I don't think he was necessarily in the shape to wrestle every night, but at the very least they could've done way more dates with him strictly doing promos.
Perhaps neither here nor there, but I've always found both guys' drawing power pretty comparable, relative to their respective promotions of course. Both guys stopped the bleeding, but you could probably point to other folks who really turned things around (Okada for NJPW, Cody for WWE).
According to Dave, Tenzan is also retiring at the Dome. At first I thought this was a case of being massively overshadowed, but taking advantage of a 55k crowd situation to retire is actually pretty smart. Hasn't wrestled since April anyway.
That would be funny as he had previously said he had no interest in wrestling for another Japanese promotion. Wonder if visa issues have been that bad.
I've been tuned out of NJPW for a few years now, but I honestly think Zack has been one of the most consistently great wrestlers of the last decade. He'll rank for me.
Darby is out of the CC and is being replaced by Jack Perry. I would have thought reforming Jurassic Express was TK acknowledging that Jack is not a good singles wrestler. Could have easily put Brody, Josh Alexander, Hechicero, Rush, Mortos, Ace Austin, Shelton, Bandido, Ricochet, or Yuta in there instead. Or give an ROH guy like Lee Moriarity or Lee Johnson a chance.
I actually kinda warmed up to the Righteous a bit when they actually got TV time on Collision. Mostly Dutch being a pretty solid big guy, but Vincent's snapping entrance was catchy.
I had seen quite a bit of Dick Togo before he came to NJPW in 2020, but imagine being told that the guy farting around with House of Torture is one of the greatest ever.
Curious how folks feel about Mercedes given her AEW run. She won't make my list but I think she's easily the greatest U.S. women's wrestler ever. But where does she rank among the all-time great women's wrestlers?