Guide to Japanese Wrestling 2010

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AJPW on GAORA TV - April 11, 2010, Tokyo - (3 1/4 hrs)

 

 

April 11, 2010, Tokyo - JCB Hall (2,800 fans)

 

1. Shuji Kondo & Hiroshi Yamato -vs- KAI & Yasufumi Nakanoue [*]

--- Opening tag and we have mostly AJPW young guys fighting with more experienced Kondo adding his power stuff to the mix. KAI was kind of doomed as his partner was only a rookie. They tried some teaming, but it wasn't to last. Yamato finally got a victory on this tour winning the match with a German over Nakanoue.

9:29 of 9:30 - Yamato pinned Nakanoue with a German Suplex

 

 

 

2. Masakatsu Funaki -vs- Masayuki Kono - (CC '10 - Semi-Final) [* 3/4]

--- Kono used those knees to attack Funaki and did so good. But Funaki is a dangerous man and went both flying and going for the leg of Kono. Kono cracked his head hard on the floor on the dives which I guess made it easier for Funaki to finish Kono off with variations of the heel hold. Took a while before Kono submitted, but he did. Solid bout, but in a way lacked something to make it really good.

13:33 of 13:12 - Funaki made Kono submit to a cross heel hold

 

 

 

3. Minoru Suzuki -vs- Kohei Suwama - (CC '10 - Semi-Final) [**]

--- Hard battle for sure! How could it not be with these two tough bullies! Little that was unique for this match though. Seen it before. Some moments was Suwama locking in the ankle hold while on the turnbuckle with Suzuki almost having to stand on his head hanging upside-down. Other was Suzuki going for sleepers including countering the Last Ride with one. That along with some stiff blows from both sides. However this is Suzuki's night and he beat Suwama fair and square with a Gotchy pilediver!

16:46 of 16:46 - Suzuki pinned Suwama after a Gotch-style piledriver

 

 

 

4. TARU & Rene Dupree & Minoru -vs- Ryota Hama & Super Crazy & Seiya Sanada [* 1/2]

--- There was no many characters in this one I thought it was the circus. Funniest moment was Hama with a bullrope around his neck almost getting thrown off the balcony where a bunch of jolly sumo boys here sitting! The Voodoo Murders were up to their old trick as usual putting a bag over referee Bomber Saito and beat him down so they could throw powder and cheat their way to victory. Super Crazy and TARU still had a little climax sequence before the TARU Driller was landed....

13:04 of 13:04 - TARU pinned Crazy after the TARU Driller

 

 

5. Satoshi Kojima & KIYOSHI -vs- Taiyo Kea & NOSAWA Rongai [* 1/2]

--- Fun filler match with Kojima's arm still hurting from the day before. But that didn't stop him from chopping and lariating NOSAWA apart.....

13:39 of 13:38 - Kojima pinned NOSAWA after a lariat

 

 

 

6. Kaz Hayashi © -vs- BUSHI - (AJPW Junior Title) [** 1/4]

--- BUSHI first big match since arriving back in AJPW with the lucha gimmick. And they tried to make it spectacular with a lot of fancy moves. Some of which worked and some which was just confusing. Happy they replayed the apron DDT spot from earlier in the tour with Hayashi's face crashing on the corner edge. BUSHI did some nice flying including a twisting dive to the outside and landing the Firebird Splash for a very near win. Aswell as some modern turning drops to try and create the excitement. But Hayashi is his senior and gave him a good beating back landing his finishers until he got to the Power Plant which worked for him again. 10th successful defence in a row for Hayashi!

18:36 of 18:36 - Hayashi pinned BUSHI after the Power Plant to retain the AJPW Junior Title in his 10th defence.

 

 

 

7. Minoru Suzuki -vs- Masakatsu Funaki - (CC '10 - Final) [* 1/2]

--- Not much of a final was it?! A few cool details, but not the drama or brutality one should have hoped for from those two. Especially considering their cage battle last month which was so much better. Here it just didn't get the intensity needed for a special match. The big thing was the end because Suzuki made Funaki submit to a hanging sleeper which is the end of their rivalery as they hugged and made up after once it was over. So there you have it. Suzuki wins his 2nd straight Champion Carnival. He's the first one to do that since Stan Hansen did it in 1992 & 1993.

13:37 of 13:37 - Suzuki made Funaki submit to a sleeper to win the Champion Carnival 2010.

 

 

COMMENTS: This years Champion Carnival was slightly better then last years, but it was still a major let down. It's such a classic tournament and one of the most important tours symbolizing All Japan that it's a shame they can't get more out of it.

 

 

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BJPW on COMM - April 12, 2010, Takaoka - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

April 12, 2010, Takaoka Techno Dome

 

1. Daikokubo Benkei -vs- Yuichi Taniguchi [1/4*]

--- Yeah....shit beyond shit.

7:25 of 7:24 - Benkei pinned Taniguchi by sitting on him

 

 

2. Tojuki Leon & Chisato Kuroki -vs- Gami & Bullfighter Sora [3/4*]

--- WAVE style joshi comedy. Had it's moments with the basic wrestling part, but it was kept down by the moo-moo comedy.

13:48 of 13:48 - Leon pinned Sora after a top rope bodypress

 

 

3. Yuko Miyamoto & Kankuro Hoshino -vs- Takashi Sasaki & Atsushi Ohashi [*]

--- Not sure what it was. If it was slightly rushed or they didn't do enough. It just felt like just another meaningless match, yet they delivered some good wrestling without that highening the expereience. Let's just call it a decent house show tag with Miyamoto winning with a moonsault.

13:12 of 13:06 - Miyamoto pinned Ohashi after a moonsault

 

 

4. Daisuke Sekimoto & Yoshito Sasaki & Takumi Tsukamoto -vs- Ryuichi Kawakami & Yuji Okabayashi & Kazuki Hashimoto [*]

--- More decent wrestling that didn't get exciting. The rookies got a lot of the ringtime and then a veteran came in and German'ed one of them for the win.

15:44 of 15:42 - Sekimoto pinned Hashimoto with a German Suplex

 

 

5. Yumi Ohka & Moeka Haruhi -vs- Toshie Uematsu & Cherry [*]

--- More help from WAVE. Decent action in this one also. Just nothing important. But the girls did entertain with Ohka getting the win over Cherry.

