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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:41:57 No.8744369 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>8744393 >>8744421 >>8744594 >>8744704 >>8744979 >>8745283 >>8746926 >>8747623

The LeBron James of professional wrestling

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:43:07 No.8744393 Report

Quoted By: >>8744424 >>8745518

>>8744369
People actually know who Lebron James is

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:44:24 No.8744420 Report

Quoted By: >>8744446

This nigga better be losing his belt to based SHINGO

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:44:24 No.8744421 Report

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>>8744369
A fraud with fraud titles?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:44:32 No.8744424 Report

Quoted By: >>8744513

>>8744393
no partnership?

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:45:32 No.8744446 Report

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>>8744420
ice cold

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:48:33 No.8744494 Report

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Kaitofags bubbling

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:49:35 No.8744513 Report

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>>8744424
you're upset

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:50:18 No.8744520 Report

Quoted By: >>8744615 >>8745050

He's unironically too good a wrestler. If he were less good, NJPW would be a better company because they wouldn't put the belt on him so often. Change my mind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:55:38 No.8744594 Report

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>>8744369
100 percent agree anon. Would probably work better if it wasn’t a gook, but he’s really the only guy that’s consistently so good that it can seem ordinary. The only way to properly appreciate it is not watching him for awhile.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 02:56:47 No.8744615 Report

Quoted By: >>8744681

>>8744520
There has never been a wrong decision in regards to Okada and his title reigns
He is protected exactly as much as the ace of the company should be
No more, no less

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:01:01 No.8744681 Report

Quoted By: >>8744872

>>8744615
>There has never been a wrong decision in regards to Okada and his title reigns

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:02:05 No.8744704 Report

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>>8744369
Who?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:15:28 No.8744872 Report

Quoted By: >>8744896 >>8744914

>>8744681
>Naitetties still seething about that to this day
Led to the best IWGP title reign since the late 90s that ended on the kino 2 of 3 falls match
Get over it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:17:17 No.8744896 Report

Quoted By: >>8744922

>>8744872
yes fuck the bigger draw, all we need is Okada.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:18:45 No.8744914 Report

Quoted By: >>8744930 >>8744942

>>8744872
The run fizzled out after that match and ended on a masturbatory way too long match where the result was obvious from a mile away and it lead into a really shitty title reign. At least Omega jannettied Okada with a winning record over him and Okada is glad to just take smiling pictures with him instead of trying to get his win back.

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:19:27 No.8744922 Report

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>>8744896
>It's another "Naitetty embarrasses himself" episode
Show sources that Naito was drawing more than Okada that year or the year before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:20:14 No.8744930 Report

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>>8744914
Both got Janettied by based Switchblade, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:21:08 No.8744942 Report

Quoted By: >>8745262

>>8744914
Omega's shit reign is besides the point. I am talking about Okada's reign
As for the rest of your post: Filtered

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:22:43 No.8744971 Report

Quoted By: >>8745133 >>8745975

>Muh dimes
Don't care. Naito is better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:23:38 No.8744979 Report

Quoted By: >>8745016

>>8744369
true they are both soulless and manufactured

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:26:53 No.8745016 Report

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>>8744979
Every ace of every company is manufactured. That's how pro wrestling works.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:28:08 No.8745030 Report

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>crowned as the chosen one immediately upon entering their company
>become the top guy for years like you were supposed to
>never truly surpass the former top guy despite winning every accolade multiple times over
sounds right

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:28:51 No.8745044 Report

Quoted By: >>8745073

underachieving, dunks on lesser talent / competition, while blaming shit for failing. Has a twilight period that's significantly of less competition than any previous GOAT? Yeah, sounds about fight. Then we remember there's more feds than New Japan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:29:19 No.8745050 Report

Quoted By: >>8745113 >>8745570

>>8744520
He's such a good wrestler than he has never sold out anything that wasn't a bingo hall

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:30:45 No.8745073 Report

Quoted By: >>8745510

>>8745044
>Okada
>underachieving

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:35:24 No.8745113 Report

Quoted By: >>8745129

>>8745050
>Drawing 40k people is not good because muh American multi-corporation does better
crinfe

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:37:00 No.8745129 Report

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>>8745113
Yeha, pretty much, only thing that matters is money and viewers, everything else is smark shit. If Okada was such a great wrestler he'd be in WWE already.

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:37:10 No.8745133 Report

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>>8744971
based

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:39:49 No.8745166 Report

Quoted By: >>8745319 >>8745324 >>8745448

Where does the myth that Naito was drawing more than Okada come from? Is this another Meltzer invention?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:45:33 No.8745262 Report

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>>8744942
Worked.

