International Wrestling

[lboinyamouf4sho]

no CMLL because of a god damn Kdabra marathon(can't lie that show does look kind of cool)

anyways IVP is having a 30% off sale ending on the 25th, the coupon code is SAVE

[clayholio]

no CMLL because of a god damn Kdabra marathon(can't lie that show does look kind of cool)

anyways IVP is having a 30% off sale ending on the 25th, the coupon code is SAVE

I've still got the last two or three matches of Wrestlemania to get through, so it's a good week for CMLL to get preempted.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

no CMLL because of a god damn Kdabra marathon(can't lie that show does look kind of cool)

anyways IVP is having a 30% off sale ending on the 25th, the coupon code is SAVE

on top of that they are offering a 2 disc owen hart compilation for FREE http://new.ivpvideos2.com/product_in...oducts_id=8272 or if you don't want to order you can download it for free http://new.ivpvideos2.com/product_in...oducts_id=8271
they also offer a sampler dvd for .25 also up for free download.

[Gryphon]

NJPW Results From Matsushita IMP Hall, [Osaka Japan] 5/20/12
857 Spectators

1. Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA defeated Takaaki Watanabe & Hiromu Takahashi[8:37]

2. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask defeated Gedo, Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Jado[11:21]

3. Wataru Inoue, Togi Makabe & Yuji Nagata defeated TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Minoru Suzuki[13:10]

4. Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Tama Tonga[9:05]

5. Kazuchika Okada, Masato Tanaka & YOSHI-HASHI defeated Captain New Japan, Tetsuya Naito & Hiroshi Tanahashi[16:19]

6. IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Hirooki Goto(c) defeated Tomohiro Ishii[18:14]

[lboinyamouf4sho]

REVIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!

AJPW 10/04/2010 & 10/11/2010

Taped 9/10/10 - Flashing Tour:
1. Minoru Suzuki vs. Minoru Tanaka. disappointing, not bad really but disappointing in lack of both length and competitiveness.

2. BUSHI vs. MAZADA - MASK vs. HAIR Match good. very satisfying payoff to their feud with some cool spots along the way.

3. Keiji Mutoh vs. Masakatsu Funaki. decent. VERY ground based match up, dragged a little here and there though.

Taped 9/10/10 - Flashing Tour:
4. Shuji Kondo/Hiroshi Yamato vs. Kaz Hayashi/KAI. very good and xciting match up. all of these guys can go and do so here.

5. Prelim highlights...
6. Kohei Suwama/Masayuki Kono vs. Manabu Soya/Seiya Sanada AWESOME. tag champs vs tag champs in a tag tourney final. justb great work. suwama & kono are freaking monsters and sanada & soya just have a ton of fire in them. great battle and i'm digging both teams a lot.

over all OK buy. nothing must see but the main event is more than worth watching

[C-Cool]

On today's episode of "How to f**k up in wrestling", we go to Japan for drug possession charges. It was weed. Simple enough...

Except they were in Japan.

The arrested suspects are Nosawa Rongai (dumb a$$ Puro-Juggalo, previously got blackballed from All-Japan for previous dumb stuff) and Io Shirai (REALLY screwed up her young life with this one charge.) Her older sister (Mio Shirai), of whom they were former tag partners, but now estranged, is most likely ticked/saddened.

To compare, a dude got charged with only 5% of the weed these two had, and was jailed for 5 years and forever blackballed from the Japanese wrestling scene. They are so screwed, unless one completely pins the blame on the other.

Seriously, Japan's drug laws are vicious, and they thought they could get away with it.

But then again, maybe they got the "Rongai", Lol.

[clayholio]

On today's episode of "How to f**k up in wrestling", we go to Japan for drug possession charges. It was weed. Simple enough...

Except they were in Japan.

The arrested suspects are Nosawa Rongai (dumb a$$ Puro-Juggalo, previously got blackballed from All-Japan for previous dumb stuff) and Io Shirai (REALLY screwed up her young life with this one charge.) Her older sister (Mio Shirai), of whom they were former tag partners, but now estranged, is most likely ticked/saddened.

