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Not a surprise but kind of disastrous for wrestling. All Japan are meant to be running their biggest show in years on the 15th in Ota Ward, obviously New Japan have their Tokyo Dome show, SEAdLINNNG & Stardom have Korakuen show scheduled for the 12th & 14th respectively & NOAH have an Ota Ward Gym show on the 30th. Goes without saying that preventing people dying is far more important than the bottom lines of wrestling companies mind. Probably this should be the norm until Japan actually gets its finger out and starts vaccinating people at a reasonable rate.
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May 6, 2021 12:21
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Sucks for those shows, but as people have said it's depressingly necessary. The CyberFight promotions have done pretty good Korakuen Hall no crowd shows over the last week, but I think DDT and TJPW have a bit of an advantage there as they're more geared towards unorthodox presentation. Can't imagine what New Japan will do with an empty Dome show.
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Franky New Japan should just scrap the dome show all together. What's the point of running Tokyo Dome if it's limited to 5,000 max anyways?
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Knowing how dire the situation can get in Japan I wonder if NJPW is running these big-venue events out of desperation to recoup the loss in revenue last year, which just bit them back as cases start to ramp up again. The Dome shows feel completely unnecessary and they'd be undercutting Dominion at best. I'm really sorry that this has to happen but I would rather have zero wrestler/staff deaths from COVID than them risking it. The virus can really end you regardless of your physical condition if you so happen to be unlucky. That said I haven't heard a Japanese promotion have a literal COVID outbreak on their hands, so congrats to them for doing the bare minimum...
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gently caress, I didn't even consider the Hana Kimura memorial show.....this sucks.
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Lily Catts posted:Knowing how dire the situation can get in Japan I wonder if NJPW is running these big-venue events out of desperation to recoup the loss in revenue last year, which just bit them back as cases start to ramp up again. The Dome shows feel completely unnecessary and they'd be undercutting Dominion at best. Not an outbreak, but New Japan just this week had 2 wrestlers test positive.
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Saki Akai/Chris Brookes match will be free soon. https://twitter.com/ddtpro/status/1390232823705919492?s=20
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I did saw anyone talking about this, so I will bring it up. At first, I thought it was a joke, but since multiple sources bring it up, I assume it's real. Atsushi Onita launches new wrestling promotion, FMWE, which exclusively only does “explosion” matches. The company's inaugural show 'Independence Day' will be held on July 4 at the Tsurumi Fruit and Vegetable Market in Yokohama and FMWE plans to distribute the event worldwide. Onita noted in a press conference that the mainstay of the promotion will be Exploding Deathmatches and cited the Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch between Kenny Omega and Jon Moxley as the reason for starting the new company. "More than one million people around the world saw the Current Bombing Deathmatch that AEW held in Florida, USA. I received many requests from people who saw it, saying, 'I really want to see Onita's current bombing. The first time I did an explosion 30 years ago, it shocked everyone who saw it. When I went to the US, I received thousands of requests from people who wanted to see a real electric current explosion. In this situation, I had a dream that I wanted to realise in the United States. At the Corona disaster, my dream grew and grew, and I decided to give it a try, to take action, and to take the first step. I met President Kajiki at a wrestling venue and I thought I could work with him." Sources: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ff0e81422d3ac94706509c04a283b9cb12669bb7 https://cultaholic.com/posts/atsushi-onita-launches-new-promotion
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I'm imagining a "human reverse mortgage" scenario where Onita sells tickets years in advance for his funeral, which would be capped off by his coffin exploding. Not even satire, he would 100% do it if he got the idea.
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Ditch posted:I'm imagining a "human reverse mortgage" scenario where Onita sells tickets years in advance for his funeral, which would be capped off by his coffin exploding. It'll be like a Ferengi funeral.
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State of emergency till end of may https://twitter.com/nikkeiasia/status/1390333046948237316?s=21
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TV Zombie posted:State of emergency till end of may So that's Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya & Fukuoka all without fans. Interesting that the prefectures around Tokyo like Saitama & Kanagawa haven't been added yet.
