on a weekend.

>>18157599
>>18157540
no lies detected. we had a better year when he was the champion, plus he can team up with gabe kidd instead of the dimeless shota umino

>>18157925
you're very disingenuous :)

>>18157925
last year's wasn't, not even defacto like this year.

>>18157943
nah, you can't be called a draw when you perform in a half empty arena
NJPW has been grim for a very long time, they only had 3 non-grim WK

I'm trying to watch g1 climax 2013 but the internet archive upload of the event has a bad file for the first day, does anybody have a good streaming source that might have the first day specifically?
thanks bros

>>18158073
It may be a bit of a deep cut at least for Bilibili and Dailymotion, only Day 1 match they have is Okada vs Devitt. I'm sure the other matches are stashed on a porn site or something

Wow that Budokan number is genuinely awful. I wonder if people are annoyed by Goto dropping the belt. New Japan might be ice cold for real this time. Dark ages 2.0 inc?

>>18158683
It's really not that bad when compared to it's contemporaries AEW and STARDOM.

>>18158683
>Dark ages 2.0
It started in 2012

>>18158683
still the number 1 promotion in japan

>>18158752
And? New Japan only competes with itself. Only a few brief moments in history was it not number 1. It is time to panic.

>>18158683
Not only Goto dropped the belt but no showed and Gabe is anti dimes no matter how hard Tana forcefully pushes him.

>>18158683
>I wonder if people are annoyed by Goto dropping the belt.
They were mad Goto lost on a show they couldn't see, not about the title change itself. And even if they were they weren't gonna feel it literally the next show. It took a whole month of BOSJ for the loss of Naito to affect them.

>>18158752
which really shows how GRIM the state of puroresu is

Zack injured Goto's elbow. Goto misses the G1.
HOLY FUCKING GRIMOLA
WHEN WILL IT STOP ???

Taichibros...it's our time

After medical evaluation through the week, it has been determined that Hirooki Goto, who missed July 4's New Japan Soul card as a result of an elbow injury sustained at Tanahashi Jam on June 29, will be unable to compete in the G1 Climax 35 tournament, and currently has no set date for a return.

We apologise to fans looking forward to seeing Goto wrestle, and appreciate your understanding.

As a result of Goto's withdrawal from the tournament, his spot in A Block will be determined by a Last Chance Play-In Gauntlet Match on July 6 in Korakuen Hall. After defeats in each of their prior play-in matches, Tomohiro Ishii, Taichi, Satoshi Kojima and Chase Owens will compete in the gauntlet, wherein a random opening pairing will start, and after a wrestler is defeated, th enext entrant will take their place until one remains. That winner will complete the G1 Climax 35 field.

NJPW joins fans in wishing Goto a speedy, full recovery.

CAN WE GET MUCH GRIMER
SO GRIMMMM

>>18159302
grim and chase owens is going to win too, holy fucking grimola

>>18159288
He failed to qualify for the g1. Shota and Taichi tag is quite okay tbqh

For whatever they planned for Goto's W/L and Goto's story in general, Taichi makes the most sense. But here we must doom about Chase Owens in order to jinx it just to be safe.

Gedo wouldn't put 3 HoT members in the same block, right? (lol who am i even kidding)

grim

Chris Brookes paralyzed his own friend
Zack injures the A block front runner
Gabe Kidd is a worked bitch waiting to self destruct
Will Ospreay
It's time to acknowledge the bong experiment was a mistake.

>>18159455
don't forget Zack also injured Naito and made him miss a whole G1
fucking gaijin shitter

>>18159421
Fuck this shitter

>>18159302
How can it get worse than this? I have to imagine houses are down this year post Naito, but I stopped watching and checking this thread much

>goto out indefinitely
woof

>>18159421
kek what a fucking piece of shit self mark. he let meltzer stars go to his head.

>>18159421
bongs are so bad

bunch of marks worked by the technical wizard itt

>>18159421
He's gonna redo this to YOSHIHASHI for heat isn't he?

YOOKAY

it's an abstract kind of feel

>>18159643
he won't because it wasn't acknowledged outside of your headcanon

>>18159672
nah, those who dont like tony khan should be fired

>>18159656
twitter trannies love pushing stretched narratives so once they do so he's gonna go to that spot exactly

>>18159693
Naito flat out said he'd be open to work AEW if Tony or The Elite hit him up though

>>18159704
known twitter addict zack sabre jr

>>18159672
Fuck this loser. He thought he was too good for AEW and Jon Moxley.

>>18159711
He was BEGGING for it even HAHAHA

>>18159713
he probably has an alt account where he retweets shit about politics like charlton does on main

Soon.