To compare, a dude got charged with only 5% of the weed these two had, and was jailed for 5 years and forever blackballed from the Japanese wrestling scene. They are so screwed, unless one completely pins the blame on the other.

Seriously, Japan's drug laws are vicious, and they thought they could get away with it.

But then again, maybe they got the "Rongai", Lol.

I love Nosawa. He also got busted for getting really drunk and stealing a taxi. There really needs to be a movie about his life...

[lboinyamouf4sho]

never much of a fan of nosawa(i have seen him live though *barry horowitz style pat on own back*) but that sucks. i wonder how much they had??

poor guy likely got used to weed being passed around like a........lita in the US and mexico.

[clayholio]

never much of a fan of nosawa(i have seen him live though *barry horowitz style pat on own back*) but that sucks. i wonder how much they had??

poor guy likely got used to weed being passed around like a........lita in the US and mexico.

What I've seen of him, I generally liked.

I guess there was stuff inside the frame of a picture or drawing or something. I can't imagine it was a ton. But Japan's not the West Coast, you know? I don't think it takes much to get in crazy trouble over there.

But I'm a bigger fan of the list of escapades he's piling up.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

What I've seen of him, I generally liked.

I guess there was stuff inside the frame of a picture or drawing or something. I can't imagine it was a ton. But Japan's not the West Coast, you know? I don't think it takes much to get in crazy trouble over there.

But I'm a bigger fan of the list of escapades he's piling up.

he's cool in tags, i like some of his antics(though he's no brother YASSHI, damn i miss him), and seems like a fun dude, remember the mexico amigos or the NOSAWA BOM-BA-YE shows?? but yeah i bet he got used to that US/mexico everybody blazes it up mindset.

nosawa booked stuff like bret kikutaro vs shawn antonio honda michaels, so he's OK in my book

[clayholio]

CMLL!!!

A pair of trios matches this week. The first was okay (Angel Azteca Jr/Fuego/Pegasso vs. Skandalo/Hooligan/Nitro), depending on who was in the match at the time. No dives though, which might be the first time in a while that I've seen a lucha match with no dives at all.

The second match was another in the build to Black Warrior and Rey Escorpion's hair vs. hair match (Black Warrior/Delta/Guerrero Maya Jr vs. Escorpion/Olimpico/Psicosis). Better action, but still no dives until the third fall!

I keep seeing mentions of Mr. Niebla showing up possibly intoxicated for his matches (and still being allowed to wrestle). Too bad, Niebla's been a lot of fun. But that's not a good situation.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

CMLL!!!

A pair of trios matches this week. The first was okay (Angel Azteca Jr/Fuego/Pegasso vs. Skandalo/Hooligan/Nitro), depending on who was in the match at the time. No dives though, which might be the first time in a while that I've seen a lucha match with no dives at all.

The second match was another in the build to Black Warrior and Rey Escorpion's hair vs. hair match (Black Warrior/Delta/Guerrero Maya Jr vs. Escorpion/Olimpico/Psicosis). Better action, but still no dives until the third fall!

I keep seeing mentions of Mr. Niebla showing up possibly intoxicated for his matches (and still being allowed to wrestle). Too bad, Niebla's been a lot of fun. But that's not a good situation.

saw the 1st match. was glad to see pegasso.

going to watch the 2nd when i get home. i like the technico team(mostly delta & maya) and escorpion, so i'm looking forward to it.

no roosh/terrible this week

[lboinyamouf4sho]

i'm really digging this years line up for BOSJ, as mentioned about nosawa getting busted, he was doing the latest incarnation of the black tiger gimmick so with him out they brought up one of the young guys, good opportunity for him.
here's a look at the final line up
http://www.youtube.com/user/NJPW

