Might be making that jump to NJPW

I grow bored of WWE Network and their current product is the shits. Maybe I'll change my mind if the Royal Rumble results are pleasing. But I doubt it. If dirtsheets are to be belived, WrestleMania is shaping up to be terrible this year.

For the same money being spent on the Network, I can watch New Japan World and see some exciting and fresh content. Just want to share this as I know there's gotta be other malcontents out there.

Who knows, maybe I'll share some thoughts on New Japan should I make the switch later on.

WWE is the best it's been in years. From the exciting feuds and matches happening on the main roster to the INCREDIBLE talent on NXT. Never fail to deliver in the wrestling matches. New Japan is shit they don't even speak english. Scrub.

Batzilla wrote:WWE is the best it's been in years. From the exciting feuds and matches happening on the main roster to the INCREDIBLE talent on NXT. Never fail to deliver in the wrestling matches. New Japan is shit they don't even speak english. Scrub.

Good for you if you like it. Doesn't change my opinion that it sucks. Have seen the ratings lately? Sad

RAW is literally unwatchable, I just normally skim through it or watch highlights... Smackdown is sick tho. I want to get into NJPW but not knowing the history of the promotion kind of puts me off.

Gumblesaur wrote:RAW is literally unwatchable, I just normally skim through it or watch highlights... Smackdown is sick tho. I want to get into NJPW but not knowing the history of the promotion kind of puts me off.

I was you once and yeah, the smackdown situation is little better but still awful in some places. I just can't bring myself to watch either show now and only catch the big PPV events. They had a great opportunity to do some dream matches with AJ Styles as champion, but he gets Cena again? Fuck that shit. And Owens has been booked terribly as Universal Champion too.

wrestling is gay and fake, watch something real, nerd

Where is the "who are you?" Vote at tho?

NJPW has some epic matches for PPV'S ONLY, Everything else is 80 percent of the card being tag matches.

RAGE wrote:

Gumblesaur wrote:RAW is literally unwatchable, I just normally skim through it or watch highlights... Smackdown is sick tho. I want to get into NJPW but not knowing the history of the promotion kind of puts me off.

I was you once and yeah, the smackdown situation is little better but still awful in some places. I just can't bring myself to watch either show now and only catch the big PPV events. They had a great opportunity to do some dream matches with AJ Styles as champion, but he gets Cena again? Fuck that shit. And Owens has been booked terribly as Universal Champion too.

you were never Gumble. Not good enough.

NJPW does an hour long so every Friday on AXS TV. They basically show you the best matches. It's awesome. I agree that the product in NJPW is better than the WWE product, but a big part of that is that I only see 1 hour of NJPW versus 5 hours of WWE each week. I'm sure if I watched 5 hours of NJPW I'd get sick of it as well. I'd love one hour versions of Raw and Smackdown that just played the 2-3 best matches. I don't need to hear Stephanie drone on and on.

If you haven't seen this yet, get yourself a beer or a joint and settle in for something amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qrARuSJNf0

Eh i kind of have a love and hate relationship with NJPW, here are some notes from a active viewer

If your not a fan of multi-man tag matches your not gonna have a good time, most of the storyline building happens in these matches but as wrestling is treated as a real sport most of the time over there so most of the non-main event (and some main event storylines are a basic style like this:

"I want ur belt" 
"Fite me at the PPV then m8" 
or sometimes they just do tournaments to get contenders, rematch clauses, etc.

However when NJPW is good is really fucking good but when it's not it can be ehh not great.

You can for the most part get around with just watching the PPVs and reading up on past events (This is what i do sometimes if i hear a match was good i'll check out the road to's) If you don't mind commentary i recommend Japanese commentary or as Dull has said the weekly AXS show with JR on it as to be blunt the current english commentary team for the odd PPVs with English comm in my opinion is the drizzling shits and they aren't there for every PPV unlike with the weekly show.    


Other then that take a shot at it and see if ya like it, i always recommend NJPW to people looking for an alternative