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fang-revives · 4 months

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Manifesting NJPW and AEW finding their stride for booking again this 2k24 <3 I want to feel so overwhelmed by so much good wrestling again please book my blorbos well, tell a story, pace it nice <3

#njpw #aew #syb speaks #other promotions are great too but these have had the biggest variance of THE BEST SHIT THAT BLEW MY SOCKS OFF #vs. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DO THAT???

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crimsonsoulpower · 2 months

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The way I've always seen Kenny come off as a drug for Okada after their first singles match. Like man got addicted to this very particular, super crazy high that he can't get from anyone else so he's got to have more but also it's that premium gourmet stuff so he uses it sparsely lest the affect starts decreasing. Denying himself as much as possible and only giving in to his cravings once the itch becomes too much to ignore.

https://www.si.com/fannation/wrestling/news/how-kazuchika-okada-became-all-elite?utm_source=reddit.com

#kazuchika okada #kenny omega #aew #njpw #all elite wrestling #pro wrestling #bro said i don't want my Wrestlemania mainevent #just let me do it to him one more time #leaving his home promotion of near two decades #relocating to USA even #Kenny you lucky bitch

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thistledropkick · 9 months

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There have been some rumors going around the English-language wrestling media claiming that Desperado is a freelancer and that he isn't signed currently to New Japan. Desperado has directly said that these rumors are false.

The first tweet reads:

"Foreign Media reports that El Desperado is not currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling

Since the GCW offer was through New Japan Pro Wrestling, I'm not sure about the credibility of this."

Desperado replies: "Ahh, this is a lie."

The day before this, Desperado's friend Sato Hikaru called out puroresuflow on twitter for claiming that Desperado is a freelancer. The account deleted the tweet after being publicly called out for spreading false information.

Sato Hikaru is fighting Desperado at an upcoming independent show, which he references in his tweet.

"This is a big lie. If this was true, it wouldn't have been so difficult to arrange his participation in the Kawasaki baseball stadium show. If he was a freelancer I could've just messaged him directly on Line.

I guess there are underhanded fans who lie about having "secret information that only they know" just for attention everywhere, regardless of the country. I saw this tweet in passing and it made me mad."

On the same day, Desperado made a tweet to clarify things too.

"8/25 Kawasaki

There are many "ex-New Japan wrestlers" who are currently freelancers but

I'm going to the ring against Sato Hikaru as "a wrestler belonging to New Japan Pro Wrestling"

I'm excited just thinking about stepping onto that stage!

It's a fight that I truly couldn't have even imagined happening before this summer!

I wonder what will happen lol

I'm not involved with the ticket sales so please ask Sato about them"

#njpw #el desperado #sato hikaru #my translation #If you're a new wrestling fan my advice to you is to treat all unsourced wrestling rumors with suspicion #especially if they're about Japanese wrestlers or promotions and no one involved in the reporting knows any Japanese #which is almost always the case because most English language pro wrestling journalists don't speak Japanese or hire translators

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randomrandomrandomperson · 1 year

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kenny omega’s promo from NJPWxSTARDOM 2022

couldn’t be more excited for will ospreay vs kenny omega 😁

#kenny omega #aew #my mans really returned to 2 different promotions in the span of 24 hours #hopefully the bucks will follow suit 🙏#all elite wrestling #new japan pro wrestling #njpw

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mint-midnight · 10 months

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So I can’t believe that in this day and age that wrestling fans STILL have to defend our love of wrestling to idiots who won’t rest with the “wrestling isn’t real” comments. So I’ve made a compilation of many views from different wrestling fans and summarised them so that I don’t have to constantly explain myself year after year. Putting this under the cut because it’s LONG.

