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[SpiritForger @ForgerSpirit]

So yesterday 8/7 after speaking with my Sensei after coming back from the Danzan Ryu camp I attended, I decided that I will test for my Yodan next year at that very Camp

[SpiritForger @ForgerSpirit]

@WillOspreay happy birthday

[Callum newman カラム・ニューマン @PrinceofpaceCN]

Knock knock
Remember the name

😘👑

[NJPW Global @njpwglobal]

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@WarriorWrstlng @WillOspreay @_BlakeChristian

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@Mattathon_ I’d be happy to help, as that’s something that I’m currently in school for

[“Protostar” Kyle Fletcher @kylefletcherpro]

where’s the great o khan when you need him

[SpiritForger @ForgerSpirit]

@Ace109610 This is what made me a fan of his in the first place

[Ace Humphreys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦢 @Ace109610]

Let me add to say Will Ospreay being open about his disability should be talked a lot more in wrestling.
Does take a lot of confidence to share it to the world while looking it as a positive.

[みみ @mimiko0727]

1.5で貰ったオスプレイのサイン✨
伝えたい事ずーっと繰り返しめちゃくちゃ簡単な英語で思ってたのに目の前に立ったらもう全てぶっ飛んだw単語でファンな事日本に来てくれて嬉しいまた来て欲しい事を辿々しく伝えて…オスプレイは手振りをつけながらゆっくりお返事してくれた✨

[Dexter @thatguydexter1]

Rewatched this match, and for how underwhelming it felt, I thought this was crazy.

[Walker Stewart (ウォーカー・スチュワート) @VelvetVoiceWS]

Aaron Wolf wants his Olympic Slam referred to as the Angle Slam, in reverence to fellow Olympic gold medalist and former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle. That’s badass! 🔥

[J O H N @RomanEra0]

Finn Balor on how he came up with the “Bullet Club” name

“I was a young boy in New Japan. Before the shows, we would all warm up in the ring and the young boys would be made to do squats and push-ups and stuff. And then we’d get in the ring with the senior wrestlers and we’d be stretched, which would be like shot on basically and beat up.”

“Minoru Suzuki was in the ring with me, he was a legitimate grappler. And I caught him with an armbar. He goes, ‘Ah, Devitt, you’re a real shooter.’ And then Tiger Hattori kind of heard that and every day he’d say, ‘Hey, Devitt, you’re the real shooter. You’re the real shooter.’ So this was going on in the locker room for about a year. He’d say, ‘Hey, Devitt, you’re a shooter.’ And he’d just do it like that ‘shooter.’ When the time came about a year later, the office came to me and said, ‘Hey, we want to turn you heel. We want to put you with Fale. We need to get you guys a group.’ So then they decided to put in Karl Anderson and Tama. I was trying to think what ties us all together.”

“And at the time, Fale was using the hand grenade finish...similar to Solo Sikoa. And then there’s the Machine Gun. And I was the ‘real shooter.’ So I was like, ‘What links us all together?’ And it was Bullet Club.”

(What Do You Wanna Talk About?)

[WrestlePurists @WrestlePurists]

Finn Balor explains his issues with how The Demon is presented and utilized in WWE:

“Once I came to WWE, it kind of got muddled up a little bit, and there had to be a reason for why The Demon appeared. It all had to be storyline-based and advertised. And in my mind, it was always just a cool entrance. It was something that changed me into like, you know, Braveheart puts on the battle paint and he goes to war. And that's the way it was for me.

But in WWE, it had to be, ‘Well, what made him turn into The Demon? He had to get beat up and beat down and pushed to the limit to then turn into this monster.’ So then it became the point where Finn wasn't good enough. Only The Demon could win. So then Finn was lesser than The Demon, where they're supposed to be the same.

So that was one issue I had with it. The other issue I had with it was it was always advertised, which I like it to be a surprise. Like, ‘Oh, sh*t, The Demon’s here.’ And it just comes out and kicks ass.”

