tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62964662011-07-08T16:43:17.874+08:00Reviews of puroresu shows in my collectionEric Extremehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15011133819763569736noreply@blogger.comBlogger1831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296466.post-43071134609889383852009-10-25T21:28:00.006+08:002009-10-26T15:10:28.932+08:00

Wrestle Kingdom Grand Opening VIENTO DORADO: Mistico, Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince DeVitt VS Averno, Jado & GedoMore of a showcase match to introduce Mistico to the Japanese fans. I thought the New Japan guys were more impressive than the CMLL crew since they didn’t really do anything that we haven’t seen before by other junior heavyweights in other promotions. And since it was the lucha style, there

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Mohammed Yone & Akihiko Ito VS Takashi Okita & Kento MiyaharaI know Yone is coming off challenging Sasaki for the GHC title and all, but it didn’t look right seeing him no selling and single handedly handling two guys here! I wouldn’t mind if he was someone the size of Rikioh or Morishima, or a senior like Taue, but he is neither so it sort of buried the Kensuke Office guys for me.Match Rating: ½

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Ricky Marvin & Eddie Edwards VS Akihiko Ito & Ippei OtaThis was a great opener, and a good way to warm up the crowd for the show. Both teams looked really good here, and the way they went at it, you’d think the junior titles were on the line or something! Also didn’t hurt that the match was a sprint and didn’t go too long. Marvin & Edwards work well together and showed a few great tandem moves,

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Akihiko Ito VS Takashi OkitaA good showing for both youngsters. Okita looks a lot like Tomohiro Ishii, and he has a nice spear tackle and a Jackhammer which he should be finishing people off with soon. He'll definitely be a good heavyweight prospect after a few years of work. I'm also still a big fan of Ito and love seeing his progression.I thought it was a nice touch by the referee to not count

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Golden Great League Semi Final: Magnitude Kishiwada VS KAGETORA- I was surprised how one sided this match was with Kishiwada almost squashing KAGETORA here, save for a few hope spots. Kishiwada even pinned him arrogantly by standing over him with his hands on his chest for the win after a Last Ride. They were building up Kishiwada as a true monster as he got passed his block undefeated, even if

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Taken from the 6/28/09 “CROSSOVER ‘08” tour closer at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium.Masanobu Fuchi, Nobukazu Hirai & Akira Raijin VS NOSAWA Rongai, MAZADA & TAKEMURA- I haven’t watched any AJPW in a while, but DAMN has Raijin completely changed his image! He seems to have dropped a ton of weight and looks almost slimmer than the Gurentai members! He’s also a lot faster and doesn’t just rely on

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Genba Hirayanagi VS KAGETORAClipped down quite a bit and we see the continued heel growth of Genba, matching up against the more experienced KAGETORA. Genba tries to steal the win, but the Shoryu-Genba and a straight up low blow both fail to get the job done. Genba has also added a nice version of a T-bone suplex to his arsenal. KAGETORA back with a big brainbuster followed by the John Woo and

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Junji Izumuda & Taiji Ishimori VS Kento Miyahara & Takashi Okita- Skip this unless you want to see how the KO students are coming along.Kishin Kawabata, Kentaro Shiga & Masao Inoue VS Tamon Honda, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Mitsuo Momota- Skip this too as we've seen it a million times before.Akira Taue & Mohammed Yone VS Akitoshi Saito & Kazushi Miyamoto- A tryout match for Miyamoto? He got to show off

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I would like to point out that I am dropping Dragon Gate from my Japanese puroresu watching as I’m rather getting fed up with the repeated overkill of the big matches. After this, I only have the annual Kobe World show to watch and I’ll be done.Anthony W. Mori, PAC & Syachihoko Machine VS Cyber Kong, Akira Tozawa & Super Shenlong- Fast paced match with everyone getting to show their stuff. Cyber

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Kento Miyahara Debut Match ~ A New Dream: Kento Miyahara vs Seiya SanadaKensuke Office rookie vs All Japan rookie. Good new blood match, but I felt it went a little too long. Sanada wins with a high-angle Boston crab after hitting a high-angle backbreaker.Takashi Okita Debut Match ~ A New Dream: Takashi Okita VS Takeshi MinaminaoMinaminao is an Ultimo Dragon student, and Okita is an ex-American

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Akihiko Ito & Genba Hirayanagi VS Takashi Okita & Kento MiyaharaIto and Miyahara have been developing a bit of a rivalry through out the tour, and this was the climax of it for now. Good showing from the rookies of both sides, and Ito avenges a previous loss pinning Miyahara here with a German suplex.Kishin Kawabata, Kentaro Shiga & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi VS Masao Inoue, Junji Izumuda & Mitsuo

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"Pro-Wrestling Love in Yokohama" 7/01/2007Kikutaro VS "brother" YASSHIClipped down, but fun for what they managed to show, with Kikutaro using some of YASSHI's own tricks against him, including the testicular claw and testicular dragon screw! The resident comedy king couldn't put YASSHI away though, and was pinned with a quick la majistral cradle.Match Rating: N/ARyuji Hijikata & AKIRA VS T28 &

