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I've put puro on hold for more than a month now :mjcry: I'll catch up eventually.

Do people care about WK this year? Haven't seen much hype but then again I've been out of the loop for a while now. It's 10 days away :patrice:

Can't speak for everyone else, but I'm not really all that into WK, and really haven't been into NJPW for all of this year.

The 'Rona really put a spotlight on the booking issues in NJPW. I feel like I've seen every matchup a million times before. When it's safe and easy, they need to see about letting Rocky work his relationships stateside to mix in some other talent aside from the obvious AEW crossover people want.
 

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Can't speak for everyone else, but I'm not really all that into WK, and really haven't been into NJPW for all of this year.

The 'Rona really put a spotlight on the booking issues in NJPW. I feel like I've seen every matchup a million times before. When it's safe and easy, they need to see about letting Rocky work his relationships stateside to mix in some other talent aside from the obvious AEW crossover people want.


Breh, I was watching the Tag League and I swore I seen the same fukking opener for four years. Nagata getting chopped by Kojima and making that flabby "I'm hurt but I like it" face while Kojima yells at us b*stards:francis:.

Told folks that NJPW has the same universal booking like any other carny, but they forever getting a pass because "strong style".
 

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Breh, I was watching the Tag League and I swore I seen the same fukking opener for four years. Nagata getting chopped by Kojima and making that flabby "I'm hurt but I like it" face while Kojima yells at us b*stards:francis:.

Told folks that NJPW has the same universal booking like any other carny, but they forever getting a pass because "strong style".

I think they get a pass because the match quality is so much better, and in normal times, they were at least halfway decent about spacing things out.

I think now is the time to say fukk the usual booking hierarchy, and get some of these young lions out there in the regular mix just for the sake of variety.
 

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I think they get a pass because the match quality is so much better, and in normal times, they were at least halfway decent about spacing things out.

I think now is the time to say fukk the usual booking hierarchy, and get some of these young lions out there in the regular mix just for the sake of variety.

Well I give this dire times credit for allowing one of the black tight opening young lions to actually wrestle different wrestlers beside another black tights:francis:
 

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I think they get a pass because the match quality is so much better, and in normal times, they were at least halfway decent about spacing things out.

I think now is the time to say fukk the usual booking hierarchy, and get some of these young lions out there in the regular mix just for the sake of variety.
To be fair they TRIED mixing the booking up with that random ass Evil betrayal and heavyweight title wins :sas2:but I don't think brehs was truly ready for that Darkness Era
 

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To be fair they TRIED mixing the booking up with that random ass Evil betrayal and heavyweight title wins :sas2:but I don't think brehs was truly ready for that Darkness Era
Putting those belts on EVIL was the dumbest booking decision of the year. Even if it was just meant to be shock value for the sake of drawing attention it was a stupid idea. I know not everyone is messing with SANADA like that but he was in a far more logical position to turn heel on LIJ and he can actually put on good matches.

Don't even get me started on how much more sense it would have made to put the guy with the skull mask gimmick and moniker in the stable with a skull in the logo.
 

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Putting those belts on EVIL was the dumbest booking decision of the year. Even if it was just meant to be shock value for the sake of drawing attention it was a stupid idea. I know not everyone is messing with SANADA like that but he was in a far more logical position to turn heel on LIJ and he can actually put on good matches.

Don't even get me started on how much more sense it would have made to put the guy with the skull mask gimmick and moniker in the stable with a skull in the logo.
Honestly i think the only reason they chose EVIL over SANADA was the fact that they invested an excursion on him and wanted a return on that investment.
 

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Don't worry, brehs. I'm sure Gedo has thought of a way to let Okada come out of night 2 with both titles.

At this point, I wouldn't mind another OGOATa title run:francis:. Something to spark up this weird time in NJPW ehrre EVIL killed all of the damns I had for a Naito title run. Thank fukking You Gedo and Jado:camby:

They officially made me prefer Okada and Tana hot potato'ing the belt over meh booking attempts with somebody new in the title reign.

Shibata died for this:mjcry:
 
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