Tetsujin

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.

Nvm, Rush is still in if he beats Swerve and Mox beats White: triple tie at 9 for the second place between him, Swerve and Jay, with no tiebreaker (Swerve defeated White, White defeated Rush, Rush defeated Swerve). Don't know how that could be resolved though, neither of them has a victory over Mox and all of them have victories over Lethal and Briscoe.

Rush is technically out as well due to White getting 9 points. While Mox already being in the finals is not what I would have booked, there's still a lot that can happen. Swerve doesn't necesarily need to win, but he 100% needs Jay White to lose. Jay needs to beat Mox and Swerve to lose/draw against Rush. A draw with Mox if Swerve loses works for him, too. If both Jay and Swerve win, it's a tie at 12 with Mox, with no clear tiebreaker: Mox won against Swerve, Swerve won against White, White won against Mox. Maybe they do a triple threat for the semis, or maybe they just say that, because Mox was already in either way, its only between the other two and they argue White should go above Swerve, because he did defeat Moxley. But I can't see them not putting Swerve on the finals, let alone the group finals. It's interesting though, because both Swerve/White and Swerve/Moxley ended with a tricky roll up, setting up a possible rematch. And Jay will probably cheat to beat Mox, too. Any possible group final has had seeds planted, and, in that way, I give the booking of the gold league a lot of credit.

Keep in mind I've always been a higher guy on Rollins than a lot of people in these kind of IWCs. Rollins is frustrating to me because I believe we are never going to see his peak. When he had the athleticism he didn't got the right character work, and now that he has a character that people get behind of (although a very bad one, to me) he's slowly falling apart because of injuries and being fifteen-ten years older. I look at 2012-15 Rollins and I see a great promising wrestler. He's still good, just not what he could have been. I believe the WWE style doesn't do him any favours either, as he would have been awesome in 2010s New Japan for example. He feels fake, character wise. Doesn't have the personality and aura of Moxley, tribal chief Reigns or other guys of his generation that found themselves as wrestlers. He's always going from gimmick to gimmick, wrestling the same although worse because of injuries, and while he has some great matches from time to time... I don't think that's enough in a top 100 wrestlers ever project, when there's a huge lot of competition. Right now he's my lowest of the Shield guys, and the only one I'm not having in mind for my list.

Eddie is in It? I thought the winner would face him. The prize is stupid, but we are about to see an instant classic of a wrestling minirrun, like it happened with the first Cruiserweight Classic back in the day.

Was amazing in Lucha Underground and became super annoying anywhere else. Both him and Fénix definitely hurt each other by teaming up instead of following singles careers.

His Collision run has been excellent. The Darby matches and the Bryan match have been great additions to his catalogue. What are the best pre-TNA Christian matches not counting the ladders stuff?

Khan is clearly a misogynist, so why not a racist as well. Stop defending the honor of millionaires.

While I still feel this way, gotta admit, his 2023 has been amazing. He's probably the WOTY at this point. Also, saw him live in Wembley and man, I just connected with everything he did there. They were the same spots of every match, I know, but something about watching him being this athletic freak, such fluid movement, just in front of your eyes, you just mark out. So I get why he's always so over with the crowds.

Because he's friends with the Bucks.

She's really bad. Like, really bad. Doesn't know the basics. Doesn't move naturally in the ring. And she's super toxic backstage. If she ever leaves, the division would become much better because she won't drag anyone. When someone in wrestling was bad as fuck as a wrestler but could talk and had charisma, they made him/her a manager. Britt would be an amazing manager for a lot of people. But she has the Brandi Rhodes syndrome and we all surfer because of It.

This might trigger people, but Mox reminds me of Tenryu in that his offence is unbelievably inconsistent (some awesome shit and some lame as fuck stuff mixed together in almost every match) but he has such personality and charisma that he hooks you in no matter what, and that makes you appreciate him as a great wrestler even with his flaws. A perfect example of a "the whole being better than the sum of the parts" wrestler, just like Tenryu was.

This, 100% this.

Probably he just needed time to find out with his lawyers if he could afford to fire him.

Well that's just awful. One more year of almost non-existent booking for the Big Wembley show just for Chicago to have the juicy big matches a week later outta nowhere.

I think it's closer than people here make it sounds. Both are really good at their prefered style, but can be inconsistent out of their confort zone. Their input is often quite great, with both having strong, accurate offence and detailed selling, and both have enough charisma to carry lesser matches and/or opponents. I also believe both reached their max level considerably less often than other top tier contenders, though,but obviously when they did it was as good as any pro wrestling ever. Idk man, it's hard. I think Hash was better a bit more, and his rewatch value is higher than Inoki's, if only for his matches being shorter. Also, Hash is one of the only guys with a 5* match in my book (G1 96 with Choshu) and Inoki is not (although I have the 75 Robinson match at 4'75*).

FUCKING FINALLY

WHAT A FUCKING MATCH HOPE NAITO IS OK FOR TOMORROW BECAUSE WE AND THE WORLD WORLD NEED HIM TO WIN

Ok they did well today.

Bullshit results for C block today, huh.

Yeah and if it means the end of the Outcasts that's even better. She will find her place at Collision, I'm sure.

Ok they are cowards for not doing Punk/Omega. It's their biggest show ever, c'mon. Still, Punk/Joe IV and FTR/Bucks 3 will be excellent. Super cool episode of Collision this week once again, yeah.