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Njpw became fresh and interesting in 12-15 with their own “attitude era” of sorts — Michael jackson nakamura, heel yano, retard honma, pimp yujiro, nihilist naito, undertaker evil etc. made the undercards hella entertaining and then randomly having fuckin aj styles win the iwgp title was like the fuuuuuuck at the time and you couldnt help watching. Young bucks and roppongi vices best of seven million series always stole the show, then you had Shibata, sakuraba and goto as the strong style gatekeepers making sure it didnt go too far into russo territory. You had random ass feuds between guys thats youd never wanna watch now that were so fuckin good like tanahashi/yano or kushida/desperado.
Styles, nak and the good bros leave, elgin gets cancelled and cole/redragon/mike bennett sign the mark contract and you get kenny and ibushis sudden push outa seemingly nowhere aswell as hiromu and jay white becoming megastars. After naito loses his redemption ark match its pretty much all downhill from there aside from the occasional shingo/ospreay or naito/ibushi sawdust kino. Why? Cos the midcarders are boring no gimmick faggots like sanada who people were sick of in other promotions back in 2010 rather than giving their homegrown guys interesting gimmicks to get over with. Roppongi 3k is a death sentence for tanaka and komatsu, while uemura and umino are lost to the plandemic, oka came back kinda kino but 70s asian monster gimmick isnt gonna fly in 2022. Also rather than doing entertaining tongue in cheek heel shit like original bullet club theyve got hhh’s evolution part 2 in house of torture thats got literal go the fuck away heat, adding to the fact that besides united empire (not a gimmick btw, although i am a dan of ospreays coked out bong character) the stables havent fuckin changed since like 2009 and theyre all stale as fuck without any direction or central theme at all. Chaos hontai jobbers? Suzukigun with a geriatric jobber leader? Balls.
