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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:30:07 No.12000773 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12000847 >>12000908 >>12001006 >>12001081 >>12001287 >>12001610 >>12001708 >>12001757 >>12002247

Seriously what went wrong with Cody in NJPW? He got no reaction and couldn't get over with the fanbase.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:32:05 No.12000809 Report

Quoted By: >>12001345 >>12001575

He was barely there. He'd turn up occasionally for the big shows or US shows but he never worked a G1 or a New Japan Cup.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:32:49 No.12000826 Report

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He just didn't do anything impressive in the ring and he showed up once every 4 months or something so they never even had a chance to warm up to him.
All the Japs knew is that they had to deal with this weird mid guy that the announcers would say is good because he's a Rhodes.
And the Bullet Club storyline he was attached to was horrendous.
And people really wanted the Ibushi Omega singles match.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:34:40 No.12000847 Report

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>>12000773
He was in the middle of Ibushi/Omega and the center to the Burrito Crib civil war. He was only good for shutting up existing groups and storylines with his sheer mediocrity.

Drones got a similar feeling with Cody coming in between Roman/Sami but have to pretend they are ok with it because they are helpless cultists.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:35:39 No.12000866 Report

Quoted By: >>12000887

Revisionists like to say the young bucks were the biggest draw on the indies during that period but it was actually Cody. NJPW knew what they were doing with their western expansion even if obese smarks who watched njpw without understanding any of the storylines because "yummy wummy workrate matches" had no clue

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:36:50 No.12000886 Report

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The Japanese are human Dimes Koalas. They could sniff that Cody was destined to be a mediocre midcard shitter.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:36:57 No.12000887 Report

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>>12000866
Neither the Bucks nor Cody were a draw for NJPW, at least in Japan.
Cody was a ROH guy doing dates for NJPW, anyways.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:37:59 No.12000908 Report

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>>12000773
Didn’t put the work in. He only showed up when he felt like it, never entered any tournaments, and never did any tours. He didn't give the audience a reason to care about him. Michael Elgin of all people was infintely more over during that time because he actually put the effort in

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:41:07 No.12000975 Report

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>>12000908
Despite Michael Elgin being a dimeless shitter, Naito managed to bring out a great match at New Beginning for the IC belt in him

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:42:58 No.12001006 Report

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>>12000773
It still amazes me how Cody worked Kenny into inserting him in the biggest rematch of his and Ibushi's career
6 years of "storytelling" down the drain like that

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:43:48 No.12001025 Report

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>>12000975
Elgin is a perfectly good wrestler, he's just fucking retarded

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:43:54 No.12001027 Report

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>>12001006
I think it was purposefully so that they saved Omega vs Ibushi for later
Omega didn't know at the time he was cutting his cock off

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:46:52 No.12001081 Report

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>>12000773
I don’t know, but I discovered NJPW since I was following Cody at the time. Now NJPW is all I watch. Gotta love the Codester. You just gotta!

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:48:09 No.12001108 Report

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>vs Okada for the title
>8 man tag with Kenny and the bucks vs Okada, Ospreay and the briscoes
>vs Ibushi WK
>tag with Scurll vs Omega and Ibushi
>tag with Hangman vs Omega and Ibushi
>6 man tag with Hangman and Scurll vs Omega, Ibushi and Chase Owens
All very good or at least decently good

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:50:06 No.12001148 Report

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He sucked, and couldn't work anything other than a WWE style match. He somehow had a bad match with Ibushi. He shit the bed in all of his Indy matches, but people went along with it because "yeah, fuck Vince!".

He latched on to the right people that were over with the Indy crowd, that Indy crowd turned on him because he sucked, went back to WWE, which was always his plan. Ryder tried to do the same thing but they don't want him back.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:50:49 No.12001165 Report

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>>12001006
>Kenny and Ibushi make a pact to save their next big match for a future wrestle kingdom instead of kopw
>Kenny abruptly leaves the company a few months after they make this pact
>Ibushi obliterates his shoulder in the G1 before they can do the match in AEW
lmao

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:55:30 No.12001287 Report

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>>12000773
He should have gotten a translator to tell them about his daddeh

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:58:05 No.12001345 Report

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>>12000809
>>12000908
This, the Jap fans have less tolerance for part timers. If you don't do at least one of the big tournaments or do a couple tours you're a non-entity to their fans. Pretty much every ROH champ brought in for a dome show got no reaction.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:09:42 No.12001575 Report

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>>12000809
During the Elite's last year in NJPW it felt like almost all of them were slacking off.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:11:22 No.12001610 Report

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>>12000773
A bunch of Ching Chong bug people didn’t understand the American heartland good ole boy gimmick. It’s the same thing is AEW with anti American trannys. In the big leagues he’s the top baby face in the business

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:17:08 No.12001708 Report

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>>12000773
too american

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:19:57 No.12001757 Report

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>>12000773
Japan is a long way away from home for Cody where he prefers working from.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:22:25 No.12001797 Report

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>>12001025
Yeah, the only legible part of his manifesto is when he's giving wrestling advice. He's an idiot savant.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:24:24 No.12001823 Report

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>>12001006
Kenny’s reign would have turned out much better if Naito had been the one he beat for the title at Dominion instead of Okada. Naito and Tanahashi would’ve swapped G1 Blocks, Ishii still puts on a respectable match with Kenny at Destruction, Tanahashi would’ve been his opponent at KOPW and he either fights Okada or Naito again at WK 13

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Anonymous Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:53:43 No.12002247 Report

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>>12000773
He was the 3 star general after all

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