
Great show Joe. I hope everything in Your personal life gets sorted out. To be fair though, I didn't find the show from two weeks ago bad or anything like this.
Just one more thing though
I hear "this G1 is not as good as last three editions" almost everyday. Oh come on. Obviously, it's not as good as 23 and 24. But there is no way it is, due to the new format with 19 shows. But this G1 is in my opinion better than last year's. Honestly, I feel like many people who say that 25 was better is because they only remember the great stuff, like Honma/Ishii, AJ/Ibushi, or Tanahashi/AJ. Yeah, there were a lot of great matches last year, especially when they got to Tokyo for last six days. But many matches were absolutely dreadful. You had Gallows, Yujiro, unmotivated Tenzan, underwhelming Nakamura, bad Fale, gimmick-heavy Naito. Most of the shows had 1-2 very good to great matches, and 2-3 that were either ok or just not good at all. Not to mention the single-cam shows, and almost no fresh matches. This year, the field is fresh, there are a lot of interesting little stories, like Tenzan's last G1 or Tana making his big comeback to name a few. While I could understand why people are saying that last year's G1 was better (higher ceiling), calling this year's tournament a massive disappointment or just saying that it's been underwhelming is just understandable to me. Last year's tournament without Triple Sumo Hall would be a disappointment. This year it's been already great, and we aren't in Sumo yet.
Also your TNA rant was great. I couldn't agree more with this.