PUNQ Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 WING PREMIUM on COMM: KANEMURA 20TH ANNIVERSARY - December 20, 2009, Nagoya - (1 3/4 hrs)     December 20, 2009, Nagoya Sports Center (238 fans)   1. Yusaku Obata -vs- Takaya Shibayama [* 1/4] --- Solid basic fight. Absolutely nothing amazing except for a display in modern young mans fighting with the elbows and stuff. Obata gets the win with the brainbuster. 12:57 of 13:03 - Obata pinned Shibayama after a biranbuster    2. Tsubo Genjin -vs- U.M.A. [1/4*] --- Tsubo Genjin comedy to fill some time.....could have filled the time with something better...... 10:01 of 10:01 - Genjin pinned U.M.A. by sitting on his face    3. Hideki Hosaka & Masaru Toi -vs- Kengo Takai & Shigehiro Irie [*] --- A couple of indy veterans in Toi & Hosaka beating a couple of current indy workers. Well, this as WING tribute show so the WING'ers was naturally taking the win in this one. They kept the match moving, but it didn't too much to offer except a glimpts at two who rarely appear on DVD anymore. 11:08 of 11:05 - Toi pinned Irie after a top rope double-footstomp    4. Masayoshi Motegi & Nobuhiro Tsurumaki -vs- Masashi Aoyagi & Kurahito Kondo [* 1/2] --- For old guys like Aoyagi and Motegi they had a fairly motivated fight. Very striking and grapping kind of fighting. Stubborn and stiff with Tsurumaki and Kondo playing support well adding to the energy of the fight. Sure they're not in their best shape looking kind of old, which they are, but still it wasn't bad and didn't feel like a waste of time even if the camera missed the finish focusing on Aoyagi fighting around the floor area as Motegi finished off Kondo. 14:30 of 14:25 - Motegi pinned Kondo after a fishermans buster    5. Badboy Hido -vs- Mr. Pogo - (Caribbean Bunkhouse Death Match) [1/2*] --- Freaky! Watching old Pogo try and wobble around with his sharp objects and Hido being as lazy shitty brawler there is. They 'brawled' around the arena, but once back in the ring the referee was knocked down and Pogo poured fuel over Hido and was about to set him on fire when the save was made. From then on Hido was able to choke Pogo against the ropes with a chain with the referee stopping the match awarding it to Hido. 8:31 of 8:19 - Hido defeated Pogo via KO by chain choking over the ropes    6. Kohei Sato & Koichiro Kimura -vs- Wing Kanemura & Masato Tanaka - (Kanemura 20th Anniversary Match) [* 1/4] --- The blacklisted Kanemura celebrates his 20th year in wrestling with old friends teaming with long-time buddy Tanaka against other Zero-One guy Sato and original WING guy Kimura for a decent, but unspectacular action tag which Kanemura kind of surprisingly lost to Kimura getting trapped in submissions. Nothing special about it apart from that. 12:35 of 12:34 - Kimura made Kanemura submit to a cross-armbreaker    COMMENTS: Fun seeing the old guys in action, but of course they don't have much to offer in this day'n'age. And Kanemura's anniversary showed a man on a massive downslide.....   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 FUKA MATSURI on COMM - December 23, 2009, Tokyo - (1 1/2 hrs)     December 23, 2009, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (380 fans)   1. Antonio Honda -vs- Caribbean KIM [3/4*] --- Simple and slightly funny bout with Honda hurting his knee and making a fool of himself against the pirated-up Kyoko Kimura before getting the win anyway with a cradle reversal. 8:13 of 8:13 - Honda pinned KIM with a cradle reversal    2. Mima Shimoda -vs- Dash Chisako [3/4*] --- Not really a good match as it was a lot of Shimoda going through motions rather badly and quite a bit of mis-timed moves. But still it had some minor entertainment value. Excatly what....not sure. 8:52 of 8:52 - Shimoda pinned Chisako with a Tiger Suplex    3. Fuka & Bullfight Sora -vs- Masahide Kakimoto & Genki Kakimoto [1/4*] --- Fuka and the other cow facing Fuka's father and brother, who are not wrestlers in another terrible experience..... 6:06 of 6:06 - Fuka pinned Genki with a schoolboy    4. Natsuki*Taiyo & Passion Ray -vs- Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto [* 1/2] --- Joshi sprint as we know it. Ice Ribbon's Fujimoto was the weak link managing to mess up a huracanrana at the end before Natsuki rolled and rolled her for the pin. The match had it's share of nice moves and super close near falls, but it wasn't the type of match that was taking off or delivering anything out of the ordinary. 17:29 of 17:30 - Natsuki pinned Fujimoto with a rolling cradle    5. Meiko Satomura -vs- Fuka [** 1/4] --- Big match for Fuka this. One of the absolute best womens wrestlers out there in Meiko Satomura working tough with the smaller pretty girl. But as always Fuka puts up an impressive profile managing to be motivated enough to look stronger then what she is and Satomura sold for her letting Fuka get in a German and kicking her down along with slap on a few submissions to get some advantage between the stiffing from the veteran. The way it was layed out felt like it was urgent and that it could end at any time and with only 10 minutes it was a refreshing approach for a joshi main event with Satomura choking out Fuka with the arm across her throat while using the leg to make it even more uncomfortable for the fan favourite. 10:14 of 10:18 - Satomura defetaed Fuka by Referee Stop with a modified leg-based Cobra Clutch sleeper    COMMENTS: Undercard was fairly bad except maybe the Passion Red bout. This is basically all about Fuka and the main event as it's a Fuka show.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 STUNGUN on Hand-Held - December 26, 2009 - (1 1/4 hrs)     December 26, 2009   1. Oga -vs- Hiroyagi [*] --- Fairly solid rookie style wrestling from two guys I've never heard of. Don't expect miracles, but considering all the strange characters on the indy scene one never knows what shit one comes across, but these two looked ok and had the basics down. And Oga landed some fine enzuigiris to take the advantage before slapping on the Boston Crab for the win. 7:11 - Oga made Hiroyagi with a Boston Crab    2. Apple Miyuki -vs- Konaka Pale One [1/2*] --- Apple facing the weird leg zombie with Freddy Krueger coming out to help Konaka beat Apple up which resulted in the DQ before someone came to the ladys rescue. 