#ace austin
since the bosj started i’ve been keeping an eye on japanese twitter fan reactions to the new american wrestlers (yuta, alex zayne, ace austin) and it’s funny how you can tell how popular a wrestler is with female fans based on the amount of fanart and fan-taken photos.
anyway, somewhat surprisingly alex zayne and ace austin are clearly ahead of yuta in popularity, partly thanks to zayne tweeting a lot about trying japanese foods, but i think also bc zayne and ace both have flashier looks and movesets than yuta. also idk if yuta being mixed japanese-american but not speaking japanese influences things one way or the other.
i would have liked to see more support for yuta but - even if yuta doesn’t get super over in japan, he’s still super popular in aew which has a big fanbase. for ace - impact’s fanbase is nowhere near as big so i like seeing one of my poor little impact meow meows get a lot of recognition for once
Im as happy to see Ace Austin as part of the BOSJ as I am Wheeler Yuta, Ace is fucking top notch, he’s a real shining light in Impact’s stuff.