Naito leaves without putting over Hiromu. Hiromu leaves without a real program to put over Fujita. And we wonder why nobody feels like a star
Dang, this is a bummer.
MY GLORIOUS KING NOOOOOO
Really is a new era of New Japan
Damn 😢
The freckn Lion Mark is going leave next at the rate they are going
Oooh shit, that sucks. Man put on one of the best matches of January in NOAH then fucked right off.
As long as Shingo sticks around, I’ll be happy. It was pretty clear with how bloated a stable Unbound Co started off as that the members were gonna start dropping like flies in short order. Now we’ll end up with probably Tsuji, Shingo, KOB, Drilla and Ishimori, with Gedo as a pin-eater and Nagai as a young boy. That (plus if Finlay or Gabe stick around) is actually solid as a rock as stables go
while it’s not as big a deal as it may seem, considering he’s been pretty de-emphasized for a while, it still sucks to see him go (especially with his recent noah work, he could’ve been an excellent asshole junior ace. if only they let him do more openweight stuff, i think that was something he wanted)
It’s getting so hard to stay invested in this company.
Writing was on the wall, he’s been on autopilot for years
3 Down 2 to go, Quite sad but he’s been cycled down so its not as bad as it would’ve been before, I was really enjoying the Finlay tag team imo its the best work he’s done in years. If its true that he didn’t want to do heavyweight work i get why NJPW cycled him down.
Wow, what a huge loss for NJPW
Damn what a lossÂ
Is there a root cause for NJPW not holding onto their big Japanese talent? Disputes over money? Creative differences?
I’m assuming he’s going to Noah
That’s another guy they didn’t use to put over anyone during their last dates and then just said “yup, I’m gone”.
Eesh.
are we gonna get a full Los Tranquilos de Japon in Noah?
Jesus Christ, Hiromu maybe the biggest dropped ball NJPW have had in a while
Sad news, but more of a reason to invest in guys like Wato and Kosei. As for Hiromu, this probably all but confirms he’s the X for Los Tranquilos de Japón on Friday.
This is also somehow Tony’s fault
He saw that Unbound Co. logo and bounced.
As expected. I wish they’d have these guys put someone over on their way out. The only guys I can think that have done this the last few years is Ospreay putting Finlay and WD over, Jay White putting over Hikuleo. And I guess Tama and Loa put over ELP and Hikuleo. I’m sure there’s a couple I’m forgetting.
Unbound Company off to such a shaky start.
Wasnt this expected? plus what was Hiromu going to do in NJPW? no, they didnt want him as a heavy, not much left.
This might be the biggest reason why I’m not a fan of segregated weight classes in wrestling. Hiromu by all rights should have been a top guy and someone who could genuinely main event Wrestle Kingdom, but juniors will never be presented as on that level and it sucks.
He took one look at the Unbound Co. logo and split
Part of why this hurts so much is that talent development has been much slower over the past 15 years than it ever was before. In the era after Inoki’s run at the top, main event heavyweights of New Japan were phased out a little early. Tatsumi Fujinami and Riki Choshu got disrupted by Vader, and by the time Vader left, the original Three Musketeers were on track to displace them. Shinya Hashimoto and Keiji Muto were largely displaced by Sasaki in 1999. Then, Nagata and Tenzan (never having received a proper passing of the torch) had their era interrupted by Nakamura and Tanahashi. Tanahashi was the first major outlier. He started his run as a top guy at the end of 07, with Okada rising to his level in 2013 and completely replacing him in 2016. Post-Inoki, that’s the longest run any heavyweight has had at the top. Okada’s run is even longer, with him becoming co-equal with Tanahashi in 2013 and completely replacing him in 2016, representing 8-11 years at the top. Okada was a top guy long past historic precedent in New Japan, and the future that Okada and Naito were supposed to help build should have already been built by now.
These departures shouldn’t be as painful as they are, but due to the slowness of the talent development and the overly cautious booking, it’s brutal. Don’t get me wrong, I think the younger generation at this point is ready to carry the company, but due to how long it took, they’ll need to do so without the rub of the previous generation (which is what Nagata and Tenzan had to do, and remember that their era was a huge downturn).
Unbound Company will just be Tsuji, Ishimori, Gedo and Nagai by year’s end.
This really sucks as a long time LIJ fan.
At this point, it’s going to just be ZSJ and Bad Luck Fale by summer.
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I’m a very sad man.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. This one SUCKS.
