How Jon Moxley Became The Best Wrestler In The World

Moxley's magnificent debut with Juice Robinson wasn't even the match of the night on the card it featured on. Best Of The Super Juniors finalists Will Ospreay and Shingo Takagi wrestled like heavyweight headliners instilled with grace but immune to gravity.

A 33+ minute firecracker followed the form of both, in particular the 'Aerial Assassin'. Already a contemporary British Wrestling legend, Will Ospreay became famous in Japan before America thanks to some jaw-dropping encounters with Ricochet that seemingly gave him more of a thirst for that life than the one offered by WWE.

An odd accidental target of Seth Rollins' recent Twitter calamities, Ospreay was a worst case scenario strike-out for the former Universal Champion on account of how f*cking excellent he's been between the ropes this year. Ostensibly the chosen Western replacement for Kenny Omega by NJPW management, he's upped his already sky-high workrate to earn and enhance the comparisons.

Fighting Baron Corbin every night might have been helping the 'Lone Wolf' get better, but that's subjective and the contests certainly weren't adding classics to Seth's CV. Ospreay meanwhile - and in spite of his age and experience (26 and seven years, respectively) - improved every aspect of his game with every passing match, ably assisting others to have career-best performances in the process.

Referring to the aforementioned G1 Climax classic with Kazuchika Okada couldn't really be considered Ospreay's apex, because he seemingly has higher to fly. All of his tournament outings have thus far been outstanding - he's living up to expectations and surpassing them with a run that could and should come to define his first steps as a full-time New Japan Heavyweight.

But they had quite the standard to try and top. 24 hours earlier in the very same building Jon Moxley had forced a grounded and pounded Tomohiro Ishii to fly through the air.

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