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>so basically all I'm getting from you is "stop watching new japan"

>>19812007
2/11 The New Beginning in Osaka @ EDION Arena (3:00pm)
>IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c) vs Jake Lee [87th champion, 1st defense]
>IWGP Tag Team Championship: OSKAR & Yuto-Ice (c) vs Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino [111th champions, 3rd defense]
>NEVER Openweight Championship: Wolf Aaron (c) vs Ren Narita [50th champion, 1st defense]
>David Finlay vs Callum Newman
>Gabe Kidd vs Andrade El Idolo
>NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship: Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI, & Hirooki Goto (c) vs Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, & Zack Sabre Jr. [33rd champions, 1st defense]
>Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi vs Great-O-Khan & HENARE
>Taiji Ishimori & Hiromu Takahashi vs Jacob Austin Young & Francesco Akira

>NJPW/CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026
2/18 - 2/27

2/27 The New Beginning USA @ CURE Insurance Arena, Long Beach CA (8:00pm EST)
>NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship: Ishii Tomohirio (c) vs Boltin Oleg [8th champion, 2nd defense]
>NJPW World TV Championship: El Phantasmo (c) vs Konosuke Takeshita [7th defense]

>>19812007
Jake Lee fucking rules.

>>19812017
They are literally just house shows you obese smark, you are so fucking westoid weekly tv brained it's unreal.

ill watch again when gedo is fired, or when he finally does the honorable thing and commits seppuku. aokigahara is the place for him lol.

Grimjeet acting especially retarded today.

>be gedo
>do almost nothing but endless rando tags on EVERY show
>spend months on "world tag league" and nobody even notices a difference
>attendance takes a nosedive
>guys leaving left and right
>literally getting carried by stardom
>WK is built around three good singles matches, is a huge success
>now what.jpg
>now we go right back to the same kind of slop that is killing the company!

Gedo is an ugly homosexual dwarf who sucks off bushiroad execs to keep his job.

>>19812036
even house shows aren't supposed to be the same goddamn thing over and over. if i paid to attend one of those shows i would be seriously pissed off.

I really really hope UnKo is going to be dead in a few months, so far it gave us absolutely nonsensical pairings and horrid merch, just kill it already

>>19812027
He's right, I'm already bored by Tsuji.

Really hope Francesco is the designated midge representation in the G1 this year. Think he will get a spot if Drilla does end up leaving.

>>19812083
Go study cagematch and get back to me. Stardom runs Korakuen cards full of tags with 1 singles match at best.

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Never doubt him

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>>19812222
I actually had to check cagematch because I don't watch joshi, but you are not entirely correct. this card at least alternated between big messy tag matches and singles matches, which is not what gedo does at all.

Grimcuck wants Gedo to give away Abu Zago vs Napo Zeno IV in a fucking Kurokian Hall show in front of 15 moms taking their toddlers out for a day trip.
You got a Jr. heby title match what the fuck more do ya want grimmoid

>>19812083
If you paid to attend then you clearly like that style of booking

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Thank you TAJIRI

tomorrow's korakuen card has 3 singles matches is it enough for you grimster-san?

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>gets Jokerpilled

Jake Lee is basically the Indian Joker.

The Jaker

>>19812457
i'm not the grimposter. he's obsessed with AEW and I'm not. I just think Gedo is a shit booker.

Well I thought Jake was cringe before but now he's quadrupling down on the cringe intentionally and I'm at a bit of a loss. At least he's trying something different I guess.

how about another Fortnite dance, Marty Asami

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>>19813707

>>19813503
The glove thing just doesn't make any sense to e but the interview he did gave some great incite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfg0eVAdE8

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WANNA KNOW HOW I GOT THESE SCARS

>>19813780
This shit is so fucking corny

>>19813780
The master of mind games....

>>19813780
Fucking excellent character work. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised at all if they rewrite the match because of how well Lee is doing in the build to just have him win

>>19813780
based jester exposing this smiling fraud

>>19813780
He's basically doing OZAWA but more measured instead of just being a goofy clown, and Jake is literally calling himself a jester

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>>19812272
honestly he deserves it, he's the first Young Lion I've ever seen get over in opening G1 matches to the point he was one of the most over guys in the entire tournament

hell Murashima might've had the most compelling story of the whole G1 as a YL
He's a DIMES storyteller and a great underdog babyface. Short as he is, he's heavyweight money if you ask me.

Shota should be the one to get AJ's last match in NJPW

Goto vs Oiwa should be great.

>>19813780
"ZA COURTU JESTA, JAKUUUUUU REEEEEEE!"

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>>19812272
>>19814107
based murashima bros

>>19814246
If TMDK are winning the titles back then I would have this end in a draw and book Oiwa to pin Goto in Osaka

>>19813780
finner

Every top heel in Japan is just some variant of "goofy jackass" and I hate it.

>>19813780
Mutoh was a drinker.... and a fiend

Lee is promo mogging everyone atm

>>19815825
>>19813785
>”N-Noooo! Everyone has to be a strong style bad ass! I want my bangarino’s and I want them NOW!”

>>19816215
>wears black
>makes le epic villain face
:O omg so much aura

>>19813780
Tsuji does have a goofy ass smile. Jake is right.