(What Do You Wanna Talk About?)

[新日本プロレスリング新日企画 @njkikaku]

明日発売の週刊プロレス‼︎

『棚橋弘至にありがとう』

#njpw #njwk20 #棚橋引退 #週ぷろ

[こま @marlowe__gene]

そうこれこれ、めちゃくちゃ好きな写真

[かすみーhi(かすみーひ) @kasumi_hi1224]

オスプレイさんも生で初めて見られてすごく嬉しかった👑
今後のエンパイア、カラムとの関係がメチャクチャ気になる…

#ウィルオスプレイ #棚橋引退 #njwk20

[SpiritForger @ForgerSpirit]

@Ace109610

[SpiritForger @ForgerSpirit]

@JessChizuru @sayutian Agreed

[Chris Samsa @TheChrisSamsa]

Complete IWGP Heavyweight Championship Lineage

1. Antonio Inoki
Vacant
2. Tatsumi Fujinami
Vacant
3. Tatsumi Fujinami
Vacant
4. Big Van Vader
5. Salman Hashimikov
6. Riki Choshu
7. Big Van Vader
8. Riki Choshu
9. Tatsumi Fujinami
10. Big Van Vader
11. Tatsumi Fujinami
12. Riki Choshu
13. The Great Muta
14. Shinya Hashimoto
15. Tatsumi Fujinami
16. Shinya Hashimoto
17. Keiji Muto
18. Nobuhiko Takada
19. Shinya Hashimoto
20. Kensuke Sasaki
21. Tatsumi Fujinami
22. Masahiro Chono
Vacant
23. Scott Norton
24. Keiji Muto
25. Genichiro Tenryu
26. Kensuke Sasaki
Vacant
27. Kensuke Sasaki
28. Scott Norton
29. Kazuyuki Fujita
Vacant
30. Tadao Yasuda
31. Yuji Nagata
32. Yoshihiro Takayama
33. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
34. Shinsuke Nakamura
Vacant
35. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
36. Kensuke Sasaki
37. Bob Sapp
Vacant
38. Kazuyuki Fujita
39. Kensuke Sasaki
40. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
41. Satoshi Kojima
42. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
43. Kazuyuki Fujita
44. Brock Lesnar
Vacant
45. Hiroshi Tanahashi
46. Yuji Nagata
47. Hiroshi Tanahashi
48. Shinsuke Nakamura
49. Keiji Muto
50. Hiroshi Tanahashi
51. Manabu Nakanishi
52. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Vacant
53. Shinsuke Nakamura
54. Togi Makabe
55. Satoshi Kojima
56. Hiroshi Tanahashi
57. Kazuchika Okada
58. Hiroshi Tanahashi
59. Kazuchika Okada
60. AJ Styles
61. Hiroshi Tanahashi
62. AJ Styles
63. Kazuchika Okada
64. Tetsuya Naito
65. Kazuchika Okada
66. Kenny Omega
67. Hiroshi Tanahashi
68. Jay White
69. Kazuchika Okada
70. Tetsuya Naito
71. EVIL
72. Tetsuya Naito
73. Kota Ibushi
-Transition to IWGP World Heavyweight Championship-
74. Will Ospreay
Vacant
75. Shingo Takagi
76. Kazuchika Okada
77. Jay White
78. Kazuchika Okada
79. SANADA
80. Tetsuya Naito
81. Jon Moxley
82. Tetsuya Naito
83. Zack Sabre Jr.
84. Hirooki Goto
85. Zack Sabre Jr.
86. Konosuke Takeshita
87. Yota Tsuji
Transition back to IWGP Heavyweight Championship

#njpw #njnbg #njwk20

[Takk @takk_pw]

試合後、やりきった表情の棚橋さん素敵だった
1.4 WRESTLE KINGDOM 20
#棚橋弘至 選手
#njwk20