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Hellblazer187 posted:If the thing is to give Naito a big moment in the dome to make up for his weird Covid reign, it's gotta be him beating the top heel in the company and the world, switchblade jay white. this was my motivator for how i think the g1 plays out, only i went with EVIL taking it. i also think that EVIL winning the double gold this year and g1 helps to cause tension in the bullet club which could get explored in 2021
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Naito’s big moment at WK should be him getting decapitated by 59983 lariats from Shingo, imho
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https://twitter.com/TIMEBOMB1105/status/1305129012168069120?s=20 Hiromu really wants to be in the same block as DOUKI in the Best of the Super Juniors. Hiromu has good taste in opponents.
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If things were less of a poo poo show in the US it would be neat to have BoSJ with one block touring the US and one touring Japan, because a lot of the juniors they've been using on Strong are pretty great. As it is I assume they'll just fly a few over to pad out the blocks.
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Hellblazer187 posted:If the thing is to give Naito a big moment in the dome to make up for his weird Covid reign, it's gotta be him beating the top heel in the company and the world, switchblade jay white. Or he could finally beat Okada at WK.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Or he could finally beat Okada at WK. You seem to be posting from 2019 
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Rarity posted:You seem to be posting from 2019 I mean NJPW likes long-term story storylines...
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im v surprised at how many other people picked white and sanada as block winners. he just kept winning matches in my head but i dont think its like super obviously his year. maybe it is but theres def a lot of hype talent this year despite everything including "the ace of new japan" yujiro takahashi ofc
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Juice Robinson is gonna beat KENTA and challenge for the US Title Briefcase Shingo will get his win back from Suzuki and finish with 8 Points I made this woops prediction already. uhhhh Cobb will finish with 6 points at most, Yujiro will have at least 2 upset wins KungFu Grip fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Sep 13, 2020 |
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Naito will win and have no match at the Dome, just be tranquilo and have a 45 minute nap or whatever. He will still find a way to fall on his head/neck when Ibushi walks by.
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JOHN CENA posted:this was my motivator for how i think the g1 plays out, only i went with EVIL taking it. i also think that EVIL winning the double gold this year and g1 helps to cause tension in the bullet club which could get explored in 2021 also imo the civil war faction splitting bc stuff is done. they are a lean mean focused machine rn and im hoping they stay that way. a suzuki-gun revolt seems out of character for them also but i guess suzuki has to retire sometime
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BREAD CLUB F-F-F-FOR LIFE Satoshi Kojima isn't in the G1. imo, Gedo should be fired for this. Not from his job, but out of a giant catapult. But travel bans have made shipping giant catapults internationally very difficult, so instead let's just watch some Kojima matches. If Kojima had been in this G1, he would get 9 matches, so we've gathered together 9 (well, 11) matches from varying points in Kojima's career to watch as the G1 goes on. They're mostly singles matches, but I threw in one tag match cause, come on, it's Kojima, who doesn't want at least a little bit of TenCozy action? On each night of B Block action during this G1, I'm gonna watch one of these matches and if you want to do so as well, we can discuss them and have fun and hopefully, see some sick-rear end lariats. Behold, Satoshi Kojima's G1 Climax 30! Night 1 DOUBLEHEADER (September 20th): https://front.njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00211_4_07 & https://front.njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00212_1_8 - Satoshi Kojima vs. Kazuchika Okada, NJPW G1 Climax 23 & Destruction 2013 Night 2 (September 24th): https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00447_24_09 (ENG) or https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00447_23_09 (JPN) - Satoshi Kojima vs. EVIL, G1 Climax 27 Night 3 (September 29th): https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00175_1_13 - Satoshi Kojima vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome Night 4 DOUBLEHEADER (October 1st): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVjPRqbjyV8&feature=emb_title & https://front.njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00211_1_5 - Satoshi Kojima vs. Katsuyori Shibata, Big Mouth Loud Illusion 2 & NJPW G1 Climax 23 Night 5 (October 6th): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7s9rs8 - Satoshi Kojima vs. Mitsuhara Misawa, AJPW Battle Banquet Night 6 (October 8th): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tx44a - Satoshi Kojima vs. Genichiro Tenryu, AJPW Summer Action Series 2002 - Night 9 Night 7 (October 11th): https://www.facebook.com/AJPWClassics/videos/276774459384322/?extid=eYy7d7fII3WeY9ug - Satoshi Kojima vs. Toshiaka Kawada, AJPW Realize Night 8 (October 14th): https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00433_1_06 (ENG) or https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00432_1_06 (JPN) - TenCozy vs. War Machine, NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017 Night 9 (October 17th): https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00285_1_1 - Satoshi Kojima vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, IWGP Heavyweight & Triple Crown Heavyweight Double Title Match
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Man, the NJPW post-show interviews are the best. I need to remember to watch these more often. You sure are, buddy.   Look at this guy, claiming he wasn't interested in G1.   DOUKI is getting fed up.      TAICHI is ready to go...sort of.         Strong Dark Order energy from SZKG here.
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My brain can't try and predict the whole G1. First round of each block? Yes. Trying to write a whole G1's story? 
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In someways this year is easier cause they have limited time to build up Wrestle Kingdom and you have to think they are looking at who would sell the most tickets in Japan cause lol no covid travel. But than we could get a major curveball cause Gedo is gonna Gedo
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Taichi/SZKG stuff ..................Imagine not loving Taichi. 
