Thread 19188633

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Ogaki City in Gifu's favourite son Hiroshi Tanahashi wrestles his final match in front of his home crowd on November 2. The Gifu memorial De-Ai Dome is sold out in anticipation of a night that also sees major ground covered on the road to Wrestle Kingdom January 4!

>IWGP World Heavyweight Championship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vujgTSTlQQQ
Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs Hirooki Goto
>IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_NrdMRYD_Q
Yota Tsuji (c) vs Hiroshi Tanahashi
>Super Jr. Tag League Final
HOUSE OF TORTURE (SHO & DOUKI) vs BC War Dogs (Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori)
>8 Man Tag Match
OSKAR, Yuto-Ice, Shingo Takagi & Clark Connors vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman, Jakob Austin Young & Templario)
>10 Man Tag Match
Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura, Toru Yano, YOH & Master Wato vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL, Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, Dick Togo & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
>8 Man Tag Match
El Desperado, KUUKAI, Tiger Mask & YAMATO vs Ryusuke Taguchi, Dragon Dia, Yuki Yoshioka & KUSHIDA
>6 Man Tag Match
Hiromu Takahashi, Daiki Nagai & Gedo vs TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita)
>6 Man Tag Match
Boltin Oleg, Shoma Kato & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Katsuya Murashima, Masatora Yasuda & Zane Jay

I can't even grimpost tonight
GO ACE

The place is gonna erupt when Narita comes to challenge Ace at the Dome!

Tanahashi will be remembered for killing NJPW

>>19188638
grim

GO ACE
GO ACE
GO ACE
GO ACE

GO TSUJI

>>19188708
takeshita. shota comes out
tsuji. naito challenges tana
who cares
who cares
who cares
who cares
who cares
who cares

>>19188733
the dome main event is takeshita vs tsuji, lil bro

>>19188633 (OP)
Tanahashi's final opponent has to be announced today. Will it be Okada or Nakamura? Will AEW or WWE win?

>>19188814
it's gonna be Suzuki "Sushi" Nintendo, a big name in japan!

>>19188814
Great-O-Khan will end the President's reign, as all great conquerors do.

>>19188815
>Tana told THIS guy at the station he could be a pro wrestler
What was he thinking?

>>19188821
Retard already tried and failed. It's over

>>19188823
>stands out in a crowd of same face yellow people
Why do you think?

>>19188830
All great conquerors have to go through struggle on their path to the top. [spoiler]Yes I know Oka is going to settle in as a hybrid of LIJ era EVIL and Toru Yano as the comedy guy who gatekeeps the upper middle card, just let a man dream, I loved his work as a young lion and every time he actually tries[/spoiler]

Great-O-KWAB

Jay and Yasuda have gotten in really good shape lately, guess the dojo regime is working.

The team balancing in this team seems a bit off

>>19188853
I interpret this as the bookers saying that Murashima is nearly ready, at least for an excursion.

Hangman may or may not be in the building tonight

holy shit what a chop

link to stream?
inb4 buy it, fuck off I ain't payin for rasslin

>>19188868
You'd think Boltin was already a Hontai dad with how roughly he is handling the young boys, brings a tear to the eye.

>>19188869
nevermind, they just turned it back on, watchwrestling still works

this shouldve been a handicap match or a gauntlet boltin dont need help in this

Takeshita will be the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Global Champion, G1 Winner and C2 Winner. All so he can have a feud with Okada in AEW

>>19188883
hope okader goes clean over him on a random collision episode and wins all the titles from takeshitter

Squint your eyes a bit this is basically EDION Osaka

wow i wonder who's gonna win this one

>slapping his beard
kek

Remember Bad Dude Tito.

The Mighty Do Kwab

Gedo fuck off I wanna see the 2 young punks go at it

I love Gedo lads

NOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE BEARD

Love Hartley Jackson like everyone else but where is Oiwa

>>19188936
that’s a good question

"Big" Mike Elgin from TMDK

>>19188936
Probably taking this tour off like most of the G1 guys.

