It feels like people are just bandwagon jumping with this nonsense at the moment. Chase isn’t even on the current tour.
Did he even appear in the Ranbo since he usually does that at least
Former tag champ
He started the Honorary <insert Islander culture> thing several years before Sami?
That’s a great question. He kinda stinks.
He’s gotta be someone’s Brutus the Mule Beefcake.
Pops the boys
Lives rent free!
He is On The Case!!!
I’ll chime in with the same thing I always do which is that he is a way better worker than he’ll ever get credit for, but he’s also his own worst enemy because of how out of shape he’s been for awhile now. Hopefully he lands in the dojo system as an instructor or something one day because I think he could be valuable there. His Ricky Morton lineage shouldn’t be disregarded.
Pinned Tanahashi
Wasn’t Chase part of an NWA storyline in NJPW years ago?
He’s decently over in Japan. I’ve seen him live at a few different places, and he gets a reaction.
Also, his Ricky Morton training really shows. He does all the little things well and excels at classic heel chicanery.
He’s also relatively inexpensive and will do whatever njpw asks for.
Flirts with girls on discord
Probably the only New Japan wrestler I want to see fired. Boring and isn’t comparable to any other current Bullet Club member period.
I enjoyed his feud with Yano tbh
He jobs. And credit where it’s due, he’s good at it all things considered.
Guy has a job for life in new Japan in seems.
He’s a good transitional championship holder.
Chase doesn’t strike me as someone who’s a mark for himself. He’ll work the multi-mans, take the fall, and do whatever Gedo and co. ask him to do in the meantime. Loyalty is a big thing in Japan and he’s been nothing if not loyal to them. He helped bail them out of a tough spot in BOSJ a little less than a decade ago and he’s had a job there ever since.
He’s what I’d call just passable as an in-ring worker. He’s solid enough that he won’t embarrass himself and he seems fairly over with the native fanbase. I imagine that the average Japanese wrestling fan doesn’t know about some of the less than savory stories and allegations that’ve come out about him from his time in the Tennessee and Texas territories. I can’t very well fault them for that. I tend to separate the artist from the art anyway, so that’s why I’m not going to actively join the chorus of people who want him to be fired by New Japan or anything like that.
He does a job and presumably has been able to make a living in an industry where not everyone can. He could workout seven days a week, get a tan, and it still wouldn’t make me want to see him hold an IWGP title of any kind. His ceiling is one-third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man champions. I have no idea what they were thinking having him hold the tag team gold not once, not twice, but *three times*.
Regardless of what people think of him as a person, he’s been able to get steady work and he seems pretty content to ride out his career where he’s at. Maybe that’s because he realizes this is the best it’ll ever get for him. But, even then, I’d say his career has had more high points than I would’ve thought considering who we’re talking about here.
He’s the heart and soul of the Bullet Club
He’s a solid worker in a mid card role.
Every group needs a fall guy. Used to be Bone Soldier, but now it’s Chase.
I don’t even dislike Chase all that much. He has a place in wrestling and has put on more good matches than people might want to admit, but in a promotion like New Japan with some of the greatest talent in the world, he really sticks out. And the fact that he is recently a IWGP Tag Team Champion with KENTA blows my mind.
Oh, time for a fun story
I went to WK 12 with some friends, one of which was a Japanese local I had met at the Long Beach show.
After the WK was done our group wanted to get food. Unfortunately everything was closed except for the McDonald’s across from the street from the Tokyo Dome.
We had stayed at the McDonald’s for quite some time and our Japanese friend warned us that if we didn’t leave soon we’d all miss the last train for the evening.
My Japanese friend sprang up, said their goodbyes and started hustling towards the exit. They ran back to our table and very excitedly but as quietly as possible kept saying “Chase Owens, Chase Owens”.
As the rest of our group was making our exit sure enough, there’s Chase Owen’s by himself at the front counter of McDonald’s, gathering what must have been hundreds of dollars of McDonald’s.
So at the very least, Chase Owens is in NJPW to make food runs for whatever faction he is on.
