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Toni Storm, she had the two best matches of the year, with Mariah May, and Mercedes Mone (find another MM for her to work lol), her character work was the best all year, she felt like the most important wrestler in the world most the time. Mercedes Mone also deserves a shout, she is hurt by being a terrible talker, but her storyline of getting lots of championships of varying importance to make her feel less inadaquete over failing to win the AEW World Title was a great one, again she was someone who made herself important and was one to watch, uplifting the places she went.

For me it is certainly Tenryu Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Kenta Kobashi ***** - Uplifts Hansen into being as much as an evil bully as him, and manages to be so cool, while being cruel enough to push me to support the faces, who had an exceptional babyface performance, as Jumbo props up Kobashi Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta - 11/10: ****1/2 Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu - 23/2: ****1/2 Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 5/6: ****1/2 Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen vs. Giant Baba & Rusher Kimura - 29/11: ****1/2 Genichiro Tenryu vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu - 18/7: **** Genichiro Tenryu vs. Terry Gordy - 2/9 ****1/4 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen - 6/12: **** Danny Kroffat, Danny Spivey & Doug Furnas vs. Genichiro Tenryu, Samson Fuyuki & Toshiaki Kawada - 24/5: ***3/4 Atsushi Onita is up there, love his different style fight, and his aura is just incredible, and he had my fave powerbomb (thunder fire bomb is amazing)

Yeah, really fun episode of Collision. I do think There should be a Death Riders tag team at this point, whether it is Yuta/Garcia, one of them two with Pac, or Claudio, or Claudio and PAC would be a great addition to the Tag division.

While I do agree, and she probs did improve a bit, personally I think she is someone not worth resigning, they did give her a mini push after 5Star GP, but she didn't have a great run in that tournament. But yeah tours in companies that would have them, would always be a benefit, maybe house shows again. But yeah, make it clear to the roster, esp younger inexperienced roster members they should find reps where possible and those that do (and improve ideally), will be looked upon favourably.

So many H.o.T members have had basically no good matches since they joined, and it is such a shame.

Jobber matches idgaf. AEW TNT Title Match Kevin Knight (c) vs. MJF Great TNT Title match, it is odd to see MJF go for the TNT Title, but cool, this helped make the title and Knight feel more important, which is needed going into the Men's World Title, MJF tried to ground and injure the knee of Knight, I am sure a certain group of people will be very happy Knight did the lowblow, I thought it was fair enough, not against a face being above any form of cheating, but it is a good choice here, helps make Knight feel more confident about doing what needs to be done, despite being in a pure face team with Speedball. AEW International Title Match Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Ace Austin Fun little match, lets kill this title, but yay Ace Austin. Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. RPG VICE Despite not being much of a fan of the Cope/Cage tag team (they are not remotely nostalgic to me, their act generally bores me and I would rather see a younger team in their spot), however this was a fun tv tag match, RPG are good as rotten heels, if there was a midcard Tag Title in AEW, they would be the perfect tag team to have it (hell no, kill Continental, National, and International. The current World Titles and maybe the TV belts if they are defended more is the limit, so maybe RoH Tag Champs - again), C/C performed well here, they gave enough, and took control when needed, the brawl was a fun distraction too. FTR and Ciampa would be a cool trios group more often, I personally like the current FTR stuff with Big Stoke. AEW Women's World Tag Team Title Match Divine Dominion (c) vs. Hikaru Shida & Kris Statlander Great World Tag Title match, nice to see Statlander stay featured and Shida coming back again, they have good chemistry despite them not having chemistry being the team gimmick lol, Divine Dominion is such a cool team, been a big Lena Kross for a while, they both have a great look and aura and can be champions for a long time in my book. I am enjoying the storyline between Ospreay and Death Riders, I did laugh when Mox was playing with PAC's chest, made him look really goofy and funny. AEW World Title Match Darby Allin (c) vs. Brody King Great World Title match, am enjoying the Darby Allin reign so far even if he was not someone I really wanted to see as champion he is having a good reign, and they went out and had a strong match, some cool and unexpected spots like the barrcade breaking loose. I would say this feels more like how I would book the TV Titles though, for me I think about 8-10 defences per year per World Title is about right, you would still get the occational World Title matches on TV, as that would be 32-40 World Title matches overall (Men's and Women's, Singles and Tags) most on ppv. Trios would be the exception, that would be more of a party title, and kinda the Men's Tag tv title equivilant. The World Title matches would be rarer and feel like a major deal to get a challenge, which is kinda the case, but yeah would be good if it was more strict. But great ep overall

