I wanted to start this off with “Wow the WWE really dropped the ball on Kota Ibushi”, because they did have him in the Cruiserweight Classic, a few matches on NXT and that was it. At first, I though the WWE made a huge mistake not signing Ibushi to a long-term contract, but he wasn’t the same man he is now. He was a lot smaller back then. Now he looks like he put on a lot of muscle and looks the part of a main eventer.

The Cruiserweight Classic was in 2016, since then Ibushi has been in matches against Kenny Omega (the greatest wrestler of all time), Will Osprey, Tama Tonga, Tetsuya Naito, Kazuchika Okada and many other Main Eventers.

Maybe not signing with the WWE could’ve been the best thing that could’ve happened to Ibushi. He did say he wanted to raise Japanese Wrestling up and he certainly has. Eventually, Ibushi will find his way to an AEW or Impact Wrestling arena hopefully not in a similar way Minoru Suzuki did because I don’t want to see Ibushi come and go without a title run. I’d like to see him come for a year, run the gauntlet of dream matches and end his time holding the AEW or Impact Championship.

Let me know what you guys think.

Simptastic Joe