Thread 18498797

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>G1 CLIMAX 35

8/10 G MESSE GUNMA (3:00pm)
>A Block: Yuya Uemura vs David Finlay
>A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs King of Darkness EVIL
>A Block: Yota Tsuji vs Callum Newman
>A Block: Ryohei Oiwa vs SANADA
>A Block: Taichi vs Boltin Oleg
>Daiki Nagai & Shingo Takagi vs Taiji Ishimori & Drilla Moloney
>YOSHI-HASHI & Takuma Katoh vs Hartley Jackson & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Katsuya Murashima & Shota Umino vs Jakob Austin Young & Great-O-Khan
>Rocky Romero & Konosuke Takeshita vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Ren Narita

8/13 Act City Hamamatsu (6:30pm)
>B Block: Konosuke Takeshita vs Ren Narita
>B Block: Shota Umino vs Great-O-Khan
>B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs Zack Sabre Jr.
>B Block: Shingo Takagi vs Drilla Moloney

8/14 Korakuen Hall (6:30pm)
>Playoff: A Block 2nd vs B Block 3rd
>Playoff: B Block 2nd vs A Block 3rd

8/16 Semifinal @ ARIAKE ARENA (5:00pm)
>Semifinal: Winner of A Block vs (B2 vs A3 Winner)
>Semifinal: Winner of B Block vs (A2 vs B3 Winner)

8/17 Final @ ARIAKE ARENA (3:00pm)
>G1 Climax 35 Final: 8/16 Ariake Winner vs 8/16 Ariake Winner

9/7 Blue Justice XVI @ Togane Arena (4:00pm)
9/28 Destruction in Kobe @ Kobe World Memorial Hall (4:00pm)

Previous >>18452826

>>18498797 (OP)
anal with oiwa

grim

>>18498797 (OP)
Oiwa vs Uemura was a near 5 stars, so good that the main event felt a bit weak.

Too bad about how GRIM B block is. Zack, Shota and Narita advancing lol.

shota umino fucking suck (so bad he made people dislike a takeshita match)

Finally got around to it, Uemura vs Oiwa was new Gen Kino incarnate

>>18498910
Yuya, Oiwa, Fajita and Boltin are saving New Japan with an anti-sawdust agenda. All we need is HIM back.

[Grim news] Tanahashi is wasting his last Ryogoku match on ELP.
https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/1954165516060561571

I hate ZSJ

>>18499073
how nice of tanahashi to have all the cool matches in his retirement run outside of japan and/or outside of new japan while giving us shit we couldve missed

>>18498797 (OP)
>8/14 Korakuen Hall (6:30pm)
>>Playoff: A Block 2nd vs B Block 3rd
>>Playoff: B Block 2nd vs A Block 3rd
>
>8/16 Semifinal @ ARIAKE ARENA (5:00pm)
>>Semifinal: Winner of A Block vs (B2 vs A3 Winner)
>>Semifinal: Winner of B Block vs (A2 vs B3 Winner)
>
>8/17 Final @ ARIAKE ARENA (3:00pm)
>>G1 Climax 35 Final: 8/16 Ariake Winner vs 8/16 Ariake Winner

so the final could have two guys from the same block, making it a rematch from earlier in the tournament

>>18499073
I'd rather he bore me to death trying to get Narita over than this shit. No wonder this retirement run isn't a draw

JEONG MOSQUE LI

Gabe Kidd, Uemura, and Oiwa are the standouts of the younger generation for me.

Shota is getting there. It helps that he's turning into a roidfreak.

>>18499441
Shota's matchbuilding is still god awful but he at least can hold up the latter end of a match

>>18498797 (OP)
Who's Takuma Katoh huh? You baka OP

>>18499185
Why didn't they just have Fujita beat Despy? Who the fuck is there for him to face at this point?

>>18499441
All that's left is for the office to follow and give them something interesting to do, or else the place is dead

>>18499438
Zesty ahh player

ELP and Hartley Jackson at Ebisuko (izakaya run by DDT)
>https://x.com/EBISUKOSAKABA/status/1954162623815266798

hey Dribbler Baloney your ride's here

>>18500270
El LindaGOAT

yooyer yooemoorer

>>18502224
It's depressing seeing him and T Hawk stuck in GLEAT purgatory. Thankfully Yutani has a chance to escape

A block finals in Gunma sold out. Not sure what that honestly means in terms of a number.

>>18498857
The Reiwa +2.

