>>18585929At one time... many moons ago, the multi-man matches served a purpose and occasionally threatened to be exciting.
When you had strongly defined factions that went to war with each other these matches were battles that would build drama for the eventual singles and tag matches. Now the factions are all broken, dormant, and ill-defined.
The multi-man matches would occasionally force rivals into working together to oppose a larger threat. The UWF, UWFi, WAR, Ishin-gun, and nWo Japan matches for instance would see rivals like Choshu and Fujinami forced to tag. NWJP doesn't really like working with other Japanese companies, so these don't get booked anymore. The last time it happened was KONGO but it didn't create any tension because LiJ just defeated them.
Gedo just uses them to get everyone on the card. They're dimeless, heatless and a barrier to new fans that don't know they're better off just skipping ahead.
