Originally, Ryohei Oiwa was going to be one of our winners this week for winning the G1 Climax tournament over in New Japan Pro-Wrestling. However, that final against Yuya Uemura has got so many people talking, and is so critically acclaimed, that it would be rude to just focus on Oiwa when NJPW as a whole have won big this summer.
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, NJPW has chased the high that the company had throughout the 2010s, but has never quite managed to reach it. Restrictions due to COVID-19, the departures and retirements of those who made the 2010s boom period what it was, and the teething problems that naturally c
