Thread 18163633

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>New Japan Soul 2025

7/6 Korakuen (6:30pm)
>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado (c) vs Kosei Fujita
>IWGP Junior Tag Championship: DOUKI & SHO (c) vs Master Wato & YOH
>G1 Climax 35 Last Chance Play-In Gauntlet: Tomohiro Ishii & Taichi vs Satoshi Kojima & Chase Owens
>Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road ~Kinship~ & Tiger Mask 30th Anniversary: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Tiger Mask
>Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita, SANADA & King of Darkness EVIL
>Masatora Yasuda & Shoma Kato vs Daiki Nagai & Katsuya Murashima
>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay

>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 >>18148006

>>18163633 (OP)
Just 4 Guys having a match

Chase should stack Ishii, Taichi and Kojima on top of each other and pin them all at the same time

>>18163651
He should let me stack him with all that cake he's packing

>>18163644
https://x.com/njpwworld/status/1941363453685530951
Funny he had to tap into SZG Zack for this promo only for the young cunts in his block to be Ren Narita & Shota Umino lol

Isn't it crazy to think about the fact Goto being injured is like the worst thing that could happen to NJPW in 2025 ? Imagine telling that to NJPW fans 3 years ago. Grim.

>>18163772
is there a clip of this?

At least he gets to be with his kids..

>>18163898
But he gave up ;(

>>18163812
He won't post it because it would expose his narrative

>>18163772
what a shitter

>>18163772
tony told him to do this

>>18163941
referee stoppage. red shoes fucked on him

NJPW needs a Visual Kei effeminate player

>getting worked by a wrestling move
how embarassing can this thread be...

>>18164321
You tell me

shota umino will win the g1

>>18164321
yeah man goto blew it out from sneezing

>>18164264
VK hasn't been relevant for nearly 30 years. If they want dimes, they should hire a janiizu aidoru/STARTO ENTERTAINMENT talent.
Antonio Inoki booked one of them against him for the Rikidozan Memorial Show back in 2000 and filled the house.

Goto put out a statement that basically says it’s only the nature of the G1 being consecutive matches so soon that disqualifies him from participating. So the good news is that he should be back for the final, or at least the next tour. Doesn’t seem like a big problem to rehab, just that he’s not permitted to forfeit the G1 start and join later.

>>18164680
>Janiizu
Might as well ask them to partner with the Unification Church

>>18164743
They're called STARTO ENTERTAINMENT now after cleansing themselves, but people still call them janiizu.

>>18164680
DDT grabbed 2 separate idols to wrestle and they're both dimes

>>18163651
True.

How THE FUCK did Rizin draw +40,000 to the Tokyo Dome? I was told nobody wants to go to sporting events anymore because of COVID and it has nothing to do with Tony's Toybox poaching anyone of possible marquee value.

How THE FUCK did Rizin draw +40,000 to the Tokyo Dome? I was told nobody wants to go to sporting events anymore because of COVID and it has nothing to do with Tony's Toybox poaching anyone of possible marquee value.

Why did the mainstream form of entertainment drew more than the niche form of entertainment? It's baffling honestly.

>>18165534
can't even spam right, retard

blud arguing with himself again

>>18164700
Fucking stupid but I guess it makes sense not to rework the whole schedule just for 1 guy.

save us Aaron Wolf

save us Aaron Henare

>>18165799
I would gladly trade Newman for HENARE in terms of availability this year. A main event vs Goto wouldve been kino for sure

>>18166176
I'd trade Newman cause he fucking sucks. Like Gedo replacing Omega and each variant getting worse. Newman is the Temu Ospreay.

Henare is alright. He has found his niche doing a sometimes mid sometimes good Ishii impression. At least he seems genuine in being a mark for the lion mark.

Aaron Wolf is fatter than Tsuji and a "manlet" yet none of you marks are complaining.

>>18166280
Almost every comment is making fun of him or joking about le inokiism

>>18166280
The fucking retards here and on Twitter are hating on Newman even though he's taller and younger than every young guy in njpw besides gok and oleg

>>18166347
>he's taller and younger
doesn't make him inherently better than anyone

>>18166280
and he's jewish

more like "nah, man"

>>18166368
Ok but he could be in the future you retard. If he ever does actually become a great wrestler and midcard champion he would have had a different journey than most in njpw

I have to imagine the real reason most people don't like Newman is that he is Ospreay's nepobaby and will leave to the toybox ASAP. New Japan should not waste resources investing in hwhite dudes.