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>>19816318

>>19814107
>>19814321
hartley helped literally every young lion on those g1 undercards get more over, he was rather underrated in the context of 2025 njpw

>>19816507
I agree

Was glad to see they actually intend to use him more.
They should, he's based

>>19813780
Jake has a weird taste in gimmicks. He was a Sith Lord in AJPW and whatever this is in NJPW. He was only halfway normal in NOAH.

>>19816539
to be fair to jake (never thought I'd say this) he was also just a smug war dog originally, I suspect his injury influenced this gimmick a lot

>>19816507
>>19816531
I mean he's a 45 year old absolute unit freelancer and he got to win a belt at the sold out Dome (and not be the one pinned when they lost it), by current NJPW standards he's done pretty well

So Bullet Club is dead for real now? Kinda sad honestly.

>>19816632
Nah, it needed a long cooldown.

I expect it will come back strong if they get a gaijin they think is actually worth leading it and is a star.

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ibushi is live on instagram with an extremely surreal stream, laid up in a hospital bed, whispering into the camera, the only other noise being a machine he is plugged into that occasionally hisses

>>19816686
he genuinely is fucking insane, kek

>>19816632
yep grab what you can https://shop.njpw1972.com/collections/bullet-club-retirement-sale

>>19816686
I wonder what Kenny thinks when Kota has these moments

>>19816686
shades of inoki

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he put the phone down and started doing this for a while, blasting his theme song through his phone speaker before his nurse walked in and took his blood pressure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asZzpkBj224

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then he died :( RIP kota

>>19816666
I've thought so too and frankly Callum basically feels like he's leading a bootleg BC right now

>>19816921
How could Kikuchi do this?

>>19816892
>thinking bbm isnt running the camera

>>19812083
This is the baitiest bait post I've seen on /pw/ in a while

>>19816921
he was a golden star on earth and now..

>>19816913
did he actually play this exact version or did (You) link from a random utube search.
asking because trying to figure out how ibu-san's mind thinks. many are saying this

>>19817157
i even shoot shazamed it to see if it was an alternate mix or something he was leaking
it was in fact GOD STAR just the normal one

God really blessed Kota with looking and healing like he was 25 for 15 years. And then hit him with all the accumulation at once

>>19817212
based tech-literate anon. preciate it. this info will help us do our part in passing down the golden force to his successors. we must determine who can handle the power to go further beyond 5 stars while not ripping their body apart.

>>19817468
somehow rudy tudy redshoes booty boy has done this while still being in and failing to leave the training arc. how he does it needs not be studied

2/2 Korakuen (6:30pm)
In 20 minutes

>Hirooki Goto vs Ryohei Oiwa
>YOSHI-HASHI vs Zack Sabre Jr.
>Boltin Oleg vs Hartley Jackson
>Robbie X, Taiji Ishimori, Drilla Moloney, & Yota Tsuji vs Zane Jay, Great-O-Khan, HENARE, & Jake Lee
>Gedo, Hiromu Takahashi, & David Finlay vs Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, & Callum Newman
>Master Wato, YOH, Toru Yano, & Wolf Aaron vs Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, DOUKI, & Ren Narita
>Masatora Yasuda, Yuya Uemura, & Shota Umino vs Daiki Nagai, OSKAR, & Yuto-Ice

>>19814237
Ace recognize Ace
Foreign Ace recognize Neo Ace
Aces n' 8s recognize Nepo-baby-(f)ace

>>19817225
They even had a emergency surgery to fix whatever they did to his femur, which is probably why he's in that condition right now
>https://www.instagram.com/p/DT5cO1-k57s/

attendance looks grim today

UbCo LMAOOO

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>Here's your BC/LIJ replacement, bro
is Tsuji retarded?

>wake up in time to see him hit that Drilla right
>wake up in time for Hartley/Boltin
Lucky me

>>19818000
i tried looking at past numbers for this tour and its actually a trend for all january/february korakuen shows to draw like shit

>>19818010
grim and soulless like 2026 njpw

Holy shit what a match

I bounced off my bed for that superplex

there's a lot of fucking gaijin here lol

ngl i dont care for this

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>>19818010
Hiromu has grounds to leave just off this shitty logo alone

grimcuck not even watching the singles kino today.

>>19818010
reminds me of goatse

oiwa sexo

>>19818189
no one in japan did, korakuen is half empty

>drilla on commentary
Blessed night

>>19818160
k thanks confirm, didnt know if I was seeing things or we were set up in an embassy lobby

>>19818160
They heard Mr.Takagi was injured and think getting uppity aint finna find out

oiwa sexo player looks especially cute today

>>19818220
based drillarino

not a bad show, still too much tagslop but goto and oiwa are putting on a good one.

>>19818220
If he learns to do media they could get a ton of mileage out of him especially with that look

Oiwa is getting there, wish they could push these guys to develop faster though

We gotta measure every lariat in this company because Oiwa is top 3 rn

these rich boys can fucking work

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>oiwa lost again

not because of recents pics but acumulation: is oiwa naty, or was he a lardbucket first- that then got on the gas- and now is on a calorie deficit. wondering because he is based despite the limey boss but has weird shapes and constitution for a top guy look maybe. seeking input to be prepared for what the future may hold as we all are

AIDS probably

https://x.com/luchablog/status/2018370305979285717
Shoma Kato either spoiled where he was going for excursion or inferred something that wasn't yet true or arranged

>>19819136
He bulked up in NOAH then started lifting to get to his current physique. We say SEXOOOO now but slimmed down YL Oiwa looked tremendous.

