Month: January 2019
This was great in parts but I felt that with the fast and fairly furious pace they cut at points early on and then the finish it did meander its way around in the middle. Now I loved both guys when it was great because it was very great, the fire shown by ace is … Continue reading Akira taue vs Johnny Ace AJPW 21/10/1997
This was a more low key match than the fans may have been used to in 1997. They went over ten minutes without a big move just relying on matwork and some nice counters. The whole match to me showed that misawa who was very injured at the time, both his neck and knees were … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa c vs Steve Williams Triple Crown Heavyweight title AJPW 11/10/1997
GET are tag champs at this point having won the belts in an untelevised match 7 days prior but this is non-title. Kobahsi comes into this match with his right leg heavily taped up and as you would expect that plays a large part in the match as the army and in particular Kawada attack … Continue reading Kenta Kobashi Johnny Ace vs The Holy Demon Army (Akira Taue Toshiaki Kawada) AJPW 11/10/1997
After being fine but easily the least of the 4 in the Kobashi shiga vs Hayabusa Shinzaki tag from 2 months before, Hayabusa is back to being a really bad lazy pro wrestler. He just does his spots nothing in-between and doesn't sell. He again is worked circles around by Shiga and Mossman. Mossman is … Continue reading Jun Akiyama Kentaro Shiga vs Hayabusa Manuakea Mossman AJPW 11/10/1997
Watching that was an experience. This was from FMW's Kawazaki stadium show in 1997 which featured Vader vs Shamrock in a cage, WING Kanemura vs Onita in an exploding cage and Tanaka vs the Gladiator. This whole show was televised apart from this match due to differing tv rights holders for AJPW and FMW. This … Continue reading Kenta Kobashi Manuakea Mossman vs Jinsei Shinzaki Hayabusa FMW 28/09/1997
One of the best matches ever everything about the match, the crowd the pacing the feel of it the heat segments the finish everything is great.They set the tone early with some stuff strikes that will continue throughout the whole match. Every strike thrown is brutal and has purpose. The offence by both guys throughout … Continue reading Kenta Kobashi c vs Yoshihiro Takayama GHC Heavyweight Title 25/04/2004
This was a snuff movie and it was amazing. The best KENTA have always been his matches when he is a jr and against much bigger and more established heavyweights. Here he is against Tenryu a guy who's grumpy old man phase (my favourite character in wrestling) went on for over 20years. Tenryu destroys KENTA … Continue reading Genichiro Tenryu Vs KENTA NOAH 08/10/2005
After a long wait one of my most anticipated matches of the first week of Janruary finally aired and it was really good. Ashino is a guy who just oozes charisma and confidence, he is a model ace who can play as both a dickhead heel and as a technical babyface. Here he worked the … Continue reading Shotaro Ashino c vs T-Hawk Wrestle-1 Heavyweight Title Wrestle-1 05/01/2019
This was Outstanding This was Sekimotos 20th anniversary show and they did a BIG main event for it, both in terms of the size of the people involved and the matchup. AJPW giving BJW such a major world tag title match was a big deal. As you would expect given that this took place in … Continue reading Violence Giants (Shuji Ishikawa & SUWAMA) c vs Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto vs Yuji Okabyashi) AJPW Tag Titles 13/01/2019
This was a good albeit too long match. This was worked with Suzuki doing every trick he could think of to beat KENTA such as interference from Genba and Kanemaru, low blows, ref bumps and fake blood and the Eddie chairshot spot to draw a DQ. It was KENTA's job to fight back through this … Continue reading KENTA c vs Kotaro Suzuki GHC Jr Heavyweight Title NOAH 25/01/2009
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