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It feels like people are just bandwagon jumping with this nonsense at the moment. Chase isn’t even on the current tour.
Did he even appear in the Ranbo since he usually does that at least
Former tag champ
He started the Honorary <insert Islander culture> thing several years before Sami?
That’s a great question. He kinda stinks.
He’s gotta be someone’s Brutus the Mule Beefcake.
Pops the boys
Lives rent free!
He is On The Case!!!
I’ll chime in with the same thing I always do which is that he is a way better worker than he’ll ever get credit for, but he’s also his own worst enemy because of how out of shape he’s been for awhile now. Hopefully he lands in the dojo system as an instructor or something one day because I think he could be valuable there. His Ricky Morton lineage shouldn’t be disregarded.
Pinned Tanahashi
Wasn’t Chase part of an NWA storyline in NJPW years ago?
He’s decently over in Japan. I’ve seen him live at a few different places, and he gets a reaction.
Also, his Ricky Morton training really shows. He does all the little things well and excels at classic heel chicanery.
He’s also relatively inexpensive and will do whatever njpw asks for.
Flirts with girls on discord
Probably the only New Japan wrestler I want to see fired. Boring and isn’t comparable to any other current Bullet Club member period.
I enjoyed his feud with Yano tbh
He jobs. And credit where it’s due, he’s good at it all things considered.
Guy has a job for life in new Japan in seems.
He’s a good transitional championship holder.
Chase doesn’t strike me as someone who’s a mark for himself. He’ll work the multi-mans, take the fall, and do whatever Gedo and co. ask him to do in the meantime. Loyalty is a big thing in Japan and he’s been nothing if not loyal to them. He helped bail them out of a tough spot in BOSJ a little less than a decade ago and he’s had a job there ever since.
He’s what I’d call just passable as an in-ring worker. He’s solid enough that he won’t embarrass himself and he seems fairly over with the native fanbase. I imagine that the average Japanese wrestling fan doesn’t know about some of the less than savory stories and allegations that’ve come out about him from his time in the Tennessee and Texas territories. I can’t very well fault them for that. I tend to separate the artist from the art anyway, so that’s why I’m not going to actively join the chorus of people who want him to be fired by New Japan or anything like that.
He does a job and presumably has been able to make a living in an industry where not everyone can. He could workout seven days a week, get a tan, and it still wouldn’t make me want to see him hold an IWGP title of any kind. His ceiling is one-third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man champions. I have no idea what they were thinking having him hold the tag team gold not once, not twice, but *three times*.
Regardless of what people think of him as a person, he’s been able to get steady work and he seems pretty content to ride out his career where he’s at. Maybe that’s because he realizes this is the best it’ll ever get for him. But, even then, I’d say his career has had more high points than I would’ve thought considering who we’re talking about here.
He’s the heart and soul of the Bullet Club
He’s a solid worker in a mid card role.
Every group needs a fall guy. Used to be Bone Soldier, but now it’s Chase.
I don’t even dislike Chase all that much. He has a place in wrestling and has put on more good matches than people might want to admit, but in a promotion like New Japan with some of the greatest talent in the world, he really sticks out. And the fact that he is recently a IWGP Tag Team Champion with KENTA blows my mind.
Oh, time for a fun story
I went to WK 12 with some friends, one of which was a Japanese local I had met at the Long Beach show.
After the WK was done our group wanted to get food. Unfortunately everything was closed except for the McDonald’s across from the street from the Tokyo Dome.
We had stayed at the McDonald’s for quite some time and our Japanese friend warned us that if we didn’t leave soon we’d all miss the last train for the evening.
My Japanese friend sprang up, said their goodbyes and started hustling towards the exit. They ran back to our table and very excitedly but as quietly as possible kept saying “Chase Owens, Chase Owens”.
As the rest of our group was making our exit sure enough, there’s Chase Owen’s by himself at the front counter of McDonald’s, gathering what must have been hundreds of dollars of McDonald’s.
So at the very least, Chase Owens is in NJPW to make food runs for whatever faction he is on.