>>19819954
NTA but is clear that he bulked up and from his YL to now he worked out on gaining mass in the right places.
You can tell that is not like a Shota situation who built up all that weight in a short time
(Japanese call him obese or worse)

>>19818959
many are saying this

>>19818267
Don't worry Oiwa will get his win back in the NJC finals and then win the IWGP at Sakura Genesis, it was revealed to me in a dream

>>19819573
I thought he going to México was confirmed months ago.

>1.073
yabai, we got mogged by Unagi and Stardom this weekend

what does the wolf narita match look like?

>>19820536
like the evil match but worse

>>19820536
Mechanically fine but incredibly boring. Might go too long leading to Wolf getting gassed

>Akira pinned Hiromu in Korakuen
yeah that nigga gone

Starting to think the Jakemeister might actually win. He's extremely confident and seems to have a belief in himself that he's going to win. Makes you realise how 90% of wrestlers have the booboo face and have no confidence that they can win and give it away beforehand. Either Jakeypoo is winning, or he's top percentile in working the viewer. He's even working me into seeing booboo face in Yoter at this stage. But he couldn't really pull it off... Could he? For me, the least obvious and routine title defence in a long time.

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>>19818010
>>19818210

>>19820979
....lol

>>19820979
hell yeah motherfucker

>>19820979
Rehire BUSHI.

>>19820979
Kek what a bitch

While it isn't finalized, it's expected to be soon. Clark Connors is signing with AEW.

It was said this bodes well for interest in David Finlay as well.

-
@FightfulSelect

>>19821743
Gabe next pls Tony

>>19821743
I can see why >>19820979

Hiromu's officially gone.

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HIMORU DONE

>not a single guy from the top 5 matches of WK14 are in the company anymore
Grim

>>19822410
See you at wwe

>>19822624
lmao

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>>19816686
Even his own fans are calling out this rapidly balding bitch

how do they keep losing these guys without giving them a proper leaving angle? the office is so fucked

Reminder that Stardom halted their shitty office situation in months. It's been 2 years for us

>>19822718
Even Okada did it even if he hated the management. Tanahashi might be too nice

>>19822624
nope, toné got him baby

Why does no one want to work for this ass-penetrated black company?

First, I'll kill Kidani.

>>19822862
Ogawa didnt have the money to entice people to jump. It was always safer to stay with Bushiroad. Here it is clear guys can get paid more elsewhere (Or similarly and get a push) and if the office shows them no loyalty they have no reason to care about staying. That being said Bushiroad sucks.

Don't worry so much, guys. We just got something better!
https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/2018504209470034219

>>19823547
this but unironically for my penis

>>19823547
ahahahahaha
we take your wrestler toys
we take your belt toys too
hahahahahaha

>>19823259
>Ogawa didnt have the money to entice people to jump.
He had the loyalty to, which was almost enough before Bushiroad stepped in and used lawyers and shit.

grimsters won

>>19822410
>HIMORU
NOT HIMORU!!! NOOO!!!

>>19823731
True

>>19822614
I've been calling WK14 the series finale of wrestling since they subjected us to 4 Naito vs Evil matches in 6 months

>>19822718
When you actually think about it, only the gaijin really do that.
>>19822887
I don't count Okada beating Tanahashi as a significant way to exit. He should've put over ZSJ

The golden age was from the rainmaker shock till Naito finished the story. I am fine we are moving on from this group of talent, but we have no one to replace them with. Shame to see Hiromu go. They had money in a heavyweight push I think. Even if they didnt move him up I am extremely over Desperado and his nonsense.

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Sold out

>>19824388
The tag match will be kino. Let's see if Wolf and Big Tsuj are miracle workers

>>19824388
404 GRIMPOSTER NOT FOUND

>>19824388
card looks pretty good actually.

>>19822862
It sounds like Kidani just let Okada take all of the reigns for Stardom which helped Okada do whatever he had to do to convince talent to stick with Stardom and not jump to Marigold. I suspect Tanahashi doesn't have anywhere near that level of pull in NJPW and there's ton of other suits in the back and those are the ones types like Okada, Naito, and Hiromu are tired of dealing with.

>>19824518
Nevermind, he's pissing and shitting himself and making 10 threads about why NJPW is bad all over the board

That explains it, kek, also shows how much I venture out of this general on this shithole board

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https://www.njpw1972.com/626663
Murashima & Kato are off to excursion. Murashima's send-off is the kickoff match in Osaka w/Kato vs Toru Yano & Togi Makabe. Kato's getting 3 send-off matches is on the final shows of Fantasticamania against CMLL talent.

Keep sending guys to NOAH

>>19825332
>keep sending us guys around 40 years old to take main event spots from homegrown talent
Hey, whatever you want, NOAH-kun.

>>19825384
NOAH = NXT Japan

>>19824386
>Translation: Desperado took a picture with my pretend joshi waifu. :(

>>19825554
The junior division under him has not been good and has felt less important. Whether it is him playing tidly winks with Kasai and fucking over Fujita or the fact they only run junior title matches in small venues and not on the big cards anymore. We are a long way from peak Despy when he was removed the mask against Hiromu.

Okada Taro will save NJPW

>>19825599
he's too busy booking 9 year old girls to do that

>NJPW booking Togi Makabe in 2026
lmao

can we hire people or not yet?

