>>18365913Early 2000s were good but started out relatively slow. Things picked up around 2003 through 2011, which is what I would consider the peak era for NOAH. 2017 through 2019 is another great period. The pandemic era is its own beast and is probably as good as wrestling got during COVID. 2023 felt like the end of an era with the huge gate at the Mutoh retirement show which had a pretty good card from top to bottom and a great sendoff with Chono. This decade feels like it cycles through periods of >WE'RE SO BACK and >IT'S OVER. Lots of great matches this decade, but enthusiasm gets deflated with questionable booking, the drama with Nakajima, incessantly treating Kaito like a geek, and fucking boring and entirely interchangeable undercards.
