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Ich kann die hier geäußerte Kritik gegenüber New Japan nur teilweie nachvollziehen. Ein großes Problem - und das habe ich ja mit dem ein oder anderen hier bereits besprochen oder andernorts geschrieben - ist die Titellandschaft, die eindeutig zu einseitig ist. Prince Devitt hat in der Junior Szene kaum einen ernstzunehmenden Herausforderer und wenn der Titel wechselt, ist er nach kurzer Zeit wieder zurück um die Hüften von Devitt. Allerdings ist es dort wie auch in der Heavyweight Division meiner Ansicht nach so, dass schlichtweg der beste und interessanteste Mann dort die Gürtel hält. Woran das liegt, ist sicher auch eine Diskussion wert, aber danach wurde hier ja zunächst mal nicht gefragt.
Ich persönlich bin großer New Japan Fan und schaue nach wie vor jede Show der Liga, was ich aber letztlich nicht jedem empfehlen kann, der nicht so sehr Fan ist wie ich. Allerdings ist es meiner Ansicht nach so, dass die allermeisten New Japan Shows noch immer qualitativ hochwertiger sind als die Shows von All Japan. Ich schaue All Japan auch sehr gern und fühle mich von dem Produkt sehr gut unterhalten, allerdings sind die Under und Midcard Matches aufgrund des dünnen Rosters oftmals schwach und weniger interessant als bei New Japan.
Daher: Bei New Japan KANN man sich ohne Probleme die meisten der Shows anschauen, ohne genau auf die Cards zu schauen, bei All Japan ist der Unterhaltungsfaktor höher, die Qualität aber nur in den großen Matches vergleichbar.
Von Big Japan schaue ich mir inzwischen jede Show an. Der Mix aus starkem Wrestling und Deathmatches gelingt außerordentlich gut.
Ansonsten hat sich Dragon Gate 2011 wieder auf einem sehr hohem Niveau gezeigt. Es ist natürlich Geschmacksache, ob man die kurzen Infinity Shows schauen möchte, aber auch dort gibt es des öfteren ungeclippt gute Matches. Die großen Events der Liga kann ich uneingeschränkt empfehlen. Fantastic Gate Tag 13 und Final Gate, die beide in voller Länge zu sehen waren, sind zwei sehenswerte Shows.
Generell ist DDT zu empfehlen, K-DOJO liefert auch immer ein solides Produkt ab, während ich von ZERO1 aktuell die Finger lassen würde. Michinoku Pro ist so eine Sache....verrückt sind die Shows schon, aber qualitativ hochwertig nicht.
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Original geschrieben von Raabinator:
Smash ist so eine Sache. Man bekommt da zum Teil echt gute Sachen geboten und ich kann von mir selbst behaupten das die Shows dafür gesorgt haben das ich mich mehr für Joshi-Wrestling interessiere. Allerdings ist manches dann auch wieder ein wenig abgedreht, gab z.B. ein Intergender No DQ Match bei dem es darum ging ob Sie einer Heirat/Verlobung mit ihrem Gegner zustimmt. Aber die Tatsache das Leute wie Fujinami, Tenryu und Ultimo Dragon gelegentlich auftauchen und das gute Joshi Wrestling lassen mich über dieses Whacky Booking gerne hinwegsehen.
Dem kann ich im Grunde so zustimmen. Die Promotion setzt sehr deutlich auf den Entertainment-Faktor und ist damit auch seit der Gründung sehr erfolgreich. Das interessanteste ist, dass man dort Matches von Wrestlern verschiedener Kontinente sieht. Beispielsweise gab es bei einer Show Genichiro Tenryu gegen Michael Kovac, bei der letzten Show standen Murat Bosporus und Finlay im Main Event und wo - diese Frage richtet sich inbesondere an Morbi - sieht man sonst folgendes Match: KENSO & VENENO vs. Sabu & Jun Kasai? 
Beitrag editiert von STRIGGA am 20.01.2012 um 09:12 Uhr
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Meltzer schreibt in seinem aktuellen Observer, dass Bushiroad nur die Anteile von Yukes gekauft hat. Hier der komplette Artikel:
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Details are sketchy at the moment but there are media reports in Japan that New Japan was sold by Yuke’s, the video game company, to Bushiroad, a popular card game company and the new owners would take over on 2/1.
Takaaki Kidani, the chairman of Bushiroad Group Publishing announced they have purchased 100% ownership of New Japan from Yuke’s in a deal announced on 1/31 and were taking over the next day. Yuke’s had purchased 51.5% of the company from Antonio Inoki in late 2005 during a period when the company was losing significant money and it was something of a fire sale. The company was doing better financially of late but was not believed to be operating at a profit.
Reports on the purchase price vary by media source but the price was a shockingly low figure, reported at 500 million yen or $6,550,000 U.S. Bushiroad on its web site said there would be no change in company structure, but companies that buy other companies usually say that and it almost always ends up not being the case.
