Daniel

I don't have GAORA/G+/Samurai, but I do have TV Asahi's analogue broadcast here in Gunma. No idea how the PPV works (if at all for analogue), so probably no casual puroresu tv for me sadly. Thanks though!

Quick question (since the question thread is gone): What (if any) puroresu is on the normal terrestrial tv these days in Japan? I've got the usual channels (as far as I know... TBS/NHK/Fuji TV/Nihon TV etc.) plus Gunma TV.

Yeh I think those are fair calls - and I need to rewatch that Tajiri match - though I can't say I watched any Hama and thought anything other than 'poor dude'. We obviously want fairly different things from wrestling, but I'd still petition for Suzuki because both Okada matches were half-excellent, half-terrible; and Suzuki was entirely the former half and only rarely the latter half. I also noticed Timothy Thatcher in your list. I watched one match (with former Olympic, Cobb) of his pimped to me as a good catch wrestling demo, but it was littered with fanciful bullshit and thigh slapping, so left me with a real bad taste (otherwise, it was probably a pretty decent WoS tribute). Is there another match of his out there that might be up my alley? #26 is a pretty high ranking!

I thought Shibata looked very good in the tag against Goto/Nagata. Aside from that he hasn't been especially impressive, but that's down to working with Goto so I'd still think he's easily Top 100 in the world. Obviously I'm stylistically biased though. The only strange thing that stuck out to me was having Hama (and Tajiri and Ishikawa) above Suzuki (Okada carry jobs x2, I always enjoy watching him), Nakamura (Dome spectacular + mixed bag) and Suruga (was the clear standout at Ishikawa produce). KAI's stuff with Akiyama was pretty good too, and it certainly wasn't all Jun - so pleased to see him sneak on there along with Murakami!