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This is all still pretty surreal. Honestly never thought I'd see the day Cena turned heel.

With the exception of maybe A.J. Styles, Gedo was easily Finn Balor/Prince Devitt's greatest opponent.

Pretty much where I'm at. Always a consistently "good" wrestler, but never thought he was ever a truly elite worker in the promotion, at least not over the last decade or so.

OK New Japan, now do Ishii.

I've only seen bits and pieces of Goto's pre-2016 career, but he's always been a consistently solid guy. That being said, he's always felt like the least interesting of the hard-hitters in NJPW compared to Ishii, Suzuki, Shibata, and Shingo.

Apparently she even had a brief stint in WEW, which had to suck tremendously.

Super J-Cast claiming that it was Tony who asked for Charlton to be disciplined.

I assumed Charlton was just leaning into kayfabe like Kidd, but yeah he was particularly sassy where I understand why that would displease some higher ups. Now do I think Tony called up the front office and said "Get this guy off commentary!"? I'm not sure. But it wouldn't surprise me if it pissed him off and NJPW reprimanded Charlton as a result. As for the shows this weekend, don't have much to say other than Kenny-Gabe was great and it's pretty miraculous how Kenny hasn't lost a single step despite such a serious illness and extended layoff. And NJPW pushing Shota over Tsuji and fans turning on him seems to sum up a lot of their problems. No doubt losing talent to AEW hurt them, but they still have the talent to build momentum but they're just not really doing it.

Is there something I'm missing with Shota?

Pretty much sums up where I'm at with him. I honestly think he's been one of the best in the world for at least the last 5 years if not longer. It's totally a style I get people hating, but I more often than not impressed by what he can do and the consistency to which he can pull it off.

So Yota Tsuji is challenging for the Global Heavyweight Championship. Honestly, what are they waiting for with this guy?

Tough one, ultimately went with Bret. Both guys have undeniable peaks, but personally I think they both have thin great match lists. There's a lot of Cena matches that I don't think have aged super well and Bret had a thinner roster than Cena to work with. But Bret definitely has him beat in terms of selling and execution.

I don't think Jericho is awful and Punk probably wouldn't make a top 100 list for me. But I think Punk's output is quite a bit better.

If the plan is indeed for Tsuji to ultimately win at WK then I'm fine with that. And maybe it is time to move on from the G1 automatically leading to a shot at WK. But if they have to delay Tsuji any longer than that, I honestly think it will be a huge mistake. They desperately need a new ace and he's looked like the biggest star for a year and-a-half now.

Shocked Sabre won, thought for sure Tsuji would. Although it sounds like he actually wants to challenge at KOPW.

There's still a lot more that I have to see, but Kurt always struck me as more inconsistent than downright bad. He absolutely has the ridiculous, finisher spam matches like No Surrender 2010 that make you question the guy's instincts, but sandwiched between those he'll have some really good, more methodical matches like against Nagata in Japan.

I was expecting Shota to miss the tournament but apparently he's still gonna do it. Doesn't seem wise. Although I expected him to win it so maybe that's why they're refusing to pull him.

It took me way too long to realize "Wait, why is he wearing a mask?"

G1 goes back to two blocks thank God. Takeshita the only AEW guy competing. Final two spots to be determined by a tournament, but a G1 without G.O.D, Chase, and Yujiro would be a major step in the right direction.

Ha, it actually looks like Tsuji is going to win. I imagine it was supposed to be him and Finlay in the finals. But a universe where Goto wins a fourth cup only to lose the big one again is also very funny.

Just looking at some of the results of this tournament and this promotion looks COOKED. I mean maybe they'll make me eat my words and have Tsuji win the whole thing, but I'd be very surprised at this point.

I don't really watch Collision all that much anymore, but from what I've seen Schiavone seems to be a decent pbp guy. But honestly it should be Ian now.

I understand going out on your shield and putting someone over on the way out, but it couldn't go any other way than a win for Sting.

Don't really have issue with much of these, but Ospreay winning Thesz/Flair is surprising. I probably shouldn't have expected voters to want to go with Reigns, but not even Cody?

Absolutely dire results today. It baffles me that with Okada and Ospreay gone they think House of Torture and former WWE guys will fix everything. Imagine if they had actually strapped the rocket to Tsuji from the get to.