| 1 | 30.04.2022 | Ma Stump Puller | 5.0 | WNC followed in the footsteps of other Tajiri promotions in that it was more of a western-style promotion: that is, more goofy, focus on less-sport orientated presentation and more on gimmicks and whatnot: basically a WWE footprint. While this style can be successful (see HUSTLE just exploding on the scene in the mid-2000's) this tends to be very hit or miss depending on the talent involved. HUSTLE had Tenryu, Kawada, and a whole host of very big draws that could do comedy on top of generally being huge stars with name value, building up new guys by getting eyes on them in the first place. WNC had absolutely none of that and relied highly on lots of indie talent that audiences tended to not know about or had minimal interest. Running multiple shows a month meant that WNC quickly lost their novelty value despite getting a ton of help from bigger promotions, leading to a main event crisis that had TAJIRI hog the belt for ages until dropping it to someone that the crowd had zero interest in being champ, so much so that his title reign basically occurred as soon as the company went under. It really doesn't help that the quality of the matches available are mostly quite average (you can find the vast majority of them online via their Youtube channel and whatnot) so inevitably the company went under even faster than Smash did. They would merge into Muto's W-1, which had the same exact issues, so technically they never went under....but it was obvious that they weren't going to last even with the funding they were getting. I can at least say that a good few solid talent got their starting steps here and went to bigger things, which is a positive I suppose. Other than that and some decent Fit Finlay matches, not a lot worth mentioning as a whole. Good effort but the company just never got any real momentum. |
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