When it comes to Kevin Knight, I thought he was an really good when tagging with Kushida, a great tag team. But it just seems like NJPW didn't see much in him, like he was a set Jr Tag guy, never even challenged for the singles Jr Title, and the junior division is certainly a ceiling, he was (possibly is) under a dual contract, but after BOSJ he said he wanted to turn heavyweight NJPW stopped using him, I guess a bit of a TJP situation (except Kevin Knight had a future past NJPW jr tag guy, which is a really fun role to watch, probs less fulfilling to be in). I guess cause he is a high flyer, and still is firmly junior weight so I can see why AEW sees more in him, but NJPW. I think he has improved, especially in his presentation, but I think he hasn't improved greatly since in-ring since was already very good to great. I don't see him leapfroging Kyle Fletcher, who was better than him at 2021 than Kevin Knight is now, and is now best in the world material. For me Kevin Knight is defo making the most of his current oppertunities, his C2 run and JetSpeed stuff has been great, and I think his TNT run should be great and I am excited for the World Title match, but I don't think he should be World Champ for a bit (World Tag and World Trios, but not the Men's World Title), I would put Ospreay, Fletcher and Takeshita above him, and maybe Bandido (plus reigns for a few of the prev champs again as well).

Good thing that hero Chris Ridgeway ripped his mask off on route to his victory over him. But yeah, I really like him, he made the bottom end of my list, I have watched some of his stuff when he was more in his prime, and I think thats great, but also big into his current stuff, which is nuts to say given his age, and part of the appeal is his age, but obviously he still needs to work hard to do that, and only so many people can do that, like Mike Jackson who does it worse but kinda has a similar appeal.

He made my list, had him at 16. He is one of the wrestlers I have been most invested in, his character has been one of the most entertaining, and the way he presents himself has made his matches and storylines feel especially important, and given how much is going on, not just in AEW but all of wrestling, a fair amount of which I consume, so thats really impressive. I think he has good versatitlity, from face to heel, to straight matches to deathmatches - the latter of which he has helped make more visable, to singles, tags and trios matches. I do wish he had more time as a tag and trios wrestler as it goes, since he is exceptional when put in those postions, e.g the Kenny team, and the Dark Order trio which should have been a thing for longer.

It is a good field, but I am just so done with with Death Riders, I am just bored of them now, like even though they are good wrestlers, I am just not that interested in them being in the C2, especially since the Don Callis Family is doing a break-up angle as well, and the face side has smaller star power. I have got the idea of them making the C2 more important by them doing a C2 for men's singles and tags, and women's singles and tags, so each division gets one every four years like the Olympics, since it will always have less prestige than the G1, having each division only have one per year, so winning it would feel bigger, and make the divisions feel equal, and it would have been useful recently, and been the way they established the Women's Tag Titles.

Yeah, I am happy they at least revealed the Titles now (could have been like the trios like everyone knew it was coming, with all the teams, and the way they shifted the presentation for those matches, but it took ages to actually happen). I guess at this point they will reveal the brackets after Wrestle Dream, maybe they have a debut there as well, and she will work the tag tournament. They also tend to like announcing stuff like this on ppv and start it the on like the next Dynamite (one of the worst parts of the C2 is they give little notice on who is in the tournament, and don't reveal when the matches will take place, even though it would probably help sell tickets to those shows, since the fans know what they are getting, and at those shows, and also they can make prediction sheets, and people can get excited for it).

