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    The UKFF [Nearly-Official] Questions Thread

    in UKFF Gold

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    To the best of my knowledge virtually all of IWA-MS' shows over the last few years have been released by smart mark video (bar a few where they had a falling out). I'd say smartmarkvideo.com would be a good place to start. Incidentally they had their 400th show over Christmas so I'd guess that they've had most of those shows taped and released.

    The UKFF [Nearly-Official] Questions Thread

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    These are from the official ROH site.--Samoa Joe defeated Zebra Kid in London, England on 5/17/03 --Samoa Joe defeated Ares in Bad Schwalbach, Germany on 10/3/03 --Samoa Joe defeated Balls Mahoney in Woodbridge, NJ on 1/9/04 --Samoa Joe defeated Shinya Makable in Los Angeles, CA on 6/26/04He did defend against Chris Hero on 13.11.04 in ICW and once in IWS, I think against Kevin Steen not sure why they arnt listed though.Doug Williams bt Double C in a Pure Title match at a Futureshock event in Manchester.

    Thanks very much mate.
    Done a little more digging on this and have discovered that Austin Aries has also defended the RoH title in Montreal (against Kevin Steen again). However, they have not been at IWS shows - they've been at bi-annual shows promoted by Marc Le Grizzly. From what I can gather Joe made another defence in Germany at a show promoted by GSW (Fatal Friday 2 5/3/04).

    The UKFF [Nearly-Official] Questions Thread

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    These are from the official ROH site.--Samoa Joe defeated Zebra Kid in London, England on 5/17/03 --Samoa Joe defeated Ares in Bad Schwalbach, Germany on 10/3/03 --Samoa Joe defeated Balls Mahoney in Woodbridge, NJ on 1/9/04 --Samoa Joe defeated Shinya Makable in Los Angeles, CA on 6/26/04He did defend against Chris Hero on 13.11.04 in ICW and once in IWS, I think against Kevin Steen not sure why they arnt listed though.Doug Williams bt Double C in a Pure Title match at a Futureshock event in Manchester.

    Thanks very much mate.

    The UKFF [Nearly-Official] Questions Thread

    in UKFF Gold

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    This is a question about RoH title defences. How many times have their titles been defended outside of RoH? I know that Samoa Joe had a defence in New Japan-USA and that he defended it against Chris Hero at an IWC show in Pittsburgh. I've heard that he defended the world title in a promotion in Canada and that he defended it in WxW in Germany. Does anyone know what shows these where or if there are other defences I don't know about? Also, did Doug Williams ever defend the Pure Title in Britain when he held it last year. I heard he defended it in FWA but I've not seen that on any FWA match lisitngs.Thanks in advance.

    The UKFF [Nearly-Official] Questions Thread

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    Last night I watched a match I picked up from PW -Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuhara MisawaCan someone give me a pick of background on the match and is this the sort of thing to expect from NOAH?I loved the match by the way..Oh and something I've been wondering, are there any Best Wrestling Matches ever DVD's around - from traders and the like there must be right?

    I'm assuming that this is their match from March 2003. In my opinion it was the best match anywhere in the world that year. The story going into it was that Kobashi was the GHC Champion (NOAH's top title) and was challenged by Misawa (who owns the promotion although this isn't acknowledged as part of his in-ring persona). It was emotional for the fans because Kobashi pinned Misawa for what I believe to be the first time in singles competition. Kobashi and Misawa both broke into the main event in All Japan at the same time and for virtually all the 1990's had ***** matches against each other, often over the Triple Crown (All Japan's top title). They had 'match of the year' quality matches against each other in virtually every year throughout the 1990's. Obviously, this was a huge deal for the NOAH fans to see Kobashi win. Some traders have 'The Best Of Misawa vs. Kobashi' collections on a couple of tapes if you want to check out more of their work. Is this what you can expect from NOAH? Well, not every show has a 'match of the year' calibre match on it but you can expect good quality wrestling throughout every NOAH card. The emphasis is definitely focused on the in-ring action and they have some great workers; their junior heavyweight tag division has been impressive the last few years with the emergence of Naomichi Marufuji and KENTA.Regarding 'best of' compilations, most traders have some kind of 'best of' tapes / DVDs. I'd say it's impossible to put 'best matches ever' onto even 10 tapes as their has been that much quality wrestling. However, it is not to hard to find compilations focusing on a particular year or promotion. It depends on what you like really.

    [NOMINATIONS] Most Memorable Moment of 2004

    in UKFF Awards 2023

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    The Rob Feinstein storyFoley coming to RoHThe main event and atmosphere for NOAH's August Tokyo Dome show (Kobashi vs. Akiyama)The finish of Joe vs. Punk IIKevin Randleman's knockout of Mirko Cro Cop in PrideSergei Kharitanov coming through in Pride(Doesn't really count but the most memorable moment for me this year was seeing on tape the best match I have ever seen, Misawa vs Kawada, All Japan Triple Crown late '94)

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