5:04 - Miyuki defeated Konaka by DQ    3. Koichi Wakidairo -vs- Shadow 10 [1/4*] --- Here comes the weird indy characters. Some random masked shadow and a guy that wrestled like a slow old man and winning with a very old school move as he did a almost slo-mo Octopus Hold to make the shadow dude tap. 5:20 - Wakidairo made Shadow submit to a Octopus Hold    4. Gran Hamada -vs- 726 [1/4*] --- Hamada does his two main spots which is the DDT and Frankensteiner off the turnbuckle before he beat the raver with the cross-armbreaker in no time. 3:48 - Hamada made 726 submit to a cross-armbreaker    5. Atsushi Onita & Naoshi Sano & Masaru Toi -vs- Freddy Krueger & Strong Takada & Tonegami - (Barbed Wire Boards Death Match) [*] --- Onita equals sleeze. Especially the last 10 years. And this is a real sleezebunch match with this Takada getting dropped on barbed wire a lot while trying to be a old school heel throwing a fireball and generally being obnoxious before Onita and crew powerbombed him several times before the mist was sprayed in his face and the final powerbomb came. And this Freddy Krueger was a real horrid version. And lets just say the quality of the match was not the actual wrestling because that was a mess. 12:03 - Onita pinned Takada after a powerbomb    COMMENTS: Outdoors show with a lot of really indy characters and Atsushi Onita and Gran Hamada as the names on the show. Can't say it was a great show, but lets just keep it as curiousity.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 DDT on COMM: KOTA IBUSHI BEST OF STREET FIGHT WRESTLING - 2008-2009 - (4 1/4 hrs)     April 27, 2008, TSUTAYA Bookstore   1. Kota Ibushi -vs- Sanshiro Takagi [* 1/4] --- And this crazy ass DVD collection starts off with a special singles bout between Sanshiro Takagi and Kota Ibushi....in a real bookstore! And they were wrestling in shopkeeper aprons throwing each other into promotional posters and leeping off the counter. Then it moved outside in the streets where they leeped off vending machines until Takagi was German Suplexed on the concrete! 7:57 of 12:30 - Ibushi pinned Takagi with a German Suplex in the street      July 27, 2008, Toyama Mall   2. Sanshiro Takagi & Danshoku Dino -vs- Kota Ibushi & Michael Nakazawa [*] --- Now this was real DDT! A match set-out in a mall with the wrestlers fighting in the stores while costumers try to shop. Very surreal seeing mothers protect their children as Dino kept humping an almost bare-ass Ibushi on the mall floor. It can almost not be more unappropriate then that. Otherwise Kota did his quebrada on the stairs and they used cardboard posters as deadly weapons. They gathered a decent crowd response toward the end as the near falls started coming with Dino doing his homo stuff. And a gay style Gotch piledriver was all she wrote.... 11:52 of 11:51 - Dino pinned Nakazawa after a Gotch-style Danshoku Driver      September 7, 2008, Yamanashi-ken Campsite (108 fans)   3. Sanshiro Takagi & Kota Ibushi -vs- Muscle Sakai & Antonio Honda - (Forest Death Match) [** 1/2] --- Eh... a outdoor show happening at a campus of some sort with DDT holding the show without a ring in the woods behind the camp. INDY SLEEZE MATCH #1 of 2008!!! Screw Antonio Inoki vs Masa Saito's Island Death Match. This was the shit! Dives off bridges and fighting in outdoor toilets! Not to mention the grown men fighting in the water doing wet bodypresses, German Suplexes and Stunners. Funny that one can do pinfalls floating on water. This also had stick fighting, falling down hillsides, irish whips into tents, but more importantly FIREWORK!!! They were shooting and almost blowing their hands off lighting fireworks at each other! Crazy stuff! To counter this Sakai found a waterhose to counter the fireworks style of wrestling. The match ended with a near falls frenzy in the water until Kota had Sakai pinned with a moonsault. Awesome stuff! 22:43 of 37:48 - Ibushi pinned Sakai after a assisted moonsault in the water    4. Sanzoku Shuuchou & Sanzoku A & Sanzoku B & Sanzoku C -vs- Sanshiro Takagi & Kota Ibushi & Muscle Sakai & Antonio Honda - (Forest Death Match) [*] --- After the previous match Danshoku Dino, Yasu Urano, Yukihiro Abe and that fat wannabe UWF fighter came out as some sort of dirty munks and attacked the others starting this 8-man forest match. Unintentianal hillarious moment here with Dino swinging a broom in Urano's face! And a terrible multi-man suplex out in the water and Kota slipping on the fat dude trying a moonasult landing horribly bad. All funny stuff and in true surrealistic DDT way Dino won with a Danshoku Driver out in the water. 8:17 of 11:37 - Dino pinned Honda after Danshoku Driver in the water      February 28, 2009, Yamato Express Post Office   5. Kota Ibushi & Yasu Urano -vs- Danshoku Dino & Michael Nakizawa [*] --- Another outside bout fighting in trafic and parking lots. Fun to watch the faces of the clueless people who was driving past. Best was the taxi driver who got a big smile on his face witnessing this absurd shit. Of the big spots included Ibushi's moonsault off the fence and Dino's Danshoku Driver on the concret before Ibushi German'ed Michael for the end. 12:05 - Ibushi pinned Nakazawa with a German Suplex      June 16, 2009, Hanayashiki Amusement Park (400 fans)   6. Kota Ibushi -vs- Sanshiro Takagi -vs- Poison Sawada -vs- Michael Nakazawa - (4-Way Falls Count Anywhere; Amusement Park Match) [* 1/2] --- This is a match made in heaven for DDT! Falls count anywhere on the fairground! They got to ride Pandamobiles, swan water rides, THE SPACESHOT (...TWICE!!!), along with other carnival rides. All in the name of pro-wrestling! And during all this it was raining too! Pure lovely nonsense! If anyone care for the result it was Ibushi who won when landing a Phoenix Splash. Sadly he did so back in the ring, but he did land a nice moonsault off one of the carousels. 25:02 of 25:49 - Ibushi pinned Nakazawa after a Phoenix Splash      April 13, 2008, Stevens Institue of Technology   7. Kota Ibushi -vs- Michael Nakazawa [3/4*] --- Special indoors bout at the Castle Point Anime Convention 2008 with Michael being all heel saying he hates Manga and beat up a few anime guys in costume!!! And to the rescue come Ibuishi. Well, Michael had most of the match and was nearly booed out of the building, but the anime nerds got their revenge with Ibushi winning with a German Suplex up on the stage. 5:06 - Ibushi pinned Nakazawa with a German Suplex      September 6, 2009, Yamanishi Natureland (200 fans)   8. Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega -vs- Sanshiro Takagi & HARASHIMA -vs- Michael Nakazawa & Gota Ihashi - (Forest Death Match; 3-Way) [** 1/2] --- Last years forest match was such a success that they're repeating it this year! Two weeks ago DDT were ruling the Sumo Hall. Now they rule the woods! And they tried to re-live what they did last year suplexing one and other down hill sides and in the water. The main reason to watch this wonderful indy sleeze match is the fireworks. They did that last year too, but this topped it! We got such fantastic moments as Ibushi's ass nearly catching fire as the unbrellas wasn't enough to protect them from the fireworks they shot at each other. And watching Michael run like a frightend burnt child as Ibushi was shooting at is ass too. Just think two weeks ago his ass explosion opend the Sumo Hall show and now more pyro! And he's been feuding with Dino earlier in the year too so his ass can't be feeling good!? And not after they hammered a umbrella down his ass here too! Michael did get some revenge when he hit with fireworks back and hit Ibushi straight on the head with a shot as Ibushi was doing cartwheels to avoid the