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NJPW Greatest Matches


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I couldn't see this thread anywhere so thought I would start one...

 

I have gotten into New Japan recently (a few years ago) and have been thoroughly impressed by the standard of the product that they are producing. As I don't have access to the NJPW World Service I wanted to find out what gems anyone else can recommend especially if they are on free sites (youtube etc). 

 

I love the following:

 

- Shinsuke Nakamura vs Ibushi (WrestleKingdom 9)

- Shinsuke Nakamura vs AJ Styles (WrestleKingdom 10)

- Tanahashi vs Okada (the whole series)

 

 

Add if you can! 

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Yeah they're super stiff, you gotta worry about the damage these matches are causing to their bodies tho. There's meant to be a great(er) rematch from this years WK between Ishii and Shibata too, I'm lagging behind a tad without NJPW World.

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Are they 'strongstyle'/'hoss' matches Merzbow? I'm not familiar with Honma.

Honma is the old BJW death match king, that guys body must be in bits.

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Anyone watch NOAH anymore? I was looking for some recommendations of matches from the last 3 years specifically. Been watching Kobashi's Triple Crown matches from AJPW and just wondered how the NOAH product was with him as president. That's correct right? I know they've been struggling. I'm kind of sick to death of only hearing about NJPW around here though.

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I won't list 'em, as I've already done the job here: http://puroresuview.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page_634.html

 

My star-ratings differ somewhat, so anything from **¾ upwards, broadly speaking.

 

- Edit - Actually, fuck it. Forgotten I already had a list of highly recommended matches:

 

[26.03.86]: Antonio Inoki / Tatsumi Fujinami / Kengo Kimura / Kantaro Hoshino / Umanosuke Ueda v Yoshiaki Fujiwara / Osamu Kido / Akira Maeda / Nobuhiko Takada / Kazuo Yamazaki
[23.09.92, IWGP Tag-Titles]: Kensuke Sasaki / Hiroshi Hase v The Steiners
[31.07.98, G-1]: Masahiro Chono v Manabu Nakanishi
[02.08.98, G-1]: Shinya Hashimoto v Kazuo Yamazaki
[08.11.09, IWGP Title]: Shinsuke Nakamura v Hiroshi Tanahashi
[04.01.10, IWGP Heavyweight Title]: Shinsuke Nakamura v Yoshihiro Takayama
[15.08.10]: Shinsuke Nakamura v Go Shiozaki
[03.02.13, NEVER Openweight Title]: Masato Tanaka v Tomohiro Ishii
[04.08.13]: Tomohiro Ishii v Katsuyori Shibata
[04.08.13]: Shinsuke Nakamura v Kota Ibushi
[01.08.98]: Shinya Hashimoto v Genichiro Tenryu
[08.08.05]: Toshiaki Kawada v Yuji Nagata
[11.11.07, IWGP Title]: Hiroshi Tanahashi v Hirooki Goto
[15.02.09, IWGP Title]: Hiroshi Tanahashi v Shinsuke Nakamura
[03.05.12, IWGP Heavyweight Title]: Kazuchika Okada v Hirooki Goto
[07.04.13, IWGP Heavyweight Title]: Hiroshi Tanahashi v Kazuchika Okada
[11.08.13, G1 ~ FINAL]: Hiroshi Tanahashi v Tetsuya Naito
[06.04.14, NEVER Openweight Ttile]: Tomohiro Ishii v Tetsuya Naito
[06.04.14, IWGP I.C Title]: Hiroshi Tanahashi v Shinsuke Nakamura
[25.05.14, NEVER Openweight Title]: Tomohiro Ishii v Kota Ibushi

 

These aren't necessarily 'greatest matches' as defined by NJPW, because frankly I've seen some of those on their youtube channel & to be fair, there's some right old shit included.

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Anyone watch NOAH anymore? I was looking for some recommendations of matches from the last 3 years specifically. Been watching Kobashi's Triple Crown matches from AJPW and just wondered how the NOAH product was with him as president. That's correct right? I know they've been struggling. I'm kind of sick to death of only hearing about NJPW around here though.

As far as I know, he isn't the President. Is Taue not in charge? Sick of New Japan, why join the thread then?

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Cheers! :) I quite like the look of your ratings giving it a quick skim.


Cheers! :) I quite like the look of your ratings giving it a quick skim.

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