Ospreay and ELP are still fighting the good cause

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1. Japanese fans are agreeing with them, they were ready to get wild at the BoSJ Finals.

2. It’s June already. I thought this mask shit was over and done already and people can start cheering again.

3. I’ve been under the impression that cheers were coming back tonight.

4. Japan Gov doesn’t *make* NJPW fans not cheer. They just asked, and NJPW hasn’t broken that rule.

5. I’m not an antimasker or anything but ffs Covid’s not gonna wipe out Japan if they let the crowd cheer

6. i never understood the no cheering thing when 90% of the crowd is masked anyway. so frustrating, i can’t even imagine how the wrestlers feel

7. Kevin Kelly suggested that crowds could get loud again for the finals, and I’m so disappointed that it doesn’t seem to be the case.

   Supposedly Japan’s government was going to talk about it this month, so maybe we can expect something to change soon? I don’t want to come off as a covid downplayer, but it does feel a bit ridiculous to keep speculating about these things at this point.

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9. Call me a fairweather fan if you must, but without the cheering I haven’t been able to enjoy NJPW at all since WK14.

10. I somehow expected El P to google translate a text that was badly translated to english: « New Japan players expect high vigor from the alive people »

11. I loved how Tatsumi Fujinami came out before the main event, cut a promo without a mask, THEN put a mask on to do commentary. I would have found it comical if it wasn’t so sad.