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My guess is that they’re going to at Wrestle Kingdom. They did that back and forth with Ospreay/Omega when folks thought it would be a Wembley rubber match, and I think Danielson’s first NJPW match back being Wrestle Kingdom would be a huge deal.

The first winner on an NXT non-Full Sail special. Incredible.

It’s true but there have been some freak injuries, as well, like tonight. I’d much rather they think about taking care of their talent the best they can. They even keep dudes out of matches because of the flu. It hits on both extremes.

That was brought up. A lot of good matchups there. I’m now pretty convinced the seizure spot was on the fly considering it was right after the elbow drop. And that his quip about the magician not revealing his secrets was along those lines.

Broken arm for Danielson, out 6-8 weeks. Wrestled last 10 minutes with it.

Media scrum starting late, kinda weird. Danielson needed to be told no with the seizures. Took away a lot from the stretch run.

I think a return match at WK18 is in the cards.

The crowd I think expected something along the lines of Omega/Ospreay (which lol) but that match was about as good as you could expect there.

Final Countdown AND Okada Bucks, good lord almighty.

THEY DID IT

What the bell was that match, Jericho needing to get his heat back like that was the absolute worst. I guess the crowd is down enough for the main event, though.

Sting took a goddamn 630 through a table in 2023. What in the world.

I totally bit on the rope break. There was some bullshit down the stretch that didn’t need to be there with some of the near falls, Callis was as not even remotely necessary, and I guess they don’t do a rubber match at Wembley, which is why they emptied the clip tonight. But it WAS a great match, even with some unforced errors.

And now he bleeds like a goddamn stuck pig, too.

Where the hell has this Ospreay been all my life?

That shit ruled. Bubba, if that’s washed, consider us all washed.

Good little title match, SANADA looked really good and crisp, got over well with the crowd. Enjoyable first few matches in the show so far.

Better four way than most, really good mesh of personalities, DG is the best Fandango ever

Much better than the opener in so many ways, Kojima killed it this time around after an okay showing last year.

That is definitely still awesome.

Good Guy Phil with a shoutout to DEAN~!

MJF going all shtick against a physically-limited opponent

The card was haphazardly put together and has some suboptimal matches outside of the main event, but the big question is how much the NJPW folks outside the two big matches are gonna dog it.

Love that reaction for One Bill Phil, don’t matter if they love or hate him, they are LOUD.

I meant it more as metaphorical, especially with their personalities and egos. They do good business in the aspects you described, but their self-awareness makes it seems like they seek out situations to be magnanimous, even in defeat. In their eyes, they’re taking the high road, but they come off as holier-than-thou instead. The fact that they weren’t a part of that pull apart at the end of the show and did a pre-tape backstage makes me think they feel they need to show they’re above all this, but all the reporting on it says they’re just not engaging a party who wishes to engage and figure out a way forward. I want to be worked in this situation, but I don’t think I am given they’re not exactly frothing at the mouth to punch back against Punk.