Naito leaves without putting over Hiromu. Hiromu leaves without a real program to put over Fujita. And we wonder why nobody feels like a star
Dang, this is a bummer.
MY GLORIOUS KING NOOOOOO
Really is a new era of New Japan
Damn 😢
The freckn Lion Mark is going leave next at the rate they are going
Oooh shit, that sucks. Man put on one of the best matches of January in NOAH then fucked right off.
As long as Shingo sticks around, I’ll be happy. It was pretty clear with how bloated a stable Unbound Co started off as that the members were gonna start dropping like flies in short order. Now we’ll end up with probably Tsuji, Shingo, KOB, Drilla and Ishimori, with Gedo as a pin-eater and Nagai as a young boy. That (plus if Finlay or Gabe stick around) is actually solid as a rock as stables go
while it’s not as big a deal as it may seem, considering he’s been pretty de-emphasized for a while, it still sucks to see him go (especially with his recent noah work, he could’ve been an excellent asshole junior ace. if only they let him do more openweight stuff, i think that was something he wanted)
It’s getting so hard to stay invested in this company.
Writing was on the wall, he’s been on autopilot for years
3 Down 2 to go, Quite sad but he’s been cycled down so its not as bad as it would’ve been before, I was really enjoying the Finlay tag team imo its the best work he’s done in years. If its true that he didn’t want to do heavyweight work i get why NJPW cycled him down.
Wow, what a huge loss for NJPW
Damn what a lossÂ
Is there a root cause for NJPW not holding onto their big Japanese talent? Disputes over money? Creative differences?
I’m assuming he’s going to Noah
That’s another guy they didn’t use to put over anyone during their last dates and then just said “yup, I’m gone”.
Eesh.
are we gonna get a full Los Tranquilos de Japon in Noah?
Jesus Christ, Hiromu maybe the biggest dropped ball NJPW have had in a while
Sad news, but more of a reason to invest in guys like Wato and Kosei. As for Hiromu, this probably all but confirms he’s the X for Los Tranquilos de Japón on Friday.
This is also somehow Tony’s fault
He saw that Unbound Co. logo and bounced.
As expected. I wish they’d have these guys put someone over on their way out. The only guys I can think that have done this the last few years is Ospreay putting Finlay and WD over, Jay White putting over Hikuleo. And I guess Tama and Loa put over ELP and Hikuleo. I’m sure there’s a couple I’m forgetting.
Unbound Company off to such a shaky start.
Wasnt this expected? plus what was Hiromu going to do in NJPW? no, they didnt want him as a heavy, not much left.
This might be the biggest reason why I’m not a fan of segregated weight classes in wrestling. Hiromu by all rights should have been a top guy and someone who could genuinely main event Wrestle Kingdom, but juniors will never be presented as on that level and it sucks.
He took one look at the Unbound Co. logo and split
Part of why this hurts so much is that talent development has been much slower over the past 15 years than it ever was before. In the era after Inoki’s run at the top, main event heavyweights of New Japan were phased out a little early. Tatsumi Fujinami and Riki Choshu got disrupted by Vader, and by the time Vader left, the original Three Musketeers were on track to displace them. Shinya Hashimoto and Keiji Muto were largely displaced by Sasaki in 1999. Then, Nagata and Tenzan (never having received a proper passing of the torch) had their era interrupted by Nakamura and Tanahashi. Tanahashi was the first major outlier. He started his run as a top guy at the end of 07, with Okada rising to his level in 2013 and completely replacing him in 2016. Post-Inoki, that’s the longest run any heavyweight has had at the top. Okada’s run is even longer, with him becoming co-equal with Tanahashi in 2013 and completely replacing him in 2016, representing 8-11 years at the top. Okada was a top guy long past historic precedent in New Japan, and the future that Okada and Naito were supposed to help build should have already been built by now.
These departures shouldn’t be as painful as they are, but due to the slowness of the talent development and the overly cautious booking, it’s brutal. Don’t get me wrong, I think the younger generation at this point is ready to carry the company, but due to how long it took, they’ll need to do so without the rub of the previous generation (which is what Nagata and Tenzan had to do, and remember that their era was a huge downturn).
Unbound Company will just be Tsuji, Ishimori, Gedo and Nagai by year’s end.
This really sucks as a long time LIJ fan.
At this point, it’s going to just be ZSJ and Bad Luck Fale by summer.
AH FUCK
AH SHIT
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
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