{"id":49135,"date":"2022-12-16T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T03:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49135"},"modified":"2022-12-19T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T03:57:18","slug":"njpw-television-championship-blet-wthf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49135","title":{"rendered":"NJPW Television Championship blet: WTHF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-49136 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/NJPW_tvtitle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/NJPW_tvtitle.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/NJPW_tvtitle-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">While I was chatting wrestling with my bros, I thought about how New Japan\u2019s upcoming Wrestle Kingdom, which is the equivalent to their Wrestlemania, was looking like a really stacked show, and if not for the fact that it started at 3AM the following day for us in the west, I would totally be interested in watching it.\u00a0 Just the two matches between Kenny Omega vs. Will Osperay and Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada are enough to sell the entire show, but really NJPW doesn\u2019t ever have a bad Wrestle Kingdom, top to bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Looking at the rest of the card, most of the other matches seem very appealing, even if it does contain the further stripping of titles off of FTR who will undoubtedly lose the IWGP titles in the triple threat match they\u2019re in, and seeing the new IWGP Women\u2019s champ Kairi (Sane) on the card seems as good as place as any for the rampant news that Sasha Banks will be appearing, to come to fruition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But the one match that caught my attention immediately, and one that I had no idea was even developing was the finals of a tournament . . . for <em>a brand new championship<\/em>, the <strong>NJPW Television Championship<\/strong>.Obviously this means that there\u2019s a new blet, and when there\u2019s blets, there\u2019s me, hoping it\u2019s awesome so that I could hope to get a replica for my collection, but at the same time hoping it sucks, so that I won\u2019t be tempted to plop down $300-400 I don\u2019t have for something that\u2019s useless and I don\u2019t really need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Well the good(bad) news is that the design of the blet is this gigantic ball of what the fuck, as in this is the worst fucking designed blet since the <a href=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/50\/b7\/92\/50b792fe176640b4a7d57e22139c2d50.jpg\">days of the NWA territories<\/a>, and their blets were basically made out of scrap aluminum and Peg Bundy\u2019s pants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Seriously, I haven\u2019t had a blet boner go flacid so quickly since <a href=\"https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/international-wrestling-entertainment\/images\/e\/e4\/ROH_TV_New.png\/revision\/latest?cb=20131106062723\">the old Ring of Honor TV blet<\/a> whose plates were so vertically long that it couldn\u2019t not be a literal cockblock.\u00a0 The NJPW TV blet does absolutely nothing for me except say what the fuck, every time <a href=\"https:\/\/preview.redd.it\/the-newest-njpw-championship-the-new-japan-world-tv-v0-cnwrguz3dlt91.jpg?auto=webp&amp;s=0b5d7c57d7c39f854b24a8768c2f721802912955\">I look at it<\/a>, because nothing about it makes any god damn sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Firstly, it\u2019s completely boring and uninspiring, with the shapes of the plates being some fucking rectangles.\u00a0 The baby shit brown color of the strap with the weird gold piping trim don\u2019t do it any favors, and I just don\u2019t get why all promotions seems so determined to steer away from traditional, classic black straps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But then the designs of the plates themselves, are nothing but eye-scrunching puzzling. \u00a0For starters, it\u2019s deviating from the norm and is not being classified as an IWGP championship; for the matter it\u2019s not really being classified as just an NJPW championship but an NJPWWorld.com title.\u00a0 As in it is a championship belt that represents a website and nothing else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And despite the fact that they\u2019re calling it the NJPW Television championship, the word \u201ctelevision\u201d doesn\u2019t appear anywhere on the strap itself, but don\u2019t worry the URL NJPWWorld.com is on it five fucking times, so that anyone who sees the blet who misses it the first four times might still see the address on the fifth spot on the left side plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The only thing that gives any hint that it\u2019s for television is on the side plates, which basically has a clipart of an early 2000\u2019s monitor with a gigantic PLAY button on it next to the NJPW lion crest, naturally accompanied by one of the five NJPWWorld.com URLs, so I guess it sort of represents digital media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I know IMPACT! gets a lot of flack being the spiritual successor to TNA, but at least they have the wherewithal to name their blet the \u201cDigital Media (<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FLP74mKXwAgi2Y2.jpg:large\">world<\/a>) championship,\u201d have the name of it on it, and have a blet that doesn\u2019t look like shit.\u00a0 For all the weeb-y praise and credit NJPW gets, in this regard, they just got dunked on, hard, by fucking IMPACT! of all other promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Finally, the last criticism I have for this turd blet is the silhouette behind the primary NJPW World wordmark on the center plate.\u00a0 I have no idea what that is supposed to be.\u00a0 Usually, blets like to have silhouettes of continents or countries, to signify the regions they\u2019re supposed to represent, but I can\u2019t really make out what\u2019s in the background of this one.\u00a0 Despite being for a Japanese website, the silhouette kind of looks like North America if global warming raised the sea levels, sunk most of Mexico and western Canada and thinned Florida out.\u00a0 Or maybe it\u2019s eastern Asia despite the fact that NJPW doesn\u2019t operate in any of those countries.\u00a0 But all the same, I think the heat can get off of the NXT UK Tag blets for not actually having the UK visible on their plates, because at least some recognizable country is comprehensible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The bottom line is that the NJPWWorld.com YouTube Championship blet looks like garbage.\u00a0 If I\u2019m Zack Sabre, Jr., I\u2019m pleading with whomever has the book in New Japan to not have me win the championship, because it would be a colossal embarrassment to be seen having to carry around a shitty looking title as such.\u00a0 It would undoubtedly be better to be a non-champion than have to carry around a clown championship, and if there\u2019s one thing the WWE and WCW has taught wrestling fans throughout the years, there very much are championships that sandbag careers than benefit them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The NJPWWorld.com Digital Streaming NJPWWorld.com Championship definitely, definitely is one of them.\u00a0 What the holy fuck indeed.\u00a0 There&#8217;s absolutely no desire for me to track down a Pakistani bootleg replica of this, even if Rusev\/Miro were to set Tony Khan on fire and burn AEW to the ground and make the jump to New Japan that I foretold years ago and won this piece of shit en route to fulfilling his destiny as IWGP World champion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was chatting wrestling with my bros, I thought about how New Japan\u2019s upcoming Wrestle Kingdom, which is the equivalent to their Wrestlemania, was looking like a really stacked show, and if not for the fact that it started at 3AM the following day for us in the west, I would totally be interested &hellip; 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