| pokoko said: Relative to everyone having their own promotion, that's kind of what's hurting Joshi so much. It's a rare card that has more than one or two good matches because all the talent is spread out. |
I have noticed that on joshi reviews. Everything is *1/2 - ** until you hit the ****+ main event. It's amazing to me how many of the top names are the same old names from when I was still watching. Granted, those girls all started super young, but shit... it's crazy that Aja and Toyota are still around. And still rocking, apparently! At least Aja is. I saw that Toyota was putting over Kaori Yoneyama, so I don't know what's up with her.
But it's a big problem all around for everyone but NJPW. There's a ton of talent out there, easily enough to have two other strong feds if you consolidated AJPW/NOAH/BJW/Wrestle-1/ZERO-ONE, but everyone seems to want his own little fiefdom and be willing to wrestle in front of 100 people to do it. Of the indies, only Dragon Gate has a deep roster and healthy rate of creating new talent.