11:59 of 11:57 - Ohka pinned Cherry with a neck-hanging bomb

 

 

6. Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa & Masashi Takeda -vs- Ryuji Ito & Shadow WX & Abdullah Kobayashi - (Light Tube Cage Death Match) [* 1/4]

--- They had a big cage surrounding the ring. Light tubes too. Sounds just up their alley. But it wasn't. Just like the rest of the some the match felt very tame. Only a little bit of Abby gold and Kasai going his stunt at the end saved it. The rest was either lifeless or not very well executed. The end was cool. Not exactly a Korakuen Hall balcony dive, but a fall off the top of the cage to Pearl Harbor Splash Kobayashi through a table was good enough for me.

15:46 of 13:40 - Kasai pinned Kobayashi after a bodypress off the top of the cage through a table

 

 

COMMENTS: A small show without the right atmosphere or effort.

 

 

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NOAH di COLLOSEO on G+SN - April 14 & 24, 2010 - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 14, 2010, Osaka Prefectural Gym #2 (1,000 fans)

 

1. Yoshihiro Takayama -vs- Akitoshi Saito - (Global League '10 - Block B ) [* 3/4]

--- What you'd expect. Hard strikes from both, but Takayama is a league of his own here with the kneelifts and then the Everest German Suplex to beat Saito rather easy.

10:07 of 10:16 - Takayama pinned Saito with a German Suplex

 

 

2. Jun Akiyama -vs- Takuma Sano - (Global League '10 - Block A) [** 3/4]

--- The Tope EYE-POKE! Ok, that wasn't deliberat, but Sano stuffed Akiyama's eye good playing Superman through the ropes. And Akiyama's misery didn't stop there. While taking care of his eye Sano landed a big double-footstomp off the top rope to the floor! And continued to do one inside the ring too! Akiyama equalied a little bit with a brutal brainbuster, but Sano continued the rampage with a brainbuster of his own and his Northern Light Bomb, but Akiyama was unstoppable in this one and repayed the rampage with a series of knees and Exploders until a wrist-clutch version got him the solid win in a exciting battle.

14:02 of 14:02 - Akiyama pinned Sano after a wrist-clutch Exploder

 

 

3. Takeshi Rikio & Mohammed Yone © -vs- Bison Smith & Keith Walker - (GHC Tag Title) [** 1/2]

--- The lenght of this super-heavyweight war was a little extreme, but they worked hard in a slow heavyweight way filling the time well with countless hard knocks and punishing moves! At times it was ridiculous how much blows they landed. It was an all out slugfest! But finally we have some stronger looking champs then Rikio & Yano was as Bison dropped off the turnbuckle with his moster version of the Styles Clash to beat the former sumo wrestler Rikio. Smith & Walker look the role of warriors and now they got GHC Tag gold!

24:41 of 24:41 - Smith pinned Rikio after a second rope Styles Clash. Smith & Walker become th 20th GHC Tag Champions.

 

 

April 24, 2010, Sapporo Teisen Hall (1,500 fans)

 

4. Toshiaki Kawada -vs- Yoshihiro Takayama - (Global League '10 - Block B ) [**]

--- Old bastard dogs! And you can't teach an old dog new tricks. And these old dogs can't go 30 minute matches anymore because they can't keep it up half the time. With that said, this is Kawada and this is Takayama! So your bound to get some awesomeness out of it! And the final minutes was when they stepped up to the plate and delviered what the fans wanted. Takayama was closest landing the kneelifts and did one fantastic backdrop suplex. And as the time limit was about to end Takayama tried the Everest with Kawada holding on for dear life until time was over. Otherwise this fatured a lot of leg work that didn't really do all that much for me.

30:02 of 30:00 - Kawada wrestled Takayama to a 30:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

5. Takashi Sugiura -vs- Bison Smith - (Global League '10 - Block A) [* 1/2]

--- Nah, not very intresting really. Heavyweight battle for sure, but it was both too long for them both and they didn't fill it with anything interesting. Sugiura had to land two Olympic Slams to keep the Bison down and that was about the only thing to note. Sure the rest of the match was decent in execution and all, but it wasn't an attempt at a classic they were doing.

20:04 of 20:04 - Sugiura pinned Smith after a Olympic Slam

 

 

COMMENTS: A bunch of important matches that almost didn't air except on this special like the GHC Tag Title bout and 4 intriguing matches from the Global League '10.

 

 

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Dragon Gate on GAORA TV - April 14, 2010 & Novemebr 28, 2009 - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 14, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,300 fans)

 

1. Dragon Kid -vs- Masato Yoshino - (King of Gate '10 - Block A - Semi-Final) [* 3/4]

--- How many times are we going to see Dragon Kid vs Yoshino happen?! I know they are masters at the speed wrestling, but surely wouldn't it be a good idea to add something new to their formula/feud/mix/anything?! Not that it was needed here as the Korakuen Hall fans ate it up! And Dragon Kid managed to get the win with the Bible!

7:29 of 10:25 - Dragon Kid pinned Yoshino with teh Bible cradle

 

 

2. Shingo Takagi -vs- BxB Hulk - (King of Gate '10 - Block B - Semi-Final) [** 1/4]

--- Big moves mania! All the big moves you know these two do. A real showcase. And Takagi showed some spirit as he landed Hulk's own E.V.O. on him and pumped him down with a lariat after that to take care of him. Not that Hulk was dead or anything after getting murdered with finishers. He nearly kicked out in time and was ready for more.

11:19 of 16:06 - Takagi pinned Hulk after a lariat

 

 

3. Shingo Takagi -vs- Dragon Kid - (King of Gate '10 - Final) [**]

--- This one followed the same theme! It kind of had to. And with a bunch of big moves coming in all directions it all boiled down to Takagi being stronger then Dragon Kid and kept blocking his flying and dropping him down HARD! And once he had Dragon Kid where he wanted, then came the Pumping Bomber! That means Takagi will face Open the Dream Gate Champion YAMATO on May 5th.

12:07 of 15:52 - Takagi pinned Dragon Kid after a lariat to win the King of Gate 2010.

 

 

November 28, 2009, Philadelphia, PA - The Arena (1,200 fans)

 

4. Gran Akuma -vs- Matt Jackson -vs- Nick Jackson -vs- Hallowicked -vs- Johnny Gargano -vs- Lince Dorado - (Open the Freedom Gate Title Tournament - Round 1; 6-Way) [** 1/2]

--- Speed joy! All lovely action with each guy having short time to show what they were good for. The highlights was however Hallowicked early on dominating the ring before the Young Bucks started fighting each other and attack everybody with spectacular moves in the process! Gran Akuma ended up getting the lucky with with the save being a tiny bit late resulting in Akuma going to the Open the Freedom Gate Title Tournament Final later this evening.

