sevendaughters

in my mind they're being really dumb not building SANADA a little quicker. i know he's not the finished article yet but he's pretty much got all the tools. way more charisma than Okada had before he found some thru Gedo. he can be a cross over and his style is not too risky. if anyone in Japan is the new Tana, it's Sanada not Kento.

Yeah I can see them doing something like Tanahashi, Kento, and Sugi vs. BODYGAH, Okada, and Nakajima. And I wouldn't complain. But Kenny has been getting those matches he wanted. Like multiples with Ishii, and saving Ibushi, etc. idk

Kenny, in his early days as champ, talked about wanting to face Shuji Ishikawa on a big stage. This feels like it.

hey guys, Ted Kazcynski hasn't sent a bomb for years, he's liberalising.

I don't feel sorry for WWE at all. The Saudi government didn't become bad with this one death. Thing is I wouldn't begrudge the good people of that country a fun wrestling show as entertainment on a regular touring schedule, whatever to that. It's just that there's an official governmental relationship and that effectively that government is booking part of the show and inserting feed lines and graphics that turn it into Welcome to Saudi Arabia ft. some wrestlers, and will be doing that for the next DECADE. VKM can get out of Bret's 20 year contract but not this? Gimme a break.

I've barely been hanging on with WWE for the last 3/4 years - major events, the odd NXT, listen to Dave talk about them, TV highlights on youtube - but if this goes ahead then I'm just off all of that. No talking about them online, no nostalgic watches of my old favourites, nothing. No big deal to them, I'm worth nothing to them as a fan. And I don't expect anyone to follow suit, it's your life. Given most regimes have some kind of barbaric history (nations, not just Vince) then it's not realistic to boycott everyone and everything but I think you have to have a line. This is it.

do we think they'll do EVIL-Jericho on Power Struggle? Seems small beer for Jericho and his only wanting to do major things. It felt like they might do Okada-Naito, which beefs the Dome up hugely if they go Omega-Tana, Jericho-EVIL, KUSHIDA-someone. They could hold back on Jay White a little as he's not a credible singles guy, having lost pretty much all of his major matches, and while he has a new faction to push on.

things are getting overwrought in this kingdom, I must admit. that said, the potential card for WK looks very good and I think we'll all forgive them if it goes down well.

I hope everyone in Las Vegas is proud tonight, you've made Robin Black VERY upset.

heard we were praising the genius of Akira Taue and ran here as fast as I could. his attitude was totally understandable and it's not like he didn't have his share of utterly great tear-ups. guy that big is a spectacle to behold, and as well he just shouldn't be moving as hard as a Misawa. Kawada & Taue were in so many respects the perfect tag team, just the gold standard esp. for Japan. i like Nash more as the years go by. he had an X factor. he's an interesting mind on him. just wish he had like 6/7 more really good matches.

UWF claimed 60000 for the first Dome show and sold a legit 40k on the first day. It had a more rustic stage set up but just feels 'bigger' when you watch it. The stadium holds 55000 when set up for a ball game. I can believe there were 15000 empty/unused/covered seats at WK12, but artfully covered in the most part. Either way, I think this will continue the modest upward trajectory but not be a super no vacancy full house.

I'm not 100% on this because of historical layers of bullshit regarding sellouts and the different ways they can set-up the stage but I feel that a true paid sellout would begin with a 5.

if WK is as I expect it (Omega-Tana, Naito-Jericho, Okada-Jay) then I see 38000 paid. Maybe a little more as it is on a Friday. It was 35000 this year.

Juice is 100% the kind of guy who needs a WWE rival company to work for, not Impact. Like if All In spirals off into a proper thing, Juice has to be upper mid/top card.

May as well try this seeing how it worked out last time: I definitely don't see one million pounds coming into my account today

I came to write that spoiler and in my excitement I dropped it in the wrong thread

EDIT WRONG THREAD BILLY

I see Shingo, Neville, T-Hawk, and El Lindaman all coming over at some point.

my take on Juice is this: he's a good wrestler and a better promo and ultimately for stylistic reasons he should thrive in WWE. when i saw him in NXT i thought he was the dirt worst scrub and when New Japan signed him i sighed. for all of his improvements and my increasing enjoyment of him, i still need a second to remind myself (fewer seconds than Yoshihashi though) that he is good. i wouldn't miss him too much as he's in there with no real trajectory. i do not see him touching the top belts ever. unless you're a dojo product whose peak has passed, you should not be in NJPW to coast.

not happy that basically Kenny is booking his own title reign though, "sure, I'll have a 3-way, I'll increase my chance of losing, as long as art prevails", ignore that it's Cody or a 3-way, this is just dim

main event was excellent and those four in together is probably Four Pillars shit, do not @ me

Really enjoyed the last 5 matches of the AJPW show from 26/8 - Jun Akiyama & Yoshitatsu vs. Sweeper (Jake Lee & Ryouji Sai) - Kento Miyahara vs. Yuji Hino - All Asia Tag: NEXTREAM (Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi) (c) vs. Axe Bombers (Isami Kodaka & Takao Omori) - AJPW World Junior Heavyweight: Atsushi Aoki (c) vs. Koji Iwamoto - Triple Crown: Zeus (c) vs. Shuji Ishikawa arena is really interesting and it's a shame that there are a lot of empty seats, if people had just moved forward then it would have really ruled. main event very good, if a touch long. edit: I see you have already talked about this.

yeah I also agree with this in spite of my not finding Ryan funny, I know where the off switch is and there's plenty of stuff I like. Not going to sit around complaining too long, except in the necessary post-match opinion channel. And I guess as a satire on the Undertaker it was p funny so I will give it that.

For me the problem is that Joey Ryan's shtick is Not Funny rather than Not Real and I think it would help if anyone who likes wrestling post-Farmer Burns could quit conflating the two things. Comedy and (or in) wrestling is not for everyone.