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Live on NJPW World:
>DEATH VEGAS INVITACIONAL
THU 4/16 @ 11pm(EDT), Apr.17.4am(BST)
>Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026
SUN 4/19 @ 5:30am(EDT) 10am(BST) Tokyo・Korakuen Hall
MON 4/20 @ 5:30am(EDT) 10am(BST) Tokyo・Korakuen Hall
FRI 4/24 @ 6am(EDT) 11am(BST) Ehime・TEXPORT IMABARI
>WRESTLING REDZONE in HIROSHIMA
SAT 4/25 @ 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) Hiroshima・Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall
>Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026
SUN 4/26 @ 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) Yamaguchi・KDDI Ishin Hall
>~Wrestling Hizen no Kuni~
WED.Apr.29 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) Saga・SAGA ARENA
>WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026
SAT 5/3 @ 5am(EDT) / 10am(BST) Fukuoka・Fukuoka Convention Center
SUN 5/4 @ 2am(EDT) / 7am(BST) Fukuoka・Fukuoka Convention Center
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>>20193903
>BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIOR 33
May 14th - June 7th
>A Block
Master Wato
Ryusuke Taguchi
Kosei Fujita
Robbie X
Francesco Akira
DOUKI
Titan (CMLL)
Valiente Jr (CMLL)
Nick Wayne (AEW)
Jun Kasai (FREEDOMS)
>B Block
El Desperado
KUSHIDA
YOH
Robbie Eagles
Taiji Ishimori
Jakob Austin Young
SHO
Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Hyo (Dragongate)
Daisuke Sasaki (DDT)
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>>20193909
TCGs are no laughing matter, Tsuji https://x.com/Great_O_Khan/status/2040773976881066068
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Surely nothing GRIM will happen this week. Surely our ass won't be PENETRATED.
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G1 has a logo and a full schedule now
>Opening Day: July 11 NOW Arena, Hoffman Estates IL USA (Buy tickets now!)
>Day 2 & 3: July 18 & 19 Hokkai Kita Yell, Sapporo, Hokkaido
>Day 4: July 21 Sendai Sun Plaza Hall, Miyagi
>Day 5: July 22 Aore Nagaoka, Niigata
>Day 6 & 7 July 25 & 26: Ebara Wave Arena Ota (Ota-ku Gymnasium), Tokyo
>Day 8: July 29 Yamato Arena, Osaka
>Day 9: July 31 Takamatsu City Gymnasium, Kagawa
>Day 10: August 1 Sun Plaza Hall, Hiroshima
>Day 11: August 2 International Center, Fukuoka
>Day 12: August 6 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
>Day 13: August 8 Yokohama Budokan, Kanagawa
>Day 14: August 9 G Messe, Gunma
>Day 15: August 11 Nisho Highway Arena, Tsu City, Mie
>Day 16: August 12 Act City Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
>Day 17: August 13 Korakuen Hall Tokyo
>Finals Weekend August 15 & 16 Ryogoku Sumo Hall, Tokyo
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The irony>>20194287
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>>20194577
shut up
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this is the only dontaku match that i want to watch
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Here's the important stuff
4/19
>OSKAR & Robbie X vs Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson
>Yuto-ICE & Ishimori vs Oiwa & Eagles
4/20
>Shingo vs Zane Jay
>Callum vs Nagai
>Tag title contenders match: Bishamon vs HENARE & O-Khan
>4/25 WRESTLING REDZONE
>IWGP Tag Titles: KOB vs winner of Bishamon/UE
>IWGP Jr Tag Titles: X & Ishimori vs Eagles & Fujita
>4/29 Wrestling Hizen no Kuni
Mistico, Wolf & Boltin vs Togo Fale & Narita
IWGP Jr Title: DOUKI vs Tiger Mask
>5/3 Dontaku
Shota & Takeshita vs Chase & Yujiro
Unbound Co vs United Empire 10-Man
Aaron Wolf vs Don Fale
NEVER OW: Narita vs Boltin
IWGP Global: Tsuji vs Gabe
>5/4 Dontaku
NJPW TV Title: Takeshita vs Owens
Shota & Honma vs KOB
Mistico & Despy vs Eagles & Fujita
Taichi & Uemura vs Hartley & Oiwa
NEVER 6s: Bishamontin vs Ospreay, HENARE & O-Khan
IWGP Heavy: Callum vs Shingo
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Cursed match
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Meanwhile, in a real wrestling company...
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He just doesn't look the part. Look at this man. He looks like a little boy on the verge of tears
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>>20196109
We rike white piggu. White piggu make dollar. White piggu bery popular. White piggu sellout za G1 in America desu. Prease understand.
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bring back Jeong Mok
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sorry, wrong picture.
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>>20196055
One guy can't see or walk and the other guy is a cringe faggot who's just as shit in the ring as newman. Newman also towers over both of them
>>20196109
Isn't that the point? Is he supposed to "look the part"?
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>>20194718
Bitch ass bushidrone ball draining bootlicker
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We went from Sakura Genesis 2017... to THIS?!