>>18166428
But even that's retarded because he's so young he can decide to stay for 5 years and not even be 30

purge all the gaijins except for Boltin. go back to pure graps and pure japs.

>>18166598
Give Oskar a chance

>>18166598
Japanese people are such retarded cucks that will never happen

>>18166280
him being a fucking chubby manlet is literally one of the first things that was said during the press conference

>>18166280
see https://archive.palanq.win/pw/thread/18067554

>>18166663
this. nwo japan was a huge failure and proof that what you're saying is right.

>>18166598
Inoki would have made Oleg IWGP Heavyweight Champion by now.

>>18167071
And that's a good thing. He is the only gaijin who is gonna stay in Poo Japan anyway.

>>18166604
Oskar is not very good in the ring. He’ll still get pushed as part of YoungBlood, but his ceiling is a rich man’s Fale.

Tall guys always suck. Giant Babetty is maybe the only one close to not being complete dog.

>>18167218
Babetty was shit and looked like shit. Horrendous creature with small arms.

>>18167268
get it bonked and chopped on

imagine if tanahashi gets injured before WK
they couldn't even sell tickets on his retirement match
would be grim but quite funny at this point

>>18167078
I didn't say it was a bad thing
>>18167268
Baba was best at brawls and bloodbaths. He could be really fun as old man Baba in tags too.

>>18163633 (OP)
7/6 Korakuen (6:30pm)
>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado (c) vs Kosei Fujita
>IWGP Junior Tag Championship: DOUKI & SHO (c) vs Master Wato & YOH
>G1 Climax 35 Last Chance Play-In Gauntlet: Tomohiro Ishii & Taichi vs Satoshi Kojima & Chase Owens
>Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road ~Kinship~ & Tiger Mask 30th Anniversary: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Tiger Mask
>Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita, SANADA & King of Darkness EVIL
>Masatora Yasuda & Shoma Kato vs Daiki Nagai & Katsuya Murashima
>Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Zane Jay

>>18168033
Final predictions bros - who wins the gauntlet?

>>18168072
chase because gedo is a retard

>>18168072
Captain Grim Japan

>>18168072
>want
Taichi
>guess
Ishii

>>18168072
Dangerous T, but for me it would be the lonestar cowboy. (Purely for maximum generated grimness per hour)

[Distressing Shota Umino (Has a weird shaped head)

>>18168217
This gimmick should be getting him heat for how hot it is

>>18168267
him shaving his head exposed that the top of his head is really small. he might have a small brain too.

>>18168347
That's a very rude comment

>>18168347
The back of his head is oddly flat it's like a 90 degree angle with the top of his head.

>>18168379
yeah, but even here it looks fine compared to what his skull actually looks like when he was in total bald bitch mode

>>18168347
He looked fine completely bald, it's a shame we're back to him making shitty hair decisions

It's kinda crazy how HoT is so dimeless that the only good part is the double Jannetty duo from LIJ.

>>18168468
He looked way more dimes as a Tanahashi cosplayer.

I think Tanahashi fucked up his retirement tour. He wrestles way too much, even wrestles singles matches against jobbers and old washed up shitters. It doesn't make his matches feel like a big deal, most of them are bad and it doesn't draw because it doesn't feel special.

>>18168513
Hard to argue when I compare the highs of Liger's and Muto's retirement tours. But Tana loves wrestling, and it does help smaller shows. I don't think he could've imagined the grimness of the current roster situation

>>18168513
He's mirorring the structure of Liger's retirement and giving his other dads send-off matches out of respect. At worst that matches have been meh and the only problem is not even special matches with outside talent. I hope the G1 is to get all the New Japan matches out the way before kicking it up a notch.

why is aaron wolf not in the g1 wtf is this

lol nobody noticed but harada from tekken was at the budokan show

They flew in Akira just to do commentary for 1 show

Matsumoto is dimes

Time for the fajita to sizzle

>>18169238
Good. That Italian bitch isn't getting any days off. New Japan isn't paying him for nothing.

