The Puroresu (Japanese Wrestling) thread

gnfnrhead

Ape Lincoln wrote: »

I haven't watched Japanese wrestling since Eurosport showed it in the mid-90s so aside from the odd match on a WWE DVD I'm a noob. Does anyone want to give me like a dozen or so recommendations to watch?

NJPW is the only company worth watching on a regular basis. Other's will throw out the occasional good match but NJ do it a lot more often.

Any of the big NJ shows from the last couple of years. Always at least one great match on them.

Any of Nakamura's IC title defences in Japan. Often one of the best matches on the card.

Any of the Okada vs Tanahashi matches.

Wrestle Kingdom from January would be a great place to start. Easily three or four MOTYC.

Dailymotion has more or less all of them. YouTube has some but nowhere near as many.

rovert

gnfnrhead wrote: »

NJPW is the only company worth watching on a regular basis. Other's will throw out the occasional good match but NJ do it a lot more often.

Yeah the New Japan of the past 2 1/2 years is at least on par if not better than the post 2000-3 Attitude Era WWE which you had great wrestlers, deep rosters, over characters and crowds that knew and were enthusiastic about more or less everything.

Ape Lincoln wrote: »

I haven't watched Japanese wrestling since Eurosport showed it in the mid-90s so aside from the odd match on a WWE DVD I'm a noob. Does anyone want to give me like a dozen or so recommendations to watch?

Their last proper Pay Per View is up on Youtube in full:

When I mean in full I mean in full. The dark match is included at the beginning. The real show starts at the 16.00 minute mark.

Tried to find a preview/primer for you here that wasn't the size of the textbook:

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2013/06/21/new-japan-pro-wrestling-dominion-june-22-2013/

In hindsight this wasn't the most accurate of previews but it does at least give the basic premise of matches and New Japan's pre-match videos should help too. The storylines aren't really that dense or Americanised. Either two wrestlers hate each other or want to win to advance their way to a title shot. So if you are lost you are probably less watch than you think you are!

The opener the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title match blew people away - people online were just jaded as they had so many largely so-so matches on past show. All of the matches were better than forecasted except the Rob Conway match.

Jamie OD

OH MY GOD!!!!! Okada Vs Ibushi at DDT's 2nd Sumo Hall show in August.

BohsJohnny

Well that is amazing.

rovert

New Japan announced the fixtures so to speak for the G1.

This is the card the show on iPPV that airs on UStream will get:

August 4th @ Osaka Body Maker Colosseum (iPPV on Ustream)
-Shinsuke Nakamura VS Kota Ibushi
-Togi Makabe VS Kazuchika Okada
-Hiroshi Tanahashi VS Prince Davitt
-Tetsuya Naito VS Minoru Suzuki
-Hirooki Goto VS Lance Archer
-Tomohiro Ishii VS Katsuyori Shibata
-Satoshi Kojima VS Davey Boy Smith Jr
-Yuji Nagata VS Shelton X Benjamin
-Hiroyoshi Tenzan VS Karl Anderson
- Toru Yano VS Yujiro Takahashi

That's a spicy meatball

gnfnrhead

Nakamura vs Ibushi? Yes fcuking please!

A lot of potential MOTN's and even MOTYC on that show.

rovert

Let's welcome him at arrivals in Dublin Airport:

Ando's Saggy Bottom

I know a lad who always says stuff like Fergal's tweets and Im always telling him he'd be a great heel. :pac:

BohsJohnny

rovert wrote: »

New Japan announced the fixtures so to speak for the G1.

This is the card the show on iPPV that airs on UStream will get:



That's a spicy meatball

That looks great with it being in Osaka it could be another show of the year,delighted we get to see Ishii vs Shibata live and Nakamura vs Ibushi not to mention Naito vs Suzuki.

New Japan keeps getting better and better.

rovert

Regal tweeted this then deleted it:





Maybe he meant it as a DM.

gnfnrhead

If he was trying to do a DM he was way off. The @ thing doesnt get used at all for DM's.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Had to read that about 20 times before it made any sense to me.

Jamie OD

Whoopsy daisy.

BohsJohnny

Class

GTR63

Ando's Saggy Bottom wrote: »

Had to read that about 20 times before it made any sense to me.

