Kurt Angle in his 4th match ever, facing Christian in August of 1998.
Christian walked Angle through this match, even telling him some jokes in the ring to calm his nerves.
Or maybe have some pride in representing your company as the top lad.
When I held any IWGP championship I wanted to travel the world calling out the best to show them all New Japan is the better.
Obviously his home market is Japan & he has done great job in the top spot to me this screams “ insecure”
The roster clearly isn’t as driven as the guys I was once surrounded by.
Just big belly boys wanting to keep playing “Free Play”
Grow a sack, fill it with some nuts, call out the BITW & show the world how good New Japan is….
Just my thoughts.
18 years ago today - Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki vs. KENTA & Kenta Kobashi
Two generations colliding! Chops that echoed for days, brutal kicks, and intensity only NOAH could deliver in those days
#noah_ghc
“Savio Vega is old school. After 2-3 months working every night w/ [him], he got me in the best shape of my career….I have nothing but the highest regards & respect for [him].” ~Steve Austin 🇵🇷
Coming back to this. I think I respect these guys so much because they don't have the top stars of the last generation to pull them up. All they have is each other. And they have to work together from the ground up. And now they're succeeding in these spots
New Japan announced an attendance of 6.890 for Dominion in Osaka Jo-Hall headlined by Yota Tsuji challenging Callum Newman
That is up from last year's Dominion that drew 6.525, which was headlined by Hirooki Goto facing Shingo Takagi
#njdominion
#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Kuramae Kokugikan, Tokyo: Hulk Hogan entered the IWGP League final wearing the annual IWGP belt, having beaten Antonio Inoki in the 1983 tournament final.
BRELL (Kurt Fuller) from No Holds Barred stays in character at the premiere of the movie, claiming Hulk changed the script and refused to do the job to Zeus like originally planned . He wasn't too far off from Hogan's WCW character there, brother. 🤣 Prime Time 6/5/89
Steve Williams & Terry Gordy x Jumbo Tsuruta & Shunji Takano. Dr. Death debuts in AJPW to form a devastating alliance with Terry Gordy, and the Ace Tsuruta can only stand by and watch as a major threat to the established order quickly makes their mark. (2.21.1990) ☠️