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MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

He's going to do it by big leaguing them and wrestling in NJPW instead though

Bushiroad getting the money for that Omega/Ibushi match instead of him definitely seems like enough to make Takagi cry.

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ItohRespectArmy
Sep 11, 2019

Cutest In The World, Six Time DDT Ironheavymetalweight champion, Two Time International Princess champion, winner of two tournaments, a Princess Tag Team champion, And a pretty good singer too!
"When I was an idol, I felt nothing every day but now that I'm a pro wrestler I'm in pain constantly!"

SLUM KING posted:

I subbed to DDT universe at the start of January and I thought I got the free trial month but they’ve charged me twice in February. Is this normal?

i've never had this happen before to me, is it your first time signing up for DDT universe? if not then you don't get your free month.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

It might be a glitch on their end from them changing their billing details? I looked through my bank statement to check it out and the payment was listed as DDT PRO-WRESTLING going back to April last year and WRESTLE UNIVERSE this month. Interestingly they didn't charge me for September 2020 and charged me twice in October to make up for it, so maybe theres a credit on your account somewhere you can get a refund on if you're not planning on sticking around.

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


Takashi Sugiura's 20th anniversary show is on Wrestle Universe now. It's from December but looks pretty good in a Korakuen House Show way. https://www.ddtpro.com/universe/videos/9662

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


20/2/2021, Saturday

11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/2:30am GMT/9:30pm EST/6:30pm PST

Ice Ribbon RE:BORN2021
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Hamuko Hoshi, Miku Aono & Nao Ishikawa vs Satsuki Totoro, Ibuki Hoshi & Banny Oikawa
Tsukushi Haruki & Tae Honma vs Thekla & Yuki Mashiro
Suzu Suzuku vs Yuko Miyamoto
Chairman Ram, Hiroyo Matsumoto & Saori Anou vs Hiragi Kurumi, Mochi Miyagi & Akane Fujita
FantastICE Title: Risa Sera(c) vs Itsuki Aoki
International Ribbon Tag Titles: Rebel X Enemy (Maya Yukihi & Maika Ozaki)(c) vs Joint Army (Cherry & Matsuya Uno)
ICEx ∞ Title: Tsukasa Fujimoto(c) vs Rina Yamashita
Live on iPPV for ¥3,500

12pm JST/2pm AEDT/3am GMT/10pm EST/7pm PST

NJPW USA New Beginning USA 2021
Adrian Quest, Misterioso & Rocky Romero vs Barrett Brown, The DKC & Rey Horus
Fred Rosser vs Hikuleo
El Phantasmo vs Lio Rush
Live on NJPW World

Tokyo Joshi Pro Winter ~LOVERS~
Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo
Max Heart Tournament First Round: Haruna Neko & Pom Harajuku vs Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi
Max Heart Tournament First Round: Arisu Endo & Moka Miyamoto vs Mahiro Kiryu & Yuki Kamifuku
Max Heart Tournament First Round: Mizuki & Yuka Sakazaki vs Nodoka Tenma & Yuki Aino
Max Heart Tournament First Round: Marika Kobashi & Raku vs Mei Saint-Michel & Sakisama
Hyper Misao, Maki Itoh, Miyu Yamashita & Shoko Nakajima vs Hikari Noa, Mirai Maiumi, Sena Shiori & Suzume
Live on Wrestle Universe

12:30pm JST/2:30pm AEDT/3:30am GMT/10:30pm EST/7:30pm PST

Stardom
Shin-Kiba 1st RING, Tokyo
Lady C vs Tam Nakano
Unagi Sayaka vs Himeka
Donna Del Mondo (Giulia, Maika, Natsupoi & Syuri) vs Queen's Quest (AZM, Momo Watanabe, Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita)
Future of Stardom Title: Saya Iida(c) vs Honori Hana
Oedo Tai (Bea Priestley, Konami, Natsuko Tora & Saki Kashima) vs STARS (Gokigen ☆, Mayu Iwatani, Ruaka & Starlight Kid)
Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World

