>>7377694Not at all. Losing the bucks is a massive positive, they didn't help business at all and the crowds hated them in Japan.
Losing Kenny hurts a bit because he was a Japan wrestling darling from his time in ddt. His run on top was legitimately bad though, and he turned the bullet club into a lower card act by refusing to interact with them because of the bucks.
The reasons western fans stopped paying attention:
>New Japan has been the exact same guys having the exact same matches on identical shows since Bushiroad bought the companyThe product isn't worth watching and hasn't been since before you knew it existed
>New Japan dojo is shit and they can't make new starsEverything Meltzer tells you is contrary to the truth. New Japan hasn't developed a main eventer on their own since Naito, and that was really CMLLbafter njpw failed twice with him
>Dave stopped talking about njpw because his sources started their own companyHe suddenly loves all the guys they didn't like (TAICHI, Desperado, etc). He suddenly had no interest in talking about new Japan. His drones now love AEW. Which he says is amazing whenever anyone mentions any company he interrupts to say AEW is good. And then he will do a Garrett show and explain that AEW is shit and he hates it, but then say it's the best anyway.
