PUNQ Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 HUSTLE on Samurai TV - May 30, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)   May 30, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,412 fans)    1. Masato Shibata & Kazuki Okubo -vs- Yuki Sato & Kenta Kakinuma [* 1/2] --- While the first show from Hustle 2.0 borrowed a lot from the original Hustle, this show starts in very serious wrestling oriented way. Youth fighting with not the biggest of names, but they brough a good match based around the rookie basics. The oldest and powerguy Shibata got to be the boss squashing little Sato who bumped well for the stronger guy making him look much stronger then what he is. So kudos to Sato for that. Zero-One's Kakinuma looked quite hungry here aswell and had a little thing going with this Okubo. 11:53 of 10:51 - Shibata pinned Sato after a powerbomb    2. Ikuto Hidaka & Shoichi Funaki -vs- Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Katsumi Usuda [* 1/4] --- The old dog still knows his tricks! Fujiwara is king of the freaking ring! The way he handled the taned twins shows how professional he really is. The 61 year old still has splendid timing in his Gotch-work and might still be one of the best technical motherfuckers on the island. WWE'er Funaki was more a happy smiling chickenshit. Yet he got the win being back home getting a somewhat lucky pin backsliding Usuda. The match never really developed into anything super apart from the Fujiwara stuff, but that part is worth seeing this match alone. 13:47 of 13:50 - Funaki pinned Usuda with a backslide    3. Riki Choshu & Shinjiro Otani & Shiro Koshinaka -vs- I Am C & Amon C & Giant C [*] --- What a awesome old-timers team of Choshu, Otani and Koshinaka. And what opponents do they get for them? The fucking C's. Good for the trademark spot from the veterans and some C stuff, but there was too much C-comedy. That's why it was so relieving to see Choshu land the lariat and Otani plant the main C with the Spiral Bomb. 11:08 of 11:12 - Otani pinned I Am C with a Spiral Bomb    4. Wataru Sakata -vs- Joe Megalodon & Titan Rex & Black Kankotu Nakamura [*] --- Well, Nakamura was supposed to be Sakata's tag partner, but since he is the heel boss of the new Hustle he was of course not teaming with Sakata. So it was another handicap beat down of Sakata, now wearing plain blue trunks looking almost like a young lion instead of the promotions top star. This time Sakata had a happy ending beating one of the big foreigners with a German. Not too exciting though..... 17:13 of 17:10 - Sakata pinned Rex with a German Suplex   COMMENTS: A more serious Hustle. At least thats how it started, but they had to add a little C and the main Sakata feud to carry the promotion which isn't exactly setting the place on fire. This was also the last taped Hustle show of 2010 as things only went downhill from here.....   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 AJPW on GAORA TV - May 30, 2010, Kobe - (2 hrs)   May 30, 2010, Kobe - Sambo Hall (1,146 fans)  1. Shuji Kondo & Hiroshi Yamato & Seiya Sanada -vs- Minoru & Lance Cade & Hate [* 1/2] --- Ok, throw-away tag, which ended up being Cade's final match for All Japan before he died. He looked good so it's a shame they didn't get to use him in a bigger role like they'd intended. The heels dominated most of the match, but then Hate had to fuck it up for the team and get rolled-up and pinned by Yamato. Hate got some revenge after the bout cutting off some of Kondo's hair. 9:17 of 11:35 - Yamato pinned Hate with a modified La Magistral   2. Kaz Hayashi © -vs- Minoru Fujita - (AJPW Junior Title) [* 1/4] --- A V12 for Hayashi as he's going through all the Tokyo Gurentai junior heavyweights. And this was a really dry match with hardly anything sticking out. But what can one expect from a Fujita match anyway these days? Best bits came at the very end with Fujita kicking out of the Kudo Driver before Hayashi landed the Power Plant to retain once more. 23:19 of 23:18 - Hayashi pinned Fujita after the Power Plant to retain the AJPW Junior Title in his 12th defence.   3. Satoshi Kojima & Taiyo Kea -vs- TARU & Rene Dupree [3/4*] --- Kojima says goodbye to All Japan with forgettable match against the Voodoo Murders. Not very special or well executed as Kojima & Kea was struggling to execute a double-team neckbreaker on Dupree toward the end. Kojima gets the glamorized win with the Hansen lariat got gets to address the fans before he went. Not exactly the best way to say arewell to a star as Kojima has been for the company. 11:30 of 12:06 - Kojima pinned Dupree after a lariat   4. Kohei Suwama & Ryota Hama & Masayuki Kono -vs- Minoru Suzuki & Masakatsu Funaki & Akebono [* 1/2] --- I guess this wasn't the show for great wrestling. This match had the potential of bringing a lot of good, but there was only hints of it. At least some of the sumo fighting was fun to watch as Hama and Akebono clashed hard. Especially when Akebono responded with Vader Hammers to knock Hama nearly out. Revenge was good though and Hama got the win over the Yokozuna with a low-angle lariat! 15:53 of 21:53 - Hama pinned Akebono after a low-angle lariat   COMMENTS: Only a few curiosities like Hayashi's 12th successful defence, Kojima's final All Japan match as a fulltime worker and Lance Cade's final All Japan appearence before dying, but otherwise very little reason to watch this show.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 NJPW on Samurai TV - May 30, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)   May 30, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,900 fans)  1. Nobuo Yoshihashi -vs- Akira - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block B ) [** 1/4] --- The annual Best of the Super Junior tournament starts off with veteran Akira who made his professional debut all the way back in 1984 and he's facing Yoshihashi who debuted as late as 2008. And Akira looked so good in control locking the fresh guy in his modifed STF hold several times with Yoshihashi having to fight his way to the ropes even if he was looking very much in trouble. And the fans got behind the underdog here. And Yoshihashi got his break here blocking Akira's first splash and with Akira hurting his knee. That ment that the next time Akira landed his top rope splash he busted his own knee and was wounded. Yoshihashi took it from there and got himself a few near falls including landing the German Suplex, but his new deadly move is the Swanton Bomb which got him the rather big win over Akira. 10:18 of 12:43 - Yoshihashi pinned Akira after a Swanton Bomb    2. Jushin Liger -vs- Kushida - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block A) [** 1/4] --- SMASH young guy Koshida up against none other then Jusin Thunder Liger! And Kushida got to look good for a while there. As a student of Tajiri he landed Buzzsaw which Liger sold as a killer, but not as a 3-count as he kicked out. At that time Kushida was starting to belive an upset, but Liger knows how to get back in a game and did so. Kushida did get to kick out of the Thesz Press which is like Liger's pet finisher these days, but then Liger just planted Kushida down in a brainbuster to beat him instead. Real solid with Kushida looking capable against a star. After the bout Gedo attacked Kushida with a kendo stick adn quietly walked back out again. 