danger. There was also the spear with Ibushi firing at him. Ibushi dropped the fireworks and got a few shots in the back! Looked painfull. They also brought a car into the match running each other over. Ibushi also shot fireworks INSIDE the car nailing HARASHIMA who was driving! The little fat guy Ihashi was also set on fire by Tagaki running hillariously away from Takagi and his fire spray which only worked on a parttime basis. Then there was the suplexes and bombs in the water with guys diving in to make the saves on pinfall attempts! This is some of the most wonderful bullshit you'll ever see! 45:21 of 58:25 - Ibushi pinned Ihashi after a moonsault in the water      November 7, 2009, Inoki's Shop   8. Kota Ibushi -vs- Michael Nakazawa [* 1/2] --- Yes, a bout in Antonio Inoki's shop and diplays. A mini Inoki museum and we had the sexy boys Ibushi and Michael fighting all over the place. More seriously executed then it might sound, but of course it's DDT madness. Funniest bit was Ibushi getting his hands on some ropes at one of the Inoki displays to break a pinfall. Ibushi just can't lose to Nakazawa either and ended up winning with the German. 16:56 of 16:56 - Ibushi pinned Nakazawa with a German Suplex      December 12, 2009, TSUTAYA 4th Floor   9. Kota Ibushi & Sanshiro Takagi -vs- Michael Nakazawa & Keisuke Ishii [* 1/4] --- This one was at a multi-floored department store. And Takagi went wild in the musical equipment department bringing along a guitar. The people in the bookstore didn't have a clue what was going on as the wrestlers and a singing Takagi with his guitar were coming up the escalator. And you get the usual absurd wrestling with Ibushi always having to find something to do a moonsault from before beating Nakazawa with the German. 16:44 of 16:47 - Ibushi pinned Nakazawa with a German Suplex    COMMENTS: Cool and unusual collection of bout. Some aired on TV, but here you have longer versions of the campus/forest matches aswell as the one at the amusement park and a few mall/shop bouts to get you to laugh.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 DDT on COMM: SPECIAL SELECTION 2009 - (2 hrs)     2009  - Kota Ibushi -vs- Printer (Mini Movie)  - HARASHIMA Highlights Video    May 21, 2009, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (262 fans)  1. Danshoku Dino -vs- Emi Sakura [* 1/2] --- Dino wrestling a girl! So no gay pervert stuff here. And he didn't try to go straight either. Instead he wrestled in a mainstream puroresu way including landing a Emerald Frosion, a deadly brainbuster and wrestling in a very technical way! Very unlike Dino. And Sakura gave as good as she got. An almost passionate fight. But of course this is DDT and indy sleeze guy Ken Ohka had made himself the referee and was trying his best to ruin the match. And partially did so. Especially when it came to the finish where he was upset with both wrestlers attacking them with a chair so the match had to be stopped. 8:42 of 8:30 - Dino wrestled Sakura to a No-Contest      June 16, 2009, Hanayashiki Amusement Park (400 fans)   2. Kota Ibushi -vs- Sanshiro Takagi -vs- Poison Sawada -vs- Michael Nakazawa - (4-Way Falls Count Anywhere; Amusement Park Match) [* 1/2] --- This is a match made in heaven for DDT! Falls count anywhere on the fairground! They got to ride Pandamobiles, swan water rides, THE SPACESHOT (...TWICE!!!), along with other carnival rides. All in the name of pro-wrestling! And during all this it was raining too! Pure lovely nonsense! If anyone care for the result it was Ibushi who won when landing a Phoenix Splash. Sadly he did so back in the ring, but he did land a nice moonsault off one of the carousels. 25:03 of 25:49 - Ibushi pinned Nakazawa after a Phoenix Splash      August 9, 2007, Shin-Kiba 1st RING (477 fans)   3. HARASHIMA & Nobutaka Moribe -vs- KUDO & Yasu Urano [* 3/4] --- This match was a part of the annual Beer Garden festival DDT produce. Some seconds of highlights may have aired on TV, but here you get the full bout. A long one with HARASHIMA's leg getting worked over in all kinds of ways. The fans seemed to like it, but they were probable drunk and would have loved it regardless. But it was a ok bout. Hardly anything mindblowing or super exciting, but solid enough fighting for a Shin-kiba show and the wrestlers seemed focused too. Maybe they were a little bit tipsy too? This ended as a limping HARASHIMA crashed in his Somato knee attack and got his babyface win after being on the sympathy end most of the match. 24:14 of 24:14 - HARASHIMA pinned KUDO after the Somato double-knee attack      June 28, 2009, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,327 fans)   4. Sanshiro Takagi -vs- Munenori Sawa [***] --- Wow! Where in hell did this effort come from?! On paper it felt a little like a weak and little out of the blue main event for this Korakuen Hall show, but they sure delivered with a classic indy main event style match going 20 minutes in fairly high and energetic pace. Sawa getting put through a table, table wood getting used. Sawa and his Battlarts style played a large part locking in submissions and trying to strike the DDT boss down. Takagi kept trying to power the shooter stylist down with his impact stuff, but Sawa was 'on' and kept himself strong in the game refusing to be Takagi's stooge and giving as good as he took. The crowd got really into this and Sawa got a standing ovation after the match with Takagi giving him some positive words aswell. Sawa was really having one of his better efforts relying more on the fighting then on the comics. I didn't expect me to get so much into this as I did which should be a credit to their work delivering a main event worthy performance. Takagi wasn't going to lose to the outsider and didn't either using the new top rope lariat to get the young punk down just passed the 20-min mark. 20:29 of 20:28 - Takagi pinned Sawa after the Clothesline From Heaven      January 24, 2009, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (427 fans)   5. Toru Owashi & HARASHIMA © -vs- Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega - (KO-D Tag Title) [***] --- Hell yes! A super spot match from DDT! It's not often these kind of matches are good in this promotion, but this one was! The challenger team of Ibushi & Omega have really good chemestry and the bout was filled with cool double-teaming from both sides. Ibushi & Omega's double quebrada out into the crowds. And a lot of good counter and reversal parts. Of course the execution was a little shakey in parts, this is DDT you know, but there was an equal amount of impressive parts too. One of the more memorable happening in the energy bout was Omega getting a kick right on the nose from HARASHIMA. You could almost hear it break before the blood started coming. And that came after Omega had gotten a royal trashing at the hands on the champs including getting the big Owashi chokeslam and getting the fatsoe on top of him when Owashi landed a top rope splash. The challengers got their comeback which they had to fight hard for as the champs was ready for their trademark teaming and HARASHIMA nearly got the win in the middle of it landing his double-knee attack. But there was no stopping Ibushi & Omega on this day and with Omega getting a good babyfacereaction from the DDT fans they got their super moment when Ibushi & Omega landed a double 450 bodypress on HARASHIMA jumping at the same time like sychronized divers. Ibushi & Omega are the new DDT tag champs in one of the most enjoyable matches I've seen from the promotion! 