>>12246443>Looked like DG was gonna overtake NJPW in popularity back in 2014/2015blatantly false, nobody believes this, they were a steady #2 though.
>All their top guys just up and left I mean CIMA left and took 3 rookeis with him yeah (Lindaman was definitely a top rookie, but for years T-Hawk were given the Roman Reings treatment by fans as DG tried to push him, and Yamamura had what seemed to be a career ending injury). Tozawa got taken by WWE. Shingo left because he'd done all he could in DG and the DG fans weren't that high on him trying to do deathmatch wrestling.
>drama happened with Ultimo Dragon or somethingUltimo Drama was back in the Toryumon days. He only returned to Dragongate in 2019, the same time CIMA left Dragongate.
>they were set for success here in the westI think DG saw the writing on the wall when Gabe Sapolsky started Evolve up and focused more on that than DGUSA and just pulled out. It's only in the last 2 years that they've started to send guys over to the US again
