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[Luna_Bourke]

On 4/29/2026 at 11:47 PM, Boss Rock said:

Seeing that Roppongi Vice is wrestling tonight on Dynamite got a friend of mine reminiscing about Roppongi 3K and man, there's a distant universe somewhere out there where Sho got a proper singles push and became a huge star.

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

[El-P]

Jeff Cobb in the G1 in 2026 ? I mean...

[The Thread Killer]

21 minutes ago, El-P said:

Jeff Cobb in the G1 in 2026 ? I mean...

You clearly didn’t see any of his WWE work. He’ll only go if there is free catering, and then he’d get winded climbing the ring steps. That dude has fallen off HARD since the last time you saw him, let’s just say that.

I hate TKO with a passion, but I totally get why they released Cobb. He was terrible in WWE, and missed every opportunity they gave him. I literally could not believe he was the same guy I saw in New Japan and AEW years ago. I was actually excited when he signed…and then he showed up.

[El-P]

Yeah, I know but I really don't care how he looked in WWE. That's pretty irrelevant. Maybe WWE has ruined him like they do with so many people. Maybe he'll go back to Japan and be really good again because he'll actually be motivated again. He's not on the younger side either though. And sometime, WWE ruins people for ever (KENTA rings a bell ? Anyone heard of Gran Metallik lately ? Or, in the last few years ?). NJPW is the most logical landing spot for him (except he moved back to the US when signed to WWE apparently). 

[El-P]

Andrade winning the white belt and sending the US NJPW fans into disarray is kinda funny. Seriously, it was predictable. Plus, Yuta Tsuji has been overrated by both the fans and the company. He's not the guy. I mean, he's worlds better than the failures they have tried before these last few years (you know the ones, not talking about the great Goto/ZSJ wins, I mean the EVIL and SANADA's of the world), but he's not the next ace. I don't see it. Just switch toward Uemura already at G1. And then, you know the one eventually...

[WingedEagle]

2 hours ago, El-P said:

Andrade winning the white belt and sending the US NJPW fans into disarray is kinda funny. Seriously, it was predictable. Plus, Yuta Tsuji has been overrated by both the fans and the company. He's not the guy. I mean, he's worlds better than the failures they have tried before these last few years (you know the ones, not talking about the great Goto/ZSJ wins, I mean the EVIL and SANADA's of the world), but he's not the next ace. I don't see it. Just switch toward Uemura already at G1. And then, you know the one eventually...

Amen. If they ran with Tsuji when he came back and let him beat Naito right out of the gate he had a chance to be that guy. But they didn't, and he's not. It feels like Uemura is getting the next 15 minutes and if I had to I'd bet on Tsuji defending against him at WK after a Uemura G1 win. Ospreay vs. Newman feels like the big match at that show but there's no reason it needs the title. At least not the IWGP Title.

So we'll what Uemura can do when given a push unless its also too late for him. But let's get onto Yuto and Oiwa sooner rather than later. Its going to be a problem if we're talking about them in 2029 the way we're talking about Tsuji & Uemura today.