2:15 of 9:51 - Akuma pinned Gargano after a moonsault

 

 

5. BxB Hulk -vs- Brian Kendrick - (Open the Freedom Gate Title Tournament - Round 1) [**]

--- Energetic match with Kendrick trying a bunch of cradles, almost modern joshi style, and Hulk going for the more spectacular without going overboard. It was a fairly low-ki match as far as the dangerous goes. Hulk still landed the EVO for a 2 count before he kicked Kendricks head in and rolled him up for the count.

2:15 of 12:34 - Hulk pinned Kendrick with a cradle

 

 

6. CIMA -vs- Super Crazy -vs- Mike Quackenbush -vs- Jorge Rivera - (Open the Freedom Gate Title Tournament - Round 1; 4-Way) [* 3/4]

--- CIMA and Quackenbush wrestle their mentor Rivera along with Super Crazy who early in his career lost his mask to Rivera. The students was more protective of their master while Super Crazy was happy to hurt the old guy. A lot of nice technical lucha, but not overly impressive as a match as a whole. In the end CIMA beat his mentor with his own damn cradle variation!

2:49 of 9:19 - CIMA pinned Rivera with a Jorge Clutch

 

 

7. YAMATO -vs- Davey Richards - (Open the Freedom Gate Title Tournament - Round 1) [***]

--- The epic style battle. Both going at it strong and aggressive trying to hurt the other using the more super moves and submissions for added pain. Very much like Richards DG USA match with Shingo Takagi except without much of the selling of injuries. Richards is becoming one of the main MVP's of Dragon Gate USA with his great matches with the Japanese stars. He did a crazy tope dive here too landing hard on his ass on the concret of the old ECW Arena. Richards continued his Dynamite Kid stylistic pounding on YAMATO with the Japanese star taking it was a smile before finally managing to murder Richards with the Galleria!

3:08 of 21:22 - YAMATO pinned Richards with the Galleria

 

 

8. Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino -vs- Shingo Takagi & Dragon Kid [** 1/4]

--- The traditional Dragon Gate action sprint for the Dragon Gate USA fans in Philadelphia. Solid as always giving the fans what they want with spectacular spot wrestlnig. Or more important for Yoshino. He got to finally beat Dragon Kid on a show abroad! Using the Sol Naciente to make him submit after a 20-min actionfest of a match.

19:56 of 19:59 - Yoshino made Dragon Kid submit to the Sol Naciente

 

 

9. BxB Hulk -vs- YAMATO -vs- CIMA -vs- Gran Akuma - (Open the Freedom Gate Title Tournament - Final; 4-Way) [* 3/4]

--- Then to crown the Open the Freedom Gate Champion with CIMA quickly getting eliminated and out of the way with a low blow. Then Akuma & YAMATO joined forces to break down Hulk. Not sure about Akuma. He looked a little out of place, but at the same time he so different to the Dragon Gate guys that it's a little refreshing seeing him there. While it lasted anyway as Hulk dropped him on his neck to eliminate him. Then it was all YAMATO and Hulk with Hulk throwing some really weak elbows which was so bad that it took away from the match. YAMATO's elbows where stronger, but that was clearly not the best part of the bout. Anyway, Hulk won the damn belt landing a Emerald Frosion to pin YAMATO.

5:13 - YAMATO pinned CIMA after a low blow

11:28 - Hulk pinned Akuma after a EVO

15:54 of 15:54 - Hulk pinned YAMATO after a H Thunder to become the 1st Open the Freedom Gate Champion.

 

 

COMMENTS: The Finals of the King of Gate 2010 Tournament and a edited Japanese version of the November '09 Dragon Gate USA show with the final two matches being untouched.

 

 

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TOKYO GURENTAI on Samurai TV - April 15, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 15, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (300 fans)

 

1. Minoru -vs- Hikaru Sato [*]

--- Nice submission wrestling at times. Not exactly burner of a match, but it had it's extremely close pinfall attempts and strong looking submissions. This also had the typical flawed indy MMA-style mentality that after a match consisting of submissions and striking, it had to end with some highflying making all that other stuff nearly worthless.....

10:34 of 10:34 - Minoru pinned Sato after a Firebird Splash

 

 

2. Super Crazy & Hajime Ohara -vs- Taka Michinoku & Madoka [*]

--- Simple filler match which kept moving at least, but with not so much important happening. The end was just the end. Nothing dramatic about it.

10:08 of 10:08 - Ohara made Madoka submit to the Muy Bien

 

 

3. Chicken Boy -vs- Takuya Sugawara [1/4*]

--- Chicken Boy? Kikutaro under a black chicken mask. Silly....and not good silly either. Boring too and those 7 minutes felt like forever. On top of it all Chicken Boy won the damn match with a Skytwister press. But that's ok since it was over Sugawara.

6:55 of 6:54 - Chicken Boy pinned Sugawara after the Roppongi Tornado

 

 

4. Tajiri & El Samurai -vs- Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu [3/4*]

--- One of those Sato Twin brawls with slime and stuff. Fun fighting, but not really wild or refreshing and at times too stupid. Lazy one from them, even if it did have some entertainment value. Tajiri picks up the win after Kei gets misted my Samurai who was more Tajiri's puppet here.

15:04 of 17:02 - Tajiri pinned Kei with a schoolboy

 

 

5. HIROKA -vs- Kyoko Kimura [* 1/4]

--- Joshi action - lucha style! HIROKA showing off her lucha skills with Kimura following it nicely. A lot of hair pulling which referee allowed as long as it was HIROKA who did it. Not sure about the finish as Wada seemed to favour HIROKA regardless and when Kimura was trapped in a chickenwing hold the match ended fairly prematurely. Otherwise kind of cool bout.

6:39 of 8:27 - HIROKA defeated Kimura by Referee Stop with a modified chickenwing hold

 

 

6. Yoshihiro Takayama & Minoru Suzuki -vs- Yasu Kubota & Hide Kubota [*]

--- The Kubota Bros against the freakin' dangerous boys Takayama & Suzuki! That could only end one way. But the main thing about this one was that Takayama & Suzuki was in Tokyo Gurentai gear all dressed up NOSAWA-style. And they had to wrestle their style of wrestling too. At one point they did take off the emo shirts and go all bully like on the brothers, but the referee didn't allow it and demanded that they go back to wrestle Gurentai style. Which they did and Takayama went all NOSAWA on Yasu landing the Muto Wizard and La Magistral for the win.