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Happy New Year!Junji Izumuda & Tsutomu Hirayanagi VS Kishin Kawabata & Mitsuo MomotaSurprisingly Hirayanagi is breaking out as a mini SUWA-like heel! He wasn’t afraid to dish out low-blows when in trouble and even heeled his own partner! He’s gonna make a fine junior heel in the future. Kawabata remains a fun guilty pleasure of mine to watch, and he pulled out a new move I haven’t seen before,

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2006 SHINING SERIES 10/29/2006AHII, Ryuji Hijikata & Katsuhiko Nakajima VS Suwama, Buchanan & “brother” YASSHIThey clip this down so all the emphasis is on AHII flipping around all over the place and YASSHI taking a beating. The heels get a short advantage and triple team AHII, but some help from the chili-headed superhero’s partners, and he’s able to hit an ultra-hurricanrana on YASSHI for the

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SUMMER IMPACT 9/03/2006Nobutaka Araya VS KikutaroThe usual fun comedy from Kikutaro, but he did show some strength when he actually managed to get Araya up for a delayed vertical suplex! Unfortunately he put Araya back safely on his feet when his back gave out! Araya picked up the win with a really soft looking lariat.Match Rating: *Masanobu Fuchi VS Akira RaijinClipped down to about a minute. We

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I really liked the opening video they used, showing the history of both New Japan and All Japan and generations of great wrestlers from both East and West that came and went throughout the years.Welcome to Tokyo Dome! New Year Funny Waltz:Masanobu Fuchi, El Samurai & Ryusuke Taguchi VS Kikutaro, Nobutaka Araya & Akira RaijinFun comedy match to kick off the show. It was good to see 30,000+ fan

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I like the intro video where they made a big deal about All Japan running a show in the Sumo Hall, as well as hyping the featured matches on the card.We then get the usual RO@D in ring segment to greet the crowd as well as the TARU interference bit.AHII VS Voodoo MaskNice build up video for this one showing how Mutoh discovered AHII while on his recent trip to Mexico. AHII has a weird looking

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CROSSOVER TOUR 7/03/2006Keiji Mutoh, AKIRA & Ryuji Hijikata VS Minoru Suzuki, NOSAWA Rongai & Katsushi TakemuraThe focus of the match was the on-going feud between Mutoh and Suzuki, so of course you don’t get the exciting confrontation you’d expect when two guys want at each other so badly. Instead they take it slow and do the basic mat work grappling for an advantage and leave the speedy stuff

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Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Tsutomu Hirayanagi VS Mitsuo Momota & Atsushi AokiI rather enjoyed watching the two old veterans go at it, as Momota wasn’t afraid to take some sick looking elbow strikes from Kikuchi and Kikuchi took several loud slaps from Momota. They really flubbed their timing during the ending moments of the match though, and the final 3-count was a bit questionable whether Momota kicked

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Kentaro Shiga, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Tsutomu Hirayanagi VS Tamon Honda, Makoto Hashi & Shuhei TaniguchiRookie Hirayanagi takes a beating getting slammed out on the floor several times, but he did manage to get in some stand-out offense like a missile dropkick, fisherman’s suplex-hold and a swinging DDT. Kanemaru showed a lot of animosity towards his ex-Sterness partner Hashi, and I think they

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It Works Hard Now Here 5/31/2006Hirotaka Yokoi VS Mitsuya NagaiA short match with a whole lot of submission attempts from both guys, that is until Taichi Ishikari and Kazushi Miyamoto got involved and attacked Yokoi behind the referee’s back giving Nagai the chance to hit the Hyper Knee Kuga for the win. This was supposed to be part of the ongoing rivalry with King’s Road, but there really wasn’t

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Starts off with Nanae Takahashi and her mom taking a stroll and talking about Nanae’s career. We then jump to Korakuen Hall for the opening ceremony of the show, first with a few dancing girls in the ring (I think they danced for Magnum TOKYO?) before the introduction of the wrestlers. Wow. SUN has all of FOUR wrestlers on the permanent roster? Nanae thanks the fans and the show kicks off.

