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Who is the most powerful?
Nakajima
Kenoh
Mutoh
Marufuji
Hayata
Go
Kenoh's hairdresser
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Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

Hello and welcome to the all-new NOAH thread! The pandemic has been a weird period for the Ark, but 2022 is shaping up to be a banner year! The big New Japan vs NOAH card is coming up later this morning, so I figured now would be a great time to start a thread!

Where to watch
You can watch NOAH for ¥900 a month at wrestle-universe.com. Your sub also includes all the DDT, TJPW and Ganbare Pro shows, so for my money it's the best deal in puro.

Current Champions
Katsuhiko Nakajima-GHC Heavyweight Champion
Daisuke Harada-GHC Jr Heavyweight Champion
Kenoh-GHC National Championship
M's Alliance (Keiji Mutoh and Naomichi Marufuji)-GHC Tag Team Championship
STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa and Hayata)-GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

NEXT CARD
BUMPER CROP 2022 in SENDAI
January 16th at 15:00 Japan time

Kinya Okada vs Yasutaka Yano
Nosawa, YO-HEY, Kotaro Suzuki and Super Crazy vs Tadasuke, Aleja, Haoh and Nioh
King Tany and Muhammad Yone vs Masakatsu Funaki and Masato Tanako
HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu vs Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara and Junta Miyawaki
Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya, Daiki Inaba and Yoshiki Inamura vs Takashi Sugiura, Kazushi Sakuraba, KEndo Kashing and KAzuyuki Fujita
(GHC HEAVYWEIGHT TAG CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH) Keiji Mutoh and Naomichi Marufuji (c) vs Kenoh and Manabu Soya
(GHC HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH) Katsuhiko Nakajima (c) vs Masa Kitamiya

English language NOAH twitter

Official NOAH website

Hi5ame providing translations of everything and their blog

Official NOAH youtube

Smoking Crow fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Jan 11, 2022

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J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

Thank you for this thread aka. The Kuniko Yamada Appreciation Station:

https://twitter.com/Hi5ame/status/1284922344306352130?s=20

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

my first katsuhiko nakajima match was him as a young boy being stretched by bryan danielson to entertain ghc champion kensuke sasaki

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Yamada is very entertaining on the preshows, but I normally stick with Fulton and Pickering for shows whenever possible. Got to send the message to WU that the english expansion has value

Sticky Nate
Jan 9, 2012

NOAH has the best presentation in pro wrestling, and their style of wrestling is exactly what I want. lotta good hair, too

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Sticky Nate posted:

NOAH has the best presentation in pro wrestling, and their style of wrestling is exactly what I want. lotta good hair, too



Willninho
Aug 14, 2007

STONE COLD 64 posted:

my first katsuhiko nakajima match was him as a young boy being stretched by bryan danielson to entertain ghc champion kensuke sasaki

It’s wild he was in a match of the decade level match 15 years ago and he’s still only 33.

Ditch
Jul 29, 2003

Backdrop Hunger
Holy poo poo he wasn't even 18 in the Kobashi/KENTA vs Sasaki/Nakajima match from November 2005, which was my puro MOTY.

If you haven't seen that yet, DO SO.

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

after watching the new japan vs noah show, i can't agree with the booking

LIJ going over kongo is really bad and made the kenoh look like a chump

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

and whose decision was it to make kaito keiji mutoh's failson

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

Kenoh is my hero

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Still a couple of shows behind from this week, haven't started the U-cup but enjoying the January 5th show at the moment. Love a good mystery vortex show, Funaki vs Inoue especially was fantastic

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Still a few shows behind, but got spoiled on today's show via twitter and I'm not even mad.

Harada won the junior title off HAYATA, the world just got a little bit brighter

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

SG Bamboo posted:

Still a few shows behind, but got spoiled on today's show via twitter and I'm not even mad.

Harada won the junior title off HAYATA, the world just got a little bit brighter

i'm glad

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


SG Bamboo posted:

Still a few shows behind, but got spoiled on today's show via twitter and I'm not even mad.

