On today’s episode of The Taz Show, Taz will discuss the classic match between Nakamura and Ibushi from Wrestle Kingdom 9.

Taz mentions that NJPW’s production is unbelievable, and they’re basically the only company in the world that can compete with WWE production-wise. They pull out all the stops here for Wrestle Kingdom, with pyro and multiple video walls to ensure a jam-packed arena full of people are satisfied. Taz points out that this is Japan’s WrestleMania.

Taz says he’s a big fan of Nakamura’s work, and he doesn’t mean to disrespect him today because he’s never met him, but this is when Nakamura was booked “Cool”. He urges his fans to check out the video of this entrance from Wrestle Kingdom 9, because this is when Nakamura truly was a “rockstar”.

He points out that we’ve seen this plenty of times before, and Taz has actually been through this himself. As a Superstar in the business you feel like your career is going great and then you finally make it to WWE and things change drastically. For whatever reason, WWE seems to struggle with capitalizing on momentum that incoming performers have.

Taz likes that Nakamura and Ibushi are wearing opposite colour ring gear during this match. He informs that this is an unwritten rule in the business, and in some cases it actually is written in the Gorilla Position in WWE. Ibushi wore white and Nakamura wore black for this bout.

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X-Pac opens today’s show by wishing a happy birthday to his long-time friend, Jim Ross. Ross turns 66 years old today, and X-Pac reinforces how much Ross has meant to him over the years as a mentor and a friend.

X-Pac talks about a recent video he saw of Brian Pillman Jr., son of former WWE Superstar, Brian Pillman. He points out that Pillman Jr. looks and works just like his father, and he has no issue at all with Pillman Jr. using the Pillman name throughout his wrestling career. He thinks Pillman Jr. should continue to use his family name and get every advantage that he can get out of it. He points out that Curtis Axel probably could have benefitted from utilizing the Henning name.

He mentions that Wrestle Kingdom 12 will take place is just a matter of hours, and he thinks this will be the biggest NJPW event ever internationally, mostly due to having Chris Jericho involved in the show. On the other hand, he doubts that this will be the biggest show NJPW has put off locally in Japan.

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We are only two weeks and some change from WrestleKingdom 12, and the Road To Tokyo Dome continues tomorrow. We already know that Tana is injured (arthritis and fluid in his knee that he hopes rest will fix enough to have his match with Jay White). Kenny has been bloodied by Jericho. And, Naito is pissed about the wording of the show’s main events.

But, before we get to The Dome, we have to travel down the road to get there first.

NJPW Road To Tokyo Dome Match Card

3rd Match 15 Minutes Limit
Kotetsu Yamamoto Memorial 11th Young Lion Cup Tournament
Syota Umino vs Ren Narita.

3rd Match 15 Minutes Limit
Kotetsu Yamamoto Memorial 11th Young Lion Cup Tournament
Tomoyuki Oka vs Tetsuhiro Yagi.

3rd Match 15 Minutes Limit
Kotetsu Yamamoto Memorial 11th Young Lion Cup Tournament
Hirai Kawato vs Katsuya Kitamura.

Masked Horse (Taguchi), KUSHIDA, Tiger Mask, & Jushin “Thunder” Liger vs TAKA Michinoku, El Desperado, Taichi, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru.

Henare & Togi Makabe vs Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii.

Yujiro Takahashi & Bad Luck Fale vs EVIL & SANADA.

Kota Ibushi & TenCozy vs Leo Tonga & GoD.

YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs Takashi Iizuka and Minoru Suzuki.

Roppongi 3K & Kazuchika Okada vs Hiromu Takahashi, BUSHI, & Tetsuya Naito.

You can join me as I live tweet on @njpwworld (@AbbeyA) as the show begins at 4:30 am EST Monday morning. And, as always, we will have a full recap and results as soon as the show is in the books.

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We are only two weeks and some change from WrestleKingdom 12, and the Road To Tokyo Dome begins tomorrow. We already know that Tana is injured (arthritis and fluid in his knee that he hopes rest will fix enough to have his match with Jay White). Kenny has been bloodied by Jericho. And, Naito is pissed about the wording of the show’s main events.

But, before we get to The Dome, we have to travel down the road to get there first.

NJPW Road To Tokyo Dome Match Card

Syota Umino vs Tetsuhiro Yagi.

Katsuya Kitamura vs Ren Narita.

3rd Match 15 Minutes Limit
Kotetsu Yamamoto Memorial 11th Young Lion Cup Tournament
Hirai Kawato vs Tomoyuki Oka.

Henare, Tiger Mask, & Jushin “Thunder”Liger vs TAKA Michinoku, El Desperado, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru.

Kota Ibushi & Togi Makabe vs Leo Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi.

Toru Yano, Hirooki Goto, & Tomohiro Ishii vs Taichi, Takashi Iizuka, & Minoru Sukuzi.

Masked Horse (we are guessing Taguchi), KUSHIDA, & Satoshi Kojima vs Roppongi 3K & Rocky Romero.

NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Title
BUSHI, EVIL, & SANADA vs GoD & Bad Luck Fale.

YOSHI-HASHI & Kazuchika Okada vs Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito.

You can join me as I live tweet on @njpwworld (@AbbeyA) as the show begins at 4:30 am EST Sunday morning. And, as always, we will have a full recap and results as soon as the show is in the books.

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Taz opens today’s show speaking about the recent angle between Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega in NJPW. He loved what those two guys did here, and Jericho’s surprise appearance in Japan really shocked the live crowd. However, he didn’t like how Kevin Kelly and the commentary team handled this. Jericho was back on to the camera so the viewers at home couldn’t tell who it was initially, yet the announcers began screaming “Oh my God, it’s Jericho!”

Taz says that commentators need to use their monitors because that’s what the viewers at home are seeing. He recalls McMahon telling him and Michael Cole in their ear pieces to look right into their monitors because a surprise was coming and he wanted the announcers to react to what the viewers were seeing at home.

He points out that NJPW is usually great at keeping secrets, but he can tell by the way that they called the action that the commentary team knew Jericho was going to make an appearance. If Taz was running NJPW he would have kept this from the commentators so they would have reacted organically like a fan.

He credits Jericho for his great beatdown of Omega, and he adds that Omega sold all of Jericho’s offence  wonderfully. The entire thing felt old school and Taz calls it ‘badass’. Jericho is the perfect guy to pull this off in Taz’s opinion because he has the experience and knowledge, and he knows exactly the kind of heat that was needed to make this angle work.

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