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

[Alexa]

It really is, but also a lot of smaller promotions as well.

 

[Alexa]

I could talk about the history of Japanese Wrestling for days, lol

 

[Chris]

Yeah Japan's culture in general even outside of wrestling is crazy, especially how worldwide its reach is. Again for such a small country

 

[Smart Marx]

The thing I love about Japan is they believe in tradition, legacy and consistent forms of entertainment. They’re less likely to abandon something just because they’ve been doing it a while.

The people behind Godzilla, Toei, for instance has the super Sentai series that the US Power Rangers adapted, that’s been going on for nearly 50 years.

Their 45th season just started airing last month. Insane.

 

[Alexa]

Because they keep it new, and fresh by always bringing something different, and they find a formula that works. They also study other people/works and build up on it.

 

[Chris]

Yeah it's a much less lazier form of nostalgia than current American entertainment seems to be geared towards at the moment lol

 

[Smart Marx]

Because they keep it new, and fresh by always bringing something different, and they find a formula that works. They also study other people/works and build up on it.

I’ve only been able to get around to actually watching a couple of them, but I love the fact that they can go from one year with a storyline is devil worshipers that sacrificed children and drain them of their blood and then a year later they gonna be doing a storyline about evil parking enforcement highway traffic cops don’t want to ticket People for driving too fast in space and has talking cars and shit. Both serious and goofy themes and sometimes a bit of both.

 

[Smart Marx]

It honestly drives me crazy how irritated Americans get anytime anything last any significant portion of time like they’re being forced to watch it if they don’t want to. Like if you look at any commercial for Fast and Furious 10 there’s a bunch of people saying they need to end it already but it’s like nobody forcing you to go to the movie theaters to see it.

 

[Chris]

It honestly drives me crazy how irritated Americans get anytime anything last any significant portion of time like they’re being forced to watch it if they don’t want to. Like if you look at any commercial for Fast and Furious 10 there’s a bunch of people saying they need to end it already but it’s like nobody forcing you to go to the movie theaters to see it.

Same with the MCU, I've fallen off on keeping up with it myself but like I'm glad people are still liking it and these new characters are getting shine. People feel like they're required to watch this stuff just bc it's popular and it makes them miserable of its not exactly what they want

 

[Alexa]

Because Americans rather complain about the problem then actually try to fix it or change it

 

[Alexa]

But in order to fix some of the things, you would have to piss people off.

 

[Smart Marx]

I don’t think most Americans want to fix it. If they’re making a Fast 10, there must still be a large enough amount of people still interested in seeing it so it’s not like it’s completely broken, but Americans seemingly all have a point in any narrative where they lose interest and they don’t have the capacity to simply say this isn’t for me anymore. Instead they just want it to end so they don’t “have” to watch it anymore.

 

[Alexa]

Meant fix, meaning fix the way they see things and value things. Like instead of hate watching, which is huge in America let's face it, just simply don't watch the thing you hate or dont rea dthe thing that you hate, and so on. Because soon enough if more and people did that then the compaines will have to change. For example, when Godzilla become more geared to kids their sales didnt do too well, they changed and the profits came back

 

[Alexa]

Or like how I find most of AEW boring/dull now and just watch the parts that interest me

 

[Chris]

More big matches set for All Together Again!​

Six more matches official

Doors between promotions come tumbling down through June! Before NJPW and AEW head to Toronto for Forbidden Door on June 25, June 9 will see NJPW, NOAH and AJPW All Together Again in Ryogoku. With three big matches already announced, a second wave of announcements brings six more collisions between all three promotions.
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A collection of junior all stars from all three companies will see Amakusa of NOAH, AJPW’s World Junior Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi and Hiromu Takahashi face Best of the Super Jr. winner Master Wato, GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hayata and Rising Hayato. With All Together Again taking place just five short days after Dominion, Wato may be the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion; either way his title bout with Hiromu plays out in Osaka Jo Hall, the two are sure to be exciterd at the prospect of tangling once again.

Wato will also have keen memories of pinning current AJPW World Junior Champion Aoyagi in Korakuen Hall at the All Star Junior Festival back in march. Tonight is a chance to continue that situation, with young AJPW star Rising Hayato also in the mix. Meanwhile Hiromu’s reconnection with an old friend in Amakusa was one of many junior heavyweight stories of the early spring, and they’ll be looking to put NOAH’s Hayata in his place in a match with plenty of movieng parts.

Ten man tag team action will pit United Empire against a cross factional AJPW force. Jun and Rei Saito of long running AJPW faction Voodoo Murders combine with Ryuki Honda of the Gungnir of Anarchy, and two men in Hikaru Sato and Dan Tamura that United Empire’s Francesco Akira was familiar with in tag battles while competing for All Japan at the start of the decade. In the face of a disparate side from All Japan, United Empire will likely look to stamp an authoritative mark on Ryogoku.

Strong Style’s Ren Narita, El Desperado and Minoru Suzuki face NOAH’s Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura and Junta Miyawaki. Desperado and Suzuki have a lot of previous with Marufuji and Sugiura going back to Suzuki-Gun’s reign of terror in NOAH between 2015 and 2017, while Miyawaki and Narita will be more than happy to represent the new generations of their respective companies in what’s sure to be an explosive and hard hitting battle.

Recently reunited under AXIZ as Katsuhiko Nakajima left former factional home Kongo earlier in the spring, Nakajima and perennial NOAH ace Go Shiozaki face Hokuto Omori and long time powerful face of AJPW, Shuji Ishikwa. Omori and Ishikawa have traded wins one on one in recent months, but can they put up a strong united front against the combined AXIZ force?

A first time ever singles clash pits Shota Umino opposite ‘World Famous’ Yoshitatsu of All Japan. 2002 Dojo class member Yoshitatsu faces the 2022 excursion returnee Umino, as the Roughneck looks to show the strength of New Japan’s youth movement int he face of the AJPW veteran.

TMDK’s Zack Sabre Jr. and Kosei Fujita will take on rising international NOAH stars in Chris Ridgeway and Sean Legacy at All Together Again. Ridgeway and ZSJ reunite after they traded wins in UK rings back in 2018, with both looking to show the benefit of half a decade’s extra experience. Meanwhile Sean Legacy, a new face to NOAH having debuted back in April, will likely be tested by Fujita, whose momentum (and some might say, head) has only grown bigger since pinning Gedo in tag action recently in Yoyogi.​