I thought this episode of Dynamite was a good one, no real low points. The matches were good, the Mox vs Ishii wasn't as good as their G1 match, but I liked it well enough, it is harder to get into it, since I am less invested in Mox, but he looked good in the match. The six man street fight was uninteresting, they did nothing special, and this should have ended at the previous PPV, and allow The Demand to feud with another trios team, like Skyflight, a Don Callis Family Trio, or which ever one Adam Priest is in now (thought he was with the Work Horsemen, but now he is teaming with Dynamite Kid and maybe also Jay Lethal), until Joe loses to Hangman, and they can defend the Trios Titles, which have been weak for a while. The title matches were good, the TNT was solid, nice to see Kyle O'Reilly get this match, the eventual Briscoe match should be great. The TBS Title match was the better of the two title matches, Lacey Lane had had a good debut, she didn't have the issue that some NXT women have where they work in slow motion to do the high spots, at least wasn't too bad for it, she worked well, shame the crowd was dead at the start, it basically got their in the end, don't know why they didn't give them the time of day initially. This did have the issue of a mega obvious result, but it would be obvious no matter the opponent since she has to be the record. The Don Callis Family vs. Brodido was the match of the night for me, it had one of Okada's best performances in AEW where he was a wanker, but was doing it a more entertaining way, like when he wrenched the arm of Bandido, and he was a good base for him as well, I still thought Takeshita has been the better man in this match (it has really been Takeshita's year to be fair), he had some great moments, and sold the rivalry well. Brody King was a great babyface, really taking it to the Don Callis Family, and, Bandido worked great, integrating his injured arm so well, One of the biggest issues of the match though was the poor referring when it came to the pins especially. One embarrassing mistake was counting a pin on an illegal man, and one of the worst examples I have ever seen for refereeing, Bandido has a sit down pin on I think Okada, ref did not immediately go down, makes sense since the shoulders are not down at all, then it looks like Bandido shouts at him to count an acquiesces, an terrible sight. Still great match tho. PAC vs. OC was pretty good, I like the new look for PAC, reminds me of one of Dynamite Kid's old outfits, except all black, a good return for PAC. The angles were good, the Joe vs Hangman one was the best, still hard to get super invested in Joe, one of the weakest AEW Champs besides Punk, despite that, the promos were good, and Hangman comes across great, and I can root against Joe more than being apathetic now.