11:03 of 12:44 - Liger pinned Kushida after a brainbuster   3. Toru Yano & Masato Tanaka & Takashi Iizuka & Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito -vs- Togi Makabe & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yuji Nagata & Hirooki Goto & Wataru Inoue [* 3/4] --- Hey, they have heavyweights and since this is a tour with the focus on the junior heavyweights they had to put all the big guys in one big 10-man tag. Heels vs faces, and they all did their little bits keeping the already established feuds alive. The thing that stood out in this match was however Naito getting his boot accidentally caught on the top turnbuckle and was hanging out to dry upside down and taking forever to get him loose! Things turned better for him in the end as he and Yujiro tamed Inoue down to size. 14:38 of 18:28 - Naito pinned Inoue with a jack knife cradle    4. La Sombra -vs- Tiger Mask - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block A) [**] --- CMLL's La Sombra joining as the Mexican representative in this years Best of the Super Junior tournament and he did show off some of his flying doing a tope and a big moonsault standing on the top rope and leeping out over the post landing nicelyt on Tiger Mask. Tiger Mask got his share of the big offence including landing the top rope double-arm suplex, but this was never his match as Sombra looked stronger then him in almost everything. And sadly the finish was weak. It started with Tiger Mask not totally having control lifting the heavier luchador and then after not being able to work thru a basic jumping headscissor roll-up struggling bad with making the cover. So tame ending to a otherwise fine match. 9:39 of 10:33 - Sombra pinned Tiger Mask with a headscissor cradle    5. Taiji Ishimori -vs- Ryusuke Taguchi - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block B ) [* 3/4] --- NOAH vs New Japan! And don't get me wrong, it was good while it lasted, but I had hoped for so much more. I guess I have to blame myself for that. They brought some hot moments battling over the Kudo Driver which Ishimori ended up landing. A nice cross-arm German and to finish off Ishimori won with a 450 splash off the top. So a real good finish, but didn't get too captivated by the structure and there was some minor hick-ups and a little too direct and rushed to feel all that special. 9:30 of 11:40 - Ishimori pinned Taguchi after a Firebird Splash    6. Prince Devitt -vs- Davey Richards - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block A) [** 1/2] --- New Japan's mainstay foreigner on the junior heavyweight side Prince Devitt meeting fellow gaijin Davey Richards in his first Best of the Super Junior bout. And one would think that Richards most natural home in Japan is New Japan based off that he's a copy of Dynamite Kid and Dynamite's copy Chris Benoit who both had VERY successful careers in NJPW. And Richards looked good, helped by a motivated Devitt who got close on attacks landing well. Maybe a little too close when Richards kicked him in the face out on the floor, but he took it like a man and continued the fight. Richards biggest moment was the massive tope dive clearing about 4 rows of chairs! But might be a little to premature giving Richards the massive push just yet as Devitt is clearly the one in New Japan's junior division who deserves the big boost now. And thats what he got in this one backdrop suplexing Richards hard from the top rope and landing the high-angle DDT to finish the vanilla "vanilla midget". 12:36 of 16:26 - Devitt pinned Richards after the Bloody Sunday DDT    7. Koji Kanemoto -vs- Fujita Jr Hayato - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block B ) [** 3/4] --- These two had a cracker of a singles bout in the Super J-Cup last year and this is a re-match the fans have been waiting for as their own Koji Kanemoto face Michinoku Pro's prick heel Fujita Jr Hayato. And it really was the kids bout. Hayato was the agressor. He was the soul. And he was the mean one. Kanemoto was a pussycat. Too tame for the fight to work as well as it should as Kanemoto showed very little of his own prick game letting Hayato get the upperhand again and again nearly choking him out with the K.I.D. front necklock at one point where Hayato showed he wanted to win this one clean lifting him back in the ring when the count was getting high. Hayato continued to knock Kanemoto silly in the ring and he was looking real good in there. Then Kanemoto started waking up and won it without too much effort from there locking in a modified ankle hold which Hayato couldn't get out of. So we established that Kanemoto is a league too strong for Hayato, but that Hayato had heart for what he does. 15:38 of 15:38 - Kanemoto made Fujita submit to a figure-four ankle hold   COMMENTS: Solid start to the 2010 Best of the Super Junior Tournament with all matches having something to offer. All having a very solid foundation, sadly lacking a little in the ultimate climax parts of the matches, but otherwise super fine.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 8, 2011 Author Share Posted March 8, 2011 DDT on Samurai TV - May 30 & June 3, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)   May 30, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (354 fans)  1. MIKAMI -vs- Hikaru Sato - (KO-D Title Contendership Tournament - Round 2) [1/2*] --- Sato tried his submissions again and again, but MIKAMI just rolled the shooter up with a schoolboy for the win. 3:13 of 6:15 - MIKAMI pinned Sato with a schoolboy   2. Toru Owashi -vs- KUDO - (KO-D Title Contendership Tournament - Round 2) [1/2*] --- Quick to the point bout where Owashi did all he could and couldn't to beat KUDO. Both impact blows and cradles which clearly was not his quality even if it got Owashi the win. 3:22 of 3:47 - Owashi pinned KUDO with the Jorge Clutch   3. HARASHIMA -vs- Michael Nakazawa - (KO-D Title Contendership Tournament - Round 2) [3/4*] --- Nakazawa tried to fool HARASHIMA by laying down for him, but of course when the bell rang, Nakazawa also rang HARASHIMA's bell and could trouble the former KO-D Champion a while and be almost competitive, but then he lost focus talking on the mic and HARASHIMA just Buzzsaw'ed him..... 6:39 of 7:02 - HARASHIMA pinned Nakazawa after a headkick   4. Keisuke Ishii -vs- Yago Aznable - (KO-D Title Contendership Tournament - Round 2) [1/4*] --- Should have been a easy win for Yoshiaki Yago in the superhero costume, but he got to occupied with Nakazawa who was fighting DJ Nira at ringside so Ishii could get in a few cradles and win it! 2:37 of 3:22 - Ishii pinned Yago with a small package   5. MIKAMI -vs- Toru Owashi - (KO-D Title Contendership Tournament - Semi-Final) [1/2*] --- Owashi tried the same as against KUDO. Straight to the point with impact blows to keep MIKAMI in trouble. But Mikami tried the same as he did against Sato and tried various schoolboys until he had the fatso beat. 2:36 of 2:35 - MIKAMI Pinned Owashi with the sliding schoolboy   6. HARASHIMA -vs- Keisuke Ishii - (KO-D Title Contendership Tournament - Semi-Final) [* 3/4] --- This one turned dramatic! Ishii landed a hard headbutt and HARASHIMA bladed real deep. To the point that the blood was pouring out about 10 inches from his forehead to the mat as Ishii had him in the sleeper! Looked totally sick the way the blood kept coming! And Ishii eyed a chance with that having damaged the DDT star good, but naturally it wasn't nearly enough for a small guy as Ishii is and HARASHIMA came back with Buzzsaw kicks setting up the Somato knees for the win. 7:18 of 9:43 - HARASHIMA pinned Ishii after the Somato double-knee attack   7. Sanshiro Takagi & Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega & Muscle Sakai & Yukihiro Abe & Tanomusaku Toba -vs- Dick Togo & Danshoku Dino & Antonio Honda & Yasu Urano & Hoshitango & Daisuke Sasaki --- Only a little bit airing of Ibushi & Omega taking care of Sasaki..... 1:46 of 5:58 - Ibushi pinned Sasaki after the PK Kokoro double-team piledriver with Omega   8. HARASHIMA -vs- MIKAMI - (KO-D Title Contendership Tournament - Final) [* 1/2] --- MIKAMI was the aggressor as HARASHIMA was already hurt from his bout with Ishii and the bandage came off letting HARASHIMA bleed some more. MIKAMI tried his bigger moves aswell as several schoolboys without any luck, but then HARASHIMA showed fire and landed the double-knees for a really close fall, but then out of nowhere came the cross-armbreaker for the tap and HARASHIMA gets the KO-D Title show at the Sumo Hall show in July. 11:32 of 11:28 - HARASHIMA made MIKAMI submit to a cross-armbreaker   June 3, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (185 fans)  9. MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba -vs- Poison Sawada & Tomimitsu Matsunaga --- I bet Matsunaga wish he could do magic like Sawada because by MIKAMI he was taken to school.... 1:50 of 7:23 - MIKAMI pinned Matsunaga with a schoolboy   10. Yago Aznable & DJ Nira -vs- Sanshiro Takagi & Hoshitango [1/4*] --- A lot of DJ Nira shit including talking Hoshitango into turning on his partner and doing a wonderful over-exaggerated bump on Takagi's Stunner. 