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[allgoldenelite]

Talk Jay white to me :)

i'm gonna put julia hart in here too since you asked about her as well.

jay: have loved him ever since his debut. i thought he was a bit rough around the edges when he first got thrown into all these high profile matchups, but thats only natural lol he was literally a child. i think lots of ppl perked up tho after him vs kenny in sapporo. i was a bit disappointed they didnt do more with the history between him and hanger, kenny and ibushi for wembley but there was a lot of negative stuff going on at the time so w/e.

i love him a lot but id have to say that i have cooled down on him a bit cause im not watching aew rn and there really isnt any other way to perceive him, sadly. i know the gang gang scissor ass bang or whatever is immensely popular and i did like some of the stuff i was sent by friends but i gotta say im a little bit over it just by consuming from afar lol so next i would love for him to get into a grimy nasty t i g h t feud with someone swerve someone and really bring back the rat (like during the time he was chasing after ibushi like he wanted him to [redacted] him sm that [redacted])

hes still for some reason kinda an underrated wrestler who does lots of small things in the ring i appreciate but that dont necessarily stand out so ppl dont really pick up on it a lot. hes not very flashy, i suppose (in the in-ring sense; hes very loud otherwise lol). i think he really stepped up like kenny said and grew into his own, and thats not as easy to do as ppl sometimes say it is. i hold a lot of his matches in high regard, especially him vs ibushi g1 finals, that match is immortal to me and one of my fav matches of all time, ever.

julia: i was extremely meh on her when she started out, the cheerleading stuff just didnt appeal to me even if i can agree that its athletically impressive. whoever trained her tho did a really good job, there are a lot of areas that you can tell she really did her homework in and improved a lot. i think joining hob was the best thing that could ever have happened to her. i said this before somewhere else but i absolutely do NOT get what anyone (tk cough) was smoking to say she shouldve stayed with the varsity blondes, that wouldve been the death of her character 💀 i love her father daughter relationship with the hob guys out of kayfabe and in kayfabe she has some of the coolest gear and entrances.

i really liked her match against kris for the title and i wish it couldve been a little bit longer but i still felt they did everything in their power to get over in those 8? 9? minutes. julias turnbuckle jumpscare is probably my favorite thing about her.

other than that i sadly dont have much of an opinion on her bc, again, i dont watch aew, so if shes done something cool lately sorry folks 🤷 (i did see her gay entrance with skye? iirc, so that was 👌)

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[allgoldenelite]

thank you so much for your translations!!! you do so much work and give so much i just wanted to say thank you!!! i hope you are having a good day 💕

aw thanks anon! you're welcome 😊😊😊

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[allgoldenelite]

Thoughts on Ren Narita

sorry for the late reply!

i love narita. i was in a bad mental state when the crop of narita, shota and co made their original excursions so i remember more of their debuts and then their re-debuts on japanese soil than those tours, but i started paying attention to narita a lot more when he lost to shibata. i think sometimes people dislike grouping wrestlers together under more or less arbitrary names or even associating them with their mentors and other figures who shape their style or what have you (and trust me as a fan of nakamura and shibata i'm quite sick of anything containing the word "musketeer" lol), but i also deeply, deeply value mentor protege relationships in wrestling and i think ren being the antithesis to guys like shota and uemura in much the same way shibata was the antithesis to guys like tanahashi and nakamura is a really fun aspect of their stories that i enjoy a lot. of course it helps that narita and shota have been absolutely feral about each other, and the apron spot from noah's new year show where narita quite literally drags shota with him down to hell has been living rent free in my head ever since (the rest of the show is gone from my memory and i hope it stays that way forever).

i feel mixed about the heel turn. i can see why someone would count it as an advantage for him, a chance to change up your gimmick and try out something new, but imo it came a bit too early and HoT is nothing but the bane of my existence. most of those guys have shoot heat with me lol so i don't like ren being in there. i think the cape looked like a spirit halloween costume and the less we see of it the better. also the turn sadly changed his style and whenever ppl do get a glimpse of his, quite frankly, stellar grappling abilities, they're like oh wow the guy can actually wrestle! goes to show you what being in HoT does to a talent. sigh.

but i have high hopes for him still and i don't think those will go away anytime soon, misplaced allegiance to evil or not.

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