[Excellent News] Tetsuya Naito (40), gigabased as always, is completely BTFOing Gedo (54) by shitting all over his absolutely dimeless new format for the G1 Climax (32). Here's what he said in full:
>These series of changes are a deterioration that goes against the concept of the tournament
>I don't mean to be dismissive, and it may be good in the sense that it gives opportunities to various fighters, but my image of the G1 Climax is that it's a tournament to determine the strongest from the strongest, in which only selected fighters can participate. I won't mention individual names, but there are some names in the tournament that I think are not going to be able to compete for the championship
>Is there some particular reason why we must have so many people? Why not have matches between people in the fine line to find out who makes it and who doesn't?
>The G1 is named after horse racing, after all. This is Grade 1. I don't agree with the current direction.
>I would also like to see an explanation as to why the change to time limits was made, because if they make such a big deal of the 20 minute single match, the 15 minute single match for the TV title will lose its special feeling
>The number of matches overall has increased, yet the number of matches per wrestler has decreased. If you're reducing the wrestling each person has to do by increasing the number of wrestlers, I think you're doinng it wrong.
>In baseball, a pitch clock has been introduced. This isn't a smart effort like the pitch clock, though. This is more like if you changed the game to a two strikes and you're out because you want to shorten the game time.
>Now that it's been decided, it's time to try it out and see what the audience thinks. It's important to change, but we swung too far.