I have to shout out Syuri, Josh Alexander, and Katsuhiko Nakajima for this. These three this year have produced great matches in their companies, so great some are considered MOTY.
With the free agents with the ROH hiatus it has me doing a wish list for Impact:
Sign Demomic Flamita and pear him with Decay so him and Black Taurus can be a banging tag team and maybe take the belts off of The Good Brothers, he'll I'd even throw in The Briscoes as well.
Also adding Bandido/Rey Horus in the X-Division would add more depth.
And I just need a Jonathan Gresham/Josh Alexander match because I need more bangers in my life.
I know it's long shot but I would focus on guys like these instead of Strowman.
And I can't forget about the women. With Japan opening back up D'Amore needs to use that New Japan relationship to get a thing with Stardom working.
Especially since they did all they could protecting Otis taking him out the finish with having Gable taking the loss. I know it's meaningless but they're a good team that should have at least a decent run with the belts.
Solid show with a banger of a main event between Shingo/ZSJ. Glad to know that Naito is coming back and wondering how he'll fit in the Wrestle Kingdom shows.
Been catching up on the episodes and they've been a blast. Loved the one with Will, took me back to digging through the crates hearing you two debating whether Dean Malenko is a good wrestler.
Okada is a slam dunk no questions needed. It's a shame that JYD isn't already in based on historical significance alone. Punk is going to squeak in because of his current AEW work. Also, I see Charlotte getting the Reigns treatment of last year. It's going to be really interesting when Sasha gets on the ballot.
WCW 2000 was so bad it's entertaining, WWE right now is bad.
Dawkins is coming along fine and I have a feeling next year will be when the split happens.
At least they have a major program to carry them into the new year and Moose/Alexander will be a great hoss fight. Curious about there being any legitimacy regarding the rumors of Impact/ESPN?
BFG was a fine show with questionable ending with Alexander/Moose. While I wouldn't have done the cash in and really sick of the trope I can somewhat understand the logic. With the relationship with AEW looking to be done Impact needs to use the tactics of their earlier years finding undiscovered talent and presenting them as stars, and yes there still good untapped talent out there.
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Murder Grandpa would be an awesome first title defense for Alexander.
Agreed, it's going to take time to give fans a new paradigm on how wrestling is presented. Other than that we're going to see Minoru Suzuki vs Bryan Danielson, GET INTO IT!!!!!!!