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May 6, 2021 23:13
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I just hope CyberFest escapes this.
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Japan has a lot going for it (island nation; long-standing cultural support for anti-pandemic measures), but between the low vaccination level, average age, and insane density, they have every reason to be cautious.
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They also have a lot of issues around vaccination in general not just the low rate (vaccine trust is low because of a couple of lawsuits in the 90s and 00s, laws about not importing vaccines and having to manufacture it in japan itself.) i don’t expect things to get back to the before times until 2022 at the earliest. Did see that the latest SoE rolled back “big events” to 5000/50%, but it’s a venue call, so it’ll be interesting to see which ones reopen and which ones don’t. I know DG had so many shows that they cancelled and had to reshuffle King of Gate that I don’t know how they are going to do this without doing empty arena tapings in Kobe like 2020.
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This is how you advertise the CyberFest show https://twitter.com/the_leave_p/status/1390438087268855815?s=20 (loving drooling at the prospect of Jun vs Go now, drat you CyberFight. Last singles match was 2015)
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Forgot to do the schedule yesterday but uhhhh, there's not much 8/5/2021, Saturday 11am JST/1pm AEDT/3am BST/10pm EST/7pm PST New Japan Collision 2021 Oceanview Pavilion, Port Hueneme Adrian Quest & Barrett Brown vs Kevin Knight & The DKC Jordan Clearwater vs Misterioso vs Royce Isaacs Chris Dickinson & Jon Moxley vs Ren Narita & Yuji Nagata Live on NJPW World 2pm JST/4pm AEDT/6am BST/1am EST/10pm PST Ice Ribbon #1116 Ice Ribbon Dojo, Saitama Budou vs Mochi Miyagi Cherry vs Ibuki Hoshi Akane Fujita & Suzu Suzuki vs Maya Yukihi & Thekla Rina Shingaki vs Risa Sera Mochi Miyahi & Totoro Satsuki vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Tsukushi Haruka Live on NicoNico Also shows by Big Japan & Colega 9/5/2021, Sunday 11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/3:30am BST/10:30pm EST/7:30pm PST DDT Ultimate Tag League 2021 In Korakuen Hall Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Hideki Okatani vs Toi Kojima Akito & Keigo Nakamura vs Danshoku Dieno & Super Sasadango Machine vs Kazuki Hirata & Toru Owashi vs Sanshiro Takagi & Yukio Naya Damnation (Mad Paulie, Soma Takao & Tetsuya Endo) vs Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi & Saki Akai) & Yuki Iino Yukio Sakaguchi vs Yusuke Okada HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura vs MAO & Yuki Ueno Ultimate Tag League 2021: Antonio Honda & Chris Brookes vs Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi Ultimate Tag League 2021: Daisuke Sasaki & Yuji Hino vs Konosuke Takeshita & Shunma Katsumata Live on Wrestle Universe Shows from Ice Ribbon, Big Japan, 2AW, Kyushu Pro, Marvelous & Oz Academy 10/5/2021, Monday 1pm JST/3pm AEDT/5am BST/12am EST/9pm PST DDT Ultimate Tag League 2021 In Wrestle Universe Unknown Venue Ultimate Tag League 2021: Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi vs Konosuke Takeshita Ultimate Tag League 2021: Antonio Honda & Chris Brookes vs Daisuke Sasaki & Yuji Hino Live on Wrestle Universe Also show from Colega 11/5/2021, Tuesday Nothing but Colega 12/5/2021, Wednesday 10am JST/12pm AEDT/2am BST/9pm EST/6pm PST Gatoh Move ChocoPro 115 Chris Brookes, Drew Parker & Yuna Mizumori vs Pencil Army (Emi Sakura, Lulupencil & Minoru Fujita Live on Youtube 6pm JST/8pm AEDT/10am BST/5am EST/2am PST SEAdLINNNG Korakuen Hall Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Ayame Sasamura & Rico Kaiju vs Rina Yamashita & Yumiko Hotta BEYOND THE SEA Tag Team Titles: Citrus Wind (Arisa Nakajima & Nanae Takahashi)(c) vs Las Fresa de Egoista (Asuka & Makoto) Rest of card TBA Unfortunately I've seen nothing about if this is going to go ahead or not on social media so I'll list it anyway Also Colega & Tenryu Project shows (potentially) 13/5/2021, Thursday Colega 14/5/2021, Friday Shows from Colega, Sendai Girls & Stardom. Stardom show is the 2nd round of the Cinderella tournament & I have no idea if it'll go ahead with no fans.