>>18503091
that's not even 2 thousy, so still grim but at least it's sold out. which is something they failed to do in the other venues besides korakuen.

>>18503390
The website says a singular area (split into 3: A, B & C) holds 3500 people or 2800 "theater style". We'll see.

g messe is one of those soulless, flat venues. hopefully they at least bother with proper lighting

Jack Sabre Jr.

>>18503555
Sun Messe Kagawa is a flat convention venue and they're always great. It depends on the area

The way AEW treats the IWGP title is so insulting

Yes I am cocky

>>18503899
Into who, though?

>>18499441
Replace Shota with Tsuji and you're right

>>18504215
>a commentator who has wrestled like twice in 10 years gets an automatic IWGP title shot because... he's from the UK!
Tony Khan books like a child

Also yet another AWFUL IWGP Heavyweight contender from AEW. They have yet to put up a main event level talent.

>>18504215
grim

>>18504419
Shut the fuck up. You Nujamals better be grateful that we are lettin you defend your IWGP Butterfly Championship at our PPV. Nigel is all you are getting. Our commentator can take your top champion to the limit, easy. There are levels to this shit ya bitch. Don't you fucking dare get cocky. Or else we will take your IWGP butterfly belt hostage again and put it on Jon Moxley.

>>18504215
Imagine what they were gonna do with Gabe lol

>>18504215
I genuinely think they're gonna have Garcia pin Nigel since they apparently have a story going on, so I pray it's Nigel

>>18504961
very cool RP post bro, do you do this to yourself in the mirror every night?

>>18505045
Shut the fuck ya bitch. Know your place. AEW rules over Nujapan. AEW is Nujapan's goshujin-sama. I

>>18505102
I'm sorry that EVIL is fucking your waifu bro
must be rough

>>18504215
That's it, NJPW is KWAB company of the year

>>18505226
Still Tony. AEW sending a lowball isn't new. If/when Takeshita wins the G1 then we have something

The Takeshita/Umino match was legit awful.

>>18505299
It was great, Shota seether.

Sorry EVIL is fucking your waifu btw
must be rough

>>18505299
>>18505316
It was mid. Boring start with spotty limbwork in a pathetic display after that Korakuen show, then they forgot about that shit and started hitting each other with moves till someone stayed down and that was fun to watch. It was a carbon copy of Shingo/Shota but worse.

I have not watched since wrestle kingdom, what are the big scoops

day 15 a block finals gamethread

>>18505962
>>18505962
>>18505962

>>18505926
5 star matches this year

>>18505984
>>18506071
>finals.
I thought it was the first night.
Silly me.

Should have been ZSJ vs Hechicero, with the latter winning clean

>>18506499
They they brought up that they had wrestled in the US and Mexico so they needed to wrestle in ZSJ's home.

Of course they go with the shittiest possible lineup to go through

grim

>>18506821
ah shaddap ya big crybaby

>>18503390
[Breaking news] It's above 2 thousy (barely, crowd sucked too)
>2,053人(札止め)

What the fuck happened after Fujita won BOSJ that made them stop giving a shit about making sure more than just Tsuji, Gabe or Umino win or get close to winning anything? At least Tsuji has some value even though that Callum match sucked, Shota is pure fucking bleh. And if Finlay isn't locked in for another 2 years there's no reason he should've made it out of the blocks again especially over Uemura. The guy who won the match that "unlocked a new era" can't even make it out his G1 block. Grim1 indeed (excellent main event tho)

>>18506948
>The guy who won the match that "unlocked a new era" can't even make it out his G1 block
That what i find annoying about this. But or they have better plans for people like Uemura or Oiwa or they don't care what the public want.
Since Fujita won BOSJ i thought they would commit on the young guys but I guess it was a fluke.

It's going to be Tsuji vs Takeshita in the finals like everyone and their mothers predicted huh? How boring...

>>18504215
LET'S GO GARCIA

The way Tanahashi went out of the G1 was fucking pathetic. No active crowd, no actual drama, he wrestles EVIL, gets powered and loses. Why would he half-ass his own sendoff with such a dogshit ending?

>>18507011
god forbid they put on a banger

Inoki would be ashamed.

>【New Japan・G1】SANADA completes all 9 matches with a daily fashion show Total costume cost is about 5 million yen | Tokyo Sports WEB
>www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/355402
Who's the Michaels? Who's the Jannetty?

