What Is ROYAL ROAD w/ ARK Style Wrestling?

[@coldskull5573]

You are dead on that New Japan took a lot of elements from King's Road. While watching your video on King's Road itself all I could think of was how this very much resembles the style of New Japan today. Nice to see you reaffirming it now. Just goes to show you that nothing in wrestling exists in a vacum. Great video Dave.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Always good to know when you have found a like minded individual. And I am glad to see that someone else isn't afraid to admit that they see it as well. Thank you for the support

[@NostalgiNorden]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling I don't think there is much of a debate and since both Inoki and Baba are out of both companies and the heat isn't really there these days no one should be mad by pointing out the fact that Gedo and alot of the wrestlers in NJPW are very Kings road/NWA influenced in terms of booking and in ring storytelling.

[@shunichisaito313]

Actually, New Japan is not real strong style anymore, but it is only " Entertainment Style" unfortunately so I stopped watching New Japan recently. If you want to see " Real Strong Style" , you should watch Pro Wrestling Noah today, especially, GHC Championship of Go Shiozaki in 2020, and Kenta Kobashi 2000 until he retired.

[@DegenerateSharingan]

Great video Dave, I've always felt ark style/ Royal Road Style was merely a combination of strong style and Kings Road depending on the wrestler and how take on the style. In my opinion KENTA was a Strong style worker that faced off very well against King Road style wrestlers (or less SS style influenced) And I always felt Okada was a Kings Road wrestler that faced off pretty well with strong style performers.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

You do have a fair argument on KENTA and Okada I totally agree with. And as I said in the video I kinda feel that way about the style too, but I see a few more differences. Thanks for the support

[@ethanellis2896]

Have to say This guy, Dave... He knows wrestling and explains it very well! Excellent work 👏

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Much appreciated!

[@GranthamStreet]

“...even though there are those in the industry who don’t approve of that practice.” I almost expected you to be holding a tennis racket as you said that line.

[@Zach-gq9cw]

Best promotion of 2020, change my mind

[@suicidesteve3793]

True. But being the best not because noah become amazing and phenomenal. But because other competitor is getting shittier.

[@AS_ONYX]

As someone who was born in 1998, didn't start watching wrestling (WWE) until 2006, and didn't get in to puroresu until a few years ago I can say going back and watching matches that: 1990-2000 AJPW and 2000-2010 NOAH were the greatest years in wrestling! It's everything I wanted in wrestling but never knew or realized that I wanted it: SUPER hard striking, shoot grappling, legit submissions, brutal suplexes and slams, and above all intensity and hungry for competition and no remorse personas!

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Doesn't matter when you discovered something you love, just so long that you did

[@AS_ONYX]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling Thanks for the reply! You got a sub!

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Welcome to the Know-It-All Nation! Thank you

[@vincentf6787]

I am 40 years old and I think exactly the same ajpw/noah the best pro wrestling product in the history of the dicipline

[@heavenlyfusionguitars9245]

Great video Dave, your explanation is good as always, exspecially for newer fans to get in puro wrestling. For all who wants to start here is a nice list of recommendations: Jushin 'Thunder' Liger & Koji Kanemoto vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi - January 26th 2003 - Kobe World Hall Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA - April 25th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Jushin 'Thunder' Liger vs. Makoto Hashi - March 6th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Kenta Kobashi vs. Minoru Suzuki - January 8th 2005 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikio vs. Takeshi Morishima & Muhammad Yone - April 1st 2007 - Tokyo Korakuen Hall Naomichi Marufuji & Minoru Suzuki vs. Makoto Hashi & Jun Akiyama - July 18th 2005 - Tokyo Dome Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikio vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takashi Sugiura - April 28th 2007 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Kenta Kobashi & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa - December 2nd 2007 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Akira Taue vs. Yuji Nagata - June 6th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Makoto Hashi - September 12th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs. Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda - June 6th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Juventud Guerrera & Ricky Marvin - November 1st 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takashi Sugiura - June 5th 2005 - Sapporo Media Park Spica Takeshi Rikio & Takeshi Morishima vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA - July 16th 2006 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan KENTA vs. SUWA - September 18th 2005 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Kenta Kobashi vs. Akira Taue - September 10th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito - 19th October 2002 - Tokyo Korakuen Hall Naomichi Marufuji vs. KENTA - October 29th 2006 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger & Takehiro Muruhama - July 16th 2003 - Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium Kenta Kobashi vs. Tamon Honda - April 13th 2003 - Tokyo Ariake Colosseum BONUS Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama - December 23rd 2000 - Tokyo Ariake Colosseum Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama - April 25th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama - July 10th 2004 - Tokyo Dome Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi - March 1st 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima - November 5th 2005 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan Kenta Kobashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki - July 18th 2005 - Tokyo Dome

