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Agreed with the sentiments above, tonight's show was the best of the G1. Okada Vs Shingo was a banger and my MOTN, and with the Ishii and Ospreay matches coming up Okada might spoil us for the last few nights.

Shingo vs Ibushi was glorious, and I really enjoyed Okada vs Cobb.

Taichi's move up to HW changed him from an instant skip to a must-watch, he has been great.

At this point, the only major thing I can criticise Naito for in this tournament is going over 20 every time. He's wrestling like he's got something to prove and he's had a great tournament because of it.

The Tanahashi vs Naito match from night 2 had a great atmosphere despite the restrictions, everything else I'd say has been better than having no crowd at all.

I think a lot of the guys in WWE need to leave to truly evaluate their cases. Moxley left and I feel only helped his case since he's been on top of a brand that consistently draws 100k+ PPV buys, and apart from one segment, his segments always increase viewership (at least that's how I remember it from all the quarter-hour breakdowns). Not to mention the improvement in his ring-work.

Taichi A-block MVP.

Mauro should go back to calling New Japan, much rather him than Kevin Kelly

I agree. He's not having anything actively bad, just not up to his usual standards.

Another good day for the G1 and B block is delivering every time right now, something people weren't expecting beforehand. I really enjoyed that main event and Naito is the MVP of the tournament so far. I still think an Okada and Misawa comparison is fair. One sub-par run doesn't undo 8 years of stellar work. Money Clip needs to go sooner rather than later though, goddamn does he suck at submissions.

I don't know what it was but I couldn't get into the two mains today. Ishii and Shingo haven't come close to matching the magic of their G1 29 match imo.

Between the rumours last year that he would be leaving this year and this blog post, I wonder if he was going to leave before all this but stayed to help them through the pandemic https://www.njpw.co.jp/freediary/harold-george-meij87

The match where everything clicked for him was the Juice match for the US title. He had a pretty meh G1 after that, but post-G1 he became very good and has been steadily getting better since.

Ibushi Vs Ishii was a banger, the other two main events were great

This is just horrible. I hope she can get past all this cause she's super talented, but it's not looking good.

Naito and Zack killed it today. If this is the quality we can expect from Naito throughout the tournament we're in for a great ride.

'Mac buys a football team'. That is absolutely insane.

With Tana & Ibushi seemingly breaking up, Tana & Okada together would be amazing.

Yeah, I agree. Replace the money clip teases with Rainmaker teases and all the matches he's had since the pandemic improve significantly.

So Night 3 was pretty good. Ospreay vs Ishii was good but a massive disappointment imo. There were some holy shit moments, but Ospreay doing strong style could not interest me less. Ibushi vs White was MOTN, with an actually decent leg-selling performance from Ibushi which is a pleasant surprise. Okada vs Yujiro was awful but the other two matches were good at least.

CIMA's best match is against Bryan in PWG imo

That Goto vs Tenzan match is awesome. Easily the best Tenzan match in years - maybe his best ever - and a top-notch performance from Goto.

Dortmund depends on whether they can keep Haaland and Sancho, otherwise they're back to square one.

Liverpool didn't even have to get out of second gear to beat Chelsea, and Bayern somehow look even more terrifying than last season. Also, go Keith Lee.

The main event today was incredible. The rest of the card was solid, nothing blow away but nothing bad either.