The ridiculously physically intense style that made the matches so watchable proved to be a double-edged sword though - by 2008 nearly all the main wrestlers were physical wrecks. Jimbo retired in 2014 and handed over power to his protege Nobuatsu Tatsuko, who has since cleverly positioned PGHW as 'Japan's promotion' to take advantage of BHOTWG going in a more western direction.