5:30pm JST/7:30pm AEDT/8:30am GMT/3:30am EST/12:30am PST

DDT This Is Our 9thNatsimasu Party!
Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo
Keigo Nakamura vs Yusuke Okada
Antonio Honda, Gota Ihashi & Toru Iwashi vs Chris Brookes, Toi Kojima & Yukio Naya
Akito & Kazuki Hirata vs Danshoku Dieno & Sanshiro Takagi
ALL OUT! (Shunma Katsumata & Yuki Iino) vs DAMNATION (Mad Paulie & Yuji Hino)
DAMNATION (Daisuke Sasaki, Soma Takao & Tetsuya Endo) vs Junretsu (Hideki Okatani, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi)
HARASHIMA, Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi vs Konosuke Takeshita, MAO & Yuki Ueno
Live on Wrestle Universe

6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST

All Japan Excite Series
Nagoya Congress Centre, Nagoya
Daimonji Takashi, Ryoji Sai & Yoshitatsu vs Jake Lee, Ryuki Honda & TAJIRI
Francesco Akira vs Yuma Aoyagi
Black Menso~re, Shuji Ishikawa & Takao Omori vs Enfants Terribles (Hokuto Omori, Kuma Arashi & Shotaro Ashino)
Evolution (Dan Tamura, Hikaru Sato & Suwama) vs NEXTREAM (Atsuki Aoyagi, Kento Miyahara & Rising Hayato)
All Asia Tag Titles: Purple Haze (Izanagi & Zeus)(c) vs Purple Haze (Shigehiro Irie & UTAMARO)
AJPW Junior Heavyweight Title: Koji Iwamoto(c) vs CIMA
Live on AJPW TV

Also shows from Colega & BJW

21/2/2021, Sunday

12pm JST/2pm AEDT/3am GMT/10pm EST/7pm PST

Tokyo Joshi Pro Winter ~Lovers~
Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo
Max Heart Tournament Second Round: Match 1 winner vs Maki Itoh & Miyu Yamashita
Max Heart Tournament Second Round: Match 2 winner vs Hikari Noa & Sena Shiori
Max Heart Tournament Second Round: Match 3 winner vs Hyper Misao & Shoko Nakajima
Max Heart Tournament Second Round: Match 4 winner vs Mirai Maiumi & Suzume
Live on Wrestle Universe

12:30pm JST/2:30pm AEDT/3:30am GMT/10:30pm EST/7:30pm PST

Stardom
Shin-Kiba 1st RING, Tokyo
Donna Del Mondo (Himeka & Maika) vs Lady C & Tam Nakano
Donna Del Mondo (Giulia, Natsupoi & Syuri) vs Oedo Tai (Bea Priestley, Natsuko Tora & Saki Kashima)
Queen's Quest (AZM, Momo Watanabe, Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita) vs STARS (Mayu Iwatani, Ruaka, Saya Iida & Starlight Kid)
Konami vs Unagi Sayaka
The Stardom Rumble
Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World

1pm JST/3pm AEDT/4am GMT/11pm EST/8pm PST

DDT DDT Doesn't Know Gunma Yet
YAMADA Green Dome Maebashi Sub-Event Area, Maebashi
Daisuke Sasaki vs Keigo Nakamura
MAO & Shunma Katsumata vs Yukio Naya & Yukio Sakaguchi
Chris Brookes & Toi Kojima vs Yuki Ueno & Yusuke Okada
Danshoku Dieno vs Kazuki Hirata vs Toru Owashi
Antonio Honda, HARASHIMA & Kazusada Higuchi vs DAMNATION (Soma Takao, Tetsuya Endo & Yuji Hino)
ALL OUT (Akito, Konosuke Takeshita & Yuki Iino) vs Junretsu (Hideki Okatani, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi)
Uploaded to Wrestle Universe 24/2

