Guide to Japanese Wrestling 2010

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SECRET BASE on COMM - December 20, 2010, Warabi City - (1 hr)

 

 

 

 

December 20, 2010, Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

 

 

1. Kamui & Amigo Suzuki -vs- Ferist & Black Orca [1/2*]

--- Not horrible. But terribly non-interesting. At least there was some nice stuff in there from the Kamui & Amigo team before Kamui landed his Tope Atomico.

10:31 of 10:31 - Kamui pinned Orca after a Swanton Bomb

 

 

 

2. Chango -vs- Jun Ogawauchi [1/2*]

--- Jun was starting to get things going again for his career and then Chango, of all people, squash him?! Sure he attacked him before the bell and had a little bit of help from Amigo, but still.....CHANGO?! Well the finisher ended very nicely as he dove in a legdrop off the top with Jun half-standing.

8:27 of 8:27 - Chango pinned Ogawauchi after a top rope legdrop

 

 

 

3. Mototsugu Shimizu & GENTARO & Yamada Man Pound -vs- Bear Fukuda & Spark Aoki & Go Sato [*]

--- Looong one. And it was just a action match.... I guess they needed to fill out the showsince it had only 3 matches. The wrestling had it's moment, but a match of one/third the lenght would have had the same to offer as this one. Shimizu gets to be a winner the only place on earch he can be. And that's Secret Base.

24:29 of 24:29 - Shimizu pinned Aoki after a spinebuster

 

 

 

COMMENTS: My last Secret Base show.....what a relief!

 

 

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DRAGON GATE on GAORA TV - December 12 & 21, 2010 - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 12, 2010, Nagoya International Conference Hall (2,200 fans)

 

 

1. CIMA & Dragon Kid & Ricochet -vs- Takuya Sugawara & Yasushi Kanda & Kzy [* 3/4]

--- Dragon Gate USA associate wrestler Ricochet getting introduced to the fans of the Japan division of Dragon Gate doing all kinds over-overly fancy and many weak-looking moves to get himself noticed. Dragon Kid's spectacular stuff looked better. And Ricochet used waaaaaay to long time on the finisher trying to get the right balance for the double-rotaion moonsault, but once he got it together it looked wonderful and he impressed the fans!

14:05 of 18:10 - Ricochet pinned Kzy after a double-rotaion moonsault

 

 

 

2. PAC © -vs- YAMATO - (Open the Brave Gate Title) [**]

--- Big match and challenge for the Brave Gate Champion having to face former Dream Gate Champion YAMATO! Wasn't expecting him to come out of this alive, but Dream Gate is pushing the brit hard with the belt and let him pin YAMATO clean as hell with the super amazing 360 SSP of his! PAC did nearly miss his SSP bodypress/kick flying a bit off on the side though. The match featured their big ones with PAC kicking out of the Galleria while also landing other fancy dives through out the match. They still struggled to get an ultimate climax which was a shame.

16:21 of 22:04 - PAC pinned YAMATO after a 360 Shooting Star Press to ratain the Open the Brave Gate Title in his 3rd defence.

 

 

 

 

December 21, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,300 fans)

 

 

3. Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi & Dragon Kid & Ricochet -vs- Yasushi Kanda & Naoki Tanizaki & Dr. Muscle & Kzy [* 1/2]

--- Fun style tag with Ricochet getting the spotlight in the Korakuen Hall doing his big double-rotaion moonsault. However he missed most of it as Dr.Muscle was too far away. He only landed some of his lower legs on his target. So basically....fail. There was at least enough cool stuff to put smiles on peoples faces in thsi match, but nothing else was important then establishing Ricochet. After the match Brodie Lee came out and the fans got a special bonus match......

12:15 of 12:13 - Ricochet pinned Muscle after a double-rotation moonsault

 

 

 

4. Brodie Lee -vs- Kzy [1/4*]

--- ....and Brodie Lee introduced himself better to the Korakuen Hall crowd then Ricochet squashing Kzy like this was a early 90's American squash match.

0:50 of 0:38 - Lee pinned Kzy after a powerbomb

 

 

 

5. Shingo Takagi & Cyber Kong & YAMATO -vs- BxB Hulk & Super Shisa & PAC [* 3/4]

--- You're average Dragon Gate action match with the speed and spectacular. Simple entertainment for the fans before Cyber Kong very effectively took care of the weak one Shisa. A bunch of black masked dark guys attacked PAC & Co after the match. Lame and intriguing at the same time.

13:50 of 13:50 - Kong pinned Shisa with a Cyber Bomb

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Ok action, but nothing more. Foreigners rule as Ricochet and Brodie Lee are introduced to Japan and PAC gets one of his biggest wins.

 

 

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DRAGON GATE on GAORA TV - December 21, 2010 & January 10, 2011 - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 21, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,300 fans)

 

 

1. Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii -vs- Susumu Yokosuka & K-ness [**]

--- Don Fujii is still the man! He can make Yokosuka's weak mechanical wrestling seem important taking the lariats and making something out of it then just blow, blow, blow. And I was so happy when he beat the former Twin Gate champs out-smarting K-ness into a Gedo Clutch. Plenty of your usual Dragon Gate style wrestling to build around the Fujii goodness too.

15:21 of 17:39 - Fujii pinned K-ness with a Gedo Clutch

 

 

 

2. Naruki Doi & Gamma © -vs- CIMA & Masato Yoshino - (Open the Twin Gate Unified Tag Title) [** 1/4]

--- A little slow and very ordinary disguisting Gamma tactics with the spit and water early on, but I loved the end. A lot of chaos and stuff which we are used to in these ever changing stables wars in Dragon Gate. But all I got to say in addition of that is...... Gamma beat CIMA with CIMA's own Meteora double kneedrop!!!

20:11 of 20:09 - Gamma pinned CIMA after the Meteora. Dai & Gamma retain the Open the Twin Gate Unified Tag Title in their 1st defence.

 

 

 

 

January 10, 2011, Nagoya Telepia Hall (544 fans)

 

 

3. Masato Yoshino & BxB Hulk & K-ness -vs- Cyber Kong & YAMATO & Kagetora [* 1/2]

--- Action and so on..... Easy entertainment to fill the time until Hulk kicked Kagetora's head in.

10:56 of 16:09 - Hulk pinned Kagetora after a thrust kick

 

 

 

4. Naoki Tanizaki -vs- Genki Horiguchi - (Open the Brave Gate Title Contendership Tournament - Final) [*]

--- Ordinary stuff with Tanizaki getting the next shot at the Brave Gate Title!

7:17 of 12:41 - Tanizaki pinned Horiguchi with the Implant

 

 

 

5. Naruki Doi & Gamma © -vs- Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii - (Open the Twin Gate Unified Tag Title) [* 1/4]

--- Too much stale Gamma in this one. Which took away any excitement the first 2/3rds of the bout before it got a little better with Fujii and Doi battling it out. So at least a decent end, but no super fight as the old guys win the tag belts.

16:41 of 18:45 - Fujii pinned Gamma with a German Suplex. Mochizuki & Fujii become the 14th Open the Twin Gate Unified Tag Champions.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Ok stuff from the Korakuen Hall show, but the 2011 stuff didn't tempt me to explore more into the year....

