Puroresu. Am I alone here?

[synthfiend]

I've pretty much given up on american wrestling. I'd gotten so sick of seeing roid-monkeys holding gold because they've got muscles instead of talent. Sick of cruiserweights only being good for bumping like lunatics for said roid monkeys and over-sized wastes. Sick of our beloved Vince McMahon and all he does for sports entertainment but who gives a FUCK if the wrestling in the ring sucks? The culmination of all the drama outside the ring is a wrestling match INSIDE the ring. So about a year ago I started checking out TNA stuff on the net. I was completely blown away. There was a whole frigging world of shit that just completely made anything the Fed came out with look like shit! Low Ki, A.J. Styles, Jerry Lynn I found Ring of Honor shit and saw Spanky and American Dragon for the first time I got a good look for the first time a t what Christopher Daniels could do. I kept looking and found Tiger Mask IV. From that moment I'd been downloading all the Japanese pro wrestling I could find then came the tape sites where I lost my mind there too. I hold on to slim threads of hope that american wrestling will get better but the more Japanese wrestling I get the lamer the Fed seems to be. The women have their own federations too where they do the same crap that the men do and the attractive ones are not downplayed to eye candy but can get it done with the best of them. It used to be that I couldn't function without Raw and Smackdown every week. Now if I don't get to see them I read about them and to me that's just as good it seems. I watch the WWE now simply because I have a fear that if I stop they'll decide to kill HHH on Raw and give Benoit a serious title run on Smackdown and I'll miss it. Is there anyone else here who has all but ababdoned the WWE and switched to Japanese Wrestling?

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[Se7en]

You are not alone, sir, but you are something of a minority.

You are a puro smark, and while I agree with much of what you say, most probably don't feel the same way.

I haven't abandoned the WWE, for one simple reason - I'm a wrestling junkie without a lot of excess cash to spend on Japanese tapes, so I gots to get the free stuff. But yes, outside of indy feds like RoH, puro is generally better than the WWE (or even TNA), so long as you're into workrate, as guys like Yuji Nagata just blow almost everyone in the WWE away. If you're into the sports entertainment aspect of wrestling, than a lot of puro stuff just will not interest you.

You're damn right about the joshi, though. There isn't a federation in North America that has better women's matches than Japan. And that's given the incredible turmoil of the joshi leagues in Japan right now.

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most of the stuff I like from Japan is the Death Match tapes. Mr. Pogo, Jason the Terrible and all the other guys that really fuck each other up.

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[MHasegawa]

New Japan Pro-Wrestling, best there is out there.

Honorable mentions are Osaka Pro and Pro-Wrestling U-Style.

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