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RIP Hiromu-chan, I went to Japan to watch WK14 live because I felt it was the culmination of a story. I thought it was for Naito with his heby qyu dream and Liger who retired but also it seems it was for the entire era. Hiromu vs Ospreay was a great match and in retrospect was the apex of Hiromu’s career because he never had a match as good as that or a partner as good as the Autistic Assassin again.

I am feeling a little sentimental but I love Tsuji, I love Yuto, I love Fujita, I love Murashima, and I love New Japan and am excited for its future. I am aware all eras must end, even if it’s the one I grew up watching.

>>19824388
Grimjeets repudiated by Big Sellouts Tsuji and Big Butts In Seats Jake once again.

>>19824388
Kek, this is the same thing as CMLL. Every show is a sell-out, everything is great, company is doing great, company is doing record attendance and profits. Mistico / Tsuji are a huge draw. Dave gives them 7 stars. Meanwhile, the company is also getting ransacked by AEW.

>>19826204
have a (you)

>selling out shows is actually... le bad. look at all the toys we have!
don't care gayewdrone. we build home grown stars here, we don't need to build our company on leftovers. take an okarder, we'll make another one.

Here is why selling out the Osaka show is not impressive:

-it was already sold out last year then they had the grimest G1 ever.
-they literally stopped booking shows in Niigata and Sapporo for the New Beginning tour because they don't have any drawing power.
-which makes Osaka the only big show of the tour.
-the fact they needed almost one month to sell out that venue after Trannyhashi gave them a sold out Tokyo Dome shows they struggled to even transfer the momentum of a sold out Tokyo Dome to that Osaka show.

Therefore I declare this technically GRIM !

Akirachads, we're getting the Jr ace's final rub. Kek, we are so fucking UP, pasta eaters!

Who's the next nippon man leaving

Thank you based Natsupoi for trapping Shingoat in NJPW. SANADA is about to leave, but the cosmicussy will keep /ournationalist/ from wandering away. TYBN!

>>19826111
I will humbly submit that one match where Despe tore his mask off was just as good. But yes, I’ve been bored of Hiromu for years, if he doesn’t want to change his character he should change companies

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[Breaking News]

Shingo Takagi (43) and Natsumi Maki Takagi (30) have committed seppuku after taking to the balcony of military installation Camp Ichigaya and calling on the Japan Self-Defense Forces to stage a coup d'état to abolish Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and appealing to their own ideas and beliefs about reconstructing true national autonomy. They were jeered and heckled by the soldiers, and, having failed, committed glorious seppuku, seeking to inspire a rekindling of samurai spirit in the cattlebrained Japanese people of today. Therefore, Takagi-san will be leaving NJPW effective immediately. YOSHI-HASHI will fill in for him in his upcoming Kita Kita Brothers tag match. We wish Takagi-san all the best in his endeavours in heaven.

>>19826331
>Takaichi's views have been variably described as conservative or ultraconservative.[1][2] Her domestic policy includes support for proactive government spending and continuing Abenomics. She has taken conservative positions on social issues, such as opposition to same-sex marriage, to the recognition of separate surnames for spouses, and to female succession to the Japanese throne. She supports revising Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan - which renounces the use of military force - has a pro-Taiwanese foreign policy, and supports strengthening the US–Japan alliance. A member of the far-right Nippon Kaigi, she has been described as holding revisionist views of Japan's conduct during the Second World War, and criticized the Murayama and Kono statements which apologized for Japanese war crimes. She made regular visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine prior to her premiership. In 2025, Forbes ranked Takaichi as the third most powerful woman and the most powerful Asian woman in the world.[3]

Reminder that being a chud is not an excuse to be an incel now that ShinGOAT has shown us the way. "Photo taken 9 years ago". Nigga had that pic in his back pocket for years, hid his power level for nearly a full decade until he could go fully mask off as an ultranationalist. Ganbare Takagi-san! You inspire me to bide my time and wait until I can find my chud wife.

new beginning is sold out. retarded doomposter btfo

Killed me reading Japs joking that no one wants to be in Tsuji's stable

>>19826317
>I will humbly submit that one match where Despe tore his mask off
Yeah, that one was great too. But either the Ospreay match or the Despe match being his peak, Hiromu's been wheelspinning since 2020. I have no idea why he was so autistic about wanting to remain a Jr while still competing with heavyweights, it completely tanked his trajectory. No way they'd KWAB the heavyweights by having them lose to a Jr, he should have just let them move him up to heby. He even put a lot of weight on and got really wide, he was billed as heavier than heavyweight KENTA even. But just fell for the mark weight divisions too hard when really Jr is just a phase stars graduate from when they're proven to be dimes.

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>>19826317
I still maintain that when Hiromu returned and was a wild punk he should have stayed that way. The man child with a stuffed animal shit took away all of his edge.

Love the hypocrisy on the Subreddit.
Going to WWE? Bad.
Going to AEW? Good.
When did these unwashed slobs infiltrate the NJPW fanbase?

>>19825444
Based on what?
NJPW is AEW's NXT, dude.

You killed this general, congrats.
Now go back to Nashposting

>>19825582
Its because they can't even get on big shows. There was no reason to keep Fujita/Despy off of Dominion if Fujita was just gonna lose. Plus a lot of these younger guys including DOUKI feel like schmucks

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When was the last time a young lion had a real excursion in cmll? That's fun

>I met two Japanese people after the show while I was eating. They were fans. They wanted to talk to me about random shit. But all I could think about while they were talking to me was how ugly they were.

https://x.com/TheRealZaneJ/status/2018702609620541733

>>19826978
Kawato.