 

 

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KOUHAKU PRO KOUHAKU WRESTLING WARS on COMM - December 22, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 22, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING

 

 

1. Makoto Oishi & Yasu Urano & Toshihiro Sueyoshi -vs- Daisuke & Shota & Maguro Ooma [1/2*]

--- Real easy action wrestling to start the show. Nothing standing out and it became a simple win for one of the established workers in the bout.

10:16 of 10:54 - Oishi pinned Shota after a Miracle Ecstasy

 

 

 

2. Jun Kasai & ? -vs- Antonio Honda & ? [1/4*]

--- Men in drags......with a lot of squeeling. Didn't mind that there was digital problems with this match. Wanted this shit over with as quickly as possible.....

8:59 of 10:03 - ? (team Kasai) pinned ? with a huracanrana

 

 

 

3. HARASHIMA -vs- Kotaru Nasu [3/4*]

--- Basic glamorized squash. Straight wrestling with HARASHIMA giving Nasu a lesson in the simple stuff before crashing him down with his knees.

10:21 of 10:20 - HARASHIMA pinned Nasu after the Somato double knee attack

 

 

 

4. Daisuke Sekimoto & Takuya Sugawara & Ken45 -vs- Abdullah Kobayashi & Danshoku Dino & Chango [1/2*]

--- On paper this promised to be entertaining, but it was all about the gay Team Dino and kisses. So they called out Sekimoto to bring the man-ness and withstand the metrosexual. And he killed Chango for kissing him with a German Suplex. Nobody liked Abby's kisses because of his bad breath.....

7:36 of 7:34 - Sekimoto pinned Chango with a German Suplex

 

 

 

5. Hercules Senga & Tsutomu Oosugi © -v- Minoru Fujita & Masamune - (UWA Tag Title) [* 1/2]

--- Finally something that resembled good wrestling! But of course nothing super great, but a few cool moves and some speed which is what we needed after that undercard. Still just mindless indy wrestling with a cool double-man huracanrana from SOS before they lost their belts to the rather odd couple in Fujita & Masamune.

18:39 of 18:38 - Fujita pinned Senga after a wrist-clutch Northern Light Bomb. Fujita & Masamune become the 16th UWA Tag Champions.

 

 

 

6. Toru Owashi -vs- Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu - (Handicap) [*]

--- Owashi against the Sato Twins in a handicap match?! Well, it did seem Owashi had a pigs head as his partner because the twins kept beating on a dead head. This was more fun-fun then a serious battle, but everyone got sprayed with black mist before Owashi locked in a modified double-rack on the two to win and then Voodoo Murders invaded to set up the real main event!

14:49 of 14:51 - Owashi wrestled Kei & Shu to a No-Contest when the Voodoo Murders invaded

 

 

 

7. Toru Owashi & Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu -vs- TARU & Minoru & Voodoo Mask [* 1/4]

--- Owashi & Satos against the Voodoo Murders for a straight to the point action match. Some good moments, but most of it was just there until it was time for the Owashi moments splashing and trashing the weak link on the Voodoo Murders side putting Voodoo Mask to rest with a powerbomb.

9:44 of 9:17 - Owashi pinned Voodoo Mask with a powerbomb

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Not too impressed. The Sato Twins christmas time specials are usually wilder then this. This felt more dead then anything else.

 

 

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KAIENTAI-DOJO on COMM: MONTHLY VOL 2 - December 23, 2010, Chiba - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 23, 2010, Chiba Blue Field (141 fans)

 

 

1. Kaji Tomato -vs- Handsome JOE [1/2*]

--- Very lightly worked and its so wrong that Tomato's offence could harm a guy like JOE at all. Which just made Tomato's clean victory seem absurd.

10:27 of 8:51 - Tomato pinned JOE with the Red Eye

 

 

 

2. Marines Mask II -vs- Boso Boy Raito -vs- Bambi - (3-Way) [1/4*]

--- Uninteresting bullshit stuff.....

11:00 of 11:00 - Marines Mask pinned Boso with a La Magistral

 

 

 

3. Shiori Asahi & Makoto Oishi & Taishi Takizawa -vs- Yuji Hino & YOSHIYA & Yuu Yamagata [*]

--- More or less a standard random filler 6-man tag to fill some time and keep the wrestlers active. Easy fun style action without creating much fanfare with Takizawa using his sliding chops to beat YOSHIYA.

16:21 of 16:23 - Takizawa pinned YOSHIYA after a sliding double chop

 

 

 

4. Masashi Takeda & Kazuhiro Tamura & Masato Shibata & Kotaru Nasu -vs- Taka Michinoku & Saburo Inematsu & Ryuichi Sekine & Randy Takuya - (Elimination) [* 1/2]

--- Style-E vs K-Dojo elimination bout! Decent one at that. Never super motivated, important feeling or exciting, but still good fun at times as the two small promotions battle it out. The main stars escaped disgrace by getting eliminated the cheap way while the lesser guys was pinned. Like with Sekine who didn't really stand a chance when it was just him and big Shibata left.....

10:13 - Michinoku eliminated Tamura via Over The Top Rope

10:23 - Shibata eliminated Michinoku via Over The Top Rope

12:47 - Takeda pinned Takuya after a running knee

15:13 - Inematsu pinned Nasu after a Death Valley Bomb

16:42 - Shibata eliminated Inematsu & Takeda via Over The Top Rope

19:32 of 19:01 - Shibata pinned Sekine after a lariat

 

 

 

5. Kengo Mashimo & HIROKI © -vs- Daigoro Kashiwa & Hiro Tonai - (Strongest-K Tag Title) [* 1/4]

--- More annoyingly tame then anything good. Clearly not title match worth quality. Streached out standard with little sticking out except Mashimo's driving DDT near the end before he finished Tonai a short while later. And Tonai wasn't anyone I managed to get into at all. Totally fake. So I was happy Mashimo killed him off with the brainbuster to keep the belts.

25:44 of 25:44 - Mashimo pinned Tonai after a brainbuster. Mashimo & HIROKI retain the Strongest-K Tag Title in their 4th defence.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: This was the biggest of K-Dojo's small Chiba Blue Field shows of December and with a main event that should have been much better. Actually the whole show felt a little below par.

 

 

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JWP on Samurai TV - December 23, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 23, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (872 fans)

 

 

1. Kazuki -vs- Masu-me - (Masu-me's Debut) [1/2*]

--- Masu-me making her debut. Looks like a weak pretty girl. Kind of similar to Sachie Abe as it was kind of fitting that Masu-me met Abe's longtime partner/rival Kazuki for her debut. But Masu-me didn't impress and lost within 6-minutes when Kazuki landed kneedrops.

6:06 of 6:04 - Kazuki pinned Masu-me after a top rope kneedrop

 

 

 

2. Hiren -vs- Sawako Shimono - (JWP Junior/POP Titles) [3/4*]

--- Hiren defending the JWP Junior Title along with that POP Title against WAVE's Sawako. And it was a basic and easy match. Especially easy for Hiren who beat her in little over 5 minutes without Sawako being all that much of a threat.