>>18159711
>>18159724
The allure of reuniting with his ingobernable HERMANO

>>18159724
No he didn't, the smark interviewer asked him about AEW

>WK19 is a failure and Shota gets booed
>Wrestle Dynasty is an even bigger failure
>Due to that NJPW didn't make a profit in the first part of the year
>They put the tag belts on Jeff Cobb and have him as the next challenger for the WHC
>He leaves anyway
>Gets renamed "JC Mateo" in the dubya E, bringing shame to NJPW
>They then lose Naito: the biggest star, draw and merch seller of the last 10 years
>They're forced to kill Los Ingobernables De Japon
>the forced push with Fujita doesn't work and gets a lot of criticisms
>Dominion PLUMMET
>Their only babyface draw loses the WHC to the previous dimeless champion
>He also gets injured and misses the biggest tour of the year
yep...that's grim.

>>18159760
And he said please hire me Tony-sama I really want to win some real money HAHAHAHAHAHAA

>>18159736
He is the only man that can save this trash fire.

Jon Moxley will save the day. I'm sure they can get Ospraey back too.

>>18159779
he might

>>18159764
It's a rough period but I think it can also be the most exciting since we'll see which of the younger talents can rise to the top and which can't.

how worse can it get ? what grim news await us ?

i thought goto winning the title was grim because he was too old and a jobber or something, what changed?

>>18159811
Rated R Cope is coming to live out his dream of going over in the Tokyo Dome.

>>18159831
You were wrong since it's something fans who've been watching since 2008 had been waiting for.

>>18159831
In a way it was grim because in a healthy New Japan, Goto wouldn't be the world champion but it was their last decent storyline from the golden age so they used it. Things only got grimmer though.

>>18159831
Nothing, we just aren't as retarded as you

There's only one man who can save New Japan.

>>18159854
why are you having a meltdown because the grim champion is going to miss the g1 then?

>>18159811
Goto replacement will be chase owens

>>18159857
shiiieeeeeet das right nigga imma finna do be winnin da belt yall ! ur gon suck my dihh n yall gon call me da shin kang of noojapan sheeeeeeeeesh !

Tokyo Dome will now draw on the back of Tana's retirement, Wolfu's debut and Goto facing Shibata (5 minute exhibition where Goto headbutts him for fun)

Tony will come to NJPW's rescue.

>>18159886
Don't forget about Mercedes Mone's match.

>>18159886
so nothing changed then?

>>18159888
we need him
let's hope he sends us jack perry and the young bucks

CMLL is sending Mistico. We'll be okay.

>he somehow makes this about tony khan
now that's genuinely grim, just kill yourself man

>>18159886
Goto getting the pin for Bishamon over EVIL & DripNADA for the tag belts

It's always darkest before the dawn.

>>18159949
Was this an ad for a video game or just a really bad idea?

>>18159905
Tony will send over the Golden Lovers for the tag belts

>>18159968
Gladiator 2 sponsor

Only Jeong Mok Su Lee can save New Japan now. Hopefully elevating his son Shota Mok Su Lee.

>>18160109
Nah, Gabe Kidd is Mox new son

New Japan was only good in the 70's.

>>18160206
Wrestling was only good when I liked it.

Popular culture was only good when I was a child (huge coincidence).

>ZSJ injures Naito right as he is about to win the G1
>Now he injures Goto right as he is about to win the G1
honestly fuck this guy at this point. He's plainly unsafe. Multiple times he's been loose and fucked up someone's arm or leg.
What are the chances that Goto knew he was fucked up and called that finish in the ring? I feel like NJPW is a pretty rigid environment, but if there's one guy I would trust to make that call on the fly it's probably Goto.

What's your level of hype for the G1 ?

>>18160498
lol naito was not winning that g1. a reporter accidentally slipped before the tournament even began that ibushi/kenta was gonna decide who made the final

Folks, we're at GRIMCON Level 2.

>>18160961
We are reaching levels of Grim that should not be possible.

>>18160592
If Taichi is in then ring wise it's a 7.5
If not then 6

the grim era is far from over
gabe kidd will get in the toybox next year
the big woofer david finlay will get to the E
and I guess clark and drilla will follow gabe in the toybox

>>18161071
All those shitters leaving is good tho

>>18161071
isn't that a good thing? no more gaijin shitters and focus on domestic market instead

>>18159900
grim in itself is proof of how dogshit this board is at making good memes anymore. we had dimes ice cold for years and now its like babies repeating the one word they know

>>18160498
Wild post

no more yookay weebs

>>18161168
The aussies and kiwis do good work. We need to return to that

>>18159302
YEEEEESS HAHAHAHA
CHASE STILL HAS A CHANCE BABY
THE CROWN JEWEL NEVER MISSES

>>18160592
Grim/10

>>18161150
look at this chubby flabby incel
this is the G1 winner

>>18159421
needed to be done
goto was getting too cocky
he should have known his place

New Japan should go all in on signing Hakuho.

