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So the first episode was just a championship match from two years ago?

Yes. It's a 13 episode season that runs from Wrestle Kingdom 7 to the Yokohama Arena show from last year.

January 16
• Tanahashi vs. Okada, Wrestle Kingdom 7

January 23
• Okada vs. Hirooki Goto, 2013 New Japan Cup finals
• Shinsuke Nakamura/Tomohiro Ishii/Jado vs. Minoru Suzuki/Lance Archer/Taka Michinoku

January 30
• Tanahashi vs. Okada, Invasion Attack 2013

February 6
• Okada vs. Togi Makabe
• Tanahashi vs. Prince Devitt

February 13
• Okada vs. Prince Devitt
• Tanahashi/Makabe/Jushin Liger/Captain New Japan vs. Karl Anderson/El Terrible/Tama Tonga/Bad Luck Fale

February 20
• Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi
• Satoshi Kojima vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr.
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Karl Anderson

February 27
• Tanahashi vs. Tesuya Naito, G1 Climax finals

March 6
• Nakamura vs. Naomichi Marifuji
• Naito vs. Yijiro Takahashi

March 13
• Okada vs. Naito, Wrestle Kingdom 8

March 20
• Nakamura vs. Tanahashi, Wrestle Kingdom 8

March 27
• Nakamura vs. Tanahashi, Invasion Attack 2014

April 3
• Okada vs. AJ Styles, Wrestling Dontaku
• Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
• The Forever Hooligans vs. The Young Bucks

April 10
• Okada vs. AJ Styles, Yokohama Arena
• Takashi Iizuka/Toru Yano vs. Suzuki/Shelton Benjamin
 

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NJPW prtty much is Okada/Tanahashi/Nakamura at the top

then Bullet Club and everyone else ?


I aint even seen Lance,Shelton or Davey Boy Jr on wk9
 

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Just finished the first episode. Getting to watch this again in HD quality for the first time :wow:

I liked that they actually subtitled Okada and Tanahashi's promos. Mauro Ranallo and Josh Barnett were alright on commentary.
 

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NJPW actually does false finishes correctly, unlike ROH who just spams finishers until the ending is anticlimactic.

I'm a fan of the spot that Nakamura and Tanahashi (I'm sure there are others) do where they suddenly get :gladbron:and think "Why give him one finisher, when I can give him 3?" to end a match.

@trick Did you get ROH/NJPW tickets, breh? I'm gonna try to cop some next week :lupe:
 

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I'm a fan of the spot that Nakamura and Tanahashi (I'm sure there are others) do where they suddenly get :gladbron:and think "Why give him one finisher, when I can give him 3?" to end a match.

@trick Did you get ROH/NJPW tickets, breh? I'm gonna try to cop some next week :lupe:

I bought tickets for Friday's show, but I haven't bought tickets for Saturday. I might go to Saturday's solo, but I don't know what the line-up is going to be like. I heard ROH only wants to bring in 2-3 guys from NJPW because they barely broke even last year on the joint shows. If you wanna hit up the show together Saturday, let me know.
 

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I bought tickets for Friday's show, but I haven't bought tickets for Saturday. I might go to Saturday's solo, but I don't know what the line-up is going to be like. I heard ROH only wants to bring in 2-3 guys from NJPW because they barely broke even last year on the joint shows. If you wanna hit up the show together Saturday, let me know.

Respect - I'll let you know, breh :obama:
 
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