>>19188814
>Okada = NJPW is still Tonikan's bitch and he is booking their big shows for them
>Nakamura = NJPW grew a backbone and told Tonikan to fuck off
>Naito = NJPW bowed to pressure but also wanted to signal their displeasure to Tonikan
>Yano = Tanahashi has truly picked his final opponent

HE DID IT HE SLAMMED THE GIANT

>>19188945
You forgot
>Narita = Gedo has truly picked Tanahashi's final opponent

>>19188945
>NJPW bowed to pressure
aint no pressure tanahashi is practically stalking

>no fajita/nagai action
gay

>>19188936
True where is that sexy ass nigga?

Humble Wolf sighting

who is that lil nigga squaring up at

Jackson looks like he partakes in gay porn

Let's be honest, Tanahashi's true final opponent should be Captain New Japan, there is no better option.

DORAGON DIAAAAAAAA

>>19188847
this is happening

El Dragon Kwabteca Jr

So Yoshioka getting picked to upgrade his frog splash into Tana's High Fly Flow was for a reason or totally random?

Maybe send KUUKAI to Dragon Gate to learn shit idk

>>19188978
My only guess is they think it's too iconic and would be more of a burden to pass it to an NJPW guy. Maybe they were thinking Uemura but got cold feet after his injury.

>>19189004
>>19188978
Could also be a bit of an olive branch. Gedo and Tanahashi have always been a bit softer on other Japanese feds than in the Inoki era, but there is still quite a bit of suspicion and (justifiable) bad blood. Passing HFF to another company might be seen as a bit of a gift.

>>19188978
He's also from Gifu and it's a goodwill gesture to Dragon Gate. Logically they should've had Yoshioka against Yuto since Yuto is the toughest nigga in the prefecture supposedly.

He also apparently granted the Sling Blade to MAO as well

>Taguchi gets one of his contract-mandated four multi-man tag wins of the year
Lucky, they were running out of time.

When's the last time Tiger Mask was a contender and not a dad

>shoutout to jae on commentary
kek

>>19189041
I have a vague memory of him having a bit of a BosJ run a couple of years before covid, but I think that the last time he was really in notable feuds was the Ishii stuff in 2011?

>>19189035
>Sling Blade to MAO
meanwhile awkwardly Dangerous JOI Jakob Austin Young is using it

>>19189035
>He also apparently granted the Sling Blade to MAO as well
I only remember him giving a pass to Dino to have fun with his young lion, Nagai and Murashima, not that

It's been a while, I almost forgot how Uemura looked like

Shota has been rocking the same shitty gear but his hair looks a little better

>Tanahashi's last match is Yano
>ends in 2 minutes with a "handcuffed to the outside and counted out" spot
Be honest, it would be the True Ending.

HONKU TONKU MANUUUU

EVIL vs Yano is proper NJPW

>grab the ref by his shirt
>point away
Now you can do literally anything you want for a minute

>>19189060
I forgot about Ren's shitty bowl cut

>>19189077
EVIL vs Yano is the match I would get ringside seats to in G1 if I were to be in Japan at the right time, guaranteed to be a fun one.

>>19189061
>but his hair looks a little better
Doubt

Gonna be another 3 years before we're allowed to see Togo wrestle straight again

Kek Wato pinned by Togo

why did they play a dub song?

is this the first angle of the night?

Why does Aaron Wolf have an autism stare? Is he an autismo?

URUFU BROS

>>19188945
Jesus can you edrones stay out of our gamethreads with your TKDS

>Yuya doesn't win
>Shota doesn't win
So it's Tsuji then

>>19189105
Togo's pimping music

Wolf's placement was a little bit green, but his throws look so clean. He just needs to win the NEVER, get a manager and then start dropping guys on their heads

>>19189105
>anon forgot Togo had a theme

>Ospreay in the VTR of this dead faction
honestly pathetic atp
>TJP still in it
lol
>Gideon Grey still in it
lmao

>>19189122
Even the commentary are like "Lmao United Empire are so dead"

>>19189119
I am optimistic about Wolf because I think he can grow into something good, but I do have the concern that
>Inokism will work this time we promise true Inokism hasn't been tried is the only problem
is in NJPW's future, but with dimeless charisma vacuum judoka instead of dimeless charisma value BJJ guys.