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:46:27 No.8745283 Report

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>>8744369
Based.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:48:22 No.8745319 Report

Quoted By: >>8745344

>>8745166
Your boy le meltz is an okada guy though. He's your ally.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:48:32 No.8745324 Report

Quoted By: >>8745366

>>8745166
>Ah-HA! The guy we keep forcing as a champion is drawing more than the guy that every fucking person in the crowd clearly loves more, and that would surely still be the case if we got a clue and pushed the other guy instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:49:54 No.8745344 Report

Quoted By: >>8745377

>>8745319
Ok, so where does the myth come from?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:51:16 No.8745366 Report

Quoted By: >>8745392

>>8745324
Sorry, can't read your wall of text over the amount of copium you're huffing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:51:50 No.8745377 Report

Quoted By: >>8745468

>>8745344
nobody here actually lives in japan so no one really knows

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:53:10 No.8745392 Report

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>>8745366
Bro, if that's what you think a "wall of text" is, then I hope to god you're not finished with primary.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:57:10 No.8745437 Report

Quoted By: >>8745494

Okada has a habit of coasting through programs. He didn't even attempt to make anyone believe for a second that him beating Jay was anything more than a formality.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:57:58 No.8745446 Report

Quoted By: >>8745516

Okada sucks. His only fans are meltzer fart huffing western smarks.
Nigger coasted on Bullet Club, LIJ and Tanahashi's popularity while adding nothing himself

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:58:05 No.8745448 Report

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>>8745166
It's just one of those internet myths like Ibushi's rich parents or Naito's knees being sawdust for the last 10 years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 03:59:19 No.8745468 Report

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>>8745377
people outside of japan cant look up ticket sales of japanese promotions?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:01:51 No.8745494 Report

Quoted By: >>8745580

>>8745437
Naito doesn't do any of that either, though. He "coasts" because he goes by the "script" he's given.

It's up to the bookers to have stuff like the Kaito beatdown or, for a Naito example, the Shota shock two shows ago.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:03:37 No.8745510 Report

Quoted By:

>>8745073
LeBron comparison

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:04:26 No.8745516 Report

Quoted By: >>8745534 >>8745542

>>8745446
>We're in some sort of weird smark anti-smark paradigm where we pretend Okada didn't bring the best out of Omega, Shibata and Ospreay while delivering on phenomenal programs with Tanahashi and Naito.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:04:29 No.8745518 Report

Quoted By: >>8745722

>>8744393
Lebron rode the NY subway with his basketball gear on and people still didn't know who he was

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:06:31 No.8745534 Report

Quoted By: >>8745541 >>8745557

>>8745516
>Omega
Naito
>Shibata
Only because Shibata nearly killed himself because he was a madman and it was the IWGP match. Okada was basically irrelevant.
>Ospreay
Omega

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:07:06 No.8745541 Report

Quoted By: >>8745551

>>8745534
what the fuck are you even trying to say

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:07:11 No.8745542 Report

Quoted By: >>8745572

>>8745516
You dont understand because of the language barrier but imagine if Test was wwe champion for ten years straight and beat every other guy like a drum despite having no ability to cut a promo

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:08:49 No.8745551 Report

Quoted By: >>8745568

>>8745541
I'm saying who actually brought the best out of Omega, Shibata and Ospreay

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:09:20 No.8745557 Report

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>>8745534
No one will ever agree with me on this, but the last two Okada VS Ospreay matches would have been better than this Omega match if it weren't for the clap crowd debuff

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:10:15 No.8745568 Report

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>>8745551
you didn't say okada though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:10:19 No.8745570 Report

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>>8745050
The Budokan, Sumo Hall, Okada Jo Hall, etc, are not bingo halls

the only thing Okada hasn't sold out (he has sold out Madison Square Garden btw) is the Tokyo Dome

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:10:31 No.8745572 Report

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>>8745542
If Test also happened to bring the best out of Edge, Triple H, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Brock Lesnar, then that would be a valid comparison, yes.

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:11:15 No.8745580 Report

Quoted By: >>8745587 >>8745630

>>8745494
Even without angles like that, certain wrestlers are better at building a match by conveying their emotions, whether with their words or their actions in the ring. I never feel like Tanahashi is sleepwalking through a program.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:11:53 No.8745587 Report

Quoted By:

>>8745580
He's literally doing that right now with KENTA kek
KENTA is even making jokes about it in his promos. And he's right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:15:07 No.8745612 Report

Quoted By: >>8745638 >>8745659

The last guys to sell out the Tokyo Dome broke into the business in the 1980s.
That's 4 decades ago.
Nobody who broke into the business in the 90s has sold out the Tokyo Dome.
Nobody who broke into the business in the 00s has sold out the Tokyo Dome.