5pm JST/7pm AEDT/8am GMT/3am EST/12am PST

Dragon Gate Truth Gate 2021
KBS Hall, Kyoto
Natural Vibes (Genki Horiguchi, Kzy, Susumu Yokosuka & UT) vs RED (BxB Hulk, Eita, KAI & KAZMA SAKAMOTO)
Ben-K & YAMATO vs Gamma & Ultimo Dragon
HYO vs Shun Skywalker
Dragon Kid & Keisuke Okuda vs RED (Kaito Ishida & SB KENTo)
Open The Triangle Gate Title Number 1 Contender Tournament: Semi-Finals Tonight, Finals on 23rd. Draw made on the night.
Masquerade (Jason Lee, Kota Minoura & La Estrella)
RED (Dia Inferno, Diamante & HipHop Kikuta)
Team Boku (Bokutimo Dragon, Punch Tominaga & Ryo Saito
Kagetora, Shuji Kondo & Yosuke ♡ Santa Maria
Live on DG Network

6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST

NOAH Step Forward 2021
Sendai PIT, Sendai
Haoh vs Yasutaka Yano
Kinya Okada & YO-HEY vs Muhammad Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi
Kongo (Masa Kitamiya & Tadasuke) vs Sugiuragun (NOSAWA Rongai & Takashi Sugiura)
Hajime Ohara vs Kenoh
Atsushi Kotoge & Kaito Kiyomiya vs Naomichi Marufuji & Seiki Yoshioka
Daisuke Harada, Go Shiozaki & Yoshiki Inamura vs Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya & Nioh)
Uploaded to Wrestle Universe 24/2

All Japan Excite Series
Kira Messe Numazu, Numazu
Rising HAYATO vs TAJIRI
Purple Haze (Izanagi & Zeus) vs Ryuki Honda & Yoshitatsu
Francesco Akira & Shuji Ishikawa vs JIN (Jake Lee & Koji Iwamoto)
Suwama vs UTAMARO
Enfants Terribles (Hokuto Omori, Kuma Arashi & Shotaro Ashino) vs NEXTREAM (Atsuki Aoyagi, Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi)
AJPW TV 6 Man Titles: Black Menso~re, Carbell Ito & Takao Omori(c) vs Dan Tamura, Hikaru Sato & Konaka
Uploaded to AJPW TV as a VOD later

Also shows from 2AWxFreedoms, 2AW, Oz Academy, Zero1, JWP, Dove Pro & Ganbare

22/2/2021, Monday

6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST

New Japan Road To Castle Attack
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Gabriel Kidd, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay)
Bullet Club (Chase Owens, Jado, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) vs CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, SHO, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI)
Bullet Club (El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori & Yujiro Takahashi) vs LIJ (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi)
Kota Ibushi & Tomoaki Honma vs LIJ (SANADA & Tetsuya Naito)
Bullet Club (EVIL & Jay White) vs CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii)
Live on NJPW World

Also Colega Pro

23/2/2021, Tuesday

11:30am JST/1:30pm AEDT/2:30am GMT/9:30pm EST/6:30pm PST

All Japan Excite Series
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Enfants Terribles (Koji Doi, Kuma Arashi & Shotaro Ashino) vs Jake Lee, Koji Iwamoto & TAJIRI)
Jun Kasai & Tomoya Hirata vs Ryuki Honda & Shuji Ishikawa
Alejandro & Francesco Akira vs Purple Haze (Izanagi & Zeus)
Baliyan Akki, Osamu Nishimura & Yoshitatsu vs Black Menso~re, Ryuji Hijikata & Takao Omori
All Asia Tag #1 Contenders Match: Enfants Terribles (Hokuto Omori & Yusuke Kodama) vs Evolution (Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato) vs NEXTREAM (Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising HAYATO)
AJPW World Tag Team Titles: NEXTREAM (Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi)(c) vs Abdullah Kobayashi & Daisuke Sekimoto
Triple Crown Title: Suwama(c) vs Kohei Sato
Live on AJPW TV

