Month: October 2018
There were parts of this match when I was thinking that this might knock Kento vs Maru from the cc finals off the top spot of my match of the year list, it fell just short but is still an incredible match. Zeus looked the best I have ever seen him, he controlled most of … Continue reading Zeus c vs Kento Miyahara AJPW triple Crown Heavyweight Title 21.10.18
Kengo had already main evented a k-dojo Korakuen earlier this day vs Takizawa before heading over to Yokohama for this match. Shuji and SUWAMA are injured coming into this. The most of the match was taken up with he story of Shuji’s injured shoulder with plenty of arm bars and armbreakers applied by Kai and … Continue reading Violence Giants (Shuji Ishikawa & SUWAMA) c vs Kai & Kengo Mashimo AJPW Tag Titles 21.10.18
This was fine. For the most part it felt like a show of James’s offense as he threw Lee around with his power moves, which is what he is best at. James is one of the better big men working today in terms of making simple offense look good. Lee bumped around well for him … Continue reading Jake Lee vs Dylan James AJPW 21.10.18
I watched this match last night on a stream with a couple of friends, some of the same people that I watched the Morishima vs Sugiura match with. This match was as good if not better than that match. I have watched this match maybe 4 times before this most recent watch and always thought … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa c Vs Toshiaki Kawada AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Title AJPW 21/10/92
I am glad I found the unclipped version of this as this is one of the better korakuen main event tags that AJPW had put on for a while at this point. The absolute star of the match was Johnny smith who excelled in three distinct parts of the match, he had a really good … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama & Satoru Asako vs Kenta Kobashi & Johnny Ace & Johnny Smith AJPW 22/08/97
This was Sugiura’s 7th defence of his mammoth (and awesome) 581 day reign as GHC champion. He was running out of challengers at this point and Morishima was mainly an upper-midcarder at this point after his aborted world title run in 2008. Morishima was not massively hot going into this match and it was not … Continue reading Takashi Sugiura c vs Takeshi Morishima GHC Heavyweight Title NOAH 5/12/10
This was the final of the global JR league. Suzuki is a former Misawa pupil who now works as a freelancer, he has been in both AJPW and NOAH this year but is not signed to either promotion. This match was really good, Suzuki is a guy where if you give him a decent amount … Continue reading Kotaro Suzuki vs YO-HEY NOAH Jr League Final 4/10/18
This was a match that took place on the 4th of October, but I did not see until the morning of the 12th October due to the way in which NOAH airs. I had deliberately muted a bunch of words and even people (Sorry Hisame) on twitter so I would not know the result going … Continue reading Takashi Sugiura vs Katsuhiko Nakajima GHC title NOAH 4/10/18
Korakuen Ramblings 