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Starts off with an interview with Ultimo Dragon, who’s wearing an interesting half-dragon, half-tiger mask, and is referred to as Tiger Dragon as he does commentary for the show. They run down the card before going to the intro talking about the history of T2P and the six-sided ring and how it’s being brought back for one night tonight.Give them extra points for using the SpineShank song “

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S-ARENA 4/27/2006This is a special show featuring a series of mixed tag matches at the Shin Kiba 1st Ring, with teams representing the districts they came from. Saitama VS Wakayama: Yoshihito Sasaki & Hikaru VS Masato Tanaka & AriyaI think someone played a rib on Tanaka & Ariya since their graphic on the big screen features a very young looking picture of the two when they were

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The show starts off with a 10-bell salute to the late AAA founder Antonio Pena, with Ricky Marvin in the ring holding his picture. We then see Jun Akiyama in the back with a big smile on his face as he points to his name on the event program as he’s in the opening match as part of his plan to rebuild himself from the bottom up after losing the GHC heavyweight title to Naomichi Marufuji the month

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Yujiro, Ryusuke Taguchi & Wataru Inoue VS Jado, Gedo & MinoruI’m really digging Taguchi’s Funky Weapon gimmick, he sort of looks and acts like a Dragon Gate character and he’s got an afro going for him! Inoue played the serious guy of the team, which didn’t suit him if you ask me. There was a cool spot where Jado countered a spear by Inoue into the Crossface of Jado. The biggest surprise of the

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Starts off with a video look at the ten men taking part in this year’s G1:Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi, Giant Bernard, Jushin Thunder Liger and Satoshi KojimaBlock B: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Yuji Nagata, Togi Makabe, Koji Kanemoto and Naofumi Yamamoto We than the official in-ring introductions of the 10-men, as well as 2005 winner Masahiro Chono coming out to return the G1 trophy.

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Mushiking Terry VS Atsushi AokiI was rather surprised at the amount of offense Aoki got in the match, working over Terry’s arm to set up for his arm-bar finishers. The rookie in blue even showed a bit of cockiness and also tried to steal the win by hitting Terry with a low blow followed by his cradle backdrop-hold for a near fall! He still needs a bit of work on his Mysterio-rana into an armbar,

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From the 4/13/2006 Korakuen Hall show, featuring the first defense of the GHC junior tag titles by Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita. Takuya Sugawara & Kagetora VS GENTARO & Munanori SawaMy first look at Kagetora, and I’d hear a bit about him being one of the top heels of El Dorado, but this guy is really small! He makes GENTARO and Sugawara almost look like heavyweights! The guy knows

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Starts off with a look back at the Brave Gate League matches from the 3/17 Korakuen Hall show. First with Tozawa pulling off the huge upset of pinning Naruki Doi thanks to a bag full of protein powder, then Dragon Kid stealing the win from Masato Yoshino with a quick crucifix pin. We then see highlights from the main event of that show where Yasushi Kanda lead the Original M2K to victory over

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Live from Korakuen Hall on the road to Naomichi Marufuji challenging Jun Akiyama for the GHC heavyweight title at the Nippon Budokan on 9/09/2006.Ippei Ota VS Kotaro SuzukiAfter watching so many Mushiking Terry matches, it was good to see plan old Kotaro Suzuki back in the ring again. It was different seeing him in the dominant senior role stiffing and punishing his opponent, and I love his

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Show kicks off with the in ring contract signing for the main event, as well as a short interview segment. Nice to see one of these things go down without one side attacking the other to build heat for the match.Ippei Ota VS Taiji IshimoriNot a bad opener with Ishimori showing some interesting mat submission skills and Ota busting out a 38-rotation airplane spin! I get the feeling Ota could end

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Taiji Ishimori VS Atsushi AokiAoki was acting all tough getting into Ishimori’s face off the bat, but the rookie kid who favored armbar submissions found himself being schooled on the mat by Ishimori who worked his leg with several impressive leglocks and holds. It was impressive the way Aoki just barely managed to keep his balance while catching Ishimori out of the Superstar Elbow and giving him

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NWA Intercontinental Tag Titles: ROWDY (Kohei Sato & Hirotaka Yokoi) VS Pink Force (Steve Corino & Y2P-160kg) [C]They either had a tough crowd today, or both teams really weren’t trying hard enough. I personally go with the later. You really expect more when there are titles on the line in Japan, and this worked out more like a tag match you’d see in WWE. It didn’t seem to build up to anything,

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Starts off with a look back of the feud between Don Fujii and Yasushi Kanda, culminating at the 2/24/2006 Korakuen Hall PPV where Kanda had enough of Fujii’s abuse and finally fought back, only to be given a spike piledriver on a chair by Fujii and CIMA. But Kanda would have the last laugh that evening as he made a triumphant return in his M2K gear to smash a blue box over the head of a shocked

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Covering the finals of the CROSSOVER Tour Junior Heavyweight Singles League on 7/03/2006. It kicks off with a quick look at the rise and fall of “Strong” YASSHI, where he lost all his League matches, but is taking it to the next level by challenging Kensuke Sasaki tonight!Kensuke Sasaki VS “Strong” YASSHIYASSHI comes out to Sasaki’s old Power Warrior theme, and is even wearing the shoulder pads

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This show covers the 3 opening round matches of the CROSSOVER Tour Junior Heavyweight Single League on 6/29/2006. Starting off with the in ring introductions of the participants in the League, and the rules and scoring system to be used. YASSHI goes on a rant afterwards, but everyone ignores him and walks off.Junior Heavyweight Singles League – Block B: Katsushi Takemura VS VirusWow. I’d be lying

