Month: November 2019
Decent enough elimination tag, they had fairly regular eliminations from about 5 minutes in and it never felt like it dragged all that much which was nice. Sadly the two best members of Stinger were gone after less than 8 minutes. This left the meh Chris Ridgeway and the ok when against Harada Kotoge left … Continue reading Ratels (Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke, Hayata, Yo-Hey) Vs Stinger (Atsushi Kotoge, Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway, Kotaro Suzuki) Elimination Tag Noah 24/11/2019
This was two at the time NJPW guys (Mutoh does not formally go until 4/1 2002) main eventing a ajpw budokan hall show and that is really the most interesting thing about it. They start off with a brawl and i hope that it might be more like that than a standard Mutoh title match … Continue reading Keiji Mutoh c Vs Masahiro Chono Triple Crown Heavyweight title AJPW 30/10/2001
I am going to end up sounding like a broken record but this was yet another really good RWTL match. This wa sthe second Nomura and Jake match that has been focuse don Nomura doing most of the work. I am not complaining I like both guys and I am sure Jake will have his … Continue reading Naoya Nomura & Jake Lee Vs Zeus & Ryoji Said RWTL 17/11/2019
This was probably a disappointment really. That is not to say that it was not a good match because it most certainly was but on paper it looks like it could be a great match. What let it down for me was that while all of it was done well and looked great. Vicious strikes … Continue reading SUWAMA & Shuji Ishikawa Vs Jun Akiyama & Joe Doering RWTL 17/11/2019
More good fun from the tag league. Joel schooling Odinson on the mat at the start was pretty funny so was the revenge enacted on Redman by both member of the end. Other than that it was decently paced maybe a tiny bit too long in the middle but the finish worked well too. The … Continue reading The end Vs Yoshi-Tatsu & Joel Redman RWTL 17/11/2019
Crowd chants Omori, Takao looks out at them confused and asks them which one? Crowd chants Hokuto, Takao looks sad. I good young boy match, Hokuto looks really quite good now and was given a lot here. He survived one Boston crab and Takao even went for a couple of bigger moves like the rolling … Continue reading Takao Omori Vs Hokuto Omori AJPW 17/11/2019
This was about as good you are going to get for a house show main. They did some crowd pleasing stuff early on with Kai and Tajiri trying to get women in the crowd to stop screaming Jakeu. But then after that they work a clever match with Nomura hurting his shoulder and getting it … Continue reading Jake Lee & Naoya Nomura Vs Kai & Tajiri RWTL 13/11/2019
More decent fun from the rwtl. Bodyguard took a bit of a pounding in this including a horrible looking powerbomb backstabber after taking a cum crusher. The End looked pretty good Parow is a big lumbering obstacle to overcome and oddinson has some fun spark for a muscle guy. Fun tag **3/4
At the start of the year kaito was pretty excellent. All of the big noah singles matches delivered for me. Vs Kenoh, Vs masa Vs Marufuji were all great. But then in the middle of the year after the tag tourny it seemed to fall of a cliff. Vs Sugiura was meh and the Nakajima … Continue reading Kaito Kiyomiya c Vs Kenoh GHC World Heavyweight title NOAH 02/11/2019
This was another version of the muta semi-main/third from top singles match that he has done since mid 2000s ajpw sumo hall shows. It had all the silly bells and whistles that you would expect and was really fun. Lots of mist use, fireball and a fire extinguisher. ***
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