Puroresu Talks - Wrestling In The Land of The Rising Sun

[Papa Pillman]

Holy crap is Honma's voice demonic sounding or what.

It sounds like maybe he's been sick or something and has lost his voice and is struggling to be able to do the promo video. Naito even seems to be fucking with him about it.

 

[Shadowmancer]

Invasion attack card

Kota Ibushii Vs AJ Styles

Okada Vs Bad Luck Fale

Shibata/Tanahashi Vs Sakuraba/Toru Yano

Naito/Goto/Makabe Vs YOSHI HASHI/Ishii/Nakamura

The Kingdom Vs Guns and Gallows

Mascara Dorada Vs Kenny Omega

Trent?/Rocky Romero Vs The Young Bucks

Honma/Kojima/Tenzan Vs Cody Hall/Tama Tonga/Takahashi

Yohei Komatsu/Kushida/Alex Shelley/Captain New Japan/Yuji Nagata Vs Sho Tanaka/Ryusuke Taguchi/Tiger Mask IV/Liger/Manabu Nakanishi

Interesting card.

As for the Honma voice thing its because his voice box got destroyed in the Death Matches he was in, by a run of the mill Lariat

 

[Shadowmancer]

NOAH's Global Tag league teams have been announced.

The tag league will run from April 19 to May 4. Let's meet the teams!

Dangan Yankees (Masato Tanaka/Takashi Sugiura)

Combined Age: 86
Combined Weight: 384lbs
Championships and Tournament Wins: Current NWA Intercontinental Tag Team, GHC Tag Team, 2014 GHC Global Tag League, 2014 ZERO1 Furinkazan Tag Tournament

Killer Elite Squad (Davey Boy Smith Jr./Lance Archer)

Combined Age: 66
Combined Weight: 528 lbs
Championships and Tournament Wins: 2x and current NWA World Tag Team, current GHC Tag Team, 2x IWGP Tag Team

Suzukigun (Minoru Suzuki/Takashi Iizuka)

Combined Age: 94
Combined Weight: 455 lbs

Brian Breaker/Shelton X Benjamin

Combined Age: 68
Combined Weight: 497 lbs
Breaker was known as Brandon Traven in WWE Developmental

The Mighty Don't Kneel (Mikey Nicholls/Shane Haste)

Combined Age: 58
Combined Weight: 447 lbs
Championships and Tournament Wins: 2x GHC Tag Team, EPW Tag Team, ROH Rise And Prove Tag Tournament

BRAVE (Katsuhiko Nakajima/Naomichi Marufuji)

Combined Age: 62
Combined Weight: 411 lbs

Chokibogun (Mitsuhiro Kitamiya/Takeshi Morishima)

Combined Age: 62
Combined Weight: 495 lbs

Chokibogun (Maybach Taniguchi/Maybach #2)

Combined Age: ?
Combined Weight: ?
Unsure about the identity of Maybach #2

Mohammed Bombers (Daisuke Ikeda/Mohammed Yone)

Combined Age: 86
Combined Weight: 462 lbs

Akitoshi Saito/Quiet Storm

Combined Age: 80
Combined Weight: 491 lbs

Chris Hero/Colt Cabana

Combined Age: 69
Combined Weight: 456 lbs

Team BJW (Daisuke Sekimoto/Kazuki Hashimoto)

Combined Age: 58
Combined Weight: 462 lbs

Should be good, I am a fan of TMDK

 

[Bagpipes]

TMDK is awesome. Interested to see how Colt & Hero fare as well.

 

[X]

Sekimoto and Okabayashi are the best tag team in the world probably. I could watch them wrestle for days. I haven't watched a lot of puro over the last few months, but I've been keeping tabs on it. Still need to finish that review of Wrestle Kingdom I started. Too much chaos.

 

[Shadowmancer]

So it appears the ending of the Rollins/Orton match from Wrestlemania has been topped this year already

Spoiler

 

[Shadowmancer]

Here are the entrants for this years best of the Super Juniors tournament. No Matt Jackson because his wife is expecting to be delivering a kid during the time frame of the tournament. I am sort of shocked that Bobby Fish is 38 for some reason.

BLOCK A

Barbaro Cavernario
21 years old
5'8" 194

Baretta
28 years old
6'1", 194

Chase Owens
25 years old
6'1" 205

Gedo
46 years old
5'8" 189

Jushin Thunder Liger
50 years old
5'7" 202

Kyle O'Reilly
28 years old
5'10" 207

Ryusuke Taguchi
36 years old
5'11" 200

Yohei Komatsu
26 years old
5'7" 187

BLOCK B

Alex Shelley
31 years old
5'9" 198

Bobby Fish
38 years old
5'11" 200

David Finlay
Son of WCW/WWE wrestler Finlay

KUSHIDA
31 years old
5'9" 187

Mascara Dorada
26 years old
5'9" 176

Nick Jackson
25 years old
5'10" 178

Rocky Romero
32 years old
5'7" 172

Tiger Mask IV
44 years old
5'8" 191

 

[Shadowmancer]

Night 1 of the G1 Climax is almost upon us. Who is going to be watching live, especially with two potential Match of the Year candidates in Shibata Vs AJ Styles and Tanahashi Vs Ibushi