Kato has a very favorable environment to learn and succeed in current CMLL.

>>19827318
very rude to speak about shingo and his new bride like that

>>19827353
I hope Yutani takes him under his wing!

>>19826978
Wato, and it nearly ruined him

>>19827318
With SHO missing he can take the spot of getting cheap heat on the mic before matches.

>>19827408
>this narrative again.
The Grandmaster shit is what "killed" him

>>19826691
we need a puro ICE force to deport the troons

>>19825332
Hiromu can still go at least and the NOAH junior division could use the help. So it's a better grab for them than Naito.

>CMLL excursion
Dead on arrival career

January 2026 puro numbers

New Japan Pro Wrestling (not including the Hiromu High School show)
2026: 9 shows, 58,096 attendance
2025: 10 shows, 49,631 attendance

Pro Wrestling NOAH
2026: 7 shows, 9,911 attendance
2025: 8 shows, 9,509 attendance

All Japan Pro Wrestling
2026: 5 shows, 4,369 attendance
2025: 4 shows, 4,096 attendance

Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling (missing attendance for 1 show in 2026)
2026: 10 shows, 5,005 attendance
2025: 11 shows, 8,045 attendance

Stardom
2026: 11 shows, 9,035 attendance
2025: 10 shows, 6,824 attendance

Marigold
2026: 7 shows, 5,030 attendance
2025: 7 shows, 4,002 attendance

>>19827791
Naito, Hiromu, Nakamura, Tsuji...

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Trust the flan

>>19827804
Grimkeks? Our response?

>>19827318
Young boys being allowed to have personalities is fucking cringe. Gedo is exposing the business with this shit. Shut your faggot fucking mouth, have some fighting spirit and do a boston crab you bum.

>>19827791
this has to be the worst take of 2026

>>19827920
the only person this helped was hiromu

hurt everybody else you mentioned
what saved Naito was being rejected, has nothing to do with CMLL

>>19827804
This is the last time NJPW is up compared to the previous year, all of that because Trannyhashi sacrificed his career to sell out a Tokyo Dome.
Now, the grim era can truly begin.

>>19828091
sorry can't hear your gay whiny voice over the Osaka sellout grimfaggot

>>19828073
>>19828056

>>19828032
>3 year plan
I have 0 confidence in this nerd. He is making me cringe more than Shota ever did.

Tsuji will always be known as the guy who was the Ace of the darkest era in New Japan's history.

what the fuck were they thinking killing the merch printing machines of LIJ and BC in favor of these stock black font on white shirt designs for Unbound Co

>>19828174
Nah that will always be Nagata/Tenzan

notice how not a single person is upset takeshita is gone or are clamoring for him to come back

>>19827817
Kek that Gedo booking merchant Okarder became a literal nobody immediately after leaving.

>>19828204
Aside Tanahashi being on top spot in the Grand Prix votes because his retirement, there is Goto the rest of NJPW are right behind DDT's Ace (the good one).
I'm more surprised of that because at least i thought that Tsuji would had gained more popularity.

>>19828204
I remember that even when he was champion he would still finish behind tanahashi and naito

>>19828199
I like Takeshita but I'd rather him not be around at all and let NJPW build something with what they have rather than have him be around sporadically and fuck up any potential ideas at the whims of AEW

>>19828199
he'll come back though

>>19826978
Hopefully they can teach him how to draw over there

Naito is a traitor, fuck him

>>19828199
what is take's ceiling if he was purely a NJPW talent (or at least NJPW/DDT, no AEW)

>>19829256
If he got the Okada booking it probably would work well for him. Give him a manager mouthpiece like Okada had too and no not Rocky. The build to eventually beating him would be much more impactful and not necessarily requiring a sold out Dome for it (though it would hit all that much harder).

>>19829256
Pure main eventer, probably in United Empire. Tana loves him like that.

>>19823240
this is only a Taichi quote in minecraft right anakin... , right

>>19824386
we do not have to move on from kenny because he will be bock, to be the best bout foundation on which he will construct his chosen reiwa pillars in the reitrement stoyline of all time

>>19824495
>see if
*confirm that

>>19826012
gorilla wants to get that mu rub, bruther

makabe should retire and give the rub to yuto-ice who's basically zoomer makabe going sheesh mode

>>19826285
au contrare fren, Southern Boy AJ is about to pull a mahjong-reverse on the current predicament by inspiring a exodus of westerners back to slantytown. by purging the current mentality of caring about personal health and wealth, him included -the zeitgeist has shifted back to hotdogs and handshakes for the honor of the resurrected V4. the njpw1972 site profile page should be crashing from all the traffic in the coming month.

>>19829539
this BUT as knife-in-the-back heatseeking angle AFTER a Knock-Out Triplets 6-man belt run

>>19826691
>Going to WWE? Bad.
>Going to AEW? Good.
This is correct you absolute fucking moron. Tony gave us Takeshita. Tony gave us Okada! Tony gave us Kenny Omega vs Gabe Kidd! WWE wouldn't give Nujapan shit! Motherfucker, you make me so mad. Why I ought ta!!! FUCKKK FUUCK UFKGUFUSHWB

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU HUH?!!
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!!
AEW IS OBVIOUSLY BETTER THAN FUCKING WWE YOU BLITHERING RETARD

WHAT
YOU WANT OMOS?!
YOU WANT MOTHERFUCKIN OMOS INSTEAD OF OKADA?!! AND THEN GET KEKED WHEN WWE TAKES EVEN OMOS AWAY FOR NO REASON?! THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT?! YOU WANT NJPW TO BECOME NOAH?!