Kidani, when talking, said that they had approached Yuke’s over the summer after sponsoring the G-1 Climax tournament and expressed interest in buying. Bushiroad Group Publishing is a Tokyo based company that started in May 2007. The company has also promoted some New Japan house shows and was also a sponsor of Zero-One. They were also a sponsor of pro wrestler/fighter Yuichiro Nagashima and promoted a card in May called Bushiroad Pro Wrestling and Kidani appeared as a character on the show as Danshoku Kidani. He was a big pro wrestling fan growing up, particularly of Inoki. At a press conference on 1/31, he talked about international expansion, which previous owners tried without success as unlike American culture, Japanese culture doesn’t export into foreign markets well, particularly in wrestling hotbeds like Mexico, Australia, the U.S. and Europe. New Japan, which was super popular in Italy in the early 80s on television during a boom period, but also a period where the television featured some of the biggest worldwide stars on a regular basis, failed in an attempt in that market a few years back. They did a few shows this past year in the U.S. with Jersey All Pro Wrestling in the Northeast, but given the expense, it’s doubtful those shows were profitable and they were all on a small-time scale and didn’t draw anymore than they would draw in Japan for house shows. Kidani also talked about their goal being to overtake WWE as the No. 1 pro wrestling company in the world. Interestingly, Bushiroad, which lists anime, game cards, video games, social media and manga as its leading revenue streams, was the main sponsor for the Japanese television premiere of a one hour edited version of the top two matches from last year’s WrestleMania, that aired on 1/29 at 2:15 a.m. on TV Tokyo, which is a national network on the level of CW in the U.S. While the company has been successful in their own businesses, their complete company is not financially on the level of WWE.
Yuke’s didn’t decide for several more months that they were interested in selling and once they did, the negotiations went quickly and quietly. Yuke’s own financial situation had gone down in the last year and New Japan was not a profitable company on its own. Virtually all insiders in Japan were caught unaware when the deal was announced, and New Japan’s top stars, in specific Yuji Nagata, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shinsuke Nakamura, Togi Makabe and Jushin Liger were all shocked when the news broke. The story broke in Tokyo Sports which was given the exclusive and they were told on 1/30.
This did explain why the usual January New Japan contract negotiations, that were always in the news, didn’t happen and no explanation had been given. The general feeling among those in New Japan at least after first hearing from the new owners is that this is a very good move, because Bushiroad officials said that they were looking at heavily merchandising the New Japan name and the top wrestlers. New Japan merchandise is only available at the arenas and through the web site and a few pro wrestling stores.
There is a feeling right now from the wrestlers after the news broke that this will open up doors to make bigger money since in Japan, the wrestling pay structure, once the highest in the world, is far behind the U.S. New Japan’s biggest star, Hiroshi Tanahashi, is believed to be making in the neighborhood of $260,000 per year. Minoru Suzuki faced Tanahashi on 1/4 at the Tokyo Dome in the company’s main event on its annual biggest show of the year. He’s not under a long-term deal, and is currently being paid about $13,000 per month. As a comparison, Masahiro Chono was earning $800,000 per year at a time when the yen was worth far less against the dollar (it would be equivalent to more than $1.3 million today) when the company business fell into its bad point. He took a significant cut when business got bad a few years back and left the company, where the presumption was he was a lifer, at the end of 2009.
During the late 70s and into the early 80s, Japan was the place to make money in pro wrestling, until the national expansion of the WWF. Even through the 90s boom period of American wrestling, the money in Japan was the highest in the business besides WWF and WCW and there were a number of full-time well playing jobs for foreigners, which is really not the case any longer.
The company, started by Antonio Inoki and NTV on March 6, 1972, grew to be the largest pro wrestling company in the world within a few years due to its prime time network contract and the mainstream popularity of Inoki, a position it held until 1984. The company was built around the concept of Inoki as a real fighter, and the idea that even if pro wrestling itself wasn’t real, New Japan had the best stable of real fighters in the world. That concept remained strong in the early days of real fighting, and New Japan often promoted shooters and mixed matches against fighters from other sports to maintain that aura. However, the boom of MMA in Japan hurt that concept, which was weakened even more when New Japan’s top shooters went into MMA competition and for the most part didn’t do well, and even if they did okay, their moves performed in pro wrestling weren’t the moves they used. A lot of questionable booking decisions followed, leading to a decline and the company losing prominence.
The company moved from prime time to Saturday afternoon, to late Saturday night (at in 2 a.m. or later) and down to 30 minutes, rendering the television almost completely ineffective in creating new fans. While they have a strong presence on satellite and do PPVs, satellite TV in Japan still doesn’t reach enough people and draw anywhere near the audience as compared to U.S. cable, and PPV isn’t anywhere near as lucrative.
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Ich habe nur keinen Bock mehr auf das x-te Gedo vs ~FUCKING~RABBITT!!!
