>>18707132
I've never particularly cared for gaijin in BJPW, except for Walter back in the day. Buzzard is... acceptable in the strong division and Crane had at least a decent Junior title challenge earlier this year. AKIRA was a snooze. Over in FREEDOMS there's Violento Jack, whom I don't mind.

>>18708984
Pretty much, yeah. What's worse is that I was/am an AJPW fag even before NOAH existed... so I'm quite accustomed to garbage and crushing disappointment. They're cursed... Jumbo retired early because of disease, Kawada had an awfully timed injury, so did Ashino... and now Anzai. They never pushed Hase when he left NJPW. Didn't put Choshu in the Carnival when he was red hot, they had him flame out before the semi finals twice in the Real World Tag League.

One of the weirdest booking decisions for AJPW was having Misawa beat Jumbo once... and then NEVER again. Misawa lost 3 straight to Jumbo after beating him the 1 time, then Junbo retired. It was booking blue balls in hindsight... and it's not like Jumbo was winding down and they didn't have enough time, Jumbo won the Champion Carnival after losing to Misawa. He won the tag titles twice after Misawa. He won the motherfucking Triple Crown AND held it for over a year AFTER the loss to Misawa... hell, he defended the title against Misawa and Kawada. Beating both before losing to Hansen. It's mind boggling in hindsight.

Whoops... went on a bit of a rant there. Needless to say, I'm used to getting beaten up by bad luck and bad booking.