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[lboinyamouf4sho]

REVIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW TIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!



NJPW "DOMINION 6.18", 6/18/11
1. Koji Kanemoto vs Hiromu Takahashi solid. again the kid is impressive and koji is koji(meaning he takes a special pleasure beating up the young lions)

2. Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA vs Jado, Gedo & Brian Kendrick good. always happy to see the leonardo.

3. CMLL World Middleweight Title: © Ryusuke Taguchi vs Mascara Dorada fun little match, too short to turn into anything more than that but good action.

4. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue vs Takashi Iizuka, Masato Tanaka & Tomohiro Ishii OK. what you'd xpect. the never ending feud between that announcers shirt vs iizuka continues of course.

5. Tetsuya Naito vs Yujiro Takahashi pretty fucking sweet especially if you've been watching the build leading up to these former partners colliding. good work by both guys and i like the booking. the guy who needed the win more won.

6.Satoshi Kojima & Togi Makabe vs Minoru Suzuki & Lance Archer good. i dig kojima & makabe as a team and this was a solid match up. archer wasn't especially impressive but he was OK in this.

7. IWGP Intercontinental Title: © MVP vs Toru Yano nothing special. don't usually get into yano matches.

8. IWGP Tag & GHC Tag Double Titles Match: IWGP© Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson vs GHC© Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano good. bad intentions were a great team and they worked well with takayama & sano.

9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: © Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Hirooki Goto FUCKING SUPERB. damn it's a shame goto seems to get lost in the shuffle. i'd love to see him get a title reign. yes tanahashi is the better performer over all but goto is a nice alternative to tanahashi's pretty boy face character. anyways the build up to the match was good and the match delivered BIG TIME. the match is just fucking awesome from start to finish, words can't really do it justice, here's some highlights


overall GREAT buy at $6, though i believe you can watch the entire show on youtube. if nothing else do yourself a favor and watch the main event if you haven't seen it already, this had to be one of the best matches of 2011.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

NJPW “WRESTLING DONTAKU 2013″, 5/3/13 (WPW/PPV/iPPV)
Fukuoka International Center
6,800 Fans – Super No Vacancy

0. Yuji Nagata, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & Maximo beat Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Jado & Gedo (7:04) when Liger used an air scissors drop on Gedo.
1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov beat KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley (c) (7:04) when Romero pinned KUSHIDA after the Contract Killer to become the 35th champions.
2. Bad Luck Fale Return Match: Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale (King Fale) beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Captain New Japan (5:28) when Devitt pinned Captain after Fale used a choke lariat.
3. IWGP Tag Team Title – 4WAY Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima beat Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (c), Manabu Nakanishi & Strong Man and Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka (10:40) when Kojima used a lariat on Strong Man to become the 62nd champions.
4. NEVER Openweight Title: Masato Tanaka ZERO1 (c) beat Tomoaki Honma (9:32) with the Sliding D (3rd defense).
5. Special Singles Match: Togi Makabe beat Yujiro Takahashi (9:59) with a King Kong kneedrop.
6. Special Singles Match: Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata went to a double KO (11:39).
7. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Karl Anderson (12:52) with the High Fly Flow.
8. Double Main Event I – IWGP Intercontinental Title: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) beat Shelton Benjamin (14:59) with the Boma Ye (8th defense).
9. Double Main Event II – IWGP Heavyweight Title: Kazuchika Okada (c) beat Minoru Suzuki (30:49) with the Rainmaker (1st defense).

* BOSJ participants announced: Prince Devitt, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi, KUSHIDA, Alex Shelley, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov, Jado, Brian Kendrick, Taichi, TAKA Michinoku, Kenny Omega (DDT), Titan (CMLL), Ricoche (DRAGON GATE), Trent Beretta (former WWE).

* Tetsuya Naito appears after intermission and announces he will return at DOMINION 6.22 in June!

* After Tanahashi defeated Anderson, Devitt and Fale ran in and attacked Tanahashi… Devitt motioned to Anderson who hesitated before he and Tama Tonga attacked Tanahashi. New army formation!

* Makabe challenges Okada for a title match after the main event.

looks like another great show, anybody order it?? that's a big feather in okada's cap with that defense. interested to see heel devitt too. BOSJ line up looks hot.