>>19189121
to be fair njpw can't play Insane in the Brain because they have no rights for it

So why is this Unaffiliated/War Dogs thing going? Just filling in the numbersfor both sides? Can't help but wonder if the War Dogs concept is about to be disbanded.

WHERE MY BROTHERS AT WHERE MY BROTHERS AT

Why yes it's MD4R, Shingo Takagi

>>19189132
Yeah its very likely that a few War Dogs (Gabe, Clark and maybe even Finlay) are leaving after WK.

>>19189132
The ol' Memphis swerve, anon. Everyone expected the loss of Gabe to Tsuji was going to be Gabe kicked out of War Dogs and the beginning of the end for the stable, but we have to get to at least New Beginning so this is the branch linking now to then.

>>19189135
he’s my dragon 4 real

Yuto IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE

I look forward to Newman going to AEW

oh shit whats this

calling someone a bitch and then spitting is not classy

I remember everyone predicting that Finlay was gone after the first dog cage match, then it was after this year's wrestle kingdom, then dominion, then g1, now this year's wrestle kingdom. At this point I have to ask, is Finlay actually going to be a New Japan lifer?

>>19189148
Doing it from the floor while they're still in the ring is even worse

>>19189122
TJP is a champion in NJPW right now you fucking moron

>>19189149
He's got a famous father and is a Bullet Club leader. I'd be very surprised if he doesn't end up in WWE/NXT at some point

Nocontestbros can we eat well tonight?

>>19189149
The guy has a kid, lives in Florida and has family connections to the fed, he is a permanent question mark regardless

>the UE restoration plan is just being angry and jobbing in a quick tag title match
Good llan

>>19189155
>>19189161
I understand that, but it feels like people have been predicting he would take the TKO cheque so long that we were predicting it was the Vince cheque instead. My feelings that he will go there have been shaken by the years worth of incorrect predictions. Come to think of it, people have been saying he is just a few months out from going to WWE as far back as when he was just constantly working Juice in undercard matches as a lovable babyface.

>>19189162
UE or TMDK should be heels but it seems like they've chosen to make HoT the only true ones. Callum works better as a cunt too.

these 2 are sharing spit like a porn shoot

>>19189164
Maybe WWE doesn't want him. He's easily the weakest Bullet Club leader.

He did it he said the thing I am a happy man again he said the thing.

>>19189164
The kid came in the past year or so and he moved to Florida somewhat recently too I think which seems like more pressure. I'd say how rudderless he's been could be a sign but that's most of the roster.

BOMBOLCAAT

>>19189164
I think NJPW's reluctance to put the Heavyweight Championship on him adds to this speculation that he's always close to leaving. Most of the other BC leaders had won the belt by now

>>19189164
If wages arent getting better in the company it's highly likely he's gone sooner than later

>>19189172
his little brother is already in nxt so i don’t see why they wouldn’t take him too

luv Templario

WHAT THE FUCK

BOMBOCLAT

That's a goddamn open hand slap

>>19189201
Newman has actually snapped, lack of dino-nuggies and peppa pig tableware in Japan has made him sperg out. Expect dark times ahead.

There was no need to kill that young lion

>>19189201
A2M with AZM has rejuvenated him

>>19189197
Maybe he has a bad attitude? Maybe his asking price is too high? Maybe he wouldn't suck Jewish cock? Who knows?

>>19189209
What the fuck are you on about anon? There is always a need to kill a young lion, it toughens them up so that one day they too can kill young lions.

>>19189213
>the real reason Finlay hasn't been stuffed in either American toybox is because he is an extremely racist man who would rather live amongst the Honorary Aryans than work for the mudfeds
It is absolute bullshit, completely factually untrue, but I now choose to believe it, absolute bassed Finnster.

>>19189214
Go back to bed Inoki.

>>19189218
You reject my message because I tell the truth. Tell me, what young lion ever amounted to anything without a little bit of blunt force trauma and/or sodomy for humiliation?

