One of the most fun bits about tournaments is when faction members take on each other in tournaments in competitive but friendly bouts that wouldn’t normally happen.
However, I feel like we haven’t had as much of this in recent years.
The only inter-faction UE matches have been Ospreay vs O-Khan and Moloney vs Akira this past year. Would have been great to see Cobb vs Ospreay after they both joined UE. Cobb vs Henare would have also been great. Akira vs TJP would be a great little vs big brother match.
We also never got Jay vs KENTA which would have been fun to see who trolls who more.
Outside of G1 30 the Suzuki Gun heavyweights were kept far apart. Which I understand especially as they were breaking up but we still haven’t got Zack vs Taichi or Suzuki 😡 better happen when he wins the HW or Global title this year right.
Despite being in LIJ together for 5 years, Sanada and Takagi never mixed things up. It would have happened last year although after Sanada left. But EVIL ruined that. I still think that match could happen in the NJC/G1 final this year.
I just want to see Inter-faction pecking order bouts as they are normally some of the best matches in the tournament. Ishii vs Okada G1 26, Takagi vs Naito G1 29, Ibushi vs Omega G1 28, Goto vs Ishii G1 28, Takagi vs Hiromu NJC 2022. Rocky vs Ospreay BOSJ 26
This year it would be nice to see some of these: all of UE square off, Eagles vs Fujita, Tanahashi vs Umino, Ishimori vs one of the war dogs, Finlay vs Kids, Takagi vs Tsuji, Uemura vs Taichi/Sanada.
by shecanbromehard
