Great Muta Calls Shinsuke Nakamura A Gay Slur After New Year's Day Match

The match against Great Muta was the first time he has wrestled for a promotion other than WWE since then. The pro wrestling world got 2023 started off with a NOAH The New Year show that featured Shinsuke Nakamura taking on The Great Muta as a part of the latter's retirement tour. Bronson Reed recently called Nakamura out. Shinsuke's unorthodox technique for neutralizing Muta's mist impressed the retiring legend, but Muta's post-match comments were brief and controversial. However, they allowed it to happen because of the legacy of The Great Muta, who is retiring at the age of 60 after 39 years as a professional wrestler. Nakamura had a special entrance for the match which included unique attire and his WWE theme music. Nakamura would be able to block and pick the ankle of Muta before looking for a side headlock. The wrestlers actually started the match in the back, brawling amongst the catering with a couple of big backstage spots, including Pac hitting a moonsault off of some risers, Fénix getting backdropped through a table and some deli trays (sending the hotel-catering-style cookie array flying), and Nick Jackson landing a flip dive that sent Penta through the chip table. Thank you for taking the time to read this exclusive coverage of The Great Muta vs. Shinsuke Nakamura.

1. Great Muta Calls Shinsuke Nakamura A Gay Slur After New Year's Day Match
2. Shinsuke Nakamura vs The Great Muta announced for The New Year 2023 Event
3. I was horrified," Shinsuke Nakamura reflects on his match against Great Muta
4. Shinsuke Nakamura Says Wrestling The Great Muta Felt Like A Dream

Great Muta Calls Shinsuke Nakamura A Gay Slur After New Year's Day Match

With Nakamura's win today, he finally defeated Great Muta/Keiji Muto. GHC Tag Team Titles: Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA. WWE Superstar Shinsuke Nakamura took time out of his tight schedule in the U. S. to come to Japan with a flurry of excitement. A few days later, on New Year's Day, Japanese and American superstars competed in a miraculous match at the Japan Budokan. The match opened with Zayn and Owens going at each other with Owens gaining the early advantage, landing a hard senton, and even blooding Zayn's nose a bit with a hard right hand. What are your thoughts about what The Great Muta said? It was a hard-hitting match where the former NXT Champion put the legend to the test. Muta would hit Nakamura in the head with a belt holder, before rolling him into the ring for the Flashing Elbow. In a move no one saw coming, it was announced earlier this year that WWE's Shinsuke Nakamura would be facing wrestling legend Great Muta as part of Muta's NOAH retirement tour. Muta will then have his retirement match on January 22 where he is set to team with Sting and Darby Allin.

Shinsuke Nakamura Vs The Great Muta Announced For The New Year 2023 Event

This marked Nakamura's first match since he signed with WWE back in 2016. With the rumblings of an Asuka repackaging, having them together as a couple of mist-spraying chaos demons would be pretty great. I imagine if Cena ends up at WrestleMania, he will put on a show, no matter where on the card he ends up. This miraculous match, which American fans have been eagerly awaiting, was realized on the mat of Pro Wrestling Noah at the Nippon Budokan It was packed to capacity on New Year's Day night. WWE's Shinsuke Nakamura Calls Great Muta Match 'A Dream', Reveals Message from Triple H. 01/04/2023 07:32 pm EST.

I Was Horrified," Shinsuke Nakamura Reflects On His Match Against Great Muta

GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: Yoshinari Ogawa & Eita defeated YO-HEY & Kzy (c) to win the titles. These types of matches are usually very simple and very crowd-pleasing: the heels almost always will get a long advantage on the active wrestler who called in the favor, delaying the entrance of the icon until the very end, when he will come in and run wild. For a promotion that is all about superstars and big moments, Nakamura's six-year run with the company certainly is lacking the type that many hoped to see by this time. I wasn't particularly excited when they announced this specific best-of-seven series; I have been a low voter on most of their previous interactions, and I am generally lower on the Elite, Penta, and Pac than most wrestling fans—all love to Fénix, no shade on that guy at all. Nakamura then spit the original iconic green mist into Muta's face, blinding him and leaving him open to be drilled by the Kinshasa, securing the win for Nakamura. Nakamura sprinted down the entrance ramp to hit a clothesline and then locked in his flying juji gatame, only for Muta to break the hold by spraying his even deadlier black mist in Shinsuke's eyes. The crowd was already going insane for just the bell ringing – the moment not lost on anyone in the arena. Nakamura celebrated in the ring for a short while before helping Muta walk to the stage. Nakamura, ahead of a very unlikely encounter with Keiji Mutoh's alter ego, The Great Muta, has revealed that WWE initially shot down the idea. Phil Schneider is a cofounder of the Death Valley Driver Video Review, a writer on the Segunda Caida blog, host of The Way of the Blade podcast, and the author of Way of the Blade: 100 of the Greatest Bloody Matches in Wrestling History, which is available on Amazon. Even in NXT, Triple H had a more open mind about working with other promotions than his father-in-law. There were a lot of breaks in the action when both guys made weird faces at each other—luckily these are a pair of guys who are great at making weird faces. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Mochizuki JR. Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya & Hajime Ohara vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Kashin, NOSAWA Rongai & X. Timothy Thatcher vs. Jack Morris.

Shinsuke Nakamura Says Wrestling The Great Muta Felt Like A Dream

The week between Christmas and New Year's is always a big one for wrestling, and there were a bunch of great contenders for this spot in my column. It's not just about looking forward to it, but I'm very excited right now that I want to savor this divine situation. He was incredible here, with this sort of genial menace, joking about Hanukkah and Ramadan with Zayn, arm around Zayn's shoulders, but then just casually mentioning that Zayn getting crowd chants isn't great "optics. " Nakamura would try to pull himself back to his feet in the corner, but Muta was quick on the attack with another Dragon Screw.

Muta is an expert with that move, meaning Nakamura would need to roll to the ropes to break this hold. The fact that 'no' became 'yes' gave me a boost. I loved how they shifted the match out of the back. The finish of the match was very unique as Nakamura put his mouth up against Muta almost like a kiss of some kind of respect, but it was actually a way to extract the famous green mist from Muta. Giulia and Syuri battled for the World of Stardom title. Keiji Muto will have a final paint-less match in February. Simply put, this is the very definition of a dream match – fitting for his last ever singles match.

It airs live on NOAH's streaming platform Wrestle Universe which costs ¥900 / £5. Muta would use the chair in the ring, with the referee down on the floor. Will The Undertaker's "Deadman" Persona Ever Return to WWE? "It was something that would never have happened under the previous structure of the WWE. And now, Nakamura has given some insights into how he was feeling on the big day.

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