>【New Japan・G1】SANADA completes all 9 matches with a daily fashion show Total costume cost is about 5 million yen | Tokyo Sports WEB
www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/355402

Who's the Michaels? Who's the Jannetty?

>>18507290
I've been very Inoki pilled lately. He was right, but just went too far in some places.

>>18507466
michaels - speaker jacket. mirror suit a close second
janetty - ricky from trailer park boys fit.

>>18507466
Seethe Tarpins wishes he had this natural swag

Inoki is looking down there from Muslim heaven and laughing. He's laughing.

>>18507542
Did he ever talk about his son becoming gay in his later years?

>>18507542
>>18507554
KWAB

>>18506948
It's not like Tsuji showed dominance and topped the block either, he got bitched into a 5-4 record and had to pray that EVIL beat Tanahashi for him to get in. ZSJ can wreck his block 2 years in a row and advance before block final, no one else though

>>18507542
Sorry to tell ya but nigga is in hell with the hulkster. Im sure he has a good view from below

>Gabe misses his final G1 but is about to make Forbidden Door
Very suspicious. Tonikan up to his ole talent tampering again

Tanahashi fucking sucks

>>>18507466
Michaels: disco suit
Jannetty: shower cover jacket

Kobe needs to look like Wrestle Kingdom 14 to pull me back in. Im completely out of cope rn

boltin and yuya were the only dimes players

>>18507466
The Giant Gonzalez meets Jeff Jarrett is giga dimes

Oi Nujamals
Dont get cocky
Forbidden Door will pull in more revenue in one day than your lil G1 did in the entire month

>>18507011
Yes Yuyafag, it is going to be Tsuji vs Takeshita finals and Takeshita is gonna win. I have a very strong influence on current NJPW's booking so I know these things. You know...Yuya was originally booked to advance into the playoffs. But then I saw you getting cocky in these threads. So I sabotaged Yuya's chances of advancing, lol. This is what happens when you get cocky. Never forget this.

Did anything cool happen recently / is anything cool gonna happen soon?

trust the flan

>>18507189
This shit is so much worse than the 2000s Dark Ages

>>18509509
No. / No.

>>18509574
He went all out against Shingo, Zack and stole the show with YOSHI-HASHI in the first block match of that night. Worked hard against Gabe, O-Khan and ELP. What are you giving him shit for, matches with inconsistent Shota or green Drilla?

JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>18509772
>green Drilla
You mean the guy that has wrestled for 12 years?

>>18509772
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
HE IS A TINY TOY
TINY TOY!!
I JUST HATE HIM BECAUSE HE IS A TINY TOY OKAY?!!! JUST FUCK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE

Posting updated Official Reiwa rankings. Unfortunately, there's been no change since last review.

give me gabe kidd toy now i'll send you daniel garcia for 3 weeks you need him he'll make some good business for ya pal i want yuya toy too yeah give me that and maybe the tsuji toy he does flips that look cool i might have something for him i'll give you 2 more % of the forbidden door gate what you say pal

>>18509509
yes/maybe

>>18509574
He didn't phone it in he just got outworked by Finlay and Yuya

Now that Yuya is out I don't care about this tournament anymore. Just give it to Takeshita and have him announce his Tokyo Dome challenge months in advance and just let him fool around on Dynamite for months without ever coming back to Japan, whatever, I don't care, they'll just do whatever AEW tells them to.

JEONG MOSQUE LI

shameful booking

>>18511428
>acceptable booking for most of the year
>shit the best in june
>cap off a hypeless G1 with more bad booking
as the ark sails to prosperity, and stars shine as bright as ever, the lion mark continues to fade. it's the sad truth. you can't blame anyone for fantasy booking a better promotion

>>18511635
bed*
my post is now invalid. write whatever you want about me.

>>18509509
No / Probably not unless you wanna watch Tanahashi vs. ELP

>>18511635
i piss on the lion mark
lion mark? king of sports? you are just aew's raped bitch
yuya whomura? dont make me laugh
you dont have okada anymore
you dont have naito either
you soon wont have gabe and zack either
get used to it
your company is a slave company
we have more money so we win
simple as
bend over
spread that ass
its time for your aew ass penetration
oh and dont even start thinking for a second that yota whoji will save ya

Takeshita winning the G1 and the top belt would be best for NJPW's long-term business.

Every hero needs a villain and if you want Uemura to be THE GUY, he needs a wall to break down. Takeshita should be that wall. That is the best use of him, as a foreign outsider. Make him more vicious. Don't make him cheat, make him a bully.
They've actually stepped up this kind of behavior for him this G1, like the brainbuster to Shota outside the ring in the tag match.

