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Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:09:49 No.9776048 View View Reply Original Report

What went wrong?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:10:53 No.9776054 Report

Quoted By: >>9776112

>>9776048
NJPW doesn't take it seriously and never did

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:12:21 No.9776063 Report

Quoted By: >>9776074

>>9776048
he's too busy fucking Tay and cucking sammy to waste time on these shitters

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:12:51 No.9776068 Report

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>>9776048
Nothing went wrong with Narita.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:14:25 No.9776074 Report

Quoted By: >>9776420

>>9776063
>Shibata is gonna get in trouble for fucking fans. Again
Kek. People only forgot about it the first time because of the brain injury

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:16:31 No.9776085 Report

Quoted By: >>9776092

>>9776048
karl fredericks used to look like that?? he looks like he has aids now

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:17:41 No.9776088 Report

Quoted By: >>9778012

>>9776048
More like Shibata Bacon Cheeseburger at Wendys lmao

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:19:02 No.9776092 Report

Quoted By: >>9776119 >>9777988 >>9780231

>>9776085
NJPW has pretty solid tard wranglers other than those times they let Kenneth crossdress

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:23:20 No.9776112 Report

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>>9776054
This

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:25:48 No.9776119 Report

Quoted By: >>9776126 >>9776173 >>9776539 >>9776664 >>9776791 >>9780482

>>9776092
holy fuck he looks way more dimes there than he does now

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:27:02 No.9776126 Report

Quoted By: >>9776173 >>9778021

>>9776119
rough, what happened to this dude

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:40:08 No.9776173 Report

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>>9776119
>>9776126
joined the edrone cult and completely fell apart. many such cases

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:40:56 No.9776179 Report

Quoted By: >>9776674

>>9776048
>Coughlin
Nothing, he'll be over like rover when he comes to Japan properly as a singles
>Connors
He'll get a decent score this BOSJ but Jr is his ceiling
>Kidd
Shoot mental illness
>Fredricks
They pushed him too hard, paraded him around as the standout YL then got shocked he started getting an attitude and left.
>Narita
Will get a decent G1 run this year maybe end up winning the TV title off Zack down the line
Not pictured but
>Kevin Knight
Obviously they see something in him, hoping he puts on a show against Catch 22
>DKC
Lol, lmao even

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 10:47:12 No.9776218 Report

Quoted By: >>9776366 >>9778542

No one cares about Japanese wrestling in the US. The numbers vetted that out long ago when their pay service couldn’t get more than 10k subscribers at their height in the US and the tv show is embarrassing. It’s a niche inside a shrinking niche that was only carried by a NWO tribute band.

These guys are all ok workers with no personality and limited height. Shibata can’t teach charisma.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:07:45 No.9776340 Report

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>>9776048
>When you get to Ren Narita

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:12:51 No.9776366 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776218
>Shibata can’t teach charisma.
harsh but fair

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:14:05 No.9776378 Report

Quoted By: >>9776421

>>9776048
>Only good wrestlers they trained are Clark Connors and Ren Narita
Where the others just shitters or did they fuck it up?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:15:05 No.9776386 Report

Quoted By: >>9776466

>>9776048
All of them are incredible wrestlers, but they are in a promotion not many people watch not very high on the card and not presented as anything other than character-less young lions who work hard so its no surprise not that many people care about them, its the promoters job to present them as a big deal. Although didn't Fredericks leave? I don't know what he's up to now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:18:07 No.9776407 Report

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>>9776048
Coughlin is based, Narita is still cooking too

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:20:14 No.9776420 Report

Quoted By: >>9776440 >>9776701

>>9776074
Gonna need a QRD?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:20:17 No.9776421 Report

Quoted By: >>9776457

>>9776378
Fredericks is in NXT

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:22:57 No.9776440 Report

Quoted By: >>9776450 >>9776850

>>9776420
he got some heat over his marital affair becoming public news, he also basically said that ZSJ is gay

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:24:01 No.9776450 Report

Quoted By: >>9776466 >>9776850

>>9776440
big fred shooting, also ZSJ is gay

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:25:00 No.9776457 Report

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>>9776421
so the others are just shitters?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:25:50 No.9776466 Report

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>>9776386
you're way behind, just about everyone has gimmicks now (coughlin's is terrible) and are off doing stuff

>>9776450
>also ZSJ is gay
this, him and taichi were always doing gay shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:30:16 No.9776501 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776048
More people watching New Japan than watching NJPWoA

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:35:56 No.9776539 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776119
Even 'NJPW young boy' is better than whatever slop this is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:52:48 No.9776664 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776119
Shibata kept him disciplined and focused. Then he got hooked on peyote and lost his way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:53:55 No.9776674 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776179
>DKC
Chris Charlton kind of ruined him for me when he said that The DKC does not mean The Donkey Kong Country.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 11:58:57 No.9776701 Report

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>>9776420
Timeline might be a bit off but I think it was sometime between Shibatas feud with the NJPW Dads and the Okada match, Shibby was in the doghouse for drinking and hooking up with fans. Affairs are a big no no in Japan

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 12:06:48 No.9776762 Report

Quoted By: >>9776780

>>9776048
Ren Narita, Clark Connors and Uemura are all legit future stars. Fredericks couldn't hack it and will go nowhere in NXT, Gabriel Kidd is bi-polar and Alex Coughlin is just average. The real star was always going to be Shota though no matter who worked out in LA. but its not like its a total wash.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 12:08:38 No.9776780 Report

Quoted By: >>9776799

>>9776762
uemura and shota were japan dojo not us

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 12:11:18 No.9776791 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776119
Yikes looks like NJPW dodged a bullet