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Wow, great recommendations. Hope ppl see this and get to watching

[@hurricanekicka]

Any match involving KENTA with Marufuji were my favs

[@bigshambowski]

NOAH, Dragon Gate, and TJPW are my favorite Japanese promotions.

[@Ghostface-1393]

@@bigshambowski Anyway to watch noah from the inception to now

[@jordand5616]

GREAT Explanation DAVE.APPRECIATE YA.

[@kinggold5378]

WOW the Jr Heavyweights in AJPW...had the same problems that the Cruiserweights of WCW had ..

[@geoffa87]

The absolute ultimate Royal/Ark style match I can recommend would be Misawa vs Kobashi, for the GHC heavyweight championship from 3-1-2003. It's all there, the two heavyweight aces, building into a longer, more brutal match and the debut of Kobashi's super finisher, the Burning Hammer

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

It's hard to deny that the best Royal Road match isn't gonna involve both of those wrestlers

[@AshhNT1]

Awesome video! I only recently got into Noah, and have been watching matches here and there. I really liked the Suzuki-gun invasion. Yoshinobu Kanemaru was recruited into Suzuki-gun during that period.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Suzuki-Gun is great

[@justjustreid1527]

Been you i would watch noah stuff frime 2000 - 2006 thoes years were there prime Time And truly the best thing going on in Japan at that Time

[@rogermorris9696]

I remember first seeing Pro Wrestling Noah early 2004 on TWC and, to be honest I had lost interest in wrestling but was bored, and their was nothing else on TV I wanted to see. After that first hour, I was hooked again on wrestling. Also stay safe Dave.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Noah can have that effect on ppl

[@zakrowe1301]

Great vid dave, spot on with everything. I've always been drawn to royal road/ark style. It might be controversial but I dont think it can be denied how much 00s noah has influenced modern day njpw. It's just a shame that noah suffered so many set backs, hopefully there on a more secure position after ddts parent company took over. They've always had a great in ring product there issue was creating new stars. As far as recommendations go, jun akiyama and Kenta kobashi wrestled the best that promotion had to offer so od say start off with matches featuring them and branch out from there, it's hard to go wrong with noah in any generation really.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Thank you so much and yes, hope they can get more success soon. And yes I very much think that NJPW owes a lot of inspiration to Noah

[@LuchaGangsta]

Because of this channel i been learning more about the history of pro wrestling in Japan. Would love to know more about Noah and dragon gate in particular and this video helped me to understand some of that. I been knowing the other companies just by name but no history and just been njpw fan since 2016.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Thank you so much, it's great to hear that. I'm very glad that you get something out of this channel

[@brandonbeck3672]

Another great video, do a great job explaining the difference between styles.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Thank you so much Brandon. Styles are so interesting to me

[@brandonbeck3672]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling - I like learning about them as well, I have two daughters getting in business and we watch these videos so they can understand styles of wrstling. We watch you story telling videos as well. Becasue the want to be a little more old school and not such a spot show.

[@AS_ONYX]

@@brandonbeck3672 RESPECT THAT! People getting into wrestling today seem to not wanna go by old school and would rather do what they see every week on USA, FOX, and now TNT. They have my support.

[@rockstarjojorodriguez7279]

That was interesting.....👍👍👍

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Thank you very much Rockstar

[@rockstarjojorodriguez7279]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling I always wanted to ask you Dave , what is your background?? Even though I know you're probably born and raised in the U.S..... I'm just curious

[@MrQdiddy85]

I was wondering if Dave could give some example matches that showcases this and other styles

[@ryutsubohachi5615]

Awesome video I watch a lot of New Japan Pro Wrestling and I say Pro Wrestling Noah is my second favorite Promotion I honestly like your videos on Puroretsu it’s awesome

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Thank you so much. I think it's really great that you like my videos

[@jamaalmoses8821]

Kobashi's return was cool in the early 2000s..he had a badass match..but it was brutal to watch as well.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

That was a cool return

[@Seanatonin]

Dave knows that Royal Road w/ Ark Style is a good style

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

It sure is!