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Mitsuo Momota VS SUWAThis was just too much fun! Haruka Eigen was in SUWA’s corner, and SUWA was wearing all pink like the legend used to. This rivalry had been building up for a while and it was great to see this climax wasn’t relegated to just being a squash match as the fans were crazy for Momota, and the Budokan probably would have erupted if the he had scored the win! SUWA used his usual

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Katsuhiko Nakajima & Nobukazu Hirai VS Buchanan & RO’ZThis was cut down to about half the match, and mostly showed Nakajima working against Buchanan to carry the match. This is the first time I’m seeing RO’Z in AJPW, and for the short time he was in the match, he seemed to get gassed pretty quickly, though he did manage to score the win over Hirai with a cross-body block off the second turnbuckle

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The show starts off with the ~let me talk~ talk show in the ring featuring Makoto Hashi, Kotaro Suzuki and I think one of the rookies. I skipped this whole thing since I had no idea what they were talking about, and the segment went 30-minutes!Tamon Honda & Masao Inoue VS Akitoshi Kawabata & Kishin SaitoIn case you didn’t get it, Saito and Kawabata swapped gimmicks and first names for this one!

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SUWA & Akihito Ito VS Mitsuo Momota & Atsushi AokiI would have preferred seeing more of Momota VS SUWA in this one, as they’ve been developing quite a mini feud between the two and their exchanges were pretty heated with the crowd behind Momota. Aoki came off looking a lot better between the two rookies in this one, as Ito didn’t show anything unlike Aoki, who did a nice northern-lights suplex

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We begin this April 1st, 2006 edition of Big Japan Death Match Wars with a look back to the last Korakuen Hall show where Takashi Sasaki won the Death Match title off Abdullah Kobayashi in a brutal match where Sasaki had a nail stub stuck to the back of his head penetrating his skull! The new champion is back in action tonight, and in a 6-man tag death match no less!Shadow WX & Mammoth Sasaki VS

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Mitsuo Momota & Shuhei Taniguchi VS Junji Izumuda & Akihiko ItoTaniguchi definitely impressed in this one when he was able to German suplex Izumuda. He even almost managed to dead lift the big man for another! I always enjoy watching Momota in action for some reason, and the old veteran managed to backdrop Izumuda too! The only disappointment of the match was probably Ito, who didn’t really do

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Korakuen Hall 3/28/2006American Wrestling School: Steve Corino VS Colt CabanaOK, I’ll admit it, despite all the Ring of Honor shows I have in my collection, I’ve never actually watched a lot of Colt Cabana’s matches. The only one that does come to mind was the Chris Candido Memorial Match he had against Larry Sweeney & Delirious in IWA Mid South before he headed off to Japan for this very tour.

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Korakuen Hall 3/31/06 Pt.1We begin with a look back to Abdullah Kobayashi winning the Death Match Title off Ryuji Ito back in December, and the build up to Takashi Sasaki becoming Kobayashi’s first challenger for the title. During the official press conference, Kobayashi brings out a basket full of nail stubs that will be used in the title match at Korakuen Hall. Those things look nasty!Hardcore

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RISE UP TOUR 6/10/2006This rather special edition of the RISE UP TOUR 2006 was Keiji Mutoh’s "WRESTLE LOVE ACT 3" 610 FESTIVAL, which took place at the open air Mitsui Greenland Amusement Park Rainbow Dome. I rather like the concept, as along with the pro wrestling show, they had dancing performances and martial-arts exhibitions.Ryuji Hijikata VS Minoru SuzukiA lot of mat grappling and submission

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RISE UP TOUR 5/21/2006Starts off with a quick look back to the 4/20/06 show where Shuji Kondo successfully defended the AJPW Jr. title against MAZADA, leading to all the junior heavyweights in All Japan arguing amongst themselves as to who would get the next shot at the champion. Masanobu Fuchi agreed to hold a Junior Heavyweight League to crown the number 1 contender, and amongst the competitors

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The big Hustle show that almost didn’t happen due to DSE losing it’s TV deal, but was able to go on as a PPV. They actually kick off the show with a video promo for the next Hustle House Show, which will be a Shinya Hashimoto tribute show by the looks of it. Back live to the arena and they run down the card for tonight’s big show.We than get a GREAT opening video of the show, showing the history

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I like the funny intro bit they did with the commentator and Kotetsu Yamamoto, which sort of resembled the old WWF skits with either Lord Alfred Hayes or Gorilla Monsoon with Bobby Heenan, and this case when had the commentator guy trying to analyze the semis of the BOSJ and Yamamoto is busy eating instead! The commentator picks Kanemoto to win it, whereas Yamamoto picks Kakihara.El Samurai &

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We kick off this edition of Fighting Opera Hustle with a look at the events leading up to tonight’s big 5 on 5 war, as well as the announcement of Hustle Aid.Live in the arena now, and GM RG (or RGM) comes out to a chorus of boos. He comes out in Hanshin Tigers baseball team gear, but than goes for the cheap heat by revealing a Tokyo Giants uniform underneath as he bad mouths the local team.