[Kid Kamikaze10]

I DID!

Bullet Club is an awesome Gaijin Army name. The swerve on Tanahashi was pretty hilarious, IMO.


The undercard was a bit weak, but I really liked the last five matches. Then again, I'm a Makabe fan, so it's probably only the last four matches that will get praised. I sort of have a problem with the double KO though, but hey, it's a decent ending to continue a feud. Keeps Goto busy, and away from Nakamura and Okada.

Gotta point out though, Suzuki-Gun got crushed today. I think the CHAOS-Suzuki feud is over. However, I HOPE that the Bullet Club start going for the main titles. It'd be a great way to get an international audience on board.

After Makabe loses at Dominion of course.


Oh and...




Love this line up

[lboinyamouf4sho]

I DID!

Bullet Club is an awesome Gaijin Army name. The swerve on Tanahashi was pretty hilarious, IMO.


The undercard was a bit weak, but I really liked the last five matches. Then again, I'm a Makabe fan, so it's probably only the last four matches that will get praised. I sort of have a problem with the double KO though, but hey, it's a decent ending to continue a feud. Keeps Goto busy, and away from Nakamura and Okada.

Gotta point out though, Suzuki-Gun got crushed today. I think the CHAOS-Suzuki feud is over. However, I HOPE that the Bullet Club start going for the main titles. It'd be a great way to get an international audience on board.

After Makabe loses at Dominion of course.


Oh and...




Love this line up

bullet club definitely has a ring to it. i'm feeling the gaijin contingent in this years BOSJ.

[clayholio]

I DID!

Bullet Club is an awesome Gaijin Army name. The swerve on Tanahashi was pretty hilarious, IMO.


The undercard was a bit weak, but I really liked the last five matches. Then again, I'm a Makabe fan, so it's probably only the last four matches that will get praised. I sort of have a problem with the double KO though, but hey, it's a decent ending to continue a feud. Keeps Goto busy, and away from Nakamura and Okada.

Gotta point out though, Suzuki-Gun got crushed today. I think the CHAOS-Suzuki feud is over. However, I HOPE that the Bullet Club start going for the main titles. It'd be a great way to get an international audience on board.

After Makabe loses at Dominion of course.


Oh and...




Love this line up

That lineup sounds awesome.

Titan is one of my favorites in CMLL. He's surely going to get whomped by everyone, but he might get in some stuff that nobody's seen before

CMLL this weekend's is supposed to have Nuevo Mistico's first singles match, against the mighty AVERNO! Can't wait!

[lboinyamouf4sho]

That lineup sounds awesome.

Titan is one of my favorites in CMLL. He's surely going to get whomped by everyone, but he might get in some stuff that nobody's seen before

CMLL this weekend's is supposed to have Nuevo Mistico's first singles match, against the mighty AVERNO! Can't wait!

i'm in. i've missed CMLL for like the last 3 weeks.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

* New Japan’s latest major show was a success with 6,800 fans packing the Fukuoka International Center, many watching on PPV in Japan, and many on iPPV across the world. New Japan rarely puts on a disappointing show these days and while this one didn’t really accelerate until the second half, it was another US$25 well spent on a top quality wrestling product that continues to deliver.

* After the dark match, which was shown on the iPPV, Forever Hooligans returned to New Japan and captured the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Title from Time Splitters in a good match but one you’ve probably seen before, this pairing having happened in 4 of the last 6 matches over these belts. These teams always put on a good fast-paced match and this was a suitable opener that ended when the Hooligans hit KUSHIDA with their Contract Killer, Romero pinning him to ensure a second IWGP Jr. Tag Title reign for the CHAOS team. While these matches are good, the junior tag division really needs some new challengers – how about Jado & Gedo get involved again?

* Bad Luck Fale, previously known as King Fale, made his in-ring return after aligning with Devitt last month when the Irishman turned heel. They faced Taguchi & Captain and as you’d expect Taguchi was angry at Devitt and there were some heated exchanges between these. I missed the last few minutes of this match but Fale unsurprisingly picked up the win. Seeing Fale carry Devitt out on his shoulders gave me flashbacks to Shawn Michaels and Diesel and made me wonder just what the plans are for Devitt. He is one of the most talented wrestlers in the world and the undisputed leader of New Japan’s junior division but with all that talent and an entertaining new character is the time near for him to step into the heavyweight division where he just might be able to reach main event level?