7:16 of 8:50 - Yago pinned Takagi after the Jaburo claw punch   11. Yasu Urano & Antonio Honda -vs- Muscle Sakai & Mr. Strawberry [1/2*] --- The show started with a long in-ring talk with Dino and Honda and all the other characters in DDT and they started digging around DDT's title history and found a 6-man belt they used briefly back in 2003. The Nihonkai Six Man Tag Team Title. Held by Muscle Sakai, OK Revolucion (Ken Ohka) and Mr.Srawberry. They wanted to revive that belt and to warm up they had this match and Sakai wanted to call out Mr.Strawberry by blowing a flute. But no sound. Then Ken Ohka came in some ballerina type outfit and starts cleaning Sakai's flute while they're getting beat up and then Mr.Strawberry came like a superman. Mr.Strawberry is Mr.DDT himself Sanshiro Takagi, but Sakai fucked it up for the team anyway messing up the finisher like he did in 2003 and Urano landed on top of him to get the pin. But a Nihonkai Six Man title is in the cards. 5:14 of 10:32 - Urano pinned Sakai with a Verdict cutback   12. Danshoku Dino & Hikaru Sato & Keisuke Ishii -vs- HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi & Yukihiro Abe [3/4*] --- Dino having a technical gay match with Abe. That was all these clips focused on. And the gay master is still the gayest. 3:58 of 17:47 - Dino pinned Abe with a Danshoku Clutch   COMMENTS: The final matches of the #1 contender tournament was good and bloody. The second hour was interesting for the nostalgia and them brining back old meaningless belts.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 Ice Ribbon on COMM - June 5, 2010, Tokyo - (1 1/2 hrs)   June 5, 2010, Tokyo - Itabashi Green Hall  1. Mai Ichii -vs- Kurumi - (Exhibition) [1/4*] --- Only a 3-min trial match for young Kurumi who still ended up losing when Ichii used a German Suplex. 3:06 of 3:00 - Ichii defeated Kurumi 1-0   2. Hikaru Shida -vs- Sayaka Obihiro [1/2*] --- Simpleton wrestling. Not too much sticking out and it ended with a basic vertical suplex from Shida. 6:57 of 6:56 - Shida pinned Onihiro after a vertical suplex   3. Makoto & Hikari Minami & Aika Ando -vs- Miyako Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi & Chii Tomiya [*] --- Happy action match and it was in no way a beautiful bout. Clumsy childish execution, but it did entertain in it's simple charming way. Wasn't designed to do much other then that anyway with Minami looking almost sharp leeping herself to her feet to wow the fans again and again. Not the most brutal worker, but it worked in this setting beating up little Tomiya getting the win with a Ricky Fuji like Kamikaze. 11:06 of 11:05 - Minami pinned Tomiya after a Kamikaze Roll   4. Mickey Oji(MIKAMI) & Natsuki*Taiyo -vs- Chou-un Shiryu & Hiroyo Matsumoto [* 1/2] --- Even if MIKAMI was dressed and wrestled like a stupid cartoon kid and Matsumoto had matching outfits as Shiryu the match was actually fast-paced and fun in it's dorky ways. It was the wrestling that took most of the screening time and they where having a lot of fun out there looking quite good. Especially liked the way Matsumoto threw Shiryu out for a plancha and MIKAMI's ladder Frankensteiner, but regardless of their efforts the bout ended in a draw. A double time limit draw. 15:03 of 15:00 - MIKAMI & Natsuki wrestled Shiryu & Matsumoto to a 15:00 Time Limit Draw 3:03 of 3:00 - MIKAMI & Natsuki wrestled Shiryu & Matsumoto to a 3:00 Time Limit Draw   5. Emi Sakura © -vs- Tsukasa Fujimoto - (ICEx60 Title) [* 1/2] --- Fujimoto continues to surprise, and certainly had better stamina then Sakura who seemed to struggle a bit toward the end wrestling Fujimoto at her speed. Surly Fujimoto has got a lot to learn especially at the basic technical stuff, but her flying is actually quite good and thats where her strenght is and where she hurt the champion the most. But Sakura is the boss and veteran and would naturally take this one how not wanting to lose to Fujimoto again. And she used a double-arm Canadian backbreaker brought down into a spinning slam. 14:04 of 14:01 - Sakura pinned Fujimoto after a double-arm spinning slam to retain the ICEx60 Title.   6. Minori Makiba -vs- Kazumi Shimouma [* 1/4] --- It's clear these girls don't have the strenght to pull off well executed wrestling, but in a way the managed to get the story across and make the moment count anyway. But the work was sloppy and neighter girl is going to bring a massive about of fans to the shows. They just don't have that appeal. And when Makiba fucks-up a turnbuckle suplex which shouldn't be that hard, you know it's a long road before they'll get any better lacking a lot of basic training. But regardless they got the Ice Ribbon fans to care and make the face slaps look painful and stuff like that, so it wan't a total waste. And on top of it all we got a half-upset as Makiba stole the win with a jack knife cradle. 12:02 of 12:00 - Makiba pinned Shimouma with a jack knife cradle   7. Emi Sakura © -vs- Tsukushi - (ICEx60 Title) [1/2*] --- A quick 2nd title defence for Sakura against small, young and insignificent Tsukushi. Sakura did all she could to make the little one look good in this 3-min sprint match, but it's was difficult to even fantasise that Tsukushi could even do the things she did blocking Sakura because she has no technique or muscle. So thankfully Sakura retained again using a move from the double-arm Canadian backbreaker position brining the girl down as a backbreaker. 3:04 of 3:03 - Sakura pinned Tsukushi after a modified double-arm backbreaker to retain the ICEx60 Title.  COMMENTS: Again Ice Ribbon puts on a show better then their training should produce.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 NEO on COMM - June 5, 2010, Tokyo - (1 3/4 hrs)   June 5, 2010, Tokyo - Itabashi Green Hall (152 fans)  1. Hiroyo Matsumoto -vs- Basara [*] --- A rare Basara macth on tape! Thats the former Sendai Girl Akira "Tyrannosaurus" Okuda that Satomura wanted to push first and then she bailed on the company drifting around and being injured a lot. Wrestling wise she hasn't developed much, but she looks comfortable in the ring and looks more sexy. The wrestling was basic and the end came out of nowhere with a leg clutch cradle from Matsumoto. 9:31 of 9:31 - Matsumoto pinned Basara with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold   2. Misaki Ohata -vs- Io Shirai [*] --- Slower style formula and they looked a little lost not doing all the running around. They had the story of Io's arm being inured so Ohata kept attacking it. Io is the better wrestler of the two and wasn't going to give up that easy and started locking in Crippler Crossfaces to even things out. So even that it ended in a time limit draw. 15:15 of 15:00 - Ohata wrestled Shirai to a 15:00 Time Limit Draw   3. Yuki Miyazaki & Tanny Mouse -vs- Nanae Takahashi & Sakura Hirota [* 1/4] --- NEO Machine Guns against Hirota and a bevildered Nanae. And it was more fun then a normal Machine Guns match so credit to them. It topped itself when Miyazaki convinsingly blocking Hirota's fingers-up-the-ass by squeezing the bum and then twisting around to throw Hirota to the other side of the ring. Yeah ,it was no serious bout, but it did some some wrestling with Nanae trying to be serious and the others doing their best to stop it from being a wrestling match. And Miyazaki wants a shot at Nanae's JWP Title and decided to be serious for a second running Hirota down to make her a challenger for the June 27 north of Japan tour ender. 17:14 of 17:14 - Miyazaki pinned Hirota after a running lariat   4. Toshie Uematsu -vs- Lingerie Muto -vs- Natsuki*Taiyo - (3-Way) [1/2*] --- Simple "fun" and some wrestling to cool things down before the main event..... 8:20 of 8:20 - Uematsu pinned Muto with a headscissor cradle   5. Yoshiko Tamura © -vs- Aya Yuki - (NEO/NWA Pacific Titles) [* 1/4] --- Aya Yuki getting her first shot at the NEO single belts. She's never been considered a contender before, but after her win over Vanessa the Mountain and with some rub from Etsuko Mita teaching her the Death Valley Bomb they made this match-up. It was going to be interesting to see how Yuki reacted to a main event match like this. They had a very slow match with long weardown holds with an occational powermove from Yuki like the top rope suplex to give her some hope. Lets just say this was no modern action match. And when all the holds didn't get much result for Yuki then the champ took over and won rather easy with the elbow smash. 