H
O
BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH

Why does everything look so orange

very grim looking card

God I want Taguchi to rub his ass on me

>>18169318
Just join the dojo bro

based BARS

This crowd is hotter than usual

>HoT standing tall
That means they're going to help Chase win

>>18169326
I'm already booking a one way flight to Tokyo

>SANADA tosses guitar under the ring
Oh my god Chase is actually winning

>>18169334
3 HoT guys in one block?

>>18169340
Theyre retarded enough to do it

>>18169331
There is a heat wave in Japan after all

kino counter by zack

>>18169340
This fraud would do it.

Great trios match god damn. Oiwa vs Tsuji should be good

>Tana vs Tiger Mask IV
I would take a fap break but I'm at work

Nagai getting the Fujita treatment, hell yeah

Chris is fucking screaming his head off

Nagai will save this company, you heard it here first!

The fear in my heart when he tried that Tiger Driver

>HFF for Tiger Mask
Nigga is too giving. Win with the Slingblade brother we don't mind

Tiger maskbros...

wato shouldve been the nu tiger

HE'S GONNA STACK EM BROTHER
CHASETER IS TAKING THIS

fucking dimeless ass nigga

>rolls in to break the count
>the count continues
going thru the motions

kek 2 ojisamas down

DRIPNADA IS HERE

YES

HOLY SHIT GEDO DIDN'T MAKE AN ABSOLUTELY RETARDED DECISION TO GET MORE HEAT WHAT THE HELL

TAICHIBROS WE HAVE A SHOT

Hitler died twice this weekend.

did taichi really bust his fucking face?

Holy fucking shit what a match

Can Newman blow his knee out so whoever loses this can take his place?

>>18169470
About time. Surely someone's taking the gimmick

>>18169473
would be a blessing fr

BASED MATCH

First, I'll hug Gedo.

****3/4

who ya got ?

Back to the bottom, Chasu

I love these two old men

Taichi's definitely facing SANADA first and losing.

it's that time again...

DOUKI's new theme is so good it almost justifies the dumbass turn

>>18169501
he's better as a heel anyway

Real good match actually.

theyre just grabbing the most random shit and making them weapons

ok now time to watch that fajita sizzle

love this theme

SHEEEEEEEEEESH THIS YOUNG PUNK DRIPPIN

>>18169507
he is and he's a good fit for hot, the turn coming out of nowhere was still stupid though, you really couldn't have him team with wato and seethe about it for a tour before doing the turn?

i rate canadian depsy

they sure love a hotheaded jr

kek akira doesnt know what a southpaw is

Glad I destroyed my sleep schedule for this match

Fuck Rocky.

i see

>the one time I don't mind a TMDK guy going over a well liked babyface champ
wtf Gedo

Im fucking shocked but great match

>>18169491
Damn. Not excited for anyone to win this year

Might as well give it to tanahashi

passed out towards the end, i'll watch the rest later but fujita should've won

>>18166370
Really?

I'M FROM THE YOOKAY AND I LOVE JAPANESE CULTURE

im happy fujita lost
they should bury him
muh boi yoh should win the title next

>>18169491
THE SEX HAVER
KONOSUGOI TAKESHOOTA

Aaron Wolf should be the next Tiger Mask

There shouldn't be a new Tiger Mask actually

aaron wolf should be the wolf mask

>>18169704
There's too much free merch money on the table to not have a new young guy take up the mask

>>18169774
Yeah Tiger Mask masks are selling like hotcakes in the 21st century, for sure man, whatever you say

there should always be a character for young kids, newbies and casuals to support.
Also, Legacy gimmicks are cool.

>>18169828
there's already plenty of them in hontai, are they not enough for you because they don't have a goofy marketable mask?

>>18169813
Stardom has been making bank with temu tiger masks for 12 years so yes they are

There should be a new Jushin Liger.

>>18169774
those lil 5 year old marks love the masks bro

What happened to anime inspired gimmicks anyways? Which superhero anime is popular in Japan these days? Solo Leveling? Should EVIL become a necromancer?

>>18169840
you know, the biggest problem with wrestling fans is that they know nothing about wrestling.

>>18169852
also this

I always liked Kiseki No Juushin more than Ikari No Juushin.

>>18169984
>EVIL levels up in dungeons alone
>goes beyond his NEVER fire and aggression.
>still cheats excessively anyway
dimes

>>18170039
>EVIL says "Arise"
>HoT members emerge from under the ring on all four sides

>>18169238
He lives in Japan and has a Japanese girlfriend. He flew home from Mexico.

