The 8th Match: History of Pro-Wrestling for beginners. (NJPW 2000s)

Buenas noches!

Hi, I’m Choro. (^^)!

I have been very busy and kept putting this off…( ；∀；)

I should reconsider how to proceed this blog and themes to write.

NJPW’s history is close to an end.

We call 2000s as “dark age” – the time between rapid decline of 90s’ popularity to the day of current boom.

In late 90s, there were lots of matches held all over in Japan because of great popularity of The Three Musketeers, Jushin Thunder Liger and other junior heavy weight wrestlers.

Promising young wrestlers in this period were the ones we call third generations. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima are the representatives of the generation. Shinjiro Otani, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Koji Kanemoto, Osamu Nishimura and Tokimitsu Ishizawa were also very talented wrestlers and played outstandingly.  In spite of the presence of those great wrestlers, why NJPW went into a decline..

The reasons I thought of are as per below.

　　①1.4, Shinya Hashimoto who were a symbol of strength knocked out by Naoya Ogawa.

　　②Unreasonable intervening by Antonio Inoki to change scenario forcibly.

　　③Boom of mixed martial arts made fans to think what the fighting really means.

　　④Above of 3 reasons caused seceding of popular wrestlers.

There are lots of books and articles on internet write about this decline.  Change of people’s perspective due to the flow of the time left Showa’s pro-wrestling in the history. ( ﾟДﾟ)

For your information, pro-wrestling NOAH led the pro-wrestling world during that period. KENTA, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, and Taiji Ishimori who are active in NJPW now belonged to NOAH before.

Do you know why the third generations are so popular now? We who has been a fan of pro-wrestling for a long time know that they had struggled to survive in the pro-wrestling world during the period and showed us their loyalties to NJPW. (>_<)

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shinsuke Nakamura and Togi Makabe who are the current stars have fought with the them and create current new pro-wrestling.

This is all the history of NJPW. I roughly explain it but hope you understand its outline. (^_-)-☆

Let’s call it a day!

SEE YOU NEXT TIME!