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Mabu Brolin's avatar

Good article. You’re fair to call out AEW. They’ve had an incredibly negative net effect on pro wrestling. I think NJPW will ride this out, they just need to filter through and find the next star(s) that can help compensate for the losses of Ospreay, Okada, and Naito. Things may change but I just don’t see guys like Shota stepping up to fill that void.

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Marie Shadows's avatar

Thanks for the comment. Here's the reality: you comment when it's convenient for you. If you were so worried about NJPW too, where was the support on almost all my content? To share ideas, suggestions on improvement and all that? For conversation and understanding. If you aren't in the Twitter trenches with me, then it's not about you. The big accounts on Twitter have a lot more pull and can influence things, so I'm talking about them. I'm not talking about you, I don't even know you. 🤷 I get the most hate for point out the obvious and now when things truly crumble, I can't express that I was right all along? That I have to do it "healthy" like HOW YOU WANT IT? The United Japanese Wrestling Roundtable is a non-profit in house kind of help. It's meant to help each other. During the last meeting, no one brought up AEW to Tanahashi. Tony Khan can still tank a company without owning it and without buying it. Take enough huge stars and in the same breath have NJPW allowing stars to leave and everything tanks because no one wants to see a boneless company that was once a top industry standard of Japanese wrestling. We can't wait and see any longer. We need to start waking up and not sending hate towards people that reveal the truth in real time. Maybe be more active on my content. 🤷 No comment for Jeff Cobb leaving or The Rock & his IG post, but draws the line at this post.

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TayoZX's avatar

Ok as a fan of njpw I've always been worried and hoped for the best do don't you dare accuse someone like me of not giving a crap. Just because you are bitter that no one listened to you doesn't give you the right to be pissy. I understand the anger but it needs to be expressed more healthy. However I do agree that the booking needs to change.

Njpw needs to take their tag team division seriously. They also need to tone down 1 hour bouts. And most importantly they need to cut ties with AEW as soon as possible because that company sucks. However FYI njpw is part of the United Japanese wrestling federation which is an alliance between wrestling promotions in japan which means they do work with the other companies just not as much as aew so if they give Tony the bird, they can still work with NOAH. And I feel that they are building up their young lions and new stars or did you miss the rise of Gabe kidd? We just need to wait and see what happens next

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