Month: December 2018
Katio is excellent at being worked over, suguira is great at being a dickhead bully working over the young babyface. Kaito can make great comebacks BUT what he can't do is work on top for extended period of time it is kind of dull like he does not know what to do outside of the … Continue reading Takeshi Suguira c Vs kaito Kiyomiya GHC heavyweight title NOAH 16/12/2018
This was both for Suzuki's jr title and for the future of the ratels stable, if Harada lost then the stable would disband. This was a really good jr title match they started out with a little grappling before transferring into Suzuki attacking the face of Harada with a variety of moves. I liked how … Continue reading Kotaro Suzuki c Vs Daisuke Harada GHC Jr heavyweight championship 16/12/2018
60 minutes is a very long time to wrestle. Most of the time it is not very good at all and even when it is great often you are left thinking about how good it could have been if they went 40-45 instead. This was the later, it was pretty great, really great for most … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa Toshiaki Kawada & Hiroshi Hase vs Kenta Kobashi Jun Akiyama & Akira Taue AJPW Fan Appreciation day 15/09/1997
I loved the story that they were telling in this match but the story itself was to the detriment of the match as a whole. There is a lot to this match and it will take a while to explain. In broad strokes what this match set out to do and I think succeeded in … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa c vs Jun Akiyama AJPW Triple Crown Title AJPW 06.09.1997
This was complete domination, the most the native team got to string together was maybe three moves by Kawada other than that every attempt was cut off quickly and smothered. Putting over Williams in particular this was makes sense given his short term future. They actually managed to get some heel heat from their work … Continue reading Toshiaki Kawada Akira Taue & Tamon Honda vs Steve Williams Gary Albright & Yoshihiro Takayama AJPW 06.09.1997
A great hidden gem of a match Kenta Kobashi was amazing in this, nobody was bad but he was really the best person in the match by some distance. From the start they established a strict hierarchy that all great AJPW Tags from the early 90s followed. The hierarchy here being Kobashi>Hayabusa & Shinzaki>Shiga. Kobashi … Continue reading Hayabusa Jinsei Shinzaki vs Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga AJPW 06/09/1997
As you would expect there was a lot of mat wrestling in this match, more than half of it was spent on the mat trying to get into and then out of holds but with neither man ever really getting any control. As they were at stalemate Nakano took it upon himself to start throwing … Continue reading Tatsuo Nakano vs Hiroshi Hase AJPW 06/09/97
This is the first DDT match I have watched since HARASHIMA vs Takeshita from Judgement 2017 a match in which I though HARASHIMA was excellent and Takeshita was decidedly less so. This match was one completely in two half's, the first was an almost shoot-style show of a few strikes and plenty of takedowns and … Continue reading Yukio Sakaguchi c vs HARASHIMA KO-D Openweight Title DDT 25.10.2015
Yet more Kai and Kengo advancement as here they do celebrate together after the match but not completely with Kengos full involvement. As has often been the case with Kengo on this tour his shoulder/bicep was a target with shuji and SUWAMA getting revenge for when he beat Shuji via submission with an arm bar … Continue reading Kai & Kengo Mashimo vs Violence Giants (SUWAMA & Shuji Ishikawa) RWTL AJPW 04.12.2018
Both of the big guns looked really good in this and the violence giants lifted their game to be properly trying again for the first time since the oppening night, not to say they have been bad on other nights but they were taking it more easy. Here they did try. This was nothing pretty … Continue reading The Big Guns (Zeus & The Bodyguard) vs Violence Giants (SUWAMA & Shuji Ishikawa) RWTL AJPW 01.12.2018
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