10 Wrestlers NJPW Should Consider For Next Year's G1 Tournament
3. Will Ospreay
What else is there to say about Will Ospreay that you don't already know? If you have even a cursory knowledge of wrestling outside of WWE, you know that Ospreay is a once-in-a-generation talent.
At first known for his gif-tastic spotfests, the Essex boy wonder has proven in his last few New Japan runs that he's one of the best in-ring storytellers night-in and night-out. The dude is a total package, and his latest run with the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship produced some of the best title defences all year, and for New Japan, that is saying quite a lot.
Still, like Kushida, it's appearing as though Ospreay has no more worlds left to conquer among the junior heavyweights. With Hiromu Takahashi and Taiji Ishimori putting on a five-and-a-half star classic in the BOSJ finals, a torch has been passed from the old guard to the new.
It would be criminal to let Ospreay keep spinning his wheels in a division that looks ready to move beyond him. Placing him in the G1 would produce some amazing matches against opponents we've never seen him tango with.
Will Ospreay's the big man on campus, for sure. Let's let him graduate.