21:32 of 21:32 - Tamura pinned Yuki after a running elbow smash to retain the NEO/NWA Pacific Title in her 3rd defence.   COMMENTS: Low priority show with matches that could have been quite good had they wanted too. Still some NEO shows are worse.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 NOAH on G+SN - June 6, 2010, Tokyo - (2 1/2 hrs)   June 6, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,100 fans)  1. Akira Taue & Genba Hirayanagi -vs- Masao Inoue & Jason Jones [1/4*] --- Mostly slapstick with Taue and Inoue and very weak wrestling to open the show. So bad that just about everything between Genba and Jones looked terrible. And the end was just.....what?! Genba looked irritated and pushed Jones off the mat before the three and still got the three on a very low angle powerbomb type move. 11:47 of 11:48 - Hirayanagi pinned Jones after a modified low-angle powerbomb   2. Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin -vs- Takuma Sano & Kento Miyahara [* 3/4] --- Fun match with the GHC Junior Tag Champions Ishimori & Marvin coming with the goods against one of Sasaki's boys. Even Sano went back in time trading a little lucha with Marvin. But it was mostly about Miyahara getting the treatment with the speed wrestling until Ishimori rolled him up with one of those fancy cradles. 11:33 of 11:32 - Ishimori pinned Miyahara with the Mexican Roll   3. Mohammed Yone -vs- Bobby Fish [* 1/4] --- A Yone vs Fish singles match isn't exactly what I've been waiting for, but it did have it's moments as Fish tried to surprise the established wrestler. And the NOAH fans prefered Fish over their former GHC Tag Champion Yone sounding very disappointed that Fish was about to lose being caught for a Muscle Buster. Can't say the wrestling was very impressive apart from a few moves. 5:50 of 5:50 - Yone pinned Fish after a Muscle Buster   4. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa -vs- Tamon Honda & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [3/4*] --- Old friends having a very standard bout with Ogawa managing to roll a pin out of nowhere. 11:56 of 11:56 - Ogawa pinned Honda with a headlock cradle    5. Yoshihiro Takayama & Akitoshi Saito & Yutaka Yoshie -vs- Kensuke Sasaki & Takeshi Morishima & Takashi Okita [** 1/4] --- This was more like it! Pinky Yoshie was really over with the NOAH fans and fits in well in the green ring. And they are setting up a singles match between him and Morishima for their big July 10th show. So in this match Yoshie showed that he can do what Morishima can do. And maybe do it a little bit better. He didn't do much to Morishima during the bout, but poor Okita got to feel what Yoshie could do pancaking him with his weight laying in the final fatmans spot with a top rope splash on him. Otherwise with had the usual hard knocks from the stiff boys. 13:32 of 13:33 - Yoshie pinned Okita after a top rope bodypress    6. Naomichi Marufuji -vs- KENTA [*** 1/2] --- KENTA is back!!! After being out almost 8 months with a knee injury. Not only is this KENTA's return match. It's also a #1 contenders match with the winner receiving a title shot at Kanemaru's GHC Junior Heavyweight Title. And naturally there is the long rivalry between KENTA and Marufuji to think about. So this match had a lot going for it going in and they deliverd a match that felt like ment something! It was a fairly grounded fight with Marufuji going after the knee. KENTA tried to show that he's fully recovered now, but Marufuji's stubborn work on the leg kept KENTA down a lot and Marufuji was in control. So of course the fans where all for KENTA showing sympathy as Marufuji was trying to cripple him in his return match. KENTA showed some good form, but this was a match where Marufuji was the general and the fans were hoping for the KENTA comeback. And you can imagine the arena exploding when KENTA hit the Go 2 Sleep! Seriously massive moment with Marufuji kicking out! Hell, KENTA had been the one on the receiving end most of the match so I'm fine with a fresher Marufuji kicking out of KENTA's killer. After that it wouldn't be long before Marufuji hit his killer. The Tiger Frosion. And no one has kicked out of that one yet. Not even KENTA...... Marufuji gets his GHC Junior Title shot on the July 10th big show and KENTA needs to re-establish himself after the injury, but I'm thankful they gave us a match to care about! 26:50 of 26:51 - Marufuji pinned KENTA after a Tiger Frosion    7. Bison Smith & Keith Walker © -vs- Takashi Sugiura & Shuhei Taniguchi - (GHC Tag Title) [** 1/4] --- Why do they do this?! A Smith & Walker match don't have to last so damn long!!! They've got the power. They can power down anyone inf 10-15 minutes! Not 28 freaking minutes! Regardless if they are facing the heavyweight champion and his strongman sidekick or not. They could have had one hell of a explosive fight, but had to drag it out so much that they were all out of stamina by the end of it. And it felt like nothing was happening the first 15 minutes or so anyway, so why go to this distance?! The match didn't really start moving before Sugiura got the hot tag and started knocking the super heavyweights down with authority. By that time both the challengers were bloodied up and only a couple of brutal moments had happend. Still they managed to let the heavyweight spots carry the match well for them with loads of spears, suplexes, claw bombs and shear power. One of the most impressive moves came from Taniguchi who did the Croyt's Wrath style German Suplex Kenny Omega usually do. Except Taniguchi did it too one super heavy dude! Well, that was his moment. Soon after it was not......as he was beat by Smith and his Bisontennial. 27:43 of 27:43 - Smith pinned Taniguchi after a Styles Clash. Smith & Walker retain the GHC Tag Title in their 1st defence.   COMMENTS: 3 good matches. The main event and the heavyweight 6-man tag had it's share of brutal fighting, but it was not surprisingly KENTA vs Marufuji that stole the show! The undercard had close to nothing to offer.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 OSAKA PRO on COMM - May-June 2010 - (1 3/4 hrs)   May 8, 2010, Osaka Minami Move On Arena (147 fans)  - HAYATA Trial Series Highlights  1. Kuishinbo Kamen & Ebessan III -vs- Kanjyouro Matsuyama & Takoyakida --- Clipped comedy....wish they'd clipped more.... 2:22 of 13:03 - Kuishinbo pinned Matsuyama with a Samson Clutch   2. Tigers Mask © -vs- Super Shisa - (Open the Brave Gate Title) [**] --- Edited quite a bit, but you got the sense of drama as Shisa had Tigers tapping behind the referees back and then getting cheated down by the champ and his crew. And then it was Shisa who had to fight out of the submission holds until he found no way out other then tapping himself. 5:02 of 17:00 - Tigers mask made Shisa submit to a grounded Cobra Twist to retain the Open the Brave Gate Title in his 2nd defence.   May 9, 2010, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (360 fans)  3. Kuishinbo Kamen -vs- Kanjyouro Matsuyama - (Osaka Pro Owari/World's #1 Titles) --- Only the comedy belts getting defended and it didn't look all that funny to be honest. Not even by Osaka comedy standards. 2:06 of 9:36 - Kuishinbo pinned Matsuyama after a Kankuu Tornado to retain the Osaka Pro Owari/World's #1 Titles in his 1st defence.   4. NOSAWA Rongai & Mazada & Minoru Fujita -vs- Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada & Takoyakida - (UWA Trios Title) --- Highlights of the Osaka side winning the old Mexican belts almost by a fluke as Takoyakida was holding on to the ropes as he rolled NOSAWA up for the pin even with it happening straight in the referees face! 1:45 of 16:25 - Takoyakida pinned NOSAWA with a schoolboy. Kotoge & Harada & Takoyakida become the UWA Trios Champions.   