12pm JST/2pm AEDT/3am GMT/10pm EST/7pm PST

Big Japan
Shin-Kiba 1st RING, Tokyo
Takuho Kato vs Yuki Morihiro
Kota Sekifuda vs Yuichi Taniguchi
Daichi Hashimoto & Yasufumi Nakanoue vs Yuji Okabayashi & Yuya Aoki
Akira Hyodo, Hideyoshi Kamitani & Kankuro Hoshino vs Jake Numazawa, Minoru Fujita & Yuki Ishikawa
Drew Parker, Masaya Takahashi & Yuko Miyamoto vs Ryuji Ito, Takumi Tsukamoto & Violento Jack
BJW Tag Team Titles: Kazumi Kikuta & Ryuichi Kawakami(c) vs Astronauts (Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura)

1pm JST/3pm AEDT/4am GMT/11pm EST/8pm PST

DDT Friendship, Effort, Victory In Nagoya
Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall, Nagoya
Keigo Nakamura & Toi Kojima vs Hiroshi Yamato & Nobuhiro Shimatani
DAMNATION (Mad Paulie & Soma Takao) vs Toru Owashi & Yukio Naya
Antonio Honda & Saki Akai vs Chris Brookes & Maki Itoh
DAMNATION (Daisuke Sasaki & Tetsuya Endo) vs DDT Sauna Club (Shunma Katsumata & Yuki Ueno)
Junretsu (Hideki Okatani, Jun Akiyama, Makoto Oishi & Yusuke Okada) vs STRONGHEARTS (CIMA, El Lindaman, Shigehiro Irie & T-Hawk)
Yuji Hino vs Yuji Iino
KO-D 6 Man Tag Titles: Akito, Kazuki Hirata & Shota(c) vs Danshoku Dieno, HARASHIMA & Sanshiro Takagi
KO-D Tag Team Titles: Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi)(c) vs DDT Sauna Club (Konosuke Takeshita & MAO)
Live on Wrestle Universe

Stardom
EDION Arena 2, Osaka
Gokigen ☆ vs Ruaka vs Tam Nakano
Giulia vs Lady C
Donna Del Mondo (Natsupoi & Syuri) vs Queen's Quest (AZM & Momo Watanabe)
Donna Del Mondo (Himeka & Maika) vs Queen's Quest (Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita)
Bea Priestley vs Unagi Sayaka
Oedo Tai (Konami, Natsuko Tora & Saki Kashima) vs STARS (Mayu Iwatani, Saya Iida & Starlight Kid)
Show presumably uploaded to Stardom World

5pm JST/7pm AEDT/8am GMT/3am EST/12am PST

Dragon Gate Truth Gate 2021
KBS Hall, Kobe
Card TBA
Live on DG Network

5:30pm JST/7:30pm AEDT/8:30am GMT/3:30am EST/12:30am PST

NOAH Step Forward 2021
YAMADA Green Dome Maebashi Sub-Event Area, Maebashi
Yasutaka Yano vs YO-HEY
Kinya Okada vs Takashi Sugiura
Kngo (Haoh, Nioh & Tadasuke) vs Stinger (HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu)
Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh, Manabu Soya & Masa Kitamiya) vs Kaito Kiyomiya, Muhammad Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi & Yoshiki Inamura
Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada & Go Shiozaki vs Hajime Ohara, Naomichi Marufuji & Seiki Yoshioka
Uploaded to Wrestle Universe 26/2

