Japan NYE situation
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Already been announced. Get your google on.
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I have my doubts that A_OK_I vs Wakahisa will sell out the SSA.
Who? What org is this?
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Just the IGF show for now. Pancrase has a small event planned as well, but it's just a standard event, nothing NYE special.
Hopefully IGF includes more than 2 or 3 MMA fights.
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My bad. Just the Ishii event so far.
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They had 4 last year
Tim Sylvia Vs Satoshi Ishii
Rolles Gracie Vs Yusuke Kawaguchi
Mirko Crop Vs Shinichi Suzukawa
Minawoman Vs Bor Bratovz
4 pretty decent match ups, all one sided but still pretty decent. Hopefully we get something a little bit better this NYE.
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What is this?
Dave Meltzer from last week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter says that the Dream organization is dead but they have the Saitama Super Arena booked for New Year's Eve many years into the future (I think this is a standard Japanese promotional practice). They want to keep hold of this date incase MMA in Japan at some point becomes something they want to re-enter, but they have to run an event this year to keep hold of the date. So they approached New Japan Pro Wrestling about running a show there New Year's Eve. NJPW have their largest show of the year Wrestle Kingdom on January 4th at the Tokyo Dome. From trying to do too many big events close together and New Year's Eve in Japan being heavy competition for the entertainment dollar, NJPW thought it would be suicide for them to do it and declined. Dream I think then went to All Japan Pro Wrestling, a smaller pro wrestling promotion in Japan.
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lolololololol
AJPW's pretty much dead and this is a horrible idea.
NJPW's the only Japanese pro-wrestling organization big enough to put on a decent card to draw a good number at the Saitama Super Arena. They're the only pro-wrestling organization to even run the Tokyo Dome even though they don't sell it out like they used to.
NJPW turning them down pretty much kills the chance of this even happening more than there already were.
It could've been someone else. I can't get to the newsletter at the moment. But one of AJPW, NOAH, Zero-1, the AJPW breakoff group with Keiji Mutoh it might've been.
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NOAH's pretty much on the same boat as AJPW and ZERO1 is much worse than both.
Those were the best times to follow Japanese pro-wrestling. Up until 2004/2005 I would say.
This is very true.
The NJPW Jr.'s in the 90's were amazing. You had the local guys who were awesome like Liger, Otani, Kanemoto and El Samurai and the outsiders like Super Delfin, TAKA, Sasuke and Ultimo Dragon coming over plus foreigners doing tours like Benoit, Guerrero and Jericho.
The 80's NJPW Jr.'s were awesome too with Liger, Koshinaka, Dynamite, Sayama and Owen Hart.
The 80's and 90's AJPW heavyweights produced some of the greatest matches of all time too. Any pairing of Jumbo Tsuruta, Kawada, Misawa, Kobashi and Taue with foreigners like Steve Williams, Terry Gordy, Vader, Stan Hansen and Gary Albright for the Triple Crown Title promised to produce some of the best pro-wrestling matches ever.
FMW, IWA JAPAN, W*ING and BJW also brought the goods. Especially FMW. I absolutely loved me some garbage Onita, Mr. Pogo, Hayabusa, Gannosuke and Tanaka matches.
I can go on and on all day about Japanese pro-wrestling.