The problem with non wrestling fans is they see and judge wrestling as they would see and judge a SPORT. They try to see it like they’d see football or chess or boxing. Non wrestling fans refuse to look at wrestling for what it is, that is the key problem. They see it as a fake fight and can’t comprehend why you’d watch a fake fight unless you didn’t know it was real. They are looking through a sports lens as if we watch wrestling for an actual fight, to genuinely see people hurt each other for a “real” win. I’ve had people ask why I don’t just watch MMA and like? Listen I don’t care about real fighting, to me that is boring. And imo it’s on the lacking end talent-wise, hitting someone hard/knocking them out with no story behind it and no showcase of skill doesn’t get me going. Wrestling on the other hand is INSANE. Do you know the skill behind trying to perfect a move so well that it doesn’t injure someone? It’s easier to injure someone, it takes talent to execute something and not hurt someone. Real fight competitions just aren’t for me.

Pro wrestling is live action stunt work combined with theatre, soap opera, athletics etc. It’s practically like watching an action movie with theatrical dramatics and acrobatics.

So step back and stop looking at wrestling as a sport and maybe you’ll understand how humans appreciate entertainment in different forms.

Asking how wrestling fans enjoy wrestling knowing it’s scripted is like asking how the world watches movies or dramas or theatre. You know Godzilla doesn’t exist, Tom Cruise didn’t really jump from up there! The hulk isn’t real! It’s universally known that Game of Thrones is fantasy etc. It’s entertainment and storytelling and that’s why we love wrestling. I am not watching wrestling for the same reasons I watch a football match. Fans watch wrestling with the same understanding that it is as real as The Avengers.

Wrestling is an art form. I’ve not found anything else in this world that can invoke stronger emotions in masses of people. And wrestling fans all watch for different reasons. Some of us deeply connect to storytelling, for the same reason we enjoy television, we immerse ourselves into the characters in wrestling and follow their journeys. Some of us watch it for the spectacle, the excitement, the pyro, the massive crowds, the music. Some of us watch it for the athleticism, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of watching a beautiful moonsault from the top of a steel cage! Where else are you gonna experience that? Others watch it for the creativity and different wrestling styles. Unless you’re a wrestling fan, you won’t be able to appreciate a true technical wrestling match or look into the intricacies of what goes into incredible ring psychology and the ability to tell a story. For me, I love it for all the above and beyond.

“Regardless of how you start though, eventually you'll love it all. Every fucking second. You'll be spending countless hours absorbing every bit of it you can because of the way it can make you feel. It's utterly unique in just how baffling it is to outsiders, and how beloved it is to insiders.”

Scripted doesn’t mean not real. Bumps are VERY real and if you wanna debate that then step into the ring.

To be able to do what wrestlers do and not kill themselves in the process is amazing. Think about an action movie happening live, right before your eyes WITHOUT stunt doubles, that’s wrestling! The risk is INSANE. Yet for some wild reason people never think of it that way. Boxers have one fight every now and then but wrestlers put their bodies on the line every week. For being some of the most resilient people in the world they don’t get half the respect they should. You will not find live action stunt work anywhere else in the world like you do in wrestling and a lot of wrestling is freestyled (minus huge spots etc). Wrestlers are constantly thinking on the go of what they can do next to entertain the crowd whilst getting thrown through tables.

“If anyone ever tries to tell you our sport is fake, I want you to tell them, "Next time you find a freestyle live action stuntwork and television drama style entertainment event all in one place, you let me know."

Honestly I don’t get why the use of the term “fake” is even used simply bc it’s not an actual competition. I dare you to go up to a wrestler and call what they do “fake” how about you step into the ring, get powerbombed, thrown from the top rope and kicked and punched in the gut and then come back and call that fake. That word is an insult towards performers who put their body at risk and lose their lives and careers for our entertainment.

Imagine being a grown ass man and losing your shit over a scripted GoT fight scene and then having the audacity to turn around and call wrestling fake 🤣🤣🤣

You do not have to understand or enjoy wrestling but please, have some genuine human decency and respect for this incredible art form.