4:09 of 5:33 - Hiren made Sawako submit to a ankle hold to retain the JWP Junior/POP Titles in her 1st defence.

 

 

 

3. Emi Sakura & Kazumi Shimouma -vs- Commando Bolshoi & Aoi Yagami [*]

--- Had a lot of annoying stuff like....Shimouma. And Yagami wasn't exactly impressing either unless you count the handicap of her being deaf (legit). So a so-so tag with Sakura beating Yagami with a moonsault.

4:35 of 9:59 - Sakura pinned Yagami after a moonsault

 

 

 

4. 9-Woman Battle Royal [1/2*]

--- Close to a complete bullshit battle royal for the Christmas season. Even the Great Kabuki was wearing a Santa costume before the match started before getting kicked out by all the girls. It was mainly comedy and shitty attempts at wrestling before Hailey Hatred killed Kazuki with her backdrop suplex to end it all....

(1:45) - Senri Kuroki eliminated

(3:48) - Yumiko Hotta eliminated

(5:41) - Hikaru Shida eliminated

(8:03) - Mima Shimoda eliminated

(8:08) - Tanny Mouse eliminated

(10:41) - Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu eliminated

(10:57) - Kazuki eliminated

2:32 of 10:59 - Hailey Hatred win the 9-Woman Battle Royal

 

 

 

5. Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo -vs- Tojuki Leon & Misaki Ohata [* 1/2]

--- Finally something more exciting even if this had it's problems too when Ohata was trying her more fancy stuff. But it was a entertaining sprint match full of action and not much meaning with Nanae winning as always Iku Bomb'ing Ohata for the pin.

7:32 of 12:26 - Takahashi pinned Ohata with the Iku Bomb

 

 

 

6. Aja Kong & Sachie Abe © -vs- Kayoko Haruyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki - (JWP/Daily Sports Women's Tag Titles) [* 1/2]

--- Finally the silly team of Aja & Abe lose the JWP tag belts. Not that the 'new' champs of Haruyama & Kurihara has much more to offer, but should be better then Abe dragging this shit down like she does. Even the after-match talk was just lame with her pretending to cry after losing the belts. The match wasn't that bad, but it could have been so much better. Some nice moves and near falls before Kuragaki took care of the weak one.

15:22 of 15:22 - Kuragaki pinned Abe after the Metal Wing. Haruyama & Kuragaki become the 26th JWP Tag Champions & new Daily Sports Women's Tag Champions.

 

 

 

7. Kaori Yoneyama © -vs- Yoshiko Tamura - (JWP Title vs NEO/NWA Pacific Titles) [**]

--- Big joshi match with both the main JWP belt and the NEO belts on the line as Yoneyama faces the retiring NEO ace Tamura for this Korakuen Hall main event. And the booking was predictable with a short 30-min time limit. A draw naturally. As for the quality of the match....could and should have been much better! It lacked the intensity and impact and so much was weakly executed. They did attempt a big match formula so there was some excitement sneeking in. Yoneyama had some late kick-outs and Yoneyama landed her driving cradle thingy along with a armbar follow-up after working over the arms a lot including attacking them with a chair. Yoneyama also landed a powerbomb type move off the apron to do some damage just 3 minutes from time giving the end a little boost. But no win for either girl to become a Tiple Crown Champion.

30:00 of 30:00 - Yoneyama wrestled Tamura to a 30:00 Time Limit Draw. Yoneyama retain the JWP Title in her 8th defence and Tamura retain the NEO/NWA Pacific Titles in her 11th defence.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: JWP can do something special from time to time, but this wasn't the night for it. Too many meaningless undercard matches and the one that counted didn't live up to it's potential even if it was easily the best thing on the show. This is the edited TV version.

 

 

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JWP on COMM - December 23, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 23, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (872 fans)

 

 

1. Kazuki -vs- Masu-me - (Masu-me's Debut) [1/2*]

--- Masu-me making her debut. Looks like a weak pretty girl. Kind of similar to Sachie Abe as it was kind of fitting that Masu-me met Abe's longtime partner/rival Kazuki for her debut. But Masu-me didn't impress and lost within 6-minutes when Kazuki landed kneedrops.

6:06 of 6:04 - Kazuki pinned Masu-me after a top rope kneedrop

 

 

 

2. Hiren -vs- Sawako Shimono - (JWP Junior/POP Titles) [3/4*]

--- Hiren defending the JWP Junior Title along with that POP Title against WAVE's Sawako. And it was a basic and easy match. Especially easy for Hiren who beat her in little over 5 minutes without Sawako being all that much of a threat.

5:30 of 5:33 - Hiren made Sawako submit to a ankle hold to retain the JWP Junior/POP Titles in her 1st defence.

 

 

 

3. Emi Sakura & Kazumi Shimouma -vs- Commando Bolshoi & Aoi Yagami [*]

--- Had a lot of annoying stuff like....Shimouma. And Yagami wasn't exactly impressing either unless you count the handicap of her being deaf (legit). So a so-so tag with Sakura beating Yagami with a moonsault.

9:59 of 9:59 - Sakura pinned Yagami after a moonsault

 

 

 

4. 9-Woman Battle Royal [1/2*]

--- Close to a complete bullshit battle royal for the Christmas season. Even the Great Kabuki was wearing a Santa costume before the match started before getting kicked out by all the girls. It was mainly comedy and shitty attempts at wrestling before Hailey Hatred killed Kazuki with her backdrop suplex to end it all....

(1:45) - Senri Kuroki eliminated

(3:48) - Yumiko Hotta eliminated

(5:41) - Hikaru Shida eliminated

(8:03) - Mima Shimoda eliminated

(8:08) - Tanny Mouse eliminated

(10:41) - Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu eliminated

(10:57) - Kazuki eliminated

10:57 of 10:59 - Hailey Hatred win the 9-Woman Battle Royal

 

 

 

5. Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo -vs- Tojuki Leon & Misaki Ohata [* 1/2]

--- Finally something more exciting even if this had it's problems too when Ohata was trying her more fancy stuff. But it was a entertaining sprint match full of action and not much meaning with Nanae winning as always Iku Bomb'ing Ohata for the pin.

12:26 of 12:26 - Takahashi pinned Ohata with the Iku Bomb

 

 

 

6. Aja Kong & Sachie Abe © -vs- Kayoko Haruyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki - (JWP/Daily Sports Women's Tag Titles) [* 1/2]

--- Finally the silly team of Aja & Abe lose the JWP tag belts. Not that the 'new' champs of Haruyama & Kurihara has much more to offer, but should be better then Abe dragging this shit down like she does. Even the after-match talk was just lame with her pretending to cry after losing the belts. The match wasn't that bad, but it could have been so much better. Some nice moves and near falls before Kuragaki took care of the weak one.

15:22 of 15:22 - Kuragaki pinned Abe after the Metal Wing. Haruyama & Kuragaki become the 26th JWP Tag Champions & new Daily Sports Women's Tag Champions.

