also give the women more, obviously

(i think the worst time for this was like early '25, with mox/cope in the main event when cope just could not go anymore at the same time as the learning tree being unbearable and that jeff jarrett main event stint and mjf feud that was so ass it got hotshotted to the end)

cs3 juggling ff16, 14, and the tactics remake (their budget, as decided by the square enix c-suite, who are ontologically incapable of making bad decisions, is approximately one half-eaten ham sandwich)

like the equivalent is a little under 60m usd, which is still a fuckton of money, but that's still tiny by AAA standards. its like 2/3rds of what they spent on forspoken and less than half of what they spent on both parts of the 7 remake so far

that's honestly mainly why I say specifically battlarts with how comparatively open it was. if they were able to make bob backlund work and jeff hardy in the willow gimmick work they could totally make kawada work

it kind of makes me wonder how kawada would've done in something like battlarts that kept the more shooty base but does the whole "all styles are equal" thing

although, i say that about basically everyone

overall actually a fun little match, fucked finish aside

kawada's better than you would expect at working the uwfi style (even if by this point it had apparently lost a lot of the stuff that made it unique.) definitely an enormous styles clash but a fun watch

NOOOOO THEY FUCKED THE FINISH

kawada actually doesn't seem that bad at the uwfi style either which i think surprises me more than the fact this match even exists

this is apparently at the very end of uwfi which does make it a bit more believable