Month: March 2019
Firstly it was a shame that there were only just over 800 people in attendance as they missed a great match but given it was a weekday show with no big title matches to speak of and headlined by a six man the attendance did not shock me. But those who did attend did get … Continue reading Axiz (Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima) Hayata Vs Yo-Hey & The Sparkly Jacket Boys (Kenoh & Katio Kiyomiya) NOAH 29/03/2019
Mostly worked as an under-card tag with not a ton of effort put in, the Deathmatch guys worked on top after some Ueki comedy early on. They are not great when it comes to working non-deathmatches decent but not Kodaka or Takeda levels at all, but they do have some nice double teams and looked … Continue reading Koji Iwamoto & Jake Lee vs Takayuki Ueki & Masaya Takahashi All Asia Tag Titles Tournament Semi Finals AJPW 21/03/2019
Nomura's first ever shot at the triple crown. The standard Kento formula is that after a back and forth start and then some brawling on the outside the opponent will take over and will work over Kento for the body of the match. Be it work on his leg, arm, chest, neck etc. Before Kento … Continue reading Kento Miyahara c vs Naoya Nomura Triple Crown Heavyweight Title AJPW 19/03/2019
While the previous match was a well executed version of a simple and not very ambitious premise, this was a very well executed match with a very ambitious premise. In the build up to this Marufuji had debuted a new submission the perfect keylock and had been using it among other tactics to weaken the … Continue reading Kaito Kiyomiya c vs Naomichi Marufuji GHC Heavyweight Title 10/03/2019
Shida is a women that I have heard of before but I don't think that I have watched much if any of her before. This was her tenth anniversary in wrestling and for such an event she wanted a rematch against Marufuji where she was knocked out in under 2 minutes in 2017. Shida plays … Continue reading Naomichi Marufuji vs Hikaru Shida Shida Produce 10th anniversary 09/10/2018
This was originally supposed to be Atsushi Kotoge teaming with Edwards but he is injured so was replaced by Nakajima's former partner Kitamiya. Edwards looks different, his gear looks worse than it used to, I think this is from an angle on Impact where he has become down on money or something. It looks a … Continue reading AXIZ (Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima) vs Eddie Edwards & Masa Kitamiya GHC Heavyweight Tag Titles 10/03/2019
The pre match promo has the universal by Blur in the background, I am a fan already. I am in two minds about this match, I loved the first ten minutes, but thought the second ten were aimless and didn't really care for it. What I liked first: short start sequence with a little grappling … Continue reading Daisuke Harada c Vs Minoru Tanaka GHC Jr Heavyweight Title 10/03/2019
These two teams previous match was my 2nd place MOTY that took place at Sekimotos anniversary show. This, if anything, was even better. The match was more complete as it was not cut down by around 5 minutes as the first match was. The opening of the match was my favourite part, it was a … Continue reading Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabyashi) c Vs Violent Giants (SUWAMA & Shuji Ishikawa) AJPW tag Titles 19/03/2019
Koji and Suzuki have had 4 singles matches and with the exception of the round robin match from last year's jr battle off glory they have been fast and stiff jr wars. Doing something that feels different to he heavyweights but still has the weight and impact of the heavyweight wrestles of all Japan. Kotaro … Continue reading Koji Iwamoto c Vs Kotaro Suzuki AJPW jr heavyweight title AJPW 19/03/2019
This was the first big outing as a tag team of the new Kenoh and Kaito team, and a way for them to prove themselves to an audience that they work well as a team and will be a threat for the global tag league and not just two guys thrown together by beating recent … Continue reading Kenoh & Kaito Kiyomiya vs 50 Funky Powers (Quiet Storm & Mohammed Yone) NOAH 17/03/2019
Korakuen Ramblings 