 

 

 

7. Kaori Yoneyama © -vs- Yoshiko Tamura - (JWP Title vs NEO/NWA Pacific Titles) [**]

--- Big joshi match with both the main JWP belt and the NEO belts on the line as Yoneyama faces the retiring NEO ace Tamura for this Korakuen Hall main event. And the booking was predictable with a short 30-min time limit. A draw naturally. As for the quality of the match....could and should have been much better! It lacked the intensity and impact and so much was weakly executed. They did attempt a big match formula so there was some excitement sneeking in. Yoneyama had some late kick-outs and Yoneyama landed her driving cradle thingy along with a armbar follow-up after working over the arms a lot including attacking them with a chair. Yoneyama also landed a powerbomb type move off the apron to do some damage just 3 minutes from time giving the end a little boost. But no win for either girl to become a Tiple Crown Champion.

30:00 of 30:00 - Yoneyama wrestled Tamura to a 30:00 Time Limit Draw. Yoneyama retain the JWP Title in her 8th defence and Tamura retain the NEO/NWA Pacific Titles in her 11th defence.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: JWP can do something special from time to time, but this wasn't the night for it. Too many meaningless undercard matches and the one that counted didn't live up to it's potential even if it was easily the best thing on the show. This is the unedited commercial release.

 

 

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NJPW on SAMURAI TV - December 23, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 23, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,005 fans)

 

 

 

1. Taka Michinoku & NOSAWA Rongai & Taichi Ishikari -vs- Jushin Liger & Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi [* 3/4]

--- Fun little junior heavyweight bout with guests Taka and NOSAWA to spice it up a little within the normal New Japan lighter action. Not too amazing, but they gave it enoiugh life to make it work with Taka literary grabbing the win holding some tights on the roll-up.

11:25 of 11:24 - Michinoku pinned Taguchi with a schoolboy

 

 

 

 

2. Togi Makabe & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Tiger Mask -vs- Masato Tanaka & Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii [* 1/2]

--- This 6-man focused mostly on the Ishii/Tiger feud with Tiger's mask getting pulled off for the DQ finish as Tiger was having Ishii beat with a triangle hold. Their part was the best of the match but there was little bit of Tenzan/Izuka and Makabe/Tanaka too. To build more for Makabe vs Tanaka at the Dome they had Makabe powerbomb Tanaka through a table after the bout.

14:07 of 14:06 - Tiger defeated Ishii by DQ

 

 

 

 

3. Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Aoki -vs- Shinsuke Nakamura & Gedo [**]

--- NOAH vs NJPW and it's to build up the singles bout between Nakamura and Shiozaki for the Tokyo Dome show happening on January 4th. And the two fought a lot with Shiozaki's choppin' causing pain for the New Japan star. For now Shiozaki emerged the symbolic top dog winning the match, but it was not over Nakamura this time. Ok bout, but for a inter-promotional battle it lacked that little extra.

12:26 of 12:25 - Shiozaki pinned Gedo after the Go Flasher

 

 

 

 

4. Yoshihiro Takayama & Minoru Suzuki -vs- Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue [* 3/4]

--- Suzuki vs Nagata at the Dome was what this one was for. But wrestling wise this featured a lot of Inoue getting bullied which resulted in a wonderful moment were the referee used his authority to put Suzuki in place for not letting go of Inoue in the ropes! Inoue was naturally beaten in the end with a Takayama kneelift, but New Japan got some revenge after the bout when Kazuchika Okada returning from his excursion abroad came and beat up Takayama! Yes he did!

14:46 of 14:46 - Takayama pinned Inoue after a kneelift

 

 

 

 

5. Satoshi Kojima & Kota Ibushi -vs- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Prince Devitt [** 1/2]

--- And finally this one build up the two big title matches on the Tokyo Dome show where Kojima defend the IWGP Heavyweight strap against Tanahashi and Devitt defends the IWGP Junior Heavyweight belt against DDT's Ibushi! And this one caught fire quite a bit with the flashy stuff from Ibushi and Devitt and the Kojima and Tanahashi stuff was cool too. Moral winner to the boo's of the crowd was Kojima hitting his lariat on a running Devitt. Good ending to the show.

18:22 of 18:21 - Kojima pinned Devitt after a lariat

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Fairly fun New Japan show. The tag matches had a purpose and that was to build for the January 4th Tokyo Dome show and they did it well.

 

 

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NOAH on Samurai TV - December 23, 2010, Tokyo - (3 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 23, 2010, Tokyo - Differ Ariake (1,300 fans)

 

 

1. Takeshi Morishima -vs- Akira Taue [1/4*]

--- A nothing match with Morishima beating the near-legend in less then 4 minutes easily with a lariat.

3:50 of 3:50 - Morishima pinned Taue after a lariat

 

 

 

2. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Atsushi Aoki -vs- Naomichi Marufuji & Ricky Marvin [* 1/4]

--- Decent wrestling with some nice moves to back it up. Never a big match formula, but the ending was clever. Kanemaru was going for a DDT, but instead used the headlock to roll up a small package for the flash with. Looked real nice!

12:35 of 12:35 - Kanemaru pinned Marvin with a DDT-style small package

 

 

 

3. Kensuke Sasaki & Masao Inoue -vs- Taiji Ishimori - (Handicap) [*]

--- Poor Ishimori been draw to be one the wrong side of a handicap match. And there was no secret he'd rather be in the ring with Inoue then Sasaki. And it was mostly Inoue he was fighting and the time he was fighting Sasaki, Inoue would mess things up and accidentally land blows on Sasaki resutling in Sasaki getting pissed at him and in the end pinned both guys!

10:02 of 10:02 - Sasaki pinned Ishimori after a Northern Light Bomb

 

 

 

4. KENTA & Yoshinario Ogawa & Kento Miyahara -vs- Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kentaro Shiga & Genba Hirayanagi [* 1/2]

--- Started out with comedy with Shida being a photographer taking a pose from KENTA before foolong him with a roll-up. The match got more serious after that with the Kensuke Office guys going aggressive to work on each other and KENTA beating up Genba before having him beat with the Go 2 Sleep.

17:39 of 17:40 - KENTA pinned Hirayanagi after the Go 2 Sleep

 

 

 

5. Go Shiozaki -vs- Kotaro Suzuki [* 3/4]

--- Solid little bout. They made it competitive with the fresh GHC Junior Champion Suzuki getting to trouble the former heavyweight champion. Wasn't the type of match that was going to take off, but it had it's moments until Shiozaki wanted it over and landed a Emerald Frosion of all things.

14:15 of 14:17 - Shiozaki pinned Suzuki after a Emerald Frosion

 

 

 

6. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano -vs- Akitoshi Saito & Shuhei Taniguchi [3/4*]

--- Mostly terrible and lazy comedy wrestling by Saito and not much to boost it after that even if there was some suplex near the end as Taniguchi was doing the serious wrestling with the GHC Tag Champions.....which resulted in him getting run down and beat instead of the guy that didn't take the match serious.

16:32 of 16:34 - Takayama pinned Taniguchi after a running kneelift

 

 

 

7. Takashi Sugiura -vs- Mohammed Yone [*]

--- Boring, wasn't it?

