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i saw honma is on guest commentary, i'm guessing he's the guy who sounds like a hungover dying guy
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Jerusalem posted:If Omega beats Okada, then that means their record would be 1-1-1 which would be a great selling point for a Wrestle Kingdom title match tie-breaker. But at the same time, I do think it would be good to change things up a little and Naito winning and facing either Okada or Omega at WK would be great too. It's why I really didn't like the idea of Okada/Omega 3 coming in the G1 and so soon after their broadway, because none of the three outcomes really help if you're trying to keep both men strong and get to Okada/Naito at Wrassle Kingdome. Okada wins, he's 2-0-1 against Kenny this calendar year and beating him in a 30m time limit match basically kills off the feud. You can rehab Kenny for later but it's a lot of work to redo something you've just done. A 30m tie wouldn't be bad except it'll come off as a wet fart after they just ran a 60m tie. It means Okada's now 1-0-2 and really nothing has changed and it renders the whole thing kinda pointless. Omega wins, it's now 1-1-1 but either you've got to now run Okada/Omega a 4th time in less than a year, and if you want Kenny to win the belt but still run Okada/Naito for the belt at the Dome you'll need a 5th match and more belt hot-shotting. You could kinda get around this by Kenny saying that he's busy with the US belt and he'll get his main title runback once he's done defending that, but then you're telegraphing Kenny holding the US belt for the rest of the year and into 2018. Still it's probably the best option and I still think Kenny winning in like <5 minutes with the OWA to really cement it as a death move would be hilarious and really gutsy. The counter to all this is the assumption that Okada/Naito at the Dome isn't the plan, but Naito needs a payoff of an extended title run to cement his top-guy status and why take the IC belt off him if a main belt run isn't in the cards. Plus Okada's basically held the belt for the past two years minus a quick hotshot to Naito, he needs to take a step back for a while and go into chase mode.
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I mean I think the idea of Kenny beating Okada in G1, Naito beating Kenny in the finals, and Naito beating Okada at the dome works so well precisely because it's a very poetic way for Okada's arc as champion and undisputed ace to come to an end for now. All this year he's been defined as someone who has so much passion and fire that he gives 110% every time he comes out even if it's wearing his body down and exhausting him in the long term, and the wars that he's had with Omega are the clearest representation of that. For Okada to fall to the guy whose philosophy is all about relaxing, not rushing it, and spitting on self-destructive cultural expectations, right when it seems like the Tryhard Wars between he and Kenny are coming to their glorious climax... that would be perfect!
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Plus I think for Okada/Omega 4 you really want Kenny coming in as IWGP champ to give the mTlatch a different feel. Naito getting a 4-6 month reign and than Kenny winning it makes perfect sense. Plus Naito/Kenny would be a great match to run in a bigger US building while saving Okada/Omega 4 for the dome
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phew, yoshi-hashi and goto? really gonna test my patience with this one, g1
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Plus I think for Okada/Omega 4 you really want Kenny coming in as IWGP champ to give the mTlatch a different feel. Naito getting a 4-6 month reign and than Kenny winning it makes perfect sense. Plus Naito/Kenny would be a great match to run in a bigger US building while saving Okada/Omega 4 for the dome this is what i would do and they seem to like doing that april title change to freshen things up for the new year. omega over okada in the g1, naito over omega, naito over okada at the dome, kenny over naito at SAKURA GENESIS and then you have a fresh angle for the second okada/omega series
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shiksa posted:i saw honma is on guest commentary, i'm guessing he's the guy who sounds like a hungover dying guy
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I'd rather listen to Matt Striker than Honma ever again. Also Fale/Ishii was probably match of the night for me. Amazing storytelling.
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Honma sounds like a pickup truck full of gravel tumbling into a rock quarry. I think there's been video before of the other NJPW guys making fun of how hard it is to understand him.
