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If I had to guess, I think Ibushi is taking the fall. I don't think Cody is getting pinned as the newly crowned US Champ, and as NWA champ. Pretty sure they made it a threeway with Cody in order to 'protect' Ibushi in his loss i.e. either some shenanigans or some shit like Kenny was able to pin Ibus...

Incredible final, my favorite match of the tournament and maybe my MOTY. Tanahashi is not losing the contract to White. You think they are going to headline the dome with White vs Omega? No way. Omega going over Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom seems like the right move to further establish Omega. Only ...

I think Omega is holding the belt until after WK, and will lose it in the first quarter of next year. That having been said, ever since they have been doing the briefcase scenario, the champion has never won the G1, and no one in the same block as the champ has won the G1. If Omega is keeping the ti...

DDT show this weekend was great. Most of everything delivered. Higuchi vs Irie was awesome, with some really disgusting spots. I am now finally buying into Irie as heel champion of DDT. His shit talking on DDT is great and works especially with HARASHIMA now stepping up to challenge him because he h...

nice show on 5/20, the Higuchi vs Umeda sprint was great and I hope these guys keep going at each other for awhile, or form a tag team, one or the other, they are both great. the main event of Irie vs Ishii took a while for me to get into it, I wasn't feeling it at first and by the end they had hook...

Umeda/MAO vs Sekimoto/Higuchi for the tag belts was awesome, but not as great as I had imagined it would be. It was a little sloppy in places with MAO looking a bit out of place and lost at times, but I don't care so much, the Umeda Sekimoto interactions ruled. Really stoked that we get to have this...

Kota Umeda won the Maji Manji tournament yesterday in a really good main event with MAO!
Was surprised to see that Go Shiozaki came out afterwards for Kota Umeda's first in a series of trial matches if I understand correctly?
I'm really, really looking forward to that.

Yea, I agree that loser expulsion match had me laughing quite a bit. I forgot about the 4 way tornado tag match but that was also fun and just a super entertaining non stop moves fest. I wasn't expecting Sakaguchi to pick up the win here. Also surprised the reactions I saw on twitter were kind of ne...

Fun show yesterday. Kota Umeda continues to look like a star. Really excited about him and loved the interactions between him and Higuchi. Watching Koji Kanemoto kick the shit out of Gota Ihashi sure was something else. That ladder match between Bailey and Miyamoto was a lot more brutal than I was e...

thought Judgement was a really great show. The main event, the tag title match, and 6 man tag title matches were all great. Kota Umeda looked incredible in the six man especially and I think he is going to be a future star.
thought the post main event Irie angle/thing came across really awkward.

Dragon Gate getting a streaming service now:

So I've decided that this year instead of just casually watching a few DDT matches that get recommended I'm going to really sign up for DDT Universe and follow it. Started the Grand Prix and I'm surprised there is not more love going around for the Endo / Takeshita match from night 2. I thought this...

Trent Beretta supposedly has some serious injuries (rumored torn triceps and torn pectoral), so I think his chance of being in the Cup or in G1 are up in the air now also.

I'm curious what do people think NOAH is going to do here with the booking? I feel like both outcomes of the Kiyomiya Kenoh match wouldn't be the best choice? I feel like you can't have Kiyomiya come back get that rocket push and lose to Kenoh in his first match back right? But also Kenoh just won t...

This was a really fun show. ACH vs Sammy Guevara was the match of the night for me. Got pretty brutal. That slap?!? Wtf! Thought Sammy was legit knocked out. My only real complaint of the show was that almost every single match had a post match handshake or an attempt at one, I'd rather see that kin...