Also Shows from Sendai Girls, Ice Ribbon & Colega

24/2/2021, Wednesday

6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST

NOAH Step Forward 2021
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Hajime Ohara vs Yasutaka Yano
Kongo (Haoh, Nioh & Tadasuke) vs Muhammad Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi & Yoshiki Inamura
Full Throttle (Seiki Yoshioka & YO-HEY) vs Ikuto Hidaka & Kotaro Suzuki
Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada & Kinya Okada vs Stinger (HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu)
Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh, Manabu Soya & Masa Kitamiya) vs Sugiuragun (Kazushi Sakuraba, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Kashin & Takashi Sugiura)
Daiki Inaba, Go Shiozaki & Kaito Kiyomiya vs M's Alliance (Keiji Mutoh, Masato Tanaka & Naomichi Marufuji)
Live & free on ABEMA

Also shows from Colega & YMZ

25/2/2021, Thursday

6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST

New Japan Road To Castle Attack
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Satoshi Kojima & Yota Tsuji vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay)
Bullet Club (Chase Owens, Dick Togo & EVIL) vs CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, SHO & Toru Yano)
Bullet Club (Jay White, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) vs CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI)
Kota Ibushi, Tomoaki Honma & Yuji Nagata vs LIJ (SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Bullet Club (El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori)(c) vs LIJ (BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi)
Live on NJPW World

Also shows from Basara & Colega

26/2/2021, Friday

12pm JST/2pm AEDT/3am GMT/10pm EST/7pm PST

Hard Hit JEEEP
Near Yamada, Isumi
Daiki Wakamatsu & Dan Tamura vs Francisco Akira & "Ueki Manma" (everyone has been given cute names which Google cannot handle so I can't work out this one)
Hikaru Sato & SUSHI vs Fuminori Abe & Koji Doi
Rambo Kawamura vs Yoshitatsu
It'll air on NicoNico at some point

6pm JST/8pm AEDT/9am GMT/4am EST/1am PST

SEAdLINNNG Shin-Kiba Nights
Shin-Kiba 1st RING, Tokyo
Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Thekla vs AKARI
Itsuki Aoki & Rina Yamashita vs Kaho Kobayashi & Yoshiko
Honori Hana vs Riko Kaiju
Arisa Nakajima, Nane Takahashi & Rie Kawabata vs Asuka, Makoto & Tsukushi Haruki
Assuming this one is on iPPV like other recent Shin-Kiba Nights

6:30pm JST/8:30pm AEDT/9:30am GMT/4:30am EST/1:30am PST

Dragon Gate Truth Gate 2021
Tokiwa Arena, Kobe
Card TBA
Live on DG Network

Also a show from Marvelous

Some really good shows this weekend. Triple Crown defence, IceXInfinity defence, KO-D Tag titles, the Future of Stardom match with Honori Hana in it, Junretsu vs STRONGHEARTS, & I'll certainly enjoy the NOAH house shows.

SLUM KING
Nov 16, 2011

I subbed for a little bit when DDT Universe started up, yeah.

SG Bamboo posted:

It might be a glitch on their end from them changing their billing details? I looked through my bank statement to check it out and the payment was listed as DDT PRO-WRESTLING going back to April last year and WRESTLE UNIVERSE this month. Interestingly they didn't charge me for September 2020 and charged me twice in October to make up for it, so maybe theres a credit on your account somewhere you can get a refund on if you're not planning on sticking around.

Ah cool, as long as it's not gonna be a recurring double billing every month I'm fine

Pinwiz11
Jan 26, 2009

I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.



I am excite for two nights of TJPW.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Finally watching the 14/1 DDT (just in time to fall behind again) and I have to quote directly from Dramatic DDT'S blog

"Kazuki Hirata began dancing unconsciously before the match because he was suffering from withdrawal symptoms after spending some time away from the dance gimmick. When he got to do dance in the ring the enthusiasm was so high that it caused a power outage in the venue. Everyone agreed to use Dieno’s backside as a power supply but the cable was not long enough. The wrestlers agreed to form a human chain from Dieno’s butt to the power source. The plan worked but the power wasn’t enough to bring the electricity back to full surge. Shinya Aoki came up with the solution to do the Hell Gate on Dieno, giving the anal power source the energy Dieno needed to power up the building again. Hirata got to dance..."