13:37 of 13:37 - Sugiura pinned Yone after a Olympic Slam

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Nothing real great came out of this lottery show with random matches. And they really should have given more for the main event!

 

 

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NOAH on G+SN - December 24, 2010, Tokyo - (3 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 24, 2010, Tokyo - Differ Ariake (1,400 fans)

 

 

1. Akira Taue -vs- Takashi Okita [1/4*]

--- Forget about it. Taue isn't going to do anything worth wild anymore....

6:54 of 6:54 - Taue pinned Okita with a cradle cut-back

 

 

 

 

2. Sugi & Kento Miyahara & Satoshi Kajiwara -vs- Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin & Ronin [*]

--- Sugi back in Japan! Thats the guy with a million gimmicks like Yoshitsune and things like that. He's been in Mexico all year. Well, didn't make a massive impression here. Only a couple of spots and little else beating this weird darkside creature Ronin.

13:57 of 13:56 - Sugi pinned Ronin with a Ultra Huracanrana

 

 

 

3. Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru -vs- Yoshinari Ogawa & Kentaro Shiga [*]

--- Standard stuff. Funny how Kanemaru beat Shiga with his own speciality.

11:36 of 11:36 - Kanemaru pinned Shiga with a backslide

 

 

 

4. Kotaro Suzuki -vs- Genba Hirayanagi [3/4*]

--- Come cunning wrestling and Genba tried all kinds of screwie things and succseeded making it screwie with a screwjob DQ.

6:40 of 6:40 - Suzuki defeated Hirayanagi by DQ

 

 

 

 

5. Go Shiozaki & Akitoshi Saito & KENTA -vs- Yoshihiro Takayama & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masao Inoue [** 1/2]

--- Why did this have to feature Inoue?! Yes this had a Inoue portion which was the low part, but then it had it's awesome parts where KENTA just beat the crap out of Takayama! Seriously! His face was totally battered at the KENTA's brutality! Nakajima wasn't holding back much either. Something that an upseided down Shiozaki got to feel getting a hard boot to the face! And then it was time for Shiozaki to put out his frustrations on Inoue which was the only good Inoue period.

19:22 of 19:23 - Shiozaki pinned Inoue after the Go Flasher

 

 

 

 

6. Takashi Sugiura & Takuma Sano -vs- Takeshi Morishima & Shuhei Taniguchi [**]

--- Sugiura and Taniguchi had a thing here stiffing each other hard whenever they'd clash. Sano and Morishima where just extras in their war to fill out this overly long tag. Taniguchi is still a stiff who doesn't all understad wrestling, but with his strenght and size is still an asset and I hope he one day breaks out some personality. Hope Sug can beat it out of him. Nearly did it here, but in the end it became a flat Olympic Slam win for the GHC Heavyweight Champion.

20:54 of 20:54 - Sugiura pinned Taniguchi after a Olympic Slam

 

 

 

 

7. Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask © -vs- Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Aoki - (GHC Junior Tag Title) [** 3/4]

--- New Japan contributing to what NOAH should have done a long time ago. Give Aoki strong wins. But we all know NOAH is very stale company when it comes to who wins over who. But here Aoki got a super happy win over a veteran junior heavyweight star and New Japan wrestler Koji Kanemoto to win his first NOAH title! And he did so after a long struggling fight with him getting trapped in all kinds of ankle hold and beat downs. People really felt good for Aoki achieving this moment. I did feel the match wasn't as greatly executed as it should have been. It kind of lacked some spectacular moments to really bump it up a level or two. But it did what it set out to do anyway and that was make Aoki loved by the fans.....

23:18 of 23:18 - Aoki pinned Kanemoto with a leg-hook backdrop supelx hold. Marufuji & Aoki become the 13th GHC Junior Tag Champions.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Fairly good show once the important matches started coming. Why they picked this show for KENTA to totally trash Takayama's face I've got no idea, but I liked it. Sugiura and Taniguchi also kind of sparkled in there. And the main event made Aoki a rising star. About time!

 

 

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SMASH on SAMURAI TV - December 24, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 24, 2010, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (570 fans)

 

 

1. Akira -vs- Bambi

--- The end of the extra opening match where Akira countered Bambi's whippin' by taking the whip and wrapping Bambi in it for the roll-up pin.

0:41 of 5:44 - Akira pinned bambi with a whip roll-up

 

 

 

2. Jessica Love -vs- Emi Sakura [*]

--- The wonderful tranny Jessica Love facing one of the main profiles on the joshi scene in the meditating Buddhaqueen Emi Sakura. Fun match in it's awkwardness. It wasn't like this was ever going to be anything amazing, but it did what they set out to do and that was put smiles on peoples faces with the girl-boy landing the Swanton to win.

5:35 of 5:35 - Love pinned Sakura after a Swanton Bomb

 

 

 

3. Toshie Uematsu & Tomoka Nakagawa & Cherry -vs- Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto & Sayaka Obihiro [*]

--- All action. Fairly forgettable and easy styled running around giving the fans a typical modern joshi tag with Cherry as the winner.

9:22 of 10:56 - Cherry pinned Obihiro modifed side roll-up

 

 

 

4. Akira Shoji -vs- Tsubasa Kuragaki [3/4*]

--- Looked like an almost even matched fight as Kuragaki could also manhandle Akira the same way he's go all bitch on her. Never a super bout, but they let the strikes hit and kept it fairly short with the man beating the lady.

4:04 of 6:00 - Shoji pinned Kuragaki after a modified powerslam

 

 

 

5. Hajime Ohara -vs- Lin Bairon [1/2*]

--- It's not often this happens in 2010, but Ohara wins! It had to be a girl he beat, but still a victory of anykind is good for him the way he's been booked all year.

5:51 of 6:23 - Ohara pinned Bairon after a running forearm

 

 

 

6. Kaoru -vs- Akira - (Hardcore) [*]

--- Inter-gender hardcore match with the hardcore queen Kaoru facing former IWGP Junior Champion Akira. The match was mostly woodshots and ladderspots. Highlights was the ladder suplex and Kaoru landing the moonsault. Akira tried a splash off the top of the ladder, but Kaoru moved away from that one. The end saw Akira smash Kaoru with some wood and when he was bending down Kaoru rolled him up for the upset!

10:49 of 10:49 - Kaoru pinned Akira with a small package

 

 

 

7. Isami Kodaka & Yusuke Kodama & Makoto -vs- Kushida & Hikari Minami & Chii Tomiya [*]

--- Since Isami, Kodama and Kushida are the same size as girls the match didn't seem to be any handicap for the weak Ice Ribbon girls in this match at all. Not that the match was anything special. It just entertained for a few minutes and did nothing more before Makoto suplexed Tomiya for the win.

11:49 of 11:49 - Makoto pinned Tomiya with a double-arm suplex

 

 

 

 

8. Tajiri -vs- Kana [1/2*]

--- They are fighting over glasses. Yeah, Tajiri brings American wrestling idiocy to Japan. And with the boring wrestling to match.....Tajiri wins, by the way, and squirts mist in Kana's face as she lay dead on the mat.

