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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 15:59:09 No.6847880 View View Reply Original Report

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Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:00:43 No.6847894 Report

Quoted By: >>6848017

>>6847880
Come home to NOAH. Seek refuge in the ark

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:01:07 No.6847901 Report

Quoted By: >>6848153

I assume Naitetty is eliminated then? Never drew a yen so

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:01:27 No.6847908 Report

Quoted By: >>6848343 >>6848352

>>6847880
his body is done

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:01:32 No.6847910 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
He's a retard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:01:47 No.6847911 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
You tell me

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:01:58 No.6847915 Report

Quoted By: >>6847935

>>6847880
Ospreay Kenny?

And Naito roll call is the last bullet left Gedo has. Might wanna save it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:02:01 No.6847917 Report

Quoted By:

Gedo always needs a KWABman.
Goto had been dried out of all his KWABness, becoming a mere shell of a loser, so Naito was picked in his stead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:03:44 No.6847935 Report

Quoted By: >>6848056

>>6847915
Bruh, Naito is basically done. He's not making it through a G1 next year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:04:03 No.6847938 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
did he dieded?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:05:51 No.6847955 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
>tfw no Tokyo Dome roll call

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:07:21 No.6847973 Report

Quoted By: >>6847983 >>6848032 >>6848067 >>6848598

I thought the whole point of this 4 block nonsense was so Naito could make it through.

And that the whole point of him beating Zack in under 2 minuted was so he'd only put his knees at risk for two nights in a row.

What the fuck, Gedo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:08:12 No.6847983 Report

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>>6847973
Yakuza had second thoughts anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:09:31 No.6847998 Report

Quoted By: >>6848034

Here's how Naito can still main event Wrestle Kingdom

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:12:06 No.6848017 Report

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>>6847894
And see Borejita beat Shiozaki? No, thanks.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:13:33 No.6848032 Report

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>>6847973
Classic Gedo killing Naito's hopes and dreams yet again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:13:48 No.6848034 Report

Quoted By: >>6848068

>>6847998
I mean it's still two nights, right? They probably try to pull something out of their ass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:15:48 No.6848056 Report

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>>6847935
People have been saying that about the dads and Naito for years lol. Didn't Naito just have surgery not long ago so he could keep going for a while

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:16:59 No.6848067 Report

Quoted By: >>6848085

>>6847973
You ever think a guy who you need to go through this length to protect shouldn't get the push?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:17:13 No.6848068 Report

Quoted By: >>6848868

>>6848034
Don't give me hope, anon. Being a Naito fan and hope don't go well together.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:17:50 No.6848073 Report

Quoted By: >>6848082 >>6848160 >>6848840 >>6848916 >>6849919 >>6850175 >>6851355

>>6847880

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:18:31 No.6848077 Report

Quoted By:

>Naitetty being Naitetty again
Shocking

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:18:57 No.6848082 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
>>6848073
LMAOOOOOO

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:19:15 No.6848085 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848067
But they still fucking did the protecting. And then they yanked it out 80% of the way in. This is always the case, too. Naito dislikers have to sit theough all the set up and Naito fans have to see the ball getting yanked at the last minute Snoopy style.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:20:53 No.6848101 Report

Quoted By: >>6848120 >>6848121

>Letting a physical wreck win a title shot at your biggest show of the year
This is the Billy GOAT world

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:21:40 No.6848108 Report

Quoted By: >>6848152

Gedo is seriously gonna give the G1 to a guy that is leaving the company in 2 years to go to AEW/WWE.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:21:57 No.6848109 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
Did he died?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:23:04 No.6848120 Report

Quoted By: >>6848152

>>6848101
>Letting a gaijin that has no intentions of staying get all the biggest accolades

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:23:16 No.6848121 Report

Quoted By: >>6848132 >>6848140

>>6848101
So Ospreay is losing to Jay on Night 1 and then jobbing to Kenny on Night 2? What a GOAT!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:24:21 No.6848130 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
Maybe you should've been more popular than the two most popular guys in the company ten years ago, ya geek.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:24:26 No.6848132 Report

Quoted By: >>6848142

>>6848121
>Ospreay vs Jay
Zero chance they do a gaijin vs gainin main event at the Dome

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:24:56 No.6848140 Report

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>>6848121
Jay vs Ospreay is not eventing the dome. If Billy somehow wins the G1, either he drops the briefcase or Jay drops the belt

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:24:59 No.6848142 Report

Quoted By: >>6848166 >>6848195

>>6848132
They gotta draw the western audience back somehow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:26:16 No.6848152 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848108
>>6848120
will's been with njpw for 6 years though. the real mistake was pushing okada and ibushi so strong

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:26:24 No.6848153 Report

Quoted By: >>6849098

>>6847901
>Never drew a yen so
Naito was the biggest draw for New Japan from 2015 to 2017. Gedo had a second golden goose in him and he failed to capitalize.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:27:31 No.6848160 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848073
Naitobros…

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:28:08 No.6848166 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848142
>the western audience is watching new japan pro wrestling to see 2 white guys that they could see every match in wwe or aew and not okada, ishii, shingo, suzuki, etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:31:49 No.6848195 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848142
Gedo might love making Naito fans suffer at the expense of the business, but he's not retarded enough to think that main eventing two gaijin, hurting his domestic business, is gonna do anything for foreign business beyond maybe a pitiable extra amount of subscriptions and tweets in January alone.

