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Capital Collision (2023)
Capital Collision (2023) was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on April 15, 2023, at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C. Wrestlers from NJPW's partner promotions, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Impact Wrestling, also appeared on the card. This was the second event to be held under the Capital Collision name. Production Background In October 2019, NJPW announced their expansion into the United States with their new American division, New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America (NJoA). On July 31, 2020, NJPW announced a new weekly series titled '' NJPW Strong''; the series would be produced by NJoA. On January 30, 2023, NJPW announced that all of the promotion's future American events would be branded under the "Strong" name. Beginning with Battle in the Valley on February 18, the NJoA PPVs began airing as ''NJPW Strong Live''; these PPV events will later air on NJPW World as part of the ''NJPW Strong on Demand'' series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanada (wrestler)
, better known by his ring name Sanada (stylized as SANADA), is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a member of the stable ''Los Ingobernables de Japón''. As part of NJPW, Sanada is mostly known for his tag team with Evil, with whom he is a two time IWGP Tag Team Champion, two time World Tag League winner, and a three time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion (alongside Bushi). He won his first NJPW singles title, the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, in early 2022. He is also known for his work in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he was the first Gaora TV Champion, a two-time All Asia Tag Team Champion, a one-time World Tag Team Champion, and the winner of the 2011 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament. Sanada is also known for his time in the Japanese Wrestle-1 (W-1) and American Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotions. Through the W-1/TNA working relationship, Sanada beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushiroad
is a Japanese entertainment company, producer of collectible card games and trading cards, publisher of mobile apps and games, promotional items and many other venues, which was founded in 2007 by Takaaki Kidani and is headquartered in Tokyo. Bushiroad created and owns various media franchises such as ''Tantei Opera Milky Holmes''. Since 2019, Bushiroad is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has traded on the TSE since its launch on July 24, 2019. On January 29, 2012, Bushiroad announced that it had fully acquired New Japan Pro-Wrestling, a major professional wrestling promotion, for ¥500 million. In October 2019, Bushiroad acquired World Wonder Ring Stardom, a Joshi puroresu promotion. At the 2012 Tokyo Game Show, Bushiroad announced Bushimo, a new social gaming platform for smartphones, which was released in Winter 2012. In March 2013, Bushiroad announced the revival of the media franchise ''Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road'', with an anime television that aired on December 31, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorel Nelson
Jorel Nelson (born May 17, 1992) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was a member of Team Filthy. He also makes appearances on the independent circuit. He was named after the character Jor-El from DC Comics' Superman franchise. Professional wrestling career Early career Nelson was scouted by wrestler Aaron Bolo to pursue professional wrestling after seeing Nelson at several local independent shows. He started his training at Tulalip Championship Wrestling in Marysville, Washington under the tutelage of Bolo, Ethan H. D., Mike Santiago, Kellen Raeth, Damon James, and Caden Mathews. He furthered his training by attending the Buddy Wayne Academy in Everett, Washington. In addition to TCW, Nelson would regally wrestle for Don't Own Anyone Pro Wrestling in Portland, Oregon and West Coast Wrestling Connection in Salem, Oregon. Nelson would start to wrestle for promotions in Southern California in 2016. He would also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royce Isaacs
Isaac Hull (born February 8, 1989) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Royce Isaacs. He is currently appearing for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is a member of Team Filthy. From 2019 until 2020, Hull worked with the National Wrestling Alliance where he was a former NWA World Tag Team Champion. He also is known for his work in GCW Bloodsport, DDT Pro-Wrestling, and Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. Professional wrestling career Early career Hull received his training at the Butcher Shop in Westminster, Colorado from his trainer, Lonnie Valdez. He wrestled primarily for independent wrestling promotions in Colorado before expanding his opportunities by wrestling in promotions throughout the US. DDT Pro-Wrestling (2016-2017) Royce Isaacs debuted with DDT taking part in their DNA Grand Prix 2016 round-robin tournament. In 2017, he did three additional tours with the promotion, usually where he was a tag team partner of Danshoku Dino. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mighty Don't Kneel
The Mighty Don't Kneel (TMDK) are a professional wrestling stable which currently wrestles for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The stable consists of Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste Bad Dude Tito, Zack Sabre Jr. and Kosei Fujita. Sabre Jr. is the current and inaugural NJPW World Television Champion. The stable was primarily known as a tag team in Pro Wrestling Noah, with Nicholls and Haste being two-time GHC Tag Team Champions. They also worked for Ring of Honor (ROH), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and WWE (where they were named TM-61 and The Mighty in NXT). Though best known as a tag team, TMDK has also been a stable, which included, in addition to Nicholls and Haste, fellow Australians Elliot Sexton, Jonah (formerly Jonah Rock), Marcus Pitt, Damian Slater, Mikey Broderick and Slex. TMDK has also been said to stand for "Torture, Murder, Destroy, Kill". While in 2016, Nicholls and Veryzer signed with WWE and were assigned to its developmental territory NXT, the stable kept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Dude Tito