8:08 of 11:33 - Tajiri pinned Kana after a Buzzsaw headkick

 

 

 

 

9. Kaori Yoneyama © -vs- Shuri - (JWP Title) [* 1/2]

--- Then for the climax of the show and it was the most engaging bout with Yoneyama stepping up to at least make Shuri look half-credible, even if she clearly was not. But at least Shuri tried and they got a fairly good result out of it. No way was the SMASH girl winning the belt, but they played out her high headkick being dangerous with Shuri being overly slow and dramatic on the cover which Yoneyama got her shoulder up just in time. And soon after Yoneyama had it won with her roll-through German Suplex to make it successful defence No.9.

9:28 of 12:47 - Yoneyama pinned Shuri with a German Suplex to retain the JWP Title in her 9th defence.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: SMASH does joshi! And to a not so smashing result. Very average and unspectacular matches.

 

 

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LLPW/ITO DOJO on HAND-HELDS - December 25, 2010, Tokyo - (2 1/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

LLPW - December 25, 2010, Tokyo

 

 

1. Cherry -vs- Hanako Kobayashi [3/4*]

--- Quick and easy. A good lenght for them. It's not like they have more to offer then this anyway. Cherry wins with her Swanton Bomb.

4:41 of 4:42 - Cherry pinned Kobayashi after a Swanton Bomb

 

 

 

2. Eiger -vs- Sachie Abe [1/2*]

--- Fairly lame with Eiger the ghost scarying Abe and stuff like that. Did get a little bit of wrestling, but Eiger beat Abe easy with a Splash Mountain style Ligerbomb.

5:17 of 5:18 - Eiger pinned Abe after a modified Ligerbomb

 

 

 

3. Shinobu Kandori & Yumiko Hotta -vs- Takako Inoue & Toshie Uematsu [3/4*]

--- Wow, that was a quick main event. Shorter then the short undercard. Marry X-Mas LLPW fans. This is how much we care about you.....

4:00 of 4:00 - Kandori made Uematsu submit to a cross-armbreaker

 

 

 

 

ITO DOJO - December 26, 2010, Tokyo - FINAL SHOW

 

 

4. Manami Toyota & Sonoko Kato -vs- Ayako Hamada & Takako Inoue [*]

--- Veterans giving some nice stuff, but there was the horrible moments too and it wasn't like they had anything different to offer then what they've done the last decades. Toyota wins with the Queen Bee Bomb after the Japanese Ocean Cyclon Suplex failed.

15:15 - Toyota pinned Inoue after a Queen Bee Bomb

 

 

 

5. Kaoru Ito -vs- Tomoko Watanabe [* 1/4]

--- All for seeing Tomoko Watanabe again! And her and Ito have always had some sort of chemistry, so even if Watanabe has been out of the wrestling world a while and Ito should have been out of the wrestling world a long while ago, they did put on a fun match with some body bending and impact blows. Sadly, or luckily for Watanabe, the murderous footstomp didn't land, but Ito still knocked Watanabe hard down with a lariat to win it.

10:10 of 10:10 - Ito pinned Watanabe after a lariat

 

 

 

6. Ayako Sato -vs- Aki Kanbayashi [*]

--- Wasn't a bad fight. But it didn't have that special something to make it interesting either. At least Sato got a rare win out of it using a German Suplex to beat the former FMW girl.

11:00 - Sato pinned Kanbayashi with a German Suplex

 

 

 

7. Kaoru Ito & Ayako Hamada & Ayako Sato & Aki Kanbayashi -vs- Yumiko Hotta & Aja Kong & Tomoko Watanabe & Cherry - (2/3 Falls) [** 1/4]

--- This became a hell of a lot more fun then I was thinking with so many over the hill veterans and never-been younger ones. 3 falls to the decider with a major upset in the first fall when Cherry beat the former multi-time WWWA Champion and Ito Dojo boss Kaoru Ito! Ok, Cherry got the cradle win with a Aja uraken so it was really a Aja victory, but still......the second fall was the revenge! And I really feel sorry for Cherry because she got to feel the pain of Ito's top rope double-footstomp! A real nasty landing! Wonderful moment! Cherry looked doomed after that as they tried a quick 3rd fall killing Cherry some more, but she survived and other could fight for the finish instead and the match ende with another half-shock as Sato beat Ito's best friend Tomoko Watanabe with a Dragon Suplex!

12:24 - Cherry pinned Ito after a uraken from Kong

4:43 - Ito pinned Cherry after a top rope double-footstomp

7:18 - Sato pinned Watanabe with a Dragon Suplex

 

 

 

COMMENTS: The only LLPW footage of 2010 and it's a fairly bad hand-held version of a throw-away show and the first LLPW show since May. The final Ito Dojo show was better with Tomoko Watanabe helping the spirit and the final bout meaning something to them.

 

 

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FREEDOMS on COMM - December 25, 2010, Tokyo - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 25, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING

 

 

1. Kamui -vs- Kankuro Hoshino - (Street Fight) [* 1/4]

--- Remembeer last year when Kamui destroyed his car in that hardcore match with Masada? Well, this year he drove a van into the arena and backed it up, or should I say backed Hoshino down with it before jumping off it putting Hoshino through a board for the win. Awesome moment! Everything else of hardcore spots wasn't that cool and the match was kind of boring.

14:50 of 15:04 - Kamui pinned Hoshino after Swanton Bomb off a van putting Hoshino though a board

 

 

 

2. Ricky Fuji & Ken45 & Mototsugu Shimizu -vs- GENTARO & Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu - (Scramble Bunkhouse Death Match) [*]

--- Ah, the annual animal slaughter matches of the Sato Twins! Pigs heads, slime and absurd wrestling. Food fight! Sadly not nearly as wild as previous years, but some of the pig spots will put a smile on your face. Like when Fuji DDT'ed Kei on it for the win!

10:23 of 10:23 - Fuji pinned Kei after a DDT on a pigshead

 

 

 

3. Mammoth Sasaki -vs- Masashi Takeda - (Barbed Wire Board Death Match) [* 1/2]

--- Barbed wire board fun. Not the most re-newed use of the gimmick, but it was only a X-mas show so only variety hardcore show with all the elements. And here Takeda gets the worst of it getting finished in less then 10 minutes by getting brainbustered on the sharp things.

9:07 of 9:07 - Sasaki pinned Takeda after a brainbuster on a barbed wire board

 

 

 

4. Yuko Miyamoto -vs- The Winger - (Light Tubes Ladder Death Match) [**]

--- Didn't expect much at first, but then Winger started wrestling without his mask and the match started to get a little more interesting. Espeically when Miyamoto would bloody and land impact blows with Wingers trying for some desperat comeback attempts which rarely lasted long. Winger was Frankensteinered off a ladder, followed up with a beautiful moonsault from Miyamoto. But regardless of the finishers that came, the match ended in a very Winger way. A backslide! But it was Winger who was the victim of that one giving Miyamoto the win.

