Thread 18533177

G1 is so fucking dimeless it’s unbelievable.
>Takeshita vs Finlay winner faces ZSJ and Tsuji vs Shota winner faces Evil

>>18533177 (OP)
evil is an anti draw and no shit, they are wrestling in half filled gyms with like 40 people watching because their top "star" is a huge faggot named evil

ZSJ makes everything he touches dimeless

>>18533177 (OP)
>if I post this in a general I get ignored
>Post it with a frog so we can have a console war
>I hate generals
Low iq board

>>18533177 (OP)
Worst G1 ever

>>18533177 (OP)
Sounds good to me, especially that Finlay vs Takeshita match

>>18533195
There’s an NJPW general? Why the fuck would I ever go in there??

Okada really screwed them over when he left

Finlay is such an embarrassing shitter. ZSJ too. How the fuck did these dorks get a push?

Tsuji and Shota are not a draw. I don't want to see either of these shitters in the finals.

>>18533811
Meh. Him leaving hurt, sure - but also NJPW failed to create new stars while him and Naito where still there. At least "stars" that the crowd took to.

It's not nearly as bad in WWE, because they have potential "big" stars in Bron, Jacob, and Dom, but they have the same problem with an ageing main-event scene and Roman works one of the most baffling schedules ever in wrestling history.

>>18533214
Exactly, generals are for cucks who lack the balls to post on the main catalog like real men
They admittedly make sense on boards where there is a huge variety of niche interests but don't really work with /pw/'s single-fire shitpost culture.

>>18534489
>b-but wwe

nujatards

>>18534528
I was trying to explain it in a way that would make sense to someone who doesn't watch NJPW.

I also put more blame on NJPW for not creating new stars, so I don't know how that makes me a "nujatard". They thought Okada and Naito would be around forever so they kept kicking the can down the road until one day both were gone. That's why ZSJ and Goto had runs with the title because who's left?

I've only watched 1 ZSJ match and I was disappointed. It was his match with Danielson at one of AEW's PPVs last year, in fact I watched the whole PPV just for that match really. I'm British and I watched a lot of those old tapes with my dad growing up. From what I'd heard of ZSJ, vs an opponent like Danielson, I was expecting a 25 minute World of Sport style classic. What I got was about 8 minutes of grappling which then just devolved into generic sports entertainment for the remainder of the match.

>>18534579
ZSJ has the most boring and fake looking style of wrestling in the world currently. Unironically more cooperative than young cucks matches.

>>18533177 (OP)
Takeshita is the only winner that wouldn't suck, and he's not even part of the company, now that is dire and grim

>>18533811
>Okada really screwed them over when he left
Okada had been a top star for well over a decade. If his departure hurts them that much after that long then it's because they have failed to build stars.

>>18534528
>>18534559
He wasn't wrong though. Cody is old. Knight is Old. Cena is old. Brock is old. Roman is barely here and jobbing lately. They're feeding most actual legitimate looking guys to Cody because he can never lose so no stars get created. This didn't read like deflection at all.

>>18534579
>It was his match with Danielson at one of AEW's PPVs last year, in fact I watched the whole PPV just for that match really
When I watched the G1 last year this potential match up was always in my mind. It sounded perfect, both have similar styles where they flow from one submission to the next, and I figured they'd have good synergy. On paper it sounded amazing, but what we got was kind of meh

>>18534587
Funny thing is it didn't lol

NJPW is in such a shit state

>>18533177 (OP)
WWE had more 5 star matches at Summerslop than the G1 has had, which used to produce a 5 star match almost every day just a few years ago, fucking grim

I've simped for NJPW for a good six years now or so and I'm pretty much done.

>>18534857
>got into njpw in 2019
how the fuck? thats like 3 years past its peak

>>18534968
Easy trap to fall into, really. I had stopped watching pro-wrestling on a regular basis around 2004. I was looking to get back into it around 2018. Look up what's good, got into the matches for the few years prior to that. Rode the hype train watching shows as they came going into 2019, which was still pretty decent and way better than anything else I was seeing. The rest was just hope that it would get better after the pandemic... but it didn't.

>>18534596
That don't make New Japan any better

>>18533177 (OP)
The G1 has been dimeless since the pandemic. NJPW's 2012-2019 roster was so incredible and we all knew the Golden Age wouldn't last forever, but NJPW fell off so bad it's depressing.

>>18533177 (OP)
>winner faces Evil

Gedo at this point has to be gay for EVIL, there's no other explanation