AND THEN YOU DARE TALK ABOUT INFILTRATION OF NJPW FANBASE?! DIE! JUST FUCKING DIE!! DIE DIE DIE FHDWIAB

>>19829595
look to the light of Shota's glowstick if you feel discouraged anon, he will light at the end of the tunnel with his motorbike lights.

>>19826012
Makabe is based, faggot

Although Taichi & Ishii would've been a better send-off

>>19826293
if there was any doubt now locked in for that hall of fame spot first ballot

>>19827469
Unbound (from shackles) Company has both Shingo (who is married to a fairy) and Yutoh (the Ice of the universe)
what did they mean by this (besides being based dono)

>>19828032
The question is, is trust even required for something that is certainly indisputable

>>19828036
maybe that xeet happened post-chair shot. I took that to be his graduation, but would want to be corrected

>>19828155
gonna have to remember the numbers 056 for a while

>>19828184
it's a fakeout. Tsuj plans to do a reveal of true designs at NB entrance like he did with the hebbyq under his trenchcoat, this time dripping out with shirt/towel/armband/etc. then whole unit comes out after win decked out too, with streamers revealing color scheme

>>19828199
now noticing how it was unnoticed. as a Paul castaway, this is a befuddling experience witnessing a company invested in itself and able to stand on its own two feet without gutting friend, foe, and the whole industry around it. weird huh

>>19828227
think they were being pretty hardline about it being strictly 2025 cutoff so take away the boost from the Kingdom crowning, this also explains the ace of the country wolfsama's absence

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Tetsuya Naito gives encouragement to Hiromu Takahashi, who is leaving New Japan, to cross borders... Urgent proposal to his former mat, where a series of wrestlers are leaving
https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/375938

>Tetsuya Naito (43) of Los Tranquilos de Japon (LTJ) sent his support to Hiromu Takahashi (36), who is leaving New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Naito, who has been watching Hiromu closely since his trainee days, supports his protégé as he takes a step towards a new dream. At the same time, he also has an urgent proposal for his former stomping grounds, where a series of key homegrown wrestlers have left.

>On the 3rd, a major shock hit New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was announced that Hiromu, a home-grown star who had been the face of the junior heavyweight division, would be leaving the company after the Osaka tournament on the 11th. Hiromu explained that he was leaving "super positively" in order to pursue a new dream.

>Hiromu's master, Naito, who coached him when he was a trainee and fought alongside him for many years in Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ), frankly confessed his feelings in a phone interview with this newspaper, "He had a strong attachment to New Japan Pro-Wrestling. I couldn't imagine him leaving, and it's sad. Well, maybe that was the same for me," he said. "I had heard that other options were emerging within him. That said, I never said, 'You should do this,' or anything like that. My honest impression is that he's taken a step forward, and I want to support that step," he said, supporting his protégé's decision.

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>>19830724
>Following his own departure in May of last year, this year has also seen the departure of key wrestlers EVIL and Hiromu. Naito prefaced his remarks by saying, "I know I quit, but... it may be natural to move on to the next stage once you've achieved a certain goal, but is that really the only reason so many wrestlers are leaving the ring? I want New Japan Pro-Wrestling to seriously consider this issue." He warned, "If we don't find out what the cause is for the departure of so many wrestlers, especially those who were so passionate about their work, I feel like we'll see even more wrestlers leaving next year and the year after."

>On the other hand, the history of New Japan Pro Wrestling is one of repeated departures of key players and the birth of new stars. Naito stated his opinion, "While it is a critical situation, it may also be an opportunity for a sudden turnaround. Generational change is a difficult issue for the world of professional wrestling, but with the departure of the top players, it seems like there is no choice but to renew the ranks, so it also seems like a good situation. I hope the remaining wrestlers will think, 'This is a chance,' and do their best."

>Including Bushi, who left the group at the same time as Naito, recent departures have been concentrated among former members of LIJ, who created an era. "We were the ones who undoubtedly led the team for the past 10 years or so, so of course I feel sad, but I want the current players to create something even better than what we created in the era. I don't think it's going to be easy to leave, though. LIJ has begun to walk a new path, and I'm really looking forward to seeing where they go," he said, sending his support to everyone.

>>19830754
>Afterwards, Naito continued to talk about pro wrestling, but just as he was about to say, "Even though you're in Fukushima, doing this interview over the phone is pretty impressive, isn't it? That's right, when I get back to Tokyo..." there was an unknown localized signal interference. Unfortunately, the call was cut off and the interview was cut short.

>Naito tries to get a job in a burger-resu promotion
>no one wants him, not even the toybox kid
>EVIL and Hiromu will get their big burger-resu contract
Naito was the jannetty all along

>>19831411
I think EVIL is headed to America but Hiromu is joining Naito. If he was going to Orlando he'd have hit the gym and gotten himself in top shape by now.

>>19830724
>>19830754
>>19830763
Traitor piece of shit

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>*saves New Japan*

Newfag here, gonna go to a few shows when I'm in Japan hopefully in the spring. Meanwhile what do you guys recommend for some all time classics? I'm open to anything.

