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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:38:37 No.18238508 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>18238528 >>18238560 >>18238583 >>18238613 >>18238972 >>18239240 >>18239359 >>18239659

Will New Japan ever be this red hot ever again?!

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:39:52 No.18238519 Report

Quoted By: >>18238908

No one knows how to throw punches

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:41:04 No.18238528 Report

Quoted By: >>18238542 >>18238549

>>18238508
Yeah, it was, it was called the late 2010s.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:42:52 No.18238542 Report

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>>18238528
>manlets doing flippy dippys
Gain test
Hit the weights
Gain height
Get a clue

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:43:29 No.18238549 Report

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>>18238528
bait used to be believable

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:44:43 No.18238560 Report

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>>18238508
No. If anyone in NJPW gets any traction Tony will sign them and ruin them likeJay White or Okada.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:45:25 No.18238569 Report

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>push native talent
>only bring in gaijin with legit fighting credibility, no more indie guys
>have Japanese talent beat MMA guys

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:46:55 No.18238583 Report

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>>18238508
No, New Japan doesn’t have Inoki or the Musketeers anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:47:45 No.18238591 Report

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>>18238549
Inoki in a freak show MMA match is better than Omega x Okada 1? K..

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:49:47 No.18238613 Report

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>>18238508
It was last night. Okada vs Omega was basically a New Japan match with a story based around New Japan. New Japan Pro Wrestling has evolved beyond its own self. Now it is known as All Elite Wrestling in the United States of America. AEW is an extension of NJPW. If you are software developer then you can even call AEW a "fork" of NJPW.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:50:29 No.18238622 Report

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>>18238613
AEW is nothing like New Japan.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:51:28 No.18238634 Report

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>>18238591
It drew infinitely more so it’s better

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:53:24 No.18238659 Report

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>>18238634
Did it actually? I legitimately don't know. So the gate at that venue you mean or the overall revenue? Because that is grim. I know when I was over in Japan in the 2010s Tokyo Dome wouldn't even be half sold for Wrestle Kingdom.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 17:57:26 No.18238712 Report

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Will wrestling ever be Red hot again?

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:00:23 No.18238743 Report

Quoted By: >>18238955 >>18239135 >>18239173

>>18238622
It has all the New Japan wrestlers you used to cum buckets over. AEW is signing your precious Gabe Kidd. If Inoki was alive then he would have signed with AEW too. You NJPW fucks are loser. You are pathetic loser. Inoki would be disgusted by someone like you. He would tell you to touch grass in a Xitter reply if he was alive. That's how pathetic your existence is.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:06:06 No.18238800 Report

Quoted By: >>18238931

>there are people who only associate NJPW with the Tanahashi era now
A grim thought

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:15:37 No.18238908 Report

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>>18238519
straight punches are illegal in pro wrestling rules dumbass

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:17:40 No.18238931 Report

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>>18238800
AKA its most profitable era? How is it grim?

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:18:08 No.18238939 Report

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>>18238931
>its most profitable era
Is that a joke?

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:20:05 No.18238955 Report

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>>18238743
I didn't even watch New Japan when Kidd wrestled and New Japan is simply presented differently, they are not the same. Japanese crowds dictate what kind of product NJPW ultimately is.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:20:28 No.18238959 Report

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>>18238939
It's not, It's quite literally factual you fucking faggot

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:21:39 No.18238972 Report

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>>18238508
yes, once Shota Umino finishes his story at the Tokyo Dome

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:21:51 No.18238975 Report

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>>18238591
Omega x Okada 1 is at least 15min too long, and Omega can't even run the ropes without looking like he's prancing around.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:28:10 No.18239040 Report

Quoted By: >>18239071 >>18239080 >>18239206

>>18238959
Did you know NJPW were able to sell out the dome twice a year in the 90s

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:30:54 No.18239071 Report

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>>18239040
So?

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:31:54 No.18239080 Report

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>>18239040
>believing inoki's lies
KWAB

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:36:59 No.18239130 Report

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>>18239080
Even if he inflated the numbers the crowds were bigger than any of the Tanahashi era dome shows

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:37:35 No.18239135 Report

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>>18238743
Different booking, different show formats, different match formats even. They're not the same at all.
Know what you're talking about before you shoot off from the mouth retard.

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NTT !cJUPWmQuqk Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:37:59 No.18239141 Report

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>>18239080
Inoki was barely around in the 90s, Choshu was booking the wrestling boom

Inoki was playing politics

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:40:47 No.18239173 Report

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>>18238743
>You NJPW fucks are loser.
GMS

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:44:45 No.18239206 Report

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>>18239040
That's pretty impressive, I'd like to see what WWE would do there.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:46:55 No.18239222 Report

Quoted By: >>18239274 >>18239304

>>18239206
Would probably have trouble filling Korakuen since it doesn't have a huge presence there beyond the Japanese equivalent of American NJPW fans.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:48:35 No.18239240 Report

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>>18238508
Maybe when Tony dies

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:51:30 No.18239274 Report

Quoted By: >>18239304 >>18239352

>>18239222
They do 6k when they do a house show in Ryogoku Kokukikan btw

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:54:12 No.18239304 Report

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>>18239222
They won't go to Korakuen because they usually sellout two nights of Ryogoku. >>18239274

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:57:54 No.18239352 Report

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>>18239274
>>18239304
I was mostly joking, but that's good to hear.
Still don't think they'd fill the Tokyo Dome though... can't imagine they wouldn't have tried if they thought they could.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 18:58:26 No.18239359 Report

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>>18238508
The sports presentation of the Inoki/Maeda/Hashimoto era only worked in a pre-MMA world. NJPW was gaped and left in the gutter by the rise of PRIDE in the early to mid 2000's. Nothing will bring it back to it's prime years.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 19:05:43 No.18239411 Report

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>>18238591
Yes

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 19:15:57 No.18239508 Report

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>>18239080
>Inoki's lies
One look at the footage of said dome shows would tell you they're full houses.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 19:28:23 No.18239659 Report

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>>18238508
>Crowd is filled with men from all ages popping and marking out with some women here and there
A sight you'd never see in today's NJPW.

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