I’m only halfway through the NOAH New Year card at the moment (ZSJ just entered the ring) but so far the first half has been pretty decent.
I’d say the issue here is more on Ibushi than NOAH tbh, the guy is absolutely bonkers. His GCW debut match included him almost murdering himself with a dive onto a table.
You aren’t wrong lol Ibushi is a nut, but NOAH isn’t out of the blame game. Any and every pro wrestling promotion (especially one of NOAH’s size) is supposed to have a medical team clearing people to wrestle just like anywhere else. The fact that they either don’t, do and didn’t check him out properly, or do and didn’t give enough of a shit cause Ibushi went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is a big fuck up. Legit went into the ring with a broken ankle.
Oh I agree that NOAH aren’t blameless, but it was probably a case of Ibushi being like “I can do this, I’m like 90% healthy!” and them thinking that the 10% is like bruised ribs or ring rust or something, and not a broken fucking ankle.
He was on an AEW show in November, was he as banged up then? I only really remember him doing that ridiculous bicycle spot, cycling really slowly around the ring with a pipe in his hand.
Technically yeah? I mean his shoulder injury still isn’t really healed as far as I know, since hes refused surgery for it and most (all?) of the matches hes worked lately have been multiman I think. Whether he had his other problems them, no idea.
I’m only halfway through the NOAH New Year card at the moment (ZSJ just entered the ring) but so far the first half has been pretty decent.
I’d say the issue here is more on Ibushi than NOAH tbh, the guy is absolutely bonkers. His GCW debut match included him almost murdering himself with a dive onto a table.
You aren’t wrong lol Ibushi is a nut, but NOAH isn’t out of the blame game. Any and every pro wrestling promotion (especially one of NOAH’s size) is supposed to have a medical team clearing people to wrestle just like anywhere else. The fact that they either don’t, do and didn’t check him out properly, or do and didn’t give enough of a shit cause Ibushi went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is a big fuck up. Legit went into the ring with a broken ankle.
Oh I agree that NOAH aren’t blameless, but it was probably a case of Ibushi being like “I can do this, I’m like 90% healthy!” and them thinking that the 10% is like bruised ribs or ring rust or something, and not a broken fucking ankle.
He was on an AEW show in November, was he as banged up then? I only really remember him doing that ridiculous bicycle spot, cycling really slowly around the ring with a pipe in his hand.
Technically yeah? I mean his shoulder injury still isn’t really healed as far as I know, since hes refused surgery for it and most (all?) of the matches hes worked lately have been multiman I think. Whether he had his other problems them, no idea.