YMMV / Michinoku Pro Wrestling

• Badass Decay: Takeshi Minamino was the top heel of the 2004-2005 season, only to fall down more and more over the years until becoming a tag team lowcarder or midcarder at the best.
• Broken Base:
  • Western puroresu fans were divided about whether Yoshitsune's push was too short or too long (although many were unanimous in that it happened too late). His title drop to Hayato Fujita was even more controversial overseas, as at the time Fujita was not as popular overseas as he was in Japan (see Rescued From The Scrappy Heap below).
  • Is the Yapper Men gimmick really fun or is it just wasting Oosugi and Senga as wrestlers?
  • Mu no Taiyo. Some (even the Japanese That Other Wiki) think it's too unsubtle of an attempt to capitalize on The Wyatt Family's popularity, while others think it is actually quite interesting to see Sasuke as a heel again.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Very much like Dragon Gate, M-Pro has barely changed its roster since 2004, and usually only to lose established stars to bigger promotions, like Yoshitsune and Kenou. Added to the fact that the MPW Dojo is notoriusly unlucky at producing new stars (only Kenou and Hiugaji came out of it, while virtually all the other promising rookies of the decade -Takayuki Aizawa, Yoshiyasu Shimizu and Kazuhisa Okabe- had to retire for injuries and never got to shine very much), some fans are tired of watching the same wrestlers doing the same stable revolution routine every year.
• Replacement Scrappy: Kenbai to Yoshitsune. He uses a similar samurai-esque attire and mask, carries a katana to the ring, is also a high-flyer, and teams up with Rasse. The difference is that Kenbai is a much less skilled wrestler, and his wrestling style is duller and used to feature a lot of botched, especially when he tried to do Yoshitune's signature moves like the tiger feint kick and the satellite headscissors.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Hayato Fujita used to be seen by Western fans as boring and out of place, as he was a shoot-stylist (and not a particularly technical shooter a la Kiyoshi Tamura, but rather one of the "kick, kick and kick" variety in the vein of Nobuhiko Takada, only without Takada's charm) in a lucharesu promotion. They also found his bad boy image annoying and unoriginal at the same time. However, his championship reigns and increasingly high profile matches and storylines allowed him to show his talent and true potential, and nowadays he is a well considered cruiserweight.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Probably due to his thong-clad gimmick, Manabu Murakami got very positive reviews upon his debut in Toryumon X. However, Michinoku Pro reduced him to a lowcarder and never really allowed him to show his skills, aside from putting him as a perennial heel Garbage Wrestler and later in a Those Two Guys team with Takeshi Minamino.