May 16, 2010, Osaka Minami Move On Arena (112 fans)  5. Billy Ken Kid & Masamune -vs- Black Buffalo & Tigers Mask --- Looked ok based off the clips with Billy murdering Buffalo with the Vertigo at the end! 2:20 of 12:08 - Billy pinned Buffalo with the Vertigo   May 23, 2010, Osaka Minami Move On Arena (191 fans)  6. Tigers Mask & Orochi & Tadasuke -vs- Kuishinbo Kamen & Ebessan III & Kanjyouro Matsuyama [*] --- Comedy side tries to battle the heel side and a angry Ebessan tried to aggressively strip himself to victory, but he couldn't get his pants off over the shoes and was a sitting duck to the heels offence..... 5:38 of 15:41 - Tigers Mask made Ebessan submit to a armbar   7. Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada © -vs- Mineo Fujita & Amigo Suzuki - (Osaka Pro Tag Title) [* 1/2] --- Ok youthmans action for the Osaka Tag belts with a rather random Mineo & Amigo side as challengers. Fujita did look good and was the man on his side. Suzuki...the jobber. When Kotoge landed a Doomsday Device like kick. 7:15 of 23:26 - Kotoge pinned Suzuki after a Momo no Seishun Impact. Kotoge & Harada retain the Osaka Tag Title in their 2nd defence.   May 29, 2010, Osaka Minami Move On Arena (115 fans)  8. Ebessan III & Kanjuro Matsuyama -vs- Otokosakari & Kuishinbo Kamen --- Too much almost-naked Alexander Otsuka........ 2:37 of 11:12 - Ebessan & Matsuyama made Otokosakari submit to a modified legsplit   9. Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada & Takoyakida © -vs- Orochi & Tadaasuke & The Bodyguard - (UWA Trios Title) [* 1/4] --- The fresh UWA Trios champions defending against a heel side and gets a real solid beating. Or Takoyakida got a real solid beating getting dropped in one painful move after the other looking quite finished. And then he rolled Tadasuke up for the pin out of nowhere and nearly lost the cradle in the process. 6:41 of 19:42 - Takoyakida pinned Tadasuke after a modified forward rolling cradle. Kotoge & Harada & Takoyakida retain the UWA Trios Title in their 1st defence.   June 5, 2010, Osaka Minami Move On Arena (134 fans)  10. Hideyoshi & Masamune & Daisuke Harada & Great Takeru -vs- Black Buffalo & Tigers Mask & The Bodyguard & Tadasuke --- A few highlights with the babyface team being a 8-armed monster or something. Hardly a serious bout. And then Masamune jumped in for a cradle win. 2:43 of 14:08 - Masamune pinned Tadasuke with a small package   June 6, 2010, Osaka Minami Move On Arena (273 fans)  11. Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada & Takoyakida © -vs- Kuishinbo Kamen & Kanjyouro Matsuyama & Ebessan III - (UWA Trios Title) [** 1/4] --- The UWA Trios Champs face the comedy dudes....and they were serious as hell! Even Kuishinbo was stiffing the guys! And the fight was going back and forth with quite a few hot moments and near falls along the way. Not expected at all from my part. But they got a fairly solid match out of it and we got new UWA Trios Champs again! Kuishinbo Kamen & Kanjyouro Matsuyama & Ebessan III.....ugh. 15:04 of 18:46 - Matsuyama pinned Takoyakida with a Tiger Suplex. Kuishinbo & Matsuyama & Ebessan become the UWA Trios Champions.   12. Billy Ken Kid © -vs- Miracle Man - (Osaka Pro Title) [** 1/2] --- Another comedy guy goes serious for one night only! Miracle Man with the fans behind him hoping for a miracle. And he opened so damn strong flying out and locking in holds on the champion and was always his equal in this one. Or even his senior at times! Getting quite a few chances at grabbing the big one. But since he's been bumming down as a comedy guy for so long, no way could he be the companys champion. And thankfully Billy did take it home with the Vertigo, but we all loved Miracle Man in this one and felt good for him here. 16:09 of 22:32 - Billy pinned Mircale Man with the Vertigo to retain the Osaka Pro Title in his 2nd defence.   COMMENTS: A lot of clips and a few long matches. A bunch of them title matches so it was nice that these got available even if everything was clipped to bits.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 NJPW on Samurai TV - June 8, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)   June 8, 2010, Tokyo - Differ Ariake (1,100 fans)  1. Jushin Liger & Ryusuke Taguchi & Akira -vs- Davey Richards & King Fale & Tama Tonga [* 1/4] --- Junior tag with big King Fale to start the show. And it was no super match. Execution was always a little off, but it was interesting to see how the Samoans worked together with this mix of junior stars so at least it was a fresh match-up. And in a rare New Japan booking decision, because Fale is still just a struggling rookie, he as a heavyweight lost to the juniors as they splashed him down. 8:11 of 8:11 - Akira pinned Fale after a top rope bodypress   2. Kenny Omega -vs- Nobuo Yoshihashi - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block B ) [* 1/2] --- Far from a perfect match. Looked like they'd been partying a little too much the day before. Omega even missed kicks and stuff and Yoshihashi was getting lost quite a bit. But they still did the underdog spots with Yoshihashi getting a few desperat cradles. He missed the Swanton he beat Akira with, but kept on trying until Omega finally cut him down and did the Croyt's Wrath on him. 14:21 of 14:30 - Omega pinned Yoshihashi with a modified German Suplex   3. Kushida -vs- Gedo - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block A) [*] --- Gedo being a cheating heel against SMASH wrestler Kushida attacking him before the bell with the kendo stick and continuing to break the rules to the point he was DQ'ed. Rather boring one, but it did include one super cool running rampway dive from Kushida! 10:10 of 10:09 - Kushida defeated Gedo by DQ   4. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii & Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito -vs- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yuji Nagata & Hirooki Goto & Wataru Inoue & La Sombra [* 1/2] --- Fairly chaotic with 10 men in there and because of that it kind of struggled early on until they'd started finding their place. They each did their little share with Tanahashi vs Yano fighting, Nagata vs Yujiro.....etc. The established feuds. Never a super match, but Sombra did his lucha thing before getting low blowed and beat by No Limit. 13:08 of 13:06 - Naito pinned Sombre with a jack knife cradle    5. Go Shiozaki & Mohammed Yone -vs- Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma [**] --- NOAH vs NJPW and they are building for the IWGP Title match on June 19 when NOAH's young hope Shiozaki will face the new New Japan champion Makabe! And this was just a teaser of whats to come as Shiozaki was more focused on hurting and beating Makabe's sidekick Honma. Never the super hate match, so I hope they can do better for their big match. For now Shiozaki lariated down Honma for the pin hoping to do the same to Makabe soon. 13:08 of 13:07 - Shiozaki pinned Honma after a lariat    6. Koji Kanemoto -vs- Taiji Ishimori - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block B ) [* 3/4] --- More New Japan against NOAH and this time it's in the Best of the Super Junior tournament as veteran Kanemoto faces one-half of the GHC Junior Tag Champions Ishimori. And the match ended just as it was starting to get interesting! Kanemoto caught Ishimori's back-flip kick locking the leg in a ankle hold for the rather quick tap. For me that was the turning point and from where they really could have taken the match up a level, but instead it was the finish. The match was ok, but very little that stood out. 13:13 of 13:13 - Kanemoto made Ishimori submit to the ankle hold    7. Kota Ibushi -vs- Prince Devitt - (Best of the Super Jr. - Block A) [**] --- DDT against New Japan and Ibushi beat Devitt surprisingly clean! And in just 11 minutes too! It was a match that lived on the spectacular moments. Those included a big top rope brainbuster from Devitt while Ibushi had a very nice modified backdrop suplex, a top rope Frankenstainer before landing the Phoenix Splash for the three. 10:59 of 10:59 - Ibushi pinned Devitt after a Phoenix Splash   COMMENTS: B-Level show on the Best of the Super Junior Tournament. Matches was good, but they ended just about the time they started to build so not really any massive climax moments, but quite a few nice highlights.