23:14 of 23:13 - Omega pinned HARASHIMA after a double Firebird Splash with Ibushi. Ibushi & Omega become the 27th KO-D Tag Champions.    COMMENTS: A mis-placed match from 2007 hasn't been available before, but the rest aired (some a little edited) aired on TV before.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 17, 2011 Author Share Posted December 17, 2011 DDT on COMM: DICK TOGO WRESTLING DEVOTION - 2008-2011 - (2 hrs)     July 6, 2008, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,517 fans)   1. Dick Togo © -vs- Seiya Morohashi - (KO-D Title) [** 1/2] --- Now that Yukinori Matsui is back being a babyface referee he handled this title match fair and firm. And that was needed as Metal Vampire Dick Togo defended his belt against another former member of the Vamipres Seiya Morohashi. And this match was nearly dominated by Dick Togo who hurt Morohashi's rib early on and kept working on that nicely though out the match. Seiya was nearly helpless, but would make his Chris Benoit comeback including doing the triple German Suplex, landing a top rope diving headbutt and trading Crippler Crossfaces with someone who's better at the move then himself. And that was his final downfall as he was trapped unable to move being locked in the Crossface with no choice but to tap. Very solid serious bout from DDT. 15:41 of 19:14 - Togo made Morohashi submit to a Crippler Crossface to retain the KO-D Title in his 1st defence.      August 31, 2008, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,362 fans)  2. Dick Togo © -vs- Kota Ibushi - (KO-D Title) [***] --- Finally a really good match in DDT and it's of course Ibushi and Dick that bring the shit. No real surprises wrestling wise. Ibushi brought the big spectacular highflying moonsaulting out of the ring and doing the double moonsault inside the ring. And of course loads more. Togo was more barbaric in his style as we're used to and tried his best to hurt the flying ace on the indy scene. Both had submission parts too as Kota used a ankle lock and Togo the Crippler Crossface. Neither did the trick so Togo started doing Pedigrees. One off the turnbuckle and a swinging one which set up the senton finish. All good stuff. After the match Togo wanted to beat up the commissioner, but that was stopped once Togo realized that the commish had wet himself in fright as Togo attacked him. One that didn't wet himself was Sanshiro Takagi who challenged for a double title match with Togo. 21:00 of 21:49 - Togo pinned Ibushi after a top rope senton to retain the KO-D Title in his 2nd defence.      November 28, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,525 fans)   3. Hikaru Sato © -vs- Dick Togo - (KO-D Title) [***] --- Sato's reign was unexpected, but also short as it ends here only 2 weeks after beating HARASHIMA for the belt. But he had his best match of his career defending the belt here, so it's all good! From taking all kinds of Togo diving attacks to hurting the veteran with his solid ground game locking in those cross-armbreakers to ankle holds to nearly have Togo beat. But Togo is a tough son of a bitch, we all know that. And he stuck to his gameplan so it was very typical that it ended with a Pedigree and a top rope senton in true Dick style! And that means Togo gets to be DDT champion while he he's doing his retirement road as he's quitting the business in the middle of 2011. 27:09 of 27:55 - Sato pinned Togo after a top rope senton to become the 34th KO-D Champion.      January 30, 2011, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,428 fans)   4. Dick Togo -vs- Antonio Honda - (KO-D Title Unification) [***] --- Togo had to leave his belt held-up for being injured for his December 26th defence and DDT decided to create a interim KO-D Champion for a later rematch when Togo was well again. Antonio Honda won that honor, so here it's a battle of recognition at DDT's top dog. And these two longtime partners in various groups had a motivated and smart match. Most of it was Honda working over the arm old-school way and going back to it whenever he needed with Togo in lots of pain basically being unable to use the arm having major difficulries doing the Pedegree and stuff like that. And the two did a lot of boxing too swinging fists recklessly all over the place. It was a kind of match you didn't know what to think at first, but ended up catchiong your eye anyway dragging you in wondering how they'd play this one out. And Honda as the unlikely champion nearly did it, but Togo is the alpha dog here and fought bravely back and managed to land the killer senton to secure his throne in DDT. 26:24 of 26:24 - Togo pinned Honda after a top rope senton to become the 35th KO-D Champion.      February 27, 2011, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,262 fans)   5. Dick Togo -vs- HARASHIMA - (KO-D Title) [** 3/4] --- Another hard fight, but the real cool moment of this bout was Dick Togo doing HARASHIMA's own Somato double knee attack!!! Didn't grab him the victory, but it was moment of the match for me along with HARASHIMA doing the near amazing and kicking out of the top rope senton! They played fairly equal with both struggling to get to their feet and spots like that trading damage until it was time for the decision and that came about with a modified version of the Crippler Crossface. Nearly a Cobra Clutch version which HARASHIMA was hopelessly trapped and had to quit. 20:43 of 20:43 - Togo made HARASHIMA submit to a Cobra Clutch Crippler Crossface to retain the KO-D Title in his 1st defence.    COMMENTS: Yeah, Dick Togo has had a lot of real good matches in DDT and here is a selection of them.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 REAL JAPAN on COMM - 2005-2008 - (3 3/4 hrs)      April 16, 2005, Odaiba Studio Dream Maker (590 fans)   1. Tiger Mask I & The Tiger II(Ultimo Dragon) -vs- Masao Orihara & Sasuke the Great [**] --- Watching Ultimo Dragon wrestle as Tiger Mask, or The Tiger II, was quite cool. While the original can't be as athletic it was nice to see a tiger that could bring it. But the tigers had to fight in this bout as Orihara & several Sasuke guys managed to keep fairly good control over a lot of the match. But things changed when Taiji Ishimori came in to make the sides more even which led to a dive out of the ring from Ishimori leaviong it all open for Tiger Ultimo to beat one of the Sasuke guys with a Tiger Suplex. 