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New Beginning in Sapporo last night, Ishii vs EVIL and Goto defending the NEVER against Shingo. Strong style as fuck

That was a baller few weeks. Naito, Rush, Sombra/Andrade, La Mascara and I think Marco Corleone (he subbed in when someone got hurt for a little while)

Low-key the best part of this tag league has been KENTA's after-match promos. He has a spicy relationship going on with the camera, pretends that Ishii/TOMO and Goto/HIRO are boyband members, gets them confused because TOMO and HIRO still spells out Ishii's name, brings up their twitter beef but corrects himself when he pronounces twitter the Japanese way ("Tweet-er AH, I mean Twih-ter") and then ends every promo by making fun of how ugly Yoshi-Hashi is. We're currently in the phase where KENTA got jealous of camera-kun because he was talking to Yujiro alone (Kenta at the time was getting his ass beat by Goto), and now camera-kun's asking about KENTA hanging around Pieter all the time.

Digging this year's World Tag League so far. All 16 teams are in the same block so very show is 7 tournament matches and then a Wrestle Kingdom main event build-up match. It's a skippable tour regardless, but I like that least almost every match on almost every card matters for something.

Watching parts of the Wrestle Kingdom Press Conference. Ospreay started pushing that the double-title tournament wasn't that popular with the Osaka crowd and said him and Hiromu should be in the main event of one of the shows instead, and goes off how he's been put in every match and every tournament when they need someone to have a big moment. And then Jay White comes out for his press conference with Naito, interrupts the press conference introduction to absolutely bury Ospreay, mentioning he hasn't won any of the tournaments he's been in put in and his big wins are limited, and tells him to stop whining about having to work so hard and just stop taking the opportunities if you don't want them. Fucking natural heel. I don't know if this is going to lead somewhere (it would tip off that Jay White is winning the double titles, and I don't think that's gonna happen at the Dome), but that felt so natural that even if they're not, they should start going that direction.

@Garlic Junior I think it's in Part 3

Yeah. The Elite leaving RoH gutted them, and CMLL's experiencing some backstage turbulence right now that might harm that relationship, so they don't exactly have as strong of international ties as they did before too.

Kind wish they'd stay doing just what they're doing. This stuff kinda died once Kenny left

It's interesting that the Observer rewinds are finally spilling into the NJPW dark ages and it sounds like Inoki wasn't just promoting wrestling and MMA together in a bizarre mishmash, he was trying to job out the wrestlers and the promotion to his MMA guys to put them over instead because he had some involvement in booking for K-1 and Pride too

OH MY GOD THESE G1 BLOCKS A Block Okada Tanahashi Ibushi ZSJ Ospreay ( ) KENTA ( ) Sanada EVIL Lance Archer Bad Luck Fale B Block Naito Ishii Switchblade Juice Yano Holy Lord Taichi Shingo ( ) Goto Jeff Cobb ( ) Moxley ( )

Dragon Lee/Ospreay Naito/Ibushi

Guys guys guys guys

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww SHIT Dominion spoilers

Happens to me all the time on here :p

Juice and Moxley post-match backstage promos (spoils obvs)

Addendum: Ospreay v Shingo was one of the best matches of the year so far

Moxley and Juice had their US Title Match at the BOSJ Final today. The tournament was effing good this year, Robbie Eagles (apparently he's both an Australian draw for NJPWWorld and the his merch is selling to Japanese fans because he's half-Asian) and Rocky Romero (dat armbar) in particular stood out more than I expected they would, and NJPW might be finally utilizing Shingo like they should be. El Phantasmo had a good showing, but he rubs me the wrong way (he's sort of like if Ospreay did more obnoxious Young Buck stuff before that became popular)

Oh my fucking GOD, I was wondering who Death Rider was

Bandido vs Ospreay happened at today's BOSJ show (Ospreay probably saved Bandido's life on a shooting star press)

Dontaku tour had some good matches, new roster member (El Phantasmo) and a teaser for another new roster member going after Juice. Feels kind of same-y right now, though, the roster "rebuild" is probably more of a long-term project. Jay White is more Finn Balor than Kenny Omega (I think Balor only became popular for the Bullet Club in NXT), and the real replacement on the roster for Kenny, Will Ospreay, is being slowly built up to that level instead of rushed to it. Though... BOSJ Roster is pretty impressive Block A Bandido (debut) Bushi Dragon Lee (vs Bandido, holy shit) Desperado Flip Gordon Jonathan Gresham :nod: Marty Scurll (huh, I thought his contract was up) Robbie Eagles Rocky Romero Taguchi Block B Shingo Sho Boner Taka Tiger Mask Titan (Not a debut, but hasn't wrestled in the tournament since Balor was on the roster) Ospreay (huh...) Yoh (first singles match against Sho since they were Young Boys) Kanemaru El Phantasmo (debut)

Jay/Okada is the only match from the G1 Supercard I really loved. A few others I liked. RoH held the show down, they feel more behind-the-times than WWE does. The audio was really bad, RoH-TV levels of bad. I think the western expansion when it comes to America hit the wall once Kenny left, I'd prefer they scale it back to a few California shows per year. UK is different because Rev Pro seems to utilize the roster pretty well and ZSJ is being put massively over, though I dunno how well that plays to the UK indie base.

That's the Center

We seem to have the full card for Madison Square Garden. - Honor Rumble: (Only Jushin Liger on his retirement tour confirmed so far, I assume everyone else already not on the card will get on it just for the appearance) - Title For Title: NEVER Champion Will Ospreay vs RoH TV Champion Jeff Cobb - Dalton Castle vs RUSHHHHHHHH (I'd normally be a bit more excited for this, but Castle's been wrestling injured since he came back) - Women Of Honor Title Match: Mayu Iwatani vs Kelly Klein (I think Iwatani is the Champion. She was part of STARDOM's Big Three with Io Shirai and Kairi Sane as far as I know) - NYC Street Fight Open Challenge: Bully Ray vs [x] - IWGP Jr Heavy Three-Way: Taiji Ishimori (c) vs Dragon Lee vs Bandido - IWGP Heavy and RoH Tag Four Way: GoD (c) vs PCO and Brodie King (c) vs The Briscoes vs SANADA/EVIL - British Heavyweight Championship: Zack Sabre Jr (c) vs Tanahashi - IWGP IC Title: Naito (c) vs Ibushi - RoH World Title Ladder Match: Jay Lethal (c) vs Marty Scurll vs Matt Taven - IWGP Heavy: Jay White (c) vs Okada Wrestlemania weekend is going to be horrifying to keep up with