Month: February 2019
A far cry from the longer triple crown title matches of the last year or so this was short, clocking in at just under 17 minutes and it was fast and brutal. With the exception of a tiny bit at the start where Lee tried to take Shuji to the ground this was all fast … Continue reading Shuji Ishikawa c vs Jake Lee Triple Crown Heavyweight Title AJPW 11/06/2017
In their previous matches SUWAMA was the dominant party attacking the neck of Kento and trying to choke him out. Here though it was the opposite, Kento was in control for the majority of the match going after the injured forearm, wrist and hand of SUWAMA. He alters his moves to accommodate for this attack, … Continue reading Kento Miyahara vs SUWAMA AJPW 11/06/2017
The first sumo hall show for AJPW since 2013 where they ran a show in front of only 2500 people shortly after the Wrestle-1 split and had only a skeleton roster. There was no dancing or clapping as Kento enters just a straight face with a frown of concentration that puts over that he is … Continue reading Kento Miyahara c vs SUWAMA Triple Crown Heavyweight Title AJPW 27/11/2016
SUWAMA who had dropped the triple crown due to injury in January had returned in late July, but this was the first time he went up against the current TC champ and man that fans were touting as the new ace. This was SUWAMA's chance to shut down and potential pretender to his position at … Continue reading Kento Miyahara vs SUWAMA Royal Road Tournament 04/09/2016
I love wrestling This felt very much similar to the previous triple crown match at Yokohama Bunka gym which was Kento vs Zeus which I loved. This was pretty much as good as that match. The similarities were based around the neck work of SUWAMA, in the Zeus match it was with tons of chops … Continue reading Kento Miyahara c vs SUWAMA AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Title AJPW 24/02/2019
Daisuke Sekimoto continuous to have an excellent year. This match had a couple of aims and it is fair to say that it achieved pretty well even if the match went a bit too long. They made the champions look strong and that they are going to be really tough to beat and at the … Continue reading Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabyashi) c vs Jake Lee & Ryouji Sai AJPW World Tag Team Championship 24/02/2019
The last Match AJPW will run in Hakata starlanes having first put on a show there in 1978. the building is closing due to being to old and out of date to upkeep and too expensive to renovate. They put in a little more effort than they usually do in six or eight mans on … Continue reading Kento Miyahara & Yoshitatsu & Yuma Aoyagi & Naoya Nomura vs SUWAMA & Shuji Ishikawa & Hikaru Sato & Atsushi Aoki AJPW 17/02/2019
This like the entire show was a lot of fun, you had plenty of crowd pleasing stuff from the guys, getting their stuff in and generally looking like they were having a lot of fun. Tanahashi and Tatsu acted as heels for most of the match working a heat segment on Kento before he got … Continue reading Kento Miyahara & Daisuke Sekimoto vs Hiroshi Tanahashi & YoshiTatsu Giant Baba 20th Anniversary Memorial Show 19/02/2019
I do like wrestling I really do but sometimes it is difficult like. I have seen matches that are worse: Undertaker vs MMA Master!!!!! Shane McMahon, Christopher street connection vs Da hit squad and Hogan vs Sting SC97. I have seen matches where I hate a particular performance in it more: Omega vs anyone. But … Continue reading Seiya Sanada vs Masayuki Kono Champions Carnival AJPW 05/04/2010
Aoki and Suzuki are Jr tag champs but are no defending them here even though this matchup would work perfectly well as a jr tag title match. They got in and out fast, with a simple story, Marvin and Ishimori attacked before the bell and had control right up until the end where the champs … Continue reading Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki vs Ricky Marvin & Taiji Ishimori NOAH 29/04/2012
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