Maybe if there's a third day in the dome with AEW vs New Japan, that could main event. Maybe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:40:16 No.6848264 Report

Quoted By:

Gedo just hates that Naito got over on his own after Gedo's handpicked Stardust bullshit failed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:47:37 No.6848343 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847908
Didn't seem that way in the match

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:48:31 No.6848352 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847908
and you think ospreays isnt?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:51:26 No.6848382 Report

Quoted By: >>6848439

>>6847880
Naitobros, do not fear. There are still 2 nights of WK. Hopefully he gets something good to do. Doesn’t have to be main event. Naito/Tanahashi would’ve been easy MOTY if Okada/Omega didn’t follow up with match of the decade.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:56:48 No.6848439 Report

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>>6848382
>Naito, you're obsessed... With this. Throwing belts in the air, wearing cringe baseball caps. You're lucky you weren't quietly released. You're lucky you're here at all. You're spiraling down, man. It's not the end of the world. There are plenty of other things you can do at Wrestle Kingdom other than a roll call.
>...Not for me.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:11:49 No.6848569 Report

Quoted By: >>6848870 >>6848899 >>6850280

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:15:18 No.6848598 Report

Quoted By: >>6848671

>>6847973
Yeah it sucks that your headcanon didn't matter.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:18:37 No.6848625 Report

Quoted By: >>6848728 >>6849824 >>6849835

If you've watched NJPW the past few years, you know what's going to happen. He'll be involved in the Wrestle Kingdom main event, either day 1 or 2.

He'll win his match, get the belt, and defend it successfully and then retire in the Tokyo Dome, Destino achieved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:23:02 No.6848671 Report

Quoted By: >>6848796 >>6848832

>>6848598
It just makes them bad decisions now. 4 blocks suck and ZSJ losing in under 2 minutes for no reason is retarded. The headcanon were ways to excuse those bad decisions, but no more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:28:47 No.6848728 Report

Quoted By: >>6848836

>>6848625
If you've watched NJPW the past few years and you still have faith in Naito not getting cucked, I don't know what to tell you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:34:27 No.6848796 Report

Quoted By: >>6848815

>>6848671
Doing 4 blocks to save one guy's knees is beyond retarded and I have no idea why you convinced yourself it was reasonable. Same with pretending Zack losing was saving Naito when it gives Zack direction forward and Naito an extremely grueling match with Ospreay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:36:29 No.6848815 Report

Quoted By: >>6848835

>>6848796
>Zack jobbing under 2 minutes gives him a "direction forward"
lol what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:38:11 No.6848832 Report

Quoted By: >>6850172

>>6848671
Are we sure Zack isn't hurt? Two very short matches in a row to end the tournament was suspicious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:38:21 No.6848834 Report

Quoted By:

Maybe Naito doesn’t like being a champion

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:38:22 No.6848835 Report

Quoted By: >>6848882

>>6848815
Yes. Pretty smart timing for him to be obsessed with winning a singles belt when they have a two day UK show coming up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:38:24 No.6848836 Report

Quoted By: >>6848959 >>6850315

>>6848728
Naito's entire career and success is built on hard luck stories. He wants this. He wants one last bump in the road before he wins it all and retires. They might not do it this year, but they'll do it eventually.

It's just part of Naito's story, bro. When Naito stops being the underdog, he's not Naito anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:38:58 No.6848840 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848073
fuck that's funny

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:41:04 No.6848868 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848068
why? he already completed wrestling when he won both belts. wrestling everywhere's been going downhill since

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:41:18 No.6848870 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848569
I like Kenny but even this is too fucking gay

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:42:22 No.6848882 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848835
>You need to lose under two minutes to be driven into wanting to win a belt
lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:43:57 No.6848899 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848569
>Gaijin v Gaijin main eventing the dome
>Two nights in a row, no less
Hell will sooner freeze over

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:45:34 No.6848916 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848073
OH NONONONO

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:49:33 No.6848959 Report

Quoted By: >>6848985

>>6848836
Winning it all and then retiring right after is cringe anyways. Ideally, he'd get his big moment this year, then be a stepping stone for the younger guys coming in. And I say this as a Naito fan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:51:20 No.6848985 Report

Quoted By: >>6848995

>>6848959
Nah, I think Naito intends to fully retire. He's not going to hang around a be a dad like most of the guys, so it's fair for him to go out on top.

