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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 4:17:24 GMT -5
I want to harp on the Rush Vs. Castle match a little more. So this was a match that should have been huge for Castle and for Rush. For Castle this was his chance to get some big attention on an international scale. If he'd put on a good show against Rush, who is one of Mexico's biggest stars, on a big stage like this could have earned him some bookings down south. He's been an enormous star on the indy scene in the US, but this could have been his big break in Madison Square Garden. For Rush though this was his chance to expose himself to audiences outside of Mexico. Honestly, to the general wrestling public Rush is a mostly unknown talent. I mean my knowledge of him begins with him being one of the biggest stars in Mexico and he's been a huge influence on Tetsuya Naito. While he'd had a fantastic match with Bandido, this was a far bigger stage against a far more established Star in Dalton Castle. This should have been a chance to expose your biggest signing in YEARS to the biggest audience they've ever had, and probably will ever have in a competitive and high octane match get his moveset, and show everybody exactly why this signing was such a big deal. Instead they have Dalton Castle, one of their few genuinely hot acts squashed in 15 seconds, and then have him turn heel by throwing one of the things that got him over away. This was the kind of shit we all give WWE hell for. I''ll give you the fact that they squandered an opportunity to showcase Rush, but I'll defend turning Castle heel. His act was stale as hell and has been for a while, and his ROH title run never got into second gear due to both injury and having other faces more over than him at time (looking at ROH repeating the same cycle with Marty Scrull). He needs a reboot pretty hard, and MSG was about as good of a platform to pull the trigger. Pretty much any one thing ROH did wrong on this show was forgivable the only problem is it all happened at one time. |
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Post by honsou on Apr 14, 2019 5:18:57 GMT -5
The ROH part basically.
The Women of Honor match would of been acceptable without the angle at the end which was just baffling
If they would of just went with Bully Ray having a singles match with Juice Robinson, the match would of been fine. Even if it was just one on one vs Flip it would of been okay. But they turned it into a six man which took way too long
The 4 way tag match was perfectly acceptable but the angle was so distracting that it actually killed the heat of the Tanahashi match which was just totally inexcusable.
The ROH main event went about 10 minutes too long. I actually thought it was fine and the right guy won but at that point people were feeling that the event was going on way too long and just wanted to get to see a big Okada main event.
At the end of the day most people that went to MSG just wanted a NJPW show and had sort of accepted that ROH would be part of the show. Instead it was 50% ROH and ROH used it to run a bunch of angles that at best people didn't care about and at worst got them so pissed off they'll never watch the product again.
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Post by cabbageboy on Apr 14, 2019 9:53:45 GMT -5
I think one problem that the NJPW side had as well is that the matches were kinda stale. I just saw Tana/Sabre on AXS about 2 weeks before the MSG show in the New Japan Cup. Same deal with Ibushi/Naito, it was a New Japan Cup match. And I've seen Okada/White 3 times now as well. Admittedly two of those had title changes this time around though.
I know next week on AXS they're showing the ROH title match, but what else?
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