>>18161249
If he went independent 20 years ago, Inoki would've worked with him.

>>18161259
>Hakuho vs Cro Cop in a shoot fight

I'm sure Tony will graciously lend us his Tomohiro Ishii toy to replace Goto. I'm not worried.

>>18161118
Grim post brotato. It's board culture it comes and goes.

I thought this year started off alright. WK and WD were decent shows Shota narrative aside. New Beginning was great. It's been a downwards spiral for all of Bushiroad as a whole. Both companies have been bleeding main event talent like no tomorrow for several straight years.

Also they are cheap bastards who want everyone on PPA deals.

Just catching up with the news. Did these tightwads really not want to pay Naito? Where's the loyalty?

>>18161578
>It's board culture it comes and goes.
Gets worse? Yea

>>18161602
It doesn't help vibes for New Japan are awful right now. Dominion -> Goto loses the title (off-screen for many) -> Removed from G1 due to injury -> Houses are massively down which hurts the vibes of shows probably in part because of no Naito. Where are the positives right now? Maybe Taichi gets in with a last chance quali if Gedo decides not to do fan torture booking for once? Even coming out of the G1 unless Tsuji or whoever wins has an all time great tournament it's gonna be hard to break from this mire.

>>18161150
I definitely know for sure he's not winning the G1 because he's still pushing this narrative about reestablishing the V4 when they're obviously never going to

the crown jewel will qualify because tony needs ishii on dynamite and collision

You doomposting grimmers are getting annoying at this point, ngl. NJPW is fine. Takeshita vs Tsuji G1 finals with Takeshita winning the G1 is all we need to be back on top. NJPW is still the best wrestling company in the world. Goto was good and I'm glad he got his world title run 17 years late, but he is not the future. We don't need him. Just give me Takeshita G1 victory.

IT'S COMING HOME

>>18161722
For me it's Takeshita losing the IWGP title to Blake Christian on ROH.

>>18161722
takeshita winning the g1 would be so yummy wummy. imagine takeshita defending his wrestle kingdom main event spot against okada at aew all out. holy shit.

>>18161722
We need Tony to lend us Takeshita for the next two years at least. Otherwise New Japan will die.

>>18161593
Naito was getting too cocky. He wanted more money and less dates. NJPW did the right thing by firing him. That retard could barely move anyways. He thought he was such a hotshot that Tony would give him a call. Now he is wrestling in a bingo hall for Rev Pro instead of wrestling for the King of Sports. Dude was a self-mark.

grim...

what happened to Nakashima?

>>18161602
some would say...grim.

shota umino fucking sucks

>>18161874
idk nigga go the new zealand and find out

i have hired a priest to help end the curse on new japan. don't worry guys the grim era will be over soon.

what will main event wrestle grimdom ? trannyhashi's retirement match or the world title match ?

>>18162245
it will be the same match

>>18162261
>another zakku vs tana match
grim

>>18156685
Yappari, Gaba-san is fumbling his career right now. I always knew he sucked.

>>18158683
Would be funny if Zack winning was this era's Fujita vs Sasaki in 04 match.

>>18159302
They are so fucked in 2026

>>18161967
Catholic or Shinto or Buddhist?

>>18162724
Don't even get me started on 2027.

>>18148006 (OP)
Tanahashi? More like 'Tanacrashi the NJPW plane with no survivors.'

Will we see a turnaround at the Gr1m Anticlimax?

>>18148026
>handsome
>shoot credentials
>crossover appeal due to being half yank
Trannysistxers, our response? I'm scared - I thought this was our safe space lucha ladyboy fed??

the Humble Bear walked so the Humble Wolf could run

GRIMhoshi GRIMahashi

Why isn't Anthony Bowens in the G1 qualifier? People itt told me he was for sure going to be in the G1 because Tony Khan hates New Japan?

>>18162850
Is that the gay STRONG guy that teamed with Lawlor? The US offshoot is non-canon and apparently dead as of the Spring.

>>18162523
my man lookin like a day laborer outside the lowes

>>18162850
niggers are not allowed to compete in the g1

>>18162850
Should’ve sent Mason Madden

>>18162850
Nobody except the most desperate AEWtists thought this fag could hang in da 1.

i don't like Zack Sabre Junior

>>18163125
The best choice among these is actually Kojima, ngl.

>>18162850
They wanted the best wrestler alive Max Caster actually. He's too loyal to AEW so they said fuck it instead of getting his Jannetty

i'll never forget you Hiroki Goto

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