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 12:13:44 No.9776799 Report

Quoted By: >>9777019

>>9776780
Didn't Uemura leave for LA Dojo before his excursion? He's in the US for training either way and I think he's gonna be a big star.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 12:23:35 No.9776850 Report

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>>9776440
>>9776450
>ZSJ is gay
not true, read the full text. it was just a prank and shibby is either inebriate or homophobic

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ProWresBlog !1JPtDnh8WA Thu 13 Apr 2023 12:24:37 No.9776852 Report

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Just a bizarre situation. NJPW needed new guys, so they trained new guys then refused to use them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 12:30:27 No.9776915 Report

Quoted By: >>9777019

These faggots have been in development for like 5 years or more

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 12:44:39 No.9777019 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776799
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure doing strong counted as his excursion too, cuz of covid

>>9776915
covid was a motherfucker

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:40:15 No.9777945 Report

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Narita doesn't count, he started at the Noge Dojo. Don't credit Shibata for that.

The successes seem to be Clark Connors and Kevin Knight. All the heavies flopped.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:41:42 No.9777963 Report

Quoted By: >>9777977

>>9776048
Connors and Coughlin will be successes
Kidd went fucking insane but is probably the best overall of the lot
Narita doesn't count
Fredericks, eh, who cares

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:43:08 No.9777977 Report

Quoted By: >>9778065

>>9777963
Coughlin has flopped so far and they refuse to give him chances. Why wasn't he at the New Japan Cup?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:44:26 No.9777988 Report

Quoted By: >>9777999

>>9776092
Wtf why doesn’t he look like this in nxt

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:44:45 No.9777992 Report

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>None of them were invited for a 32 man G1
>It's 20 men again this year
Yikes

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:45:46 No.9777999 Report

Quoted By:

>>9777988
Because now he's allowed to express himself fully so he can flop harder

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:46:22 No.9778004 Report

Quoted By: >>9778063

>>9776048
Time to shut it down again. Hopefully Nu-Jamal finally gets a fucking clue and drops this US expansion crap. The Bullet Club garbage is over a decade old at this point. Let it go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:47:09 No.9778012 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776088
>American't stop thinking about eating

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:48:10 No.9778021 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776126
he stopped juicing and got fat. many such cases.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:51:55 No.9778063 Report

Quoted By:

>>9778004
Tanahashi said the L.A. Dojo is focused on training seminars now. As in, you pay to train.
Seems like it's just a grift now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:51:57 No.9778065 Report

Quoted By: >>9778072

>>9777977
People underestimate just how fucked puro got by COVID. I think they cant afford to bring these guys over as much as they’d like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:53:11 No.9778072 Report

Quoted By: >>9778153

>>9778065
Bro, come on lol
They brought DKC for a random Road To tour and they can't afford Coughlin in the NJC? Get real

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 14:57:12 No.9778112 Report

Quoted By: >>9778235 >>9781029

>>9776048
>Coughlin
No idea where he is, probably still on strong.
>Connors
Seems okay from what I've seen, he's been getting spots on the main roster. Too bad he's such a manlet that he'll probably always be a Junior.
>Kidd
guy was a schizo, never was gonna make it
>Fredericks
lmao
webm related
>Narita
Seems alright, he's an ugly ass motherfucker though, desperately needs a new look

Rosemary (._. )

Rosemary (._. ) Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:00:09 No.9778130 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776048
A bunch of vanilla midgets with no charisma.
>Muh workrate
Wrestling is fucking doomed

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:01:09 No.9778140 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776048
I like coughlin and thought fredricks had potential at the start

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:02:21 No.9778153 Report

Quoted By:

>>9778072
That was originally meant to be Coughlin. So they have plans for him but for some reason didn’t put him in NJC. Can’t imagine they’d just forget about him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:11:19 No.9778235 Report

Quoted By: >>9778244 >>9780398

>>9778112
Narita is cute
t. Femanon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:12:27 No.9778244 Report

Quoted By: >>9778296

>>9778235
1. no one asked
2. you're not a woman

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:18:36 No.9778296 Report

Quoted By: >>9778352

>>9778244
> 1. no one asked
Wasn’t waiting for someone to ask
>2. you're not a woman
But enough about you, tranny

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:23:39 No.9778352 Report

Quoted By:

>>9778296
>tranny
nah that's you

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:34:36 No.9778474 Report

Quoted By: >>9781029

>>9776048
Clark Connors is pretty good, I see him ultimately ending up in AEW in a few years though.
Didn't Karl Fredericks go to NXT?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 15:40:24 No.9778542 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776218
>Shibata can’t teach charisma.
the only thing I came here to post
look at the nigga himself, he's a 90s guy who does nothing himself but wear black trunks

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 16:58:29 No.9779367 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776048
kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 18:02:54 No.9780231 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776092
To be fair I don’t think the whole

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 18:14:40 No.9780398 Report

Quoted By:

>>9778235
Sup babe?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 18:22:52 No.9780482 Report

Quoted By:

>>9776119
OP here, this is embarrassing and I didn’t realize he let himself go like this. Shame his ego got the best of him like it did

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 19:15:14 No.9781029 Report

Quoted By:

>>9778474
he's right here >>9778112

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Apr 2023 19:19:51 No.9781076 Report

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>>9776048
I think Shibata running a dojo really only made him want to wrestle more and little else. Taking some older guys out of no name indies and expecting them to have the discipline of a young jap kid was too much. Switching to the american style of letting people pay to pretend to get trained is probably going to have similar results and bring in a lot more money.

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