Jun Akiyama

I did not watch the subsequent stuff, which involved Illusion beating Takagi for the right to challenge anywhere, and then challenging Mao.

You didn't want Yuji Nagata versus Jun Akiyama?

I didn't, no.

Which only went, what, nine seconds? Oh, no.

saw...

Yeah, probably, because I looked at that at first.

I was like, oh, we didn't watch, like, a 12-minute match between Yuji Nagata and Jun Akiyama? Like, no, it was 12 o'clock when the pinfall happened.

Yes, I was like, I thought I saw something on social media or in the Discord, the VUW Discord, that was like, oh, this is only a nine-second roll-up thing.

But he's not kind of immediately... fascinating.

And yeah, Jun Akiyama, who is still wrestling, you know, and also Jun Akiyama has a wide, wide range.

I mean, as everybody here knows, one of my top wrestlers of all time is Survival Tobita.

And he has a Jun Akiyama match, and it rules.

And I don't think Kento was going to do that.

Survival Tobita.

Jun breaks out of it, gets on the floor, round kicks Yone to the knee so he drops to his knees on the apron.

And then Jun Akiyama grabs him in the exploder position and exploders him to the floor.

It's incredible.

Like you said, it feels like a movie.

We have got The Patriot and The Eagle defeating Steve Williams and Rob Van Dam.

We've got Terry Gordy defeating Jun Akiyama.

We have got Kenta Kobashi defeating Dan Spivey, Stan Hansen defeating Toshi A- Toshiaki Kawada, and the All Japan Triple Crown Champion, Mitsuharu Misawa, defeating Akira Taue.

On the 1st of March in Memphis, Tennessee at the Mid-South Coliseum, we've got JC Ice defeating Danny Davis to become the first USWA Middleweight Champion.

I'm kinda shocked GLATE has run 30-plus shows this year, but they have.

But, you know, outside of a Hikaru Sato produce show and a Jun Akiyama produce show and a Shinya Aoki produce show, which I, you know, it, it looks like this aired.

I, I-- a little intrigued by this.

Uh, El Lindaman versus Fumanari Abe on this show, among other things.

um shinye oki and junta miyawaki took on harashima and chris brooks We had Shunma Katsumata, Hideki Yokotani.

We had Rukia and Jun Akiyama against Hinata Kaisei and Jun Kaisei.

We then...

This was fun.

I'm not familiar enough.

Jun Akiyama.

Oh,

100%.

I feel like this is one of the themes of the year for Omakase.

Where the fuck, like how does Joshi have this endless supply of great wrestlers that just start out and look like naturals from day one? Like, that used to be a rare thing, right? Like, Jun Akiyama used to stand out for a fucking reason.

Because it used to be a rare thing for someone to come in and just be great from the start.

But I feel like it happens every other fucking month now in Joshi.