#wwe #aew #njpw #pro wrestling #wrestling #i was gonna tag more promotions but christ i’ll be here all night 😂

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funsetsunset · 3 months

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Wrestling has a lot of queer stuff happening in it right now, am I gonna have to start watching weekly shows again 😖❓

#by wrestling i mean like #i guess AEW and their cross promotional stuff with NJPW #but thats also where the gay shit is happening soooo #i feel so seen lmao they’re catering so hard to the queers now #2024 is our year dude #mattie.txt

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basil-the-middleground · 8 months

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Wrestling Positivity time!

It's Wednesday and you know what that means!

I wanna start a chain: Give me your favorite wrestler now vs the first one you liked!

I'll go first! My first favorite wrestler was Shawn Michaels and my current favorite keeps switching between Chuck Taylor and Hangman Page. You can see a pattern here

#aew #wwe #impact wrestling #njpw #honestly any promotion #professional wrestling #spread the positivity!!!

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darkesttimelinejeffparker · 2 years

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Work is finally slowing down, going to try to post something by 9.

Meanwhile, a wrestler or tag team or faction in my inbox and I’ll give my opinion on them or what my first impression of them was.

#amanda writes fic #ask amanda stuff #i mostly watch aew impact njpw and smaller promotions #i haven’t watched wwe since 2016 but could have opinions on folks that just aren’t current or substantial i guess #or i could google them and give my impression of any wrestler on sight

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thistledropkick · 9 months

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DDT's biggest show of the year, Wrestle Peter Pan, is coming up on July 23rd. The show has two special singles matches that NJPW and AEW fans might be interested in: Takeshita is fighting Ueno Yuki, and El Desperado is fighting Sasaki Daisuke.

And DDT's wrestling streaming service, Wrestle Universe, is running a promotional free trial right now, so you can watch the show for free!

The free trial gives you a free week of Wrestle Universe. (After that it costs around the same as NJPW's subscription service, which comes out to around $7 USD per month) Wrestle Universe also has a good app, and a subscription includes a number of other promotions along with DDT.

DDT has possibly the widest variety of matches and styles of any wrestling promotion, and their Peter Pan show is always a good time. If you've been wanting to give the promotion a try, this weekend would be a great time to do so. Especially if you're a fan of El Desperado or Takeshita.

#njpw #aew #ddt pro #ddt pro wrestling #takeshita #konosuke takeshita #el desperado #ddt is a very fun promotion to watch casually so don't be too intimidated to give it a try

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bang-bang-gang · 11 months

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here's a very condensed and short guide on how to watch professional wrestling for newbies and how to pirate it! works for AEW, WWE, NJPW and most other promotions! personal recommendations:

to follow a guy (gn): BETTER THAN YOU - Complete CM Punk vs MJF Feud on youtube (47:21 mins)

to follow a company: AEW's most recent episode at time of you reading this (1 hour for Rampage, 2 hours for Dynamite)

big events: NJPW's wrestle kingdom 2023 day 1 (6 hours+) (as of writing, the links on this page work) OR AEW Revolution 2023 (4 hours)

#pro wrestling #wrestling #text IDs in alt text!#made for a friend and decided a condensed version could live here too :)#always feel free to message me to help with piracy of any specific match or show- though WK17 was exceptionally hard to find :/#veraposting

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queenielacy · 11 days

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I wish WWE was open to working with other promotions because they could have a reoccurring bit of R-Truth “accidentally” showing up at shows and Miz having to come get him. Imagine Tony Khan trying to explain to Truth that this is AEW and Matt and Nick Jackson walk up and Truth refers to them as The Hardy Boyz or Truth at NJPW and he sees Moxley and he’s like “Where’s the rest of the Shield” or he shows up in TNA and sees Jordynne Grace and is like “Beth Phoenix! It’s been a long time!”