Japanese wrestling as a whole doesn't sell out the Tokyo Dome anymore and hasn't for a long time.
Even the guys who were selling it out in the 00s broke into the business in the 80s, so again, seems maybe a little unfair to blame Okada for that entirely.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:18:32 No.8745630 Report

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>>8745580
TBF, Okada's is just the latest in a long line of "stoic hero" aces. Misawa was exactly the same in comparison to Kawada and Kobashi.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:19:33 No.8745638 Report

Quoted By: >>8745676

>>8745612
That's just memeing. It's the equivalent of shitting on John Cena because he wasn't able to get a 7.0 nielsen rating in his career when the Attitude dudes did it. Wrestling was way hotter in the 90s, no shit.

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:23:21 No.8745659 Report

Quoted By: >>8745672 >>8745676 >>8745677 >>8745753

>>8745612
Cope. It should be easier than ever to sell out the Dome due to globalization and the outward expansion of the western market to cater to the smarks. Plus the sustained push that Okada has gotten for the past 11 years, no other star in company's history has even come close to receiving that kind of push except Inoki himself, yet he still can't sell out the dome. Biggest failed ace push ever

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:25:00 No.8745672 Report

Quoted By: >>8745688

>>8745659
>It should be easier than ever to sell out the Dome when wrestling is objectively less popular worldwide because... BECAUSE MUH SMARKS!

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:25:16 No.8745676 Report

Quoted By: >>8745688

>>8745638
>That’s just memeing
>>8745659

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:25:21 No.8745677 Report

Quoted By: >>8745688 >>8745705

>>8745659
>it should be easier to sell out a 70,000 capacity dome in Tokyo because of "globalization" and "smarks"
A post so dumb that I feel like telling you to take your meds isn't even enough

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:26:49 No.8745688 Report

Quoted By: >>8745709 >>8745710

>>8745672
>>8745676
>>8745677
jamals start greentexting because they have no comeback. Tale as old as time

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:28:33 No.8745705 Report

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>>8745677
>still believing fake numbers from the 90s
the dome max out at 55K

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:28:52 No.8745709 Report

Quoted By: >>8745719

>>8745688
Why don't you ever post about how Tanahashi never sold out the Tokyo Dome?

Oh that's right, it's because you're just some fag with a hateboner for Okada looking to do some console war hateposting
kill yourself you poojeet faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:29:24 No.8745710 Report

Quoted By: >>8745774

>>8745688
The comeback is that "globalization" doesn't make up for a form of entertainment that is down from the 90s across the globe

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:30:47 No.8745719 Report

Quoted By: >>8745721 >>8745727 >>8745753

>>8745709
why would i ever defend Tanahashit when Okada literally saved his legacy and turned his career around? Get fucked your entire point is moot

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:31:23 No.8745721 Report

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>>8745719
lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:31:26 No.8745722 Report

Quoted By:

>>8745518
only one person didn't, anon. everyone else waved to his camera and were happy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:32:03 No.8745727 Report

Quoted By: >>8745791

>>8745719
do you not understand english, bobboschizo?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:35:20 No.8745753 Report

Quoted By:

>>8745659
>>8745719
Inoki has put over both Okada and Tanahashi in countless interviews
Why can't you let go of the hate, fellow Inokibro?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:37:25 No.8745774 Report

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>>8745710
but you jamals have no problem boasting that NJPW posted record profits, even shattering records from the 90s, their most succesful decade. But when Okada gets questioned why he can't sell out thedome it's always THE BUSINESS IS DOWN. If business was the best it's ever been during the recent boom period, just sell out the dome once Its not that hard bro LMAO

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:39:11 No.8745791 Report

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>>8745727
GOOD MORNING SIR

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 04:57:28 No.8745975 Report

Quoted By: >>8746086

>>8744971
Naito's the Steph Curry of wrestling.

A more beloved superstar even though the company doesn't support him as much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 05:09:12 No.8746086 Report

Quoted By:

>>8745975
Don't know enough about basketball, but it sounds like a based comparison to me, Naitobro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 07:21:56 No.8746926 Report

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>>8744369

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 09:48:42 No.8747623 Report

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>>8744369
Nigger?

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