 This iPPV is purchasable over at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/njpw1972 ! The event costs 25 dollars and the cost not only provides with a live viewing of the PPV, but also replay ON DEMAND for an entire week. The event happens 2/10 at 15:00 JST/1 AM EST, meaning, precisely 6 hours from now  The iPPV starts with the usual CHAOS multi-man tag team match, it'll serve as the crowd warmer and nothing else. Expect lots of high-flying, YOOOOO-HOOOOOOO's, lariats, Ric Flair impressions and announcer bullying shenanigans. Of note is the fact the great Yuji Nagata is on this opening match, don't expect a lot of high-level drama with him, because Yuji is an expert at playing his part, be it Main Eventing or Curtain Jerking.  The rivalry between these two teams has been going on for a while. Back in August, they had an amazing match that ended with the Forever Hooligans winning at the end and retaining their championship. Later, last November, these teams faced again and this time the TimeSplitters managed to win the title in a whopping 6 minutes of rear end-kicking. This match is gonna be the tie-breaker of these two teams, and it should prove to be a good (and hopefully not short) classic Junior Tag Team bout.  Way back in 2009, Ryusuke Taguchi won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. He didn't hold it for long, and ended up losing it to Wataru Inoue, since then, the Junior Heavyweight division evolved exponentially year by year, with wrestlers like Low-Ki, Prince Devitt and Kota Ibushi joining the fray, leaving a relative old-comer like Ryusuke behind. Ryusuke has had a few opportunities to get the Junior belt around his waist again, including when he won the Best of Super Juniors 2012 last year, but he has never managed to win the big one. Tonight he has another chance, this time against his friend and former Junior Heavyweight Tag Team belt holding partner, who has come out of an impressive win in a triple threat match. Ryusuke Taguchi has been rumored to turn Heel for months, perhaps even years. Meanwhile, Prince Devitt just beat the champion Hiroshi Tanahashi cleanly in a tag team bout, and has been groomed to be a top-level contender for the big title.  Since Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer joined together as the dominating foreigners from Suzuki's Army, they have been a dominating team. Beating the likes of TenKoji (twice!) and Hirooki Goto and Karl Anderson. Tonight they face TenKoji for the third time, in what is expected to be another dominating performance from the "Killer Elite Squad". That said, TenKoji can never be counted out. These veterans have been together since 1999, they're both former World Champions and have held the IWGP Tag Team Championship multiple times, while also having a great showing on other promotions, including a win in AJPW'S Real World Tag League 2008.  These two men have held a small grudge against each other for a while and last weekend this match was announced. Expect a good Togi Makabe style brawling match, as per usual.  In a big surprise, the great Laughter7 are back. One month ago, in NJPW's big Wrestle Kingdom 7, both Katsuyori Shibata and Kazushi Sakuraba held losses in their special matches, it was then reported that they had both been signed in secret by NJPW's then owner Kidani. Kidani had a falling out with the booking team and the NJPW's roster due to this and he stepped down because of it. Later down the line, Shibata had a big win against Takeshi Morishima in Pro Wrestling NOAH for the GHC Heavyweight Title. Things were looking bleak for Laughter7 in NJPW, but out of nowhere it was announced they'd be teaming again against Wataru Inoue and Hirooki Goto. Laughter7 are, basically, a team of MMA invaders, their gimmick is that they are hated by everyone in the roster and that they have a very stiff and uncooperative style, which helps them get heat with the crowd. The story of this match is interesting, as Shibata and Goto have been friends since their teenage years. This fact has been played up in Television, which leads me to believe this might be the beginning of a feud between the two of them.  Last TV show, a big rivalry between CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano, Jado, Gedo, Takashi Iizuka, Tomoro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI) and Suzuki's Army (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Taka Michinoku, Taichi) started. A honorary Suzuki's Army member, Kengo Mashimo (from Kaientai Dojo)) has been booked against IWGP Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura in a non-title bout. Expect an awesome bout between these two, possibly MOTYC.  Also part of the rivalry between CHAOS and Suzuki's Army is this big match. Okada is the top star of the CHAOS stable, having had a great 2012 in which he became one of the fastest growing stars of the business, a IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, a G1 Climax winner and a Main Eventer of the last Wrestle Kingdom. He faces Minoru Suzuki, a fighter who has had his ups and downs these past few years in NJPW, including two title matches against Hiroshi Tanahashi. Both of these guys have had phenomenal matches, including dozens of MOTY Contenders and a 5 star match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Minoru Suzuki. There is no chance this match won't be a blast to watch and a Match of the Year nomination over in this thread, so check it out.  Hiroshi Tanahashi has just come out of a big victory against Okada in Wrestle Kingdom 7 after a great year as a champion, "Machine Gunner" Karl Anderson, meanwhile, has had a fairly big streak of losses in the past few months. The story of this match is that Karl Anderson beat Hiroshi Tanahashi in the G1 Climax Semi-Finals a few months ago, in what was considered a huge upset. Hiroshi Tanahashi seemed to not forget this, as he was the one to challenge Karl Anderson for the title bout. It was last year in this exact event that the unthinkable happened as Okada beat Tanahashi in a star-making colossal upset that gave a kick-start for the entire year (befitting of the "The New Beginning" name), Karl Anderson is not expected to win this match, but is it a possibility that, for the second time in a row, the unthinkable happens? Either ways, expect a great main event between these two.
