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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 ( )

I popped in just in time for Dangerous Tekkers vs GoD. I'll have to go back and watch the NEW JAPAN RAMBO and the Hiromu vs ELP later Also I'm super impressed with that tag match because they made a Heel vs Heel match work.

>Tokyo Dome on the weekend >Ibushi has pneumonia It takes the worst luck in the universe to make Shingo the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, and he might even get a decent reign out of it because of even worse luck

They've added a young boy singles match to every G1 show, so we have an abbreviated, unofficial Young Lions Cup going on with the G1(It's only Uemura, Tsuji and Gabriel Kidd wrestling each other) and six matches every show

It's Naito's destino to suffer ;_;

Ohoooo Sengoku Lord

Happens to me all the time on here :p

Not that it's a surprise, but Sakura Genesis (Mar 31) and Road to Dontaku (Apr 11) have been cancelled

New Japan sure getting fucked up every which way possible On the plus side, we might end up with the G1 winner becoming IWGP Champion

TBH I don't know if we're gonna get to "great", the fans are still in "scream inside your heart" mode.

KENTA vs Koji is about what's expected of the two at this point in their careers. Probably better for the Japanese audience because Kojima's a bigger star.

Okay, NOW they've cancelled the rest of the NJPW Cup tour

Nope.

Normally in January we get the joint CMLL Fantasticamania tour leading into the New Beginning and then NJPW Cup. Fantasticamania didn't happen this year because of pandemic, so we got the New Beginning tour early and now we're moving into the Castle Attack Tour leading into Osaka-Jo Hall and then the New Japan Cup. They've also been rotating the foreign guys in and out. My pet theory is that Gedo is getting double-whammied, he has to awkwardly stretch out one tour's plans across two tours and account for foreign wrestlers being rotated in and out for parts of tours. We're getting 30 minute draws on Road-To shows, DQ finishes in multiple feuds, a lot of interference in matches, even had an Okada/Yano vs EVIL/Dick Togo match get thrown out for a count-out, and then restarted as an EVIL vs Okada singles match, which in turn was thrown out by DQ because Togo came back and jumped into the ring... all to lead to an officially signed EVIL vs Okada singles match. I also don't think the Forbidden Door has anything to do with it. To get into Japan you have to stay in a hotel room for two weeks and Tony Khan's not gonna have his top guys miss 4-6 weeks of TV just to send them over for tours or 2 weeks for a big show, and NJPW has been rotating their own foreign guys in and out anyways, they don't need someone else's. The AEW stuff is mostly for NJPW Strong as far as has been reported so far.

Between this, Jay White apparently hearing voices and ELP in general, I think I like NJPW Bullet Club better than AEW/Impact Bootleg club, and that's a hard thing to say because Don Callis being a scumbag manager is one of my favourite things

Their building dates are already set. Also because of the Olympics, the G1 was also pushed into the fall.

@Garlic Junior I think it's in Part 3

Dragon Lee/Ospreay Naito/Ibushi

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

A new young lion debuted at the Castle Attack show today. In the first minute or so, dude fucked up his arm while grappling with Uemura

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.

It's become a strange situation where New Japan has too many titles but also not enough titles to make every Wrestle Kingdom match feel more important