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 15, 2011 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 TENYRU PROJECT on Samurai TV - June 9, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)   June 9, 2010, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (400 fans)   - Highlights of April 19, 2010 Debut show which featured 61 year old Mitsu Momota winning! He's been a loser for most of his 40+ year long career and he beats Masao Orihara! Also Masaaki Mochizuki won the WAR International Junior Title again. That's the 4th time he holds it and he's been the last 3 holders of the belt! And the main event of the debut show was Genichiro Tenryu & Sanshiro Takagi vs Arashi & Dick Togo with Tenryu looking very old now. Well he is 60 year old! Didn't look too comfortable in the ring, but it's his show so he won too!   1. Hate -vs- Masao Orihara [1/2*] --- And the June show starts with two Tenryu loyals. Orihara was just starting out in All Japan when he jumped with Tenryu for the SWS upstart while Hate, aka Nobukazu Hirai, who made his pro-wrestling debut with Tenryu's SWS before both following into the WAR start-up after SWS closed doors in 1992. Now both are washed-up heels so this bout was filled with emotionless tricks until the referee had enough of the bullshit and DQ'ed Orihara for using the fire exztinguisher. 9:41 of 9:41 - Hate defeated Orihara by DQ   2. Kintaro Kanemura & Kyoko Inoue -vs- Yutaka Yoshie & Toshie Uematsu [3/4*] --- Mixed gender action with mostly homeless wrestlers. Loved how wreckless Kanemura threw Uematsu in that released German Suplex! Otherwise there was not too much to brag about. Some heavyweight blows between Kyoko and Yoshie, but this was never too exciting before Kyoko beat Uematsu with a hard powerbomb. 12:30 of 12:30 - Inoue pinned Uematsu with a powerbomb   3. Small Antonio Inoki & Kunihiko Mitamega -vs- Small Giant Baba & Yudan Hanson [1/4*] --- Tribute to the old days with fake Inoki, Baba, Hansen and....? A Marufuji of some sort maybe? A a lot more modern styled wrestler with moe focus on fancy then logic. Good for a laugh, but not good wrestling. Inoki beats Hansen by enzuigiri kicking his wig off. 9:20 of 9:20 - Inoki pinned Hansen after a enzuigiri   4. Masaaki Mochizuki © -vs- Tiger Shark - (WAR International Junior Title) [* 1/4] --- This hasn't been a very good show, but here we have a title match so this should beat what the undercard had to offer. And it did, but not by much. It was a very standard match with a lot of leg work from Mochizuki, but not enough to stop the Tiger Shark who seemed to get lost a bit toward his big moment of defeating the veteran champion having to be guided thru what to do making Mochizuki submit to a double-armbar to win the ex-War Junior belt. 15:24 of 15:26 - Tiger made Mochizuki submit to a Shark Death By Lock II to become the 16th WAR International Junior Champion.   5. Yoshihiro Takayama & Tatsutoshi Goto & Daisuke Sekimoto -vs- Genichiro Tenyru & Mitsuo Momota & Koki Kitahara - (Tenryu Project Six Man Tag Title Decision) [**] --- Tenryu is resurecting the WAR 6-Man Tag belts that's not been in use since 1998 renaming them the Tenryu Project 6-Man Tag Titles for this decision match. And on one side we have 46 year old Kitahara who's been unactive a while, 60 year old Tenryu and 61 year old Momota! And they face the badass side of Takayama, "Mr.Backdrop" Goto and a bleech haired Sekimoto. And the old guys got a hard pounding from the power side. Sekimoto clashed a lot with Tenryu himself and you know both Takayama & Goto liked to beat down a guy too. Sure Tenryu's side got some part of the action, especially Kitahara got in some toward the end, but they were out-powered here and Kitahara jobbed to Sekimoto and his top rope splash. He didn't even need to bust out the German to win it for his team. This is the first time Sekimoto holds these belts as they have not been in use as long as he's been wrestling, but the two others have held it before. Goto back in 1995 for a few months and Takayama held it a couple of weeks in 1996. 15:56 of 15:55 - Sekimoto pinned Kitahara after a top rope bodypress. Takayama & Goto & Sekimoto become the 16th Tenryu Project Six Man Tag Team Champions.   COMMENTS: The second Tenryu Project show and the first one that gets televised was not a very impressive show. This is a hangout for Tenryu's old friends and wrestler fans to have a easy payday it seems. The main even was fun, but the rest was close to shit.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 15, 2011 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 ZERO-ONE MAX on Samurai TV - June 10, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)   June 10, 2010, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE  1. Shota Takanishi & Yuzuru Saito -vs- Kazuhiro Tamura & Yoshikazu Yokoyama [*] --- Young lions tag with most of the guys looking good except Yokoyama who didn't know where he was half the time. But this was a decent basic fight where Shota was looking better then usual and Saito got to win beating up Yokoyama with his new finisher. The SK-D. 10:39 of 10:53 - Saito pinned Yokoyama after a modified Emeral Frosion   2. Kenta Kikunuma & Yuki Sato -vs- Rikiya Fudo & Shito Ueda [* 1/4] --- I quite liked the slugger team of Fudo & Ueda. Nothing pretty with what they do, but they are like a destruction crew pounding the little guys down. Sato as the tiny flying darling got a good responce and so did Z-1's own rookie Kikunuma who managed to get himself the win rulling Ueda up for a pin! 11:22 of 10:50 - Kikunuma pinned Ueda with a Japanese Leg Roll Clutch Hold   3. Kohei Sato & Kamikaze © -vs- NOSAWA Rongai & Minoru Fujita - (WEW Tag Title) [*] --- Did anyone think this match was going to be interesting?! Not terrible, but these are hardly guys that can set a match on fire. And that was the case. They could fight all they want. It's going to take a lot before any of it drags a fan in. The end Sato took a page out of NOSAWA's book and rolled Fujita up with a La Magistral to retain the belts. 9:59 of 18:20 - Sato pinned Fujita with a La Magistral. Sato & Kamikaze retain the WEW Tag Title in their 4th defence.   4. Masato Tanaka -vs- Munenori Sawa [**] --- This turned into quite a fun little match. Sawa was seriously in trouble here and everybody knew it so naturally they were cheering him on! Tanaka would control things, but Sawa showed he's no quitter and took the challenge trying his best to give as good as Tanaka. Loved the Space Rolling Elbow out in the stands from Sawa. He also had the Zero-One star in trouble with the Octopus Hold, but Tanaka managed to creap out of it. But this was mostly Sawa taking the main beating with a fine Sliding D to finish him off after a valient effort. 13:49 of 11:29 - Tanaka pinned Sawa after a Sliding D   5. Ryuji Sai -vs- Daisuke Sekimoto [** 3/4] --- These two have had a longstanding competitive rivalry and this is just another match in their series of matches that's happend over the years. They didn't really have anything to fight for this time, but they did a 30-min draw just for the sake of it giving the fans a real solid fight based around the familiar spots these two do for their big matches. Sai landed the top rope double-footstomp, both to the floor and in the ring, along with various suplexes to do some good damage done. Sekimoto did a flying tope, lariats and the Germans. Two of them and Sai kicked out both times! So yes, this had some hot moments, but with such a long fight they didn't keep the fans at their feet all the way and there was some down-time. Still..... freakin' good! Especially for a Shinjuku FACE show. 25:51 of 30:00 - Sai wrestled Sekimoto to a 30:00 Time Limit Draw   6. Shinjiro Otani & Akebono © -vs- Ikuto Hidaka & Shoichi Funaki - (NWA Intercontinental Tag Title) [** 1/4] --- WWE Superstar and Smackdowns #1 Announcer Funaki teams with Hidaka and they look almost like twins. Someone who does not look like twins are the tag champs Otani & Akebono. Two very different wrestlers and they fill each other out as Otani takes care of the more speedy wrestling even if he's getting a little too old for that and Akebono takes care of the real heavyweight stuff. So for this match the Hidaka & Funaki team became too lightweight to ever have a chance as Akebono kept dropping his weight full-force and Otani wasn't far away flying in with what he had to offer. So that kind of hinted on a cradle upset at some point, but it was done backward. Hidaka tried a inside cradle on the big Yokozuna, but Akebono managed to reverse it into a "giant" small package to beat Hidaka instead! 