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We begin this 2/04/06 edition of Big Japan Death Match Wars with a look at the recent death match push of Saburo Inematsu, who despite looking like your everyday jobber, seems to have found his niche as he worked pretty well against Ryuji Ito & Takashi Sasaki in a light tube death match on the last show, and it took the combined efforts of both Sasaki and Ito to take him down after a spirited

Eric Extremehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15011133819763569736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296466.post-1156867363149890952006-08-30T00:00:00.000+08:002006-08-30T00:02:43.166+08:00

Taped live from the Namihaya Dome in Osaka, it’s Osaka Pro Wrestling’s annual Osaka Hurricane show, this year celebrating seven years in the business! First thing you’ll notice obviously is that the show obviously isn’t a sell out, and on an even weirder note, there’s a kid in the audience dressed like a giant yellow turd!?! Yeah…I should state right now the grave injustice Osaka Pro dealt it’s

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Starts off with Blood Gen coming out to discuss the big night they have ahead of them, with Doi and Yoshino facing off against each other in the Brave Gate league match, CIMA & Fuji facing Mochi & Susumu, and the big Dream Gate title defense by Magnitude against Do-FIXER leader Ryo Saito in the main.Magnum TOKYO, Kenichiro Arai & Jack Evans VS Genki Horiguchi, Anthony W. Mori & BxB HulkGenki is

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With the G1 Climax currently underway, I thought I'd better get around to watching this since the G1 shows should be coming out soon.Yujiro VS Takashi Uwano (Highlights)Yujiro seems to have beefed up quite a bit, as he almost resembles Nakanishi! They showed a lot of Yujiro in command, slamming Uwano multiple times for near falls. After one sloppily miss-timed STO, Uwano picks up the win with a

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Show starts off with a pre-recorded interview with Naomichi Marufuji where he’s asked about the 4 new bloods of the company. We than go to the first match.Ippei Ota VS SUWAA change of name for Ota, but no change or advancement in his abilities. After seeing what SUWA did to Hirayanagi at the first SEM show, you’d think the rookies would be a little wary about stepping into the ring him. Well,

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The second SEM show, and it starts off straight in the ring at the Differ Ariake.Yoshinori Ota VS Yoshinobu KanemaruI’m all for putting over the new blood, but I thought Kanemaru was having way too much trouble with Ota in this one. So far, Ota’s defining moves are the old-school airplane spin and a swinging bulldog, but not a whole lot else. There’s always room for improvement though. Ota was

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We kick off with a look outside the Differ Ariake where the event is being held, and the line of fans waiting to enter the event. We are then shown that all the fans who attend the event are given a free DVD containing information on the SEM wrestlers. After a quick shot of the purple and pink SEM ring, we get a short interview with NOAH president Mitsuharu Misawa discussing the concept of SEM

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The second half of the big 1/27/06 new year’s show.Show kicks off with a look back at the formation of Mammoth Sasaki & Shadow WX as a tag team and the road they traveled to get a tag title shot tonight from Abdullah Kobayashi & Daisuke Sekimoto. Daikokubo Benkei & GENTARO VS Yuichi Taniguchi & HyomaBenkei might be the only wrestler in Japan with less mobility than Mr. Pogo or Tadao Yasuda, but

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Show kicks off with a fun recap video of the road the four Champion Carnival semi-finalists took to get here tonight.The live show kicks off with the usual greeting from TAKA Michinoku & RO&D, which is of course followed by the redundant interruption by Voodoo Murders. Same old same old.Kaz Hayashi, AKIRA & Akira Raijin VS D-Lo Brown, Buchanan & Matt Morgan2 junior heavies and a green horn VS 3

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AJPW Champion Carnival 4/15/2006Highlights of Champion Carnival matches from the past few days and the current point standings.Champion Carnival Block B: Matt Morgan VS ArashiA battle of the super-heavyweights. Arashi is a big man, but Morgan is HUGE compared to him. The match was sloppy in places, like the bizarre spot where Arashi looked like he was going for a belly-to-belly, but instead

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AJPW Champion Carnival 7/07/2006Did I mention how the Battle Banquet show has one of the most fun intro themes ever?On to the action!Champion Carnival – Block B: Minoru Suzuki VS ArashiShort, but very entertaining match! This was one of those rare matches where Arashi had his working boots on and was motivated. And MiSuzuki was his old cocky self. I’m sure like many there are a lot of guys who

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Champion Carnival 4/07/2006We kick off the show with an introduction of the 12 men taking part in this year’s Champion Carnival:Block A: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Arashi, D-Lo Brown, Matt Morgan, Minoru Suzuki and Satoshi KojimaBlock B: Yutaka Yoshie, Buchanan, Taiyo Kea, Suwama, Keiji Mutoh and Kensuke SasakiAfter the opening speech, followed by last year’s winner Kensuke Sasaki returning the Champion