12:53 of 13:01 - Tiger II pinned Sasuke with a Tiger Suplex       June 9, 2005, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,628 fans)   2. Shinjiro Otani -vs- Tiger Mask I [**] --- Zero-One's Otani looked a more legit in 2005 then in 2008 that's for sure and he carried the old Tiger to a good little match where there was the old Tiger spots like the top rope diving headbutt, the original Tiger Driver plus some shooter stuff nearly having Otani beat to a cross-armbreaker before Otani himself locked in a Crippler Crossface like Cobra Clutch for the tap. 10:38 of 10:38 - Otani made Tiger Mask submit to a Daio Cobra Hold      September 26, 2005, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,239 fans)   3. Tiger Mask I -vs- Masao Orihara [* 1/2] --- Can't belive they went 30-min?! Out of shape Tiger Sayama against not a too big a name, so there was no reason to put the fans though all this, was it? They's done all their big spots about half-way anyway like Sayama hitting a plancha out of the ring, a Tombstone and the Tiger Suplex. Then they just staled the rest of the match with locks down on the mat breathing heavily and looking very tired. In other words it was a ok 15-min match and then the rest was mostly painful or at least wasn't very captivating until the time limit expired. 26:52 of 30:00 - Tiger Mask I wrestled Orihara to a 30:00 Time Limit Draw      December 16, 2005, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall   4. Tiger Mask I -vs- Yuki Ishikawa [1/2*] --- A rather boring fight which had drawn a terrible crowd to the Korakuen Hall. Probable around 400 fans or something close to that. They had a old foreign referee that I didn't recognize which did fast counts for Tiger Sayama which is how the old superstar won. Funny bit was that the referee didn't know which cradle the quick three count was coming on so he counted three on three conscutive cradles and even wanted to hold up Tiger's arm in victory before Sayama felt he was finished. 10:48 of 10:47 - Tiger Mask pinned Ishikawa with a sunset flip      June 7, 2006, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,369 fans)  5. Tiger Mask I & Yuki Ishikawa -vs- Minoru Suzuki & Alexander Otsuka [* 1/4] --- Suzuki fighting the legendary Tiger taunting him like only Suzuki can. But it didn't matter because Suzuki was tagging with Otsuka and Sayama had little trouble rolling him up in a pin using a Tiger Suplex type lock to get him in a pinning postition. Otsuka and Ishikawa had their share of the taunting too, so in a way it became more about what could have been rather then what they deliverd. But they did set up the Sayama vs Suzuki feud nicely with Suzuki unmasking Tiger Mask after the bout was over. 13:40 of 13:43 - Tiger Mask pinned Otsuka with a Tiger Suplex lock roll-up      September 20, 2006, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,436 fans)   6. Kota Ibushi -vs- Tiger Mask I [* 1/2] --- Minoru Suzuki attacked Tiger Mask before the match injuring Sayama's leg. This made it possible for DDT'er Ibushi to impress against the former highflying pioneer. Tiger Mask could barely move and hurt on each blow the leg took. That's why it was easy for Kota to deliver his big highflying moves connecting with a moonsault-moonsault, Pshoenix Splash and a Sasuke Special before the referee saw that Sayama couldn't continue and stopped the match awarding Ibushi one of his biggest wins of his career even if it was somewhat a fluke thanks to Suzuki's doing. 5:34 of 5:33 - Ibushi defeated Tiger Mask via Referee Stop      December 12, 2006, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,689 fans)   7. Minoru Suzuki -vs- Tiger Mask I [* 3/4] --- So that's means we have a grudge match on our hands as Sayama faces Suzuki wanting revenge. It was a fairly even fight with Tiger landing some of his kicks and them locking up submissions. There was also the big spots where Suzuki kicked out of the Tiger Suplex and Sayama kicking out of the Gotch-style piledriver. But once Tiger was trapped in a corss-kneebreaker be had nowhere to go and his asstsance threw in the towel for him which means the match is awarded to Suzuki. 16:26 of 16:24 - Suzuki defeated Tiger Mask via TKO when the towel was thrown in as Tiger was locked in a cross-kneebreaker      March 7, 2007, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,259 fans)   8. Tiger Mask I & Masao Orihara -vs- Minoru Suzuki & Kota Ibushi [*] --- Not exactly a super match. Suzuki was only a little bit interested and let Ibushi do most of the work, so they only did a little bit with the Suzuki vs Sayama feud continuing, but Tiger got his win back from Ibushi.... 13:44 of 13:48 - Tiger Mask pinned Ibushi with a Tiger Suplex      June 8, 2007, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,450 fans)   9. Tiger Mask I & Kota Ibushi -vs- Toshiaki Kawada & KUDO [* 1/2] --- Kawada facing the Tiger he's not used to facing (Sayama instead of Misawa) and the two exchanged a few kicks and was fairly fun in a not so dramatic way. Why they picked KUDO, except for being a fellow DDT wrestler as Ibushi, to be in the match I've no idea. At least he brought some cool style with Ibushi like the double-knee press from the top rope with Kota hanging on the ropes. Enoyable stuff until Tiger was alone with KUDO and could Tiger Suplex him for the pin. 7:13 of 16:11 - Tiger Mask pinned KUDO with a Tiger Suplex      September 21, 2007, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,152 fans)   10. Tiger Mask I -vs- Kuniaki Kobayashi [* 1/4] --- These two had a massive feud back in 1982-83, so you can already guess this is just for old times sake bringing the nostalgia. If you want to see classic matches between these two watch their Octoner 21st & November 4th 1982 and January 6th, February 8th, June 2nd and July 14th 1983 matches. All a hundred to thousand times better then this blast from the past. But if you want to see this curiousity match it's sort of fun with some unintentional ring rust misses, but otherwise decent slow fighting mimicing their old styles from 25 years ago. One thing hasn't changed. Tiger Mask winning.... 11:19 of 11:21 - Tiger Mask pinned Kobayashi with a Tiger Suplex lock roll-up      December 20, 2007, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,390 fans)   11. Tiger Mask I -vs- Minoru Suzuki [* 1/2] --- A re-match and this time Tiger got his win back! Only by count out as he Tombstoned, top rope headbutted and kicked him off the apron to prevent him from getting in to the ring in time. A fairly cool match, but like with so many matches these days it totally lacked heat and crowd reaction. Kuniaki Kobayashi was there standing up to Suzuki which was also cool. 11:48 of 15:06 - Tiger Mask defeated Suzuki by Count Out      March 13, 2008, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,469 fans)   12. Genichiro Tenyru & Masao Orihara -vs- Tiger Mask I & Kamen Shooter Super Rider [*] --- Tenryu facing the original Tiger Mask! Man, are they getting old. Tiger did the classic of missing the rop rope diving headbutt! And it was a slow, somewhat clumsy, fun tag match with those two stealing most of TV time giving hints of what could have been had this happend decades ago. Tenryu gets the tribute win over Sayama with a basic small package. 