18:50 of 18:50 - Miyamoto pinned Winger with a backslide

 

 

 

5. Jun Kasai -vs- Takahsi Sasaki - (Glass Death Match) [* 3/4]

--- Glass breaking match and the first bump came about 5 minutes in with a flip. The last one about 11 minutes in when Sasaki was reversed Tiger Drivered through! That one looked nice! Well, not much had happened in between it felt. Nothing special anyway. And when they'd used up all the glass it was time for the light tubes! Yeah, the usual Big Japan madness. Well, Kasai was on a roll at this time and landed a Pearl Harbor Splash with light tubes getting crushed, but Sasaki kicked out straight away and Kasai kept on landing finishers until Sasaki had no more spirit left.

16:21 of 16:21 - Kasai pinned Sasaki after a reversed Tiger Driver

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Hardcore X-mas party!

 

 

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FREEDOMS on SAMURAI TV - December 15 & 25, 2010, Tokyo - (3 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 15, 2010, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (285 fans)

 

 

1. Yuko Miyamoto -vs- Kamui - (Hardcore) [* 1/2]

--- Not a high-priority hardcore match, but it had a few cool spots including Kamui leeping off boards from the corner along with a couple of other dives through boards. There was some complications with one of the spots as Miyamoto was placing Kamui on one of the boards, but it felt like a light-hearted match anyway so it didn't really matter that Miyamoto needed one more try with extra chairs holding the board in place. Kamui is kind of fun to see in hardcore matches, this was however not one of his better ones as Miyamoto didn't bring too much heart into it and it was never dramatic in any way. Kamui was always going to lose and did so by getting Fire Thundered on a big pile of chairs.

6:27 of 15:38 - Miyamoto pinned Kamui after a Fire Thunder piledriver on chairs

 

 

 

2. Takao Omori & Dick Togo & Tatsuhito Takaiwa -vs- Jun Kasai & Mammoth Sasaki & The Winger [**]

--- Traditionally based wrestling match with hardcore breeds Mammoth, Winger and Kasai getting to try themselfs against the likes of Omori, Takaiwa and Togo. Mammoth was the only one managing to stand up to Omori & Takaiwa. Otherwise Kasai looked hopelessly out of his element against Omori particularly. But at least Mammoth slashing down Omori gave the match some home fans pleasure. But up against such an strong freelance team the Freedoms side was going to lose and did so Takaiwa-style!

8:31 of 16:57 - Takaiwa pinned Winger after a Death Valley Bomb

 

 

 

3. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Ricky Fuji & Ken45 -vs- Great Kojika & Antonio Honda & Abdullah Kobayashi [* 1/4]

--- This was a freakshow. Just imagine it. Madman Kikuchi against oldman Kojika. Hell, just imagine Kikuchi in there! That's more then enough! Crazy son of a bitch doing headbutts with Abby Jr. Oh, and Antonio Honda was there too! Nuff said, right?

10:32 of 15:55 - Ken pinned Kojika with a La Magistral

 

 

 

4. Takashi Sasaki -vs- GENTARO - (2/3 Falls) [** 1/4]

--- Two longtime allies/foes having a 3-falls match to get who is the strongest at the moment. GENTARO beat Sasaki in a one-falls match in the first ever Freedoms match in 2009. No doubt Sasaki wants to get his mojo back from that. But GENTARO opened effectively effective keeping Sasaki down working over the leg trying to keep the man down while adding backdrop suplexes to do even more damage. Enough that after a few old school suplexes GENTARO had the first fall won Nagata backdrop-style! GENTARO continued in the same way for the second fall working him down with Sasaki only getting a few short impact style comebacks. Which in itself was enough as Sasaki made it 1-1 with a Fire Thunder. GENTARO again continued with what had been effective in the 3rd fall going for the leg and backdroping Sasaki. And even tried the Shooting Star Press which Sasaki rolled away from. And with that Sasaki started making the big comeback and got the return win in a fairly solid put together bout. It didn't get the fans in much of a frenzy, but they were respective enough rooting for their guy when needed.

12:31 of 12:31 - GENTARO pinned Sasaki with a backdrop suplex hold

7:01 of 7:01 - Sasaki pinned GENTARO after a Fire Thunder piledriver

8:41 of 8:41 - Sasaki pinned GENTARO after a lariat

 

 

 

 

December 25, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING

 

 

5. Kamui -vs- Kankuro Hoshino - (Street Fight) [* 1/4]

--- Remembeer last year when Kamui destroyed his car in that hardcore match with Masada? Well, this year he drove a van into the arena and backed it up, or should I say backed Hoshino down with it before jumping off it putting Hoshino through a board for the win. Awesome moment! Everything else of hardcore spots wasn't that cool and the match was kind of boring.

13:06 of 15:04 - Kamui pinned Hoshino after Swanton Bomb off a van putting Hoshino though a board

 

 

 

6. Ricky Fuji & Ken45 & Mototsugu Shimizu -vs- GENTARO & Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu - (Scramble Bunkhouse Death Match) [*]

--- Ah, the annual animal slaughter matches of the Sato Twins! Pigs heads, slime and absurd wrestling. Food fight! Sadly not nearly as wild as previous years, but some of the pig spots will put a smile on your face. Like when Fuji DDT'ed Kei on it for the win!

10:04 of 10:23 - Fuji pinned Kei after a DDT on a pigshead

 

 

 

7. Mammoth Sasaki -vs- Masashi Takeda - (Barbed Wire Board Death Match) [* 1/2]

--- Barbed wire board fun. Not the most re-newed use of the gimmick, but it was only a X-mas show so only variety hardcore show with all the elements. And here Takeda gets the worst of it getting finished in less then 10 minutes by getting brainbustered on the sharp things.

9:07 of 9:07 - Sasaki pinned Takeda after a brainbuster on a barbed wire board

 

 

 

8. Yuko Miyamoto -vs- The Winger - (Light Tubes Ladder Death Match) [**]

--- Didn't expect much at first, but then Winger started wrestling without his mask and the match started to get a little more interesting. Espeically when Miyamoto would bloody and land impact blows with Wingers trying for some desperat comeback attempts which rarely lasted long. Winger was Frankensteinered off a ladder, followed up with a beautiful moonsault from Miyamoto. But regardless of the finishers that came, the match ended in a very Winger way. A backslide! But it was Winger who was the victim of that one giving Miyamoto the win.

18:16 of 18:50 - Miyamoto pinned Winger with a backslide

 

 

 

9. Jun Kasai -vs- Takahsi Sasaki - (Glass Death Match) [* 3/4]

--- Glass breaking match and the first bump came about 5 minutes in with a flip. The last one about 11 minutes in when Sasaki was reversed Tiger Drivered through! That one looked nice! Well, not much had happened in between it felt. Nothing special anyway. And when they'd used up all the glass it was time for the light tubes! Yeah, the usual Big Japan madness. Well, Kasai was on a roll at this time and landed a Pearl Harbor Splash with light tubes getting crushed, but Sasaki kicked out straight away and Kasai kept on landing finishers until Sasaki had no more spirit left.

16:10 of 16:21 - Kasai pinned Sasaki after a reversed Tiger Driver

 

 

COMMENTS: Freedoms give their fans what they want, but I'm not sure how many more fans they'll attract from their dated product. Still fairly fun.