Trying to will Tiger Mask IV vs Dynamite Kid Tom Billington into existence at Forbidden Door Zero Hour. For the Sickos.
TONYYYY
ROCKKYYYYY

Taichi is gonna get the Goto booking for the G1. Expect him to do unusually well this year.

Looking forward to reading a lot of quality, well-thought out posts in the two weeks of downtime we have until the next show.

shota umino fucking sucks

>>18170548
I see him going 4-5, tied in last place with half the block

>Taichi getting into the G1
>Its unironically saved
Based

[Sad News] El Desperado's (41) niece was the victim of the Subway Slammer.
>Excuse me for making a mess.
>No, seriously, I knew there was such a thing as a subway slammer, but I never thought I'd see it firsthand.
>He was obviously trying to hit my sister who was standing next to me, and when he saw me, he turned around.
>I thought it was a weird guy, and my niece (3rd grade), who was walking behind me, later said, "It didn't hurt, but he hit me with his bag.
>She said she didn't say anything at the time because it didn't hurt.
>My sister's husband was walking ahead with the other kid at the time, so he didn't notice.
>How could he hit a kid who was walking right behind me?
>You're so fucking tough on people you can't complain to.
>You may have a clean shirt and tie, and you may be well dressed, but you're still a rotten piece of shit on the inside, and I'm sorry you can't be a human being anymore.
>I can't say it to his face because I'll never see him again, so I'm complaining here.
>You guys be careful.
>Don't grow up like that.

>>18170848
KWAB

>>18170848
Great O'Khan would never have let this happen

Despe got cucked by a Persona character

>>18170848
>slammer
>people you can't complain to.
What retarded machine translator are you using, ironic weeb?

>>18170942
Deepl. I am greatly enjoying the japs reactions to the wests reactions to the subway slammer.

>>18170866
Many have been saying this.

>>18169491
i only pick block winners based on who i’d want to make climax

>>18170975
>Deepl
Modern Google translator is shoot more coherent than it.

>>18171307
It used to be really good, but 3rdie scanlation groups really fucked up the AI by manually correcting shit when they have neither an understanding of English nor Japanese.

>>18171318
they did "that"?

he's going to do this when he points up to the Wrestle Kingdom sign after winning the G1

>>18172206
Yoshi-Hashi aint winning lil bro. He's the LA Knight of New Japan.

>>18170848
Did she know how to bump? That girl in Persona 5 X decided to oversell and sawdusted herself

>Just… so frustrated.

>The sound of the bell at the end of the match keeps replaying in my head.

>It really stings.

https://x.com/njpw_Fujita/status/1941862297846284459

Murashima needs to take time off. His knee has been in rough shape for a while now but he could barely walk properly after his match this morning

>>18172967
I look forward to him trying to murder Daiki Nagai during the G1 previews

>>18172967
Well if Zack gets heelish and mean maybe Fujita being more of a punk is the final step

Ay yo!?
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/8Z47VVMNmGw

>>18174376
I just saw this guy eating the nastiest looking sandwich of all time so this is cool

when are we getting the cards of the grim1 shows

G1 cards are out
https://www.njpw1972.com/584786

Full card for Opening Night

>Main event: A Block- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Taichi
>9th Match: B Block- Zack Sabre Jr. vs Ren Narita
>8th Match: A Block- Yota Tsuji vs SANADA
>7th Match: B Block- Gabe Kidd vs Konosuke Takeshita
>6th Match: A Block- Ryohei Oiwa vs David Finlay
>5th Match: B Block- Shota Umino vs El Phantasmo
>4th Match: A Block- Yuya Uemura vs Boltin Oleg
>3rd Match: B Block- Great-O-Khan vs Drilla Moloney
>2nd Match: A Block- Callum Newman vs EVIL
>1st match: B Block- YOSHI-HASHI vs Shingo Takagi

>>18175350
Taichi saved the fuck out of A block

a lot of Tanahashi main events
grim

>>18175376
I hope he gets Goto's booking and ends up making it to the next round

Full card for Day 2

>Main event: B Block- Zack Sabre Jr. vs Gabe Kidd
>9th Match: Taichi vs Yuya Uemura
>8th Match: El Phantasmo vs Konosuke Takeshita
>7th Match: Yota Tsuji vs EVIL
>6th Match: Shingo Takagi vs Great-O-Khan
>5th Match: David Finlay vs SANADA
>4th Match: YOSHI HASHI vs Ren Narita
>3rd Match: Boltin Oleg vs Ryohei Oiwa
>2nd Match: Shota Umino vs Drilla Moloney
>1st match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Callum Newman

