Category: NOAH 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
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. ***
The TOUGH team of Masa and Inamura are awesome, two guys of similar build who love throwing shoulder blocks and hitting sentons, what's not to love? Axiz were really good in this too. The story was that Axiz took out masa right away by hitting a vertical spike on him and threw him to the … Continue reading Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima c Vs Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura GHC Tag Titles 02/11/2019
A fairly simple but we'll worked jr tag match, they went at each other fast from the off as the feud dictated they should which was nice. There were a few good bits in there from Ogawa as you would expect, he is an expert in putting in nifty little tricks into his matches that … Continue reading Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki c Vs Daisuke Harada & Tadasuke GHC jr tag titles NOAH 02/11/2019
Pretty great pro wrestling all round. Taniguchi tries to out Kaz Kaz and succeeded to begin with using slaps and punt kicks to wear old iron head down. The mistake he made was to get a bit to confident and go for strike exchanges and not smothering his opponent. He gave Kaz time to breathe … Continue reading Shuhei Taniguchi Vs Kaz Fujita NOAH 02/11/2019
In the build up to this tournament I had this down as the final and had Kenoh winning in what would be a big moment building from his loss of the title to Sugiura in early 2018. This would be his first win against him and feel really worthwhile. Instead it was dull lifeless and … Continue reading Kenoh Vs Takashi Sugiura NOAH N-1 Victory final 16/09/2019
Been watching a lot of Shiozaki recently, that was not really intentional but not complaining. Masa really dominated this match he took the vast majority of it taking Go's left knee apart and go did well selling it. He barely ever did more than a couple of steps or shuffling to hit a move which … Continue reading Go Shiozaki Vs Masa Kitamiya NOAH 29/08/2019
I have never heard of let alone seen Hammerstone before he was announced as the MLW entrant for the N-1 Victory but based on this one match so far he is pretty good. I like his look, he looks proper mean and keeps that up the whole match which is nice. Most of his moves … Continue reading Go Shiozaki Vs Alex Hammerstone NOAH N-1 Victory 18/08/2019
This was surprisingly only the second singles match between these two Misawa trainees. The first match was in 2002 at an untelevised show, not footage TV or handheld exists of that show. They must have missed each other when jr champ but they have wrestled 140 times in tags so are not strangers. They mixed … Continue reading Naomichi Marufuji Vs Kotaro Suzuki NOAH 04/08/2019
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