WingedEagle

Sorry, allow me to translate to WWE-speak. #bestwishes #tout #wweuniverse

Probably still crying over the election. #thoughtsandprayers

Jesus Christ. Vince looks horrific. Like he's aged 10 years since earlier this year.

Was just thinking this. I'm sure they all passed a test yesterday or today, but who's to say they're not asymptomatic? I'd say its shockingly reckless, but anything else would truly be shocking.

Roman vs. Drew was a legitimately great match that crushed expectations. Tremendous escalation and use of near falls without overdoing them. The Uso interference even managed to further that story without compromising the match or finish.

This Taker bit is going to be insufferable, isn't it? I suppose harmless as background material but can't say I'm remotely interested in that main eventing a PPV.

I thought the Rhodes family was very opposed to him, but perhaps not the entire family? Hope I'm not wrong there. Either way I know what I'll be watching at 8PM.

It'd be a shame if he wasn't focused and got hurt. I really hope that doesn't happen.

Nostalgia goes a long way towards making that stuff fun, never mind tolerable. Nothing lasts too long and there are memorable characters so its a really fun watch. But nostalgic doesn't equal good.

I just finished the last disc of the 80s NJPW set and finally polished off the 4H set. Last month I closed up the '90 and '95 yearbooks as well so after having all of these sets "open" the only project I'm actively watching at the moment is 2000's puro. Time to crack the seal on another set that'll take years to finish!

Is there interesting posted on World that wasn't previously available in our Village?

I think its more that Sasha vs. Bayley was fantastic and nothing is going to be able to follow it. Too long though. I don't get why they're on top of the cell.

I thought Bayley/Sasha was a tremendous match worthy of the best built feud we've seen this year. Very likely a classic with a crowd but probably the best match under the company's umbrella during COVID along with KOR/Balor. Curious how they keep them apart and on the same show on a week to week basis but that's a problem for subsequent Fridays. This was terrific.

That's basically it. I haven't minded Roman's vocal work at all.

Tremendous all around presentation of this storyline and matches. Its still frustrating to think about what could've been had they gone this route with Roman half a decade ago.

Where's the blood?

This is basically where I landed on the match. A really fun ***3/4 outing that was really fun and is hopefully yet another step towards making the 6 man straps a regular and big defense at Korakuen, but this was just a bit too long for me to rate as a truly great match. Who would've thought that Yoshi-Hashi and Douki would be responsible for heating a main event match like this? Between this and the G1 its been Yoshi-Hashi season!

I thought this was a big comedown from the April matches. Solid shine, good heat and Eaton remains one of an all-time underrated worker. But this didn't have the same energy or flow as the earlier matches and as a result it was a far cry from great. Very much a good match but given what these four have done it still came across as a letdown. ***1/2

Ditch is back up for the moment. Grab what you can in case it goes down permanently.

As great as it would be to see this company face a proper regulatory reckoning, I sure hope this isn't near the top of the list of issues for the next administration. There are unfortunately quite a few others that require more immediate attention.

Ha good call!

I'm a little curious how they're going to shoot angles for 2 nights worth of WK given the calendar. No Destruction of KOPW tours this year and BOSJ/WTTL can set up title matches in those two divisions but not necessarily more. So we've presumably got 1) Naito vs. Ibushi 2) Okada vs. Ospreay 3) Hiromu vs. BOSJ winner 4) ZSJ/Taichi vs. WTTL winners 5) Evil vs. White 6) Tana vs. KENTA or Moxley around the US Title seems like a possible direction. But, again, that's over 2 nights. Lot of gaps to fill there. What do you do for the top of the card on the second? Even if they want to, treating the Dome like a New Beginning/Destruction tour where you've got a couple big matches every night will be tough this year because they unified the IWGP & IC Titles.

I stayed offline until getting a chance to watch the show unspoiled this afternoon and did not expect to find myself the high man on the main event. I absolutely loved this match. The first 25 minutes flew by while trying to put over Sanada as a striker capitalizing on Ibushi's injured leg, and also how the bad leg weakened Ibushi's overall offense. The stretch run is what happens when a New Japan main event clicks with great timing, counters and near falls. The added wrinkle here was the use of cradles for some insane kickouts rather than heavyily relying on finishers. Did I love the match because I expected Sanada to win and generally find his work to be incredibly vanilla except when carried by an Okada or Tanahashi? Perhaps. But whatever the reasons I was biting at every near fall down the stretch and thought they efficiently and logically built to what they pulled off there. Hell of a match and among the 2-3 best in the entire tourney.

This was an intense of flash of awesome, but Jetlag nailed it by saying this was played out more as the angle to build a big match rather than a proper match itself. Incredibly heated and compelling while it lasted, but its tough to feel satisfied by what was maybe three minutes of actual action that seemed geared to whet your appetite for something else. After wrapping up NJPW in 2000-01 its clear that I've underrated Sasaki historically. Really looking forward to watching him throughout the rest of the decade as he's a lot more versatile than I thought and very much seems a forgotten name throughout NJPW's run over this last decade.