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MassRafTer posted:"Omega is hurt by doing this thing, while he's become the third biggest star in Japan doing that thing." To quote the philosopher Nelly, "Two is not a winner and three nobody remembers."
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I like how Bix notes that Kenny doesn't speak the same way in English-speaking countries. It's almost as if there's a certain point to why Kenny speaks English the way he does when he's in Japan.
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He also speaks Japanese though
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The Cameo posted:I like how Bix notes that Kenny doesn't speak the same way in English-speaking countries. And by working it into his character a bit it seems less like he's patronizing the crowd. oatgan posted:He also speaks Japanese though And he uses it sometimes, but the Bullet Club leader works a bit better when he's speaking English rather than Japanese.
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It made a big impact when he switched to Japanese in his post-match promo on winning the G1, way more than if he just cut promos in Japanese all the time
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Yeah, when he won the G1, he began the part of his promo in Japanese with "they allow me to speak in Japanese like once a year, so..." they like to obscure his bi-lingual nature. Mostly because he's supposed to be a gaijin heel, and who in Japan would boo a gaijin who has gotten to actual fluency with their language. Any time he does switch, he literally gets a pop for it. Also, I think I just found Kenny's youtube account. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBY5DMo0seY&t=143s
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Full Korakuen cards for the Road to WK doubleshot are out. In addition to the normal dome buildup matches we'll get to see YLC matches on both nights and a NEVER trios title match. ROAD TO TOKYO Dome December 17th at 4:30 EDT/9:30 GMT Korakuen Hall YLC Match:Syota Umino [0] vs. Tetsuhiro Yagi [0] YLC Match:Katsuya Kitamura [4] vs. Ren Narita [0] YLC Match:Hirai Kawato [4] vs. Tomoyuki Oka [4] Jushin Liger, Tiger Mask IV, and Henare vs. Suzuki-gun (Desperado, Kanemaru, and TAKA) Kota Ibushi and Togi Makabe vs. Bullet Club (Yujiro and Leo Tonga) CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, and Toru Yano) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka, and Taichi) Satoshi Kojima, KUSHIDA, and Masked Horse vs. Roppongi 3K NEVER Openweight Trios Championship:L.I.J(c) (EVIL, SANADA, and BUSHI) vs. Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale and GoD) CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada and YOSHI-HASHI) vs. L.I.J (Tetsuya Naito and Hiromu Takahashi) ROAD TO TOKYO Dome December 18th at 4:30 EDT/9:30 GMT Korakuen Hall YLC Match:Syota Umino vs. Ren Narita YLC Match:Tomoyuki Oka vs. Tetsuhiro Yagi YLC Match:Hirai Kawato vs. Katsuya Kitamura KUSHIDA, Liger, TMIV, and Masked Horse vs. Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Desperado, Kanemaru, and TAKA) Togi Makabe and Henare vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano) Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale and Yujiro Takahashi) vs. L.I.J (EVIL and SANADA) Kota Ibushi and TenCozy vs. Bullet Club (GoD and Leo Tonga) CHAOS (Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki and Takashi Iizuka) CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, SHO, and YOH) vs. L.I.J (Tetsuya Naito, Hiromu, and BUSHI)
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Dec 12, 2017 21:50
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My guess is that Masked Horse is gonna end up being Taguchi. He's teaming with mostly juniors and Taguchi's not booked under his own name.
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I hope Masked Horse just wears one of those creepy rubber horse heads
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Sucks that with Tanahashi out we won't get the match with the top two matches facing off in tag matches that have been really good in recent years.
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Dec 12, 2017 22:06
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switchblade is a curtain-jerking act
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tanahashi's not injured, its a power move to make sure he doesn't have to put Jay White over before the Dome match.
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So I'm guessing the Bad Luck GODs are gonna win the Trios belts and defend them at the dome against a Taguchi/Suzuki/CHAOS gauntlet of "guys in the factions who don't have matches elsewhere on the card".
