Puroresu Love & Resources V3

[Baby Shoes]

https://twitter.com/blackishabc/status/1229843024252825601

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

Well that's random as hell. But I like it. I like Black-ish.

 

[Baby Shoes]

https://twitter.com/thesuperjcast/status/1230897380414722048

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Full card for the 48th Anniversary Show AND first round of NJ Cup are out:

https://www.f4wonline.com/new-japan-news/njpw-reveals-full-card-48th-anniversary-show-304921
Non-title match: IWGP Heavyweight & Intercontinental Champion Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiromu Takahashi
Kazuchika Okada, Will Ospreay, SHO & YOH vs. Shingo Takagi, EVIL, SANADA & BUSHI
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & DOUKI
Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Toa Henare vs. Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Robbie Eagles
Yuji Nagata, Tiger Mask & Gabriel Kidd vs. Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura

https://www.f4wonline.com/new-japan-news/new-japan-cup-2020-participants-opening-round-matches-revealed-304926

March 4th:
Togi Makabe vs. Jeff Cobb
Tomhiro Ishii vs. Toa Henare
Toru Yano vs. Chase Owens
Colt Cabana vs. Bad Luck Fale

March 7th:
Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White
Yuji Nagata vs. Minoru Suzuki
Juice Robinson vs. Alex Coughlin
David Finlay vs. Tanga Loa

March 8th:
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Taichi
Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Mikey Nicholls vs. SANADA
Will Ospreay vs . Shingo Takagi

March 9th:
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. YOSHI-HASHI
KENTA vs. Karl Fredericks
Satoshi Kojima vs. EVIL
Hirooki Goto vs. Yujiro Takahashi

Ah shit Nagata Vs MiSu is one of my favourite matches. If you've never seen the dome show matches they had go back and watch them.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Okada Vs Jay White, Ospreay Vs Shingo, and Tana Vs Taichi all seem like odd matches to waste on the first round but I guess they need to generate some excitement on those shows. Consider me pumped for MiSu Vs Yuji Nagata as well.


I don't know if anyone else watched the Nakanishi retirement show but his farewell match was about as good as you can get for a nostalgia guys Vs current stars match. They did a great job of reminding fans what made the NJPW Dads so great without overshadowing the current roster. Also fun and random as hell to see Tanahashi act heelish.

 

[Slayer]

So after all the announcements for the awesome matches coming up in March, this happens

https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1232644326540247041?s=20

DDT has made a similar announcement for cancelled shows in March, and I imagine we'll be hearing from the other feds in due time

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Not at all surprising but really sucks. I'm expecting this to start happening in Mexico and the US too tbh.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Yeah, I'm wondering if there's any chance WrestleMania gets canceled.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Wrestle-1 is dead as of April 1.

Keiji Mutoh and President Kaz Hayashi held a press conference at the GEN Sports Palace Media Center in Okubo, Tokyo to announced that WRESTLE-1 will suspend all activities as of April 1st. This date also being their last show at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Mutoh stated that the promotion has faced a deficit after the launch, in July of 2013, and they have struggled ever since. Mutoh stated that GEN Sports, as the owners of W-1, which is connected to K-1, has take up the financial burden year after year. Which it has been decided that there is no reason to inconvenience them any further. President Kaz Hayashi stated that everyone involved in W-1 has tried hard to keep this from happening, but sadly it was just beyond their means to turn things around.

The entire W-1 staff and wrestlers will be no longer under contract with the promotion as of March 31st. Though they have agreed to take part in the final show the following day. The event card will be announced on a later date.

Mutoh also announced that his final appearance for the promotion will be on March 15th for the final big show in Ota Ward. He will be unable to attend the Korakuen Hall show on April 1st as he is previously booked to be in the USA for several independent shows during WrestleMania weekend in Tampa, Fl.