Maybe he wins the belt on Night 1 and then loses to the briefcase holder, then retires. Could see that possibly happening. But I have a feeling Naito will retire in the Tokyo Dome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:52:35 No.6848995 Report

Quoted By: >>6849032

>>6848985
And then he keeps delaying the retirement and at a certain point is too sawdusted to get anywhere near a belt. Maybe that's what he deserves if he's really that selfish. But it sure sucks to us fans of him, who only see such a thing as speculation.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:53:18 No.6848999 Report

Quoted By: >>6849603

>Naito loses
>Again

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:55:51 No.6849032 Report

Quoted By: >>6849950

>>6848995
I was never one of the "Naito is done, he's broken down" guys. I think a lot of that was a work and always ignored those rumors. The reason I think his retirement is imminent is because the commentators won't stop talking about it. That makes me think it's actually going to happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:02:37 No.6849098 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848153
Source? Hes a big merch pusher and did some impressive ticket numbers main eventing, but really I doubt Naito was responsible for NJPW's western expansion and record years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:06:11 No.6849149 Report

Quoted By:

ayy lmao lookin nigga

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:10:44 No.6849209 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
This nigga fell off he ded

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:22:13 No.6849337 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
R.I.P.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:52:10 No.6849603 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848999
Thga

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:19:33 No.6849824 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848625
Kino Kobashi

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:20:52 No.6849835 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848625
I thought there were only 7 Burning Hammers in history

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:22:30 No.6849853 Report

Quoted By: >>6849901

>>6847880
He took the Pfizer vaccine

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:29:45 No.6849901 Report

Quoted By:

>>6849853
based

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:31:56 No.6849919 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848073
>Tell my family... tranquilo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:35:12 No.6849950 Report

Quoted By:

>>6849032
>commentators won't stop talking about it.
Good point, it did strike me when I rewatched ZSJ vs Naito that one of them said pretty early something to the effect of "this match could end at anytime, don't go anywhere".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:50:01 No.6850127 Report

Quoted By: >>6850200 >>6850202

>>6847880
It's a red herring bitch ass niggas. He's taking the title shot from Ospreay after this

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:51:37 No.6850144 Report

Quoted By:

>>6847880
KWAB

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:53:46 No.6850172 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848832
I was thinking this too. I saw no issues in either match though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:53:59 No.6850175 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848073
now if someone could just shop the hat on him

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:56:39 No.6850200 Report

Quoted By:

>>6850127
Quit coping. It will make it hurt less when it doesn't happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 19:56:50 No.6850202 Report

Quoted By:

>>6850127
He doesn't have a win over Ospreay to justify it, briefcase defences go to people who beat the briefcase holder in G1 matches. Shingo and Finlay will probably get the defences.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:05:25 No.6850280 Report

Quoted By:

>>6848569
crinfe

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:09:28 No.6850315 Report

Quoted By: >>6850331

>>6848836
>He wants one last bump in the road before he wins it all and retires. They might not do it this year, but they'll do it eventually.
I think it probably has to be this year, his future state is too unpredictable. Someone in another thread suggested that Ospreay will win tomorrow and choose to challenge at Royal Quest instead of Wrestle Kingdom, which makes sense for that show's business. I don't know how they would determine who would challenge the champion at WK, but I'm sure they can work Naito into it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:10:41 No.6850331 Report

Quoted By: >>6850452

>>6850315
Naitetties still coping kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:20:30 No.6850452 Report

Quoted By: >>6850571

>>6850331
desu I'm not a huge Naito guy, Shingo is the only LIJ member I'm a big fan of, but I think everything I just said makes sense. Having Ospreay headline their major UK show is kind of a no brainer (love ZSJ too, but after the Naito loss I don't see him having a claim rn) and whatever way they choose to determine the WK challenger they can have Naito be the ultimate underdog going into it.
I'm not saying I'm confident that's what they're doing, but I like the idea and think its probably the best story they could tell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:33:49 No.6850571 Report

Quoted By:

>>6850452
Don't mind him. He just has a console war brain and wants to console war wrestlers as well for some reason.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:41:36 No.6850664 Report

Quoted By: >>6851114

It's been 8 hours, Destinobros. I still can't get over it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 21:17:09 No.6851114 Report

Quoted By:

>>6850664
Now that I've had time to process it, I am headcanoning Naito still getting to main event the January 4th show. Two years ago, the briefcase holder had the second night instead of the first. There's ways to get there. I believe.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 21:32:20 No.6851355 Report

Quoted By: >>6851373 >>6851977 >>6853648

>>6847880
>>6848073
The pictures that started it all

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 21:33:39 No.6851373 Report

Quoted By:

>>6851355
kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 21:43:37 No.6851518 Report

Quoted By: >>6851680

>>6847880
Ospreay is better. Move on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 21:55:45 No.6851680 Report

Quoted By: >>6852064

>>6851518
At sucking dick, maybe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 22:18:59 No.6851977 Report

Quoted By:

>>6851355
fucking kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 22:26:59 No.6852064 Report

Quoted By: >>6852092

>>6851680
Nah thats Naitos job and years of being on his knees is finally catching up to him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 22:28:57 No.6852092 Report

Quoted By: >>6852147 >>6852165

>>6852064
Ospreay is the one that always does the :O, must be habit from his job.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 22:35:15 No.6852147 Report

Quoted By:

>>6852092
weak cope bud

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 22:36:56 No.6852165 Report

Quoted By:

>>6852092
kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:23:33 No.6853648 Report

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>>6851355
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