11:42 of 11:50 - Takayama pinned Yasu with a La Magistral

 

 

7. NOSAWA Rongai -vs- Mazada -vs- Minoru Fujita -vs- Kikuzawa - (4-Way Survival Match; Tokyo Title Decision) [*]

--- More Tokyo Gurentai wrestling. Original Gurentai style. And it's like 3 minutes of wrestling streached out over 20 minutes with little making sense, sloppy work and wrestling-killing wrestling. Dead a lot of the time. Kikuzawa was bringing some, but the others especially the main Gurentai two NOZAWA and Mazada was taking away all momentum with their passionless performance. And it was those two who was the main two in the match fighting the finishing streach repeating the two moves they have until NOZAWA had the La Magistral to win the meaningless Tokyo belt. Maybe not as horrible as it sounds, but still.....bad.

9:03 - Kikuzawa pinned Fujita with a front cradle

12:07 - Mazada pinned Kikuzawa after a lariat

21:17 of 21:41 - NOZAWA pinned Mazada with a La Magistral to become the Tokyo Champion.

 

 

COMMENTS: The show could have been fun, but once it finished there hadn't been much that had been entertaining. Dark wrestling with too many guys one can't take serious.

 

 

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Ice Ribbon on COMM - April 17, 2010, Tokyo - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

April 17, 2010, Tokyo - Itabashi Green Hall

 

 

- Show started with the usual 3-min exhibition match with Tsukuchi defeating Kurume 2-0.

 

 

1. Chii Tomiya -vs- Yumiko Inoue [1/4*]

--- This was truly basic. Tomiya gets a Boston Crab win.

5:10 of 5:09 - Tomiya made Inoue submit to a Boston Crab

 

 

2. GENTARO & Aika Ando -vs- Makoto & Hamuko Hoshi [1/2*]

--- Oh God, Hoshi was trying to be a sexy girl like Ando and was failing miserably. On the wrestling front Hoshi landed a turnbuckle splash she wasn't supposed to land. Ando kind of rolled the wrong way and pinpoint landing! That was the funny bit. Otherwise the match was just there with little of interest happening except the time limit creeping up on them and GENTARO grabbing the win in the last minute.

14:22 of 14:22 - GENTARO pinned Makoto with a modified small package

 

 

3. Ryo Mizunami © -vs- Kazumi Shimouma - (POP/JWP Junior Titles) [* 1/2]

--- Not a bad defence of the junior level belts considering the challenger was Shimouma. But of course limited at times. Still Shimouma looked focused. Not so much screaming and more with a mean look on her face which makes it a lot easier taking her serious. And she did get a hand-full very close wins in there, but Mizunami is more established, not to mention the champion, and managed to beat the Ice Ribbon lady down with legdrops with a top rope one ending it all very nicely.

16:11 of 16:11 - Mizunami pinned Shimouma after a top rope legdrop to retain the POP/JWP Junior Titles in her 2nd defence.

 

 

4. Emi Sakura & Natsuki*Taiyo & Mai Ichii -vs- Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikari Minami & Hikaru Shida [*]

--- Happy action match with Ichii being the cluts who pissed off her own partners so much that they helped the opposition beat her up. But they used this to build her up to the point where she was the one that won the match landing a highkick for the pin. Loads of near falls and that kind of thing, but as usual it's very unstructured.

17:58 of 17:56 - Ichii pinned Shida after a jumping highkick

 

 

5. Miyako Matsumoto © -vs- Nanae Takahashi -vs- Riho - (Triangle Ribbon Title) [3/4*]

--- Ugly in a cute way. A idol girl, a pre-teen girl and one of the top pros we have left on the joshi scene fighting for a worthless title belt. And it fittingly ended up in a messy group cradle roll-up involving all three with Nanae getting the lucky decision.

12:28 of 12:28 - Takanashi pinned Matsumoto with a group roll-up to become the Triangle Ribbon Champion.

 

 

COMMENTS: Had it's sweetness about it, but hardly a show one has to see.

 

 

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NEO on COMM - April 17, 2010, Tokyo - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

April 17, 2010, Tokyo - Itabashi Green Hall (122 fans)

 

1. 7-Person Battle Royal [1/4*]

--- A battle royal with ugly girls and guys scraped from the indy sleeze bottom. Thankfully it was over quickly. And it says a lot when fat piece of shit Yuiga is the winner.

4:37 of 4:37 - Yuiga win the 7-Person Battle Royal

 

 

2. Hiroka & Natsuki*Taiyo -vs- Akino & Ultima Moreno [1/2*]

--- Didn't touch any of the potential the match had. Hiroka on a visit home from Mexico and in there with two tallented girls like Akino and Natsuki. Surely they could have put more effort into this?! They didn't and Hiroka beat the masked lady. Oh, and the masked lady was Yuki Miyazaki.

8:40 of 8:40 - Hiroka pinned Moreno with a La Magistral

 

 

3. Yoshiko Tamura -vs- Sakura Hirota [1/4*]

--- Sakura Hirota matches just isn't the same anymore.....

8:53 of 8:53 - Tamura pinned Hirota after a full-nelson slam

 

 

4. Yuki Miyazaki & Tanny Mouse -vs- Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto [1/2*]

--- Avergae Machine Guns stuff and lazy Revolucion Amandola fighting. And to top it off Tanny wins with a horrible looking cradle....

14:52 of 14:50 - Tanny pinned Kimura with a cradle

 

 

5. Kyoko Inoue & Nanae Takahashi -vs- Ryo Mizunami & Aya Yuki [* 1/4]

--- Yuki & Mizunami actually had come chemestry together as these two butch looking girls. If they wanted they could actually groom them into a top joshi team. But up against two of the most un-pinable girls on the scene there was no chance for the two. They did put off a strong fight as it was heavyweight girl wrestling and they layed in the punishment basic and straight forward. Of course Kyoko is stronger then the two of them alone and won the match powerbombing Yuki while Nanae took care of the Sendai Girl wrestler.

18:39 of 18:39 - Inoue pinned Yuki after a powerbomb

 

 

COMMENTS: Not exactly a dream show.....

 

 

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NOAH on Samurai TV - April 17, 2010, Hakata - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 17, 2010, Hakata Star Lane (1,000 fans)

 

1. Masao Inoue -vs- Jason Jones [1/4*]

--- An uninteresting Japanese wrestler against a uninteresting American in an uninteresting opening match where Jones was Inoue's little bitch.

3:09 of 9:17 - Inoue made Jones submit to a Argentine backbreaker

 

 

2. Akira Taue & Shuhei Taniguchi -vs- Takeshi Rikio & Genba Hirayanagi [1/4*]

--- Another meaningless early card match....