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May 30th Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial 2021 ~ Forever in our hearts ~ Card Keiji Muto & Masato Tanaka vs Naomichi Marufuji & Masakatsu Funaki Atsushi Kotoge (c) vs Yuya Susumu | GHC Junior Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA (c) vs Daisuke Harada & Hajime Ohara | GHC Junior Tag Seiki Yoshioka vs YO-HEY Takashi Sugiura (c) vs Kazushi Sakuraba | GHC National More TBA ═══════════════ I'm really looking foward for this one. Junior tag and National title matches should be really good.
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Lily Catts posted:Knowing how dire the situation can get in Japan I wonder if NJPW is running these big-venue events out of desperation to recoup the loss in revenue last year, which just bit them back as cases start to ramp up again. The Dome shows feel completely unnecessary and they'd be undercutting Dominion at best. That is 100 % why they are running the amount of shows that they are. I also am operating under the theory that venues are offering booking fee reductions based on what venues all promotions are booking so they are also trying to cash in on that But yeah they will be chasing lost ticket sales for the next few years at a minimum
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Stardom running the Budokan is proof building fees are down as even if Bushiroad is spending to grow it that's normally a huge leap in building and cost
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I don't know if the numbers on Cagematch are accurate, but if they are, STARDOM outdrew NJPW at the Budokan. As well they should, that was a great card.
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poo poo, I missed what sounded like a great opening night of the tag league 
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Jerusalem posted:poo poo, I missed what sounded like a great opening night of the tag league Yeah I thought it loving ruled. Sauna boys went nuts and Okada had another standout match, plus it was great seeing Yoshimura hasn't lost a step from his injury. No crowd obviously hurt it but DDT are one of the best companies at working around restrictions. Oh, and also we had another authority member getting lovely at the wrestlers, this time it was the head of the Korakuen staff reprimanding Takagi SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 9, 2021 |
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Watching the NOAH Korakuen from 18/4 & I gotta shout out Fujita & Kashin vs Sugi & Saku because it went from 0-100 extreme violence with Sugi & Kaz slapping the bejesus outta each other. loving rad. Very excited to catch up to their singles match
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NOAH reminds me a lot of old timey UFC, which is pretty cool. They even got oldman Mutoh's wrestlefucking over. Masa Kitamiya got to toss him around quite a bit too. Mutoh's wizards still look like he's just hypnotizing people with his knee tho.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZanAFTxR1B4 Dropping you some 3 hours of background music for this Monday. Legendary themes from 70s to the present day. Really love how the creator of the mix has paid attention to the flow of the songs, having Makabe's theme go into Harashima, Nagata flowing into Akiyama etc.