Only doing five stars, since then I don't have to look in every single comment I made for matches I gave 9 on cagematch. 1. 11.12.1975 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Antonio Inoki vs. Bill Robinson 2. 15.07.1989 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Kenta Kobashi 3. 15.11.1989 - World Championship Wrestling: Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk 4. 22.02.1992 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Danny Kroffat & Doug Furnas vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 5. 25.05.1992 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Danny Kroffat & Doug Furnas vs. Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 6. 23.03.1997 - World Wrestling Entertainment: Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin 7. 09.06.2000 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama 8. 17.07.2002 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Satoshi Kojima 9. 12.09.2003 - Pro Wrestling NOAH: KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Makoto Hashi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru 10. 31.12.2016 - Ice Ribbon: Tsukasa Fujimoto vs. Tsukushi 11. 04.01.2017 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega 12. 04.01.2017 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito 13. 11.06.2017 - New Japan Pro Wrestling Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega 14. 12.08.2017 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega 15. 27.01.2018 - World Wrestling Entertainment: Andrade Almas vs. Johnny Gargano 16. 28.01.2018 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Jay White vs. Kenny Omega 17. 04.06.2018 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Hiromu Takahashi vs. Taiji Ishimori 18. 09.06.2018 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega 19. 08.10.2018 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jay White 20. 04.01.2019 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega 21. 06.04.2019 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Kota Ibushi vs. Tetsuya Naito 22. 25.05.2019 - All Elite Wrestling: Cody vs. Dustin Rhodes 23. 05.06.2019 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Shingo Takagi vs. Will Ospreay 24. 31.08.2019 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Kazuchika Okada vs. Minoru Suzuki 25. 31.08.2019 - All Elite Wrestling: Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. Pentagon Jr. & Rey Fenix 26. 02.02.2020 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Will Ospreay vs. Zack Sabre Jr. 27. 29.02.2020 - All Elite Wrestling: Adam Page & Kenny Omega vs. Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson 28. 29.10.2020: World Wrestling Entertainment - Ilja Dragunov vs. WALTER 29. 05.01.2021: New Japan Pro Wrestling - Jeff Cobb vs. Shingo Takagi 30. 04.05.2021: New Japan Pro Wrestling - Shingo Takagi vs. Will Ospreay 31. 12.06.2021 - World Wonder Ring Stardom: Syuri vs. Utami Hayashishita 32. 22.08.2021 - World Wrestling Entertainment: Ilja Dragunov vs. WALTER 33. 05.09.2021 - All Elite Wrestling: Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix 34. 19.09.2021 - Revolution Pro Wrestling: Connor Mills & Michael Oku vs. Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis 35. 13.11.2021 - All Elite Wrestling: Adam Page vs. Kenny Omega 36. 15.12.2021 - All Elite Wrestling: Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson 37. 29.12.2021 - World Wonder Ring Stardom: Syuri vs. Utami Hayashishita 38. 29.01.2022 - Revolution Pro Wrestling: Michael Oku vs. Will Ospreay 39. 29.05.2022 - All Elite Wrestling: Angelo Parker, Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia, Jake Hager & Matt Menard vs. Bryan Danielson, Eddie Kingston, Jon Moxley, Ortiz & Santana 40. 27.06.2022 - Big Japan Pro-Wrestling: Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi vs. Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura 41. 20.08.2022 - Revolution Pro Wrestling: Connor Mills & Michael Oku vs. Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis 42. 04.09.2022 - All Elite Wrestling: Adam Page, Alex Reynolds & John Silver vs. Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson 43. 04.01.2023 - New Japan Pro Wrestling: Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay 44. 22.01.2023 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Kento Miyahara & Takuya Nomura vs. Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi 45. 26.02.2023 - Revolution Pro Wrestling: Luke Jacobs vs. Will Ospreay 46. 05.03.2023 - All Elite Wrestling: Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley 47. 25.06.2023 - All Elite Wrestling: Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay 48. 26.08.2023 - Revolution Pro Wrestling: Luke Jacobs vs. Tomohiro Ishii 49. 12.10.2023 - Kakuto Tanteidan: Fuminori Abe vs. Takuya Nomura 50. 05.11.2023 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Yuma Aoyagi 51. 18.11.2023 - All Elite Wrestling: Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland 52. 31.12.2023 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Kento Miyahara 53. 18.02.2024 - Revolution Pro Wrestling: Michael Oku vs. Will Ospreay 54. 20.07.2024 - All Japan Pro Wrestling: Ryuki Honda vs. Yuma Anzai 55. 25.08.2024 - All Elite Wrestling: Bryan Danielson vs. Swerve Strickland 56. 09.03.2025 - All Elite Wrestling: Mariah May vs. Toni Storm 57. 12.07.2025 - All Elite Wrestling: Mercedes Mone vs. Toni Storm 58. 23.08.2025 - Revolution Pro Wrestling: 1 Called Manders & Thomas Shire vs. Connor Mills & Jay Joshua 59. 23.08.2025 - Revolution Pro Wrestling: Leon Slater vs. Michael Oku

Might be good to give her a tag partner for the tournament, Diamante might be a good choice for her to go with, Mercedes Martinez would work the best in my eyes, she has the vibes but can take the pin, only issue is that while she is on the roster page, she has not even been in RoH for a year, but if she is still under contract and that is just an oversight, bring her in for that.

https://forums.prowrestlingonly.com/topic/28576-genichiro-tenryu/page/8/#findComment-6034520 My review.