[@Seanatonin]

Plus NOAH gave us some great matches, like Minoru Suzuki vs KENTA in 2005.

[@Jenish7305]

Thank You

[@alexisdelarosa5396]

Nice info!!!

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Thank you!

[@legendsxdie123]

Hey Dave, what do you think of early-to-mid 2000's Ring of Honor? I used to be a big fan and felt like the promotion adopted elements from both strong style and king's road.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

I did like early 2000's ROH and yes they def showed signs of Japanese influence

[@szczesciejestkoloruczarneg749]

my road ❣

[@lucaslonchampt613]

You mentionned NJPW taking different elements of King's Road in its modern style, which is true. But I wonder, is there a specific name for this style, in the same way this one that was the topic of your video had one?

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

I think it needs to have one

[@lucaslonchampt613]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling Regal/Royal Strong Style perhaps?

[@TehJew22]

​@@lucaslonchampt613Strong Road

[@masteroffpeanuts]

I've been saying it for while, modern NJPW seems more like something that guys like Misawa promoted back in NOAH, while (based on the last time I've watched it) I've noticed NOAH nowadays seems more like something Inoki would have preferred to promote. It's interesting to look at.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

I feel that way too.. it's just wondering if hardcore strong style ppl are willing to admit it

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

Misawa is the GOAT

[@jonathanhensley6141]

I loved NOAH

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Well hope this new version will remain as good

[@microfighterz]

The Japanese wrestling styles: murder your opponent or murder your opponent with ✨style✨

[@Emperor_x8]

So it's basically modern royal road and makes me wonder if all era styles should be named

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Well King's Road has evolved on it's own in AJPW too, so I wouldn't say they are the same

[@ryutsubohachi5615]

Do they actually use real strikes in Royal Road style

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Yeah, they make contact sometimes. It's not as rare in pro wrestling as you think

[@iamtriston666]

You know never noticed the dove on the Pro Wrestling Noah logo.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Sneaks by a lot of ppl. You can also see the Ark in the letters of the old logo

[@LuciferLizardo]

And on that note, Royal Road with Ark proved that Motoko Baba was wrong, since NOAH eventually became the #2 Japanese promotion.

[@dashtoroya2838]

Well in the 2000s they were the number one promotion of Japan with ajpw being behind. But now Noah being the third (after njpw and stardom) meanwhile ajpw is now at very low level.

[@Rotyi]

2:25 New Japan 🏓 Wrestling

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

WTF is the point of this comment

[@kaz5150619]

Y2J used to say NJPW is match quality over DiCaprio(character) CMLL is the opposite (52/48 split)

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Interesting way to look at it

[@kaz5150619]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling he explained it in his break the walls down dvd

[@TheKilodead4]

Finally bro

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Hope it was worth the wait

[@TheKilodead4]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling The Four Pillars of Heaven review?

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Reviews are a bit tougher for me

[@TheKilodead4]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling do you KNOW them or not? Lol

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

We've discussed this before.. I will see what I can do... sorry for the wait

[@MrQdiddy85]

Who are the two that gave this video a “thumbs down?!?”

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

You're guess is as good as mine

[@popanda9685]

Anything with kenta kobashi

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Fair enough

[@NinjaTylerBlack]

Kings Road

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Different video

[@kaz5150619]

Royal road meets Strong Style mmmmm

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

That's part of it

[@kesterdanger5215]

So is njpw legitimate sports

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

NJPW is a worked program

[@kesterdanger5215]

@@DaveKnowsWrestling but how come wins and losses matter

[@Zach-gq9cw]

NJPW is more King's Road than Strong Style now, but it still doesn't touch peak 90's All Japan

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

I think NJPW is more King's Road myself

[@arthurprior3494]

That will never be my thing,I know there is more storytelling but I will never be able to get into that style of wrestling. Beat the p*ss out of eachother until it's time to finish the match. Why I hated that series of matches Sheamus and Cesaro had a couple of years back.

[@DaveKnowsWrestling]

Ugh yes.. personally I thought it was Cesaro trying his best and going into overtime