NO! NO! NO! FALSE ALARM!

[Warner2BruceTD]

SUCK MA DICK, RUDOS!

New Japan announced earlier today that Sunday's G-1 Climax event from the Bodymaker Colosseum in Osaka will be airing live on iPPV. We don't have details, but the show would start at 5 p.m. in Osaka, which would be 4 a.m. on the East Coast of the United States and 1 a.m. on the West Coast, which would be late Saturday night/early Sunday morning.

The lineup for the show is:

Yuji Nagata vs. Yujiro Takahashi

MVP vs. Rush

Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Lance Archer

Karl Anderson vs. Shelton Benjamin

Toru Yano vs. Minoru Suzuki

Tetsuya Naito vs. Togi Makabe

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kazuchika Okada

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Naomichi Marufuji

Look at those last two matches....LOOK AT THEM!

I don't care what this cost. This is the best wrestling news in a very long time. If this is even moderately successful, the other Japanese companies will follow suit. Why Gabe doesn't have Drgaon Gate on wwnlive.com already is a mystery to me.

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kazuchika Okada

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Naomichi Marufuji

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kazuchika Okada

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Naomichi Marufuji

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kazuchika Okada

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Naomichi Marufuji

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kazuchika Okada

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Naomichi Marufuji

[Warner2BruceTD]

http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv102034202

If you translate the page, it looks like 2000 yen, which I am told is about $20-$25, and you can watch it for a full 24 hours, which is good since it starts at like 3 or 4am.

[Warner2BruceTD]

1800 yen if you order early, whatever early means.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Playing around with Google Translate

- the create a account bit is in english! everything else is in Japanese.
- you can watch it after the fact up until 23:59p August 12th, though only once. Once you start watching, you have 24 hours to finish it before the ticket expires.
- (I could not figure if watching live counts as the one time or if it's in addition to that.)
- you can buy it for 1800 points ($23 US ) ahead of time or 2000 points ($25)...but you have to buy your points in increments of 500/1000/2000, so you're going to be putting down $25 either way.
- they do accept payment by Visa and Mastercard. I stopped here, am not actually going to buy this particular show, no idea if a region limitation kicks in there or what. There are a whole host of other ways to pay, so I imagine there's some way to make it work.

[FedEx227]

I will purchase this.

[Warner2BruceTD]

This is Night 4 of the G1 Climax Tournament. Yuji Nagata & Satoshi Kojima have the night off, so that kinda sucks. And of course, no juniors.

Main events are fantastic on paper. The bigger story here, is hopefully they continue this for the big shows, like the G1 Finals, Best of Super Juniors, and all of the PPV's. And of course, hopefully the other companies play copy cat and do it as well.

[BigBiss]

Man I'd love to check this out

[Bigpapa42]

Gah! Not gonna be able to watch this, which fucking sucks.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Eh, false alarm:

Very bad news G1 ippv is only available Japan. Outside Japan can not see.

[FedEx227]

1.....2................HE GOT HIM NEW CHAMPION... NO... NO...

[EmpireWF]

You were saying about rudos...?

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

MVP vs. Rush

What are VSNers doing on a Japanese PPV ?

[Warner2BruceTD]

Speaking of RUDOS, as they get their lawyers together and prepare to attempt to avoid jail, it came out yesterday that they were taken down because one of the ringleaders' gay lover was the one who dropped dime on them after a lover's spat.

[EmpireWF]

What are VSNers doing on a Japanese PPV ?

MVP...and it wouldn't even be a fair fight.

[Warner2BruceTD]

This thing did 21,615 buys on Japanese iPPV @ $25 per pop. Keep in mind they also do traditional PPV as well (with limited clearance).

That's a monster success, time to take that worldwide. New Japan or Dragon Gate would be the perfect companies to test this out, New Japan because it's so good right now and is a lot like North American wrestling in many ways, Dragon Gate because they obviously have an American branch already and bring something unique style wise to the table, plus have roots in lucha so Mexico could be a potential market.