NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12 Primer: Preview & Guide to WK12

Originally published at https://www.postwrestling.com/2018/01/02/njpw_wk12_primer/

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John Pollock and Wai Ting get you all caught up for NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12 on Jan. 4th featuring Kazuchika Okada vs Tetsuya Naito and Kenny Omega vs Chris Jericho. John and Wai discuss the storylines that lead up to the matches, the stars, the New Japan system, John’s predictions and more. This is a great show to listen to if you’re relatively new to New Japan Pro Wrestling.

Plus, John answers patrons' questions from the POST Wrestling Forum.

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Thank you for doing this. It really helped fill in the information that I was lacking on NJPW, also I loved the Q and A format, and no notes, impressive!

@wai0937 It was Showbuckle and what other YouTube channel you mentioned? I was driving when you said it and now I have been scrubbing through the episode and cannot seem to find it. Thanks!

I can’t remember the other one Wai mentioned, but those Showbuckle videos are fantastic! The video about the New Japan production work is outstanding.

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I believe it was Showbuckle and Real Neat Puro

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Seriously can’t wait for Wrestlekingdom. Been watching for the last 5 or 6 years. Always a great show. Had the privilege to attend last years show. I love how you inform everyone about John. Just like Mania there are a lot other shows going on around Wrestlekingdom. If anyone can seek them out I suggest you do.

Yeah this guy is fantastic at what he does. Just watched his top 10 NJPW matches of the year and his presentation and information are both just so clean. He’s a great sub, especially if you’re looking to get into NJPW.

Thank you @skgosyne.

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Thanks for this guys. I feel I follow New Japan a bit but still miss a lot of this stuff so this has helped me a lot.

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I sent a link to this episode to a bunch of my friends that are pretty much New Japan virgins but are getting together to watching this years Wrestle Kingdom because of Jericho/Omega. I thought it’d help things run way smoother on the night because there’s two of us that keep up with the promotion and four or five that don’t and I don’t wanna have to keep pausing a five plus hour show in order to explain what’s going on.

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Some links to the supplementary material for those who have time to kill before 2am:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgZEgCkrs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNRoLMaMBg

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Listened to that Jericho episode earlier today. Really good stuff.

The fall and rise of Naito is a fantastic video, all of his videos are great to be fair. The Shibata one is stunning looking back at it.