>>18175378
>The top 3 for the number of main event appearances are

>Zack・Tanahashi 5 times
>Yota・TAKESHITA 3 times
>Takagi・Finlay・Uemura・Umino 2 times

>A Block Final Night
>Tanahashi vs EVIL
Kekaroooo! The President is gonna stop EVIL from advancing to the playoffs, isn't he? Gonna be hilarious.

>>18175378
Tbf some of them were probably gonna be Goto's but Tana's headlining in his stead. Also kinda easy to call who he will and won't beat

>>18175403
>HOT run interference throughout the whole tournament to get maximum heat
>Tanahashi has to be the hero of NJPW and beat EVIL to stop him advancing
Tana gonna ruin this whole G1 so he can be a self-mark one last time

big yosh is gonna KILL zack shitter jr. in the sizzling summer of august the 13th and take revenge for his fallen comrade goto hirooki

>>18175403
>>18175433
No
Tana will go scoreless, give all he can to stop EVIL from advancing. He fails, then it's up to 1 of the young guys to stop him in the knockout stage

>>18175437
the moment that will ungrim NJPW

Taichibros, im so excited

i had goto winning the g1
now taichi is winning the g1

>>18169491
Shitter Poomino vs Oy Vey Goywa final

>>18169491
Shooter vs Takeshooter

IM A MADMAN YUNO

As grim as the total attendance will be and whatever retarded booking move they pull this is probably the best organized G1 match schedule in years

don't get cocky nujamals

>g1 climax in 2025
>tanahashi and taichi are main eventing the opening block night
damn this really lets ya know how badly njpw got raped. they really have no star power left anymore.

I'm hyped for Rocky Romero in the G1 Climax undercard

It's not too late, Gedo-san.

>>18175393
>>Main event: B Block- Zack Sabre Jr. vs Gabe Kidd
From grim to dire

like Randy Savage reuniting with Miss Elizabeth, the tearful reunion of the Tokyo Pimp and Muffin Ass can win over the crowd and make Yujiro Takahashi the unlikely hero who can restore the feeling for New Japan Pro-Wrestling

>>18166598
at what point in time has that ever been a recipe for good wrestling?

>>18166598
japanese talent is abysmal right now, with a few exceptions

>>18176729
in his pathetic weeaboo mind

>>18176489
Is that really worse?

>>18176107
Hi, Rocky. Alex Koslov was the Michaels.

>>18176028
>outdraws Tarp In

>>18177583
Him getting more main events than Gabe is very funny

>>18176964
This photo makes Reddit seethe.

>Tuesday, July 22 in Miyagi
A Block: Ryohei Oiwa vs. Callum Newman
A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Boltin Oleg
A Block: EVIL vs. SANADA
A Block: Taichi vs. David Finlay
A Block: Yuya Uemura vs. Yota Tsuji

>Wednesday, July 23 in Niigata:
B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Drilla Moloney
B Block: ELP vs. Ren Narita
B Block: Great-O-Khan vs. Konosuke Takeshita
B Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Gabe Kidd
B Block: Shota Umino vs. Zack Sabre Jr.

>Friday July 25 in Tokyo:
A Block: Boltin Oleg vs. SANADA
A Block: Yuya Uemura vs. Callum Newman
A Block: Taichi vs. EVIL
A Block: Yota Tsuji vs. Ryohei Oiwa
A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. David Finlay

>Saturday July 26 in Tokyo:
B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Great-O-Khan
B Block: Gabe Kidd vs. Drilla Moloney
B Block: El Phantasmo vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
B Block: Shota Umino vs. Ren Narita
B Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Konosuke Takeshita

>Sunday July 27 in Aichi:
A Block: Boltin Olega vs. Yota Tsuji
A Block: Callum Newman vs. David Finlay
A Block: Taichi vs. SANADA
A Block: Yuya Uemura vs. EVIL
A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Ryohei Oiwa

>Wednesday, July 30 in Osaka
B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Gabe Kidd
B Block: El Phantasmo vs. Great-O-Khan
B Block: Drilla Moloney vs. Ren Narita
B Block: Shota Umino vs. Shingo Takagi
B Block: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Konosuke Takeshita