3:28 of 10:33 - Taniguchi pinned Hirayanagi with a German Suplex

 

 

3. Go Shiozaki & Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin -vs- Naomichi Marufuji & Takuma Sano & Atsushi Aoki [3/4*]

--- Easy tag action, but Ishimori should have had the pin over Marufuji with a cradle in there! But the referee was very kind letting Marufuji have time to kick out. Unfair. His team still ended up winning, but it was Go that took care of business with a Go Flasher on Aoki.

5:19 of 16:26 - Shiozaki pinned Aoki after the Go Flasher

 

 

4. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa -vs- Takashi Okita & Kento Miyahara [1/2*]

--- Akiyama wrestled with his eye heavily taped!. The eye that Sano poked on April 14th. He still was in good shape and wrestled as normal. The worst part of this match was Ogawa's weak backdrop suplex hold finish on Miyahara. Didn't look to hurt a fly yet he beat the Kensuke Office guy with it.

3:20 of 11:36 - Ogawa pinned Miyagara with a backdrop suplex

 

 

5. Keith Walker & Delirious -vs- Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [1/2*]

--- Simple fun with the new GHC Tag Champion Keith Walker looking like a monster beating the GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion.

4:19 of 11:55 - Walker pinned Kanemaru with a neck-hanging bomb

 

 

6. Yoshihiro Takayama & Bison Smith -vs- Toshiaki Kawada & Yuto Aijima [1/2*]

--- These clipped undercard matches sure doesn't look like much. Easy small show action with the monsters winning.

5:10 of 13:24 - Smith pinned Aijima after the Styles Clash

 

 

7. Akitoshi Saito -vs- Takeshi Morishima - (Global League '10 - Block B ) [* 1/2]

--- A handfull nice moves was what kept this alive with Morishima seemingly in control, but the other heavyweight smasher woke up and once the enzuigiris started landing by the bunch Saito had the fat guy beat. Otherwise not much to brag about.

15:37 of 15:38 - Saito pinned Morishima after a running enzuigiri

 

 

8. Takashi Sugiura -vs- Kensuke Sasaki - (Global League '10 - Block A) [* 3/4]

--- It was kind of clear this one was going to be a draw. Both because of booking protection as it's the GHC Heavyweight Champion facing an outside and they needed them to lose points without losing face. So almost a predictable bore draw. Long Sugiura matches are usually not very good. Sasaki needs a special reason to up his performance, but this became only a taster of what could have been. Sure some good hard knocking as expected with Sugiura landing the Olympic Slam just before the time limit unable to make the cover in time.

30:00 of 30:00 - Sugiura wrestled Sasaki to a 30:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

COMMENTS: None of the matches excelled to anything special even if the main event was a big match-up.

 

 

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NOAH on Samurai TV - April 18, 2010, Hakata - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 18, 2010, Hakata Star Lane (1,000 fans)

 

1. Atsushi Aoki -vs- Jason Jones [1/4*]

--- Didn't seem like much. Only a easy win for Aoki using the Northern Light Suplexes effectively.

2:48 of 11:01 - Aoki pinned Jones with a Northern Light Suplex

 

 

2. Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin -vs- Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi [3/4*]

--- Ishimori and Genba brought a little bit to get a little smile on my face with Ishimori rolling the little one up in a special Mexican Roll. Other then that....the normal.

4:37 of 11:07 - Ishimori pinned Hirayanagi with the Mexican Roll

 

 

3. Go Shiozaki & Yoshinari Ogawa -vs- Akira Taue & Shuhei Taniguchi [*]

--- Simple match for the fans with a veteran beating a veteran as Ogawa upset Taue with a basic schoolboy.

12:00 of 12:00 - Ogawa pinned Taue with a schoolboy

 

 

4. Keith Walker & Delirious -vs- Takuma Sano & Kento Miyahara [*]

--- Walker putting Delirious in place and in focus which directs him to beat the Kensuke Office young guy Miyahara with the Bizzaro Driver. Kind of fun.

6:43 of 14:30 - Delirious pinned Miyahara with the Bizarro Driver

 

 

5. Kensuke Sasaki & Takeshi Morishima & Takashi Okita -vs- Yoshihiro Takayama & Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue [* 1/4]

--- Filled with stars and Global League '10 participants who didn't have a match for the day. It also featured Inoue. And you know that saying that goes a little something like this; It's not better then it's weakest part.... So we had Inoue and that kept the match down. Some heavyweight stuff from the others, but not too much. At least Sasaki got to knock Inoue down and out with the lariat.

18:05 of 18:05 - Sasaki pinned Inoue after a running lariat

 

 

6. Takashi Sugiura & Takeshi Rikio -vs- Toshiaki Kawada & Yuto Aijima [*]

--- More of the house show stuff. And with Aijima there with the stars there was no doubt who was jobbing.

13:56 of 13:56 - Sugiura pinned Aijima after a Olympic Slam

 

 

7. Mohammed Yone -vs- Naomichi Marufuji - (Global League '10 - Block B ) [* 3/4]

--- Wow, kind of surprising to see Yone beat Marufuji so clean, but I guess it has something to do with Marufuji still having a junior heavyweight complex about him. Hey, he is the junior heavyweight champion of New Japan. Decent match, but not really anything memorable coming out of it except Yone using the Muscle Buster to beat the former GHC Heavyweight Champion.

16:34 of 16:35 - Yone pinned Marufuji after a Muscle Buster

 

 

8. Jun Akiyama -vs- Bison Smith - (Global League '10 - Block A) [**]

--- They showed Akiyama's bad eye before the match. Looked rough and he wrestled with an eye-patch. This match wasn't all that exciting becase of the actual wrestling part of it. But the story of Bison Smith using the Iron Claw to the eye area made the match for me! He kept going for it again and again with Akiyama screaming in pain desperat to get out of the claw poking his bad eye! And to make the fans happy Akiyama got in a special lucky cradle roll-up to get the match and Bison's fingers out of his eye!

12:29 of 12:30 - Akiyama pinned Smith with a modified cradle

 

 

COMMENTS: Not a too special show, but it was great how they played out the Akiyama injury.

 

 

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AJPW on GAORA TV - April 18, 2010, Fujioka - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 18, 2010, Fujioka Citizen Hall (1,250 fans)

 

1. NOSAWA Rongai & Mazada -vs- Super Crazy & Bushi - (Junior Tag League '10) [*]

--- BUSHI & Crazy doing well, but in the end was out-smarted by the not so smart. NOSAWA's La Magistral put an stop to BUSHI's high offence. Decent bout, but with a Tokyo Gurentai win all happiness was gone.