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I feel like people who really really hate Taichi made up their mind in like 2016 and won't change their mind no matter how much more effort he's putting in now
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I know we joke about how "having a good match with Ishii isn't impressive, Ishii could drag me to 3 stars" but the fact that Ishii not only dragged several excellent matches out of Taichi but literally dragged a really good wrestler out of him is like, hall of fame worthy.
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Taichi was putting on great matches with Naito a year before he started working with Ishii. (I think Cobb's best NJPW stuff was with Taichi too) https://twitter.com/thesuperjcast/status/1305309497800318976?s=19 Considering putting some money on the Switchblade
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Goto at 25/1 is the most Goto odds ever
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:I feel like people who really really hate Taichi made up their mind in like 2016 and won't change their mind no matter how much more effort he's putting in now I hated Taichi more than any wrestler on the roster in 2018 and then he stopped stinking up the joint so I stopped hating him. 
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Suzuki and Yujiro on the same odds. (I mean realistically there's a 0% chance of either winning lol)
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Wanna get hyped for the G1? This weeks free match is the Ishii/Okada g1 match from 2016 with Ishii having the best counter to Rainmaker pose ever
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Wanna get hyped for the G1? This weeks free match is the Ishii/Okada g1 match from 2016 with Ishii having the best counter to Rainmaker pose ever Any excuse to post the best counter to the Rainmaker 
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:I feel like people who really really hate Taichi made up their mind in like 2016 and won't change their mind no matter how much more effort he's putting in now This exactly is my experience with Taichi haters, yes
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SG Bamboo posted:Any excuse to post the best counter to the Rainmaker Is that Goto and Shibata tagging against Okada and YOSHI-HASHI, before Goto became a CHAOS stooge?
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Wanna get hyped for the G1? This weeks free match is the Ishii/Okada g1 match from 2016 with Ishii having the best counter to Rainmaker pose ever It's such a good match. Ishii's matches against other CHAOS members are some of his best, he exists to make sure the other members of CHAOS don't get complacent. In 2019 alone he got the best matches out of both Toru Yano and Yoshi Hashi. I hope when he retires Big Tom gets to go to Disneyland as often as he wants.
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Looking at this years blocks they arent at all balanced compared to last years A listers and Beef Block. The A block has all the best wrestlers AND beef. Theres almost no one in B block that I care about. If ZSJ and Toru Yano were swapped with White and Yujiro I wouldn't watch any B block event the entire tournament.
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Schneider Heim posted:Is that Goto and Shibata tagging against Okada and YOSHI-HASHI, before Goto became a CHAOS stooge? Goto and Shibata were tag champs at least once from memory - I recall a cool rear end celebration they did where they both did Shibata's sitting pose after winning the titles. The thing I most remember from that time though was one night Shibata and Goto were booked to fight each other and Shibata did an interview basically saying,"People say we're friends, but he's in my way and I'm gonna beat his rear end" or words to that effect, and then they had one hell of a match.
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Schneider Heim posted:Is that Goto and Shibata tagging against Okada and YOSHI-HASHI, before Goto became a CHAOS stooge? Yeah, back when Goto was in Meiyu Tag with his only friend Shibata. Don't remember the exact date, but somewhere between 2014-16. Jerusalem posted:Goto and Shibata were tag champs at least once from memory - I recall a cool rear end celebration they did where they both did Shibata's sitting pose after winning the titles. I want to say this is wrestle Kingdom 9, I've got a vague recollection of JR commentating while they did it SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Also funnily enough every match of Ishii's last year G1 got a MOTY candidate and now he's in the block with the better wrestlers AND YET I don't think Ishii can get a MOTY candidate out of Yujiro. Yujiro is objectively worse than literally everyone in last years G1.
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I enjoy Yujiro infinitely more than I enjoyed Fale, his greatest contribution last year was being the one to break ZSJ's losing streak, and you could have had a cardboard cutout do the same job
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Technical Wizard Bad Luck Fale was one of the best storylines last year.
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I fell into a Tomohiro Ishii sized hole following the posting of his match with Okada and I have somehow found my way back with one of the best 12 minute matches I have ever seen. It features the corn dog/fire hydrant hybrid Big Tom Ishii vs Katsuyori Shibata from the G1 Climax 2013. Before the match even starts the crowd knows these two are about to get stupid. Big Tom was always good. It's only 12 minutes long, you owe it to the Stone Pitbull to watch this match in its entirety. Thank you. https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00211_2_5
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Thank you for bringing this lost gem to our attention  i hope it lives up to the hype.
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Lid posted:Also funnily enough every match of Ishii's last year G1 got a MOTY candidate and now he's in the block with the better wrestlers AND YET I don't think Ishii can get a MOTY candidate out of Yujiro. Yujiro is objectively worse than literally everyone in last years G1. My prediction - Yujiro has generally well received matches with Ishii, Shingo, Ospreay (maybe), Ibushi and Taichi (they are all each of those individuals' least good matches in the tournament but are all watchable at worst) and people start accepting that Okada isn't the same as he was in 2017.
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Part of the reason im all in on Shingo is i think they too have realised its time to move from Okada and hes one of the best chances for a Japanese torch bearer into the future. Ibushi is there too but i just like believing in new blood rising. The era of Okada, Tanahashi and to a lesser extent Naito is over, its time for Shingo, Hiromu, Ibushi and i guess Ospreay. I know Jay White exists but gently caress Jay White.
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