Tetsujin

Naito said he's ready for a rematch "in Mox territory" so maybe he takes it back at Forbbiden Door. Naito wants to do the roll call in his home neighborhood and that tour is coming, so I'd say he'll be the champion by the end of it.

I agree that Ospreay mostly works much better as a babyface, never liked his heel run in New Japan for example. But you all guys need to check his G1 match against Taichi last year. It's absolutely incredible how good ol Wil Ospreay works that match, he totally controls the pace by restraining himself and he somehow makes his style work as a bullying method against Taichi, who feels like the biggest underdog in the world. It's probably the most unique Ospreay match ever.

That's sounds weird to me, because I believe that precisely is one of Okada's biggest weaknesses. Everything about his offense just feels AI generated.

I would add Kurt Angle to that list and probably as #1, but some people would disagree on the "their matches being thousand times better due to it" part.

Recently, I've been on a LA Park mood. He's quickly becoming my second favourite luchador of all time (after Santito) and he might have a chance at my top 25, because every match I'm seeing of him is just an unbelievable spectacle that no one else provides. He takes one of my very least favourite styles of wrestling (overbooked lucha brawls) and turn them into total blasts thanks to his larger than life aura, his intense offense and clever selling, and his surprising athleticism. On the other hand, while still a super fan and right now he's still ranking pretty god damn high, Stan Hansen has fallen out of my top 10 for the first time since last GWE more or less. I'm realizing he has more dissappointing matches than I thought, specially in the 80s and mostly against other all timers who he never connected with, sadly. He's still top 15 though, so no biggie, but he has lost some points for me in the consistency talk (at least from an output perspective), which was a pretty big part of his case before.

What's the Angle/Mysterio match from Japan? Never heard of it before, it's not on cagematch either. Was it while on a WWE tour, or working for another company after 2006?

White vs Darby was fucking great man.

I sweat to god, the only thing that's genuinely interesting me about WWE's product it's Gable's story against GUNTHER so if he's not the one who gets the singles match at WM (and obviously win the title there, duh) I'd fully give up. It's been such a soulless product for so long now. I would just keep RTing McIntyre's troll tweets I guess.

It was an historic farewell match, with memorable moments that we will remember forever (including one of the most insanse spots we've all ever seen), drama, nostalgic acts and the happiest of endings. It's an unique match, to say the least. It totally delivers what I want from one of the best matches ever.

It will also help him that he had one of the greatest matches of all time as his retirement match.

I see it more as another case of Jericho wanting to engage with whatever hot act/wrestler of the moment, honestly. They can talk about the lore all they want, but in reality Jericho's universe has been painful to watch since (at least) the MJF feud, so whatever. I think it's more important the fact that Jericho is not entertaining anymore than him wrestling in México 30 years ago.

Tbh that's how they've always been since PWG and that has never stopped them from being over. The Elite's key to success has been doing a lot of moves per match and convincing the fans they're smarter than they are with their meta bullshit. I really like that the BCC is in a lot of open fronts now. They're against CMLL, Mox and Claudio just started business with FTR, Bryan just recently ended rivalries with Okada an ZSJ, now he has Kingston again, Mox has the eye on Naito for next month... They feel like the soul of the company and give so much sense of interconectiveness to the wrestling world. It's quickly becoming one of the best stables I've ever seen just because you can put any or every member in any program and it will be much better.

You just gotta look at the Kaito rivalry, which would have been awesome... If it had a payoff. But It didn't, it was just Okada burying him and then refusing to work with him again. That was seriously Triple H stuff. He also suspiciously wasn't put on the same G1 block than the younger guys, despite the Kaito stuff and Shota also having some beef with him previously.

Noz that's just his big ego.

The CM Punk WHC match is a great example of him selling for a smaller guy without losing any of his big powerhouse aura.

Bron Breaker was the only one that moved and acted like he really was trying to wrestle in that match. In both matches, actually. Which makes even more hilarious his lame booking.

Burn this company to the ground and throw salt in its ruins so it never comes back.

Edge/MiSu rocked. Best Suzuki AEW match ever alongside the Darby one. Edge has better forearms than 95% of NJPW and AEW rosters combined.

They'll do a three way at Revolution, which is a clever way of both doing another Hangman-Swerve match without wasting another singles too soon, and give Swerve an early title shot without actually crowning him while still not making him lose (Hangman should get the pin). There's no need to wait for the next big ppv to drop the title, either, it can be done at a special Dynamite or whatever. They know how to make those moments feel ppv-worthy on TV.

My guess is that Okada is retiring at mid term and wants to do a free agent last tour anywhere doing whatever the hell he wants.

Great opening and great main event, for sure. Also, both were completely different matches and two kind of matches that I wish we had more often. This company can be really good when they want, man.

Fuck Jack Perry, everyone go watch Mox vs Shingo. That shit rocked hard.

Ohhh RPG3K. Memory unlocked. Man, this company has become a joke now.

An impressive beatdown that resets Takeshita into the prodigy monster everyone should be afraid of. Next step should be getting him away from Callis and let him kill anyone in his way.

Naito is by far (and has been for a while) their biggest star, and because of Gedo's stupidity and a pandemic (but Gedo's stupidity first and foremost) he never had a proper run on the very top of the company. Now that they're back to having full crowds that can actually make noise and things really got reset into pre-covid, it's the smartest thing they could do in order to try and regain (and even surpass) the popularity of the 10s: putting the belt on their biggest star. However, its gonna be funny when they keep pushing SANADA (he basically got his WK9/12 defeat here, so be ready G1 34 and WK 19!), when the guy keeps underdelivering and doesn't even look like half the star the new Musketeers/Uemura/War Dogs are looking. ZSJ should be their top foreign star, but they're gonna push Finlay instead (which is a not a bad wrestler, but the midcard is his limit). Their top heels are HOT, a stable that should only be a comedy midcard act, if anything. They killed Suzuki Gun in order to create J5G, the most generic stable I've ever seen, only carried by Taichi (who should have been a main eventer for years, now). Hell, the fact that they took away the IWGP Heavy title should tell you enough. Idk, it's just that the priorities feel wrong in this company. And that has happened even before the pandemic, when they kept pushing Okada and Omega ahead of Naito. So we'll see. At least, I think Gedo should stop being the booker considering his desastrous work all these recent years, and while I don't believe Tanahashi will have enough time to book other than the most general routes, they have to let a new team cook. There's no point in changing management if they let the booking guy do the same bullshit as before.