With the exception of NXT Takeover: Dallas, which was a great event, but I didn't like the main event due to the ref stoppage to stitch Joe back together, I haven't watched anything WWE-related at all. I did watch plenty of NJPW so here's what I got. Order below means nothing.
1. Kenny Omega winning the G1 Climax giving amazing five-star performances on back-to-back days on route to winning it.
2. Kenny Omega vs Michael Elgin in a ladder match. I would think having a ladder match in NJPW could have been disastrous if the crowd wouldn't react well to the ladder spots, but these two work really well together and took some brutal bumps (especially when Omega took a powerbomb from halfway of a ladder onto a table and the table didn't break.)
3. Katsuyori Shibata really establishing himself as probably the most dangerous/vicious/brutal man in all of wrestling right now where he just won a lot of singles matches in hard-hitting matches. Here's a gif of him doing a headbutt. I know some people are rightfully squeamish about headbutt spots, so I'm going to be this in spoiler tags since this could be borderline NSFW.
4. The G1 Climax as a whole. Some would think losing Karl Anderson, Kota Ibushi, and AJ Styles to WWE would hurt the tournament, but them being gone forced NJPW to push guys to step up and those guys that stepped up certainly made the most of their role including Kenny Omega, Tetsuya Naito, Katsuyori Shibata, and Michael Elgin. Tomohiro Ishii was probably the best wrestler of the block/tournament giving amazing matches, including a tremendous match against Okada. Heck, the attendance of this year's G1 Climax as a whole was larger than last year's. Truly, the greatest tournament on all of professional wrestling today.
People would think losing Ibushi/Anderson/Styles would mean the end of the line of NJPW this year, but NJPW persevere and had a great year and 2017 looks to be promising, hopefully with some G1 Climax shows in SoCal as rumored.
Last edited by anguyen92; 12-19-2016 at 10:45 PM.