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pokoko on 05 February 2017
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badgenome said:
pokoko said:

I'm one of those people who have no problem saying, "I told you so."  It's the era of SuperOkada.

40 minutes of a shooter tearing up your injured knee, and he can't get the job done. Brilliant. At this point I'm almost expecting them to do a rubber match where Suzuki wins for no particular reason. After 10 years of Jado & Gedo I think it may be time to give the book to someone else.

Strikes me as pretty dumb to have Suzuki-gun get completely shut down like that, and it seems like the only reason to do it is because nobody was expecting it to happen. Now they'll either have a big comeback (which is, at least on paper, an awfully face-ish storyline for their most heelish group) or just get lost in the shuffle once Bullet Club is back and everything is just a big, impenetrable clusterfuck between all the factions. Hooray for cards full of meaningless 8-man/10-man tags just to fit everyone in!

From the start, I've had it in my head that New Japan won't put over a group that got kicked out of NOAH with their tail between their legs.  Yeah, they dominated for awhile but perception is about what you've done lately.  

This is also the kind of situation where major MMA submissions fail in pro wrestling.  In reality, Okada would have tapped long before the end just to keep his career from ending, not simply because of pain.  If he *did* keep from tapping after all that, he darn sure wouldn't be doing drop kicks.  It's like they took the realistic parts because they're realistic and then made them as unrealistic as possible.  

I don't know who said it, but I remember one of the older guys saying that some of the really vicious submissions should be sold with either the one taking the move fighting like hell to keep the move from being applied cleanly or them fighting like hell to quickly reach the ropes for a break.  Extended periods locked into something nasty should be avoided.  I agree with that.  

Now I think we might be down to Naito being the only one who can take the belt away from Okada, and then only for a few months.  All part of New Japan's plan to have Okada top Cena's 20 World Heavyweight Championship wins.  Not sure he'll beat Roman's record, though.