>>5584705>Someone told me once that my problem with NJPW might've just been that I didn't follow the feuds and just tried to watch the big matches.I could see that being the case, current NJPW is pretty influenced by the King's Road-style booking that entails long builds, lots of callbacks and in-ring storytelling that you might be missing out on if you just skip to the "blowoffs."
>emphasis they place on the Wrestling As A Martial Art thingInteresting that you mention that, that's really a thing with the Inoki-era and not really as much with the recent stuff though. If you don't like the shoulderblocks'n'armdrags sandwich that usually comes with the early parts of NJPW matches you might not be huge on most Japanese wrestling, it's an instrumental part to their match structure a lot of the time. That being said you're correct about AJPW being a bit flashier and higher impact than their contemporaries.