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>>19832046
>Meanwhile what do you guys recommend for some all time classics? I'm open to anything.
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shinya Hashimoto (4/29/96)
Great Muta vs. Jushin Thunder Liger (10/20/96)
El Samurai vs. Koji Kanemoto (6/5/97)
Minoru Tanaka vs. Takehiro Murahama (4/20/01)
Kazunari Murakami vs. Yuji Nagata (12/10/02)
Kensuke Sasaki vs. Yuji Nagata (1/4/04)
Togi Makabe vs. Yuji Nagata (7/6/07)
Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (11/11/07)

Are we sure EVIL is going to WWE? He would fare better in AJPW, AEW, and CMLL.

>>19832300
>AJPW
lol, lmao even
>AEW
Tony is a Meji-tier dumb mark and thinks the interference unironically makes him a bad wrestler
>CMLL
Wouldn't even fit

>>19832300
If he went to AJPW or CMLL, he would make even less money than he makes in NJPW. Probably significantly less. Also, he's clearly going to America for his wife.

CMLL is not touching anybody leaving NJPW.

>>19829595
plenty of AEW bad on the latest Okada thread. It also points out a thread from the time he left that had the same sentiment. The threads about EVIL leaving are WWE bad because it's clear he's heading there.

>>19832638
Tony loves interferences dipshit

https://x.com/Fightful/status/2018650691972084222

>>19832957
Inevitable. NJPW didn't want to use him for some reason

>>19831991
WE LOVE YOU SILENT JESTER

>>19832978
>silent

Can we skip the Callum flippy wippy world title reign and go directly to the toybox contract part ? I don't want to see this shitter make the NJPW main events completely dimeless. Show him the tranny door.

Can we skip the Tsuji bloaty bangery world title reign and just give the title to someone who's actually smart and entertaining

>>19833074
Tsuj is literally currently mind-breaking the sel-titled 'smart' Jakey if ur a real mark and keeping up with the product. /ourdoublechamp/ is about to stockholm syndrome him without a physical kidnapping necessary. So both the entertaining and smart is covered, and his rectangular shape is threatening, no bloat but blubber as added defense plus a percentage true damage boost to the tribute high fly flow he will inherit and pull out for the win in osaka.
So to sum up, we are sticking with the flan, no skippy, cuz the unbound are around to abound

>>19832957
Really weird. TMDK won both sets of heavyweight tag titles, almost immediately dropped them both, had a shit record in WTL, didn’t even make it onto the Wrestle Kingdom preshow and were never seen again. Also amuses me that TMDK is/was the stable name for Shane and Mikey and NJPW just uses it for a stable they aren’t even in anymore.

>>19831411
I still don’t understand why anyone thinks that Naito, who famously doesn’t give a shit about American wrestling and turned down a WWE offer years ago, was just begging to go work for AEW or WWE. Because he wanted to do indy dates in the states? He can get by on his name in Japan at this point in his career/body condition.

>>19832926
That's what makes it so funny.

>>19833158
No speculation, he literally said he was waiting the call.

Fightful snatched a Tanahashi blog entry about Hiromu
https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/hiroshi-tanahashi-addresses-hiromu-takahashi-wrapping-up-with-njpw/
>Today, it was announced that Hiromu Takahashi will be leaving New Japan Pro-Wrestling.

>I’m sure fans were surprised. We’ve had several discussions since the start of this year.
>It was about his desire for further personal growth and testing his potential.
>It’s hard to just accept it and say, “Oh, I see! Good luck!” Hiromu is a popular wrestler, and I’d be happy to have him. But his feelings were very strong
>What do you think is the best part of a professional wrestler’s job?
>Winning. Becoming champion. Getting the crowd hyped. Making money. All correct answers, but there’s one more. It’s “challenging your own potential.” Strangely enough, I never imagined two wrestlers who debuted in 2009 would find themselves in this situation at the same time. The future really is unpredictable.
>With these departures continuing, some people are starting to ask , “Hey! Is New Japan okay?”
>He’s a popular wrestler, so there’s bound to be anxiety. Even at yesterday’s Korakuen Hall show, I saw many fans holding Hiromu merchandise and support boards.
>It’s a difficult situation, but I want to be a president who can send off wrestlers who have found new goals.
>There are temporary emotional ups and downs, but I imagine the current roster doesn’t appreciate excessive worry either… I certainly wouldn’t like it if I were still active.
>The timing of this announcement, just before his final match in Osaka, came from Hiromu’s request to “express his gratitude to the fans.” I sincerely hope you can understand.
>Go expand your dreams, Hiromu-chan. Go out there and give it your all.

>everybody has given up.

Depressing to see the reactions at this guy leaving

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>>19833608
>i want to wrestle the heavyweights
>no, best i can do is a despe feud
>pic rel
just let him wrestle for the fuckin hebby-q, christ

Also another wrestler leaving without putting anybody over, because of course

Yota Tsuji fucking sucks.

>>19833899
He lost to Fujita, Akira and Dragon Dia. He did the job in a prelude match in Korakuen the day before they announced he was leaving.

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>>19833129

>>19833860
>i want to wrestle the heavyweights
he never said this btw

>>19833914
YOH was the one putting Fujita over.

If a wrestler wants to leave, you have 2 options:
-Stop using him immediately (the ideal)
-Job him every single match, clean until their contract ends.

Definitively you don't give them a tribute and farewell match.

>>19833993
Quick way to alienate even more talent from your promotion. Perfect for a position in Bushiroad.

