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UWF selects Dick Togo. NJPW is on the clock.

UWF selects Shuji Ishikawa. ECW is up next.

UWF selects Jonathan Gresham. NJPW is up.

UWF selects Koji Iwamoto and Kazusada Higuchi. Back to ECW.

UWF selects Tomohiro Ishii. NJPW is back up.

UWF selects KUSHIDA. NJPW is up next.

UWF selects Astronauts (Takuya Nomura & Fuminori Abe), forfeiting my next pick. WCW is up.

UWF selects Alexander Rusev.

UWF selects Minoru Suzuki. NJPW is up next.

UWF selects Timothy Thatcher. WWE is up next.

I think UWF is up -- I'll take Hideki Suzuki. ECW is up next.

UWF selects Katsuhiko Nakajima. ECW is up.

Alright, UWF selects Matt Riddle. ROH is up next with back-to-back picks.

Yoshiaki Fujiwara is the UWF owner.

I can't imagine drafting more than 5 "gaijins" for my promotion.

UWF Japan.

I'm still in. Do we have to do existing promotions, or can we "revive" a promotion - as in, I'd like to do UWF 3.0?

I go in and out of wrestling. I'll have periods of 3-4 years where I don't watch a minute of pro-wrestling, and then I'll be fully invested for a year before burning out again. I think I've burnt out again. I used to watch quite a bit for Burning Spirits, to keep track of what was at least going on in Japan. But that soon became tiresome (hence the end of Burning Spirits) and now the thought of sitting down to watch Wrestle Kingdom is overwhelming. I think I went from watching/following 5-6 promotions to maybe 1-2. Big Japan is still my favorite promotion at this point but yeah, if you try and watch everything, you will burn yourself out.

I lived in the Dallas area for many years and I never met a person who has watched NJPW...except one dude who bartended an arcade.

Great news for fans of NJPW.

Yeah, when I think of "tough guy", Ospreay is the last person I think about.

Watch Ashino vs. Soya from 3/14. Easily the best Ashino match I've seen, the best W1 match of the year, and Soya works his ass off.

Seems like enough people responded with interest for this to have some legs?

Bummed Suzuki isn't a featured player and will likely be stuck in the six-man bullshit.

On a whole, not a terrific tag or anything, but it had quite a few cool moments, especially in the interactions between Tamura and Severn. The opening is a lot of fun between these two, with Severn trying to use his size to his advantage, grabbing big chokes, and Tamura being cat-like and agile, escaping the attempts. After a big belly-to-belly, Severn tries for the double wristlock but Tamura slips out, takes him down with an armwhip and shows Dan how to put the double wristlock on, forcing him to the ropes in a great moment. The initial exchange between Takada/Albright was really good, with Albright pummeling him in the corner and Takada firing back with shoteis and kicks, blasting Albright in the face and Albright immediately tags out like "enough of this shit!". Otherwise, some boring Takada matwork, some more fun Tamura/Severn exchanges, like Dan trying to knee him out of the ring or German suplexing through the struggle. Albright hits a bunch of suplexes down the stretch, hitting three consecutive belly-to-bellies on Takada before TAPPING TAKADA with an okay single leg crab. Tamura's the best but Severn in UWFi has been a ton of fun.