>>18509509
>Did anything cool happen recently
No, the tournament so far has been dimeless really. No developments in factions and storylines either. Maybe the playoffs will be better.
>Is anything cool gonna happen soon?
Honestly at this point Forbidden Door is the coolest thing about NJPW. You would think that the opponent for Tanahashi's retirement match could be someone cool, right? Nakamura from WWE? Maybe Naito returns? What about that fat judo kid, Wolf Aarron? Nope to all of that. Tanahashi's final match will be against....EVIL. That is the most "cool" and "exciting" thing that the current NJPW can offer.

[Good news] Gedo and his contingent will soon be unemployed https://youtu.be/KIZtSZlTsGs?si=YyO5KQOzPhADaJDW&t=11690
@ 3:15:00

>>18511865
takeshita is shita godmino's rival
yuyamura is not even in the picture
sorry yuyafag
maybe yuya will get a wrestle kingdom match against the grippu reyho oiwow

>>18511898
Takeshita needs to be the road block for all of them. Honestly, he should dominate them all in singles competition until one of them finally knocks him off so it actually means something.

>>18511874
>VOW
cool bro, got any keeping it strong style rumors? maybe some super gay cast unsubstantiated bullshit?

They need to get rid of Gedo so they can replace him with one of the better Japanese bookers out there like... Nosawa
lol
lmao even
you fags don't know how good we have it

>>18511874
>HoT will go on for another decade!
Sounds good to me, maybe we should keep Gedo then

>>18511916
nah takeshita is in the big leagues
it is already bad enough that he had to put over shita poomino in the g1
when the time comes to put over nujapan's dimeless young bois at tokyo dome, big tone will make a call and put a stop to it
that shit aint gonna happen
okada didn't put over these young bois
neither will takeshita
big tone owns nujapan

>>18511946
Giving Takeshita a dominant run with the IWGP sets him up to be a main eventer in AEW when he comes back, it's both good for him and good for NJPW and its young guys.

>>18511959
giving takeshita the iwgp only benefits nujapan by making nujapan's business more popular
there is nothing in it for aew
you want OUR takeshita to carry your shitty dimeless company for a few months? who the fuck do you think you are making those kinds of demands? know your place
but we are the good guys
we will consider it if you give us gabe kidd and zsj forever. maybe clark connors too. no we dont want dan moloney, he has the nxt uk stink on him

Takeshita should win the IWGP and only defend it on Collision.

Business was booming when Jon Moxley was our champion. New Japan desperately needs to offer all their yen to Moxley to make a comeback in New Japan.

I literally cannot sleep because I was so confident that Yuya would win the G1 this year. For him to not even make the playoffs...This is insane. I can't stop thinking about this. I hate this so much. I spent over 2 weeks working out my G1 pickems where I booked Yuya to win. It's not fair that everyone and their mothers who booked Tsuji vs Takeshita final in their pickems get rewarded instead of me. Fuck Gedo, truly. I should be the booker of NJPW. This is crazy, I feel like crying. I have never been so depressed in my entire life.

>>18512134
holy shit you are such a faggot
you are legit mentally ill and im not even joking
get help

I bet my mortgage on Yuya winning and you think this is fucking funny?

>>18512151
If he does get help then who will make the threads?

>>18512134
You talking about the Chris Samsa pickems? I spent like 20 minutes on it and booked Tsuji vs Takeshita in the final with Tsuji going over and I'm in the top 10 right now. Kinda surprised by how well I did in the random block matches. I don't even know half these guys, lmao.

>>18512134
>I literally cannot sleep
>taichi said he couldn’t sleep for the past couple days
i didn’t know taichi posts here

>>18512109
Making War Dogs tweeners is such an awful move. Gabe by himself is whatever, the whole group though is dumb as shit

>>18511872
The Naito stuff is still very much in the air, there's rumours about what's going on. He has some big TV Asahi interview happening and he might talk about Tana. Naito getting a break and ultimately being at the Dome for Tana is the biggest thing they have and can help buffer whatever they do in the world title scene.

>>18512195
I figured the move was Gabe would butt heads with Finlay and either take the leadership or leave BC

>>18512134
join the club

>>18512245
I dont want either for him. I hate to see how he ends up as a Hontai guy. They can keep WD as heels and Gabe can be the more cheerable one of the bunch.