* New Japan’s most famous team of the modern age, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima, are still going strong in the year 2013 and today began their fifth reign as IWGP Tag Team Champions in a 4WAY Match against IWGP & NWA Tag double champions Killer Elite Squad, GHC Tag champions Yano & Iizuka, and Muscle Orchestra. This was basically a 10 minute sprint with each team getting their shots in and was entertaining but was never going to be great because of the format. The finish saw Kojima lariat Strong Man for the win which meant the previously dominant KES lost the belts without even being pinned, surely grounds for a rematch. It also created a scenario where three of these teams hold tag titles – TenKoji the IWGP Tag Team Title, KES the NWA World Tag Team Title, and CHAOS the GHC Tag Team Title. So the tag division could get very interesting. TenKoji’s fifth reign equals Chono & Tenzan’s five reigns as the most ever. It’s probably safe to say that Tenzan is New Japan’s most decorated tag wrestler of all time now.

* Masato Tanaka made a successful V3 defense of his NEVER Openweight Title against the recently returned Tomoaki Honma. This match had the most heat yet on the show from the always tough Fukuoka crowd, who tend to sit in quiet appreciation of matches. It was a decent match but these two can do and have done better before. Honma was always unlikely to win but the crowd got behind him and for a while believed he could do it before a Sliding D put an end to that.

* The Makabe vs. Yujiro feud continued and perhaps ended with a Makabe victory today. Yujiro entered with a banana sticking out of his tights and erotic entrance music as he brings his “Tokyo Pimps” character to life. This was an instantly forgetable match wrestled at a slow pace that Makabe won in routine fashion with his King Kong kneedrop. Makabe, once one of New Japan’s top few stars, has been kept strong for a long time now while not actually doing much but later in the show we’d find out he is about to step into the spotlight again.

* Best of the Super Jr. XX participants were announced after intermission with another fun-looking cast: Prince Devitt, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi, KUSHIDA, Alex Shelley, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov, Jado, Brian Kendrick, Taichi, TAKA Michinoku, Kenny Omega (DDT), Titan (CMLL), Ricoche (DRAGON GATE), Trent Beretta (former WWE). So it will be BOSJ debuts for young lion Hiromu Takahashi, Titan from CMLL, Ricoche from DRAGON GATE, and Trent Beretta (listed as just Beretta) best known for his WWE stint. Plus returns for the exciting Kenny Omega and CHAOS’ Brian “Spanky” Kendrick.

* Tetsuya Naito also appeared after intermission to a nice crowd response, wearing a suit and announcing that he will return at DOMINION 6.22 in June! Naito has been out of action for a long time and his return will be a welcome boost to the heavyweight division. He has potential to be one of New Japan’s top stars and I’d be surprised if he isn’t before too long.

* Former university friends Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata collided in their long anticipated singles match. Photographs of the two at school and in the New Japan dojo were shown, emphasizing the special significance of this match. This was a really good match in which Shibata impressed me again. It’s like he has never been away and he really belongs in the New Japan ring after wasting years embarking on a mediocre MMA career. As you would expect this was a stiff fight with plenty of strikes and was a very even contest. So even that after knocking each other silly they both hit the mat and couldn’t respond to the referee’s 10 count, meaning a double KO. Looks like this situation isn’t over yet and I can’t wait to see more between them…

* Hiroshi Tanahashi found himself in the strange position of being third from top after dominating the IWGP Heavyweight Title for so long. He and Karl Anderson had another entertaining match in their series, although shorter and faster paced than some of their others. Anderson was seconded by Tama Tonga but he didn’t interfere and it was a clean fight which Tanahashi won with the High Fly Flow. Moments later Devitt and Fale hit the ring and took out Tanahashi then faced Anderson and Tonga. Anderson looked slightly puzzled but it was all a ruse as he and Tonga joined Devitt on the dark side by attacking Tanahashi! The four foreigners destroyed Tanahashi and a new force announced its arrival in New Japan!