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Dragon Gate's annual King of Gate tournament was due to have started on the 7th at Korakuen (with further shows on the 8th & 9th), but couldn't happen with everything going down. Instead they'll be running a catch-up no-fans show this Friday on the Network. 14/5/2021, Friday 3pm JST/5pm AEDT/7am BST/2am EST/11pm PST Dragon Gate King of Gate Night 1 Unconfirmed Venue King of Gate Block B: Dragon Kid vs SB KENTo King of Gate Block C: HYO vs Kaito Ishida King of Gate Block B: Eita vs Jason Lee King of Gate Block A: Ben-K vs Naruki Doi King of Gate Block C: Keisuke Okuda vs U-T King of Gate Block A: BxB Hulk vs Takashi Yoshida King of Gate Block B: Kzy vs Susumu Yokosuka King of Gate Block A: Diamante vs Kota Minoura King of Gate Block C: Shun Skywalker vs YAMATO Live on DG Network The tournament format is as follows: 3 blocks of 6 wrestlers, 2 points for a win, 1 for a time limit draw, 0 for a loss, no contest or double countout. Winners of each block goes into the semi-finals on June 3rd at Korakuen along with the winner of a last chance battle royal held in Hiroshima on May 30th (I'm not clear on how many of the defeated wrestlers will be in the Battle Royal). Then the winners of those 2 matches meet on the same night to decide the King of Gate, with the winner likely to get a Open The Dream Gate Title shot at some point (probably at Kobe World Hall in July, biggest show of the year for the company). A Block Ben-K (High End) BxB Hulk (RED) Diamante (RED) Kota Minoura (Masquerade) Naruki Doi (Unattached) Takashi Yoshida (Unattached) B Block Dragon Kid (High End) Eita (RED) Jason Lee (Masquerade) Kzy (Natural Vibes) SB KENTo (RED) Susumu Yokosuka (Natural Vibes) C Block HYO (RED) Kaito Ishida (RED) Keisuke Okuda (High End) Shun Skywalker (Masquerade) U-T (Natural Vibes) YAMATO (High End)
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I'd almost nom it for an HM but Masao Inoue vs. Takashi Sugiura is such a weird gem of a match(card: https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=310375&page=2), I doubt it'd catch anyone's fancy. Inoue defiantly keeps his feet under the most withering punishment Takashi Suigiura can dish out. I will always pop for middle aged dudes blasting each other. They've been doing this match since 2010 so there's quite a bit of story behind it, which is always fun. IIRC their last encounter they tried to make it a more straight faced affair but Inoue's physically pretty ate up. So this time they played with that, blowing Inoue up by making him run all the ropes. This naturally breaks down into a straight beating including a really gnarly looking knee from Sugiura.
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Glad we're still going to get those King of Gate matches at least, especially the Shun/YAMATO match which I've been waiting for since Shun got the Dream Gate, but Dragon Gate losing the May Korakuen again really hurts. It's always a super important one as it's basically the immediate fallout to DoA and the first step on the road to Kobe World, and with it being the kick-off to King of Gate, you're always guaranteed 2 or 3 MOTYCs. COVID sucks.
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https://twitter.com/ajrockstarv/status/1392132625842671622?s=19 This is being advertised in today's ShuPro and this seems to be the first anyone has heard of it.
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:https://twitter.com/ajrockstarv/status/1392132625842671622?s=19 Wait, aren't NEXTREAM defending the Tag belts on that show? Well, were, just checked the AJPW website and the show is postponed until June 26th. Makes sense
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https://twitter.com/hardhitpro/status/1392162590449602563?s=20 Hard Hit vs GLEAT/Lidet UWF is a natural fit really. Very excited for this.
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Atsushi Onita: “I complied my idea of deathmatch into shape. I will announce tomorrow about the ultimate deathmatch on July 4th. What kind of evolution will it make? FMW and I are like zombies, no matter how many times we die, we will back to live.”
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forkboy84 posted:Wait, aren't NEXTREAM defending the Tag belts on that show? This is an Amazon Prime thing
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FatBagzJones posted:Atsushi Onita: “I complied my idea of deathmatch into shape. I will announce tomorrow about the ultimate deathmatch on July 4th. What kind of evolution will it make? FMW and I are like zombies, no matter how many times we die, we will back to live.” There's only one thing I get excited about on July 4th and it's the GCW backyard show
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https://twitter.com/Hi5ame/status/1392391785159217152
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I forgive the death of Anti-Wrestlers Alliance because the Funky Express crew is the best. Keep your daughters away from Saito
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Atsushi Onita explained the concept for the first FMW-E main event: two sides of the ring will have exploding barbed wire, there will be 2 barbed wire current blast bats and a barbed wire barricade mat mine blast (8 mines) will be installed on one side on the floor. In addition, a newly developed barbed wire current blast table will be used
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