8:09 of 15:39 - Tenryu pinned Tiger Mask with a small package     June 19, 2008, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,512 fane)   13. Minoru Suzuki & Tiger Mask IV -vs- Tiger Mask I & Sammy Lee Jr (Ibushi) [* 3/4] --- The 4th generation Tiger Mask facing the first! But Sayama is all kinds of lazy and lets the copy of his own british persona Sammy Lee Jr (Kota Ibushi) do most of the work for his team only bringing glimpts of the tiger fun. Suzuki was shining a bit here with his bullying not getting 100% along with his New Japan tag partner, but the team still won when the current Tiger Mask suplexed the masked Kota Tiger-style! But the two Tigers both attacked Suzuki after the bout! 15:17 of 15:18 - Tiger mask IV pinned Lee with a Tiger Suplex    COMMENTS: Nice to see these matches mostly unedited. Tiger Mask Sayama's Real Japan is a very nostalgic place to be and watching the old guy re-live his glory days is fun.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 REAL JAPAN on COMM - 2008-2010 - (3 1/4 hrs)     September 18, 2008, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,636 fans)   1. Tiger Mask I (Sayama) -vs- Ultimo Dragon [* 1/2] --- Fat Tiger against Dragon in good shape, so it was all Dragon's doing making this watchable. Many years ago this would be a massive dream match, but now with Sayama so out of shape it's just parody Tiger nostalgia with only one or two things looking good in the process. Still this is Sayama's show so he was winning and he did so hurting Dragon's shoulder so he could easily beat him with a good old style cradle. 11:03 of 11:09 - Tiger Mask pinned Dragon with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold      March 1, 2009, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,789 fans)   2. Tiger Mask I & Tiger Mask IV -vs- Riki Choshu & Tatsuhito Takaiwa [**] --- The original and current Tiger Mask's team together to face two old time bastrards. And while the Tiger's, mainly Sayama, was getting all the spotlight spots, this was made great because of Riki Choshu's old pissy attitude. He was motivated and was oozing with that's old angryman spirit going after the animals and cursing at the same time! Got to love Choshu. Few can look more grumpy then him! Takaiwa was the obvious fallguy here, but got to be a mini-old angryman before he was taken care of by the old Tiger. Good fun and I was amazed that Sayama actually managed to land that long diving headbutt on target! He's still got some of that old life in him yet. 12:35 of 12:36 - Tiger Maks I pinned Takaiwa with a Tiger Suplex      June 17, 2009, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,756 fans)   3. Tiger Mask I & Riki Choshu & Ultimo Dragon -vs- Masahiro Chono & Great Sasuke & Daisuke Sekimoto [* 3/4] --- Plenty of fun from all involved. Loved the moment where Sekimoto showed fighting spirit on Choshu's first lariat, but of course the second onw knocked him down hard! Ultimo and Sasuke had some fun and Chono was the special star facing Tiger a tiny bit. But Tiger needs to win on his shows and he wasn'ty going to beat Chono, so Sasuke was the natural target getting rolled up in a Tiger-manner finished nicely off with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold. 9:53 of 14:02 - Tiger Mask pinned Sasuke with a Tiger Suplex lock Japanese leg roll clutch hold      July 20, 2009, Sagamihara City Gym (800 fans)   4. Tiger Mask I & Tatsumi Fujinami -vs- Great Sasuke & Alexander Otsuka [* 1/4] --- Smaller show Tiger Mask match done in a very technical manner where especially Otsuka and Fujinami felt comfortable doing. Sasuke and Tiger where more the spot monkey, but it wasn't like they brought too much apart from their very standard spots before Tiger Mask rolled Otsuka for a quick pin. 10:19 of 10:33 - Tiger Mask pinned Otsuka with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold      September 11, 2009, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,656 fans)   5. Yoshihiro Takayama -vs- Tiger Mask I [* 1/2] --- Two broken down superstars going straight to business landing the impact moves nicely to keep the match alive. Tiger landing the Tombstone and partially the diving headbutt while Takayama landed a big backdrop suplex and a hard knee among other stuff. And it was over in no time with Takayama landing the Everest to beat the original Tiger Mask in less then 7 minutes on Tiger's own show. 6:40 of 6:40 - Takayama pinned Tiger Mask with a German Suplex      December 10, 2009, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,654 fans)  6. Tiger Mask I & Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami -vs- Yoshihiro Takayama & Mitsuya Nagai & Daisuke Sekimoto [* 1/2] --- No matter how awesome it was seeing the super side of the original Tiger Mask, Choshu & Fujinami together like this one can't help but feel disappointed that it was over so damn quick. Because this was fun while it lasted, but I felt it didn't end the way it should. Too soon. Not spectacularly enough. And with poor Sekimoto doing the undeserved job. But I guess with the company of such stars he was the likely loser as Fujinami slapped on the Figure-four leglock for the tap. 9:13 of 9:13 - Fujinami made Sekimoto submit to a figure-four leglock      March 18, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,620 fans)  6. Tiger Mask I -vs- Genichiro Tenyru [** 3/4] --- Tenryu~~~ It's always great to see him. And his appearences are getting rarer the older he gets. Now he's 60 years old! And he still kicks ass! This is a lost dream match. No doubt it happens decades too late, but what the hell. This still freakin' ruled! And the first fire came when Tenryu kicked Tiger Mask Sayama in the face and Tiger got pissed kicking Tenryu down. Tenryu almost fell through the ropes and had to get help form the referee to get up, but Tiger was angry and kicked him down again. Tenryu went on the throw a chair at Tiger to stop him from flying and then went on a mission to break the Tiger down with stiff chops from hell and knuckle punches to the jaw! You could see Tiger's chest getting red even with the full-body costume! Tenryu in a mean bastard! What I wasn't 100% in agreement of was the finish. It came a little abrupt and easy. I know Tenryu is old, but that chickenwing facelock Tiger had locked in didn't have much build up or looked all that dangerous before Tenryu the great tapped for the original Tiger! 