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Kicks off with a look back to Apache Pro’s 1/15/06 Blue Field show where Takashi Sasaki turned his back on Apache Pro and joined forces with Big Japan, teaming with Ryuji Ito & Daisuke Sekimoto in the main event to defeat Apache Pro head honcho Kintaro Kanemura, Bad Boy Hido and GENTARO in the main event of the show.The war continues tonight with a huge double-ring scaffold six man tag death

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Here’s the setup: 666 is Onryo’s little indy promotion in Japan who runs small shows every now and then with a weird theme of ghosts, demons etc, since Onryo himself is supposed to be a zombie. To that end, this little show is being held in a tent, with the ring announcer/time keeper wearing ghost make up and DDT referee Grace Asano dressed as a goth girl! And the announce team calling the action

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Show starts off with a quick look back at the major events of the 1/27/06 Battle Junction PPV, followed by a quick look at Jack Evans who’s making waves in Dragon Gate thanks to his acrobatic abilities and his 630’ finisher.Truth Gate 2/11/2006Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Yokosuka & Kenichiro Arai VS CIMA, Shingo Takagi & Jack EvansA lot of American Dragon Gate fans are complaining about Evans

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We kick off the PPV with Do-Fixer coming out to welcome the crowd and wishing everyone a happy new year. They get done, but Blood Generation come out and both sides start yapping it up about “captains”, and the main event is decided as a “Captain’s Fall” match. Magnitude says a few words which brings out a serious Anthony W. Mori to the ring and asking for a shot at Kishiwada, and they decided it

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Ricky Marvin & Yoshinori Ota VS Mitsuo Momota & Akihito ItoI guess with Eigen now retired, Momota gets to play the grumpy senior role to the rookies. I’m still surprised at the rate Momota can work at his age, he doesn’t look like he’s slowed down at all and can still go when needed. He even took a pretty sick sounding enzuguiri from Marvin in this one.The rookies looked ok against each other,

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Show starts off with the usual RO&D welcome to be followed by the Voodoo Murders interruption to be followed by the RO&D BOO-YAH bit. This is already getting stale.Kaz Hayashi, Masanobu Fuchi & Ryuji Hijikata VS Kikutaro, Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu HiraiOK opener, but I’ll admit I’m also getting a little tired of Kikutaro’s act. Sure it can be entertaining, but it just doesn’t fit when he doesn’t

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Interestingly enough, they start off with a clip from earlier in the day of Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Haruka Eigen visiting the Tokyo Giants during their training at the Tokyo Dome next door to Korakuen Hall.Mohammed Yone & Daisuke Ikeda VS Tamon Honda & Yoshinori OtaIt’s interesting to see that NOAH aren’t holding down the rookies to just doing basics, as Ota managed to get in a pretty

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We kick off this edition of Fighting Opera Hustle with an annoying guy by the name of Michael (I think he might be DDT rookie Michael Nakazawa?), complete with an annoying theme song, pushing Hustle merchandise like shirts and DVDs. He reads a letter from the Takada Monster Army than starts dancing like a fool as he gives props to the sponsors of the event. We then officially kick off the show

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Day Dream Believer 10/23/2005 Part 1Interesting video to kick off the show recapping how Dansyoku Dino earned his title shot for Sanshiro Takagi’s KO-D Openweight Title. I’m guessing they were mocking NJPW with Riki Sensyu being given booking power just like Riki Choshu in NJPW has. Sensyu throws Takagi into a 5-on-1 gauntlet match where Dino beat Takagi to get his shot.When that is done, we get

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Big Japan Pro Wrestling's first show of 2006 from Korakuen Hall, featuring the big Daisuke Sekimoto VS Masato Tanaka match and another chapter in the Big Japan/Apache Pro interpromotional war.1/02/2006 Pt.1Katsumasa Inoue & Hiroyuki Kondo VS Shadow WX & Mammoth SasakiGreat match with the Wakagumi next generation team taking on the super-heavyweight veteran team, and they pulled off a really

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Hardcore Tag Match: Mad Man Pondo & Jason Ray VS Bad Boy Hido & MASADAYou gotta love Pondo. One minute he’s trying to stab Hido with a switchblade, and the next he’s busting out a la majistral cradle to try and get a flash pin! Pondo & MASADA were easily the guys to watch in this one. Despite his mostly brawling tactics, Pondo really is enjoyable to watch since he knows to play to the crowd,

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Since the 2006 All Japan Champion Carnival just kicked off last night, I finally decided to sit down and watch the finals of last year’s tournament.Show kicks off with RO&D coming out to rile up the crowd, with TAKA introducing Buchanan, Kea, Jamal and himself, while assuring Jamal will win the Carnival, and TAKA himself successfully defending the AJPW Jr. title against Katsuhiko Nakajima despite

