The Puro Thread

[Warner2BruceTD]

As reported exclusively by...well, me, Tony Nese is headed to Japan for a Dragon Gate tour in October. He's going to do really well over there. I'm guessing he got Scott Reed's spot.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

WRESTLE-1 “Raising an Army Tour”, 9/22/2013 [Sun] 16:00 @
Ishikawa Prefectural Industrial Exhibition Hall, 3rd Building (Kanazawa City)
1508 Spectators (packed house)

~ Hiroshi Hase came out to do commentary for the whole event.

(1) TAJIRI [WNC] vs. Rene Dupree
◆Winner: TAJIRI (9:38) following a Middle Kick to Dupree’s face.

(2) 3WAY Match: Ryota Hama vs. Zodiac vs. Otokozakari
◆Winner: Hama (5:41) with a Raiden Drop on Otokozakari.

(3) Daiki Inaba & Seiki Yoshioka vs. NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA
◆Winner: NOSAWA (8:37) following a Super Kick to Inaba.

(4) Joshi Pro-Wrestling Match: Shuri vs. Makoto
◆Winner: Shuri (7:26) with a German Suplex Hold.

(5) Hiroshi Yamato vs. Manabu Nakanishi [NJPW]
◆Winner: Nakanishi (8:15) with an Argentine Backbreaker.

(6) “Team 246” Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo vs. “Junior Stars” Minoru Tanaka & Koji Kanemoto [Free]
◆Winner: Minoru (12:56) with the HEAT Clutch on Hayashi.
~ Junior Stars with the win, and after the match there was an agreement made over an open-division.

(7) KAI vs. Seiya Sanada
◆Winner: Sanada (13:18) with a Moonsault Press.
~ Sanada and KAI are now equal with 2-2, wins and loses.

(8) Keiji Mutoh, Masakatsu Funaki & Yasufumi Nakanoueno vs. Masayuki Kono, Ryoji Sai & KAZMA SAKAMOTO
◆Winner: Kono (13:50) following a Giant Knee Drop on Nakanoueno.
~ After the match Kono, Sai & KAZMA continued attacking the other team.
~ Hiroshi Hase who was at ringside apparently had enough of it and jumped in the ring to make the save. Huge fan outcry for Hase.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

NOAH has some awesome stuff coming up.

Top Matches from 10/5:

NOAH "GREAT VOYAGE 2013 IN YOKOHAMA VOL. 2", 05.10.2013 (G+)
Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium

1. GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask (c) vs. Taiji Ishimori & Atsushi Kotoge
2. NOAH vs. NJPW Special Tag Match: Mohammed Yone & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & YOSHI-HASHI
3. Takeshi Morishima Return Match: Takeshi Morishima vs. Kensuke Sasaki
4. GHC Heavyweight Title: KENTA (c) vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima

NAKAJIMA IN THE MAIN EVENT MIX!

Also, Global League has some intriguing outsiders and should be tits:

KENTA, T.Sugiura, T.Morishima, N.Marufuji, M.Yone, K.Nakajima, M.Nicholls, S.Haste, Taniguchi, Saito, Eddie Edwards, Sai, Daisuke Sekimoto, Yuji Nagata.

 

[FedEx227]

I can finally watch a NJPW iPPV live and plan on doing it. What's the best bet, stay up the whole night and sleep when it's over or go to bed at like 8ish and wake up at 2am?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Destruction is 2am, i'd just stay up since its a weekend. it'll end after 5, but it's Sunday, you can sleep in.

The 4:30am shows are tricky.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I notice they have an english language video running on a loop on the USTREAM page

http://www.ustream.tv/njpw

 

[FedEx227]

It's the one you linked some months back where it goes over all the characters, shows some match highlights, etc. I think it's been up there at least before the Road to Destruction iPPVs.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

NOAH has some awesome stuff coming up.

Top Matches from 10/5:

NOAH "GREAT VOYAGE 2013 IN YOKOHAMA VOL. 2", 05.10.2013 (G+)
Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium

1. GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask (c) vs. Taiji Ishimori & Atsushi Kotoge
2. NOAH vs. NJPW Special Tag Match: Mohammed Yone & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & YOSHI-HASHI
3. Takeshi Morishima Return Match: Takeshi Morishima vs. Kensuke Sasaki
4. GHC Heavyweight Title: KENTA (c) vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima

NAKAJIMA IN THE MAIN EVENT MIX!

