I know exactly why you're here today. You, you right there, want to discover the real truth

of wrestling bookers because, well, who wouldn't? So let's not waste any more time and jump right

on into it, because I am Gareth, this is What Culture Wrestling, and here is the secret, ugly

truth of wrestling bookers. New Japan Pro Wrestling's Gado made a blunder in the New Japan Cup in 2023.

He installed Jack Perry in the terrible way past it House of Torture stable.

And while Western fans are reliably informed that HOT are actually quite big in Japan,

the unit is still terrible. The easiest and most artless cheap heat generator imaginable.

And you are lying to yourself if you think that New Japan Pro Wrestling stand a chance of recovering its position as the king of pro wrestling any time soon.

The house of torture are actually moreover than you think is hardly a flex, it's more bargaining

really.

New Japan is on its absolute ass and that some of the matches are still really quite good

defence isn't exactly robust.

Every promotion of renown puts on good matches these days, I mean just look at the wrestling

landscape.

It's almost a testament to how good Gado once was that his latest blunders are treated

as some sort of shocking mistake and not the frustrating norm.

He spent almost as much time moulding Sonada into a future top star, much like clay.

Without realising that Sanada might as well be clay for all intents and purposes, Gado has

failed in the same way that every other wrestling bucker fails.

The House of Torture is essentially the Bullet Club without the foreigner element.

They run the same interference spots, they just do more in an overcorrection of the fact that the answer is over.

Magnificent.

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