And the reason I prefer NJPW to any & all other wrestling promotions ends up on display during one of the semi-finals: Attention to detail.
It's usually done with callbacks, sometimes references that go back five, even ten, years. This time it was more of a "okay, I don't remember the last time I've seen this thing happen"
You have to follow the product, and fairly closely over an extended period to be honest, to get what any number of subtle things mean but if you do then the payoff is there. There's a much higher bar to entry for NJPW fandom, but there's also a higher ceiling afaic.
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