10 Major Predictions For NJPW Dominion 2018
8. El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru Vs. Roppongi 3K - IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match
Another match intended to maintain interest levels without spiking them, expect a short bout with enough daredevil flair and dirty fraudulence to entertain to a degree.
This nonetheless is a far more appealing prospect than it would have been just a few weeks ago, at which point the pairing exhausted itself through arbitrary title changes and profound overexposure - a series of seemingly endless events that hardly helped what was an underwhelming programme to begin with. SHO turned heads during the recent Best Of The Super Juniors tournament by wrestling a more raw and gritty style to which fans of the division are accustomed, while El Desperado shed his one-dimensional heel stigma with a series of good-to-great performances. His match with Hiromu Takahashi in particular was a brutal and believable war. Their exchanges, buoyed by this recent buzz, will, temporarily, forgive Gedo's doubles divisions sins.
Prediction: All that said, you can't help but view the outcome cynically, given the recent 50/50 booking of a division it has to be fair game to criticise New Japan and WWE for equally.
Best to predict a title change, if there's money on it.