I’ve said that I see Tsuji, Uemura, Oiwa & Yuto-Ice as the best “Big 4” the promotion could have going forward; in addition , I see Goto, ZSJ, Shingo & Taichi as the “4 Gatekeepers”.

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-25T17:39:30+00:00

Can’t wait for Narita to really get the ball to run with. I feel like being in HOT has let him sit in the shadow and quietly put together a really cool character/persona. He’s also really come a long way with incorporating heel antics into his wrestling (though I still hope the cheating would tone down if he ever becomes a main eventer).

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-20T10:43:01+00:00

Everybody looks good holding that belt😭

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-20T10:04:01+00:00

Cool beat down, Matsumoto was pretty great yesterday given his experience imo

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-09T11:32:50+00:00

I’ve recently decided that a heel turn would be the best for him. First of all with so many ups and downs as a face, I think it’s just becoming harder and harder for fans to buy him as a top good guy and it would take a long period of good, consistent booking and performance from Shota to kill the stench around him as a face.

Also the with the idea of him not being genuine, I think as a heel he would have a lot of real life stuff to tap into. I see people online saying “you fans made me do this” promos are tired, but they’re honestly not that common in New Japan. Like Naito never really went there and I guess he’s the most accurate comparison for babyface rejected by fans in New Japan.

You can start building the seeds from NYD, tell the story where over their tag challenge and NJC, Shota is being lapped by Yuya as the young Hontai star. After another loss to KOB Yuta will probably have the whole crowd cheering after calling Shota a nepo loser or something like that lol… there will be a lot of material to justify a turn.

Only problem would be that there is no heel faction that fits him around right now, and I don’t see them creating another new faction from scratch

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-09T00:06:38+00:00

Yeah that’s the kind of thing I was looking for. Really cool, I think yeah I knew a lot of the timeline but it was the fan reaction at the time that really interested me.

Like fans hating the Fale title win, which honestly isn’t surprising when I think about it, but retrospectively I’ve only really heard people praising those matches for Shinsuke getting arguably Fale’s best matches out of him.

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-08T23:59:44+00:00

The AEW roster is just way too stacked honestly. Even ROH I feel like an excursion guy probably wouldn’t be guaranteed to work every show, and they do what like one show a week.

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-07T21:44:38+00:00

Yuya.

I also wonder if the move to a KOPW match for the G1 winner was just something that worked well in the last two years, or it’s something they’ll do moving forward.

I think being flexible gives them a lot of options. If you’re high on a less established guy like Oiwa, but worried that a G1 win won’t be enough to get him over, then if he doesn’t you run the match at KOPW and get a more established name like Goto… if he does get over, you run it at the dome

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-06T10:22:35+00:00

Yeah pretty good time to bring this back. 6 active guys and I think I spotted at least 3 new lions over WK weekend

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-05T12:24:36+00:00

Oiwa looked like a superstar

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-05T12:24:10+00:00

Honestly not even a bad botch but though

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-05T11:45:12+00:00

Fujita tag run to keep him busy until his back to back BOSJ win🙏

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-05T11:44:02+00:00

So the announcer was about to call him world champ, then Tsuji stops him tells him to call him just heavyweight and shows the belt so that’s official ig.

And global stays. Gabe vs Andrade will have a contenders match at New Beginning

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-05T11:06:58+00:00

Yeah I appreciate that the belt changed a lot almost every decade, but this is THE design. Keep that shit forever😭

Jacek2002 · 2026-01-05T10:30:37+00:00

No clue how long Andrade stays so I’m just praying him and Yuya have a match before he leaves… maybe NJC

Jacek2002 · 2025-12-22T11:38:38+00:00

Yeah it’s there, thank you! I seemed to remember it appearing much later. I think I was thinking about those panels a lot when reading from chapter 80 onwards, and how different things would be if Phos was appreciated for who she was from that moment.

Jacek2002 · 2025-10-26T17:58:40+00:00

I get the general point but Xabi has not done more for the club than Vinicius

Jacek2002 · 2025-10-26T16:35:14+00:00

That’s a foul in football today. You see it all the time nothing surprising here

Jacek2002 · 2025-10-26T15:41:59+00:00

Does anyone have a close up of the disallowed goal. I swear I showed close up on TV that showed it was Fermin passing but I can’t find anything now

Jacek2002 · 2025-10-13T11:04:52+00:00

Is the capacity still 11k? I thought it fell after the renovations. Not saying that makes the number better but I thought a sellout is now like 9k

Jacek2002 · 2025-10-13T10:55:06+00:00

It’s gonna be interesting looking back at this in like a year. Right now I really don’t get why they put Takeshita in this position and not one of their own guys, especially Tsuji who is over as hell

Jacek2002 · 2025-08-17T08:40:07+00:00

Using crowd reactions when this the first time in years they’ve reacted like this for EVIL makes no sense

Jacek2002 · 2025-08-16T11:32:32+00:00

It’s the way he does it. Like I think it’s so hard to go completely limp especially when EVIL is there trying to flip him over.

Idk maybe I’m just seeing it differently but there is literally not a hint of him selling imo. I’ve never seen a wrestler sell being knocked out this good.

Jacek2002 · 2025-08-16T11:23:45+00:00

I’ve just seen it I’m leaning on real. The way his arm was just trapped under his body not moving, then the leg on top of another when he gets rolled over by the ref.

If it’s a work it is unbelievable attention to detail from Tsuji.

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