Ranking the modern Young Lion Classes: 2012-2015

Members:

Jay white

David Finlay

Sho Tanaka (SHO)

Yohei Komatsu (YOH)

Juice Robinson

Cody Hall

Overall achievements:

1x IWGP World, 1x IWGP HW, 1x IWGP IC, 4x IWGP US, 2x IWGP Global, 2x NEVER, 1x IWGP Jr, 1x KOPW, 1x IWGP HW Tag, 5x IWGP Jr Tag, 3x NEVER 6-Man, 1 WTL, 5x SJTL, 2 Tokyo Dome main events.

Star Student: Jay White

Best team/faction: Roppongi 3k (SHO and YOH)

Best Rivalry: White vs Robinson

Best excursion Jay White (ROH)

Best match: Jay White vs Juice Robinson G1 Special in San Francisco 2018

This class is odd as its mostly gaijin dominated. Which is even more notable as 5/6 of the class were in Bullet Club at some point.

This class gifted us 3 top homegrown gaijins. With Jay White becoming a consistent main evented, world champion and Tokyo Dome headliner. He is perhaps the best homegrown non Japanese talent of all time.

Juice at a time was one of the most organic and purest babyfaces in the world. Finlay, who may have lingered as a lower midcarder has done well for himself since turning heel. I think he has excelled in a more prominent position he just gets outshined by his predecessor in Jay White as well as the fellow War Dogs. In addition, most of the negative sentiment towards him is due to him suddenly jumping from a lower midcarder to the top heel.

The two native Young Lions have had their career intertwined. Creating the top Jr Heavyweight tag team. However, they have had lackluster singles runs. This is partially due to their predecessors in Hiromu and Desperado excelling as the main generational Jr rivalry. Not to mention prominent outsiders like Kushida, Ishimori and Ospreay holding top spots in the division.

Nonetheless, how would you rate this class out of 10/on a grading scale.

by shecanbromehard

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