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SatoshiMiwa posted:More crossovers will help but probably the biggest thing they can do is stop spreading matches across so many cards. Probably should maybe be only running 1-2 big shows per tour instead of trying to do the big matches over 3-4 shows and just have the rest be filler multi mans I think the massive positive reaction both internationally and domestically the card for power struggle got will hopefully encourage this By far the biggest issue with njpw was this blatant gate chasing during the pandemic. I took power struggle as a positive sign
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Dave confirming that Shibata went into business for himself. King poo poo. Apparently backstage was freaking out during it lol
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Stall_19 posted:Dave confirming that Shibata went into business for himself. King poo poo. Apparently backstage was freaking out during it lol I hope he at least told Ren lmao
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Pistol Packin Poet posted:WK16 night 2 ruled.
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Stall_19 posted:Dave confirming that Shibata went into business for himself. King poo poo. Apparently backstage was freaking out during it lol No loving way lmao. That's actually insane holy poo poo.
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Stall_19 posted:Dave confirming that Shibata went into business for himself. King poo poo. Apparently backstage was freaking out during it lol Shibata is the greatest wrestler of his generation and you can’t convince me otherwise
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Burn Down Canberra posted:https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1478924289470521345?t=pxLtH1EDnzakIzoVYFqP0A&s=19 I legit didn't see Robbie standing there at first glance because his clothes and hair blend so well into the background colors.
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dave (and everyone else) got workedquote:We've got tons of news and notes coming out of the first two nights of Wrestle Kingdom from the Tokyo Dome.
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Per Hisame, one of the names being discussed as a replacement is Hideki Suzuki. Which would be at least pretty funny. https://twitter.com/Hi5ame/status/1479374367431835649?t=BQmS3hWam9-79Pi5ZRF80Q&s=19
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Suzuki vs Suzuki. Has that happened before? Surely must have at a TAKAYAMANIA or TakaTaichiMania or some other indy produce show. Anyway, kind of nice to see the last Karl Gotch student in New Japan for a match
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forkboy84 posted:Suzuki vs Suzuki. Has that happened before? Surely must have at a TAKAYAMANIA or TakaTaichiMania or some other indy produce show. Anyway, kind of nice to see the last Karl Gotch student in New Japan for a match They teamed together against Tanaka and Marufuji at a Takayamania in 2019. And they were on opposite sides of a tag for a Real Japan event back in 2014. Of course, this is currently a rumour, and would depend a lot on where in the world Hideki is right now.
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Thauros posted:wouldn't it be impossible for the x to be hideki given quarantine protocols? unless he was already in japan before getting canned but that seems unlikely since from what i gather he was in a unit and occasionally on tv? If he was outside the country, 14 day quarantine would still apply, yes.
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Stall_19 posted:Don't wwe have some kinda no compete clause when they fire people? We've no idea if that applies to their contracted employees or just to their independent contractors (I think we don't know anyway)
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Stall_19 posted:Don't wwe have some kinda no compete clause when they fire people? does this mean what it sounds like? youre fired and also cant work anywhere else? is that legal? how does that make sense
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baka fwocka fwame posted:does this mean what it sounds like? youre fired and also cant work anywhere else? is that legal? how does that make sense short answer: lmao if you think laws are applied in professional wrestling. long answer: the way the wwf releases talent is actually giving them 90 day notice that they contract is being ended, and they will be paid until the point that the contract runs out.
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From what I understand it's not legally binding that you can't work for someone else, it's just that you're guaranteed to get paid for that duration if you don't, so most people take the nice shiny WWE money instead of what is almost certainly less for signing right away. For NXT it's 30 days, and for main roster it's 90 days, but for several wrestlers they've called them up to the main roster just to fire them in a batch of releases because they're extremely petty. Contracts expiring without re-signing is different though, and they can appear elsewhere immediately.
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