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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    The big AJPW show in Osaka just ended. It was a bit of a clunky show that ended on a strong note. It started with some tech issues which meant that the opener had virtually no video and the start of the second match was also lost but they got video back quick enough and it was flawless for the...
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    All Japan drew 1680 fans to a sold out Korakuen yesterday (very impressive for a weekday show when it isn't a national holiday, usually only New Japan pulls this off) for a show main evented by Kento defending the belt against NOAH's Naomichi Marufuji. Kento retained in a match of the year...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    Motoko Baba, who helped found the company alongside her late husband Shohei "Giant" Baba and who ran the company as president after her husbands passing until the sale to Muto in 2002 has passed away. She had been battling cirrhosis of the liver for the past year and passed last week. A devise...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    The Champion Carnival kicked off yesterday at the Sendai Sun Plaza hall in front of 1290 fans. A much better venue than the Saitama one and the crowd came over much stronger on the mics so it is good to see AJPW learned from the Saitama show. I would not say no to more major shows in Sendai...
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    I'll be interested in hearing some of your takes then once you are done with it
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    AJPW just wrapped up their show in the Saitama Super Arena Community hall an hour ago, drawing 2257 fans. Two belts changed hands, with Dylan James and Ryoji Sai beating the Big Guns to win the world tag belts. Cutting the BG's reign off at the first hurdle (continuing the trend of world tag...
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    Don't worry. They have it in Japanese if that is your persuasion as well :y2j:
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    AJPW TV is now up and running. You can find it at www.ajpw.tv It has a English translation of the site built in (basically built in google translate similar to njpw world) so even if translations are not perfect it is understandable. The site is simple to navigate as well. Content wise it...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    The drive is dead/dying. They got hit with a series of copyright strikes because people kept tagging their gifs and such or even @ing the companies. The project lives on now as PuroresuDream
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    AJPW TV, All Japan's new streaming service launches on March 19 (this upcoming Monday) and the focus will be on the current day product (no news on classical content, which is logical since it is locked up in ownership red tape). The big Saitama show on 3/25 is confirmed to stream live on AJPW...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    They are certainly trying out running more shows in 2-5 thousand seater stadiums this year. Some shows will pay off real well and some will do just around 1500 most likely. But this is the year to experiment since there won't be a sumo hall show this year due to the building being closed for...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    AJP ran their final show of the 2018 Junior Battle of Glory today in Osaka, packing out the smaller Edion Arena (Edion Arena 2) with 845 fans in attendance. Some highlights and newsbits: Shuji Kondo won the tournament. The Wrestle-1 representative beat last year's winner Koji Iwamoto to seal...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    Point 1. I live. Point 2. All Japan are launching their own streaming service, AJPW TV with a goal of launching it in March but there is no set date yet. It will have live streaming and the modern day stuff will be up there. The classic stuff most likely not due to all the red tape and...
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    The World's Strongest Tag League/Real World Tag League (both perfectly petty names) is underway in All Japan, kicking off on the 19th of November in Sapporo in front of a crowd of 2130 people. Kea/Doering, Hashimoto/Kamitani, and KAI/TAJIRI are pulling off with the early lead with 4 points each...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    Old Zen Nihon ran Korakuen today. Here are some factoids. Attendance was 1241 with Yoshitatsu challenging Joe Doering for the Triple Crown in the main event. Great number considering using a untried draw in Yoshi on top and doing it on a week day with no national holiday that meant people were...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    Projections are somewhere around May-July
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    Yeah, most companies in Japan have experienced continued positive trends in attendances (BJW, AJPW, NJPW, DDT & Dragon Gate being the notable ones). NJPW's popularity is obviously a key contributor. It has caused fans to seek out other promotions, which have helped these other promotions grow...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    Updates from the Yokohama show that has now aired (If you have Fite TV you can view it on there for $4.99). Nomura and Aoyagi retained the All Asia tag belts over the Pervert Defense force (Aoki & Sato). There also seems to be trouble in paradise between Aoki and Sato, teasing a break up angle...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    Some short notice changes to the card for this Saturday's big show: Yuji Okabayashi, one half of the world tag champions. Has been forced to vacate the title because of dislocating his shoulder at a Big Japan show. His partner Sekimoto will instead bring in Mr. BJW, Ryuji Ito as his partner to...
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    All Japan - The House Baba built

    Here's the VTR with the remaining October and part of the November cards as well as info on the tag league
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