Month: December 2019
There were some aspects of this match (most down to Akiyama) that were exceptional. His control segments and transitions, particularly the back-body-drop over the ropes to the ramp. But the work from Marufuji when on top was just not great. To begin with it was established that Marufuji was not on the level in terms … Continue reading Jun Akiyama c Vs Naomichi Marufuji GHC World Heavyweight title 09/09/2006
Of the three matches from this Maru reign that i have seen, vs Kondo vs KENTA and vs Kaz this was probably the best. But that is really damming with faint praise its still not very good. There is some fun stuff at the very start as there was some very nice mat work with … Continue reading Naomichi Marufuji c vs Kaz Hayashi AJPW Jr Heavyweight Title AJPW 06/02/2009
That was it? That was the all time great best match in ROH history? That was pretty meh for that. It was not a bad wrestling match, there was plenty of good stuff in there and the finish was suitably nasty (i had seen the finish before but not the whole match). But most of … Continue reading Bryan danielson (World) vs Nigel McGuinness (Pure) ROH world and Pure Championship unification match Pure title rules ROH 12/08/2006
Generic 2000s overlong epic wrestling. First 20 Minuites was ok, not very good by any stretch of the imagination but still ok. They wasted time with some perfunctory limbwork that went nowhere, did a bit of brawling around ringside and teased some bigger apron spots and larger moves. But really it all felt like wasting … Continue reading Naomichi Marufuji c vs Shuji Kondo AJPW Jr Heavyweight title AJPW 03/11/2008
Nomura and lee went through an almost 20 minute match vs the ace of the company and Yuma while Shuji and SUWAMA went through a 2 minute match vs Kai and Tajiri. Safe to say SUWAMA & Shuji were a bit fresher. They dominated most of the match that was just 18 minutes of fast … Continue reading Naoya Nomura & Jake Lee vs Shuji Ishikawa & SUWAMA AJPW 09/12/2019
Nomura and Jake came in knowing that they were on 10points, to win the league they would have to win the match and then hope that Kai and Tajiri vs VG went to a draw or VG win to force a decision match between VG and Nomura & Lee. This knowledge formed the basis of … Continue reading Kento Miyahara & Yuma Ayoagi vs Naoya Nomura & Jake Lee AJPW 09/12/2019
There was a good chop Vs kick strike exchange in this match that went 5 minutes, it was the first bit of life shown in the match. Sadly it was 15 minutes into a 27 minute match. Other than that strike battle there was a really good abisagiri and roundhouse kick from Nakajima and a … Continue reading Katsuhiko Nakajima c Vs Go Shiozaki GHC World Heavyweight title NOAH 12/03/2017
Pretty good tag from these four, the absolute stars are Kawada and Shinzaki as Kawada does most of the work in the heat segments, they do the finish together and the repeated story beat of Kawada and Taue not going in for Shinzakis rope-walk is really good. The closer he gets to hitting it each … Continue reading Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki AJPW 23/11/1997
For a lot of this reign KentFuji have been facing off against outsiders attempting tho take NOAHs belts away from it or internal heels such as kanemaru. Here for the first time were KentFuji actually the heels, yes they are against Ogawa who is a massive dickhead but really everybody loves him, add to that … Continue reading KENTA & Marufuji c vs Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinari Ogawa GHC jr Heavyweight Tag Titles 03/04/2004
The build up to this match was very good, there was lots of fairly short tags between champion and challenger that would end in different ways, Ogawa would get the pin with a roll up one time then Taue would win with a roll up in return. Then Taue won with a choke sleeper (called … Continue reading Yoshinari Ogawa c vs Akira Taue GHC World Heavyweight title 26/05/2002
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