UWAI STATION Freestyle Pro-Wrestling (UWAI STATION)

[0.0] "You know a promotion is not good because Fumihiko Uwai named a promotion after himself. This promotion aint special despite paying and booking Katsuyori Shibata as one of the top stars, Kazuchika Okada as a prospect at the time & Don Arakawa being another ace for the brand that has bad comedy. Mucha is awful, Kikutaro can go in the ring but more known done better elsewhere as a comedy guy. This is a wasted opportunity to showcase great puroresu. Bryan Danielson wrestled there, Kota Ibushi and Akihiko Mori went toe to toe where it was the worst matchup by proxy in their careers. UWAI smells off as stale milk."

[4.0] "UWAI suffered from a complete lack of actual theme or overall narrative. Unlike Big Mouth LOUD, which was loud shoot-style with gritty violence and a vicious ace in Shibata, formed with a core bunch of individuals with freelancers coming in and out, UWAI was all over the place and had no real niche to focus on. Some were majority lucha, some comedy, women's wrestling, and a ton of masked wrestlers that people really didn't care much for at all. It doesn't help that Uwai as a promoter was generally not very good, mostly focusing himself on NJPW nostalgia and Inoki-Ism themes (which had died off years back and was being firmly milked to death by IGF) refusing to actually move on with the times. The same issues that LOUD suffered from (too many freelancers going over, overreliance on older acts and confusing booking) continued here, and the additional pressures of losing his big draw in Shibata due to his interest in legit MMA (plus shitty booking) meant that the promotion was doomed to fail. That being said, it did have a few good matches here and there so it wasn't all dreadful."