#I just like silly wrestling #and I think they should all work together to take our money #wwe #r truth #r-truth #the miz #aew #njpw #tna #matt jackson #nick jackson #jon moxley #jordynne grace

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kopw · 10 months

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g1 season is upon us! i'm too lazy to gif every match myself! the world needs gifmakers like you! yes you!

this guide includes: basic gifmaking, actions, how to blur on-screen graphics, coloring tips catered specifically to wrestling footage (mainly aew and njpw), how to add subtitles, what tags to use

what you will need:

photoshop (i currently use cc 2017 for windows which you can grab from this post by birdysources)

kmplayer (for extracting frames)

what you might need depending on what you're looking to gif:

4k video downloader (for downloading videos off youtube)

vkopt (browser extension that lets you download videos off vk)

step 1: getting the footage

if you're directly downloading from a site this step is super easy. just make sure to always go for the highest quality of footage available (for njpw this is nowhere near 1080p, and even aew's 1080p footage is pixelated in places—but don't let this deter you!)

if you plan on giffing something off a ppv, chances are you might need to torrent the event. if you can, look for versions off fite with either web or webrip in the title for the best quality. this applies to weekly television too (fite doesn't have picture-in-picture). always seed your torrents. yes, even that one match from 2012. especially that one

you can also get recent shows off watchprowrestling dot co (previously org) which includes njpw tour shows and indie events as well. check out indy★wrestling★group on vk for smaller promotions and japanese promotions outside of njpw (tjpw, stardom, noah...)

step 2: choosing a clip

wrestling footage quality is not consistent. entrances with too many flashing lights or small particles will have huge quality drops, so unless it's something really special, don't put yourself through that. close-ups are generally your best friend but don't shy away from clips with lots of movement (you do sometimes want to gif the wrestling parts of wrestling too)

step 3: extracting frames

open your video in kmplayer. go to the part that you want to gif (though, i suggest leaving a bit of fodder before and after the actual clip. you can always trim the frames down later and it's better to start off with more). then, press ctrl + g

this should bring up this window:

your settings might be different if it's your first time downloading the app so just copy what you see here

kmplayer automatically captures into its own folder, which you can change if you want, but i just left it as is. i recommend pinning the folder you regularly use to the quick access menu in your file explorer

hit start, start the video, let it capture frames for however long, and then hit stop on both the extractor and the video itself. and now you have a bunch of frames in a folder. cool!

step four: converting frames to layers

open photoshop. this will take ages but open it. go to file -> scripts -> load files into stack...

this will bring up this window:

click browse... and select all the frames you just extracted. depending on the number of frames, this might take you a bit. then hit ok and let your layers load into photoshop. this will take a long time (saying this as someone whose laptop tends to heat up to the temperature of an egg pan at this point in the process)

step five: actions

i use actions (user-built series of recorded commands, meaning you don't have to click everything manually) for everything except coloring. i use a mishmash of like three different actions that i never bothered to organize. these are the two most important ones:

actionpack #1 by giulia (i use the setup and save portions from this one)

squishmoon actions by lildohnut (i use the hd sharpening from here, first layer on 0.3 for close-ups and 0.2 otherwise, and the second layer at the suggested 50%)*

*most sharpening settings you'll find are made for current films and tv shows so you do have to make some adjustment to fit your crunchy wrestling footage

step six: sizing

pick a size for your gif! here is a handy chart:

as for height, it can range anywhere from 300px-540px and beyond. most people go for 350px-450px. 400px is the sweet spot

personal preference: adjust canvas size not image size and fit your footage accordingly. some footage (looking at you aew) can have an odd black bar at the bottom, and manual resizing can help getting rid of it. if you just resize the whole image that will stay there and bother you

additional tip: guidelines

9/10 times you will leave your footage centered. however, there are times when this can look a bit awkward, depending on the framing, in which case i like bringing in a few guidelines. go to view -> new guide layout...