This whole thing only happened because the former owner of AJPW was such a dickhead who had no idea what he was doing and Mutoh and his guys couldn't take it anymore and left. On the one hand it is a shame the company is shutting down because the last year or so they finally started to find their ground with STRONGHEARTS and other guys coming in and a really good crop of trainees starting to impress people. On the other hand there are too many companies in Japan and they aren't making money.

What I HOPE happens is some of these guys end up in AJPW/NOAH/NJPW/etc but what is the usual pattern is that we get 4 smaller splinter companies.

 

[Baby Shoes]

Tokyo Sports posted something speculating that AJPW may be merging into WWE. There is speculation this is part of the reason that Jun Akiyama is the Performance Center this week.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

AJPW just tweeted that Jun Akiyama was going there to learn about WWE's television production as well as the guest PC Coaching.

So in case you're wondering "Why the hell are there so many camera cuts? I just want to watch this Kento Miyahara match!" in a few months...

 

[Slayer]

so it feels like way too soon already but, at least for the time being, we'll have some attended puro shows over the next few days with DDT tonight and All Japan on Sunday night. Lineups:

https://twitter.com/ddtpro_eng/status/1232374912397873157

https://twitter.com/alljapan_eng/status/1236782815838076931

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

New Japan has canceled all of their shows through April 11th so I guess it's too early to say Japan is through the Corona crisis.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

For anybody needing Japanese fix, STARDOM is airing a show on Youtube kicking off their Cinderella tournament!

https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1241901691311550466
https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1242067810274037761

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/DBSmithjr/status/1242135226500997120

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

NOAH GHC Heavy Result from today:
Go Shiozaki (c) defeats Kazuyuki Fujita (57:47)

I mean even when he was young Fujita wasn't a long match guy... Seems crazy.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

The STARDOM Cinderella Tournament, which actually had a small crowd (nice to see as a change of pace tbh). Starts about 10 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxjaqJaZ01E

 

[Brocklock]

NOAH GHC Heavy Result from today:
Go Shiozaki (c) defeats Kazuyuki Fujita (57:47)

I mean even when he was young Fujita wasn't a long match guy... Seems crazy.

Holy shit that match time broke my brain

 

[tekcop]

NOAH GHC Heavy Result from today:
Go Shiozaki (c) defeats Kazuyuki Fujita (57:47)

I mean even when he was young Fujita wasn't a long match guy... Seems crazy.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattt?

 

[HarleyQuinn]

https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/ajpw-cancels-champion-carnival-tournament-307931

The president of AJPW, Tsuyoki Fukuda, said in the press conference announcing the cancellation that he will "make every possible effort" to run the tournament this year.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1250407095750373387

 

[tekcop]

https://twitter.com/thesuperjcast/status/1250445474428907525

I don't click on articles and I assume most other people don't, either.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/indiewrestling/status/1251251617065766913
Another reason to subscribe to Beard Daddy's favorite streaming service IWTV. They're going to start airing these shows next Thursday.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1258200169285333000

Nooooooooooooooo.

Well, maybe see ya next year, NYC TSMers. :-\

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

All part of my master plan to keep Kamala from spreading the rona to my hometown 8)

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Brother, I live in the sticks. You guys would be giving the 'rona to me and risking spreading it across York County, Maine!

It is disconcerting that we're canceling things in three and a half months but realistically, yeah, I knew there was no way that I would be sitting in MSG with Brooklyn Zoo and Big Beard Booty Daddy watching Okada by the end of August.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

There goes dama's chance to try and find BZ,

"BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" "BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Not surprising. Tickets were going to go on sale next week, so they had to make a choice. Trying to get talent into America would have been an issue, too. I'd rather them postpone it for everyone's safety.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/njpwworld/status/1258233613302157312
Well, at least I can watch these big men rough house tonight.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://www.f4wonline.com/new-japan-news/kazuchika-okada-announces-donation-coronavirus-relief-efforts-310506

Okada dropped 5 Million yen (47k US) for coronovirus relief. Pretty cool.