British Monsoon
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NJPW World schedule for March ~ April;
Amongst the 1,000 strong line-up of matches from 1973-2014 available on NJPW World are some of the all-time classics of professional wrestling, featuring the likes of Keiji Mutoh, Shinya Hashimoto, Hulk Hogan, Tatsumi Fujinami, Stan Hansen, Ric Flair, Antonio Inoki, Andre the Giant, Bruiser Brody, Masahiro Chono, Jushin 'Thunder' Liger and many more. Currently featured on NJPW World is the complete series of January 4th Tokyo Dome shows from 1992-2014;
The first month's schedule for NJPW World starts off with a tape delayed airing of the New Japan World Tag League Finals on Sunday, December 7th, followed by live broadcasts of select house shows leading up to the Tokyo Dome show, Wrestle Kingdom 9, on January 4th. That's followed by the last two nights of the annual FantasticaMania tour, which sees CMLL (the top luchalibre promotion in Mexico) make the trip to Japan to entertain the crowds with their high-flying brand of wrestling.
New Japan have promised to work on apps for other 'Smart TV' devices, such as consoles, but for now NJPW World is available via any flash compatible browser. It's also available as an app on android, just search 'NJPW WORLD' on the Google Play store.
Also, here's a link to an ongoing list of recommended matches currently available on NJPW World;
Lastly, I've made a quick guide to the sign-up process, which is fairly uncomplicated;
This pop-up should appear when you first load the page. Tick the box and click the button to proceed.
Fill in the registration form, confirm that the test videos work, tick the box and click the button (which is just cut off from the bottom of the above screenshot).
The next page will just simply ask you to confirm the details you've entered so far, once done proceed to payment details;
Click to confirm once again and that's it.
Personally, I'm really enjoying NJPW World at present and thought an OT would be a great place to share and discuss the wealth of awesome pro-wrestling now available via the service. The whole thing works really well, even though English language support is at a minimum (which is something New Japan are working to change), and the tag-based browsing system is much more flexible than the WWE Network's botched search - you can organise matches by year, by wrestler, by venue and even by who was on commentary, just use chrome to auto-translate everything. The video quality is real good, not quite HD, but certainly a lot cleaner than you'd find on youtube/dailymotion, especially for the old footage - it's amazing that stuff from the 70's is in such good condition (especially when compared to the state of most American wrestling footage from that time).
To give you an idea of the picture quality, here's a few gifs from random matches I've watched so far;
- NJPWWorld.com
- over 1,000 matches from 1973 ~ 2014
- all major PPVs from 2012 ~ 2014
- every Tokyo Dome show from 1992 ~ 2014
- numerous events broadcast live each month
- ¥999 a month, cancel any time with no commitment
Amongst the 1,000 strong line-up of matches from 1973-2014 available on NJPW World are some of the all-time classics of professional wrestling, featuring the likes of Keiji Mutoh, Shinya Hashimoto, Hulk Hogan, Tatsumi Fujinami, Stan Hansen, Ric Flair, Antonio Inoki, Andre the Giant, Bruiser Brody, Masahiro Chono, Jushin 'Thunder' Liger and many more. Currently featured on NJPW World is the complete series of January 4th Tokyo Dome shows from 1992-2014;
The first month's schedule for NJPW World starts off with a tape delayed airing of the New Japan World Tag League Finals on Sunday, December 7th, followed by live broadcasts of select house shows leading up to the Tokyo Dome show, Wrestle Kingdom 9, on January 4th. That's followed by the last two nights of the annual FantasticaMania tour, which sees CMLL (the top luchalibre promotion in Mexico) make the trip to Japan to entertain the crowds with their high-flying brand of wrestling.
New Japan have promised to work on apps for other 'Smart TV' devices, such as consoles, but for now NJPW World is available via any flash compatible browser. It's also available as an app on android, just search 'NJPW WORLD' on the Google Play store.
Also, here's a link to an ongoing list of recommended matches currently available on NJPW World;
Lastly, I've made a quick guide to the sign-up process, which is fairly uncomplicated;
This pop-up should appear when you first load the page. Tick the box and click the button to proceed.
Fill in the registration form, confirm that the test videos work, tick the box and click the button (which is just cut off from the bottom of the above screenshot).
The next page will just simply ask you to confirm the details you've entered so far, once done proceed to payment details;
Click to confirm once again and that's it.
Personally, I'm really enjoying NJPW World at present and thought an OT would be a great place to share and discuss the wealth of awesome pro-wrestling now available via the service. The whole thing works really well, even though English language support is at a minimum (which is something New Japan are working to change), and the tag-based browsing system is much more flexible than the WWE Network's botched search - you can organise matches by year, by wrestler, by venue and even by who was on commentary, just use chrome to auto-translate everything. The video quality is real good, not quite HD, but certainly a lot cleaner than you'd find on youtube/dailymotion, especially for the old footage - it's amazing that stuff from the 70's is in such good condition (especially when compared to the state of most American wrestling footage from that time).
To give you an idea of the picture quality, here's a few gifs from random matches I've watched so far;