I have to thank that anon who pointed out that Robbie X looked like a smaller Gabe Kidd

DOUKI's music sounds like evil Japanese elevator music

>>19189217
It may not be true but it is now

>>19189222
>Sodomy
No one mentioned that

>>19189224
Popping into your local Lawson's... IN HELL

>>19189215
X isn't awful and Ishimori is forever based but why the fuck are they anywhere near this

>>19189228
That's right anon, nobody mentioned that. Forget I said anything. The Dojo is a safe and respectful place and no Hontai dads have ever shoved chair legs in young boys rectums for a joke.

>>19189217
>not sucking jewish cock makes you extremely racist
pigs, man...

robbie x can go in the ring, but man is he physically REVOLTING

I don't know why we never get to see the BONE SOLDIER, that nigga lights up every Fantasticamania tour and then goes dark for the rest of the year. I bet he would be in the finals right now if he were allowed to compete.

>have DOUKI as double champion
>pin everyone so nobody has a credible case for his singles belt
>only way to give the division anything is him losing here against Ishimori or Robbie fucking X
Grimolio

>>19189232
Aaron wolf doing that judo move awakened the ghost of Inoki in this thread, I see.

>>19189235
Don't put words in my mouth anon, I don't think that is the case at all but I also decided to take it further because we used to be able to make these things called jokes, before imageboards descended into perpetual consolewar faggotry. I don't watch either toybox fed, both have some good wrestlers, both aren't selling something I want to watch. Simple as.

gay ass spot (complimentary)

>>19189241
The wolfster just gets me going, I for one wish we get a dozen more flat-faced judoka to rough up these young boys and show them real fighting. Is that Lesnar guy out of contract soon? Surely it would work out this time, give him the global strap and see how it goes.

>>19189245
Get worked lil nigga

SHO/Kanemaru was a better Jr tag league team but these guys are ok

>>19189250
You got me anon, one of the old ribs as they say. You can stay, we can shit on everyone together. Just as long as you let my nigga David "gonna take the star off their flag it belongs to ME" Finlay come along.

>>19189249
Wolf seems too nice atm. He needs to start dropping guys on their heads and applying submissions on a little too hard as soon as possible

>>19189257
Indeed, back in the day we'd let him break the arm of some fresh-faced cunt just back from excursion, really give him a good rub on the way in you know? We are far from the golden age of the early 2000s, sad how the sport has decayed.

What was that lol

if only this little dipshit had a gimmick like ninja mack or something

>>19189256
He can come along but he has to ride in the trunk

This is a straight up road to in aomori ass show with 2 title matches on it

>>19189262
what kind of mask would you give him

>>19189265
they never said this was a big show, thats why its not called POWER STRUGGLE when this would usually be the slot for it, EINSTEIN

Just had the sad realisation that Robbie X is the gaijin junior Yoshi-Hashi
>Dimeless when you see a card released
>comes to the thing, you're already thinking "fuck this is one ugly fucker, no aura, no charisma"
>match starts and you fall in fucking love with his work, win or lose it is always at least a good match and often a great one
>ten minutes after the match ends you go back to thinking he is a dimeless fucker
Truly a tragic fate.

>>19189269
thats actually spot on

If they had two refs at once this would be less of a problem. On second thought they'd still try to do it and it would look even more retarded.

>>19189269
I'd never call Yoshi-Hashi a ugly fucker
But I don't think that Robbie X is that ugly, bald head and beard is not interesting but not all the wrestlers can pull together the work on the ring and the right look

>>19189275
his gut is REPULSIVE

>>19189262
Luv Ninja Mack
Simple as

Why is DOUKI's hand so red?

robbie is gonna fuck up his legs doing that

BASED HoT

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS BABY

>>19189277
If he can pull what he just did right now i can ignore that. and i'm usually iffy about men's look

are you fucking kidding me

They should choose Dick and Kanemaru as their WK opponents desu

>>19189275
Robbie X looks like he should be the "ugly guy" on Eastenders
I'm American btdub

Surely the angle is tag belts are in purgatory so someone challenges DOUKI for the Dome

>>19189275
I wouldn't call YH that ugly but he does have a mong face, people have been talking about it for years. The point is that he is perceived as unattractive and dimeless, despite being absolute dimes between the bells. Yoshi-Hashi has been one of my favourite guys in ring for over a decade, but I've been pushing water uphill since the /woooo/ days trying to get people to accept that he isn't a dimeless shitter. The last year or two have somewhat vindicated me, but people still feel he doesn't have the look or the aura. I see a similar trait in Robbie X, and admit that I also fall for it, not being interested when I see him on a card.