With of course copious fart noises over the PA

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Even Akiyama referenced Dino's anal servers during his post match promo, truly the King's Road is as winding as the Way to the GrandMaster

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


I am not sure of the last time a wrestler looked as cool as Yukio Sakaguchi in the pre show presser, with one foot resting on the back of Ueno after flooring him. Ruled.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

I am not sure of the last time a wrestler looked as cool as Yukio Sakaguchi

you could have just stopped the post there

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

https://twitter.com/ddtpro_eng/status/1363043812063371264

The Rules :allears:

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.



This is the dumbest thing I've heard in my life and I love it so much.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Lamuella posted:

This is the dumbest thing I've heard in my life and I love it so much.

I'm hoping it'll be like the the DDT/BJW tournament where they resolved a time limit draw by the first team to get a 1-count. That was tense at gently caress

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

It might be a sign DDT have too many belts (12 active according to cagematch) when Kazuki Hirata is walking out a double champion.

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


It's all kicking off in the Dieno match. https://twitter.com/ddtpro_eng/status/1363050359090937861?s=19

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


https://twitter.com/ddtpro_eng/status/1363074993970499587

"Lemme say I did gently caress around today and I will keep loving around." is some nuclear shitposting energy.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Going from watching a lot of DDT house shows in short order to thus AJPW from the 18th, it really makes it clear how drat much better throwaway DDT shows are. Like, it's not been bad and we've gotten to the semi-main in an hour but it's all very much just there. Not that I blame them really but I dunno, DDT has a much deeper roster I guess.

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


forkboy84 posted:

Going from watching a lot of DDT house shows in short order to thus AJPW from the 18th, it really makes it clear how drat much better throwaway DDT shows are. Like, it's not been bad and we've gotten to the semi-main in an hour but it's all very much just there. Not that I blame them really but I dunno, DDT has a much deeper roster I guess.

I think it's also possible to inject more variety in a humour based wrestling show than a more sports based presentation. In a throwaway AJPW or NJPW show you might get some good matches but if the card is about the same as the last one, the resulting show will be about the same. Whereas even with a similar card the nonsense Dieno or Honda get up to tonight may be entirely different from the night before.

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.
Yeah, DDT gets the reputation of being a comedy promotion. They've also got a lot of traditionally great wrestlers (Always have) in addition to Joshi and garbage/deathmatch wrestlers. Their reputation comes from most of the viral clips out of DDT being things like the Anywhere matches or Ibushi carrying an inanimate sex doll to a 5 star match but DDT has always been pretty serious about trying to highlight every single style of wrestling out there.

With NOAH & TJPW they're really the type of wrestling that WWE fans think the WWE is. The only style I think they're not regularly using is Lucha Libre

ItohRespectArmy
Sep 11, 2019

Cutest In The World, Six Time DDT Ironheavymetalweight champion, Two Time International Princess champion, winner of two tournaments, a Princess Tag Team champion, And a pretty good singer too!
"When I was an idol, I felt nothing every day but now that I'm a pro wrestler I'm in pain constantly!"

DDT really strikes me as a group of people who are constantly trying to one up what they did last time and constantly strive to do new things, I love just randomly putting on a ddt show because you always know you're gona get something weird and entertaining.

just rust
Oct 23, 2012

DDT is the only good Sports Entertainment show.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

just rust posted:

DDT is the only good Sports Entertainment show.

I find ChocoPro very Sports Entertaining.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

just rust posted:

DDT is the only good Sports Entertainment show.

I know it's cool to say New Japan is bad now but it is still a good show.

GEORGE W BUSHI
Jul 1, 2012

MassRafTer posted:

I know it's cool to say New Japan is bad now but it is still a good show.

King of Sports (Entertainment)

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
https://twitter.com/AdamMikeBAN/status/1364055346625597441

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Ohtani is dope but no Yoshida is bewildering to me.

