This was the first ghc jr heavyweight tag championship match used to crown the first champions after a short tournament. You have the hometown team of kentfuji, proteges of the two biggest stars in the promotion and a somewhat established team. Against them a jr legend in liger and Murahama a guy who sadly only … Continue reading KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji Vs Jushin Thunder Liger & Takehiro Murahama NOAH GHC jr heavyweight tag championship 14/07/2003
They went out there with the express idea to try and make it look like MIsawa and Akiayama might have any chance of losing against these massive underdogs. They managed it with pretty great success. Akiyama started off by easily out-wrestling Izumida and showing him disrespect. Kimala and Isumida took over for a while before … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa Jun Akiyama vs Kimala 2 Jun Izumida RWTL AJPW 16/11/1997
This was worked as both a dream match and a set up match for one year down the line at the same time. Misawa comes into this as already a legend and a top guy in his own promotion, Chono is a top guy about to go into his legend period. Even so it is … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa vs Masahiro Chono NJPW 02/05/2002
Back in 2017 these two had my no1 and no3 best matches of the year for 2017 since then they have had 3 matches since then not including this one. Of those they were ok but not really much above that they got very formulaic and just relied on kicking out of a bunch of … Continue reading Kento Miyahara c vs Shuji Ishikawa Triple Crown Title AJPW 20/05/2019
Iwamoto lost his two titles in a matter of a couple of weeks, sad times for him. Aoki is extremely over in this match and just goes to throw it into the face of the people who say that he should not be champion, yes he is in his 40s now but he is still … Continue reading Atsushi Aoki vs Koji Iwamoto c AJPW Jr Heavyweight Title AJPW 20/05/2019
After Iwamoto and Lee lost the titles to Kawakami and Kikuta at the recent BJW show here the AJPW guys are trying to win back their promotions belts. You have the established team of Kawakami and Kikuta vs the more makeshift (even if there is an Osaka pro connection) team of Zeus and Maruyama. They … Continue reading Kazumi Kikuta & Ryuichi Kawakami c vs Zeus & Atsushi Maruyama All Asia Tag titles 20/05/2019
In terms of excecution of moves there is no one better out there than Shotaro Ashino, add to that his excellent presence in the ring and his clear grasp of storytelling and you have a pretty special talent. Koji Doi looks better for his change in athsetic as he looked a dork before but his … Continue reading Infant Terribles (Shotaro Ashino & Kuma Arashi) Vs Koji Doi & Daiki Inaba Wrestle-1 03/05/2019
At a clipped down 17 minutes from 22 this felt very good for the clipping as it seemed very well paced throughout. There was nothing groundbreaking in terms of a story, two bigger members of the roster hit each other hard. What is not to like? Both guys sold fatigue and the build up of … Continue reading T-Hawk c Vs Shuji Kondo Wrestle-1 Title 03/05/2019
This was a very dragon gate stipulation that would be used to create a fun match where the massive underdog (Jun) would have any semblance of a chance against CIMA. The added falls count anywhere meant that half the match was fought around Korakuen with mostly roll ups between walk and brawl. Once they got … Continue reading CIMA Vs Jun Tondokoro 2 count rules falls count anywhere Wrestle-1 03/05/2019
One of the best tag matches ever and for my money the second best match NOAH has ever put on behind the Misawa vs Kobashi 2003 match. The first 20 minutes of this are two heat segments on the jrs with flashes of hope spots quickly cut off through sheer brutality from misawa or slyness … Continue reading Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa c Vs Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA GHC Heavyweight Tag Titles NOAH 25/04/2004
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