Y'all keep arguing about Reigns and WWE's shitty booking. I'm just gonna be here catching up on NJPW's G1 Climax.
Now that i think about it, aside from the wrestling style, NJPW is pretty well-stacked in term of talents. We have the top dogs with AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada. Next we have upper mid card folks in Togi Makabe, Tetsuya Naito, Tomohiro Ishii, Kota Ibushi, and then the mid card and lower card followed suit. Almost all of them are homegrown talents ranging from Kevin Nash-style big guy to vanilla midgets. These guys often feud with one another or vs someone in the upper level. Same deal with the Tag and the Jr Tag division. The only exception to this pyramid of talents is the Jr Heavyweight division with only Kenny Omega on top, but he's an awesome over the top Bullet Club heel so he could carry the whole division by himself. Comparatively speaking to WWE however, i failed to see this. The talents are nowhere near as full as NJPW, and there's often this single minded tunnel vision thing about making the one-true-star in order to carry the company for the next decades or so, often in expense of other talents (ala The Wyatt Family). Is it a case of too many cooks spoil the foods? NJPW as i recalled only have Gedo and Jedo to book and their shows are stacked, whereas WWE had this legion of writers that can't write anything sustainable for 5 minutes without changing the script. Lastly, i rarely see any blood from a NJPW show, but their storylines and wrestling are top notch. On the other hand WWE seemed to be gimped creatively by the whole PG label, but ironically at the same time raking in sponsorship money for their facade of their shows being "hot" when the ratings were anything BUT.
Of course, NJPW might be just a "shitty overseas indy fed", but they still got a sizable worldwide fanbase and routinely sold out arena/stadium in their native country. So it raise a question of what the hell is WWE doing with their products. NXT got their shit right and you could see the comparison between them and NJPW. Roman Reigns might be hot the last week, but realistically speaking how many of you actually think that WWE's legion of writers can sustain his heat to Royal Rumble? They had the bright idea of capitalizing on it, but it is an the expense of his longevity. After this is done and Reigns back to being a neckbeard whippin boy then really, they might as well pack the Reigns experience into their lockers, along with their Lex Luger Express and other nonsense.