If that's Nomura done then honestly just stick a pin in All Japan, they blew it with Lee, blew it with Ashino barring a miracle, and I don't think Aoyagi is the guy (he's good-not-great imo). The top of their card is Kento, Zeus, Yoshitatsu and Suwama and Shuji, and age has caught up with the latter pair.

Talking of AJPW, watching the Excite Series show in Nagoya with Iwamoto vs CIMA and there is a guy holding up a picture of Kento during his entrance and all I can see is how cross eyed he drew him

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Feb 23, 2021

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Kento may as well just be forever champion if they literally can't build anyone else up to his level

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





I am perfectly okay with Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Yoshitatsu

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Yoshitatsu's level is the GAORA TV belt, and they replaced him with someone way cooler.

Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

Jun Kasai's hardcore open challenge is fun

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Jun Kasai is one of the major bright spots of All Japan in 2021.

Also All Japan need to book Astronauts more often.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Caught up with yesterday's DDT show, Eruption are so loving good. Real keen for when they're able to work out a free date for Okabayashi and get the Smile Pissari challenge going

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Watching latest AJPW Korakuen and the team of Akira Francesco & Alejandro is one I want to see more of. Potentially fun All Asia Tag champs one day.

Other thoughts, Baliyan Akki tagging with Nishimura, who turned up on ECW back in the 90s, and Yoshitatsu, who was on the WWECW show, tickles me.

Tag match between Ishikawa & Honda and Kasai & Hirata is all about the TV title match setup but very good from that perspective.

Yoshida not being in the Carnival still has me bewildered.

Ashino coming out to Fuel is turning me into a fan of that dumb song. Meanwhile Lee coming out to Dropkick Murphys is still hilariously weird seeing he's not a MMA fighter from Boston.

Oh gently caress Enfants just turned on Ashino what the hell is this? And then Lee started beating him and Iwamoto is having none of it and Lee is now in ET! Well That'sa surprise

That angle was good and makes me want to see where it goes.

Tag title match is good-not-great, 3.5* type deal. Aoyagi & Kento are good together but Abby is not physically capable.

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Feb 25, 2021

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

forkboy84 posted:

Watching latest AJPW Korakuen and the team of Akira Francesco & Alejandro is one I want to see more of. Potentially fun All Asia Tag champs one day.

Other thoughts, Baliyan Akki tagging with Nishimura, who turned up on ECW back in the 90s, and Yoshitatsu, who was on the WWECW show, tickles me.

Osamu Nishimura is still wrestling?! Wow.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
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forkboy84 posted:

Watching latest AJPW Korakuen and the team of Akira Francesco & Alejandro is one I want to see more of. Potentially fun All Asia Tag champs one day.

Alejandro is the one person from W-1 that I've been stunned hasn't landed anywhere. He had an absolute belter of a performance against Yokosuka/Horiguchi at a Kyushu Pro show last month.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


El Gallinero Gros posted:

Osamu Nishimura is still wrestling?! Wow.

Yeah, he's on just about every All Japan Korakuen show in some sort of multiman tag.

NotQuiteQuentin posted:

Alejandro is the one person from W-1 that I've been stunned hasn't landed anywhere. He had an absolute belter of a performance against Yokosuka/Horiguchi at a Kyushu Pro show last month.
I'm assuming his size is the major stumbling block. I wonder what the payoff is like for Colega Pro. He's doing enough dates for them but working 6 days a week and with COVID crowds I cannot see how they make enough money.

As a side note, just seen Lindaman vs Alejandro happened on the 13/2 Colega show and I got watch that later.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


gently caress, TAJIRI has inserted himself into Enfants. What the gently caress?

Suddenly my interest in this angle has dropped off. Only acceptable if he's lower on the pecking order than Kodama and Omori.

Trying
Sep 26, 2019

forkboy84 posted:

TAJIRI has inserted himself into Enfants.

Um

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boxcarhobo
Jun 23, 2005


lmao

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