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Jmare007

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  1. I really liked the first half of his IWGP title match against ZSJ. Though a huge part of it was Sabre's work...me not liking the 2nd half as much was also mostly because of Sabre. RE: tag matches. I think the only really good tags Okada had were when he was a young lion in the NOAH feud. I think he kinda deserves some praise because of that year too.
  2. The big question here would be if those New Japan, DDT and TJPW shows had the same crowd capacity limit. If they did, then hell yeah that's a red flag for New Japan, doing Big Japan/Zero1 like numbers is never a good sign.
  3. Is the Tenryu match and the MiSu match in the pouring rain add or go against Okada's case? What do y'all think? I remember the Tenryu match being kind of sad seeing him in that state but Okada did try to make it as interesting as possible. The MiSu match I honestly don't remember shit besides the visuals of the rain lol, but I do recall a lot of people loving it.
  4. Imagine the level of greed this is when the people wanting to shaft UEFA and FIFA are the bad guys in the eyes of basically every fan.
  5. Florentino leading an NFL-like european football league backed by US capital and a lot of club owners and them just expecting the whole continent to bow down and let them have their cake and eat it too is the type of fuckery I never thought I'd see in my lifetime.
  6. From the 2016 poll I can see a lot of the 20-25 guys dropping from the top 25 with new names coming in (or coming back from 2006). My guesses would be Austin, Hashimoto,, Arn and Regal and even Barry could get dropped a few spots just of the strength of people watching other stuff. I also think Joshi workers will be back strong after getting the shaft in 2016. Not sure why that happened? I remember not being much talk about them, their threads show that, but it would be interesting to know if it was a case of people from 2006 ranking them lower or just more people voting in 2016 and a majority of them not ranking them (at least to a point of not feeling confident on putting them in their ballots, I was one of those).
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    Matt Jackson

    I was a fan of the Young Bucks in PWG, specially their heel work. But that's about it, didn't think much of them in TNA or ROH. They didn't make me care about the Jr. scene in New Japan either. And some of their most praised tag matches in the last few years were never close to the praise I read from some places -though I did think they were fun to watch-, mostly because as strobago said it felt like they were trying some "dramatics" that were closer the HBK's middles school theater plays than anything else. Not even close to enough for me to consider either of the Jackson's as GWE candidates.
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    Fred Yehi

    Add me to the group of people being baffled and disappointed a guy like Yehi doesn't get more chances to shine in more high profile promotions. Dude is a breath of fresh air and it's hard not to be entertained with the matches he has and the creative shit he pulls off. I haven't followed him as much as I'd like to but I'm always impressed by him. Maybe this project will make me be less lazy and do a legit deep dive on him to see if I can put him in my ballot somewhere. I also hope these next 5 years have him in more prominent roles and high profile matches outside of a few indies.
  9. How high can Kento get will depend on how much you like or dislike his formula, he very rarely goes away from it so it's kind of a make or break thing. One thing I think it's undeniable though is how charismatic he is and his ability to connect with a crowd no matter what role he's playing in the ring. As Boss Rock says in his nomination case, he can be a great underdog and annoying cocky heel. I feel he best suited as an underdog as up until early 2020 (when I kinda stopped following him) his match mostly consist on getting one body part worked and shrugging it off any time he's on offense, which often comes as spurt of energy. His banter with Wada never gets old for me, though I can totally see others being annoyed with it. I was really high on Kento from 2016 to 2018 or so then I became kinda tired of his schitck though I still enjoyed matches like the ones against Okabayashi and specially the one against Naoya Nomura.
  10. The watch party was a perfect introduction to her. I'm not sure I'm gonna be that into the style, as crazy as it felt it being early 1980's they were doing a whole bunch of stuff and not a lot was able to breathe. But Jaguar stood out at pretty much everything: facial expressions, intensity, selling, playing her role ("heel", face, dominant, underdog, etc.) and some of the stuff she was pulling off was pretty damn crazy for an 18-20 year old kid in a the early 1980's. The Monster Ripper match was fucking outstanding and my favorite of the ones I was able to watch in the WP.
  11. That was great. Thought it was a perfect "meet this candidate (and her peers)" watch with the match choices.
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    Dick Togo

