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u/GaryNOVA — 7 days ago
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President ACE with high praise for Oiwa & Uemura’s G1 Final Match:

Also, when Tanahashi is talking about drifting from the classical style he started out with to flashier moves, he’s basically saying he went from the influence of one mentor, Tatsumi Fujinami, to the influence of another, Keiji Mutoh.

Basically, Tana is saying FujinamiISM is superior to MutohISM.

u/MrPuroresu42 — 5 days ago
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What is your totally out of the box dream New Japan addiction?

I really wish we lived in a world where prime Rhyno would've spent some significant time in NJPW. I dont know how that would go, what he would do or what it'd even look like but I know that it would be fucking cool and a Nagata/Rhyno match in like 2002 or 03 would be the sickest thing ever

u/Somerandomguy20711 — 13 days ago
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Taichi goes for a Backdrop Suplex but Oiwa stuffs it and catches him in the Big Lock!

u/Dohmer_90 — 14 days ago
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Top WON Rated Matches of This Years G1

I know the WON Ratings aren't beloved by everyone, but personally I use it to see what matches I might have missed and dont have time to go back and watch everything. Here are the top rated WON Matches from this years G1 (A reminder that not all nights were reviewed)

Date Match Rating
Night 19 - August 16 Yuya Uemura vs. Ryohei Oiwa (Final) 5.5
Night 3 - July 19 Yuya Uemura vs ZSJ 5
Night 11 - August 2 Gabe Kidd vs HENARE 5
Night 1 - July 11 Yota Tsuji vs Konosuke Takeshita 4.75
Night 5 - July 22 Callum Newman vs ZSJ 4.75
Night 8 - July 29 Yota Tsuji vs Yuto-Ice 4.75
Night 12 - August 6 Konosuke Takeshita vs Shingo Takagi 4.75
Night 17 - August 13 Callum Newman vs HENAREE 4.75
Night 1 - July 11 Callum Newman vs Yuya Uemura 4.5
Night 2 - July 18 Drilla Moloney vs Gabe Kidd 4.5
Night 2 - July 18 Oleg Boltiin vs Yuto-Ice 4.5
Night 6 - July 25 Konosuke Takeshita vs Oleg Boltin 4.5
Night 7 - July 26 Gabe Kidd vs ZSJ 4.5
Night 11 - August 2 ZSJ vs Oskar 4.5
Night 12 - August 6 Oleg Boltin vs Yota Tsuji 4.5
Night 17 - August 13 Yuya Uemura vs Oskar 4.5
Night 18 - August 15 Yuya Uemura vs Yota Tsuji 4.5
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u/DustyStar222 — 14 days ago
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I’m teaching Japanese through actual NJPW reporting — Ryohei Oiwa vs Hirooki Goto G1 36

I’ve been building a project called プロレス MACHINE that uses real Japanese pro wrestling reporting as Japanese study material.

The newest episode breaks down a Tokyo Sports report on Ryohei Oiwa vs Hirooki Goto.

Rather than just throwing an English translation underneath the Japanese, I’m trying to show how the Japanese sentence actually builds its meaning. In this one I’ve started color-matching Japanese sense groups with their corresponding English meaning, which I think is making the structure much easier to see.

There’s also a vocabulary/grammar section covering things like:

真夏 — midsummer
祭典 — festival / major event
残り — what remains
全力 — full power / everything you have
つもりだ — intend to / plan to

The source is Tokyo Sports article 398519, so the Japanese comes from actual wrestling journalism rather than textbook dialogue.

I’m still refining the format episode by episode, so feedback from either Japanese learners or puroresu fans is very welcome.

Source image/article: Tokyo Sports

If you already know the Oiwa/Goto story, I’d especially be curious whether this kind of Japanese/English semantic coloring makes the original Japanese easier to follow.

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u/ProWrestleMachine — 13 days ago