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Giant Murderbaby posted:I missed Yano vs Elgin. Is it worth going back to watch? Very yes. Watching the main now. Reminder that WE HAVE ANOTHER FULL WEEK OF THIS BEFORE THE FINALS. Goodness gracious what a match given these circumstances.
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Aug 2, 2017 13:42
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Man EVIL looked really hosed up  I hope he'll be OK
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Aug 2, 2017 13:55
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Giant Murderbaby posted:I missed Yano vs Elgin. Is it worth going back to watch? Absolutely 100% do NOT miss this match.
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Aug 2, 2017 14:03
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Jerusalem posted:Absolutely 100% do NOT miss this match. Watched it. Elgin is going to murder him.
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Aug 2, 2017 14:53
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Welp 2-4 and mathematically eliminated by prediction of BIG MIKE winning B block sure looks smart 
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Aug 2, 2017 17:53
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Giant Murderbaby posted:I thought EVIL was the dumbest thing when I started watching the G1 but now I love him. same. and i thought yano was annoying that was a big mistake.
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Aug 2, 2017 17:58
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HOLY poo poo EVIL KENNY THE TABLE
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Aug 2, 2017 18:58
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Jerusalem posted:Absolutely 100% do NOT miss this match. It's amazing fuckery, next level fuckery. Currently watching Kojima x Suzuki, in which "Christ, what an rear end in a top hat!" is being uttered often. These two old bastards have more energy than anything in WWE
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Aug 2, 2017 19:50
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eesh, looks like kenny gave evil a concussion with the knee.
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Aug 2, 2017 20:11
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either evil is the greatest seller in history or his brain is orange juice concentrate now
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Aug 2, 2017 20:26
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checksin posted:either evil is the greatest seller in history or his brain is orange juice concentrate now According to twitter he's alright https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/892780951306031104 One hell of a sell job if thats what it was
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Aug 2, 2017 21:07
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evil also smashed his own eye doing the side slam off the apron through the table
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Aug 2, 2017 21:08
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Naito question: did he turn face on a specific show or just gradually? Also, when did he change his suit to a red one and does he still wear the mask? If not, why not?
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Aug 2, 2017 21:24
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he's not really a face, LIJ is arguably the second-most-heel faction after suzuki-gun
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Aug 2, 2017 21:26
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Any heel who's good in the ring turns face through no fault of their own after being in New Japan for a while. It's inevitable.
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Aug 2, 2017 21:37
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So here's one for you, though it probably won't happen. Say Okada drops one along the way to Omega. If they're both 7-1, and then they draw, what happens?
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Aug 2, 2017 21:40
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Your Boy Fancy posted:So here's one for you, though it probably won't happen. Say Okada drops one along the way to Omega. If they're both 7-1, and then they draw, what happens? Omega advances since he has the head to head victory as a tie breaker
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Aug 2, 2017 21:41
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Your Boy Fancy posted:So here's one for you, though it probably won't happen. Say Okada drops one along the way to Omega. If they're both 7-1, and then they draw, what happens? Gedo makes the tiebreaking vote, pushing Okada through.
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Aug 2, 2017 21:43
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Your Boy Fancy posted:So here's one for you, though it probably won't happen. Say Okada drops one along the way to Omega. If they're both 7-1, and then they draw, what happens? btw this will definitely happen
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Aug 2, 2017 21:44
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Your Boy Fancy posted:So here's one for you, though it probably won't happen. Say Okada drops one along the way to Omega. If they're both 7-1, and then they draw, what happens? Assuming they're both at 15, no one could catch them. It's wrestling so who the gently caress knows you can do whatever you want. Either the match gets restarted and we're on until we get a winner, we do a three-way in the finals, they run back Kenny/Okada during the finals and the winner faces the A Block winner, Kojima wins the block just because, who knows.
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Aug 2, 2017 22:41
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oh i didnt read the question
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Aug 2, 2017 22:44
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Super No Vacancy posted:oh i didnt read the question Same. Wouldn't they just restart the match? New Japan doesn't really do triple threats
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Aug 2, 2017 23:09
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C. Everett Koop posted:Assuming they're both at 15, no one could catch them. It's wrestling so who the gently caress knows you can do whatever you want. Either the match gets restarted and we're on until we get a winner, we do a three-way in the finals, they run back Kenny/Okada during the finals and the winner faces the A Block winner, Kojima wins the block just because, who knows. Vince comes on the TV screen laughs evilly and states the winner of the block is Roman and the G1 is his yard
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Aug 2, 2017 23:17
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Vince comes on the TV screen laughs evilly and states the winner of the block is Roman and the G1 is his yard Vince playing Gedo to Roman would probably actually get him over.
