User blog:VALEW/My wrestler of the month pick for January 2018: Jay White (New Japan Pro Wrestling)

Wanted to try the blog feature in Wikia for some time now, especially in this wiki, so I will try to do this monthly type of blog post focusing on the wrestler that IN MY OPINION had the best January 2018, February 2018, March 2018 and so on. So here we go.

We have seen many young lions from New Japan Pro Wrestling doing huge impact right after they come back from excursion. But surely Jay White's impact since coming back to NJPW after years of wrestling in the United States independent circuit to challenge Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship has to be now in the discussion for the most notable example of them all. Adopting the character of the psycho "Switchblade" and operating as a lone wolf (Wich is a really remarkable considering New Japan's faction warfare system), Jay White started to stalk his prey, the ace of New Japan Hiroshi Tanahashi, in the form of cryptic videos for several months, to return at Power Struggle 2017 and attack Tanahashi after he successfully defended his Intercontinental Title and lay down the challenge for Wrestle Kingdom 12.

Jay White started his January at said event having an eye-opening performance against Tanahashi and even tho he was not victorious he quickly moved on in a huge way.

Switchblade caught the attention of a lot of people after WK 12, one of those being the leader of The Bullet Club, Kenny Omega. On January 5 at New Year Dash, Omega personally called out White and offered him a spot in the club; at first it looked like Switchblade was the newest member of The Bullet Club, but after a hug between the two, it only took one second for White to hit the Blade Runner on Omega and make his intentions clear: Omega's IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship at The New Begining in Sapporo. Shortly after it was announced that White and Kazuchika Okada sealed a deal that saw Switchblade join the CHAOS faction to combat Omega's Bullet Club, and even warned Okada about going after his IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the future; as White said on his twitter: "You need Soldiers for a War" On the way to said event White defeated his longtime friend from the time they were young lions David Finlay. The following night White and Omega main evented the show, whit White defeating Omega and becoming the second ever IWGP US Champion.

Jay White's impact in a Heavyweight division already stacked up whit huge names is a testimony of his huge potential, that is why I am giving him my wrestler of January 2018 award. Some honorable mentions are Johnny Gargano (WWE) and Austin Aries (Independent). Until 30 days.