A far more low key title defense than the frankly boring big name title win vs KENTA & Kanemaru and one that was for the most part a bit better but sadly fell apart a bit at the end. Kenoh and Kenbai are both mainly mich pro workers at this point and there work in … Continue reading ANMU (Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki) c vs Kenoh & Kenbai GHC Jr Heavyweight Tag Titles NOAH 29/10/2011
Unlike the Aoki Tribute match between the good Okada and Sato from a month ago which felt like a celebration of the man in a style of match that he would of had. This was a more standard but still pretty great interpromotional six man. It was built around the dysfunction of the Kento, Yuma … Continue reading Kento Miyahara, Yuma Ayoagi & Naomichi Marufuji vs Shuhei Taniguchi, SUWAMA and Shuji Ishikawa AJPW 11/08/2019
Two 49 year old hard grumpy bastards vs two younger underdogs, story just writes itself. Akiyama and Sugiura dominate for most of the match before a hot tag to Naoya when he makes the comeback and Kumano gets some shots in on Akiyama but still falls to the vastly more experienced and better wrestler. Simple … Continue reading Jun Akiyama & Takashi Sugiura vs Hitoshi Kumano & Naoya Nomura AJPW 11/08/2019
Pro Wrestling Noah giving you interesting title matches and then ruining them by going way to long since 2000. This was ANMU's third attempt at the No Mercy jr tag titles. In both of the previous matches Aoki had been pinned, KENTA is becoming a heavyweight and getting even more disrespectful of the jrs and … Continue reading No Mercy (KENTA & Yoshinabu Kanemaru) c vs ANMU (Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki) GHC Jr Heavyweight Championship NOAH 16/10/2011
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
Saito and Inoue are both pretty old and very decrepit. Inoue has been a lower card comedy guy since the late 90s. But every so often in noah he would get a short run and chance to put on a big match. There was the akiyama match in 2006 that was awesome and so was … Continue reading Axiz (Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima) c Vs Dark Agents Returns ( Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue) GHC Heavyweight Tag Titles Noah 04/08/2019
This was the main event of the giant Baba 17th aniversary show. This match was all about Fuchi, he was worked over for the main body of the match with the Xceed team being very heelish attacking his back and neck with numerous spike piledrivers on the floor which was pretty brutal. Fuchi sold really … Continue reading Jun Akiyama Takao Omori Masanobu Fuchi Vs Go Shiozaki Kento Miyahara Kotaro Suzuki 31/01/2015
Last year at this same show go Shiozaki and Takashi Sugiura had the noah MOTY. A month later Sugiura had the long awaited and much hyped defence against nakajima which ended up being a massive disappointment. Sadly this was more of the latter than the former. The start was interesting enough Kaito goes straight for … Continue reading Kaito Kiyomiya c Vs Katsuhiko Nakajima GHC Heavyweight Championship 27/07/2019
This was a very dumb match. But in a pretty fun way. They start with some neat mat work before moving into their usual nasty slapfight. After this they did the sit down offer a free shot spot with kciks and chops that they then went back to with headbutts at the end. All of … Continue reading Hiroshi Yamato c Vs Hikaru Sato AJPW jr heavyweight championship 23/09/2012
According to the results this went 13 minutes but we got only about 8 of that. I would really have liked to see the whole thing because what we got was really good. Just really stiff slaps with shoot kicks to the face that caused hard way bleeding and headbutts that of course gave dull … Continue reading Hiroshi Yamato Vs Hikaru Sato AJPW 19/09/2011
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