and most recent results
NJPW, 5/30/12
Shinshu Sky Park Gymnasium
600 Fans

1. Best of the Super Jr. – Block B: Daisuke Sasaki [4] beat Hiromu Takahashi [0] (5:02) with the NOW OR NEVER 2011.
2. Best of the Super Jr. – Block B: Alex Kozlov [6] beat Jado [0] (9:57) with the Russian Strike.
3. Best of the Super Jr. – Block A: Angel de Oro [4] beat Gedo [2] (8:15) with the Arras de Oro.
4. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Captain New Japan beat Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI (10:19) when Iizuka was DQ’d.
5. Best of the Super Jr. – Block A: PAC Dragon Gate [4] beat Taichi [2] (10:43) with a 360 Shooting Star Press.
6. Best of the Super Jr. – Block B: Tiger Mask [2] beat Ryusuke Taguchi [0] (9:41) with a jackknife hold.
7. Best of the Super Jr. – Block A: Prince Devitt [2] beat Rocky Romero [0] (11:15) with the Bloody Sunday.
8. Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto & Tama Tonga (19:38) when Okada used the Rainmaker on Tonga.

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Block A:
1. KUSHIDA [4]
- PAC [4]
- Angel de Oro [4]
4. Prince Devitt [2]
- Gedo [2]
- Taichi [2]
- BUSHI [2]
8. Jushin Thunder Liger [0]
- Rocky Romero [0]

Block B:
1. Alex Kozlov [6]
2. Low Ki [4]
3. Daisuke Sasaki [4]
4. Tiger Mask [2]
- TAKA Michinoku [2]
- Brian Kendrick [2]
7. Ryusuke Taguchi [0]
- Hiromu Takahashi [0]
- Jado [0]

i hope kozlov takes this thing.

[clayholio]

CMLL!

Stuka Jr. vs. Ephesto (relampago) - good back and forth, and they actually seemed to get more motivated to pick up the win as the clock kept ticking. Stuka had one really nice dive - the one he does from the top rope backwards over the ring post. Liked it!

Aereo/Astral/Electrico vs. Peq. Olimpico/Peq. Nitro/Mercurio - Astral's pretty good, but I didn't think Electrico or Mercurio were all that great. Decent match, though, screwy finish. Took a couple of replays to figure WTF happened at the end.

Black Warrior/Delta/Guererro Maya Jr. vs. Rey Escorpion/Psicosis/Kraneo - last build for the hair vs. hair match. The main appeal of this one was Escorpion vs. Warrior, and that stuff was really good. Also, bonus points for Kraneo throwing Mije about 12 feet into the air (seriously, a 300 lb guy can totally throw a little person high up in the air - if I see a GIF, I'll have to post it) for a splash to take the first fall. I liked the ending - Escorpion has pushed Black Warrior too far, and he's gone bonkers. Good cliffhanger for the hair match (even though it took place yesterday, and I already know who won).

All in all, a good show. When the third match was over, I couldn't believe the hour was up. It felt like I hadn't even watched half an hour yet.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

CMLL!

Stuka Jr. vs. Ephesto (relampago) - good back and forth, and they actually seemed to get more motivated to pick up the win as the clock kept ticking. Stuka had one really nice dive - the one he does from the top rope backwards over the ring post. Liked it!

Aereo/Astral/Electrico vs. Peq. Olimpico/Peq. Nitro/Mercurio - Astral's pretty good, but I didn't think Electrico or Mercurio were all that great. Decent match, though, screwy finish. Took a couple of replays to figure WTF happened at the end.

Black Warrior/Delta/Guererro Maya Jr. vs. Rey Escorpion/Psicosis/Kraneo - last build for the hair vs. hair match. The main appeal of this one was Escorpion vs. Warrior, and that stuff was really good. Also, bonus points for Kraneo throwing Mije about 12 feet into the air (seriously, a 300 lb guy can totally throw a little person high up in the air - if I see a GIF, I'll have to post it) for a splash to take the first fall. I liked the ending - Escorpion has pushed Black Warrior too far, and he's gone bonkers. Good cliffhanger for the hair match (even though it took place yesterday, and I already know who won).

All in all, a good show. When the third match was over, I couldn't believe the hour was up. It felt like I hadn't even watched half an hour yet.

i only saw the main event but it was pretty good. guerrero maya's mask is freaking awesome, so was the spot where mije got tossed. i think it was guerrero maya who did an awesome dive in the match, might've been delta though.

pretty surprising how well angel de oro is doing in NJPW's BOSJ right now.