rule of thirds is generally good for drawing the eye to certain places. these settings will divide your canvas into nine squares that help you reposition your main gif layer

optional step: blurring pop-up graphics and banners

so, you have your sharpened, resized gif... but the sharpening made the small text and other unwanted elements on your screen shrivel up like raisins. you can leave it as is, people won't mind, it's a wrestling gif, who cares. but, if you want, you can just blur it out

i'm at least a little bit certain that i'm personally the guy who brought this over from k-pop tumblr (not saying i invented the concept, i just love being a trendsetter) and so i can give you a few reasons as to why people do this. such as:

adding subtitles over pre-existing, burnt subtitles (example: njpw post-match comments off njpwworld and not youtube)

getting rid of elements that might distract people from the focal point of the gif (the hotties... and the moves. mostly the hotties)

it makes your otherwise milquetoast sharpening look a little better in contrast

it's gonna be ugly either way so it's a pick your poison type of situation. if you do want to try the blurring method, you will need a basic knowledge of filters and layer masks

step-by-step blurring process:

duplicate your gif layer

blur the layer on top (i typically go for a 4.0 gaussian blur; for this, go to filter -> blur -> gaussian blur...)

apply a layer mask to the blurred layer and make the layer mask black (this will remove the blur effect, don't be scared). to access the layer mask just click on it. you can press alt before clicking to "enter" the layer mask (though you won't see your gif this way)

go in with a soft round brush (or any brush) with white and draw over the bits you want blurred. this is the tedious part

profit?

here's a comparison:

it's really down to personal preference ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و

i convert my base gif layer and the blurred layer into a smart object before moving on with my process because sometimes photoshop likes to do this thing where it only applies the blur to the frame you're on. you can avoid this by combining the layers manually

if you're working with njpw footage and your clip plus coloring combination allows you to, you can also just go over the banner with black and blend it into the background. it's by far the best option but there's so rarely an opportunity to utilize it (i did it in the little header i made... go back and look at how beautiful she is)

step six: coloring

the big one. oh boy. prefacing this with: you can just skip coloring if you want. the sharpening settings i recommended earlier give a nice contrast to the gifs as is, so if it looks fine like that, you don't need any fancy colors. that being said...

my thought process going into coloring is to focus on skin tones and adjust everything around them. i don't tend to use psds, i always just manually color correct based on the actual footage i'm working with (venues differ, lighting differs, hues differ... incredibly hard to plan for all of it in advance). if i plan on making multiple gifsets of the same event/match, i do re-use settings, but sometimes minor adjustments are still needed

to begin coloring, you will need to use adjustment layers. you will pretty much need a basic knowledge of all of them (to the extent of knowing what the sliders and values do)

[1] i always begin with an exposure layer. this will remain above all of your layers (unless you plan on adding subtitles). here are my settings:

again, every layer you add after this will go below your exposure layer

[2] i add a selective color layer to further adjust the blacks. this will vary gif to gif but keep your adjustments small

[3] i add a vibrance layer. wrestling footage has major saturation problems that you can manage early on to make your life easier. take back a tiny bit (usually from -3 to -5) of vibrance before you begin your other color adjustments

[4] this is the big skin tone adjustment step using a curves layer. it does most of the heavy-lifting in my process. here is a video tutorial that explains the technique i use. it works the same with gifs as it does with images. the key differences are:

the image you are color picking off of shouldn't be a limited skin tone chart but rather an image of the wrestler(s) in natural (or as close to natural as you can find) lighting. i just go for renders used on the roster page. fan photography is way too edited to use here

try picking from a darker area of skin (shadows, midtones). it fits better with match lighting

this step will most likely correct color tints, but keep in mind that different promotions/shows/venues have different lighting. here are my personal observations:

aew dynamite and rampage have strong magenta tints

aew collision and roh honor club have strong red tints

njpw has a washed out blue tint

impact has a strong green tint

you can either lean into these (play around with making them really vibrant) or cancel them out using opposites on the color wheel (for example: to get rid of the magenta tint on dynamite, either decrease the magenta slider in your neutrals using selective color or add more green using color balance)

you will almost always have to add more cyan as well (either using color balance or channel mixer; channel mixer can also help you fine-tune skin tones with its blue tab—don't get rid of yellow undertones!)