12:01 of 12:01 - Tiger Mask made Tenryu submit to a chickenwing facelock      June 17, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,894 fans)   7. Super Rider -vs- Hayato Mashita [*] --- Basic kicking style fighting. Didn't look too good, but at least they had a gameplan they followed along with Super Rider doing some highspots the spice things up a little. Rider also took care of Mashita using the Perfect Plex. 6:57 of 6:56 - Rider pinned Mashita with a fishermans suplex    8. Alexander Otsuka & Gran Hamada & Akifumi Saito -vs- Masao Orihara & Black Shadow & Kendo Nakazaki [**] --- Half-messy, but all kinds of fun at the same time with the unknown masked guys screaming and bumping around, young Saito getting beat up and bullied by Orihara while also getting some revenge, and the aging veterans adding surperiority to the game. And Otsuka showing the fake version of the British Kendo, who's played by a Japanese guy and not the Japanese guy originally wrestling under that name in Texas and Japan. 13:26 of 12:52 - Otsuka pinned Nagazaki with a Dragon Suplex    9. Tiger Shark © -vs- HIROKI - (WAR International Junior Title) [* 3/4] --- There was little HIROKI could do then follow. This was Shark's match fighting in his Tiger Mask shootstyle combination kicking and doing Tiger's spots like the Tombstone and diving headbutt before making HIROKI submit to a double armlock to keep the old WAR belt. 9:58 of 9:59 - Shark made HIROKI submit to the Shark Death By Lock II to retain the WAR International Junior Title in his 1st defence.    10. Minoru Suzuki & Super Tiger II -vs- Yuki Ishikawa & Mitsuya Nagai [** 1/4] --- Cool match with Suzuki bullying old Ishikawa and his weak UWF style showing him how it's really done and having a laugh about it. But most of thematch was about Super Tiger II fighting Nagai and looking good against the former RINGS fighter. So good in fact that he actually defeated him after landing a spinning enzuigiri to get the three count! Good for him and it was a enjoyable fight too. 17:14 of 18:09 - Tiger pinned Nagai after a Tornado enzuigiri    11. Riki Choshu & Great Sasuke & Daisuke Sekimoto -vs- Genichiro Tenyru & Tatsumi Fujinami & Ultimo Dragon [* 1/2] --- Legends! And Sekimoto! Sadly not as much fire as one could have hoped for when these guys are really on, but still it's a bunch of old superstars and cool seeing them together reliving the good old days. And Choshu lariats are still very dangerous for little dragons.... 12:51 of 12:51 - Choshu pinned Dragon after a lariat    12. Tiger Mask I -vs- Black Tiger [* 1/2] --- This was originally supposed to be Tiger Mask I against Tiger Mask IV, but injury prevented that. So instead Tiger Mask I bring an old Tiger rival in Black Tiger. Which Black Tiger you ask.....? #5. Tatsuhito Takaiwa who used the gimmick for a few months in 2009 losing yet another feud for Black Tiger against a Tiger Mask. And he wasn't going to threaten the original Tiger Mask either. Sure he controled it a little bit with the ground work and landed the Rocco Tombstone, but it's Sayama we're talking about and he landed his pattented Tiger Suplex, own Tombstone and the diving headbutt. One was starting to think it was over then and there, but Takaiwa used the Death Valley to almost regain the advantage. Then he got trapped in the chickenwing facelock and had to tap for the boss. 9:01 of 9:00 - Tiger Mask made Black Tiger submit to the chickenwing facelock    COMMENTS: Only a couple of matches that didn't air complete on TV already from June & July '09.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 AYUMI KURIHARA on COMM - 2005-2010 - (2 hrs)     M's Style - April 24, 2005, Tokyo - Differ Ariake (700 fans)   1. Ayumi Kurihara -vs- Gami - (Tournament of Style - Round 1; Kurihara's Debut Match) [*] --- The debut match of the 20 year old Ayumi Kurihara back in 2005. Sadly she faces lazy Gami. And while Kurihara already in her debut shows the fire, she's always cut-down by Gami and her not so burning passion for wrestling. It was interesting to see just how good Kurihara was on her first day at the job. You could see already she was a tallent. And I guess the wrestlers running M's Style could also see it because they gave her a lucky win in her debut! 7:37 of 9:08 - Kurihara pinned Gami with a counter cradle    2. Toshie Uematsu -vs- Ayumi Kurihara - (Tournament of Style - Round 2) [*] --- Two matches on her first day as a wrestler. And here she battles another veteran who she could surprise with those springy dropkicks of hers. Loved the one where she dropkicked a flying Umeatsu's butt! Regardless of the cradles and dropkicks, Uematsu was better and splashed her for her first career loss. 5:23 of 6:54 - Uematsu pinned Kurihara after a top rope bodypress      M's Style - July 10, 2005, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (350 fans)   3. Akino -vs- Ayumi Kurihara [*] --- Only a few months into her career so it's still just rookie stuff with the more experienced Akino trying to push her to her limits before beating her up. 6:51 of 13:27 - Akino pinned Kurihara after a top rope bodypress      M's Style - October 8, 2006 - Shinjuku FACE   4. Ayako Hamada -vs- Ayumi Kurihara [* 1/2] --- Hamada used to love and squash young girls and she was having fun here. Not so sure Kurihara was having any fun because Hamada didn't let her off easy, but she did give Kurihara the chance to answer back in the same manner, so this fight was filled with hard faceslaps, kicks and dropkicks and Kurihara getting in a couple of throat slam suplexes. But Hamada wasn't to be stopped and had the match won several times lifting Kurihara up so she could beat her some more. The final blows was spinkicks nailing Kurihara good. 10:43 of 15:20 - Hamada pinned Kurihara after a spinning headkick    5. Ayumi Kurihara & Tojuki Leon & Bullfight Sora -vs- Akino & Mariko Yoshida & Michiko Omukai [* 1/4] --- The final M's Style match and it's a big and solid looking 6-woman tag with Leon especially looking good flying and even beating the Egoist Omukai clean! Not much of Kurihara shown as it ended up being all about Leon and Omukai as they battled to the end. 4:47 of 22:36 - Leon pinned Omukai with the Tiger Suplex '85      December 31, 2006, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall   6. Shuu Shibutani -vs- Ayumi Kurihara [* 3/4] --- Their wrestling is still very basic, but these two have such a energetic chemistry with each other that they still have solid matches. Stand out moments was a real nasty top rope dropkick to the floor by Kurihara which nearly knocked Shibutani out and they had also done a nice double-punch spot right before that. Loads of cradles as expected and that's how the victory came as they were trading cradles until Shibutani had Kurihara locked good to the mat on a reversal. Loved the way Kurihara didn't even get out of the cradle well passed the three count still trying to fight her way out of it. 9:55 of 9:55 - Shibutani pinned Kurihara with a reversed cradle      Kurihara Produce - December 14, 2008, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (600 fans)   7. Ayumi Kurihara -vs- Shuu Shibutani [**] --- Kurihara has been out with injury a year having operated her shoulder in December 2007 after injuring it on July 16, 2007 when Aoi Kizuki landed a rutine senton. She's been recouperating since