10:02 of 12:32 - NOSAWA pinned Bushi with a La Magistral

 

 

2. Kaz Hayashi & KAI -vs- Minoru & Hate - (Junior Tag League '10) [*]

--- This one was off a lot of the time when it came to execution. Not very good and veteran Hate seemed to confuse the other more then anything. The match had it's minor moments, but they were unable to keep the quality up most of the time and it became just a match where Hate's cheating didn't work and KAI could get the babyface win.

12:45 of 12:45 - KAI Pinned Hate after a top rope bodypress

 

 

3. Kohei Suwama & Shuji Kondo -vs- Masayuki Kono & Seiya Sanada [* 1/2]

--- Solid smaller show tag bout between the current generation wrestlers. Not too much standing out, but it was competitive and Sanada gave Suwama a good fight before getting powered down by the two impact players....

16:18 of 16:20 - Suwama pinned Sanada after a Last Ride powerbomb

 

 

4. Minoru Suzuki & Masa Fuchi -vs- Ryota Hama & Hiroshi Yamato [* 1/2]

--- A long match with Hama and Fuchi invovled?! You know this one is going to have stamina issues. Hell, Fuchi had stamina issues just a few minutes out and continued to be the one doing most of the work on his team! Slow, but systematic wrestling which became all about old Fuchi even if the main hype about this one was Suzuki and him challening for Hama's Triple Crown Title on the tour ender. Suzuki did make some points on the champ, but it was still Fuchi who stole the show winning with a small package over a much more on form Yamato.

18:21 of 18:21 - Fuchi pinned Yamato with a small package

 

 

5. Satoshi Kojima & Masakatsu Funaki & Akebono -vs- TARU & Big Daddy Voodoo & Rene Dupree [*]

--- Another sloppy bout on this show and it's the damn main event. Dupree was really stinking this one up. He even managed to fuck up the Kojima lariat which led to the finish by mis-timing his bump as Kojima missing most of it. Some justice was done when he lost to Akebono. At least this match featured Akebono and Funaki for some fun moments with Big Daddy Voodoo there establishing his feud with Akebono giving the match some meaning.

11:11 of 11:48 - Akebono pinned Dupree after a bodypress

 

 

6. Taiyo Kea -vs- Yasufumi Nakanoue [1/4*]

--- They had time to show the opener at the end of the broadcast, but this was just a veteran beating up a rookie.....

3:35 of 7:38 - Kea pinned Nakanoue after the TKO

 

 

COMMENTS: Not a good show. Only some decent wrestling, but most of this was not good.

 

 

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JWP on Samurai TV - April 18, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 18, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (839 fans)

 

1. Ryo Mizunami -vs- Senri Kuroki [1/4*]

--- Rookie style action with Kuroki showing very little and losing to a super weak spear.

3:10 of 6:53 - Mizunami pinned Kuroki after a spear

 

 

2. Commando Bolshoi & Tsukasa Fujimoto -vs- Megumi Yabushita & Ayako Sato [*]

--- Speed and submissions, that's what this match was about. That's almost like every other joshi match in modern time. So in other wirds a normal filler tag with Bolshoi beating Yabushita with the Tiger Suplex.

7:09 of 12:55 - Bolshoi pinned Yabushita with a Tiger Suplex

 

 

3. Kyoko Inoue -vs- Keito [*]

--- Keito has been working 15 years?! Hasn't left much of a mark from her LLPW to JWP years. Won some tag belts, but hardly a class worker. And a match with Kyoko Inoue in 2010 is not going to change that. The match had it's share of near falls, but it wasn't a very interesting match-up and Kyoko won as everybody knew she would.

8:53 of 8:53 - Inoue pinned Keito with the Niagara Driver

 

 

4. Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe & Kaori Yoneyama & Tojuki Leon -vs- Ran Yu Yu & Yumiko Hotta & Emi Sakura & Yumi Ohka - (Elimination) [**]

--- Enjoyable elimination match. Straight to the point with little time wasted and eliminations coming at a good rate. Not too close to each other or too far apart. The main story was Ran and Sakura bickering a little with Sakura pushing Ran away several times. And it was this friction that resulted in them losing as they were in a good handicap position with only Kurigaki left. But they messed it up and Kuragaki beat them both.

2:46 - Abe pinned Hotta with a schoolboy

4:11 - Ohka pinned Abe after a big boot

5:26 - Leon pinned Ohka with the Captured Buster

6:49 - Sakura pinned Leon with a La Magistral

9:11 - Sakura pinned Yoneyama with the La Magistral

11:50 - Kuragaki pinned Yu Yu with a bridging backslide

13:54 of 12:05 - Kuragaki pinned Sakura after the Metal Wing

 

 

5. Toshie Uematsu & Kazuki © -vs- Hiroka & Atsuko Emoto - (JWP/Daily Sports Women's Tag Titles) [* 1/2]

--- Kind of hard to get into with so many darkside characters without much fan friendly personalities. Still they had a competitive bout, but at the same time it felt like one has seen all this before. The product and wrestling isn't fresh enough to love. Regardless the tag champs win with a speciality cradle as Uematsu took care of the Mexico based Japanese girl Hiroka.

13:54 of 13:49 - Uematsu pinned Hiroka with a modified small package. Uematsu & Kazuki retain the JWP/Daily Sports Women's Tag Titles in their 1st defence.

 

 

6. Kayoko Haruyama © -vs- Nanae Takahashi - (JWP Title) [** 1/2]

--- Haruyama took the JWP throne nicely after Azumi Hyuga with a long and memorable reign as JWP Champion, but here comes the end. And Nanae has been picked to de-throne Haruyama. And to make the match extra special they had Hayabusa wheeled out to sing the national anthem! The match itself was very 2010. Shakey, random and a lot of moves/near falls. Too little structure to really become great. With that said they put in a lot of effort and energy to back up the big moves and finishers with the fans getting quite excited about a lot of the action. So it had qualities and was a good performance by the two. But I wouldn't go as far as say this was anything special. It was just a good match by 2010 standards. Nanae won using her Nanaracca*100 which starts as a Muscle Buster and ends as a MDII. And that ends Haruyama's 2 year reign as JWP Champion in which she accomplished a record humber of successful defences for the JWP Title!

24:45 of 24:47 - Takahashi pinned Haruyama with the Nanaracca*100 to become the 14th JWP Champion.

 

 

COMMENTS: Ok show, but from JWP you kind of expect more. That's the current scene I guess.

