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| Topic | Scarlet Ranks 150 User-Nominated Wrestlers Part II |
| voltch 07/01/18 3:19:28 AM #267: | Will say it's rare for someone to do an Okada writeup of this type without mentioning that TNA run. But Okada's ascension basically kept me in wrestling. I had soured on WWE big time, TNA was shit and DDT content wasn't readily available. Then along came ustream showings of NJPW and suddenly things got real interesting. The Tanahashi/Okada feud was so far above anything I had followed live. The classic feuds from WWE, WCW or 80 and 90s Japan owned, but they weren't contemporary. Okada was just a young prodigy who grabbed my attention and got me hooked into a new product. At the time I was pushing it hard in the wrestling topics, but that got very little traction. The guys who knew Japanese wrestling had by this point all left the board, so promoting this company here was really hard. I did everything I could to link to the G1 matches and great entrances. But I think people only started to notice NJPW when AJ Styles finally arrived. That feud he had with Okada started slow, but by the end, it just elevated Okada to a new level. I started out thinking he was one of the 10 best wrestlers in the world, now I think he's one of the 10 best of all time. --- Congrats to Eli Ayase's #1 fan BK_Sheikah00 on winning the BYIG Guru Contest. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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