NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam Discussion Thread

[Comrade Khan]

I guess we will have to see

 

[CakeWalker]

Tanahashi is very honourable with his hand shakes. The fact that both him and Hoyt had a moment in the ring - I'd go with that very much being first AEW match. Although - Tanahashi may decide not to have one

 

[Chris]

Yano/Owens is officially an "I Quit" match with that being Yano's suggesting and winning the Twitter poll of Owens's Texas Bullrope match

 

[Chris]

Some new matches announced for both nights:

Night one

• SHO vs. YOH
• Robbie Eagles & Tiger Mask vs. Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI

Night two

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo (c) vs. El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan

 

[Chris]

Shingo and BUSHI are also cleared to wrestle here after having COVID

 

[Chris]

Here's cards so far for the Dome shows, I expect these to be fun but a bit of a let down like the last one tbh

NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome night one, Saturday, September 4, 4 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World --

• IWGP United States Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kota Ibushi
• Kazuchika Okada vs. Jeff Cobb
• Provisional KOPW 2021 No DQ, I Quit match: Chase Owens (c) vs. Toru Yano
• SHO vs. YOH
• Robbie Eagles & Tiger Mask vs. Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI
• Pre-show: STARDOM exhibition match TBA

NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome night two, Sunday, September 5, 2 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World --

• IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Shingo Takagi (c) vs. EVIL
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Robbie Eagles (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
• IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Tetsuya Naito & SANADA
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo (c) vs. El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan
• Pre-show: STARDOM exhibition match TBA

 

[Comrade Khan]

be honest, its mostly disappointing because of fucking EVIL lol

 

[Chris]

be honest, its mostly disappointing because of fucking EVIL lol

Nah even that won't be as bad as seeing this huge dome having only a couple thousand people in it shit is depressing no matter the quality of wrestling.

N1 looks legit like it'll be a great show tho for sure

 

[Chris]

Here's the two Stardom matches that are being broadcast on NJPW World for the first time instead of being dark matches

 

[Chris]

Time to start night one

 

[Chris]

First STARDOM match was good

 

[Chris]

These mostly empty domes just look so sad

 

[Chris]

Opening tag match was good fun, Robbie looked great and Hiromu showing no signs of rust still

 

[Chris]

The new SHO branding is cool

 

[Chris]

Damn Sho fucking brutal now