I still don`t get the Briscoes and Jay bit who is Jay?
Hunter? :eek:

rovert

GTR63 wrote: »

I still don`t get the Briscoes and Jay bit who is Jay?
Hunter? :eek:

Seriously bro.

ROH's Jay Briscoe. He ruined his and his brother's chances to go to WWE as a result of a succession of anti-homosexual tweets.

GTR63

rovert wrote: »

Seriously bro.

ROH's Jay Briscoe. He ruined his and his brother's chances to go to WWE as a result of a succession of anti-homosexual tweets.

I know Jay but he said the Briscoes and I assumed it wasn`t a Briscoe brother.

gnfnrhead

Please be careful not to tweet anything that could upset the PG brigade, as I (heard?) we were going to hire the Briscoe's, and Jay (Briscoe).... (well he kind of fcuked that up?)

rovert

New Japan Audio Wrestling episode

http://fightnetwork.com/news/39845:july-edition-of-japanese-audio-wrestling/

Chris Charlton and WH Park return for the month of July with a look at the recent NJPW Kizuna Road iPPV, the announcement of a stacked G-1 Climax tournament, the new Wrestle-One promotion that Keiji Muto has launched and more.

rovert

Prince Devitt vs Gedo who is Okada's manager. The final hurdle for Devitt before getting a crack at Okada's Heavyweight:

Gedo hadn't won a singles match in over a year and is one of New Japan's dirtiest heels but the crowd hates Devitt so much they are completely behind Gedo here. Shockingly good main event match from a semi-active manager. Like ****1/4 stars wise.

rovert

This time tomorrow Devitt will probably be hitting the ring to wrestle for the Heavyweight title:

http://www.ustream.tv/njpw

The show itself starts 9am our time.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Fully emotionally invested now in Devitt winning the big one. Don't let me down New Japan.

rovert

The scene from every parish around Ireland 1pm tomorrow:

Credit: Chordtype

gnfnrhead

As amazing as it'd be, I dont think Devitt is taking the title here. If he didnt have the Jr. title, then it'd be more likely to happen but I cant see him holding both. Can see him doing very well and maybe even winning the G1 to get himself another shot. Hopefully, by then he will have dropped the Jr. title to someone to increase his odds.

GTR63

rovert wrote: »

The scene from every parish around Ireland 1pm tomorrow

Don't forget the sangwidges.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

GTR63 wrote: »

Don't forget the sangwidges.

Careful.

Machismo Fan

I'd guess that they'll do Okada vs. Naito for the Tokyo Dome main event this year so I'd be very surprised if Devitt won but I'm really looking forward to this.

rovert

Machismo Fan wrote: »

I'd guess that they'll do Okada vs. Naito for the Tokyo Dome main event this year so I'd be very surprised if Devitt won but I'm really looking forward to this.

Naito's knees are knackered though. That's a real issue.

Devitt's exchanges with Naito in various tags the past week have been excellent and bode well for their singles match.

Pingi

Anybody manage to order this yet? Getting an error here

Also thread was 4 years old yesterday, gwan Flah

BohsJohnny

Pingi wrote: »

Anybody manage to order this yet? Getting an error here

Also thread was 4 years old yesterday, gwan Flah

Ordered it on Wednesday through my Facebook log in now that won't work for me hopefully it's fixed before the show starts.

gnfnrhead

Note to self: Dont click on this thread again after about 7am.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Pingi wrote: »

Anybody manage to order this yet? Getting an error here

Also thread was 4 years old yesterday, gwan Flah

How's Pingers? Be Gob the years are flyin in.

DM_7

Devitt getting ready for the match, practicing how to avoid the rainmaker:

http://i.minus.com/imPtJ5X3ms5rY.gif

rovert

The whole thing was possibly the greatest backstage segments of all times.

Dancor

I love the heel Ireland jersey.

BohsJohnny

Just finished the show after watching half this morning nothing really blew me away apart from the main thought Okada/Devitt was a very good match and the backstage interview was quality,Nagata/Sakuraba wasn't great probably didn't help that Nagata has a torn pec and Sakuraba is just back from his injury.And Goto/Shibata was not at the same level as last month i hope they stop with the crazy headbutts someone is going to get seriously hurt doing them.