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 23:43 |
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| # ? May 20, 2013 01:49 |
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poo poo, I forgot to change tags and now this great event is marked with "poo poo Post". Whyyyyyyy 
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 23:43 |
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Andersons going to win the title and go on to be the greatest of all time.
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 23:58 |
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I won't be able to watch the show live but I'll definitely catch the replay. New Japan is by far the best promotion in the world right now and they deserve the cash.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 00:04 |
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Would watch live if I were in the right time zone. Will definitely try to catch a replay though.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 00:04 |
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January was a rough month on me financially, but but I intend on buying the next one assuming the card looks to be their usual caliber.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 00:10 |
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Skinty McEdger posted:Andersons going to win the title and go on to be the greatest of all time. This is me at UFC 64.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 00:28 |
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I'm eye-bleeding this one at 6am GMT, I was thinking about just sleeping and watching it on demand but then I remembered how much fun it was live for Wrestle Kingdom. Hopefully NJPW can take over the MOTY thread 2 months running.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 02:16 |
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I'm really excited about this impending CHAOS and Suzukigun war. Okada and Suzuki could steal the show along with the intriguing IWGP Junior defense. Don't know if I'm going to stay up for the entire show, but I hope that the earlier start time doesn't hurt Japanese buys and helps foreign ones!
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 02:28 |
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njsykora posted:I'm eye-bleeding this one at 6am GMT, I was thinking about just sleeping and watching it on demand but then I remembered how much fun it was live for Wrestle Kingdom. Hopefully NJPW can take over the MOTY thread 2 months running. Glad to know I'm not the only European that's gonna be blood-shot here. Its fortunate this is Sunday morning instead of Monday morning like last time.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 02:32 |
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SNARF SNARF SNARF posted:Glad to know I'm not the only European that's gonna be blood-shot here. Its fortunate this is Sunday morning instead of Monday morning like last time. I'm still working tomorrow!! Not until 5pm though so I can probably grab at least 5 hours of sleep once the show's over.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 02:39 |
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Watching at 6am from London too.NotQuiteQuentin posted:I'm really excited about this impending CHAOS and Suzukigun war. Okada and Suzuki could steal the show along with the intriguing IWGP Junior defense. Don't know if I'm going to stay up for the entire show, but I hope that the earlier start time doesn't hurt Japanese buys and helps foreign ones! Hopefully it leads to a Nakamura/Suzuki match as well.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 03:06 |
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I slept in today, I plan on watching this live. expect this thread to get bumped with my stupid opinions on things.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 04:58 |
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coconono posted:I slept in today, I plan on watching this live. expect this thread to get bumped with my stupid opinions on things. I slept until 3pm, but had to work between then and now. I'm as prepared as I think I can be so hopefully I won't completely crash mid-show and miss a MOTYC.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 05:16 |
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I'm going to try to stay up for this one. Wrestle Kingdom was fun until I had to leave. I expect this one to be great too!
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 05:17 |
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Really wanted to watch it but a billing error made me overdraft 4 times so I'm $75 in debt  I'll keep up with the thread though! I wish I could give NJPW the money, they earned it last time and this time looks just as fun
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 05:51 |
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And here we go, everyone get over here.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:00 |
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WE ARE LIVE!! I have the MOTY thread loaded in the other tab.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:01 |
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YAY! Now we get to sit through 30 minutes of card rundowns!
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:02 |
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My friend bought me the stream! I am watching with you guys tonight!!
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:02 |
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My Sunday plans got hosed, so now I have no need to get up before noon, giving me the perfect excuse to order this!
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:02 |
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This card looks rad as gently caress. Karl Anderson gonna win and WWE still won't know what the gently caress.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:05 |
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We begin the evening with a clusterfuck.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:06 |
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Ridiculously excited for Suzuki vs Okada.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:07 |
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This announcer will never get his peace, ever. Iizuka going crazy on the crowd and throwing motherfuckers who jump at him is great.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:09 |
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Crazy bald man with suspect knees is still a dick. At least they got him to quit bringing the CRAZY SPIKED GLOVE OF SPIKES to the ring.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:09 |
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Sound die for anyone? I'm guessing music again?
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:19 |
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Announcerman is still the best babyface in this feud.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:19 |
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MassRayPer posted:Sound die for anyone? I'm guessing music again? yup
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:20 |
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MassRayPer posted:Sound die for anyone? I'm guessing music again? NJPW doesn't understand copyright laws very well so they're covering their bases.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:21 |
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Hooligans looking pimp as all hell.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:22 |
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When they are getting 50-100,000 buys for these iPPVs they need to work out this music situation. It was the only negative for the Dome show.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:23 |
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Bare witness as the crowd respectfully applauds this :3
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:25 |
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Sickadash posted:Bare witness as the crowd respectfully applauds this :3 That they even rose makes me like them.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:26 |
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The Japanese getting up, respecting the heel's national anthem and then applauding when its over is the most hilarious thing.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:27 |
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What the hell kinda drugs do you have to do to get as insane as Rocky Romero?
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:33 |
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coconono posted:What the hell kinda drugs do you have to do to get as insane as Rocky Romero?
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:35 |
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OOOOH THAT HANDSPRING KICK e: I always underestimate how great KUSHIDA is.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:36 |
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That was a bit of a ROH Tag Team match but really good nonetheless.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:37 |
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| # ? May 20, 2013 01:49 |
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not a MOTYC but still hella fun.
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