Month: July 2019
This wa Kento Miyahara's last match in diamond ring as he headed off to join AJPW he was one of the first new aquasitions for AJPW after the wrestle-1 split. It was his interactions with his new boss in Akiyama that were easily the highlight of the match. When they were in there it was … Continue reading Kento Miyahara SUWAMA Takao Omori Vs Kensuke Sasaki Jun Akiyama Go Shiozaki 31/08/2013
Going in they heavily teased a 30 minute draw, they had some slow and fairly deliberate with some good work on the left wrist of ace which he sold very well throughout the match. Then there was a period of work over Akiyama and then on Misawa attacking their necks both times. What this set … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa Jun Akiyama vs Kenta Kobashi Johnny Ace 23/11/1997
Considering the two guys involved and the history that they had, this being their first match since the IWGP title match at the dome in 2001 this was bellow my admittedly sky high expectations. It was still a VERY good match but not a classic like the 2000 match. The first ten minutes were a … Continue reading Toshiaki Kawada c vs Kensuke Sasaki Triple Crown Heavyweight Title AJPW 16/01/2005
This was a losing unit must disband match. For such a stipulation I expected something a bit more heated, there was some heat from the crowd but nothing close to the emotion I expected. The crowd made noise at the finish with the heel turns and chanted in the post match. But during the match … Continue reading RO&D (TAKA Michinoku, Taiyo Kea, D-Lo Brown, Buchanan) Vs Voodoo Murders (TARU, RO’Z, Brother YASHII, SUWAMA) AJPW 17/09/2006
Minoru Suzuki is a guy who while talented is not someone I ever look forward to watching in his big title matches for a couple of reasons, all of which were present here. The first and most pressing issue that he always goes long usually way too long. This match was 34 minutes long, thankfully … Continue reading Taiyo Kea c Vs Minoru Suzuki Triple Crown Heavyweight title AJPW 03/09/2006
This was a all time great performance in a career of all time great performances from Toshiaki Kawada. Tenzan is a wrestler who particularly in the early to mid 2000s was good but to reach a great status would have to be in there with someone doing something special, that was the case in the … Continue reading Toshiaki Kawada c Vs Hiroyoshi Tenzan Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship AJPW 05/12/2004
This was a elimination tag match where pins, submissions, ref stops, knock outs, over the top rope and count outs are all eliminations. This is part of what puts this kind of match ahead of survivor series matches as there are more ways of elimination particularly the over the top rope as it gets rid … Continue reading Kensuke Family (Kensuke Sasaki, Akira Hokuto, Katsuhiko Nakajima, KENSHIN, Genichiro Tenryu) Vs RO&D ( Taka Michinoku, Taiyo Kea, D-lo Brown, Jamal, Buchanan) AJPW 05/12/2004
This ruled. Vader is a beast even at this point in his career baby SUWAMA here going by his full name takes a great beating and dishes out a little before being put away. It is all brutal as with everything in Vader's career he is just awesome and also bumps and sells his ass … Continue reading Vader Vs Kohei SUWAMA SUWAMA trial match AJPW 05/12/2004
This was Hiroshi Hase's retirement match. Hase had really been at least semi retired or part time since 96 but this was him officially calling it the end of his career at 45. Being a retirement match it's not something I would really review like most other matches. It was just plain fun and full … Continue reading Hiroshi Hase, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Satoshi Kojima Vs Voodoo Murders (TARU, SUWAMA, Brother YASHII) AJPW 26/08/2006
This was a match of two Halfs. In the first you had a good start with Kaz flying all over the place to take out his larger for followed by Shuji taking out kaz's leg to stop that. What followed was some pretty awful selling from Kaz as he still ran around fine but then … Continue reading Shuji Kondo c Vs Kaz Hayashi ajpw jr heavyweight championship AJPW 26/08/2006
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