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(1) Katsuya Kitamura vs. Chase Owens (2) Yuji Nagata, Tomoyuki Oka & Shota Umino vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & El Desperado (3) Togi Makabe, Tiger Mask IV & Hirai Kawato vs. Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi (4) Hirooki Goto & Jado vs. Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi (5) Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi & David Finlay vs. Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI & Gedo (6) G1 B BLOCK MATCH: Toru Yano vs. Tama Tonga (7) G1 B BLOCK MATCH: Satoshi Kojima vs. SANADA (8) G1 B BLOCK MATCH: Michael Elgin vs. Minoru Suzuki (9) G1 B BLOCK MATCH: Juice Robinson vs. Kenny Omega (10) G1 B BLOCK MATCH: Kazuchika Okada vs. EVIL I'm looking forward to Elgin vs Suzuki. Giant Murderbaby fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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oatgan posted:evil shouldn't be wrestling As in he probably won't be wrestling or that they shouldn't let him?
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EVIL is going to beat Okada and I'm glad of it
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kojima is going to get his one win off of my son and i'm pissed off
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I'm looking forward to seeing how Tama Tonga reacts to Yano's antics. I have a feeling he's not gonna be having any of it  Jenny Angel posted:For Okada to fall to the guy whose philosophy is all about relaxing, not rushing it, and spitting on self-destructive cultural expectations, right when it seems like the Tryhard Wars between he and Kenny are coming to their glorious climax... that would be perfect! gently caress yeah okay that's what I want to happen now.
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I just want Tama to come up with new, innovative strings of curse words with every roll up that Yano catches him in
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Giant Murderbaby posted:As in he probably won't be wrestling or that they shouldn't let him? they shouldn't let him
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Thanks for this. I can't do my spreadsheet since my computer's hosed. Just want to add that it's in Osaka so the crowd should be hot and that it starts a half hour earlier than most shows at 5:00 EDT/10:00 BSTGiant Murderbaby posted:(1) Katsuya Kitamura vs. Chase Owens
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oatgan posted:they shouldn't let him I agree. The fact that he showed up for the six man in the last show is making me think he will be in the match tonight.
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cams posted:i found his voice disgusting and nearly unlistenable. this was a new experience for me and i did not like it. if you imagine it's Jabba the Hut from the Star Wars films his commentary becomes really enjoyable.
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Chase Owens blew off a tour through western canada for this match and this match alone E: oh right he's been in like all the multiman matches whoops
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It's Saturday which is probably why the show is starting earlier. Also, https://twitter.com/njpw1972/status/892934622727725056 If you have Arena A or B seats at Sumo Hall for next Sunday's G1 Finals, you'll get one of the above NJPW pillows. As always in Sumo Hall, those aren't really seats - instead, they're four-seat tatatami style boxes, so sitting on a pillow is a requirement.
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if any of you folks want to whoop the rear end Of someone like me while youre waiting around for some of this "king's road Devonshire style puroresu" then you know which direction to holler in. you know in which direction to holler.
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Catching up on the G1 holy poo poo EVIL was out, red shoes should have just counted that pin when his arm was under the rope
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Jenkem Delivery posted:Catching up on the G1 holy poo poo EVIL was out, red shoes should have just counted that pin when his arm was under the rope yeah knowing that he was for real hurt bad, him shambling around before kenny picked him up for the owa was truly scary.
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poo poo, the show's actually a 4:00 EDT/9:00 BST instead of 5. My apologies
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Oh man Chase Owens is so hosed.
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I cannot wait for Kitamura to do his excursion. Either he'll go to America and hoss it with Cage and Cobb, or he'll go to Mexico and do all the steroids.
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Yano is so good
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TORU loving YANO
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algebra testes posted:Yano is so good
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The best part of that is how the crowd didn't believe it until a second after the pin!!!
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Lol what the gently caress happened there?
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I love that there is a "Quinton Jackson Armbar Spot", like that it's an actually wrestling spot now.
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JUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE
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algebra testes posted:JUICE
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