Also, Global League has some intriguing outsiders and should be tits:

KENTA, T.Sugiura, T.Morishima, N.Marufuji, M.Yone, K.Nakajima, M.Nicholls, S.Haste, Taniguchi, Saito, Eddie Edwards, Sai, Daisuke Sekimoto, Yuji Nagata.

God dammit, now I have to watch NOAH again, I dont have time for this shit. Check out the A BLOCK OF DOOM for Global League:

A: KENTA, Morishima,Yone, Nakajima, Haste, Edwards, Sekimoto
B: Sugiura, Marufuji, Nicholls, Taniguchi, Saito, Sai, Nagata

KENTA vs Sekimoto, KENTA vs Nakajima, Sekimoto vs Morishima, Sekimoto vs Edwards, Sekimoto vs Nakajima, plus my guy MOHAMMED YONE & Shane m'f Haste. Not a single DUD match in the god damn group.

As for B Block, that block can suck my nuts. Trash.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Low Ki burns ANOTHER bridge:

Low Ki was announced as being off the rest of the tour after the Akebono match on 9/16 due to broken ribs. A few days earlier, Low Ki had tried to fight Hikaru Sato, a former Pancrase protege of Minoru Suzuki (probably not the right guy to want to start a fight with). There wasn’t an actual fight, but it didn’t do him any favors and he was pretty down on options after his playing Halloween dress-up at the Tokyo Dome show unauthorized by the promotion (and then absolutely tearing the house down with his wrestling) in January. I still can’t get over his blowing it with New Japan at this stage of his career but he did. The perception from there was more than questioning if the rib injury was legit. Either way, because of the Sato incident, he was said to have been fired, but even if he quit, he’s not expected back. That didn’t take long.

He had just started with All Japan. Unbelievable.

 

[FedEx227]

Honestly, what's left for him that is even worth his time or can be an actual source of revenue?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Honestly, what's left for him that is even worth his time or can be an actual source of revenue?

He'll be the next RED X in Wrestle-1, unless Muto hates him which I can't recall but is certainly a possibility. Other than that, every bridge is burned.

Dan over on F4W put it best:

Low Ki has not lived up to his potential in any promotion he has ever been in. I know we all laugh at TNA but AJ Styles was in the exact same position as Low Ki in 2002, they were tag partners in the first TNA match, and he's been regularly employed and pushed for eleven years, while Low Ki's moved between about eleven promotions. He'll be wrestling Homicide, Dan Maff and Monsta Mack on JAPW shows until the end of time though.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Dan legitimately put it as good as anyone ever could when he said he'll be wrestling Homicide and Dan Maff for all eternity.

At least Homicide has re-found a home in ROH. We'll see how that works out for him.

How much of a cunt dick do you need to be to burn every bridge in wrestling like Low Ki?

btw - good reference with Monsta Mack. He still wrestling in Jersey?

 

[BigBiss]

Big Rajett fan

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

They are doing Okada/Tanahashi VI next month.

Lots of mixed thoughts on this, mostly negative. Seems to me like they want to get the title off Okada before Dome, to set up Tanahashi vs Naito. I disagree with this if it's the case.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2013/09/29/new-japan-destruction-review/

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Why do they want to take the title off Okada before Dome?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Well, Naito is facing one or the other, and I guess the thought is Tanahashi will be the better draw, plus if Naito is going to win, he would gain more credibility by beating Tanahashi.

Not sure I agree with all of that. Some think it'll be Naito/Okada, coming off both Naito (G1) & Okada (Power Struggle) defeating Tanahashi, thus signifying the "new era".

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Well, Naito is facing one or the other, and I guess the thought is Tanahashi will be the better draw, plus if Naito is going to win, he would gain more credibility by beating Tanahashi.

Not sure I agree with all of that. Some think it'll be Naito/Okada, coming off both Naito (G1) & Okada (Power Struggle) defeating Tanahashi, thus signifying the "new era".

Any possibility of them just building up Okada more with another win over Tanahashi...?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Any possibility of them just building up Okada more with another win over Tanahashi...?

Yes. Like I said, the idea would then be that both Okada & Naito have passed Tanahashi by, and it's now the Okada/Naito era.

I don't really like Naito that much. To me he's missing something and isn't on the level of Tanahash/Okada/Nakamura. I can't deny he's over with the fans though. He's a made guy now whether I like it or not.