 

 

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NJPW on Samurai TV - April 20, 2010, Osaka - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 20, 2010, Osaka Prefectural Gym #2 (1,500 fans)

 

1. Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi & Akira -vs- Tomoaki Honma & Nobuo Yoshihashi & Kyosuke Mikami [*]

--- 3 former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champions against 3 guys that never win. The result was hardly surprising and the wrestling was very average. Not exciting, that's for sure! The freshest guy Mikami got in a couple of cradle attempts, but besides of that nothing of interest happend. Taguchi makes the new guy submit.

13:19 of 13:19 - Taguchi made Mikami submit to a cross-armbreaker

 

 

2. Giant Beranrd -vs- King Fale [*]

--- Tongan Fale is still very green, but he does seem to understand why he is in the ring and can use his size the right way. And up against another big guy he gets to prove himself in a good way and learn from the best. It's going to be interesting to follow his development. For now he's easily taken care of by the experienced.

6:00 of 5:59 - Bernard pinned Fale after a corner press

 

 

3. Yujiro Takahashi & Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii & Negro Casas -vs- Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi & Jushin Liger & Mitsuhide Hirasawa [* 3/4]

--- A fun collective of wrestlers in this 8-man tag including Negro Casas who's on this tour with the heels as he's battling Liger over the CMLL Middleweight Title on May 3. Yujiro was all over this one and got to be the boss heel taking care of Hirasawa which was expected. Still plenty of good happening without the match going to extreme hights.

17:08 of 17:08 - Takahashi pinned Hirasawa after a moonsault

 

 

4. Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega -vs- Dick Togo & Gedo [** 1/4]

--- Almost a DDT match featuring New Japan wrestler Gedo. And the DDT spectacular duo of Kenny & Ibushi were all over this one motivated to show their tallent flying all over the place and getting the fans into the junior heavyweight actions. While Omega's personality isn't exactly a credible one he does give a good show and did enough here with his Ibushi wrestling to cover up for Gedo's boring wrestling with Dick adding well to the mix too. Loved the way the pinfall attempts was broken up near the end with Kenny doing the springboard dropkick and Togo breaking up one with a senton. But he was nowhere when Gedo needed help after Omega & Ibushi had landed a double syncronized 450 bodypress off the top rope!

15:22 of 15:16 - Ibushi & Omega pinned Gedo after a double Firebird Splash

 

 

5. Tetsuya Naito -vs- Wataru Inoue -vs- Karl Anderson - (3-Way) [* 1/4]

--- The weaker halfs (almost) of the current feuding tag division with champion Naito being the rightful winner beating Inoue landing a fine twisting moonsault to finish him off. The match had its good parts, but no super bout.

9:11 of 9:07 - Naito pinned Inoue after the Stardust Press

 

 

6. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe & Hirooki Goto -vs- Shinsuke Nakamura & Toru Yano & Masato Tanaka [** 1/2]

--- A very good way to end the show with all the big singles feuds collected in one motivated 6-man tag! And they worked hard with what they had keeping wrestling alive and giving the fighting some meaning as they went after each other with a purpose. Arrogance, coolness and brute force. This match had it all. And while it wasn't a ultimate big show formula match it had enough to offer to make you feel happy. Tanahashi and Yano was the ones in charge of the end with Yano giving Tanahashi a piece of his mind, but then the slippery ex-champion countered and rolled Yano up for the pin. So unfair to Yano, but so satifying!

18:06 of 18:04 - Tanahashi pinned Yano with a front cradle

 

 

COMMENTS: A fairly good show for the Osaka fans. Started a little slow, but picked up with a series of big tag matches and a little help from DDT and Zero-One.

 

 

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NJPW on Samurai TV - April 21, 2010, Osaka - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 21, 2010, Osaka Prefectural Gym #2 (1,550 fans)

 

1. Super Strong Machine & Mitsuhide Hirasawa -vs- Tomoaki Honma & Kyosuke Mikami [*]

--- Loser action with rookie Mikami wanting to show off without really knowing too much. And that gave Hirasawa the rare chance to show what he is good for slaming the guy around to beat him clear!

12:39 of 12:39 - Hirasawa pinned Mikami after a throat slam

 

 

2. Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi -vs- Akira & Nobuo Yoshihashi [* 1/4]

--- Decent standard junior action. 3 former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champions and one not.....hmmmm....wonder who's jobbing.....

12:54 of 12:54 - Taguchi pinned Yoshihashi after the Dodon

 

 

3. Manabu Nakanishi -vs- King Fale [3/4*]

--- Fale didn't look too good on this day. He's easily Nakanishi's bitch even if he did try and return the bitch-slappin' only to get a stiff elbow in his face and lose easy to the Argentine backbreaker.

7:23 of 6:54 - Nakanishi made Fale submit to a Argentine backbreaker

 

 

4. Yuji Nagata & Hirooki Goto & Wataru Inoue & Jushin Liger -vs- Takashi Iizuka & Masato Tanaka & Tomohiro Ishii & Negro Casas - (Elimination) [** 1/2]

--- First of two elimination matches on this show and enjoyable it was! Fairly straight to the point and enough short tags to have the match always kept fresh with old guys. A lot of Casas early on and he's good at the little things and made sure they got off to a good start. He was also the first one out as Liger rolled him up. The top dog on the babyface team was out next as Ishii managed to flip Nagata over the ropes. Then it was time for Inoue to take revenge for him eliminating Ishii before Tanaka took care of him with the D. And Tanaka was on a roll getting rid of Liger too leaving Goto along with Tanaka & Iizuka! Which ment that Goto got to look like a Superman for the next 3 minutes beating both guys to win it for the New Japan faces!

(10:00) - Liger pinned Casas with a schoolboy

(14:36) - Ishii eliminated Nagata via Over The Top Rope

(17:35) - Inoue pinned Ishii after the Oracion Flame

(18:26) - Tanaka pinned Inoue after a Sliding D

(19:00) - Tanaka eliminaed Liger via Over The Top Rope

(20:58) - Goto eliminated Tanaka via Over The Top Rope

22:51 of 22:50 - Goto pinned Iizuka after the Shouten

 

 

5. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe & Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson -vs- Shinsuke Nakamura & Toru Yano & Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito - (Elimination) [** 1/4]

--- Another solid elimination match, but this one relyed more on the over the ropes rules as the stars was kept unharmed that way. Bernard, Yano, Nakamura and Makabe all went that way. The match featured a lot of No Limit which was cool. Especially Naito who was the personality in this giving Tanahashi competition as far as reaction goes. Best bit was Bernard landing a senton and taking Naito's face with the landing! No Limit traded pins with Anderson with Anderson stunning Naito out of nowhere and Takahashi getting revenge for his partner. That left Yujiro and Tanahashi, a battle which the former IWGP Champion won fairly easy I felt.