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>me and the lads watching Jun Kasai vs Nick Wayne in the BOSJ
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https://x.com/taguchiryusuke/status/2041314984119128347
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I was just thinking how brutal this ending has been for Finlay and his legacy
>loyal hand for almost a decade
>finally get elevated, become Bullet Club leader
>relentlessly shit on, overlooked for Gabe
>finally get the secondary title and a little prestige
>seemingly on the verge of winning NJC 2024, have to pull out due to illness
>proceed to endlessly lose to Tsuji culminating with the belt at WK
>finally start to win people over through sheer workrate and tenacity
>win NJC 2025, primed to finally win hebby q and solidify run
>swallowed by the new and hot Goto Revolution
>gets wrecked by EVIL
>lose in the play-offs of the G1 yet again after calling it make or break for your career
>enter a factional alliance with LIJ after a feud where he has no agency or authority
>Bullet Club is silently shuttered by his former rival Tsuji, ending the biggest gaijin faction ever with a whimper and making Finlay the only leader to never win the hebby q
>job to a 23 year old kid who has been around for a couple years, mostly as some sort of pseudo young lion
>finally leave company for AEW (the fed with deep family ties apparently couldn't be assed to offer any meaningful contract)
>have nearly zero status to AEW fans and priority in booking, essentially leads a toothless War Dogs faction
>the 23 year old kid wins the NJC and the hebby q immediately after, surpassing him and his achievements almost instantly
Sad
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henaretards we made it on the cover
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>>20202345
Smarks so easily become the marks of the 70s and 80s, sending hate mail to heel managers and trying to stab some dude for beating their home town hero. It's pretty funny. Personally I just get worked by HOT shenanigans then pop hard when they get beat up.
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>>20203030
I admittedly only watched the main event of the last Despy event but it was a great story told through the form of extreme violence rather than gratuitous blood and gore for the sheer hell of it like much of hardcore wrestling is. Card for this one doesn't look that interesting but I'll check it out at least.
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>>20203030
Effy and Jimmy Lloyd are on the card, automatic skip
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>Move ashide, Tshuji !!!!
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Insider here, Bushiroad is trying to make a new Naito out of Tsuji. The comment Tsuji made about the card games had the green light from Bushiroad and now they're trying to make it look like they're punishing him by making him lose to relatively unproven Callum Newman. He will also lose the Global title to Gabe Kidd. He will not win the G1 or the title back this year, they plan on slightly cooling him off to make fans think that Tsuji has to go against the corporation. They think by next year he will become massively popular, expect more comments or references to Tsuji having problems with Bushiroad in the next few months.
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MxM going to Death Vegas for some reason
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GEDO STRAP now
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>>20207052
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>Former popular professional wrestler Hiroshi Tanahashi will be joining ABC TV's evening news program "news Okaeri" (Monday-Friday, 3:40 PM - 7:00 PM, Kansai local broadcast) as a new regular cast member. He will appear on the 10th, every other Friday.
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2447441/full/
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>https://x.com/shinnichichan5/status/2041815991198609509
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Kino
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The biggest show of the tour is Hiroshima.
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somebody please reupload the based BOSJ theme with a different pic so I can put it on repeat without staring at this goof for an hour
https://youtu.be/EXdL7S4pzRg
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i keep a YouTube playlist because I like those hours long synthwave and epic mixes people make and I put the wrestling music on it too and I don't care what anybody thinks about it
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your world champion
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Well at least we know he's contracted up a while, makes it far more tolerable
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>>20210205
Your FD main event
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>>20210414
somewhere there's a table waiting for their breadsticks
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Why is Newman just going along with ospreay? Did he say anything about it at all? It would be funny if he said something about moxley being one of the worst iwgp champions ever but he unfortunately doesn't seem very smart
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>Tsuji publicly refuses to do AEW shows as champ
>Tony says he loves the V4 and wants it to appear on AEW
>Newman beats Tsuji
>Appears on Dynamite with the belt asap
Really makes ya think....
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>>20212138
Tony has a million guys he could have team with ospreay which would actually make more sense for him to build up people on his own roster. But he's addicted to collecting toys and likes the idea of the iwgp champion on his show no matter who it is
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>>20212155
he didnt. njpw put the belt on him ya ding dong.
>>20212184
april is when they start building up forbidden door.
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https://x.com/Peps_Wrestling/status/2042168322582626587
>Claudio Castagnoli has mentioned in the past that he wants to compete in the G1 Climax before the end of his career, and it's something I really want to see even more than before after tonight
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>>20212293
Looking at the difference of reactions between here and on x dot com, i wonder why so many there don't mind that. I guess that maybe because a lot of them are mostly AEW and secondly NJPW while here is the other way around, or don't watch AEW at all
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>>20212312
A lot of AEW die hards are terminally online (yes I get the irony saying that on 4chan) and they unironically try and dominate discussion about anything AEW related. For example the NJPW subreddit used to be very critical of the AEW/NJPW partnership, but now its just full of AEW fags saying they would love Orange Cassidy in a G1 or posting 10 years old Kenny Omega NJPW matches
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NJPW and Bushiroad are spineless. Imagine destroying your brand, cheapening your belts, and letting your supposed "partner" poach any talent you make.
