New Japan "Wrestle Kingdom V" full card

[Warner2BruceTD]

NJPW "WRESTLE KINGDOM V", 04.01.2011 (PPV)
Tokyo Dome

0. World Pro Wrestling Inter-Promotional Match: Wataru Inoue, Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Tama Tonga vs. Yujiro Takahashi, Tomohiro Ishii, Jado & Gedo
0. World Pro Wrestling Invitation Match: Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Kenny Omega & Taichi
1. IWGP Tag Team Title, 3 Way Match: Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson (c) vs. James Storm & Robert Roode vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Strong Man
2. Jushin Thunder Liger & Héctor Garza vs. La Sombra & Máscara Dorada
3. Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Takashi Iizuka
4. NJPW/TNA Greatest Showcase: Toru Yano vs. Rob Van Dam
5. Yuji Nagata vs. Minoru Suzuki
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt (c) vs. Kota Ibushi
7. NJPW vs. NOAH I: Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada vs. Takashi Sugiura & Yoshihiro Takayama
8. TNA World Heavyweight Title: Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito
9. NJPW vs. NOAH II: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Go Shiozaki
10. Togi Makabe vs. Masato Tanaka
11. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

Weird card, but pretty stacked with NJPW, TNA, CMLL, & NOAH talent. Matches in bold will be tits, especially Devitt vs. Ibushi which could be the years first serious MOTY contender. I also expect yet another IWGP title win for Tanahashi at the Dome.

I really fucking wish HDNet would hurry up and start showing jap wrestling.

[SHOGUN]

HDNet would be damn near perfect if they put on more wrestling.

That card looks great.

OMEGA, La Sombra, Devitt + Ibushi, Jado & Gedo FTW. :rockwoot:

[Warner2BruceTD]

It would be very low cost for a group like NOAH to send over taped matches, as a vehicle to sell DVD's. I mean shit, NOAH already produces english language DVD's anyway.

Meltzer mentioned in passing one time on a radio show that HDNet is open to airing Japanese wrestling. I guess its a matter of the orgs wanting to do it or not. Another group that would be an obvious fit would be Dragon Gate, who tour the U.S. 4-6 times per year & do iPPV's. Getting U.S. tv could be a nice step for them. Maybe the success of Final Battle, which was built so well on HDNet, will pave the way.

[Bigpapa42]

I already love HD Net. If they started showing NOAH, DG, AJPW, or NJPW, I would barely change the channel. ROH on HDNet is already my favorite weekly wrestling show and they show so much MMA... This needs to happen.

Edit - I just emailed Mark Cuban about it. I'm not even joking.

[Bigpapa42]

So... um... Mark Cuban just emailed back. He said they tried to make it work before and couldn't get it to, but he would check into it again...

[Warner2BruceTD]

So... um... Mark Cuban just emailed back. He said they tried to make it work before and couldn't get it to, but he would check into it again...

Haha tremendous. Post the email addy, let's mail bomb him until it gets done.

But yeah, sounds like its on the orgs and not on HDNet. Cuban likes wrestling.

[Bigpapa42]

mcuban@hd.net

Its right off the HDNet site. No idea if it was really him that emailed me back, but this is what I got...

we have checked on it and couldnt make it work, but I will check on it again !

thx for your support of HDNet !

m

Could just be some assistant or something, but the "professionalism" of it amuses me. Responded back just to say that Noah and DG are worth considering, not just AJPW and NJPW.

[EmpireWF]

Nice

Only time I've ever watched HDNet was at a hotel in Atlantic City.

Even though I believe it's only available on Fios and Satellite in NYC...some day it will happen. Some day!

[Warner2BruceTD]

Late tonight!

Will desperately look for a stream, but it should be all over the net within days.

I think Ibushi finally knocks off Devitt.

Jeff Hardy bombed at the presser, cutting a bad promo and forgetting who he was facing.