NJPW с американска телевизионна сделка

[nWoHulkster]

AXS TV пуснаха видео реклама, в която рекламират новите им шоута за 2015. В рекламата са включени кадри и от най-голямата японска кеч федерация New Japan Pro-Wrestling (@1:33 нататък). Във видеото NJPW е описана като "new series", което намеква, че става дума за поредица, а не единично шоу. Засега не се знае повече по въпроса. Предстои да видим за какво точно става дума.

EDIT - Слуховете са, че става дума за 13 епизода със стари мачове (от 4-ти януари 2013 натам) и коментаторите ще бъдат Mauro Ranallo и Josh Barnett.
 

AXS TV преди години излъчваше ROH, но тогава беше по-малка телевизия. Сега е по-голяма, но все пак не е особено голяма телевизия и е достъпна само в около 37% от американските домове с телевизионни приемници.

 

[nWoHulkster]

Официално медийно изявление:

 

Building on the success of the AXS TV FIGHTS Friday night franchise, AXS TV has acquired a 13 episode series from Japan’s largest professional wrestling promotion, NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING (NJPW). Premiering Jan. 16, 2015, NJPW will air on Friday nights at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT leading into the network’s weekly live MMA, Muay Thai, and kickboxing broadcasts. Airing for the first time ever in the U.S., the hour-long weekly series features the most exciting matches from NJPW’s Japanese broadcasts and pay-per-view events.

Former UFC Heavyweight champion and NJPW veteran Josh Barnett and famed combat sports commentator Mauro Ranallo are providing English language commentary for the series.

Founded in 1972, NJPW has established itself as the premier wrestling organization in Japan and the second largest and fastest growing wrestling promotion in the world. In recent years, NJPW has gained international recognition, winning the Wrestling Observer Newsletter “Promotion of the Year” award two years running and boasting three-year reigning “Wrestler of the Year” Hiroshi Tanahashi. The series premiere features Tanahashi defending the promotion’s prestigious IWGP Heavyweight Title against his long-time rival Kazuchika Okada in front of 29,000 fans at the Tokyo Dome.

“With this acquisition, AXS TV FIGHTS now offers one of the most diverse combat sports and sports entertainment programming line-ups on television,” said AXS TV FIGHTS CEO Andrew Simon. “There is a strong relationship and influence between professional wrestling and MMA, and with the addition of Josh Barnett and Mauro Ranallo as our commentators, we’re confident this new venture will be a crossover hit with wrestling and MMA fans alike.”AXS TV’s NJPW episodes were produced by and purchased from TV ASAHI CORPORATION.

[nWoHulkster]

Нова реклама:

Шоуто ще се излъчва head-to-head с IMPACT WRESTLING.

[nWoHulkster]

Шоуто дебютира този петък:

 

Между другото:

The best one hour pro wrestling TV show I ever saw was a 1986 episode of World Wide Wrestling with a Flair vs. Windham match. It is now a very distant second. The 3rd episode of New Japan on AXS is like nothing I've ever seen before. Story telling, announcing, post-match, how it led to the next step. I defy anyone to not connect with that show. I'm told the episode I'm talking about debuts January 23 at 10 pm (they are running a two hour block the second week). Will repeat 1/30 at 9.

[nWoHulkster]

Josh Barnett говори за дебюта на шоуто:

 

[goldberga]

Страхотен първи епизод. Целият епизод включваше единствено мачът между Tanahashi и Okada от Wrestle Kingdom 7. Много добра работа на коментаторите Mauro Ranallo и Josh Barnett. Striker и свинската глава могат само да си водят бележки как се прави. Форматът като цяло много ми харесва и единия час мина страшно бързо. Като прибавим и интервюто на Tanahashi преди мача, което hype-ваше самия мач, нещата изглеждат много добре. Нямам нищо против всеки епизод да следва тази формула.

Абе, съжалявам за офф-топика ама пичага, ти имаш ли мнение, за която и да е федерация, в което да не храниш JR? Сигурно и футбол като гледаш натякваш на всички как Боби Борисов е много по-голям коментатор от "свинята"...

[baikiro]

^ Ти изобщо слушал ли си му коментарите през последните 10-15 години, или само говориш наизуст? Разбирам, че WWE са ти промили мозъка с това тяхното натякване, че тоя смешник е най-добрия коментатор ever, но за мен той е най-прехваления коментатор ever. Дори не е смешно колко е неадекватен в последно време.

[Shawn_Michaels]

Коментара наистина беше по-добър от на J.R.,прегледах го набързо и аз

[Monteso]

Заинтригувахте ме. Може ли линк, че честно казано нз какво точно търся ?

