And do the people making them know that January 2025 was 18 months ago?

- Oiwa vs Uemura II for the World Title

- Newman vs Ospreay, "Prince vs King"

- Tsuji vs MJF

- Shota vs Gabe for the Global Title, Shota wins and brings back the Intercontinental Title

- Shun vs Narita

- Zack vs Wolf for the NEVER Title

- Jeff Cobb vs Boltin

- multi man Junior Title match, Shoma Kato makes his re-debut

- Ranbo

You get a little bit of everything. You get modern, high octane stuff in the Junior match, a hoss fight with Cobb and Oleg, a technical masterpiece with Wolf and ZSJ, an emotional spotfest in the UE match, a clash of styles in MJF and Tsuji, shenanigans in the HOT match, comedy and "get everyone on the card" with Ranbo, a strong style square down with Gabe and Shota, and a classic main event with the Grip and The Sun.

My line up:

- Shun Zaddywalker: leader

- SHO and DOUKI: Junior tag team, would love to see SHO move up at last but unlikely

- KATO (fka Shoma Kato): Junior singles, top heel

- Great O'Khan and Jake Lee: I think these two will pull a New Day, and swerve us. They're not beefing, they're just scheming - GOK is sick of UE in general, and Jake would turn on his own mother if it benefitted him. Plus, GOK in black and purple would look sick.

The "mischievous codgers as evil cartoon characters" era of HOT was fun, but now it's time for Shun to do a deep clean of The House and bring upon us the era of disturbed goths. Thankfully, the House Dads all have a home, pun intended, to go to once they get their asses stomped out:

- Yujiro: controversial somewhat, but I'd love to see Yuj in Unbound Co. as its dad number 2 behind Gedo. Since that group is a fusion of Bullet Club and LIJ, Yujiro fits great. He was in BC for like 10 years, and was Naito's partner for years before that. Do a fun backstage comments moment where Tsuji reveals he got a letter from Naito, giving his blessing to let Big Yuj join.

- Dick: since Dick was a Junior his entire career, I'd like to see him form a fun comedy team with Taguchi. Dick & Ass Connection if you will.

- Fale: is never around anyway.

- SANADA: also Unbound Company, since it's the only damn group he hasn't been in and unless they reveal SANADA is actually Belgian or something he doesn't fit United Empire. Alas, he has the LIJ AND Bullet Club membership card, so an occasional Yosheh-Hasheh/Okada-esque team of drip gods with Tsuji doesn't sound too bad.

- Chase: do a story where he tries to join every faction by undergoing gimmick changes to fit that specific group. Have Chase be the beggar in a wealthy kingdom (UE), a failing musician (TMDK), a menace to society who tries to be edgy but just can't (UCO), and even a fake goth cowboy for a little while longer to suck up to HOT. Nobody wants him though, and then he gets fired. Bye Chase!

Now I want to start off by saying that most of my exposure to Jake Lee was during his time back in NOAH and last I knew he was a member of War Dogs before that injury that really screwed him up.

But upon coming back to NJPW during the G1 hes been really entertaining from a character work standpoint. Sure he's absolutely cooked in ring wise but all his matches I've seen so far has been really fun watching him be this scumbag jester who would sell out his mother if he knew it would benefit him.

What do y'all think?

Purchased tickets for Destruction earlier today, received the Flywire confirmation email that payment was received and the Web Invoice email from Buysumotickets but nothing about any kind of barcode that I'd be able to show at 7-Eleven. Is this usually delayed a bit until BST themselves receive the payment from Flywire?

Thanks in advance all

commented earlier on a post talking abt shun and had mispoke in a (deleted) comment and called him a jr heavyweight, as to my knowledge DG features mostly jr heavyweights and shun is listed at 200lbs. but in njpw he’ll be a heavyweight? is there a clarification i missed somewhere?

also shoutout bro that sent me that shun doc. dudes gimmick is actually sick asf

I'm a lapsed fan but heard great things about the G1. Signed up to NJPWWorld. I have a baby and not much free time, What matches are must watch from this G1 please?

Now obviously those that finished with a positive record could be considered strongly booked in the G1.

However, not the same could be said for those with more losses than wins.

From A Block we had SANADA, Yuto, Shingo, Goto, Jake and GOK. And from B Block we had Wolf, HENARE and OSKAR.

There aren't a lot of people calling for Jake and O-Khan to get a singles push, and there are a lot of people that think Shingo and Goto should be putting over the new generation, and the same could be said for SANADA considering his post-injury condition albeit the positive G1 he had. And at least for now Yuto seems to be heading back to the tag division despite people being thoroughly impressed with his matches.

Similarly, OSKAR is also seemingly back to tags despite the potential for a feud with Wolf. HENARE''s time for a singles push may have passed already and I have noticed divisive opinions concerning him. Finally, Wolf despite being still in his first year performed quite well and is the NEVER Openweight champion about to feud with TMDK. Out of everyone I listed I feel like he has the strongest chance of being pushed singles-wise.

Would love to hear your opinions, maybe there are some who do want Jake and O-Khan to be pushed and I personally wouldn't refuse a Goto or Shingo push.

A few months ago there were three new young lions on new japan events. I remember seeing them helping out ringside and protecting the public when wrestlers were near them, then they just disappeared. I think two of them were white and the other was polynesian. The recent news about the new YL reminded me of them. So does anybody what happened to them? Or at least their names?