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>Here's a tournament for our small flippy guys
>Let's put these jacked to the gills powerhouses in it and have they fight each other
Oookay then.

>he will never make it to HW
he's jacked and could move up if he's over enough like Ibushi, ZSJ is the skinniest mf in the world and he's considered a heavyweight in New Japan

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And it got the biggest reaction out of anything on the show, by far, so I guess short guys with big muscles who don't flip are what the fans are looking for.

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Keep telling that to yourself while Okada main events everything being tall and doing poisoned ranas, Ishii.

HWs are based on height, not weight. Sho is smaller than Kushida.

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And Ishii is smaller then Kushida

Yet again nujapanlets overrating their same boring formulaic matches.

I completely forgot Jericho was ic champion

Ishii is built like a tank. He makes Sho look like a manlet.

SHO is the guy.

Ironic that you say that since I don't think I've ever seen Okada do a poisoned rana, meanwhile I know of multiple matches in which Ishii did one. Be that as it may, I hope SHO and Shingo stay juniors. We need power juniors so that it's not just technicians and flippy guys. If Ishii lost one (1) kg and became the biggest junior, that would also be cool.

Tfw 5’9”
Tfw I have to compete in the Indies because the LA Dojo has a minimal height requirement of 5’11”
Tfw have to carnie my ass out to even be worthy of competing in Japan

Weird for a company with an entire division dedicated to small fellas not accepting to train them.

>Sho not being blonde anymore
No dimes were drawn

This is what juniors matches should be, not choreographed dance sequences and thigh slapping. This was even more heavyweight like than the actual heavyweights.

>HWs are based on height, not weight
>The Jr Tag title's limit is based on weight (100 kg/22lb)

Kushida and Hirooki Gotoh are actually very good examples of "Solid but gate kept by height requirement."

That's in keyfabe, the actual requirement for being a HW is strength and being able to safely lift an opponent.

Clark Connors is an LA Dojo boy and he's 5'8" so I don't know where you got that from.

Goto is taller than Tanahashi.

>Setting up shingo as sho's rival that he will eventually overcome
Based long term booking

Shingo for HW!

They are clearly just getting the most out of him. since if he started as HW coming from dragon gate it would be strange

Shingo is too good at being the big junior who can push the other ones around. They've needed someone like him for years, why make him just another heavyweight?

We need Ishii vs Takagi, that match would be a real spectacle to watch.

STOP watching shitty RAM right fucking now and watch this match,
Holy fuck this was good shit.

>Getting worked
Ishimori is stronk as fuck but is never going to be a HW. Same as Dragon Lee.

Not him but you might be retarded. get yourself checked.

God DAMN Shingo done beat dat Sho nigga ass to death

Jr Heavyweight wrestling style is not all flippy do das. That's just one aspect of it. These lineup of guys they have assembled can brawl and do technical stuff too, there's many different facets to what guys below a certain weight limit can do.

>"Heavyweights are based on height, not weight"
>HeavyWEIGHT
>not based on weight
I don't know to break this to you user, but I think you might be retarded

No the actual requirement for being a Heavyweight in New Japan is to weigh in excess of 100kg.
Not whatever weird shit you made up in your head

do you really belive that Zack, Jujiro, omega or Ishii are over 100kg?

Not at all. Of all those men, NJPW only claims that Ishii actually meets the weight requirement. The rest have a billed weight under 100kg, but compete as heavyweights anyway. There are pretty much 4 categories of NJPW heavyweights.

1) People who are actually 100kg or more
2) People who are big enough that you can exaggerate their weight to 100kg or more
3) People who are heavyweights because NJPW has probably deemed them too big a star for the junior heavyweight division (e.g. Naito, Kenny, Ibushi, Zack, etc.)
4) People who are heavyweights and nobody knows why (e.g. Taichi, Yujiro)

The whole thing is a mess. People should be in the weight class that they actually would be in reality. The problem is only a handful of people in NJPW actually weigh 100kg or more. The weight limit should be reduced as well. In 2019, it's hard to find a lot of wrestlers who weigh that much, unless you're WWE and just train failed football players and the like.

Not him but the rule is juniors can fight up. but they normally don't since they would lose. Zack is technically a juniors but he see's the jr's under him he's talked about it before. he want's the hardest fight

>HWs are based on height, not weight.
>Heavyweights
>Heavy
>Weights

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>it got the biggest reaction out of anything on the show
it also had the most build-up out of anything on the show

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based big dimes shingo

YUmmola

>Jrs always lose against HW's
>Wrestlers oppenly talking about Jrs division being minior league
>Can't go up because Gedo said so
No wonder that Kushida went to NXT.

>>Can't go up because Gedo said so
What is Kenny? What is Taichi?

who the fuck was the guy that wasn't Kevin or Chris on commentary?
that fucker ruined the show for me and I had to rewatch it with glorious nippon commentary to give it an impartial judgement

some black bingo hall guy

What is Kushida? What is Ricoshet?

Both are too small lightweights, obviously not every single wrestler in the Jr. division is eligible to be in the Heavyweight division.

Charlton is pretty fucking cringe, I'm Japanese all the time now because of his twink voice

I couldn't be fucked to change it yesterday since i was in bed but he called Shingo the dark souls of BOSJ's im not fucking joking

caprice coleman

not a fan of charlton either, but I've come to accept him as an inevitability
this other dude was just a blundering jack ass who was shouting over the other two to say absolutely retarded shit that was wrong 3/4 of the time

So no shit that they wanted out. At least in WWE midget division they will get paid more than in NJPW midget division

The thing I really like about Shingo is how hard it seems he hits(always with velocity and ferocity) and yet it's a style that seems safe because he's a tremendous wrestler. The way he runs, the way he moves, everything he does looks intense and violent and those clotheslines looked like they can take someone's head off.

KUSHIDA would have likely moved up eventually in New Japan but that would mean re-signing with New Japan in the hope that that happens within the next year(s) OR instead go try the WWMEME thing out while he's still young enough (even though they'd sign him at 40 right now just to fuck with New Japans talent-pool) but it is what it is, I think if you look at the Jr.s and the Hw's in NJPW they're both loaded and some guys are just naturally going to get left behind.

So Juniors are still jobber manlets who can't win anything important outside of their limbo and heels like ZSJ oppenly call JRs division below them and this is fine?

Taka stil looking young I see

I can't wait for Ishimori vs Takagi

KUSHIDA should've stayed for one more year. He might have had the opportunity to main event Sumo Hall.

Charisma vacuums

Yep. Maybe they shouldn't be midgets lmao

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Ishii vs Shingo when?