>https://www.njpw1972.com/591517
Full card just dropped for B Block finals
Drilla can technically advance to the playoffs

>>18512395
>the other Jrs still aren't back yet
Why?

>>18512134
>>18512275
>real

>>18512395
>Drilla can technically advance to the playoffs
He won't but we have bigger problems, like GOK/Shota/Narita advancing

Bishop Dyer soon…

WE GOT HIM

>>18513382
where's the problem?

>>18513482
Is that Karrion Kross' new name?

>>18513751
>inconsistent and boring, inconsistent and can't lead a match, consistently boring with no charisma
seems obvious

>Makes American podcasters seethe
He should be the one to retire Tanahashi

>>18513837
Sorry to hear about your blindness.

>>18513841
Tana's last 2 wk matches and G1 match all going to evil would be insanity

>Nu Jamal still have a thread
Kek, get rid of this pissant company thread.

>>18513852
Good thing I have my hearing so I can take note of how silent crowds are for them.

>>18513993
Reminder that the pink android has a win over the probable G1 winner

herro I am shin ashe preashe supportto me yes

can't wait to see NJPW go out of business

Is it true that Kidani was the one that named them the Reiwa musketeers? Cuz if so this dogshit makes a lot of sense

>>18513935
tana should make him see the light and evil will be the biggest babyface in the company, the women and kids already love him

>>18513833
Baron Corbin, he is doing CMLL soon

for realsies this time. he's also wrestling on their 8/16 korakuen show, so he's not at the semifinals in ariake

>>18514419
>Ariake card with and EVIL main/semi, undercard full of young lions and Jakob Austin Young
Turbo grim

>>18514419
They're giving him their title (and he would've won it today if YO-HEY didn't get hurt) so he has no issue contributing a bit more than just taking the belt and dipping.

>>18511874
They had the Chase Owens gimmick scoop before anyone. I hope this is true. They're friends with Charlton so he's probably their source.

Give the book to me. I can save them.

isn't it crazy that the only major character changes that have been done this year are dimeless juniors and some pedo fatass american shitter
this promotion feels so stale but they lack the balls to make any significant change

>>18514185
SANADA, the cold blooded snake, can betray EVIL and kicks him out of HOT

>>18515015
They've missed so many opportunities this year. I've heard people speculate about various different wrestlers ("this must be leading to a character change or new faction"), but it leads to nothing. It's like the company is in a holding pattern because it's Tanahashi's retirement year

>>18515060
Putting everybody in a holding pattern for Tanahashi's final year is even more unforgivable. It doesn't honor Tana by having nobody step up and take his spotlight, if anything it's a blasphemy to the culture that Tana believes in.

He came up in the shadow of Inoki and he bucked tradition, most explicitly by taking Inoki's picture down in the NJPW Dojo. He stepped up and took the brass ring... now the company is just having everyone stand around waiting for his funeral march to end.

You could lay the foundation for the next great heel, maybe someone like Narita could step up and slap the taste out of Tana's mouth. Become a legend killer against the last standing legend of the previous generation.

You could have Uemura challenge Tana as the next Ace vs the last Ace. A mutual respect forged in the bright lights of the Tokyo Dome.

...but, nah, let's just have him face EVIL. The tired, failed heel that audiences have long abandoned. Not even willing to invest enough emotion to boo. I could hardly conceive of anything with less heat... maybe Sanada vs Tana?

>>18516361
It'll probably be Naito retiring Tana, which isn't great either. But I guess at least someone will get over eventually from retiring Naito

>>18516361
Stop babbling nonsense ya retard. It will be President Tanahashi vs President EVIL in a "Winner becomes the undisputed President of the company" match because that is what the real draw is. Nobody cares about Ren Nobita and Yuyamura. Shitters like them ain't gonna be Tanahashi's final match. That would be worse than even Kurt Angle getting retired by Baron Corbin. Your shitty Nujapan has no stars. It has no draws worthy of Tanahashi's retirement. It is a developmental promotion now. EVIL is the best you have got. Deal with it.

>>18515015
major change is coming when takeshita wins the g1 ya fucking bitch
tick motherfuckin tock
get ready to choke on big tones cock

an -aito will certainly be retiring Tana

>>18516553
Naito is more broken down than Tana, he bet on himself and he's now wandering the UK in dimeless matches. The only time I was impressed with NJPW in the past couple of years was calling his bluff.

I'd rather Yoshi-Hashi or Ishii or even Sanada retire Tana over Naito.