Month: March 2020
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, and Age yet to come, and Age long past, a wind rose … Continue reading Go Shiozaki c Vs Kaz Fujita GHC Heavyweight title 29/03/2020
This was pretty dull. The biggest culpret to it being so dull was Suzuki, he is a wrestler I just dont get a lot of people like him but to me he is boring outside of one match vs Tanahashi in 2012 and this match helped to show why. They start with some decent brawling … Continue reading Minoru Suzuki & Taiyo Kea c vs SUWAMA & Shuji Kondo AJPW Tag Titles 14/03/2009
This was a gaora version of the match so was as usual cut down a bit, this time by around 7 minutes from its original length of 29, I didn't feel like the match missed all that much and the cuts were fairly seamless. The Build up focused on Funaki and his ability to knock … Continue reading SUWAMA c vs Masakatsu Funaki AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Title 24/10/2010
This kind of had a bit of everything, there was stiff strikes, pretty good matwork, choreographed to within an inch of its life sequences, comedy and a bunch of big moves down the stretch. What did this all add up to? A bit of a mess really, a somewhat enjoyable one but still definitely messy. … Continue reading Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA c vs Kendo Kashin & Takashi Sugiura GHC Jr Heavyweight Tag Titles NOAH Departure 10/07/2004
When pro wrestling is great it is pretty fucking great. Going in I fully expected Kento to win to continue his run before losing to the winner of the carnival. I would have loved SUWAMA to win but didn't believe it would happen but from the moment the intro video started I thought he could … Continue reading Kento Miyahara c Vs SUWAMA Triple Crown title 23/03/2020
This was a weird match. You had the stiffness from Kawada the leg work from Mutoh and a really great intensity from both guys throughout. But there was also a massive amount of bullshit in the match. They shook off everything an no sold it. You had an amazing sequence of ten basement dropkicks to … Continue reading Keiji Mutoh c Vs Toshiaki Kawada Triple Crown Title AJPW 24/02/2002
The opening ten minutes of this match were pretty excellent. They did a few minutes of mat work with akiyama Vs go and Omori Vs Kento, in both cases it was obvious that the younger guys were much faster and looked so far ahead in doing a straight wrestling match. So what did the veterans … Continue reading Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori (c) Vs Go Shiozaki & Kento Miyahara AJPW Tag Team Championship 30/08/2014
I am fairly sure from watching this that Takayama was pretty injured going in as this was 95% a Akiyama carry job. For a match that was very short for a tournament final (13 minutes) they spent a lot of it in headlocks and other holds or doing count out teases to waste some time. … Continue reading Yoshihiro Takayama Vs Jun Akiyama Global League final NOAH 02/05/2010
Set up as a super dream match between legends and it largely delivered except a rushed feeling finish. You had a cool couple of dreamatch style face offs at the start until the real match began with the heel team working over Misawa for a short while until he makes a awesome comeback with really … Continue reading Tatsumi Fujinami & Mitsuharu Misawa Vs Masahiro Chono & Jushin Liger NJPW 14/05/2005
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