Man HOT really are running riot. If only there was someone humble that could defeat them....

One step closer to the fabled Take-a-shit vs Dookie match

To think the hardest pushes in the company all year are for an AEW guy and House of Torture

WTF THATS THE YOUNG BUCKS MUSIC

>>19189301
erm actually they're heavyweights now so this would not happen

>>19189301
>im-fucking-plying the lard bucks could be considered juniors anymore

Time for the main event

>>19189307
Gonna cry?

Fucking hell Tsuji in that photo with Tana kek

>random train-station man has been receiving training from Tanahashi in secret for eight years, is basically a Tanahashi regen, will be his final match and look like young Tana vs old Tana
>>19189311
Their best work was as Generation Me in TNA, and I'm tired of pretending it wasn't.

>Tanahashi not main eventing his own Homecoming show
I guess we arent getting his final opponent announced today then?

Tsuji having the "AI smile" thing even when he was younger is so funny

Why did HOT lose the cage match again if they were just gonna go back to raping the whole company right after???

>>19189321
ask NJPW bookers

Who will Tana do Tag League with?

>>19189318
Yeah we're probably getting it on a random Dynamite

>>19189321
First time experiencing Memphis booking? Wait until you learn that "loser leaves town" matches are lucky to be enforced for more than a couple of months.

>>19189326
No one, he'll have a bunch of single matches with guys like Fujita, Ice, Narita... (nah jk its going to be elp lol)

>>19189321
They cheat and run away. You can't run away in a cage. Are you new here?

>>19189326
I thought it was already confirmed him and ELP

this finner nigger stay aura farming fr

>>19189335
Oh yeah I forgot about that kek

Who the fuck is Marlow?

>>19189318
too much heat for going over the world title change in june, plus theres a world title match for tokyo dome to set up

GO ACE!

Tsuji wearing red.
Nakamura appearance CONFIRMED

>>19189345
Tsuji ring gear blue
AJ appearance CONFIRMED

>Commentary bringing up Nakamura
It's actually happening bros

>>19189352
Nah Charlton is a closet edrone, it's wishful thinking l.

>>19189344
tana a cute

>>19189352
I was also nooticing

>>19189354
>closet edrone
arent we all?

>>19189352
Tana already addressed him to the press. It's not happening

>>19189359
NTA I only watch puro

COWBOY SHIT

>>19189352
English commentary is non canon

I know that the public still very behind Tana and all but I feel bad that Tsuji might beat Tana only at the end of his career in that physical situation.
Wrestling is fake and all but IDK they should had let him beat him when he was not walking like an ostrich

>>19189359
No

Tana, please skip Tag League. They'll do fine without you

>>19189371
That isn't how it works anon, if you 50/50 book your aces you don't have aces.

>>19189371
He was like that when Tsuji came back from excursion

>>19189381
Already?

Tana relax on top rope back bumps you're not Togo

>>19189385
People have been saying Tana should wind down and retire since before covid, the fact he has made it to 2025 is nothing short of a miracle, dude has been broken for years.

>>19189371
Tbf if you look at Tsuji's knees and how he walks you'll see he's halfway to where Tana's at now

Did Tana get sunburnt? Looks like he has skin peeling all over his midsection and upper arms.

>>19189388
Its also surprising how good his hair is still

>>19189385
Tsuji has only been back like 2 years and a few months or something

WTF the Ace is only 48?! I thought he was nearer 60. Jesus

>>19189391
It's the only thing he passed that down to him

god damn his knees off that HFF

>>19189395
And there are older wrestlers, Togo is an example but there are plenty out there, who are older and didn't end up like Tana (or other guys in their 40s)

>Landslide
Yeah it ain't Shinsuke

THAT'S MERCEDES MONE'S MUSIC
C E O
C E O
C E O

>tana losing his likely final title shot in front of all his hometown friends and family
brutal

kino match

>>19189404
But Okada is going to main event against Take tho?