>quarter-full arenas
>horrible ratings
>sell out your home audience and real fans for it
Shitshow.
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>>20212323
Holy fucking shit. I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
The Subreddit used to be great. There were real fans on there who saw AEW for what it was and despised the partnership.
Then the sweats came in, ran the good posters off, and now any comment or post criticising AEW gets downvoted.
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>you are only a real NJPW fan if you hate AEW
You brought the GRIMposting on yourselves and deserve nothing but half filled bingo halls.
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better than this >>20207052
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6/28 judging by this tight ass schedule https://www.njpw.co.jp/schedule?page=3
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Anyone else think the current factions suck? In 2018 we had Chaos, Bullet Club, LIJ, Suzuki-gun….and now we have United Empire, Unbound Company, House of Torture and TMDK….none of them scream cool, their names or their merch
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House of Torture's name and merch are definitely cool but the rest of it especially now is so dimeless it nullifies both. TMDK is basically what late stage Suzuki-gun was functionally, UE is whatever. Unbound Co. is a like a worse CHAOS as a seemingly random collection of people with no grand design or idea. they're saved by KOB who are the most popular new act in the company and ironically don't even put that shitty Unbound logo on their merch at all lol
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What did former NJPW star player Tetsuya Naito mean by this?
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Tsuji can actually make good on his whole defender of NJPW angle now with the Global belt and Gabe so I think this is good for him, though if he loses he really drops down a peg . I never found him believable enough as double champ or an ace like figure.
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I just think this is how they separate the belts again, Gabe wins through cheating, possible Finlay/Connors interference, then Tsuji challenges Callum for the rematch at Dominion which he wins. Makes Newman a threat as a former champion, frees up the Global belt for Umino/Uemura/Taichi/whoever to defend the honour of Shin Nihon by beating Gabe the traitor for it at Forbidden Door while in the long term reviving the upper midcard by giving them a belt to fight for, and Tsuji gets a longer reign with the top belt this time to properly establish himself.
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>https://x.com/TheDrainmaker/status/2042330543002657013
>Tony Khan praises Callum Newman huge.
>Says Callum is doing fantastic in NJPW, and that he’s enjoyed getting to know him more now as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion. New Japan is doing well to put their faith in him as their top guy.
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I would have had him hold it til kopw regardless of all the aew shit. If Dominion wasn't airing on tv or whatever I would've had him defend against shota or yuya then Tsuji beats him in the g1 and kopw. Also if tony wasn't a fag for forbidden door I would have him beat ospreay or omega or maybe even hangma'am
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Here's the guy who's been taking down Nooj gifs on X
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>>20216424
taking down Stardom gifs on X soon too if this is correct
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Geek
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>>20216479
this chick
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Here's your next IWGP Heavyweight Champ after Callme Woman signs the toybox contract.
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>>20218061
could be him
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>>20217290
yeah it sold out but im not sure if they're going to restock
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The lineup of niggas looking to pin the humble wolf on Abema for 10 million yen in about 3 hours.
It's region blocked but VPNs work
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since when was this nigga so wide?
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holy shit https://x.com/ABEMA/status/2042882483407196538
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>>20221444
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I guess they just have a twitter livestream of the thing going lol
https://x.com/Abema_Fight/status/2042847031149105190
The Aaron Wolf challenge starts at around 1:15:00.
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>>20223135
His takedowns are so fuckin sick. Is that Muscles Asami reffing? Perfect person to get in between those two beasts
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>It was my first time doing this kind of work,
>so Lady Saya's experience points went up
>Lately, I've been watching nothing but variety shows with Wolf,
>so I got hit with that gap moe vibe!
>#Win1000000yenifwedefeatWolfAron #Abema30Hours
https://x.com/saya_h_a_t_e/status/2042982536994001155
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Unagi bring him back next please
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Was it kino?
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He's Wellesmaxxing
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This is the match
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No way. I stopped watching NJPW for a few months but I assumed that Shota would win the cup and turn heel and then beat Tsuji. Why the fuck did they put the belt on Snoozeman?? Tranahashi is a danger to this company and sport
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Desperado needs to be stopped
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[Sad News] NJPW talent Shoma Kato has been corrupted by Mexican shamans on his excursion in CMLL
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Kek just milk the money mark like Jay White
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I miss Jeung Mox
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>>20240018
I wish he'd go down on me
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I don't know about the "he's still too green" explanation for Wolf's booking. He was more than adequate at WK. They could have him winning every match in 3 minutes after two judo throws and the crowd would eat it up
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It's their own fault for deciding to keep him in the vortex, especially once the guys (I think sanada would've been good with him) that could actually carry him left. He could've been in Boltin's spot with Bishamon, or he could be working every show with or against guys like Nagata and Makabe. But here we are
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I'd honestly say EVIL vs Wolf was something they could've returned to if they actually broke them away for a bit, then you can get back to that for Dominion. Instead they stuck him with an immobile shitter so he can work maybe 2 minutes in the ring of a 8-man tag. This makes me think they aren't gonna take the risk of putting him in the G1 if they're gonna isolate him this much
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The End
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the gen never got to page 10 when this guy was in charge