Month: June 2019
This was a bit of a change from the previous three Kentfuji title matches that I have reviewed. Yes this still built to a massive crescendo, probably the best finish run of the lot so far but it was certainly the slowest of the four. There was a bit more mat work, not much but … Continue reading Kenta & Marufuji c vs El Samurai & Wataru Inoue GHC Jr Heavyweight Tag Titles NOAH 10/01/2004
It took me three times through watching this match to get my full thoughts on it. The first time was live and I was so emotional a lot of it just passed me by and could not remember much about it. The situation got to me. The second and third time's I was more calm … Continue reading Hikaru Sato Vs Yusuke Okada Aoki Atsushi Tribute match AJPW 18/06/2019
Once upon a time there was a jr heavyweight tag team called momo no Seishun Tag, it was made up of Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada. They were a very good tag team and had a many years long feud Vs Kenoh and Ohara. Kotoge's job was to be beaten up and bump around and … Continue reading Takashi Sugiura c Vs Atsushi Kotoge GHC Heavyweight Championship NOAH 29/04/2018
Throughout the title reign of Kenoh his three previous matches had been built on him standing up to his opponents and getting them drawn into striking contests where he could beat them. He knocked kaito out and beat Yuko in one of the shortest ever ghc title matches. Here though he meets someone who can … Continue reading Kenoh c Vs Takashi Sugiura GHC Heavyweight Championship NOAH 11/03/2018
I remember watching this at the time live and in the build up that this felt like a massive moment and a changing of the guard. After the torrid Suzuki gun NJPW tries to kill NOAH years nakajima emerged as a long term champ but it still didn't feel completely right, there were some great … Continue reading Eddie Edwards c Vs Kenoh GHC Heavyweight Championship NOAH 22/12/2017
This was a lot like some of the second half of sugiura's title run last year where the matches got longer and outside of the shiozaki match which was amazing despite being the longest filled the time excellently, the others felt long for the sake of going long and that they had well done but … Continue reading Kaito Kiyomiya c Vs Takeashi Sugiura GHC Heavyweight Championship NOAH 09/06/2019
Marufuji is someone who has been rightly accused of being very RVD with his strikes in that he either smashes the opponent with them or misses very badly. Here he hit pretty much every one, brutalizing Go with his kicks and knees as well as his always great chops. Go gave as good as he … Continue reading Go Shiozaki vs Naomichi Marufuji NOAH 09/06/2019
The last 10 Minutes of this is some of the best crazy jr tag spotfest action that you will see. Sadly the first 20 is a baggy mess of nothingness, no heat segments, no hot tags no clever work by the teams just 20 minutes of what seemed like time wasting. Maybe they were trying … Continue reading KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji c vs Ricky Marvin & Juventud Guerrera ghc jr heavyweight tag championships NOAH 01/11/2003
The first defense of the jr tag titles was worked a little slower than the match to crown the champs even if this went only a minute longer. There were parts of this that were better, the performance of Hashi was above anything in the first match he was good taking a beating in a … Continue reading KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji c vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Makoto Hashi GHC jr heavyweight Tag Titles Noah 12/09/2003
This was the first ghc jr heavyweight tag championship match used to crown the first champions after a short tournament. You have the hometown team of kentfuji, proteges of the two biggest stars in the promotion and a somewhat established team. Against them a jr legend in liger and Murahama a guy who sadly only … Continue reading KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji Vs Jushin Thunder Liger & Takehiro Murahama NOAH GHC jr heavyweight tag championship 14/07/2003
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