>>19189410
You go out on your back if you don't have too much ego. Tana proving why he was the ace of the universe, even on his retirement run.

where's ren at?

>"The ball is in your court now Tsuji"
>Loses to Takeshita at WK

WHERE MY BROTHERS AT WHERE MY BROTHERS AT

yikes, i hope cultural appropriation the wrestler isn't having a match with tana

>>19189436
Shut up, all the wiggers love Yuto Ice he is allowed to appropriate White Culture.

>ICE is so over they've hotshot a match with Tana for him
Very based desu

They realized they booked Okada's hometown without Okada so might as well stack it with shit

Holy fucking based

>>19189443
Shut up nigga we ICEheads here.

So where is the WK opponent at?

ICEheads lets fucking go!!

>>19189447
The backstage politics still haven't been decided

Tsuji got mogged

That was a really good BOSJ final lads, when is the next show?

if goto genuinely cared about new japan he would shoot on take a shit

>>19189456
Wild that GTR reign was the most buzz the promotion has had in years, yet now they will go back to just feeding him to buff out the start of title reigns of people who aren't drawing.

The next show is in Okada's hometown. It's him

>>19189461
right, Goto vs Tsuji would draw many multiples of Takeshita vs Tsuji

MUH SHIN NIHON but its a bit ironic that Goto jobbed the belt with fake injury just to film a lame movie

I'm going for based Take tonight only because he's young and NJPW needs strong guys to carry them into the future

>>19189465
>Tonikan won
Actually grim

>>19189465
isn't he doing a storyline with takeshita in aew?

>>19189467
Genuinely, tickets for a live show? Yes, it would. Part of the issue is that Takeshita feuds are being run on twitter because he is never fucking showing up, it is everything people complained about with WWE PART TIME CHAMPION era but in a promotion that still depends on ticket stubs over all else instead of a promotion that leans on its TV deals.

GOTO-OH
GOTO-OH
GOTO-OH
GOTO-OH
GOTO-OH
GOTO-OH

We love you Yoshi-Hashi

>>19189480
Was about to say the same

Yoshi-Hashi has down syndrome

GUYS I LOVED NEW JAPAN WHEN I WAS A KID PLEASE LOVE ME I ALSO AM AN EVIL OUTSIDER BTW

>>19189465
Its also on his birthday

Takeashitter's theme in NJPW is so much better than in AEW

Rocky didn't bother showing up to this filler defence. Sad

LET’S GO GOTO

>>19189486
It's his DDT theme but yea

Oh shit Matsumoto in Goto's corner

Tanahashi's final opponent is Jay White

>Supposed "face of the company" champion
>Entire crowd cheering for Goto
If this wasn't Tana's last Gifu show I would be surprised if it had broken 2,000人

>>19189490
Didn't need to, he's probably in his hotel room air-frying pizza rolls.

>>19189484
It sucks how much his character is so fucking inconsistent between his on screen persona and his social media posts

>>19189475
thats part of the problem, but even if he was there for every tour, he still wouldnt draw like Goto. and Goto vs the new generation is an infinitely better storyline for Wrestle Kingdom TWENTY

>>19189499
HIT HIM WITH THE KIWI

>>19189499
Nah it's obviously going to be THE REBEL SAVAGE KING LEADER OF BULLET CLUB DAVID FINLAY!!!!

>>19189500
he's an outsider dumbass he's not face of the company

>>19189508
https://x.com/Takesoup/status/1984549747513049478
Look at this evil outsider, he fucking despises New Japan

>>19189499
This is going to be an unpopular opinion among console warriors but it should be Mistico

>>19189508
That was my point anon. Like how in G1 Climax final the crowd cheered for EVIL, because at the end of the day the House shows up for every tour.

