Will New Japan ever be this red hot ever again?!

No one knows how to throw punches

>>18238508 (OP)
Yeah, it was, it was called the late 2010s.

>>18238528
>manlets doing flippy dippys
Gain test
Hit the weights
Gain height
Get a clue

>>18238528
bait used to be believable

>>18238508 (OP)
No. If anyone in NJPW gets any traction Tony will sign them and ruin them likeJay White or Okada.

>push native talent
>only bring in gaijin with legit fighting credibility, no more indie guys
>have Japanese talent beat MMA guys

>>18238508 (OP)
No, New Japan doesn’t have Inoki or the Musketeers anymore.

>>18238549
Inoki in a freak show MMA match is better than Omega x Okada 1? K..

>>18238508 (OP)
It was last night. Okada vs Omega was basically a New Japan match with a story based around New Japan. New Japan Pro Wrestling has evolved beyond its own self. Now it is known as All Elite Wrestling in the United States of America. AEW is an extension of NJPW. If you are software developer then you can even call AEW a "fork" of NJPW.

>>18238613
AEW is nothing like New Japan.

>>18238591
It drew infinitely more so it’s better

>>18238634
Did it actually? I legitimately don't know. So the gate at that venue you mean or the overall revenue? Because that is grim. I know when I was over in Japan in the 2010s Tokyo Dome wouldn't even be half sold for Wrestle Kingdom.

Will wrestling ever be Red hot again?

>>18238622
It has all the New Japan wrestlers you used to cum buckets over. AEW is signing your precious Gabe Kidd. If Inoki was alive then he would have signed with AEW too. You NJPW fucks are loser. You are pathetic loser. Inoki would be disgusted by someone like you. He would tell you to touch grass in a Xitter reply if he was alive. That's how pathetic your existence is.

>there are people who only associate NJPW with the Tanahashi era now
A grim thought

>>18238519
straight punches are illegal in pro wrestling rules dumbass

>>18238800
AKA its most profitable era? How is it grim?

>>18238931
>its most profitable era
Is that a joke?

>>18238743
I didn't even watch New Japan when Kidd wrestled and New Japan is simply presented differently, they are not the same. Japanese crowds dictate what kind of product NJPW ultimately is.

>>18238939
It's not, It's quite literally factual you fucking faggot

>>18238508 (OP)
yes, once Shota Umino finishes his story at the Tokyo Dome

>>18238591
Omega x Okada 1 is at least 15min too long, and Omega can't even run the ropes without looking like he's prancing around.

>>18238959
Did you know NJPW were able to sell out the dome twice a year in the 90s

>>18239040
So?

>>18239040
>believing inoki's lies
KWAB

>>18239080
Even if he inflated the numbers the crowds were bigger than any of the Tanahashi era dome shows

>>18238743
Different booking, different show formats, different match formats even. They're not the same at all.
Know what you're talking about before you shoot off from the mouth retard.

>>18239080
Inoki was barely around in the 90s, Choshu was booking the wrestling boom

Inoki was playing politics

>>18238743
>You NJPW fucks are loser.
GMS

>>18239040
That's pretty impressive, I'd like to see what WWE would do there.

>>18239206
Would probably have trouble filling Korakuen since it doesn't have a huge presence there beyond the Japanese equivalent of American NJPW fans.

>>18238508 (OP)
Maybe when Tony dies

>>18239222
They do 6k when they do a house show in Ryogoku Kokukikan btw

>>18239222
They won't go to Korakuen because they usually sellout two nights of Ryogoku. >>18239274

>>18239274
>>18239304
I was mostly joking, but that's good to hear.
Still don't think they'd fill the Tokyo Dome though... can't imagine they wouldn't have tried if they thought they could.

>>18238508 (OP)
The sports presentation of the Inoki/Maeda/Hashimoto era only worked in a pre-MMA world. NJPW was gaped and left in the gutter by the rise of PRIDE in the early to mid 2000's. Nothing will bring it back to it's prime years.

>>18238591
Yes

>>18239080
>Inoki's lies
One look at the footage of said dome shows would tell you they're full houses.

>>18238508 (OP)
>Crowd is filled with men from all ages popping and marking out with some women here and there
A sight you'd never see in today's NJPW.