* Shinsuke Nakamura made a successful V8 defense of the IWGP Intercontinental Title against Shelton “X” Benjamin, Suzuki Gun’s mystery opponent for Shinsuke who was revealed recently. This match was much better than I expected with Benjamin doing a good job of taking his chance to shine in the spotlight and having a good performance – especially towards the end when he did some very impressive stuff. Unfortunately two spots were messed up at the end including a swan dive knee kick by Nakamura who slipped on the ropes, but it didn’t take too much away from an enjoyable match that the charismatic champion won with his Boma Ye.

* And so came the main event between new IWGP Heavyweight Champion, “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada, and “Invader” Minoru Suzuki, in Okada’s V1 defense of the belt he won from Tanahashi in an unforgetable match last month. Suzuki beat Okada at “THE NEW BEGINNING” in February and New Japan reminded us in the pre-match video package. When Suzuki graduated New Japan’s dojo and debuted against Iizuka in the 80s, Okada was just half a year old and now they’re main eventing against each other! We’ve come to expect a very high standard from New Japan main events now and both of these have had world class matches against Tanahashi in recent times, so how could they do against each other? The answer was another outstanding main event, although perhaps a level below their matches with Tanahashi. Suzuki was again inspired and outstanding while Okada continues to show why he is the most impressive new star Japanese pro wrestling has seen in many years. The creative Okada modified his tombstone into a Gotch-style tombstone (Suzuki’s finisher is the Gotch-style piledriver) before hitting his Rainmaker to win in another 30+ minute title match. Okada really is something special and you have to wonder just how good he will be when he reaches his prime as long as he remains in this environment and isn’t lured away by money to America. It has to be noted that Suzuki Gun lost both main events and also the IWGP Tag Team Title, maybe casting some doubts on their future especially with Devitt’s group now vying for the spotlight.

* Okada gave his post-match interview before Gedo took the microphone and bigged up his friend. Everyone was waiting for the next challenger to show himself – surely not Tanahashi again? It wasn’t Tanahashi but rather Makabe who challenged Okada to a match at DOMINION 6.22, almost a year since his last attempt to win the IWGP Heavyweight Title against Tanahashi. These two have not really had a high profile match since Okada returned, just a 9 1/2 minute undercard match on the final day of the 2012 G1 Climax where Okada won with his Rainmaker. So this will be a fresh main event and hopefully Makabe can motivate himself and perform at the level he was a few years ago.

could be cool if kozlov & romero join bullet club.

[Alex]

i don't think lucha is a good fit for you period. just not your style.

Could be, i used to like the Rey stuff in WCW though.
But judging from what im seeing it's not much like that.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

That lineup sounds awesome.

Titan is one of my favorites in CMLL. He's surely going to get whomped by everyone, but he might get in some stuff that nobody's seen before

CMLL this weekend's is supposed to have Nuevo Mistico's first singles match, against the mighty AVERNO! Can't wait!

he'll probably go over takahashi, and maybe get the upset of jado.

shit CMLL doesn't come on sat anymore for me, have to wait til sunday at 3pm. clay do you have comcast??

[clayholio]

he'll probably go over takahashi, and maybe get the upset of jado.

shit CMLL doesn't come on sat anymore for me, have to wait til sunday at 3pm. clay do you have comcast??

I just figure that since Titan's so low in CMLL that they can't insist that he actually beat someone. But maybe one so that he doesn't seem like a chump?

I've got DirecTV now, I usually record the midnight Saturday one (the one that starts in abt. 10 minutes from now).

[lboinyamouf4sho]

I just figure that since Titan's so low in CMLL that they can't insist that he actually beat someone. But maybe one so that he doesn't seem like a chump?

I've got DirecTV now, I usually record the midnight Saturday one (the one that starts in abt. 10 minutes from now).

takahashi's still a young lion so they almost never win, and jado's a booker, he''s more concerned about making others look good to strengthen the division.

shit i was just searching the ondemand on comcast and found quite a bit of lucha stuff that's free. there's a program called lucha libre de mundial that's all indy lucha. some trippy stuff, not great or anything from what i've seen so far but just to crack a corona and say WTF to. there's also what looks like a reality show call el luchador and the episode i skimmed through had el felino, shocker, and rey buccanero. i don't speak spanish though unfortunately. damn i wish it was subtitled.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

REVIEEEEEEEEEEEEEW TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!!