    He's probably gonna be higher on my list than last time. The more I see of him the more I like him, and he's still so fucking good in the ring.
  13. I remember Liger giving Marufuji a very good match in the 2010 at a point were I couldn't stand Maru. If cagemstch is correctvthe date is 4/4/2010. Also did Liger give Tyler Breeze the best singles match of his career at that Takeover? Wouldn't call it a must watch but an old ass Liger coming to NXT randomly for 1 match and putting e "***-***1/2" match like it was nothing was pretty damn cool.
  14. See, that's what I get lost because I not sure what's dumb about Strong Big Japan's style. Slow? sometimes yes, but when they do slow down is because they want to do smart shit like work a hold and make it mean something, or do an exchange that will pay off later. There's no question that there's a lot of "hosses clash against each other over and over until one can't go anymore" but I find that has fazed out A LOT in the last 6 years. And Nomura has certainly not been a part of much of those. I guess this is a discussion for another thread though.
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    Negro Casas

    The only lucha guy that made me overcome my struggles with commentary everytime because he was so damn good. Still feel like I have a ton to keep catching up with his work. Really looking forward seeing if he can end up as a n°1 candidate for me once I have a more rounded look at him and not just cherry picking like I did last time.
  16. The most consistent pillar, the one with the most longevity as a good-top performer and the most versatile (as much as those guys could be). Only reason I tend to put him below Misawa is because of the elbow throwing bastard's ridiculous 90-97 run which I still believe is the best peak ever but every time I read or hear a case in favor of Kawada I end up agreeing with basically everything. First time reading about this. Kawada always seemed to be seen as the "pissed off one" out of the pillars as far I can recall.
  17. Seven years after posting this I feel pretty much the same. Late 90's Kobashi is just too much of too much for me and is the worst of the 4 pillars in that regard. I find some of his NOAH stuff jaw dropping but there's a the "here he goes again" doing too much for me. For some reason it bothers me more with Kobashi pretty much anyone else though top 30 is still incredibly high so it's not like I think he's not incredible most of the time.
  18. Mojo was still employed??? holy shit. And yeah, to be honest, they could cut 50 more people and it would still feel they have too many wrestlers on the roster.
  19. I'm obviously on the opposite end of someone like Jetlag as I fucking love the Strong Big Japan style and think Nomura is a perfect addition to it. It's very, very hard for me to watch a match he's in and not come out thinking Nomura did as much as possible to make the match better, and when it's a style I already love, then of course a ton of good shit come out of it. I do agree Big Japan has taken too fucking long in giving him a legit push. But considering how laughably slow BJW booking is, it's clear as day they see Nomura as their future star alongside Aoki. Those two are the only ones getting singles matches against important "outsiders" (in the case of Nomura, you have Dick Togo and Minoru Suzuki, both good matches btw). BUT there's no question he could be doing much bigger things at this point considering his ability and potential. But anyways, as I said in the nomination post, he's a prodigy and in 5 years he's been able to build a resume that could get really fucking interesting in the next few years. If I had to vote today he would have a legit chance of making my ballot. I truly hope we get so him work more different roles and show what he can do when he doesn't have to be the young, promising kid with a chip on his shoulder.
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    Dean Ambrose

    Too inconsistent for my liking. For every performance and match I'm impressed with, there's a fuck ton I'm bored or disappointed with. He did get a really good match (maybe two?) out of Seth Rollins, sadly they had a myriad of really bad ones too. It would take a really crazy run for him to be a candidate for me.
  21. It gets difficult when the quality of the match is high because that only happens because of how great the wrestlers perform. So when you have someone that has many high tier performances, is much easier than individual work or "random good matches". "Random match theory" is a pretty damn good tool for this though.
  22. "Well pal, what do you say about coming back so you can cut people and all the heat for it, huh? HA-HA!"
  23. They are high anyways because of consistency of having those "5 stars performances" regardless of overall feeling in a match. Some wrestlers are just too damn great and it shows everytime they set foot in a ring. The input vs output (and/or booking) argument is the most difficult to figure out in these sort of projects though. At least it is to me, I'm laughably inconsistent when it comes to figure out who goes where in a ranking because of it.
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    Fuminori Abe

    My biggest fear with Abe is that he ends up getting lost in the shuffle once his tag with Nomura reaches it's limit and/or ends. I'm glad he's been getting All Japan bookings and stuff like Colega Pro but we'll see how booking treats him in the next couple of years. As with other fringe GWE ballot candidates, I like him a lot and will put him in consideration but as much I enjoy his work, he doesn't have enough so far. I truly hope he gets more and more chances to show what he's made of.
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    Alexa Bliss

    She can be a asset to a roster but not GWE worthy.
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