Best of the Super Juniors

So...

You know what I mean? You go back to that Best of the Super Juniors and you look down that roster and it's still Fujita.

You know what I mean? The rest of them, unless somebody comes back and just blows the roof off the place, like Shomakata or something like that, and he comes in and wins and tapes the title on his first night, which he can do, but I just feel like it's early for that.

It does, and he hasn't been on an excursion that long.

Uh, we've seen Wheeler Utah here in the past on different tours.

I think the most infamous of his, um, maybe not infamous, but the most notable of his appearances was during the, uh, the year when he was the ROH TV champion and he worked the best of the super juniors, but that's been many years now.

But yeah, I think the card looks good on paper.

The one thing I would add is the idea that the main event is as of now, still a non-title match.

And I, you know, I know that they can't work together anymore.

But, you know, Watto.

wildly inconsistent still after all the you know it's he debuted in 2020 six years later we're still talking about like when is this guy gonna catch on uh but kukai is someone that i've been very impressed with and was hoping to see more of this year and i felt like could really help the junior division he didn't get uh an entrant into the best of the super juniors which i really thought that's something that he had earned at this point based on you know some of the output he had but uh This will probably be a good team, honestly.

And if there was, like, a dark horse team to do very well, this is kind of it.

I was waiting to say everyone's in here being like, oh no, Nick Wayne is leaving the Vortex.

He's going to go to New Japan for Best of the Super Juniors.

And I'm like, do you think Chris Jericho won't follow a man to Japan? That's where he can put on his face paint and his tiny hat.

Well, he's not a super junior.

He's just going to, he's just going to go there and like sit at ringside wearing his face paint and his funny hat and his spiky leather jacket holding his bat.

That's called Floyd and intimidate Nick Wayne into a losing streak.

The best of the super juniors.

Honestly, that I would respect.

... gonna be...

Yeah, it's not like he's gonna be gone for, like, a, a couple, like, a month like Best of Super Juniors.

JNews, who you got, Nick Wayne or Jericho?

I, like you, SP3, have really been liking, uh, Nick Wayne's work here.

It wasn't a championship.

It was a tournament, but probably winning the best of the Super Juniors for New Japan.

If I

had to do like

I've not been watching his work lately, but he was in...

Best of the Super Juniors relatively recently.

And Lee Johnson, I know nothing about him.

So that's that.

But nobody in the crowd, I just, I blame it on Yo.

This is Yo's fault.

you know you do what you can with yo every minute yo is a pushed act in 2026 new japan i take as a deep personal insult this was the semi-main event of a big show a great show at sumo in front of a hot crowd who loved everything and yo served up the kind of slop you'd expect from a match fourth from the top on Best of the Super Juniors Night 8 in Gunma.

The same level of seriousness as the fucking Man City fans dressed up like shakes waving around inflatable bananas in the away end at Anfield.

Then we will see the NEVER Openweight championship on the line.

Aaron Wolf, who is now a tu- who's a two-time champ after winning it at Dominion from Ren Narita, will finally have a defense of that championship against last year's Best of the Super Juniors winner, Kosei Fujie.

He'll be the first junior in several years to challenge for the NEVER Openweight championship.

Gabe Kidd will have his second defense of the Global Heavyweight Championship after he dispatched Dan Driller Maloney, uh, back at Destruction in Kobe.