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Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 15:25:47 No.18483165 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>18483175 >>18483197 >>18483426 >>18484038

Is this guy, one of the best wrestlers in the world, ever going to get a push in AEW?

I mean an actual push, not holding a midcard belt while Don Callis is the main character

Why does Tony refuse to push this guy?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 15:28:06 No.18483175 Report

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>>18483165
Have you seen the aew champion lineage? He will never sniff the main event unless he's jobbing to Hangtroon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 15:29:46 No.18483188 Report

Quoted By: >>18483428 >>18484863

Can't speak English, isn't particularly over with the AEW audience, can't carry TV segments or title feuds on his own, isn't really a draw. His only good qualities are his matches and his look which he's 10/10 in, but to succeed in TV wrestling you need strong character work like MJF or Toni Storm. He's already at his ceiling in AEW, but he has yet to reach his ceiling in NJPW.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 15:31:03 No.18483197 Report

Quoted By: >>18483206 >>18483227 >>18483414 >>18484863

>>18483165
He should go to NJPW or something, they need the talent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 15:33:08 No.18483206 Report

Quoted By: >>18483481 >>18484087

>>18483197
He could be top guy in Japan. He's recently married and presumably trying to start a family.
If he sticks around AEW after his contract is up I'd be shocked. And New Japan needs him, he's done them a huge favor being in the last couple G1s.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 15:36:42 No.18483227 Report

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>>18483197
He's literally in the G1 right now. He's collecting paychecks from like 3 different companies plus occasional freelance work so I doubt he's complaining.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:01:10 No.18483316 Report

Quoted By: >>18483321

tony KKKhan hates azn males and refuses to push them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:01:52 No.18483321 Report

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>>18483316
Most people do, we only want their women

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:17:25 No.18483414 Report

Quoted By: >>18484869

>>18483197
he should be THE guy in njpw for the next decade but he seems committed to living in the US and halfassing it for both companies instead of fullassing it for one. this is what happens when you pay guys too much.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:21:11 No.18483426 Report

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>>18483165
probably because he's in japan 50% of the time, dipshit.

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ProWresBlog !1JPtDnh8WA Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:21:48 No.18483428 Report

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>>18483188
This. The only difference a push would make is that we'd probably see him wrestle less and he'd win more.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:28:28 No.18483481 Report

Quoted By: >>18483491

>>18483206
Why would you be shocked? He's making good money in AEW

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:30:32 No.18483491 Report

Quoted By: >>18483543

>>18483481
It's not like he's making Okada money. I'm sure Tony pays him well enough.
But in New Japan he could probably demand closer to what Okada was making there, which would likely be more than he's making where he's at. Because he'd be the top guy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:39:35 No.18483543 Report

Quoted By: >>18483582

>>18483491
They're not gonna pay him what Okada was making right off the bat

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Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 16:45:30 No.18483582 Report

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>>18483543
I didn't say they would.
But he has a much higher ceiling back in Japan than he ever will in the US, where speaking is what gets you over and where his speaking skills will always relegate him to the midcard at best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 17:50:10 No.18483974 Report

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lmao they named the guy take a shitta?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 17:58:13 No.18484038 Report

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>>18483165
He'll get one soon because he's probably winning the G1 (and then the IWGP Heavyweight Championship) in NJPW. Which means Tony will get jealous and start using him on AEW shows more

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 18:04:33 No.18484087 Report

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>>18483206
New Japan pay isn't that good unless you were Okada in his prime. Plus he still has a level of loyalty to DDT for bringing him up so he wants to available for them too occasionally. So AEW pays good and it gives him more wiggle room than being 100% for NJPW who wouldn't want him working DDT shows.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 19:52:21 No.18484832 Report

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Swerve and the acclaimed got over on their own and then were booked like shit. I don’t know if it was incompetence on Tony’s part or Vince style resentment

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Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 19:57:52 No.18484863 Report

Quoted By: >>18484913

>>18483197
>>18483188
i don't use reddit but i googled something about naito's eye surgery and it came up so i was reading the thread. and the redditors do not agree that takeshita should go to NJPW. they think nooj wouldn't make him a top guy because he's DDTpilled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 19:58:49 No.18484869 Report

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>>18483414
There's a very good chance of him headlining the Tokyo Dome right now. Hope he does, because that's a great way to make the Wrestle Kingdom main event special this year. Match would be kino, too.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 20:05:54 No.18484913 Report

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>>18484863
>they think nooj wouldn't make him a top guy because he's DDTpilled.

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