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Show starts with a really good intro video, which chronicled the history of the promotion leading up to this event.We than get a rather funny start to the show as after some dramatic music, the lights were supposed to centre on Hustle GM Kusama in the centre of the ring, but they kept missing their mark and they had to restart 3 times! When they finally get it right, GM Kusama welcomes us to the

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Haruka Eigen Last Budokan Match: Haruke Eigen, Junji Izumuda & Takuma Sano VS Mitsuo Momota, Tamon Honda & Kentaro ShigaEigen comes out on his own after all the other competitors have entered the ring, and strips off 4 layers of t-shirts before throwing them into the audience.Not a workrate masterpiece in any sense, but entertaining as usual as far as Eigen’s work goes. It was the usual fun

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I guess it really shows my devotion to NJPW when it takes me this long to get around to watching one of the first shows of 2005?Yujiro VS Akiya AnzawaQuick match, started with a lot of amateur mat grappling before some stand-up, and Yujiro wins with a bizarre spinning Reality Check-like slam. What the heck is up with Yujiro’s porn type entrance music?Match Rating: ½*Hiroshi Nagao VS Hirooki

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Korakuen Hall 8/28/2005 – Part 1We begin this episode with a press conference from earlier in the week at the Big Japan dojo and the announcement of the 3-way tag death match. We get comments from the 3 teams involved and are then treated with a look at how the BJW tag champions are training for the match. First we see Abdullah Kobayashi pulling a mini-car, with Sekimoto in the driver’s seat,

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10/27/2005Katsumasa Inoue VS Saburo InematsuA good competitive match to kick off the show. Inematsu is an Apache Pro guy who’s currently getting a push as more of a hardcore style worker compared to the mat work he does here. He’s not a bad worker, but I just don’t dig his look as he looks like someone’s uncle rather than a pro-wrestler. Another comparison would be he looks like a smaller version

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Koji Kanemoto VS GENTAROWow. I’m officially convinced that the only reason Kanemoto re-news his contract every year after a lot of teasing is because he knows if he goes to other promotions after leaving NJPW that a lot of people out there would like beat the crap out of him like he likes to do to outsiders. It’s no big secret he tends to stiff outsiders harder than usual, and this was just

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Tozawa & Katsuo VS Katsuhiko Nakajima & BxB HulkFunny bit at the beginning when Hulk invited Nakajima to dance with him, and Nakajima was game to try, but quickly bowed out when he couldn’t keep up with Hulk and the dancers.The match itself was a change to see Hulk not getting his ass handed to him and Nakajima playing the grumpy heavy hitting senior. Nakajima’s over confidence almost got the

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“MAX Around” 11/17/2005International Jr. Heavyweight Title: Ikuto Hidaka VS Sonjay DuttThis was an enjoyable match as they did some fun spots, but that’s where the problems with it lie as most of the match looked too “spotty”, as in everything was so conveniently set up from prior moves. Dutt got in a good amount of offense and showed a lot of flash with all his fast paced high-flying offense, he

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I liked the highlights of the Round 1 and Round 2 matches of the tournament they showed at the beginning of the show.Super Shisa, King Shisa, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Magnum TOKYO VS Masato Yoshino, Naruki Doi, Don Fuji & Magnitude KishiwadaYou know how all the Blood Generation members come out with the work-out tools which represent their personality? Why does Kishiwada have INFLATABLE dumbbells

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I really liked the cute way they opened the show with a shot of a snowman on the balcony of the Budokan before we go to the action inside.Haruka Eigen & Kishin Kawabata VS Mitsuo Momota & Kentaro ShigaThe fun from this match mostly came from Eigen & Momota, I just never get bored of them and it’s always good for a pop when Eigen gets in some big offense like countering a suplex from Shiga into a

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Show kicks off with Kikutaro in the ring welcoming the fans to show. He gets interrupted by TAKA & RO&D who boot him out and get on with their introductions (I love Buchanan’s wild man gimmick), but they get interrupted by YASSHI & Kondo, YASSHI yapping about his return match tonight. The Voodoo Murders Jr. team leave and RO&D finish their shtick and the show kicks off.Masanobu Fuchi & Shiori

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Yutaka Yoshie & Akebono VS Black Strong Machine & Hiro SaitoThe commentator almost loses his voice just putting over Akebono entering the ring. “There’s Akebono! He’s walking down the isle! I can’t believe it! OH MY GAWD IN HEAVEN! HE JUST STEPPED ON THE APRON AND IS NOW GETTING IN THE RING! THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF OUR SPORT!” Well, maybe he didn’t say it all like that, but I

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Korakuen Hall 10/14/2005MIYAWAKI & Yuichi Taniguchi VS Katsumasa Inoue & Hiroyuki KondoNow this was a surprisingly good booked match. It was one of those matches where the time went by, and you didn’t notice it! Didn’t hurt that both teams worked well here, and this is probably the best I’ve ever seen of MIYAWAKI in a long time. Taniguchi even kept the comedy down to show some great mat wrestling

