NJPW Thread

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Will Ospreay, the U.K.'s most talked about young wrestler debuted tonight with TNA, but ended up losing in 5:00 in what was either a dark match or a match taped for Xplosion against Mark "Mandrews" Andrews.

Apparently, the plan was to push Ospreay but TNA found out that he had signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling and decided not to put him on the main show.

It is not certain when Ospreay will debut with New Japan other than he had been scheduled to be in this year's Best of the Super Juniors tournament in May and June.

[DXvsNWO1994]

Here are the full New Beginning cards:

The New Beginning in Osaka
Osaka, Japan 2/11/16

- IWGP Heavyweight Title - "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada vs. Hirooki Goto
- Six-Man Tag - Hiroshi Tanahashi & IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions G.B.H. (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) vs. The Bullet Club (Kenny Omega, Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows)
- NEVER Openweight Title - Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomohiro Ishii
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Titles - Three-Way Match - The Young Bucks vs. reDRagon vs. Ricochet & Matt Sydal
- NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Titles - Toru Yano & The Briscoes vs. The Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, & Yujiro Takahashi)
- Six-Man Tag - "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin, IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion KUSHIDA, & Juice Robinson vs. Los Ingobernables (Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, & BUSHI)
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi
- Six-Man Tag - Kazushi Sakuraba & CHAOS (Yoshi-Hashi & Gedo) vs. Jushin "Thunder" Liger, Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi
- David Finlay vs. Jay White

The New Beginning in Niigata
Niigata, Japan 2/14/16

- IWGP Intercontinental Title - Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega
- IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles - G.B.H. (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) vs. The Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows)
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title - KUSHIDA vs. BUSHI
- Six-Man Tag - Hirooki Goto, Katsuyori Shibata, & Juice Robinson vs. CHAOS ("Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, & Yoshi-Hashi)
- Non-Title Match - Toru Yano & The Briscoes vs. The Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, & Yujiro Takahashi)
- "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin & Jay White vs. Los Ingobernables (Tetsuya Naito & EVIL)
- Eight-Man Tag - Matt Sydal, Ricochet, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, Ryusuke Taguchi, & David Finlay
- reDRagon vs. Kazushi Sakuraba & Gedo
- Six-Man Tag - The Bullet Club (The Young Bucks & Cody Hall) vs. Jushin "Thunder" Liger, Tiger Mask & Captain New Japan

[9 ball]

Can anyone tell me if the English version of NJPW World always have English commentary or is it only for the big shows & if yes what are the big shows apart from wrestle kingdom & New Years Dash?.

[monster mafia]

with subs in english

[ilnoca]

Can anyone tell me if the English version of NJPW World always have English commentary or is it only for the big shows & if yes what are the big shows apart from wrestle kingdom & New Years Dash?.

It's only for the big shows, the two you mentioned and King of Pro Wrestling. They also have matches from the RPW shows last year in English. You can check out the list of all English Commentary videos at http://njpwworld.com/search/tag/mic_82.

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Observer:

Expect some major moves regarding New Japan World over the next year. At least some big things are in the talking stage. Apparently, no matter how it is positioned publicly, New Japan was very surprised at how little traction the service got within its home country. There wasn’t much thought of outside Japan, as evidenced by no English language site and sign-up page, but they were thinking 100,000 within Japan along would be no problem within a year given the cost and past iPPV performance, and they less than one-third there. Apparently they were way down financially as far as profitability of the big shows from the iPPV days to the New Japan World era, although as noted last week, the company is a profitable entity

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@enuhito_eng
KUSHIDA mentioned that he will participate in G1 climax this year.

[ICHIFUJI]

KUSHIDA said is based on winning BOSJ again.

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

Ibushi vs. Styles in its entirety played on AXS. A definite 4 star match. My main point is Kenny Omega. He was standoffish during and after the match. He acted very un-Kenny Omega like. Yes, Ibushi was his former tag team partner, but does anyone think the groundwork for his takeover for the Bullet Club began here? I can't imagine Gedo booking that far in advance. Just wondering if anyone had seen this and what their thoughts were.

[Keith_from_MN]

Observer:

Expect some major moves regarding New Japan World over the next year. At least some big things are in the talking stage. Apparently, no matter how it is positioned publicly, New Japan was very surprised at how little traction the service got within its home country. There wasn’t much thought of outside Japan, as evidenced by no English language site and sign-up page, but they were thinking 100,000 within Japan along would be no problem within a year given the cost and past iPPV performance, and they less than one-third there. Apparently they were way down financially as far as profitability of the big shows from the iPPV days to the New Japan World era, although as noted last week, the company is a profitable entity

I wish they would make a Roku channel. Not sure how popular roku is in Japan, though.

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Observer:

Owner Takaaki Kidani said they are going to offer Kazuchika Okada a five-year contract, from April 2016 to April 2021, unheard of historically, because they want to build around him and make sure he doesn’t go to WWE. He also said the company has earmarked a $2 million marketing budget to make Okada a mainstream star. Kidani said that they are going to have to offer longer contracts to the top stars because they don’t want to turn into WWE’s minor league feeder system

[jordidebaas]

Ibushi vs. Styles in its entirety played on AXS. A definite 4 star match. My main point is Kenny Omega. He was standoffish during and after the match. He acted very un-Kenny Omega like. Yes, Ibushi was his former tag team partner, but does anyone think the groundwork for his takeover for the Bullet Club began here? I can't imagine Gedo booking that far in advance. Just wondering if anyone had seen this and what their thoughts were.

Considering that was likely done just as a way to write him out of NJPW, I don't think that was ever the plan there.

[TYFDK]

Elgin signed a two-year deal with New Japan.

[Big Red Machine]

Okay, so... what is even the point of the NEVER six man belts at this point? They just change hands every show.

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

Okay, so... what is even the point of the NEVER six man belts at this point? They just change hands every show.

I'm still trying to find the original point of even having the NEVER six man belts. The NEVER titles suck. The NEVER title is useless. Shibata is being wasted with that title.

[christoffer]

Any news from Kota Ibushi?

[jordidebaas]

Okay, so... what is even the point of the NEVER six man belts at this point? They just change hands every show.

With the exception of the IWGP hvwt. title, there's really not any point to any of the belts NJPW has

[Thelone]

I'm still trying to find the original point of even having the NEVER six man belts. The NEVER titles suck. The NEVER title is useless. Shibata is being wasted with that title.

The trios belts could mean something if they were to unify both sets of tag titles and just make the new division openweight, and turn the NEVER singles title as the link between the juniors and the heavyweights instead of the bastard child version of Big Japan's Strong title.

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@enuhito_eng
Breaking News:

Kota Ibushi will leave both NJPW & DDT and becomes a freelance.

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Follow Up:

@enuhito_eng

Breaking News:

Kota Ibushi will launch New organization called "Ibushi Prowrestling Research Institute".

What!?