>>19833904
That part.

>>19833956
NTA but
>Hiromu, who has maintained a strong commitment to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, has long professed two "dreams": to win the IWGP heavyweight belt as a junior heavyweight and to compete on terrestrial prime time TV.
>https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/375812?page=1

>>19834625
>as a junior heavyweight

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>>19832046
Tenryu vs Antonio Inoki 1994-1-4
Tenryu vs Tatsumi Fujinami 1996-4-29
Tenryu vs Keiji Muto 1999-12-10

>>19834637
No one implied he wanted to switch to Heavyweight category. He said he wanted to compete against Heavyweights.

>>19832885
Is Okada boys with EVIL? Wonder if he would push for some of the guys to come in.

>>19833993
Agreed tributes are only for guys who are retiring. A loser leaves the territory match is equally valid.

>>19830754
>Naito: Sure you may be able to recover but if you dont fix these issues that cause so many guys to leave every year it'll just keep happening

>>19833608
>Tanahashi: NOOOOO STOP SAYING NEW JAPAN IS IN TROUBLE WHEN 1/4 OF THE ROSTER LEAVES EVERY YEAR ITLL HURT THE CURRENT ROSTER'S FEELINGS
Yeah, I'm thinking its over

Also here's Marufuji being confused about Shane Haste not having a contract https://x.com/noah_marufuji_/status/2019057255380029691

doesn't shane own the TMDK trademark or something?

>>19835562
kek imagine if nooj jew'd it up

>>19812007
2/7 Takeda Ham Habikino Coliseum (4:00pm)
>Daiki Nagai, Drilla Moloney, & Yota Tsuji vs Zane Jay, Great-O-Khan, & Jake Lee
>Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi, & David Finlay vs Jakob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, HENARE, & Callum Newman
>Tomoaki Honma, Yuya Uemura, & Shota Umino vs Robbie X, OSKAR, & Yuto-Ice
>Master Wato, YOH, Toru Yano, & Aaron Wolf vs Dick Togo, DOUKI, Yujiro Takahashi, & Ren Narita
>Tatsuya Matsumoto, Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI, & Hirooki Goto vs Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Ryusuke Taguchi & El Desperado vs Shoma Kato & Tiger Mask
>Katsuya Murashima vs Masatora Yasuda

2/8 EDION Arena Osaka 2nd Stadium (6:00pm)
>Gedo, David Finlay, & Yota Tsuji vs Francesco Akira, Callum Newman, & Jake Lee
>Robbie X, Taiji Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi, & Drilla Moloney vs Zane Jay, Jakob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan, & HENARE
>El Desperado, Yuya Uemura, & Shota Umino vs Daiki Nagai, OSKAR, & Yuto-Ice
>Master Wato, YOH, Toru Yano, & Aaron Wolf vs Dick Togo, DOUKI, Yujiro Takahashi, & Ren Narita
>Ryusuke Taguchi, Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI, & Hirooki Goto vs Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, & Zack Sabre Jr.
>Masatora Yasuda & Tomoaki Honma vs Katsuya Murashima & Tiger Mask
>Shoma Kato vs Tatsuya Matsumoto

>>19833608
>>19835083
Trannyhashi might be the Bushidrone who gets mad everytime there's a single criticism about NJPW

New Japan refuses to spend any money. They keep dropping big contracts and costly foreigners they have to fly in. Yet they don't reinvest that money at all. Grimsters are winning bigly.

we done told y'all it be grimming [laugh emoji]

>>19835981
I've bullied you so hard in other threads the last few days, grimfaggot, that I'm honestly going to give you a pass here

You've taken an absolute buttfucking recently and rightfully so

>>19835879
They're gonna have to pocket a lot more after dropping 2 merch moving factions for this shit >>19818010

>>19837464
The charismatic part of HOT is gone, but maybe they'll still have cool merch. But based on some of the merch and show posters, I'm not getting my hopes up

>>19831991
You know what, Jake is fighting an uphill battle. Being a cool clown is a feat only the Joker had achieved. So it's gonna be tough to really have this work without feeling goofy. Because his promo's are getting over, but the antics feel goofy af

Drilla tore his tricep but is still working the tour.
https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/2019245221398343818

Hiromu is wrestling Yasuda on Sunday (we can't watch it tho)
https://x.com/njpwglobal/status/2019245625381163013

>>19833952
*cracks are forming*

>>19835083
Everyone, as in whoever needs this, remember Big Bellies Yota says he has announcements saved for the New Beginning. The plan for the future is coming the are naturally waiting on the first PPV to commence
TrVst the Blast.

>>19835879
Anon, they have to let the heel get SOME offense in for the crowd to feel like face is not invincible. This is Inoki's company, we know who is going over, surprised it's not a squash in the first place but results are predetermined

>>19837691
Is this the other arm? Crazy how different he and SANADA healed when both opted to keep working on their tears.

>>19837590
NTA, what you saying does makes sense separately, but >>19837464 was referring to LIJ/Unaffili. + BC = UnC

>>19837590
Cool merch for a sauceless faction means nothing

>>19838008
Sanada had other more serious underlying injures. Shame Moloney is so injury prone. This year was a clear field for him to be positioned as one of the most important gaijins in the conpany.

>>19838297
>>19838008
If the podcasters are to be believed, SANADA needs neck fusion surgery so it wasn't just his arm that was fucked

>Stardom stealing CMLL