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Found these on some Japanese newspaper websites   
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ch3cooh posted:Found these on some Japanese newspaper websites These rule. Dangerous Person posted:I am so loving excited for Wrestle Kingdom I already was but even more so now, this is gonna be great.
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Why is Rocky standing around and leaving the task of trying to restrain Omega to a 70+ year old Tiger Hattori?
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The shot of Jericho with the belt in the ring is the cover of this week’s Shūkan Puroresu. Saw it on the way to work this morning. To say the Angle has no heat based on the Fukuoka crowd is a bit disingenuous.
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Wrestling photography is kind of a lost art these days, so I'm glad New Japan is keeping it alive. Those are some great shots.
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MassRafTer posted:Sucks that with Tanahashi out we won't get the match with the top two matches facing off in tag matches that have been really good in recent years. Couldn't pull that off anyway as they don't do cross faction teams, but those owned when you could pair Okada and Nakamura up.
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Thauros posted:Couldn't pull that off anyway as they don't do cross faction teams, but those owned when you could pair Okada and Nakamura up. Tanahashi and Okada vs Naito and Switchblade wouldn't gently caress things up.
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Super No Vacancy posted:tanahashi and switchblade arent in a top match They are in the top match. Also this is the most interested I have been in a NJPW show in about 2 years. The Jericho stuff has been a breath of fresh air.
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I'm glad gedo loves the good bloody rasslin angles.
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Super No Vacancy posted:tanahashi and switchblade arent in a top match How so? It's a big title with an up and comer vs a legend. How is that not a top match.
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abraham linksys posted:https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/940624368970993665 Not to get too spergy but Bix is missing several things with why these angles are resonating and are awesome. Subtle strokes from both guys on delivery and execution are what is making for great art right now - Jericho's face right before the beatdown starts, Kenny's howl as he stands up at the end, the way Jericho throws the table at the press conference, I could go on. Point being those nuances are what is rare right now and goes to show Jericho is still an incredible performer when thinking about the totality of what makes a good pro wrestler.
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The_Rob posted:How so? It's a big title with an up and comer vs a legend. How is that not a top match. It's likely to be the semi main so nominally it is a big match but the complete lack of build is making it feel cold. I don't know why they didn't get Jay for the December tours.
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Tonfa posted:It's likely to be the semi main so nominally it is a big match but the complete lack of build is making it feel cold. I don't know why they didn't get Jay for the December tours. Did you not see him attack Tanahashi like a week ago?
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The_Rob posted:Did you not see him attack Tanahashi like a week ago? Yeah ok I didn't, kept up with the tag league through recaps until the finals. Didn't see anyone mention it.
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Tonfa posted:Yeah ok I didn't, kept up with the tag league through recaps until the finals. Didn't see anyone mention it. he hasn't been on any of the tag league shows.
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https://twitter.com/Kosen_Wrestling/status/940428589056499712 Good photos can tell the story so well
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I like that he still wears the scarf for some reason.
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Hurry up and sell out completely so I can stop being tempted to just make a last minute purchase and flight to Japan 
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You can't afford that on a moderator's salary.
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Incessant Excess posted:I like that he still wears the scarf for some reason. The scarf was always a shoot
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Okay, I want to watch New Japan because the streaming pile of constant poo poo that is WWE is making me sad. What do I do and where do I start? Also because I adore Jericho.
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Natural 20 posted:Okay, I want to watch New Japan because the streaming pile of constant poo poo that is WWE is making me sad. Sign up at NJPWWorld.com (click the JP/ENG drop down), and then... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsZCBTpKjHzdbCpKZ1No1KAdpmOd2OcgSMfC1-oa7pI/htmlview#gid=0 This is your new friend.
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The video of Omega attacking Jericho for retribution was money, especially with Jericho doing a good job showing how rattled he was afterwards. Being virulent with the media, forcing the reporter to write down that it'll be Kenny's last match. Also bix has been making GBS threads on Omega on twitter for like a year, that's nothing new. He claims Toru Yano, Nattie Neidhart, Yoshi-Hashi, and Trevor Lee are better than Omega. Lee's the only one in that list who can regularly have compelling matches.
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