Tito Escondido, better known by his ring name Bad Dude Tito, is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he is the current MLW National Openweight Champion in his first reign, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of TMDK. Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2021–present) On the January 22, 2022 episode of '' NJPW Strong'', Tito made his NJPW debut where he lost to Juice Robinson. On the February 12 episode of NJPW Strong, he teamed up with Jonah where they lost to FinJuice ( David Finlay and Juice Robinson). On the March 6, episode of ''NJPW Strong'', Shane Haste interfered in the tag team match between FinJuice and the pairing of Jonah and Tito. He attacked Robinson while the referee was distracted, allowing Tito to hit a frog splash on Robinson for the win., reforming TMDK in the process. At Windy City Riot, TMDK and Tito were defeated by FinJuice and their partner, revealed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Thorne
Shane Veryzer (born 24 September 1985) is an Australian professional wrestler, who is currently working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Shane Haste as a member of The Mighty Don't Kneel. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring names Shane Thorne and Slapjack. He is also known for his work in Pro Wrestling Noah, where, as part of The Mighty Don't Kneel with partner Mikey Nicholls, he is a former two-time GHC Tag Team Champion. He also competed for Ring of Honor (ROH) and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) in the United States. He signed with WWE in 2016 and was assigned to the NXT brand, where he was given the Shane Thorne ring name. In early 2020, Thorne debuted on Raw, and in August of that year was repackaged as Slapjack, a hockey mask wearing member of Retribution. Following the stable's split, he reverted to his previous ring name and was moved to SmackDown. Despite this, he was only limited to dark matches and was release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery Communications
Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1985, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and TLC. In 2018, the company acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, adding networks such as Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel to its portfolio. Since the purchase, Discovery described itself as serving members of "passionate" audiences, and also placed a larger focus on streaming services built around its properties. Discovery owned or had interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels, most prominently the rightsholder of the Olympic Games throughout most of Europe), GolfTV (an international golf-focused streaming service, which is the international digital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweener (professional Wrestling)
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence of fans so as not to reveal the nature of the business. Into the 21st century, widespread discussion on the Internet has popularized these terms. Many of the terms refer to the financial aspects of professional wrestling in addition to in-ring terms. A B C D E F G H I J K L M mic work, mic skills, microphone work The ability to generate reaction from the audience using words, and generally by speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a face (babyface) is a heroic, "good guy" or "fan favorite" wrestler, booked (scripted) by the promotion with the aim of being cheered by fans, and acts as a protagonist to the heels, who are the villainous antagonist or "bad guy" characters. Traditionally, they wrestle within the rules and avoid cheating (in contrast to the villains who use illegal moves and call in additional wrestlers to do their work for them) while behaving positively towards the referee and the audience. Such characters are also referred to as blue-eyes in British wrestling and ''técnicos'' in ''lucha libre''. The face character is portrayed as a hero relative to the heel wrestlers, who are analogous to villains. Not everything a face wrestler does must be heroic: faces need only to be clapped or cheered by the audience to be effective characters. When the magazine ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' went into circulation in the late 1970s, the magazine referred to face wrestlers as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heel (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a ''rudo'' in '' lucha libre'') is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters, although most truly successful heels embrace other aspects of their devious personalities, such as cheating to win or using foreign objects. "The role of a heel is to get 'heat,' which means spurring the crowd to obstreperous hatred, and generally involves cheating and pretty much any other manner of socially unacceptable behavior that will get the job done." To gain heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise taking advantage of their opponents outside the bounds of the standards of the match. Others do not (or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrative Thread
A narrative thread, or plot thread (or, more ambiguously, a storyline), refers to particular elements and techniques of writing to center the story in the action or experience of characters rather than to relate a matter in a dry "all-knowing" sort of narration. Thus the narrative threads experienced by different but specific characters or sets of characters are those seen in the eyes of those characters that together form a plot element or subplot in the work of fiction. In this sense, each narrative thread is the narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (ge ... portion of a work that pertains to the world view of the participating characters cognizant of their piece of the whole, and they may be the villains, the protagonists, a supporting character, or a relatively di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
