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**Ultra Mantis** · 03-23-2021, 02:07 PM

We are already down to our final five, with a whopping four players eliminated by the New Japan Cup. Catastrophic levels of elimination. Of those five, only one man, who is unsurprisingly Gertner, has both wrestlers still in the game.

So lets take a look at the odds:

6. Hiromu Takahashi (Supreme Olajuwon)
Out with an injury (torn pec) and unlikely to return any time soon. Would not expect the good Takahashi to be back until Best of the Super Jrs in November, which is way outside of the six week cut off.

5. Togi Makabe (Ultra Mantis)
Big Sweets Makabe is still not being booked to wrestle despite not being injured and showing up to half the shows just to do guest commentary. He is also not booked for the upcoming Sakura Genesis tour, and unless he is the mysterious "X" drafted to Will Ospreay's heel faction as a surprise debut on the big show (he is not, by the way) then he's well on his way to getting a time out. Of course if he does show up he could go the distance since he bumps about as much as Fale. The first day of the Dontaku tour could keep him in the game, but this doesn't seem like Makabe's season to get a second win.

4. Ren Narita (Gertner)
His "excursion" to the LA Dojo and exclusively wrestling low level indie jobbers has really expanded Narita's lifespan in Survivor, however he is currently involved in a tournament for a shot at the US title amongst "bigger" names such as Brody King, Lio Rush and Darren Young the worst one from Nexus even worse than Michael Tarver. He is going to take a loss, it's just a question of when, and I don't pay enough attention to NJPW Strong to give you a solid answer on that.

3. YOH (Savio)
YOH, the not as good as SHO half of Roppongi 3K, makes his long awaited return from injury at Sakura Genesis and is coming straight in with a shot at the freshly crowned Jr Tag Champions, Kanemaru and Despy. While R3K are definitely going to lose, the highly fantasy booked scenario here is a YOH heel turn to join Ospreay's Empire, leaving SHO to take the fall and beginning a singles program where YOH will likely be protected until he actually faces SHO one on one because SHO is going to rinse him lets be real. If that doesn't happen he's fodder.

2. Bad Luck Fale (Gertner)
Ugh, this guy. Not on the Sakura Genesis tour, but it's likely he will be back for Dontaku doing nothing of note and lumbering around aimlessly in multi man tags where he is no danger of even thinking about taking a bump, let alone a finish. He's not too high up on the pecking order, but Bullet Club is bloated enough with pin eaters for him to survive indefinitely if Gedo wills it.

1. Kota Ibushi (mike adamle)
The self proclaimed God, destroyer of prestige and arbiter of championship lineage has an unpredictable World Heavyweight Championship bout with New Japan Cup winner and maker of questionable life choices, Will Ospreay, at Sakura Genesis on April 4th. Retaining here would make him nigh invincible until Dontaku in May. Just Ibushi things.

03-23-2021, 02:07 PM	#18
Ultra Mantis Grim Fandango Posts: 5,192	We are already down to our final five, with a whopping four players eliminated by the New Japan Cup. Catastrophic levels of elimination. Of those five, only one man, who is unsurprisingly Gertner, has both wrestlers still in the game. So lets take a look at the odds: 6. Hiromu Takahashi (Supreme Olajuwon) Out with an injury (torn pec) and unlikely to return any time soon. Would not expect the good Takahashi to be back until Best of the Super Jrs in November, which is way outside of the six week cut off. 5. Togi Makabe (Ultra Mantis) Big Sweets Makabe is still not being booked to wrestle despite not being injured and showing up to half the shows just to do guest commentary. He is also not booked for the upcoming Sakura Genesis tour, and unless he is the mysterious "X" drafted to Will Ospreay's heel faction as a surprise debut on the big show (he is not, by the way) then he's well on his way to getting a time out. Of course if he does show up he could go the distance since he bumps about as much as Fale. The first day of the Dontaku tour could keep him in the game, but this doesn't seem like Makabe's season to get a second win. 4. Ren Narita (Gertner) His "excursion" to the LA Dojo and exclusively wrestling low level indie jobbers has really expanded Narita's lifespan in Survivor, however he is currently involved in a tournament for a shot at the US title amongst "bigger" names such as Brody King, Lio Rush and Darren Young the worst one from Nexus even worse than Michael Tarver. He is going to take a loss, it's just a question of when, and I don't pay enough attention to NJPW Strong to give you a solid answer on that. 3. YOH (Savio) YOH, the not as good as SHO half of Roppongi 3K, makes his long awaited return from injury at Sakura Genesis and is coming straight in with a shot at the freshly crowned Jr Tag Champions, Kanemaru and Despy. While R3K are definitely going to lose, the highly fantasy booked scenario here is a YOH heel turn to join Ospreay's Empire, leaving SHO to take the fall and beginning a singles program where YOH will likely be protected until he actually faces SHO one on one because SHO is going to rinse him lets be real. If that doesn't happen he's fodder. 2. Bad Luck Fale (Gertner) Ugh, this guy. Not on the Sakura Genesis tour, but it's likely he will be back for Dontaku doing nothing of note and lumbering around aimlessly in multi man tags where he is no danger of even thinking about taking a bump, let alone a finish. He's not too high up on the pecking order, but Bullet Club is bloated enough with pin eaters for him to survive indefinitely if Gedo wills it. 1. Kota Ibushi (mike adamle) The self proclaimed God, destroyer of prestige and arbiter of championship lineage has an unpredictable World Heavyweight Championship bout with New Japan Cup winner and maker of questionable life choices, Will Ospreay, at Sakura Genesis on April 4th. Retaining here would make him nigh invincible until Dontaku in May. Just Ibushi things.