>Friday, August 1 in Kagawa
B Block: Callum Newman vs. SANADA
B Block: Ryohei Oiwa vs. EVIL
B Block: Boltin Olega vs. David Finlay
B Block: Taichi vs. Yota Tsuji
B Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuya Uemura

>Saturday, August 2 in Hiroshima
B Block: Shota Umino vs. YOSHI-HASHI
B Block: El Phantasmo vs. Shingo Takagi
B Block: Drilla Moloney vs. Konosuke Takeshita
B Block: Gabe Kidd vs. Ren Narita
B Block: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Great-O-Khan

>Sunday, August 3 in Fukuoka
A Block: Callum Newman vs. Boltin Oleg
A Block: Taichi vs. Ryohei Oiwa
A Block: Yuya Uemura vs. SANADA
A Block: David Finlay vs. EVIL
A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yota Tsuji

>Tuesday, August 5 in Osaka
B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Konosuke Takeshita
B Block: Great-O-KHan vs. Ren Narita
B Block: El Phantasmo vs. Drilla Moloney
B Block: Shota Umino vs. Gabe Kidd
B Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.

>Thursday, August 7 in Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
A Block: Taichi vs. Callum Newman
A Block: Boltin Oleg vs. EVIL
A Block: HIroshi Tanahashi vs. SANADA
A Block: Yuya Uemura vs. Ryohei Oiwa
A Block: Yota Tsuji vs. David Finlay

>Friday, August 8 in Kanagawa
B Block: El Phantasmo vs. YOSHI-HASHI
B Block: Great-O-Khan vs. Gabe Kidd
B Block: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Drilla Moloney
B Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Ren Narita
B Block: Shota Umino vs. Konosuke Takeshita

>Sunday, August 10 in Gunma
A Block: Yuya Uemura vs. David Finlay
A Block: Taichi vs. Boltin Oleg
A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. EVIL
A Block: Yota Tsuji vs. Callum Newman
A Block: Ryohei Oiwa vs. SANADA

>Wednesday, August 13 in Shizuoka
B Block: Shota Umino vs. Great-O-Khan
B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
B Block: Konosuke Takeshita vs. Ren Narita
B Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Drilla Moloney
B Block: El Phantasmo vs. Gabe Kidd

>>18178287
>B Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
When will they learn Shingo doesn't draw shit in Osaka?

kek they have YOSHI HASHI in EVERY opener

>>18163633 (OP)
How many guys are we down to now?

>>18178353
he's main eventing the last day by beating zack and avenging goto

goto (is fucking dead)

>>18175372
>>18175393
>>18178253
>>18178277
>>18178287
Grim

is it really true that yoshi hashi is main eventing a g1 block night? holy shit njpw must be grimmer than i thought it was

>>18179439
no retard >>18178353

>>18180448
trunks are a bad look for Oskar

Every G1 card is.... GRIM. DIRE, even.

only thing grim about the lineup is no fajita vs nagai

All that buildup of SANADA and Drilla and they're not even in the same block. Who booked this?

>>18180448
>people speculating they will join a faction with Umino or Takagi by Dominion
>are out jobbing to fat islanders in dojo rings

>>18180448
How long before the two fat guys in the middle join the Bloodline?

>>18180448
isn't it about time these fuckers came back

>>18180874
I think it looks alright, problem is the contrast between him and Yuto

>>18180448
maybe NJPW should monitor their partners better

>>18182522
They are probably returning soon so they don't want to give them belts. probably back after G1 or at G1 final

wtf are we supposed to do for 11 days with no shows?

>>18183176
Train

>>18179851
yoshi hashi vs zack could still main event
match order TBD
ya retard

>>18169170
this faggot ruined the only good fighting game series

Insider here. Here are the current plans.

A block: Tsuji 1st, EVIL 2nd, Uemura 3rd.
B block: Zack 1st, Gabe 2nd, Shota 3rd.
Gabe beats Uemura, loses to Tsuji. Shota beats EVIL, beats Zack. Tsuji beats Shota.