(11:00) - Naito eliminated Bernard via Over The Top Rope

(17:26) - Makabe eliminated Yano via Over The Top Rope

(20:00) - Naito eliminated Nakamura & Makabe via Over The Top Rope

(22:02) - Anderson pinned Naito after the Stun Gun

(23:25) - Takahashi pinned Anderson after a moonsault

26:35 of 26:34 - Tanahashi pinned Takahashi after a top rope bodypress

 

 

COMMENTS: The elimination matches was all that mattered with two happening on the same show. Good action keeping the feuds alive for future big shows.

 

 

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SMASH on Samurai TV - April 23, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

April 23, 2010, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (590 fans)

 

1. Kyle Sebastian -vs- Tajiri [3/4*]

--- What an upset!!! Some random Canadian wrestler comes in to Smash to have a world try-out match with the head of the company, gets out-wrestled and hardly any offence that looked good and then he ducks a Buzzsaw kick and locks in the small package hold for probable his biggest career win!

8:45 of 8:44 - Sebastian pinned Tajiri with a small package

 

 

2. Hajime Ohara -vs- Yusuke Kodama - (Kodama's Debut) [1/4*]

--- A Smash produced rookie! And based off this I didn't see much potential in the 23 year old. This was this usual rookie squash, but he didn't look good taking punishment either and his offence was more or less absent. No size. Little muscle. And pimples all over. Easy win for Ohara.

7:21 of 7:21 - Ohara made Kodama submit to a Boston Crab

 

 

3. Mentallo -vs- Masato Tanaka -vs- Akira Shoji - (3-Way Scramble Bunkhouse Death Match) [* 1/2]

--- Garbage wrestling in a small arena didn't exactly come too much alive. Let's just say the match worked better in the parts without the hardcore element. Best part was a bloody Shoji ripping off his shirt in a rush and doing a Samoan Drop with both guys on his shoulders! And it was Shoji who had the most fire while Mentallo did flying which looked little sloppy in street cloths. Tanaka was just doing the usual. Wasn't too motivated but landed a hard Sliding D on Shoji in there. The win however went to Mentallo landing a moonsault on top of Shoji with a barbed wire baseball bat laying in between.

13:34 of 13:36 - Mentallo pinned Shoji after a barbed wire baseball bat moonsault

 

 

 

4. Tajiri -vs- Eugene [**]

--- "And now for something completely different"... "It's......EUGENE!!!". Hehe, and this sure was something different then what we usually get in Japan. The former WWE retard was totally running the show with his child like way, but he did make a little girl cry before the fight got going. It was a entertaining and unorthodox bout by Japanese standards which was fine. All Eugene ripping off all kinds of old WWE stars trademark spots and being plain silly. And then he did the John Cena "You can't see me" spot. Let's just say Eugene couldn't see either after that one because Tajiri blew mist in his face as Eugene was bending over him waving his hand. And the came the Buzzsaw.....!

10:36 of 10:36 - Tajiri pinned Eugene after a Buzzsaw headkick

 

 

 

5. Kushida & Lin Bairon -vs- Hajime Ohara & Shuri - (Bairon's Debut) [* 1/2]

--- Lin Bairon?! What is she? And Hong Kong kung-fu actress or something? Well she opend her first pro-wrestling match by doing a freakin' moonsault to the rightside area! So not a scared girl. And she did the tough girl character straight out of a movie with the Smash guy and girl making her look like a million bucks. I guess her services cost a little for the small promotion. They even gave her the debut win with her landing a twisting moonsault very nicely! A cool fight. A little too animated in her ways but executed well.

19:03 of 19:03 - Bairon pinned Shuri after a Skytwister press

 

 

COMMENTS: Smash is something different on the scene. Bringing in some unexpected tallent. The show finished off in a Finish way with wrestlers from the Finland based FCF doing promos to build for the next Smash show in May.

 

 

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SECRET BASE on COMM - April 25, 2010, Warabi City - (1 1/4 hrs)

 

 

April 25, 2010, Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

 

1. Bear Fukuda -vs- Yamada Man Pound [1/2*]

--- Boring pounding wrestling with the Bear being too much for the Mad Man Pondo fanboy....

8:04 of 8:10 - Fukuda pinned Yamada after a brainbuster

 

 

2. Masahiro Takanashi -vs- Spark Aoki -vs- Blue Bicycle - (3-Way) [1/4*]

--- Uninteresting and meaningless indy wrestling with Takanashi winning in a really weak unfunny way....

7:33 of 7:30 - Takanashi pinned Aoki with a leg cradle

 

 

3. Misaki Okimoto -vs- Ferist [1/2*]

--- A really boring attempt at a serious wrestling match. Neither guy looks professional and for the most part a waste of time. The best of the worst won it with a struggling Tiger Suplex.

11:04 of 11:05 - Okimoto pinned Ferist with a Tiger Suplex

 

 

4. Kinya Oyanagi & Kazuhiro Tamura -vs- Chango & Amigo Suzuki [1/2*]

--- They are trying to make Chango & Suzuki into a tag team with them wearing matching gray/white military style pants.....didn't help for anything. It was still boring and poorly executed wrestling from the lot. Tamura was ok, but his stuff is always so weak too. The final kick from him was ok, but in a match that was otherwise....not so good....it was not enough.

9:24 of 9:27 - Oyanagi pinned Suzuki after a headkick from Suzuki

 

 

5. Yuko Miyamoto -vs- Jun Ogawauchi [3/4*]

--- Not even Miyamoto could really highen the level on a Secret Base show by much. The qualities in this match was all credited to him with Jun doing very little to get this one moving. At least he got to feel some pain from Miyamoto with the end lariat and piledriver, but otherwise only a opening card match formula.

11:01 of 11:02 - Miyamoto pinned Ogawauchi after a Thunder Fire piledriver

 

 

6. GENTARO -vs- Mototsugu Shimizu [*]

--- GENTARO was the quality. Shimizu had the support from half a dozen fans there. It was a slow builder and never trully exciting. GENTARO was always the boss and only Shimizu surviving stuff created any reaction. And when it looked like Shimizu was starting to finally build some momentum for himself, a cunning GENTARO managed to counter roll Shimizu for the flash pinfall to beat him.

20:04 of 20:04 - GENTARO pinned Shimizu with a cradle reversal

 

 

COMMENTS: Just what you'd expect from Secret Base. A bunch of boring matches.

 

 

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