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Aug 2, 2017 23:29
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ICHIBAHN posted:Naito question: did he turn face on a specific show or just gradually? Also, when did he change his suit to a red one and does he still wear the mask? If not, why not? He’s never really turned face, it’s just his “gently caress off” persona has hit off really big with audiences and keeps getting more and more popular as he goes. Unless he’s in Osaka, where they’ll boo the poo poo out of him just because. He only brings out the mask for big shows. So when he’s in the finals, he’ll probably wear one - and then the next time will be at KOPW in October.
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Aug 2, 2017 23:37
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Awesome, that's what i thought. Cheers. When did he debut the mask n suit?
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Aug 2, 2017 23:44
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It was before the G1 a couple years ago. He spent a month in CMLL hanging out with Los Ingobernables
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Super No Vacancy posted:he's not really a face, LIJ is arguably the second-most-heel faction after suzuki-gun Anyone who thinks LIJ is more heel than Bullet Club after the death of Daryl at the hands of the coward Bad Luck Fale should be blocked and reported Seriously though based on how they're getting booked throughout G1 matchups, LIJ are definitely less heel than Bullet Club, who are in turn less heel than Suzukigun
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Aug 3, 2017 00:21
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Yeah it's worth remembering even Fale both worked the face pop spot during the Omega/Suzuki match and was the subtle babyface in the match with ZSJ. The alignment line def goes Main Force - CHAOS - LIJ - Bullet Club - Suzukigun this year.
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Aug 3, 2017 00:26
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Omega's definitely more of a face than EVIL, SANADA, and BUSHi, but Hiromu also presents himself more sympathetically than the BC B team. Read his statements to Kawato after that one match on the last tour. Really, aside from Suzuki-gun alignment is kinda amorphous. Guys like Tana can be pricks when the occasion calls for it and while he's still best defined as a cool heel they're happy to have Naito get cheered and sell t-shirts. Unless you're in Suzuki-gun you better be able to work both ways when the situation calls for it. If you want to do a scale: Main Force - CHAOS- ELITE - LIJ - Rest of BC - Suzuki-gun
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Aug 3, 2017 00:46
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The crowd seem to really love when Naito heels it up. It seems to me the logic of the booking doesn't adhere to strict heel/face binaries and just goes with what gets heat. Then again I don't know poo poo about Japanese pro-wrestling so whatever.
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When your presented in more of a sports way of wrestling you can be more loose in Face/Heal and change as the town demands it
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It is much much much more fluid than WWE, and allowing people in the middle (LIJ/Bullet Club) to work either way definitely allows them to be more interesting than just one-note heels. I'd go with Skinty's ladder but put LIJ and BC as equals heel-wise.
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Aug 3, 2017 01:24
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can we count the elite as a separate force from bullet club so their gigantic babyface popularity outside of japan doesn't throw off the scale like, nobody's wearing a bullet club shirt because there's a big hangman page or tonga loa fan
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Aug 3, 2017 02:24
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The G1 Climax 27 will be remembered as one thing and one thing only — the coming out party of future ace, King of Darkness EVIL. If, and I mean IF, it is remembered for a second thing, it will be the best tournament workrate wise in history.
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Aug 3, 2017 03:33
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Aug 3, 2017 03:35
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A lot of guys I was cool on are impressing me this G1. SANADA and EVIL are both really impressing me and Yoshi-Hashi is a guy that I still don't really like but the more I see him the more I want to.
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harperdc posted:It is much much much more fluid than WWE, and allowing people in the middle (LIJ/Bullet Club) to work either way definitely allows them to be more interesting than just one-note heels. Guys tend to stay true to their characters regardless of the role, so the fluidity is logical. Compare to WWE which to a degree tries to do the same "there are no more faces or heels" dynamic; WWE struggles with this because characters are a lot more bipolar. Example: Tanahashi is generally a good guy, loves the fans, etc., but it's not out of character for him to flex the ego a bit and be cocky when he goes up against someone lower on the card. This lets him heel it up in the match and get a ton of heat without confusing fans as to what they should be doing (booing, cheering, whatever).
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They are on such an amazing run right now. For every person they lose to injury or to the WWE someone steps up their game immensely like Evil or some ridiculous talent emerges like Hiromu.
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