>>19189527
>It should be this great wrestler that has no notable history with Tanahashi
You're retarded, his last match shouldn't be a vapid banger

>>19189527
That sounds god awful at both their ages

imagine chris charlton giving walker stuart the toothiest head imaginable

>>19189528
NTA but of course that NJPW public would cheer for HOT or Godo more than Takeshita, don't think he expect differently but the booking didn't help at all.
They didn't go as hard with him like they did with Sally in Stardom, which probably would had made more sense.

they both fucking died off that

>>19189541
Goto kek

boring ahh match

>>19189542
The fuckin thump when Takeshita landed

>>19189499
Imagine if Gedo just does a big dumb tournament to decide who Tanahashi's final opponent is, that would be so ass.

>>19189517
He is a part-timer who doesn't tour with the belt, it doesn't matter what he is posting on twitter, tweets don't sell shows, cards sell shows. Takeshita might get 50人 through the door of some high school gymnasium for a Road To Best of Super Shitters show by appearing in a multiman tag, but that momentum could become 100人 to the actual tour shows, then 1000人 to the main show, instead he wrestles bangerinos on the midcard of Collision and we have an absentee champion. Takeshita could make sweet love to the Lion Mark, it doesn't matter if it is the Lion Mark on the wall of the STRONG gym he trained at for a few hours before Dynamite and posted to twitter.
I genuinely think that the NJPW crowd WANTS to like Takeshita, but he isn't showing what they want to see. No, a bangerino 5 twinkle star match every four or five months isn't all they want.

goto should shove his thumb as takeshitas ass

>>19189499
Why else do you think theyve been teaming Hiromu with Gedo....

>>19189559
GMS

walker should become a gaijin and wrestle at wreslte kingdom, hes got the size and the power

>>19189559
nah he should shove it up MY ass

>>19189569
he should enter world tag league with don fale

imagine chris charlton doing high flying in best of the super junior as a gaijin

That was nice

TAKESHITA DOES SO MANY MOVEZ THIS IS SO COOL GUYS!!!

Anon, you need to take your daily pills

COME ON GOTO

They still chant for Goto when he isn't the one doing the bangerz moves, interesting

Crowd sounded like they were about to riot when that 2 count was called.

Be CAREFUL with the mild AEW criticism Walker

>>19189582
why you mad?

Real talk, wouldn't Goto holding the strap while promoting the Street Fighter film be actual crossover sale potential?
>Takeshita wins with 1 move after a full Goto sequence
Scratch that, back to dark timeline.

Kek you could hear the air leave the room

>>19189600
Takeshita fucking sucks donkey dick

LET'S
FUCKING
GOOOOOOOOOOO

>>19189600
he hates cool moves, he wants wrestling to go back to the territory days of rest holds and where an arm drag was the high spot/finish

>>19189605
Vintage Takeshita!

>Takeshita beats Tsuji to become combined IWGP Heavyweight and Global champ
>Okada retires Tanahashi
Very grim for NJPW

So who's next

Go in and rape him Tsuji/Uemura/Shota/Narita/Murashima whoever I don't care at this point

>>19189610
If you could get the crowd to pop as much for an arm drag as someone else could from a springboard 450, you're the smarter worker.

what a respectful part time champion

>Im such an evil outsider heel
>Goto come back so I can pay respect to you
Kek this guy's presentation is all over the shop

Cuck company

This company is so fucking heatless

U mad bro?

>Since I defended the belt here in Gifu, the next has to be in the Tokyo Dome on January 4th
Takeshita taking 2 months off I guess.

>>19189633
IWGP champs never work WTL this one isn't on Takeshita lol

The crowd isn't even pretending to care about this match up because Tsuji is clearly losing

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

>>19189636
I'd expect an IWGP that hasn't worked anything outside of G1 and NJ Cup would probably work some of the tours that they don't normally do, so no, I put this one back on him. Note that when he held the NEVER belt he was a part-timer too.

>>19189642
The ALPHA is just that strong

THE PEOPLE LEAVING AFTER TSUJI LEFT LMAOOOO

Respectful silence from the crowd for Takeshita's statements, followed by the typical gentle and polite Japanese applause.

Takeshita makes me want to throw up Roman Salutes