La Sombra/Nakamura was fun so was Ishii/Suzuki all in all though a good show with a very good match and a butch of solid matches.

rovert

yottsume

I've english subbed "NJPW INSIDE #0" for the foreign fans out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Lbkm_kNFg

It's a NJPW official Youtube program.
It's about 20 minutes long, with recaps of 2013 New Japan Cup and Tanahashi's interview.

Enjoy.

BohsJohnny

OH MY GOD just saw this you can order all the G1 shows http://www.ustream.tv/njpw,works out at 113 euro really thinking of ordering it but don't know if i can justified spending that much on wrestling.

gnfnrhead

BohsJohnny wrote: »

OH MY GOD just saw this you can order all the G1 shows http://www.ustream.tv/njpw,works out at 113 euro really thinking of ordering it but don't know if i can justified spending that much on wrestling.

How much have you spent on WWE through the years? Chances are, this will be a much better investment.

rovert

gnfnrhead wrote: »

How much have you spent on WWE through the years? Chances are, this will be a much better investment.

The issue is/is for me is that isn't an investment all. The shows are only accessible until 8 days after the final. Time is the issue for me not the money.

Your ROHs or DGUSA/EVOLVEs allow access to shows a year or more after you bought the live airing.

The you factor in that the shows will be on download sites the afternoon of the show.

BohsJohnny

gnfnrhead wrote: »

How much have you spent on WWE through the years? Chances are, this will be a much better investment.

Yeah that's the thing i have never spent over 100 euro on a WWE item and haven't bought a ppv in years i cancelled sky a while ago.

rovert wrote: »

The issue is/is for me is that isn't an investment all. The shows are only accessible until 8 days after the final. Time is the issue for me not the money.

Your ROHs or DGUSA/EVOLVEs allow access to shows a year or more after you bought the live airing.

The you factor in that the shows will be on download sites the afternoon of the show.

I don't like downloading stuff from company's who product i really enjoy i try to buy IPPV's and dvd from NJPW and PWG not to say i'm telling people not to do that i will admit i didn't get into PWG until i downloaded a few shows but i would rather not do that now.

gnfnrhead

BohsJohnny wrote: »

Yeah that's the thing i have never spent over 100 euro on a WWE item and haven't bought a ppv in years i cancelled sky a while ago.

Over the years though. What's that, four PPV's? I'm guessing we have all bought at least that.

BohsJohnny

AH **** IT you only live once ordered hyped for this.

rovert

G-1 Press Conference

Me thinking the sun shines Prince Devitt's arse isn't news but his walk up to podium is class at the 16:05 mark with him slapping the table. Totally the lad in secondary school who is told by the teacher to see the principle who wants to indicate he doesn't give a toss.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Hopefully he wins it. That backstage segment from the PPV was the best thing I've seen all year. Does anyone think his bauldness seems baulder for the fact that he's Irish. I think we get hint better than everyone else.

rovert

Anyone going to buy the G1?

You can only buy all 9 shows for $150/€113.33. You can't buy them individually unfortunately. There's a couple of really strong cards and the Finals if you a Puro fan you would in previous years would have sold your first born to watch live.

I vowed not to as August is a very busy month. But I am already starting to crack at the time of the start of the first show.

gnfnrhead

First night has at least one thing worth checking out it seems.

Devitt beat Okada.

BohsJohnny

Enjoyed day one some good solid matches on the show,just after watching the last three matches from today's show whatever you do go out of your way to watch Ishii vs Tanahashi absolutely incredible match.

rovert

Love the idea that the retired "Mr. G-1" five time winner Masahiro Chono is campaigning for Devitt to be kicked out of the tournament as he and his stable are bringing the competition into disrepute - like they did during the Super Junior tournament.

From Day 2 versus Lance (Hoyt) Archer:


You have to realise Americanised cheating is fairly virgin territory in Japan. What I found out too yesterday is that smarks HATE all the cheat with a fiery passion.

@puro_yottsume on Twitter is doing English over dubbing of the UStream feed. Not perfect or slick but it does the job in terms of translating what the commentators are discussing.