Shota will get a title shot post-G1 and will beat Zack again. Shota will go into WK20 as the WHC and will avenge his loss to Tsuji in the G1.

shota umino photo bombing taichis sultry stare like a bird on a security camera is over with me

Subway Slammer should win the G1 he's the only one with any heat

JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>18184520
He'd definitely be the type to spend his his shouldering people on the subway

>>18185972
Who the fuck is on commentary screaming his head off during Naito's first win? Sounds like a guy restreaming the show doing his own commentary lol

>>18183363
>Blames him for ruining Tekken
>Doesn't give him credit for making it in the first place
Fickle

>>18186195
He made it and broke it, sounds pretty fair to me.

A1 Finlay
A2 Tsuji
A3 Boltin

B1 Zack
B2 Takeshita
B3 Umino

Post yours, you fags. I dare ya. I bet I will be right by the end of next month. I know this company better than anyone else. You are all fucking noobs compared to me.

>>18186423
You dare me? Okay.
A1 Honma
A2 Nic Nemeth
A3 Tsuji (clone)

B1 Tiger Mask
B2 Misawa
B3 DragonGate Abuse Monkey

>>18186465
Yeah, okay. Haha. You made me laugh. I'm obviously talking about the upcoming G1 Climax 35. Just trying to get some predicitions going.

>>18186481
JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>18186423
A1 EVIL
A2 Tsuji
A3 Yuya

B1 Shingo
B2 Shota
B3 Zack

>>18186423
same except uemura a3 and shingo b1
they are probably gonna keep the champs out of the playoffs

i never watched nooj before but my favorite youtube eating blog channel made a video with great-o-khan and he seems based,

>>18186733
can he go? get that robot nigga in the ring

>>18182292
what I'm really curious about is, did sanada decide to become buddy buddy with chase so that he could groom him into HoT eventually? if not then he just randomly decided "yeah fuck it you md4r now" and then dipped from war dogs until chase decided to dip too

>>18186733
>mfw taguchi successfully hits a b-trigger

>>18187024
I genuinely don't think they have any foward thinking logic behind any of these dumb swerves, then again no Japanese promotion ever does.

Chase Owens only joined Bullet Club because Omega needed a partner for Jr Tag League. He wasn't in Bullet Club, then they just released the schedule, and then he was in Bullet Club.

>>18187768
and niggas unironically think wrestle kingdom is gonna revolve around hontai vs HoT just because they added fale and chase lmao

>>18186733
she kinda bad tho

jungmok

>>18188282
You'll be eating those words when Hartley Jackson joins them and this can really kick into high gear..

Shota has sex
Tsuji never had sex
Uemura doesn't know what sex is
Narita doesn't have sex but is into some very dark shit

>>18190042
>Uemura doesn't know what sex is
He does know what it is, he's just scared of it

>>18190042
Shota only has sex if the NJPW office arranges it for him and he cries afterwards.

>>18190042
Narita fucks

>>18190042
>Narita doesn't have sex but is into some very dark shit
What do you think Pieter is there for?

Grim1 Crymax looks especially bleak this year.

>>18186423
Let's see Edgelard Unafilliated's picks after he completely KWABBed last year

>>18190655
Match quality: likely kino
Attendance: likely grim
Typical dark age things

Who would be the least grim G1 winner /njpw/?

Rocky Romero is begging Tonikan to pay for the LA Dojo. Why can't he just accept the American expansion was a mistake?

>>18191481
EVIL

>>18191561
How the fuck is that AEW/Rocky's fault

>>18191573
AEW's not at fault but Rocky is supposed to be in charge of this stuff now. They should just close it if they can't afford the facility where it is

When All In?
Want to see if Kazzy and Kenii still got it

i miss the Goto Revolution

>>18190967
get this hoss in the ring with walker and draw some fuckin yen gedo

>Second Summer of Sabre

>Going into #G1CLIMAX35 as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion and defending winner, Zack Sabre Jr. talks

>Embracing his 'inner prick'
> British dominance in New Japan
>The future of TMDK

>And more!

https://njpw1972.com/585883

https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/1942856257460920356 >

>>18191481
Takeshita

nobody asked for a Second Summer of Sabre

>>18191820
grim

>>18191820
Looks like a certain fox sitting on a certain bench

>>18186733
Pepper-kun’s face says it all
>If only you knew how grim things really are

>>18192028
>Pepper-kun
What?

>>18192036
>Posting in a Japanese wrestling thread
>Doesn’t know the name of one of the most famous robots in Japan
Grim.

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