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Post by thefourmanband on Aug 5, 2019 20:31:39 GMT -5
Despite a lack of a push and not appearing in as many places, Zack Sabre Jr still has been Zack Sabre Jr for the most part. Top matches so far include teaming with Minoru Suzuki against Evil and Sanada, vs. Kota Ibushi in the New Japan Cup, and against Shane Strickland on the Wrestlecon Supershow. Last year I had him at number 2 as the only real contender to WALTER. At the moment he's 8th, which is a bit down but still a very good year. Not sure what's coming up for him anymore with his G1 Climax run not setting much up for him, but I'd be surprised if he didn't hold on to his spot in the top 15
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Post by mlev76 on Sept 3, 2019 10:20:57 GMT -5
I am consistently torn about how to look at ZSJ. On the one hand, he's clearly very talented and always ends up having matches that are, work rate wise, very good or better. But, more often than not, they feel like soul less exhibitions of his skills with no connection to any desire to win. The fact that he seemingly has negative chemistry with Hiroshi Tanahashi also is quite a negative for me. With that said, he did do a better job of looking like he cared about the actual outcome of the matches towards the back end of the G1 and I really liked his tag match with Suzuki against Okada and Tanahashi on the G1 Final. Most likely, a top 20 guy for me, but plenty of room for others to leap over him.
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Post by bossrock on Sept 4, 2019 7:16:20 GMT -5
I'm actually the opposite and think he has consistently delivered against Tanahashi. I feel like Tana brings out a more aggressive side to Sabre who in turn forces Tana to step his mat game up. While wrestling almost exclusively in NJPW this year has brought his output down well below where he was the last two years, his overall body of work is still very good. His G1 wasn't quite as good as expected but he managed to have fun stuff with just about everyone (even Fale!). The only real blemish on his resume to me is the YOSHI-HASHI match but that was probably more on the latter rather than the former (as well as my expectations that YOSHI-HASHI tends to overachieve in big match situations).
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