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Hirooki Goto VS Akiya AnzawaI’m officially impressed by these two as this was the first Young Lion match I’ve watched that didn’t bore me to fast forward past it. For one thing, these two showed personality, something usually lacking in rookies, and they actually made it more than just a green horn match as they match to get the crowd drawn into it with some standard big moves and close near

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Big Japan’s big year end Yokohama show. Kicks off with a video package highlighting the main event as Abdullah Kobayashi will challenge Ryuji Ito for the Big Japan Death Match Title.Katsumasa Inoue & Hiroyuki Kondo VS Hyoma & MIYAWAKIPretty obvious that even though both Inoue & Kondo are being pushed as the future stars of the company, but Inoue is getting the bigger push and looks to be

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Right off the bat, I’m wondering why they couldn’t air the intro of the show directly instead of having a camera on the giant monitor at the entrance way. It looked really good and would have been nice to have watched it clearly.Riki Choshu & Tomohiro Ishii VS Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu NishimuraThe teacher/student tag match. These Japanese fans are really weird; Nishimura comes in and cuts off a

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I think it’s kind of fitting that the last Puroresu show I review this year is the very last GAEA show ever before closing it’s doors due to various financial problems within the company, mostly due to the decline of interest in joshi puro.Show starts with some quick highlights of the company’s history, followed by the opening ceremony of wrestler introductions. And then we’re off to the opening

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Warning! This Review may contain SPOILERS!The annual anniversary show, and the first time under the Dragon Gate banner. Last year’s event was my pick for Puroresu Show of the Year. Can they impress me enough to do it again? First thing you’ll notice is how much the arena is set up to look like the WWE Monday Night RAW set, only the audience seats aren’t so compressed together, and much like last

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Dory Funk Jr. & Katsuhiko Nakajima VS Abdullah the Butcher & Giant KimalaIt’s about 25 minutes into the show before the first match even starts! This was mostly a big out of ring brawl, cause that’s all Butcher knows how to do anymore and all Dory can do is throw forearm shots. Lumbering Kimala at least showed he can still wow the crowd when he did a great flying lariat/elbow type attack on

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Death Match Wars #418/14/2005 Part 1Bad Boy Hidoh, GENTARO & Hyoma VS MEN’S Teioh, Asian Cougar & Zach GowenOur favorite one-legged teen wrestler in Big Japan. Yeah, I’m being sarcastic. Zach added a new swinging neck-breaker to his arsenal, but it’s still the same punching bag, two move wrestler from TNA and WWE. Of course, he was the target of the Hidoh led heel team, and he more or less proved

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This show continues from #47 where Kobayashi & Ito faced Numazawa & Kasai in the Fire Death Match main event.Katsumasa Inoue & Masa Takanashi VS Daichi Kakimoto & Kota IifushiThree of DDT’s top rookies in a match here with BJW’s top rookie (Inoue). I like that DDT gives it’s rookies gimmicks or at least a distinguishing look off the bat so that they at least have a personality. These four guys

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“Interception” 10/10/2005Johnny Storm VS Jody FleischThese two Brits put on a fun spot-fest of match. And that’s all it really was, two junior-heavyweights flying around every other minute of the match, which sorta spoiled the ending spot since they seemed to be able to recover from everything they threw at each other, but it only took one rather weak looking SSP to end the match. These two have

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Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue & Takashi Sugiura VS Yoshinari Ogawa, Ricky Marvin & Kentaro ShigaI’ve hardly seen anything of Shiga’s in NOAH, but interesting to note he’s changed his look here from wearing the short tights to black long pants now, kinda like Marufuji. He didn’t show anything here to warrant the big push he received two years back before going on the shelf, but the crowd was behind

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We start off this episode in a parking lot somewhere in Japan, aka the open-air venue for today’s show. The main event is a Fire Death Match, and we have interviews with the participants. Team No.1, Jun “Crazy Monkey” Kasai and Jaki “I’m Crazier Than Kasai” Numazawa. We than go to Team No.2, Abdullah Kobayashi & Ryuji Ito. As they give their comments, Kasai & Numazawa show up and try to run them

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“Interception” 10/09/2005 - Korakuen HallTakehiro Murahama VS Rikiya FudoClipped down and looked to be a very mat based match. Fudo looks a lot like Tomoaki Honma now, even with the same hairdo and white colored tights! Since it was clipped down, not a lot was shown other than Jr. heavyweight Murahama using his submission skills to lock down and eventually get the submission out of Fudo.Match

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Takako Inoue VS Haruka MatsuoThis was your classic senior VS young lioness match, with veteran Inoue putting the beat down on Matsuo throughout the match. Matsuo gets in those good bursts of offense to make it look like she has a chance, but it doesn’t work quite as well as it sounds when Inoue shrugs off everything thrown at her to continue her semi-squash of a match. Inoue looked hot

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