Tag: GHC heavyweight title
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
Other than the very start and one or two bad moments this was a pretty exemplary version of heel invades from another promotion and challenges face champion. Makabe was a dickhead using deliberate ref bumps help from Honma, a chair and a table in his attempt to take out Sugiura and his left leg. The … Continue reading Takashi Sugiura c Vs Togi Makabe GHC Heavyweight title 28/02/2010
What this match really did show was how much better Sugiura was than goto and how dull Goto really was in 2010. He just appears to be so generic here and runs through his moves when on offense and worse than that his transitions into offence are built upon 'my turn to be on top … Continue reading Takashi Sugiura c vs Hiroki Goto GHC Heavyweight Title NJPW 04/01/2010
The first title match of the post Misawa era to be between two guys who were not established main eventers from when Misawa was alive. Thankfully they dont try to dispel any idea that they are not ready to be in the main events by putting on an attempt at a multi-layered epic which would … Continue reading Go Shiozaki c vs Takashi Sugiura GHC Heavyweight title 06/12/2009
The last two matches of kaito's reign proved that yes he can do great big matches and that the middle period of Vs Sugiura 2 and Vs Nakajima was just a blip as he finished on a high with the Kenoh match and this match. They made the match feel big beforehand with the backstage … Continue reading Kaito Kiyomiya c Vs Go Shiozaki GHC World Heavyweight title 04/01/2020
There were some aspects of this match (most down to Akiyama) that were exceptional. His control segments and transitions, particularly the back-body-drop over the ropes to the ramp. But the work from Marufuji when on top was just not great. To begin with it was established that Marufuji was not on the level in terms … Continue reading Jun Akiyama c Vs Naomichi Marufuji GHC World Heavyweight title 09/09/2006
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
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
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
The main event of the Misawa memorial event. This was pretty great, I watched this once a good few years ago but on rewatch it is great. What makes it great is pretty much all due to Saito, he is one of the most underrated wrestlers ever and a all time great offence wrestler. Everything … Continue reading Go Shiozaki c Vs Akitoshi Saito GHC Heavyweight title NOAH 27/09/2009
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