Hey now, we are getting over, and I am the Silver King, Adam Silverstein, here to lead you through these hard times,

with a very special edition of the Getting Over professional wrestling podcast.

This is the very first time that we hear on Getting Over are really going to sit down

and take a long, hard look at New Japan Pro Wrestling, and we're going to be doing it coming

right out of Russell Kingdom 15, the company's biggest pay-per-view of the year. It has been a very

interesting last 12 months or so in my personal NJPW fandom.

Because look, you know, we're candid on this show, right?

I was way into NJPW for a number of years recently, primarily during this extended Kenny

Omega run along with Russell Kingdom 14 last year, which did not feature Kenny Omega,

but featured numerous other big time stars and big time matches.

But through the pandemic,

um,

work being extremely busy,

New Japan itself for some of the shows that it did put on,

ahead of the G1 climax, being very disappointing. Some of the clips I saw on some of the individual matches that I saw, I kind of

fell out of love a little bit with New Japan. I did not watch the G1 this year for the first time

in, I believe, four or five years. It felt weird

over the summer, but it's a huge time suck. And the truth of the matter, as I just didn't

have it. I didn't have the time to sit and watch it. I saw a couple of matches over the

course of the year, probably three or four. And while the high quality wrestling was still there, there just

wasn't necessarily much truly drawing me in. But I said, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and

watch Russell Kingdom 15 in its entirety. And I'm going to do an instant analysis for the show

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