10:29 of 11:15 - Akebono pinned Hidaka with a small package reversal. Otani & Akebono retain the NWA Intercontinental Tag Title in their 4th defence.   COMMENTS: Smaller Zero-One show, but they still managed to bring a interesting show once the undercard matches was over and done with. Sekimoto vs Sai was one of the best Zero-One matches so far in 2010 and the main event had it's fun moments. Even Sawa vs Tanaka had something to offer.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 15, 2011 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 Dragon Gate on GAORA TV - June 10, 13 & 20, 2010 - (2 hrs)   June 10, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,230 fans)  1. Susumu Yokosuka -vs- Cyber Kong [* 1/2] --- A lot of no-selling in this one. One of the most devestating moves of all was the top rope Exploder which Kong just got straight up and continued to fight as normal. Bunch of lariats too and so on. Didn't like that part much. But Cyber Kong biting Yokosuka's knee to give it a work-over was funny. Looked like he was going to eat Yokosuka. In the end after trying to knock the tank down with all he had Yokosuka managed to get the three with a lariat with Cyber sitting. 14:00 of 15:32 - Yokosuka pinned Kong after a low-angle lariat   2. CIMA & Gamma & Genki Horiguchi © -vs- YAMATO & Kagetora & Shingo Takagi - (Open the Triangle Gate Title) [** 1/4] --- Opend a little too sweet and playful for me, but the ending streach saved it and made the Korakuen Hall roof lift....a little. And it was a lot of Kagetora giving and taking landing the deadly drops and scary cradles until the heavenly Backslide from....somewhere got Genki the victory. 18:43 of 21:53 - Horiguchi pinned Kagetora with a backslide. CIMA & Gamma & Horiguchi retain the Open the Triangle Gate Title in their 1st defence.   June 13, 2010, Kobe Sambo Hall (1,400 fans)  3. Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii -vs- Susumu Yokosuka & K-ness [* 1/4] --- Mochizuki & Fujii beating the Open the Twin Gate Champions in a non-title match which sets up the title re-match on July 11th. Decent bout as usual, but little new to offer. 9:12 of 13:27 - Mochizuki pinned K-ness after the Reverse Twister   4. Masato Yoshino -vs- Takuya Sugawara [**] --- Winner gets a title shot at YAMATO's Open the Dream Gate Title! So the heat was on. And the two hottest moments was when Tanizaki thinking he was being helpful with the red box, but accidentally hit Yoshino with it and to add insult to injury Sugawara followed up with Tanizaki's own finisher on Yoshino - THE IMPLANT! Didn't get the three so Sugwara tried his own finisher the Shiisanputa, but Yoshino miraculously kicked out of that one too! Then there was a lot of cradles and some chaos as Sugawara's friends was there before Yoshino beat the drunkard with a Lighting Spiral to meet YAMATO on July 11th. 12:17 of 19:38 - Yoshino pinned Sugawara after a Lightning Spiral   June 20, 2010, Hakata Star Lane (2,350 fans)  5. CIMA & Gamma & Genki Horiguchi © -vs- Naruki Doi & PAC & Naoki Tanizaki - (Open the Triangle Gate Title) [* 1/2] --- And so ends Warriors-5's 1 1/2 month reign as champs. They are really hot-shoting the belt again, but at least this starts Tanizaki's first reign with the belt as he won it for his World-1 pals PAC & Doi. Genki was very close with the backslide, but Tanizaki quickly fought back and got him with the Implant. Not too much to report from this one. Only a title change. 13:53 of 22:34 - Tanizaki pinned Horiguchi with the Implant. Doi & PAC & Tanizaki become the 28th Open the Triangle Gate Champions.   COMMENTS: The June 10th Triangle Gate Title bout and Yoshino vs Sugawara was quite good and at least came to life. The other matches left some to be desired.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 TOKYO GURENTAI on Samurai TV - June 11, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)   June 11, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (300 fans)  1. Munenori Sawa -vs- Hikaru Sato [*] --- Solid shooteristic fighting with a lot of mat holds and some striking, but little left a mark and it ended a time limit draw. 10:09 of 15:00 - Sawa wrestled Sato to a 15:00 Time Limit Draw   2. Chicken Boy -vs- Genki Horiguchi -vs- Ricky Fuji - (3-Way) [1/2*] --- Lazy comedy match with some Fuji ass, some HAGE and that chicken..... 7:35 of 12:35 - Chicken Boy pinned Fuji with a schoolboy   3. Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii -vs- Minoru Suzuki & Stalker Ichikawa [3/4*] --- Stalker just can't be in the ring or else he'll get beat within seconds. A quick first match and then Suzuki started the re-start until he tagged in the Stalker and he lost quickly again..... 0:20 of 0:40 - Mochizuki pinned Ichikawa after a high facekick 7:18 of 7:18 - Fujii pinned Ichikawa after a chokeslam   4. Minoru Suzuki -vs- Stalker Ichikawa [1/2*] --- ....and that left the door open for a pissed Suzuki to have a singles match with his partner and give him a royal beating for losing his matches. And the only reason this match lasted so long was because Fujii & Mochizuki distracted and kept begging for Stalkers health..... 4:32 of 4:36 - Suzuki pinned Ichikawa after a faceslap   5. Dragon Kid -vs- Minoru Fujita [*] --- Simple singles fight. Dragon Gate's Dragon Kid was a size too small to fight Fujita, but that only set up for a happy Dragon Kid win. Not much sticking out. 11:58 of 11:59 - Dragon pinned Fujita with a crucifix cradle   6. BxB Hulk -vs- Darkside KIKU [3/4*] --- Kikutaro doing a parody of BxB Hulk's darkside gimmick! No mask and dirty facepaint. The match had a darkside feel and not a comic one except the amusement of seeing Kikutaro go all heel. But the match was all kinds of boring with some rare flashes of light like KIKU landing a Last Ride Ligerbomb for a nearfall before he met Hulk's boot. 9:14 of 9:12 - Hulk pinned KIKU after a thrust kick to the head   7. Gamma & Mazada -vs- CIMA & NOSAWA Rongai [* 1/4] --- Easy fun with Gamma trying to get Mazada in Warriors-5 mood, but Mazada know who he is so no Gamma copying here. Instead he focused on beating up his regular tag partner NOSAWA with CIMA not doing much to help except humiliate Gamma a little bit in there. And Mazada did get his win and it felt like that side was dominating most of the way anyway so it was kind of strange that NOSAWA didn't get some kind of roll-up upset. 18:43 of 18:46 - Mazada pinned NOSAWA after the Shoda Drop   COMMENTS: These Tokyo Gurentai shows of NOSAWA are just the Gurentai and their friends having a easy night of fun. Nothing more. Never a arena for great wrestling even if they got a lot of help from Dragon Gate for this show.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 MICHINOKU PRO on Samurai TV - June 11, 2010, Tokyo - (3 hrs)   June 11, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,280 fans)  1. Rasse -vs- Daisuke Sasaki [* 1/4] --- Fun short opener with some memorable spots like Sasaki's tope where he drove his own head to the floor on the landing. His head took some more damage during the match like on Rasse's German. And then Rasse landed the Firebird to beat him. 6:52 of 6:52 - Rasse pinned Sasaki after a Firebird Splash   2. Kei Sato & Shu Sato -vs- Kesen Numa-jiro & Kinya Oyanagi [** 1/4] --- A enjoyable 10-min sprint between the classic styled Kesen & Oyanagi giving the Sato Twins a run for their money. All their big moves landed and they all worked hard to make this one entertaining for the Tokyo fans. They were motivated. Not that the match was anything more then a good showcase of what they can do then anything real important. But regardless it did was it was supposed to do, but no luck for the faces as the Sato's managed to beat Oyanagi with the modified MDII. 10:29 of 10:29 - Shu pinned Oyanagi with the Zombie King    3. Takeshi Minaminno & Maguro Ooma & Ken45 -vs- Yapper Man #1 & Yapper Man #2 & Kenbai [* 3/4] --- More action! They gave the fans a good show with the lucharesu flying and speed with everyone getting to share the spotlight. The highlight for me was the battle of Kens when Kenbai drove his boots to crush Ken45's face with a springboard dropkick/footstomp! Well, after some 11 minutes of spot wrestling Minaminno beat one of the Yappers with a DVB. 11:19 of 11:20 - Minaminno pinned Yapper #2 after a Death Valley Bomb   4. El Samurai & Takashi Sasaki & Boso Boy Raito -vs- Ryuji Ito & HIROKI & Daichi Sasaki [* 1/2] --- Too much Boso, rookie Daichi Sasaki and half-lazy veterans to become anything more then a simple light-hearted 6-man. The fans still seemed happy watching this weird collection of guys togther having a fun match until the rookie was submitted. 