The video that's been playing during Juice Robinson matches?

[HMARK Center]

Y'know how a lot of people saw it and assumed Chris Brookes was coming in to challenge Juice for the US Title at the Best of the Super Juniors final on June 5?

Well, uh, DDT made a parody of the video.

...and used it to announce that Chris Brookes is coming to DDT.

So, hey...who's challenging Juice on June 5?

[chrom]

Who else is from The UK that it could be.

Although if he had planned to go to New Japan only to then back out and go to DDT after they've hyped him up, that's pretty dirty of him.

[AwamoriRock]

The show it played during is really good btw, probably one of my favorites this year.

May 19, 2019 19:14:47 GMT -5 chrom said:

Who else is from The UK that it could be.

Although if he had planned to go to New Japan only to then back out and go to DDT after they've hyped him up, that's pretty dirty of him.

I'd doubt that to be honest. DDT ribs NJPW and others periodically, they likely had him lined up, saw the NJPW vid and figured they could easily spin it on him.

As for who NJPW is hyping, I see a lot of repackaging talk but there isn't a lot to choose from there.

[HMARK Center]

Yeah, for repackaging the candidates some have talked up have been Oka/Great Okharn (worked RevPro for excursion) or David Finlay, which would be strange given his Irish heritage (I know papa Finlay is Northern Irish, but I think he's pro-unification, so the Union Jack would be odd to focus on) and the fact that he's likely still injured and/or still part of Lifeblood with Juice in ROH.

Not sure about either of those options; Finlay doesn't seem accurate, and while Oka isn't a terrible guess they've seemed pretty committed to only having gaijin fight for the US title. Hard to think of other foreigners who are available for that spot, so really can't say for sure.

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

Better not be Joe Hendry

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My money was on Brookes, so it’s up I the air for me now. Be cool if it was Oka.