Harada won the junior title off HAYATA, the world just got a little bit brighter

I saw Miriam on Twitter being very mad & instantly guessed why and was happy

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

forkboy84 posted:

I saw Miriam on Twitter being very mad & instantly guessed why and was happy

It's hilarious to me that I didn't even have to look at the spoiler once I read this. Blessed news.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


It is time for Kinya Okada to graduate to not-rookie status this year

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

forkboy84 posted:

It is time for Kinya Okada to graduate to not-rookie status this year

He’s own his 4th tights design and still hasn’t shook the rookie appellation.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

I'm not sure what move Harada was trying to use at the end of the U-Cup Rumble, but Jesus that was a terrifying landing for Suzuki

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

J-Ro posted:

Thank you for this thread aka. The Kuniko Yamada Appreciation Station:

https://twitter.com/Hi5ame/status/1284922344306352130?s=20

Yoshioka is good and I was bummed out when he dropped the title to Kotoge, who isn't bad, but I prefer my Kick Men.

I think my favorite part of NOAH is the angry (fit) old men, and Mutoh still wrestling and getting top booking will never cease to offend me.

Kinda lowkey worried about Harada winning the belt, because idk it might cause friction in Momo no Seishun, my favorite NOAH junior unit. They were kind of cold to each other when Kotoge held the belt.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


A lot of names removed from this Sunday's show in Sendai

https://twitter.com/Hi5ame/status/1481949160257597444?s=20

Maybe about time to consider putting wrestling on hiatus again.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


U Cup Night 1 has NOSAWA looking decent in the Momo No Seishun Tag vs LPdMdP match (obviously Eita looked better but still notable)

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Less than 10 minutes until Bumper Crop with the updated card. Nakajima vs Kitamiya in the main event should rule, their stuff last year was goddamn brutal

PdMdJ (Nsawa, Suzuki, YO-HEY) vs Kongoh (Nioh, Haoh, Aleja)
Stinger (HAYATA, Susumu) vs MnS (Kotoge, Ohara)
Harada vs Yoshioka (non-title)
Sugiura-gun (Sugiura, Sakuraba, Fujita, Kashin) vs Yone, Tany, Go, Funaki
M's (Mutoh, Marufuji) (c) vs Kongoh (Kenoh, Soya)
Nakajima (c) vs Kitamiya

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Jan 16, 2022

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

This show should fly by, unless NOSAWA is going for six time-limit draws tonight.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

The tag title match should be pretty rad, Kenoh has no issues kicking Mutoh as hard as he kicks anyone else

e: NOSAWA's music is such a banger

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jan 16, 2022

Sticky Nate
Jan 9, 2012

a seamless blend of theme songs

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Oh no, Kongoh aren't on the same page :ohdear:

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Two matches down in 35 minutes, glad NOSAWA didn't feel the need to stretch everything out. Hopefully he hasn't saved it all for the tag title defence

That's nuts that Harada had 9 matches in the first 10 days of January

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jan 16, 2022

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

SG Bamboo posted:

Hopefully he hasn't saved it all for the tag title defence

Are you TRYING to jinx it?!

Edit: Yoshioka is really cool.

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

That exchange was really goddamn smooth.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Brutal twist kick, right tot he back of the head.

This has been real good so far, both these guys rule

e: oooh, a Haoh defence should be rad

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jan 16, 2022

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

KONGOH IS NOT FINE

Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
Surprise match!

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Best way to avoid having to stretch out the 6 matches is just have guys pull double duty in surprise matches

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

Crowd's into face Haoh.
I'm into face Haoh.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

J-Ro posted:

Crowd's into face Haoh.
I'm into face Haoh.

Haoh was always face. Even last year when everyone was betraying each other and acting complete dickheads it was him, Nioh, and Ohara just being nice lads

e: loving hell that was a nice slap

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Oh wow, nice guys Los Perros

e: okay, they're taking the piss now :lol:

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jan 16, 2022

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Kenoh is rad, he should be double champion

Sticky Nate
Jan 9, 2012

Kenoh is the perfect wrestler

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Stall_19
Jan 2, 2013

Prodigy of Victor von Doom
That looked like poo poo

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