The 5th Match: About the Most Popular Stable in Pro-Wrestling, L・I・J②

Buenas noches!

Hi, I’m Choro. (^^)!

World tag league is finally over.

The winner was FinJuice! (Juice Robinson & David Finlay)

There are two sides to this tag league, for and against however, I personally enjoyed it and it made me more excited about the 2days game in Tokyo dome. (#^^#)

Now, let’s resume from where we were last time.

As I previously told you, attractions of LIJ (in Choro’s point of view) are below 3 points. Please let me explain each one of them.

①   Each member has distinctive and strong characteristics.

Not only their cool appearances, their strong fight style and originality are also very attractive. Evil represents King of Darkness, Takagi brings an image of Dragon…

Upon tag match, their also can show us special cooperative technique in very fast movement.

It is very hard to explain this in sentence so please see their games through internet or live…sorry (>_<)

②   Their entrance/ oral performance and merchandising products are cool!

It is often said that the most exciting scene is entrance performance. When thinking about “good wrestlers” people say in this 70years of pro-wrestling history, all of them performed really cool entrance scene and used cool theme songs.

Don’t you think that LIJ’s entrance scene are cool enough to excite us?

Especially, Tetsuya Naito and Hiromu Takahashi are outstanding. A loud cheer erupted from everywhere as soon as their theme song start.

About oral performance, LIJ is the only one stable in NJPW which all members can wrap the game up through the microphone. Each of them have their signature phrases and can bring fan’s satisfactions up to maximum level.

The most famous one is Tetsuya Naito’s that he shouts “de Japon” with fans.

As to merchandising products…

If you have been to merchandising shop in venue, you might already know that there are always long lines in front of this stable’s section. Also, it is not exaggerating to say that half of people in the venue wear LIJ products. Their design is not weird even if you wear it in your daily life, it is even cool!

③ Each of them is strong! but cannot win at the most important match...I can't help cheering for them.

 I personally think that all the members deserve to play at main match. All have real abilities and very popular however, they are not awarded titles so often…  

Testuya Naito indeed won twice G1 Climax, one of biggest tournaments held in summer, however, he was awarded IWGP heavy weight title, the best and honorable title of NJPW only once. This is not fair considering his situation.

It is bad when it comes to EVEL and SANADA. They are awarded tag match title but never won big single matches such as IWGP heavy weight, G1 and New Japan cup.

* I will explain meaning of each title and its position later.

We believe they will win lots of titles in near future.

Let’s call it a day!

SEE YOU NEXT TIME!