[7/06 - 8/12] NJPW Present: G1 Climax 29

[MightyHealthy]

am I the only Jay White fan here?

My first G1 was 25.

He was a Young Lion, a whitemeat babyface that the crowd loved.

Came a long way.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

am I the only Jay White fan here?

Jay White is dope. A real heel doing his job and making people mad.

I like him. He's their best heel, and a good wrestler.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Jay White is dope. A real heel doing his job and making people mad.

I love when there is a bad worker who is a heel and this gets brought up. Real heels make you want to see them lose not just not see them. I get some brehs were okay with him somehow but the boy was by and large a done from return until this summer.

In White's case maybe it's the opponents, but he does suddenly look comfortable in this role after two years of looking like he was remembering his Heel 102 Steps to Success every match. If they would have waited another year for his title run maybe he wouldn't have torpedoed his public perception.

Still, gonna take more than 2-3 matches to overturn years of stifling mediocrity while working some of the best people in the world. Hope he has taken the leap and keeps this up.

 

[THE 101]

I love when there is a bad worker who is a heel and this gets brought up. Real heels make you want to see them lose not just not see them. I get some brehs were okay with him somehow but the boy was by and large a done from return until this summer.

In White's case maybe it's the opponents, but he does suddenly look comfortable in this role after two years of looking like he was remembering his Heel 102 Steps to Success every match.

I'm not talking about on here.

He's not going go away heat with the fans. He legit get's real heel heat with New Japan's fans.

 

[bigdaddy88]

am I the only Jay White fan here?

nah your not but when it comes to NJPW if you are not having weekly 5 star matches then u suck

hes clearly improved both character and in-ring work but the hate will continue until he starts giving the purist 5 star matches on the regular

 

[Scottie Drippin]

I'm not talking about on here.

He's not going go away heat with the fans. He legit get's real heel heat with New Japan's fans.

Getting boo'd in Japan isn't hard. Tana gets boo'd whenever he wants to if he feels like it for the story. Do something against the ethics of NJ's traditional outlook on the business and you're going to get boo'd. That's not really an accomplishment. It's basically impossible to not be able to get heel heat in Japan.

NJPW is heavily positioned now as a workers territory. You don't have to be a lights out in-ring worker to make sense in a top spot in wrestling, but you do in a company who's current run is built upon it entirely.

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

 

[MenacingMonk]

How is he not dead?

 

[The Rainmaker]

It was Sabre's fault for being a greasy octopus

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

 

[TheGodling]

For the life of me I don't know why he let go before Okada's knees hit the mat.

 

[stro]

Night 4:


Goto/Juice: Hard to get invest in anything Goto or Juice do anymore since nothing will come out of it. All you can hope from either is a good match, and they had a good match. Goto is basically Japanese Ziggler at this stage in his career. No man has suffered more from Okada's rise than him, imo. And Juice...man his booking Had a whole year where he was picking up all this steam, seemed like he was going to break out, so Gedo iced him for an entire year, then had him win the US title out of nowhere, then lose it without doing anything, win it back from the same guy a few months later in a match I forgot even happened (he's a 2 time champ and I didn't even remember), lost it in another guy's debut match. He's not going to be doing shyt the rest of this year. Those "counter punches with headbutts" spots were dumb as hell

Mox/Cobb: AEW vs ROH Don't think they had any chemistry, and I'm also not particularly impressed with Cobb in singles matches anyway. That they had Moxley pretty much run through Cobb says all you need to know about how NJ feels about ROH at this stage in their relationship.

Ishii/White: Broke my fukk Jay White policy to support my boy Ishii, but the match was interchangeable with literally anyone in White's position. He brought absolutely nothing to his side. Could have just as easily been a member of GOD or even a young lion.

I'm also on the fukk Taichi train, but lmao at Naito having back to back loses to Yano and Taichi

 

[TrueEpic08]

Two matches into the G1, and its very evident that Cobb needs to drop 20 pounds or so. Lugging around that big gut on his frame isn't going to help him at all if and when he needs to have a 20-minute NJPW style match.

In fact, I could've sworn he was closer to 250 when he first burst on the scene, and certainly didn't have the massive gut then either.

 

[TheGodling]

Two matches into the G1, and its very evident that Cobb needs to drop 20 pounds or so. Lugging around that big gut on his frame isn't going to help him at all if and when he needs to have a 20-minute NJPW style match.

In fact, I could've sworn he was closer to 250 when he first burst on the scene, and certainly didn't have the massive gut then either.

Yeah, he needs to get back to his weight from a few years ago when he still went by the nickname Mr Athletic.

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Two matches into the G1, and its very evident that Cobb needs to drop 20 pounds or so. Lugging around that big gut on his frame isn't going to help him at all if and when he needs to have a 20-minute NJPW style match.

In fact, I could've sworn he was closer to 250 when he first burst on the scene, and certainly didn't have the massive gut then either.

Yeah, Breh was winded after 10 minutes against Ishii. He definitely needs to get back to Matanza size if he wants to join King of Sports.