Zero1 11/17/2010
1. Shito Ueda/Yoshikazu Yokoyama -vs- Braithe Priest/Don Gorman nothing much to see here, very forgettable/easily skippable

2. Ryuji Sai/Yusaku Obata/Shinsuke Jet Wakabata -vs- Kamikaze/Yuzuru Saito/Rikiya Fudosai is the only guy woth watching in the match, and he's not in it enough.

3. Takuya Sugawara -vs- Minoru Fujita -vs- Mineo Fujita -vs- Munenori Sawa *Int'l Jr Title #1 Contender Match - 4-Way this is worth watching but nothing special.

4. Masato Tanaka -vs- Kohei Sato. HELL YES. business finally picks up. i'm a fan of both guys and they didn't disappoint. hard strikes, good grappling, technique, al around good work by both guys.

5. Ikuto Hidaka -vs- Fujita Jr Hayato. *Int'l Jr. Title AWESOME!! lord it's a shame hidaka's never got a good run in NJPW or AJPW. even at his age imo he's on the level with any jr in the damn world. and hayato, i fukn love that kid. anyways AWESOME kicks and slick submissions throughout. wonderful match.

6. Daisuke Sekimoto -vs- Shinjiro Otani. *Z-1 World Title more awesomeness. otani is just damn amazing at his age. sekimoto is beastly per usual. great spirited fight that showcases sekimoto's progression over the years. prematch they even show clips from sekimoto vs otani from the 2002 fire festival.

overall a decent buy at $6, really would be great if the fat was trimmed and made a single disc for $3. if you're a fan of otani seek out that match, but everybody should check out hayato vs hidaka

[lboinyamouf4sho]

i hope my cable guide isn't pranking me again this week and CMLL actually comes on when it's supposed to.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

REVIEEEEEEEEEEEEWWW TIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!!!!



NJPW 07/15/2011
1. Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Round 1: Koji Kanemoto, Kyosuke Mikami & Hiromu Takahashi vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Madoka & Shinobu decent opener, some funny shit with kikuchi. pretty cool to see madoka(K-dojo) & shinobu(BJW) in a new japan ring.

2. Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Round 1: Yuji Nagata, Tiger Mask IV & Takaaki Watanabe vs Masato Tanaka, Yujiro Takahashi & Dick Togo pretty good, love the trio of yujiro, tanaka, & togo it just works.

3. Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Round 1: Togi Makabe, Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma vs Lance Archer, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi good. taichi and TAKA are great together as heels, and archer while not spectacular played his role pretty well. i've been enjoying makabe & kojima working together the last couple of shows and adding honma makes it that much better. not sure who i'm rooting for more between this team & tanaka, togo, & yujiro.

4. Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Round 1: Hiroshi Tanahashi, KUSHIDA & Mascara Dorada vs Jado, Gedo & Brian Kendrick sweet. always glad to see the spanky plus lots of cool moves from dorada & kushida. tanahashi lets them have much of the spotlight.

Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Round 2: Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Madoka & Shinobu not much to remember. not a fan of the yano, iizuka, ishii.

Hirooki Goto, Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi vs Masato Tanaka, Yujiro Takahashi & Dick Togo good. sad to see tanaka/togo/yujiro go, but apollo 55+ goto is pretty cool.

Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Round 2: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Wataru Inoue & King Fale vs Togi Makabe, Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma OK but aside from fale looking like he's making progress rather forgettable.

Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Round 2: Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson & Jushin Thunder vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, KUSHIDA & Mascara Dorada solid, and does well to set the stage for bernard's title shot against tanahashi.

Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Semifinal Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson & Jushin Thunder Liger vs Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii not bad, short and to the point.

Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Semifinal Hirooki Goto, Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi vs Togi Makabe, Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma awesome, sad to see kojima/makabe/honma go out, great pin maneuver for the finish!!

Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament - Final Hirooki Goto, Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi vs Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson & Jushin Thunder Liger very good. great way to cap off the tourney.

overall easily worth the $3 pricetag. lot of comedy and joking for a NJPW show(in the early rounds) which was pretty cool and a nice change up from the norm.

[clayholio]

Here's a really good match from last week's CMLL - Rey Cometa vs. Namajague, caballero vs. caballero!



Namajague's really stepped up his game.