18:55 of 18:55 - Samurai made Sasaki submit to a chickenwing armlock   5. Ultimo Dragon & Fujita Jr Hayato & Taro Nohashi -vs- Jinsei Shinzaki & Kenou & Rui Hiugaji [1/4*] --- Hayato had a bad leg and Kenou just had to destroy it putting Hayato out of the match..... Takeshi Minaminno replaces Hayato who gets helped out of the arena and the match re-starts.... 4:07 - Dragon & Hayato & Nohashi wrestled Shinzaki & Kenou & Hiugaji to a No-Contest when Hayato was injured    5. Ultimo Dragon & Takeshi Minaminno & Taro Nohashi -vs- Jinsei Shinzaki & Kenou & Rui Hiugaji [**] --- A darkside Ultimo Dragon?! He was wearing dark colors and a t-shirt looking kind of like a generic indy heel teaming with the Kowloon stable. We'll see if they do something interesting with this later. For now he's just a part of the team and gets to win the bout for the team with the Asai DDT over the weakest link in the match. The match was mostly a arena brawl and entertaining to watch without reaching massive hights. But the heels gained control being heels and that was the story here. 16:14 of 15:51 - Dragon pinned Hiugaji after a Asai DDT    6. Great Sasuke & Dick Togo -vs- Taka Michinoku & Shoichi Funaki - (Sasuke's 20th Anniversary Match) [** 1/4] --- Casual Sasuke spectacular! Or, he's a rocker now. He's still as mad as ever after 20 years in the ring doing a lunatic dive out over the ropes crashing to the floor on chairs he'd layed Taka on. Taka just looked at him thinking out loud with a "What the hell are you doing you stupid madman?" expression. Sasuke also did a series of other dives, some of which actually landed! Dick and Taka did their thing too, but Funaki just doesn't have anything to offer after all those years getting wasted in WWE. But this was Sasuke's show no matter what so it didn't matter really. Sasuke got his tribute win too Thunder Firing the guy that took over the Masa Michinoku gimmick once Great Sasuke went to become Great Sasuke in 1992. 21:47 of 21:47 - Sasuke pinned Michinoku after a Thunder Fire Powerbomb     COMMENTS: Good motivated show from the Michinoku Pro group. This is the first TV taped M.Pro show from 2010 and we're almost half-way through the year. They deserve better exposure then this!   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 DDT on Samurai TV - June 13, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)   June 13, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,491 fans)  1. MIKAMI & Poison Sawada & Tanomusaku Toba & Daisuke Sasaki -vs- Yukihiro Abe & Shigehiro Abe & Tomimitsu Matsunaga & Takao Soma --- Quick highlights with Soma and MIKAMI trading big moves before the veteran of the two won it with a Firebird. But after the match Sawada announces NJPW's Manabu Nakanishi as his tag partner for the Sumo Hall show! 1:16 of 7:00 - MIKAMI pinned Soma after a Firebird Splash   2. HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi -vs- Dick Togo & Danshoku Dino [*] --- A lot of gay stuff like Owashi doing a wonderful Shining Dick, and Dino doing a "3D" version of his Nighmare. Not to mention Dino douing a dick version of HARASHIMA's Somato double-knee attack! There was non-gay stuff too when Dick was in and when HARASHIMA was focused. However they messed up the end. HARASHIMA was debuting a springboard version of his Somato, but Dino was too far so it didn't land and HARSHIMA landed a springboard cross-chop instead and then tried to improvise landing a nasty MDII like move for a very near fall before landing the Swan Dive Somato from a much closer distance! 8:16 of 18:46 - HARASHIMA pinned Dino after a springboard double-knee attack    3. Daisuke Sekimoto © -vs- Shuji Ishikawa - (KO-D Title) [** 3/4] --- Two things really stuck out from this title bout. Ishikawa falling off the top rope when Sekimoto was attepting a Superplex and those damn headbutts!!! Real nasty headbutts! It was mainly Ishikawa who came with them locking Sekimoto's arms and then delivering consecutive skull crushers until Sekimoto was blooding from the forehead. But once Sekimoto joined in on the head games that's when you heard the real bangs! Ouch! Especially that running headbutt almost made an echo in the Korakuen Hall!!! The rest of the match was a stiff affair also growing in pain as the blowd kept getting harder and harder the longer the match went. But at the end it was all Sekimoto punding the Union Pro guy down with the German Suplex which got kicked out of and brutal lariats which kept the man down. V4 for Sekimoto and now HARASHIMA feels ready to take him on as they meet on the July 25 Sumo Hall main event! 20:32 of 22:04 - Sekimoto pinned Ishikawa after a running lariat to retain the KO-D Title in his 4th defence.   4. Yago Aznable -vs- Michael Nakazawa --- Michael facing the terrible superhero like Yago. And if that wasn't enough Hoshitango came out as a spaceship and attacked him too..... Takagi came and tried to attack Hoshitango after the match, but he only claw chokeslamed him! 2:47 of 5:23 - Yago pinned Nakazawa after the Jab Low   5. NOSAWA Rongai & Mazada & Minoru Fujita © -vs- Hikaru Sato & Keisuke Ishii & Yoshihiko - (UWA Trios Title) [1/4*] --- The Tokyo Gurentai ends their one day reign by losing the UWA Trios belts to a blow-up doll..... 3:01 of 8:51 - Yoshihiko pinned Mazada with his feet on the ropes. Sato & Ishii & Yoshihiko become the UWA Trios Champions.    6. Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega -vs- Ashita Maeda & Iitomo Ariyama; Bull Armour TAKUYA & Dora Spotio; Kim Yotsugi & Hitori Gundan; Sanshiro Takagi & Great Kayser; Mr. 6 & Riho - (Consecutive Matches) [1/2*] --- The Golden Lovers having a series of tag matches with obscure indy "tallent" for a "Best of the Super Indy" series. And this was silly. A fat guy thinking he could take the mainstream pain wrestling.... and couldn't. A masked guy who tried to blind Ibushi with a mask only to lose to a Ibushi who couldn't see. A couple of backyarders swiming in Coca-Cola. Takagi & Kayser playing Transformers turning into a "super size" creature....and losing. Then the Golden Lovers lost to a couple of kids. Omega was impressed with the kids and wanted to team with them for the Sumo Hall show. 2:04 of 2:05 - Omega pinned Ariyama after a double palm thrust 1:56 of 1:39 - Ibushi pinned Spotio with a German Suplex 2:11 of 2:10 - Omega pinned Hitori and Ibushi pinned Kim after highkicks 2:43 of 2:43 - Ibushi & Omega pinned Kayser after a double enzuigiri 2:56 of 3:02 - Mr.6 & Riho defetaed Ibushi & Omega via Over The Top Rope   7. Muscle Sakai & Mr. Strawberry & OK Revolution -vs- Kenny Omega & Mr.6 & Riho - (Nihonkai 6-Man Tag Title) [1/4*] --- Omega & Mr.6 & Riho win the Nihonkai 6-Man Tag Titles so they could have a 3-way triple trios title match at the Sumo Hall. These belts have been unactive since 2003 so they're just cleaning up the trash in the DDT office. 0:40 of 0:39 - Omega pinned Sakai with a small package. Omega & Mr.6 & Riho become the 2nd Nihonkai 6-Man Tag Champions.   COMMENTS: One good match which was super stiff and the rest was mostly comedy leading up to the Sumo Hall show on July 25.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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