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Going In Raw: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 Review & Full Results

Going In Raw: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

Studio71

Wrestling, News, Sports News, Sports

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:35.0

And welcome back to going in Raw.

0:39.6

It's our annual New Japan Professional Wrestling Wrestle Kingdom review.

0:47.0

You know, for a while there after like 2017 when New Japan was hot Larson. We would cover a lot of New

0:58.0

Japan. We covered most like all their major shows. Yeah yeah and over the years that sort of waned away. Obviously here

1:06.8

going and Ra Roy sort of looking at our business model and seeing what's hidden and

1:10.6

as New Japan kind of cooled there for a couple years as did our coverage

1:16.1

and now it's more just an annual thing like the last New Japan show we covered was

1:20.5

last year's Wrestle Kingdom and I was outside shooting some hoops

1:24.2

thinking about this Larson. There was a Wrestlemanian I think it was like 12 or 13

1:29.1

or so that there was obviously it was like 80% or something of the people on that card were not there the previous year

1:38.9

and although it's not as extreme this year obviously there's been some big changes in the

1:45.7

direction of the company and in a youth movement of the company ironic given what

1:50.0

happened in the main event for the title but what was

1:53.0

your biggest takeaway in terms of the direction that that new Japan is heading in.

1:56.0

You know, we started watching new Japan with

1:59.0

Wrestle Kingdom 11, the one that was main event by Okada and Keni Omega,

2:02.0

and it's it's it's an interesting

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