 

 

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MASASHI AOYAGI PRODUCE on COMM - December 25, 2010, Nagoya - (2 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 25, 2010, Nagoya

 

 

- Karate Demonstrations, etc.

 

 

1. Shigehiro Irie -vs- Michihiro Kageyama [*]

--- Kageyama got in some strong offence like the released German and the headkick, but Irie was firmly in control of this and got it over with when he wanted to, landing a wonderful all-force Samoan Drop to beat the kid.

8:52 - Irie pinned Kageyama after a high-angle Samoan Drop

 

 

 

2. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Ultraman Robin -vs- Konaka Pale One & Mammoth Handa [3/4*]

--- How strangly fasinating it is to watch wacko Kikuchi mix with the odd characters on the lower end of the indy ladder. He feels almost at home as their weirdo daddy feeding Konaka with his teeth protectors and playing their games. Crap wrestling, but unique.....

8:33 - Kikuchi pinned Konaka with a single arm powerbomb

 

 

 

3. Hide Kubota & Yasu Kubota -vs- Seiya Morohashi & Isami Kodaka [3/4*]

--- Forgettable wrestling with the Kubota brothers winning all kinds of easy in the end over the Union Pro side of Morohashi & Isami.

7:24 - Hide pinned Kodaka after a doubloe-arm facebuster

 

 

 

4. Alexander Otsuka -vs- Akihito [*]

--- Otsuka giving Akihito a wrestling lessing in near-Battlarts fashion. Akihito was helpless, but Otsuke seemed pleased with doing what he wanted trying all kinds of holds and ways to get there until he did a giant swing into a Boston Crab for the tap.

8:06 - Otsuke made Akihito submit to a Boston Crab

 

 

 

5. Mitsuya Nagai & Arashi & Tatsutoshi Goto -vs- Makoto Hashi & Kentaro Shiga & Jun Izumida [*]

--- Wow, so many washed up old guys in one place! You got the ex-NOAH trio of Hashi, Shiga & Izumida against stubborn heavyweights like Arashi & Goto along with shooter Nagai. From once being respected fighters, they are now clowns...... At least Arashi still keeps it dead serious as always taking care of Hashi by bombing him.

13:18 - Arashi pinned Hashi with a powerbomb

 

 

 

6. Masashi Aoyagi & Akira -vs- El Samurai & Hiro Saito [* 1/4]

--- Akira and Sammy had to carry the workload, but since this was Aoyagi's show he had the place filled with fans, friends and students to cheer him on so he'd put on an extra effort when he needed to with the end taking care of Samurai with kicks. Easy fun with the old guys and a happy Aoyagi victory.

10:21 - Aoyagi pinned Samurai after a kneel kick

 

 

 

COMMENTS: The first hour was demonstrations from Aoyagi's karate students along with a extended interview and some singing from Kengo Kimura (singing White Christmas!) and Hayabusa!

 

 

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KAIENTAI-DOJO on GAORA TV - December 25, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 25, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (928 fans)

 

 

- RIP Gran Naniwa!

 

 

1. Saburo Inematsu & Randy Takuya & Yuki Sato -vs- YOSHIYA & Handsome JOE & Boso Boy Raito

--- Easy opener to get people in the mood with Inematsu coming out the stronger.....

2:46 of 11:33 - Inematsu pinned Raito after a Death Valley Bomb

 

 

 

2. Super Delfin & Jinsei Shinzaki & Tsubo Genjin -vs- Great Sasuke & Shiryu & Taka Michinoku - (Gran Naniwa Memorial Match #1) [** 1/4]

--- First of two matches paying tribute to the late and lovable Gran Naniwa with all his old Michinoku Pro buddies honoring him by going old school Michinoku Pro and doing their old-retired spots along with Gran Naniwa's spots. It was like seeing tired old men reliving their childhood. Lot of nostalgia that will warm your heart! That's the way to honor an old friend......

10:18 of 10:31 - Delsin pinned Michinoku with teh Delfin Clutch

 

 

 

3. Aja Kong & Yuu Yamagata -vs- Bambi & Makoto [3/4*]

--- The 10th Anniversary of ARSION trained Yamagata who teams with her mentor against K-Dojo's Bambi and Ice Ribbon's Makoto. And Aja had to save her a lot from the cradles those girls came with, but in the end Yamagata used her ARSION influences and Air Raid Crashed Bambi for the pin!

3:36 of 9:56 - Yamagata pinned bambi after a Air Raid Crash

 

 

 

4. Shiori Asahi & Makoto Oishi -vs- Daigoro Kashiwa & Hiro Tonai -vs- Marines Mask II & Kaji Tomato -vs- Kengo Mashimo & Ryuichi Sekine - (4-Way) [* 1/2]

--- Messy wild stuff. Lots of fun spots and with the match going all kinds of ways. Little more then a 8-man crowd pleaser, but they filled the time nicely with Asahi & Oishi winning with the Cactus Flower.

8:45 of 12:48 - Oishi pinned Tonai after the Cactus Flower

 

 

 

5. Yasu Urano -vs- HIROKI [*]

--- Two more celebrating their 10th anniversary in current DDT wrestler Urano and the wrestler formerly known as Hi69. The match had it's minor monents and was solid I guess, but not really a celebration as such. Urano got better pull and gets the win.

7:22 of 14:26 - Urano made HIROKI submit to the Yasu Clutch

 

 

 

6. Kaz Hayashi & Mens Teioh & Taka Michinoku & Sho Funaki -vs- Great Sasuke & Minoru Fujita & Kazuya Yuasa & Kesen Numa-jiro - (Gran Naniwa Memorial Match #2) [* 1/2]

--- Then the for the second Gran Naniwa tribute with many of the same guys except in current gimmicks and style. Not nearly as good and you see a clear difference in flow and mood in their modern way. One pleasent surprise was seeing Yuasa, aka GAINA, aka Shisaou, back with these guys. He was the one looking most motivated to work and looked very good powering the others down. I guess working nearly every day for Okinawa Pro has made him more ring fresh and engine working. Hope he's let loose from Okinawa Pro soon so he can get a gig elsewhere where there is better chances to shine. As for the end, Taka & Teioh easily took care of Kesen, formerly knowns as the caveman Tsubo Genjin.

10:48 of 10:55 - Michinoku pinned Kesen after a Michinoku Driver II

 

 

 

7. Yuji Hino © -vs- Taishi Takizawa - (Strongest-K Title) [**]

--- Chops, chops and even more chops! This was a chop-exclusive match. Ok, there was one or two other moves like that suplex off the turnbuckle, but it really was all about the chops. Quite a few hard chops and all kinds of variations all over the Korakuen Hall. More a 'put a smile on your face' kind of match then a main event mentality bout. At least they followed the game plan with Hino being the king of chops in Kaientai Dojo chopping down Takizawa to retain the belt.

20:23 of 25:13 - Hino pinned Takizawa after a chest chop to retain the Strongest-K Title in his 2nd defence.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Fun seeing the old Michinoku Pro guys get together and honor the late Gran Naniwa. Some of the other matches had their moments, but nothing super great.

 

 

--PUNQ--