[nWoHulkster]

Останалите епизоди:

January 23:
Kazuchika Okada vs. Hirooki Goto - New Japan Cup 2013 final
Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii & Jado vs. Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer & TАКА Michinoku - New Japan Cup 2013 final day

January 30:
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada - Invasion Attack 2013

February 6:
Kazuchika Okada vs. Togi Makabe - Dominion 2013
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Prince Devitt - Dominion 2013

February 13:
Kazuchika Okada vs. Prince Devitt - Kizuna Road 2013
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, Jushin Thunder Liger & Captain New Japan vs. Karl Anderson, El Terrible, Tama Tonga & Bad Luck Fale - Kizuna Road 2013

February 20:
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi - G1 Climax 23
Satoshi Kojima vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr. - G1 Climax 23
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Karl Anderson - G1 Climax 23

February 27:
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito - G1 Climax 23 final

March 6:
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Naomichi Marufuji - King of Pro-Wrestling 2013
Tetsuya Naito vs. Yujiro Takahashi - King of Pro-Wrestling 2013

March 13:
Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito - Wrestle Kingdom 8

March 20:
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi - Wrestle Kingdom 8

March 27:
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi - Invasion Attack 2014

April 3:
Kazuchika Okada vs. AJ Styles - Wrestling Dontaku 2014
Kota Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi - Wrestling Dontaku 2014
Forever Hooligans vs. The Young Bucks - Wrestling Dontaku 2014

April 10 (finale):
Kazuchika Okada vs. AJ Styles - Back to the Yokohama Arena
Takashi Iizuka & Toru Yano vs. Minoru Suzuki & Shelton Benjamin - Back to the Yokohama Arena

[gboy]

Josh Barnett говори за дебюта на шоуто:

 

 

Бас Рутен сцепи

[nWoHulkster]

Не (поне засега).

[parcaleste]

Тази вечер са излъчили ДВА епизода гръб до гръб - Втори и Трети. Трети е епизодът за който всички, които са го гледали като предварително излъчване, са в екстаз и ще бъде повторен отново следващата седмица.

[parcaleste]

"... for a moment I thought he (Nakamura) is Fandango... but he, um, he is holding a belt, so... can't be Fandango".

[parcaleste]

AXS TV has announced that their New Japan Pro Wrestling series has been renewed for a second 12-episode season premiering May 22nd. The current season wraps up next Friday (4/10) and will feature A.J. Styles vs. Okada for the IWGP World championship from May 2014.

Season 2 kicks off May 22nd with matches from last year’s “Best of the Super Juniors” tournament. The additional episodes feature “a combined eight hours of comprehensive coverage of the 24th annual G1 Climax Tournament, including full matches and highlights,” as well as three hours of coverage from the 2014 Dominion PPV.

Mauro Ranallo and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Josh Barnett will return as commentators.

AXS TV CEO Andrew Simon was quoted in the press release, “In the second cycle of New Japan Pro Wrestling on AXS TV, we will focus a majority of the episodes on G1 Climax 24, which was hailed by many as one of the best pro wrestling tournaments in history. We are thankful to New Japan Pro Wrestling and our programming partner TV Asahi in Japan for allowing us to acquire this unique series and share it with our audience.”

Айде сакаме, айде чекаме.

[nWoHulkster]

^ Графикът за сезон 2:

22 май (BOSJ 2014)

KUSHIDA vs. Taichi

Taguchi vs. Ricochet

KUSHIDA vs. Ricochet

29 май (Back To The Yokohama Arena)

Time Splitters vs. Young Bucks

Yano & Sakuraba vs. Suzuki & Iizuka

Ibushi vs. Ricochet

5 юни (Dominion 2014)

TenKoji vs. Killer Elite Squad

Anderson & Gallows vs. Tanahashi & Makabe

12 юни (Dominion 2014)

Nagata & Honma vs. Goto & Shibata

Nakamura vs. Fale

на 19-ти юни няма шоу

26 юни (G1 Climax 2014)

Tanahashi vs. Honma

Okada vs. Styles

Nakamura vs. Shibata

3 юли (G1 Climax 2014)

Nagata vs. Nakamura

Styles vs. Naito

Okada vs. Anderson

Tanahashi vs. Shibata

10 юли (G1 Climax 2014)

Tanahashi vs. Fale

Nakamura vs. Honma

Okada vs. Naito

17 юли (G1 Climax 2014)

Suzuki vs. Styles

Tenzan vs. Goto

Nakamura vs. Ishii

24 юли (G1 Climax 2014)

Honma vs. Shibata

Okada vs. Yujiro

Tanahashi vs. Nakamura

31 юли (G1 Climax 2014)

Nakamura vs. Fale

Makabe vs. Styles

Tanahashi vs. Smith Jr.

Okada vs. Suzuki

7 август (G1 Climax 2014)

Naito vs. Honma

Ishii vs. Anderson

Goto vs. Shibata

Tanahashi vs. Styles

14 август (G1 Climax 2014 final)

Nakamura vs. Okada

[parcaleste]

Това е почти целият  Climax бе.

