All Together Again NJPW x NOAH x AJPW - June 9, 2023

[Alexa]

...goddamn it chris, lol

 

[Chris]

I like that we both agreed his reasoning was cool though lol

 

[Smart Marx]

Gotcha. But I do believe NJ split from an original company and then AJ split from NJ and then NOAH followed suit.

 

[Smart Marx]

I like that we both agreed his reasoning was cool though lol

Both contexts add cool intrigue, though.

An honestly cool concept that seems foreign.

You’d have never seen a WWE/WCW/ECW mega show outside the WWE owned invasion angle.

 

[Alexa]

Gotcha. But I do believe NJ split from an original company and then AJ split from NJ and then NOAH followed suit.

New Japan and All Japan founders, Inoki and Baba, came from JWA. And from there it, JWA, split into New Japan and All Japan, and then NOAH split from All Japan

 

[Chris]

Gotcha. But I do believe NJ split from an original company and then AJ split from NJ and then NOAH followed suit.

I don't remember the AJPW/NJPW split details much but something like that yeah and NOAH was made by a big exodus of top stars in the 2000 for sure

 

[Alexa]

JWA was the only promotion in Japan, and was ran by Rikidozan. When he died his two prized students, Inoki and Baba, couldn't decided on a style as one liked Strong Style and the other liked what became Kings Road style. So JWA went under and New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro-Wrestling were formed and both had their styles. Then later Misawa after getting tired of Baba's wife shit after Baba's death said fuck this place I am out, and created NOAH, named after the bible story. But, New Japan had the same thing when several of its people, including Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, and Rusher Kimura to name a few, wanted a different style and went one to create Shoot Style, which became the base for MMA.

 

[Smart Marx]

New Japan and All Japan founders, Inoki and Baba, came from JWA. And from there it, JWA, split into New Japan and All Japan, and then NOAH split from All Japan

Yep. That’s what I thought.

 

[Alexa]

Honestly, if anyone is ever interestedin seeing a japanese promotion tree of what promotion came from where, let me know and I will think about it

 

[Smart Marx]

And this doesn’t count the defunct IGF and two IWGP title mess.

 

[Chris]

Honestly, if anyone is ever interestedin seeing a japanese promotion tree of what promotion came from where, let me know and I will think about it

Can you make it into a fancy graph

 

[Alexa]

Can you make it into a fancy graph

I could

And this doesn’t count the defunct IGF and two IWGP title mess.

That was a fun time, lol

 

[Smart Marx]

When I was looking into this myself, I remember like after Baba died so many people fought over who was going to run the new company that pretty much like 80% of them left the form Noah, so noah was more or less the true continuation of the original AJPW.

 

[Alexa]

When I was looking into this myself, I remember like after Baba died so many people fought over who was going to run the new company that pretty much like 80% of them left the form Noah, so noah was more or less the true continuation of the original AJPW.

Yeah because according to a lot of people Baba's wife took over and she was a real bitch. There was also Sem, and lasted a bit and was ran by Marufuji and KENTA

 

[Smart Marx]

It’s an amazing thing to think about for being such a relatively small island country, Japan can support so many large wrestling promotions. They can all just splinter from each other and can all continue to thrive for 4+ decades.