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
In many of his six man appearances post 93/94 Misawa tends to take a backseat and the match is about the other guys in the match, he will come in for a couple of exchanges and to break up some pills but the most interesting parts are about the other guys. This was not the … Continue reading Kenta Kobashi Jun Akiyama Takashi rikio Vs Mitsuharu Misawa Akira Taue Takashi Morishima NOAH 05/10/2003
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
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