[5] here is where i start fiddling around with manual adjustments that i seriously can't help you with... just add layers and change colors until you think it feels right. don't be afraid to start over if needed

[6] finishing touches! if you're like me you will have overcolored in the previous step. don't be afraid to add a saturation layer and decrease specifically the saturation of the reds (this will affect the skin tone; if you feel like you're on the right track but it's just too orange-looking, it's a saturation issue)

i also tend to add a black & white layer below the exposure layer up top set to soft light and lowered to 10% opacity. this gives you a bit of additional contrast that pulls the final gif together in my opinion

optional step: adding subtitles and watermarks

always add text layers above your coloring!

[1] subtitles

the font i use for subtitles is arial rounded mt bold, which you can download for free here. the point of subtitles is for them to be readable, so feel free to use any other font as long as it can be read with ease (nothing too thin or too blocky). if you plan on using the font i use, make sure to set it on faux bold and faux italics

font size differs based on the size of your gif, but it should normally be between 17pt and 23pt. i like to keep my tracking (letter-spacing) the same as my font size (so for 21pt subtitles i would have the tracking also at 21). i keep leading (the space between multiple lines of text) 3pt or 4pt

if there are two people speaking, i like setting the second speaker's text color to #ffd300. this is a generic yellow caption color that is still easy to read

after you have your basic text done, right click on your layer to add blending options. adding a stroke and a drop shadow can further help bring your text to the foreground. I keep my stroke (hah) at a simple 1px black. here are my drop shadow settings:

here is a more detailed guide about subtitles by clubgif

as for placement i add a horizontal guide at 95% and put my text on top of the line (while also keeping it centered vertically)

[2] watermarks

i personally don't use watermarks because i just don't care to, but if you want to add one, the same general ideas apply. just lower the opacity of your text layer at the end (if you want... again, a watermark is personalized)

step seven: timing

this is where you'll have to convert your video timeline back to a frame animation!

delete the frames that you don't need and then set a consistent timing (click on your first frame and shift + click on your last one to select all of your frames before adjusting). i like my gifs at 0.04, but depending on the footage you can go for 0.03 (newer bte episodes) or 0.05 (this also works if you don't have enough frames and want your gif a bit slower)

step eight: exporting

go to file -> export -> save for web (legacy)...

here are my export settings:

make sure to keep your gif under 10mb! if your file exceeds 10mb, you can't upload it to tumblr. you either have to cut some more frames or add compression to your gif (something i would never do, i always just cut frames)

additional tip: tagging

you have your gif! but how do you get people to actually look at it?

i always tag wrestlers* (full name, for both searchability and tag filtering purposes), promotions (initialisms like #aew over #all elite wrestling; if it's a more generic promotion name i.e. impact, go for #impact wrestling), tracked edit tags (#aewedit, #njpwedit; this not only helps source blogs find your posts and give them a bigger reach but it lets you browse other people's works). if you want to go the extra mile you can also include which event/video the gifset is from somewhere in your tags (if it's not already in the caption)

*even if you feel like it personally hurts you to tag that one wrestler you can't stand who happens to be in a match with your fave: do try tagging all wrestlers involved for ease of filtering, especially if you don't add image descriptions to your gifsets (tumblr's post content filtering system picks up on those)

general tumblr etiquette but don't cross-tag (i.e. tag a wwe gifset as #aew). no one likes cross-taggers. crossover events are exempt from this rule of course (forbidden door, multiverse united...)

additional tip: accessibility

don't use gradient text in your captions. screen readers can't read them!

if you can, include an image description. no matter how basic. this not only helps people with screen readers but the alt text of your gif is what's going to be displayed in case the gif isn't loading properly. here's a guide on how to caption gifsets by shangs

and you're done! all that's left to do is get silly with it. once you have the basics down you can virtually do anything. you can make those pretty graphics with blending. you can gif every single match of your fave in chronological order. sky's the limit

don't be discouraged if your gifs are not "perfect" from the get-go. this is a hobby just like any other hobby, and with time you'll get better at it. don't compare yourself to others and don't put your efforts down. only you can make the exact gifs you want to see

#aewedit #njpwedit #i spent all day on this... i hope it's at least a little bit helpful 🙏

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