and is now back in full effect with her own show to celebrate the comeback in front of a packed Shinjuku FACE. And she faces equal Shibutani in a good short match which was straight to the point. This was to show that Kurihara was ready for her comeback and she proved that successfully by surviving a shoulder submission attempt from Shibutani as well as displaying some of her great athletisism with real nice dropkicks and more importantly the Hiroshi Hase like throat slam suplexes which was so effective she won her return match when landing three straight ones in a row. Impressive showing and it's great to have Kurihara back. She'll also wrestle the main event on this show. 5:06 of 7:29 - Kurihara pinned Shibutani after 3 throat slam suplexes    8. Nanae Takahashi & Akino -vs- Ayumi Kurihara & Natsuki*Taiyo - (2/3 Falls) [*** 1/4] --- What can I say? Ayumi Kurihara is back! Not only did she wrestle a match earlier, but she did this 2/3 Falls match which lasted close to 40 minutes! You just know that there was going to be issues with steam and exhaustion in a speedy women's match like this, but that aside this was a impressive showing from these quality workers and Kurihara showed that she might be just as good as the established and more experienced ones in this match which speaks volumes of her tallent. It's all about putting the focus and belief into it and Kurihara comes across as someone who belives in her profession which is what's needed to succeed. They made sure that Kurihara's shoulder was still in focus with Nanae locking it in a Crippler Crossface for the first fall. Then came two long straight action falls of the more standard hardworking joshi formula, but these girls are good at that creating the excitement even if I did feel that Natsuki was having an off-day. Regardless the other was up for it and Akino did a good job of keeping Kurihara in the spotlight and even dropping a fall to her in a lucky flash-pin way when a Akino attack got caught in a cradle. Toward the end of the final fall Kurihara busted out her throat slam suplex which she beat Shibutani with earlier, but this time no win and she kind of got payback for trying that on Akino as the more experienced ARSION proteg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNQ Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 This is the last of the shows I've got reviewed at this point. 5 years worth of Japanese wrestling from 2006-2010 and I've not decided to continue any project yet. Taking a Christmas holiday so this is only a peak at 2011 from me. Maybe I'll go back in time and review old stuff as the modern wrestling isn't exactly bubbling at the moment. Or maybe no reviewing at all....    ZERO-ONE MAX on Samurai TV - January 1, 2011, Tokyo - (3 hrs)     January 1, 2011, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall   1. Shito Ueda & Yuzuru Saito -vs- Yuji Okabayashi & Takumi Tsukamoto [* 1/4] --- Young guys of Big Japan and Zero-One going at it for what could have been a cool inter-promotional match. And you could see that they wanted it, but sadly the execution wasn't all there and they kind of didn't recover. One of the big let-down moments was when Saito leeped off the top rope and Okabayashi was supposed to lariat him, except he missed him. I guess Saito should be happy as that would have been brutal! But for us fans we was robbed of a great moment. Ueda was Zero-One's power guy to counter Big Japan's power guy Okabayashi and when Shito was alone with Tsukamoto there was little that Tsukamoto could do and Ueda planted him down with authority with the sit-out powerbomb! 10:03 of 10:36 - Ueda pinned Tsukamoto with a Ligerbomb    2. Shinsuke Jet Wakabata & Io Shirai -vs- Yusaku Obata & Mio Shirai [*] --- Mixed gender action with some being happy to punch a girl and some not. The sisters didn't hold back on each other with Io kicking Mio's boobs fairly hard. The match was only on the mild side and there was little that stuck out except Jet getting the schoolboy win after Io had Ryderkick'ed Obata down. 10:19 of 10:41 - Wakabata pinned Obata with a schoolboy    3. Shoichi Funaki & Mineo Fujita -vs- Kamikaze & Rikiya Fudo [*] --- ....it just ended out of nowhere with Funaki surprising Fudo with a inside cradle. And there wasn't all that much they'd done to create a frenzy. Easy action to pass the day. 10:42 of 11:30 - Funaki pinned Fudo with a small package    4. Takuya Sugawara & Kaijin Habu Otoko © -vs- Hikaru Sato & Munenori Sawa - (NWA International Lightweight Tag Title) [**] --- Sawa had made Sugawara submit to the Octopus Hold on the last tour which sets him and his team mate Sato up for a title shot at the NWA International Lightweight Tag Titles held by Sugawara and Okinawa Pro wrestler Otoko. Thankfully this was a lot more focused then the undercard matches so far and had a decent end to it all even if it was Sugawara who defeated Sawa with the Shiisanputa instead of Sawa winning with the Octopus Hold he had locked in nicely before Otoko made the save. Otoko helped make the champion team watchable, but a lot of this was about Sawa & Sato and their shooteristic wrestling hoping for the win that way. 16:29 of 16:28 - Sugawara pinned Sawa after the Shiisanputa. Sugawara & Otoko retain the NWA International Lightweight Tag Title in their 1st defence.    5. Daisuke Sekimoto © -vs- Ikuto Hidaka - (Zero-One Title) [** 1/4] --- Long slow builder with a lot of technical wrestling from Hidaka with Sekimoto trying his best to follow the game. Sekimoto is more a power fighter then a hold for hold type wrestler so he wasn't all at home in this environment. The match struggled to pick up steam most of the time too so it wasn't a super event for the fans as one of their most loved ones getting a title shot against another indy darling. Of course there was a decent ending with Hidaka kicking out of the German suplex along with a few other holds before Sekimoto pulled out inspiration from Kenny Omega and won with the Croyth's Wrath to keep the belt. 27:16 of 28:01 - Sekimoto pinned Hidaka with a Croyth's Wrath German Suplex to retain the Zero-One Title in his 3rd defence.     6. Shinjiro Otani & Yoshihiro Takayama & Akebono -vs- Masato Tanaka & Kohei Sato & Ryuji Sai [* 3/4] --- Then for the star filled main even featuring Z-1's top man Otani along with high-powered freelancers Takayama & Akebono against the ever hard working Tanaka and Z-1 own breed Sato & Sai. Entertaining stuff with Akebono raming a running Sato sideways out of the ring being the main moment of joy! And then Takayama beat the next holder of the Zero-One World Title with a German Suplex. 15:59 of 15:25 - Takayama pinned Sai with a German Suplex    COMMENTS: A little too dead at the start. A little better the second half, but still not something to boost the year of 2011 except annoucing the debut of Shiya Hashimoto's son will happen in March.   --PUNQ-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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