[Shawn_Michaels]

Много стари работи дават,това не ми допада само с 1 година назад,аз някои от тея мачове съм ги гледал вече,чакаме новия Climax

[parcaleste]

Е, все пак е преведено на английски, а и идеята на поредицата е по скоро "да се запознаеш с японците".

[parcaleste]

New Japan Pro Wrestling’s highlights show on AXS-TV has been renewed with a multi-year after surprisingly strong viewership, according to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Season 3 will run from August 4th – December 11th on Friday nights (taking a week off for Thanksgiving). AXS-TV is looking for NJPW’s show to air weekly in 2016, regularly featuring matches taped only 3-4 months prior.

New Japan’s weekly show has been a surprise hit, averaging around 200,000 viewers – making it the #4 most watched national wrestling show in the United States. RAW, Smackdown and Impact do better numbers – but [great] NJPW matches from last year are drawing more viewers than Ring of Honor on Destination America and Lucha Underground. Throw NXT into the mix and there really is a lot of good wrestling out from a diverse group of promotions.

Mauro Ranallo and Josh Barnett will be back for Season 3. For 5 weeks starting in October, they’ll call the action on matches from Wrestle Kingdom 9 only previously broadcast with Jim Ross and Matt Stryker on commentary.

Това последното ще е интересно да се чуе като разлика. Гледаемостта също ми идва доста изненадваща - само аплодисменти за целия пакет, но дано наваксат с таймлайна на продукта.

[nWoHulkster]

Jim Ross заменя Mauro Ranallo и вече Jim Ross & Josh Barnett ще бъдат коментаторите на шоуто.

 

Официално медийно изявление:

 

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LEGENDARY WRESTLING COMMENTATOR JIM ROSS JOINS AXS TV’S ‘NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING’ ALONGSIDE JOSH BARNETT STARTING MARCH 4

‘NJPW’ Airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on AXS TV

LOS ANGELES – January 19, 2016 – AXS TV today confirmed legendary pro wrestling commentator Jim Ross will join AXS TV’s hit series ‘New Japan Pro Wrestling’ (NJPW) to call play-by-play commentary alongside NJPW veteran and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Josh Barnett beginning Friday, March 4 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. In Ross’ first episode, he and Barnett will call the action for matches from Wrestling Dontaku 2015.

NJPW, which premiered its 52-episode second season on AXS TV Jan. 15, airs Friday nights at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. This season features episodes highlighting matches from the 2015 New Japan Cup, Invasion Attack, HINOKUNI, Best of the Super Juniors 22, Dominion 7.5, G1 Climax 25 and more throughout the year.

A WWE Hall of Famer, Ross was known as the voice of WWE for nearly two decades, bringing his incomparable broadcasting talent to hundreds of TV and pay-per-view broadcasts for the organization. No stranger to New Japan Pro Wrestling, Oklahoma native Ross also called the first-ever, live English-language broadcast of NJPW with Wrestle Kingdom 9 in 2015.

"I'm excited to join the AXS TV team in presenting the amazing athletes of the New Japan Pro Wrestling brand,” said Ross. “I'm a major fan of NJPW and look forward to joining Josh Barnett to form the best broadcast team in the genre. Business just picked up!”

"It's a dream to be able to sit next to the legendary Jim Ross and call the incredible wrestling action of New Japan Pro Wrestling,” said Barnett. “I've listened to his commentary throughout the years and I'm glad to have someone as distinguished as him to work with in the booth."

“Jim Ross is unquestionably one of the best announcers in the history of professional wrestling. He is a true legend and we look forward to leveraging his unparalleled experience to continue to make NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING on AXS TV the best wrestling show on television,” said AXS TV FIGHTS CEO Andrew Simon

AXS TV’s NJPW episodes are produced by and acquired from TV ASAHI CORPORATION.

ABOUT AXS TV

AXS TV is the cable industry’s leading entertainment network for live event programming, and the premier destination for some of the nation’s biggest music festivals. Launched in July 2012 by visionary entrepreneur Mark Cuban, AXS TV provides groundbreaking concerts, stand-up from top comics, celebrity interviews from today's taste makers, and hard-hitting MMA promotions. Popular AXS TV series include THE X FACTOR UK and original programs such as THE BIG INTERVIEW with Dan Rather; THE WORLD’S GREATEST TRIBUTE BANDS; GOTHAM COMEDY LIVE; ART MANN PRESENTS; AXS TV FIGHTS; and INSIDE MMA, among others.

AXS TV is a partnership between Mark Cuban, AEG, Ryan Seacrest Media, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and CBS. The network is available in the United States via AT&T U-verse, Charter, Comcast/Xfinity, DIRECTV, DISH, Suddenlink, Verizon FiOS, and other cable, satellite and telco providers, including members of the National Cable Television Cooperative. The network is also distributed in Canada and the Caribbean. For more information, visit the website, www.axs.tv; go to the Facebook page here and follow the company on Twitter, @axstv; on Instagram;  Tumblr; YouTube and Cyber Dust.

 

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