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EVIL is fucking bizarre. LIJ was the perfect spot for him because he's great when he wrestles crash-and-bangers and not so great when he wrestles "skill" guys, and LIJ was full of skill guys that he'd maybe wrestle once in awhile in the G1 or the NJPW Cup and spend the rest of the time crash-and-banging with Ishii and Shingo and Goto and all of them. The turn forced him to feud with a bunch of skill guys Him and MJF are #1 and #1a best heels to me, and the gun-to-my-head choice is more based on which promotion is putting on a show that particular night. (Jericho and El Phantasmo are 2 and 2a because they're a special breed of obnoxious prick on-screen and man do they rustle my jimmiejams)

Oh, also also

Oh also, once you're finished Night 2

Probably on STARDOM's service But yeah, Okada/Ospreay blew the rest of'em out and it was always gonna be that way. I think Ibushi/Jay White was way better than it had any right to be for a match that long. I think Jay's very good in the ring but does nothing spectacular, but his heel shit is where he's spectacular. Multiple times in that match, I'd say "This fucking prick" at the heel shit he did :nono: Him or MJF are the best heels in wrestling

Ospreay/Okada

That fucking Missile Dropkick, holy shit

I like the double dome because every match gets to be a huge feature (and it's probably going to get mashed together with STARDOM eventually), but I hope if the double dome becomes a regular thing, this two-day-tournament deal that they've run two years in a row now goes away. IC Title gets one night, IWGP Heavy gets another (which I think they might also be working towards, we'll have had the IC Title contended for two years in a row now in three of the four main events)

Tana vs O'Kahn

TBH I don't know if we're gonna get to "great", the fans are still in "scream inside your heart" mode.

KENTA vs Koji is about what's expected of the two at this point in their careers. Probably better for the Japanese audience because Kojima's a bigger star.

I popped in just in time for Dangerous Tekkers vs GoD. I'll have to go back and watch the NEW JAPAN RAMBO and the Hiromu vs ELP later Also I'm super impressed with that tag match because they made a Heel vs Heel match work.

Yeah, but it also leads to a situation with one night where you get a 6 hour show and go "Man, that should've been longer because half of these badass matches didn't get enough time"

It's become a strange situation where New Japan has too many titles but also not enough titles to make every Wrestle Kingdom match feel more important

Hrmmm Jan 4 - New Japan Rumble as the dark match - Hiromu vs El Phantasmo. Hiromu won the BOSJ (held earlier in the month in Japan), ELP won the Super J-Cup (aired earlier in the month in America), winner gets IWGP Jr Champ Ishimori on Jan 5 - IWGP Heavy Tag ZSJ/Taichi (c) vs GoD. Tekkers have held down the division for most of the year (ZSJ got stranded and kind of just stayed in Japan). GoD won their first Tag League by screwing FinnJuice out of it - IWGP Us Title Briefcase KENTA (c) vs Kojima. KENTA won the right to challenge Moxley for the US Title from a tournament in America, but due to lockdowns and AEW, KENTA's now defended the challenge briefcase more times than Moxley's actually defended his title. He was supposed to face Juice but Juice busted his orbital bone earlier in the week so Koji stepped in to fight for Juice, and if he wins he wants his first defense to be against Juice - Tanahashi vs Great-O-Khan. O-Khan is a returning Tomoyuki Oka (who spent his excursion in the UK so you might be more familiar with O-Khan than I am) who joined Ospreay's Empire. Tanahashi's been having a really shit year, he's been losing quite a bit (including to people he really shouldn't) and declining pretty rapidly, I'm kind of wondering if he's going to retire sometime in the near future and go act in Japanese movies instead - Okada vs Ospreay. Ospreay turned on Okada and formed The Empire with O-Khan and Jeff Cobb. Okada's going for revenge (and in a really low-key position for it being WK, just a semi-main on Jan 4th and nothing on Jan 5th unless he's going for KOPW again) - Double Title Match, Naito (c) vs Ibushi (G1 Winner). They get to resume their "let's break each other's necks" rivalry. Jan 5 - I think Stardom is putting on one or two dark matches - King of Pro Wrestling 4-Way (Don't know who's in it, Yano won KOPW 2020) - IWGP Jr Tag Kanemaru/Desperado (c) vs MASTER WATO/Taguchi. Wato was feuding with Kanemaru and I think he beat one of the Suzuki-gun guys in the BOSJ. He's had a really awkward time since returning from excursion - NEVER Shingo vs Jeff Cobb, Cobb trying to bring gold home for The Empire - Sanada vs EVIL, revenge match for EVIL turning on LIJ - IWGP Jr Title Ishimori (c) vs whichever of Hiromu/ELP win their match - IWGP Double Champion vs Briefcase Holder: Whoever wins out of Naito/Ibushi vs Jay White. Jay cheated to win the G1 briefcase off of Ibushi (first time someone's lost it) and then decided he'd take the last match on Jan 5. The storyline seems more set for Ibushi to finally win the big one by overcoming his rival and the guy who tried to fuck him out of his main event match, but Naito's also had problems with the Bullet Club this year The NEVER Six-Mans (Goto, Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi) are MIA, I assume they'll be on New Year Dash on the 6th

Ya and Ya who do you want to know about

YO, the fucking BOSJ Final

Bruh, Ibushi vs Taichi on the Block A Finals

If you're pressed for time, tonight's show, Night 13, headlined by Okada vs Shingo, is easily the best top-to-bottom show of the tournament so far

This week's been rough for keeping up with the G1, shows every day Apparently the BOSJ and World Tag League are going to be presented on the same tour this year too

They've added a young boy singles match to every G1 show, so we have an abbreviated, unofficial Young Lions Cup going on with the G1(It's only Uemura, Tsuji and Gabriel Kidd wrestling each other) and six matches every show

YOOOOOOO The G1 blocks were announced today

I know next to nothing about Stardom besides that Mayu Iwatani was/is on the Kairi Sane/Io Shirai level of "among the best women's wrestlers in the world." And the whole Hana Kimura thing.

Summer Struggle in Jingu Stadium

All four opening round KOPW Gimmick matches were on the Korakuen show earlier today. The winners go on to a fatal 4 way in a few days at Jingu Stadium and the winner of that becomes KOPW 2020 Champion Okada vs Yujiro, Gedo and Jado in a Handicap Match (Yujiro will advance if the Biz Cliz wins) Yano vs Bushi in a 2-count match (This one will probably be fun) Kojima vs El Desperado in a No-Finishers match (Boooooo I love Koji's lariat) Sanada vs SHO in a Submission Match (this one's been built really great) @Garlic Junior This Sat, Naito challenges EVIL for the Double Titles

God dammit, KENTA