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Miyahara's flash offense doesn't bode well with leg selling but he did better than most in that regard all things considered - you could argue he should change his formula when the story of the match is his leg getting worked on, but made the effort to sell as much as possible - and Shingo was awesome working on top. The Wada fuckery at the beginning made this fun from the get go too. Strong main event for Day 1.

For Jetlag, Twin Towers vs Strong BJ - 1/2/17 Big Japan https://rutube.ru/video/b75ddb98345691e1e8f1415d4031f3ec/ Matt, I'm going to take a couple of weeks off after this. My backlog is getting bigger and still gonna owe 4 matches after this week.

Good doc, not a masterpiece but a lot better than WWE-made effort. Yeah, when I heard the first preview for this doc (with Simmons and Shoemaker) they made it seem this doc would have no bullshit because the director wouldn't allow it. But then I heard the one Simmons did with the director and I could tell Bill didn't know enough and was too attached to his 80's baby mentality to course correct some stuff. But hey, we gotta appreciate that they left out the "Andre was a father figure for Steph" narrative that WWE wanted to push. Vince and Hogan might've worked him - and to be honest, even with the Hogan thing, they had everyone else admitting Andre was just trolling, the problem to me was they spent too much time on his bullshit paranoia - but he was savvy enough to smell bullshit on other stuff.

The match was ridiculous in a bad way. Total letdown to me.

I think the only thing that the YB/GL match had over this one was a couple of flips. The emotion, drama and story smokes anything on that tag match imo.

Incredible match, not even sure what else say about it. It was everything it should've been, if anything tops it this year I'll be sincerely amazed.

Gargano vs Ciampa is the match of the year so far for me, and holy shit if something tops it. All the excess the match had felt in tune to their feud and story.

Would smark crowds cheer Reigns because he's associated with Heyman though? Maybe, but I don't think it matters. But then what's the point of doing it when he already gets a mixed reaction? I don't like the idea pairing of Heyman with Rousey either tbh As a fan? A more interesting take on his character. And hell, that could lead to full on cheers after a while, instead of a mixed reaction.

Would smark crowds cheer Reigns because he's associated with Heyman though? Maybe, but I don't think it matters.

Show hasn't even started and the fuckery levels are already at it's highest Low-Ki bitching out is too damn perfect.

I owe 2 reviews and I'll probably owe this week's too but I'll get to it soon enough. Anyway, I've decided I'm going to pimp as much Strong Big Japan as possible through this project so to dawho5, this one is for you. Yoshihito Sasaki & Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Shinobu & Yuji Okabayashi - Big Japan 7/25/2011 https://rutube.ru/video/dd6594dcb8ee887a68924bcdd9dc4abc/

The real funny thing is that the photo does do justice to Ronda's "selling"

After 7 hours of wrestling I'm really worried the crowd is gonna be too spent to give Roman/Brock the atmosphere it needs. People that hate on Roman might just be too tired or not care enough to boo him like at WM 31 and the people that support might end up getting drowned like the last two Mania main events. I really hope fans give them a chance to have the dope match they no doubt can have. I also hope it doesn't go past 15 minutes and they just go for a sprint.

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That superplex to falcon arrow spot, reversed to a small package made me legit mad.

This was the best of Sabre and the worst of Sabre in the same match, it was more good than bad though. I give full credit to him for making the first 17 minutes interesting enough to grab my attention. At this point is very hard for me to stay engaged for so long in New Japan main events because I know the first half barely means anything - just like NOAH's big matches in the late 2000's-early 2010' - but in this case I was thoroughly entertained by the ZBJ show of "look how many cool shit/counters I can do". I also liked the little things he did like Okada copying a reversal Sabre did early and Zack having a counter to that because he's the one that knows how that shit works, or him desperately trying to avoid Okada from getting to the ropes a couple of times. I also give full credit to Zack for having Sumo Hall buying into his late submissions AND pinfalls, I knew there was no way he was winning but the crowd did and that's all that matters to me. Now, onto the bad. Once again I came out of a ZSJ match thinking he was more interested in showing off than winning the match - and the biggest fucking price of the company - every time he locked in a submission that look painful enough on a body part (and was sold by Okada as such) he focused a little bit on it but then went back on doing different shit to other parts of the body. I get his gimmick is that he can submit you at any time with a variety of moves, but it's frustrating to watch him pass on the opportunity to establish control and dominate his opponent by obliterating a body part when he has a clear opportunity to do it. There were like three times he had Okada basically dead and he just looked at the crowd or taunted Okada, there was no urgency by him in those instances. I also thought the "reset" part of the match, when Okada just grew tired of grappling around and taunted Zack to a strike exchange, was very weak. Why would Sabre go with it when he was clearly getting the best of the champ before? Okada didn't have to do anything special to change the dynamic of the match. The second half was more about strikes and ZBJ countering everything Okada threw at him - also didn't like how after stretching the fuck out of Okada and hitting him hard, all the champ needed to down the challenger was 1 or 2 strikes -, which was fun to watch by the way, it just didn't make much sense to me considering what happened in the first 20 minutes or so. Ending felt undeserved as most of Okada's defenses. All in all, a VERY fun match that once again went too long for no damn reason but at least it was entertaining throughout most of it. It just didn't have the depth or story to become the GREAT match it could've been imo.

I stopped watching Sabre matches last year because I just grew tired of the guy. Decided to watch the Okada match after all the praise he was getting for his New Japan Cup performances. I was surprised at how entertained I was with it, specially the first half which I normally struggle to get through in Okada's title defenses because they are too fucking long and hold very little meaning to the overall story of his defenses. Still, the match wasn't great and once again I came out of a ZSJ match thinking he was more interested in showing off his skills than winning the match (and the main fucking belt in the company), but hey, it was better than I thought it was going to be, specially for it being 34 minutes long.

To have fun discussing it, dummy.

Okada vs Tanahashi is gonna be the big main event for Dontaku, Naito vs Suzuki for the IC will be the other big match. I wonder if Gedo will book a "IWGP vs IC champion match" for Dominion. Naito going for the title again and beating Okada in a town he has so much history with like Osaka, two years after he lost the big belt to him and started this whole reign.

Shinpei Nogami just constantly talks about teriyaki sauce and the judo team at his former University. Shinji Yoshino doesn't know the names of any moves, he just shouts out "What a maneuver!" when something big happens in the ring. Both of them keep saying "Will you stop!" to Milano Collection A.T. and talking about how the wrestler hurt his external occipital protuberance... It's a nightmare. holy shit, thank god I don't understand a lick of japanese. I already can't watch Lucha because of the abomination that is play-by-play and commentary, adding puro would be too much.

I know this is the New Japan thread but it sounds to me some of you guys need a little Strong BJ ( ) in your lives, if you want fun and short matches that's were it has been for years ps: I thought JR's commentary was fucking awful, kept making mistakes and dude sounded bored out of his mind 90% of the time. I had to switch to the japanese commentary for the last 2 matches.

Winged Eagle, to celebrate D-Bry's return

I hope Shane eats the pin at Mania instead of turning and becoming a heel authority figure. Another dope promo by Bryan, it's amazing how good he's gotten with the mic.

Yeah, it's pretty much official it's gonna be a 4-Way. At least he got a spot on the card.