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  1. jeez, with Pat Patterson there too, that segment couldn't have been anymore Canadian if Neil Young were playing and they started doing an SCTV skit afterward.
  2. people have been doing the T2 clapping and they've also started chanting along with Yano's BREAK BREAK BREAK bit. it's great. forgot to mention Kenny's self-own botch outside the ring. could have ended badly. always feel something could go wrong with those guard rail flips.
  3. day 16 from Yokohama insta-reactions Kojima-Tonga house show singles match, Tonga dicked around and acted the prick, Kojima got mad and did a comeback, finish not long after. **3/4 Juice-Yano short and sweet comedy match with a couple of inventive spots. **1/2 Elgin-EVIL solid big lads match that ended in the right place for its spot on the card. Aside from one early spot, EVIL wrestles like a babyface even against Elgin. Curiously I don't think if you turned him face he'd get the same response. ***3/4 Omega-SANADA started out going for the big bombs, Kenny trying to get that OWA, SANADA going for the Mutasault, once they realised they had to work a match they did a short rebuild back to where they where. Flew past, good match. ***3/4 Suzuki-Okada for me this topped their main event from earlier in the year (which I loved). the real Minoru Suzuki stands up to be counted with a brutal affair against an incredibly fiery Okada. my favourite rare Suzuki move was unfurled and from there to the finish you couldn't have torn me away if you'd have put a rope around me and attached to an Amtrak. MOTT so far. *****
  4. you're nearly here but if you like kitsch then maybe consider Morecambe. the kicker of Morecambe is that while it fulfils one thing, you have a beautiful historic place like Lancaster 2 miles away, two different tourist experiences of the north in one day. but to be honest it sounds like you know what you want and Snowdonia is an incredible choice. I used to go fell running over there.
  5. surely Bo could ask his boss and his boss' wife about the reptilian thing
  6. Genuine question: are people actually pissed that the singles match between Tremont and Onita didn't take place? My initial understanding was that I thought it was a case of 'let's be glad we've booked Onita because he might actually be done and accept whatever form it takes place'. Like I saw Kurt Angle wrestle just before he re-signed with WWE and he did a 9 minute match with Sabre. Obviously it would have been GREAT to see him go 20 and break all the old shit out but he's fucked. Who has lost out? A match between a completely injured Onita and a completely injured Tremont would have been totally horseshit. Sounds like CZW ran the best save they could.
  7. you'd figure that Naito, Okada, Ibushi, Omega, and Tanahashi are, in some combination, working the top 3 matches, but I wouldn't put money on any particular combination right now. I would have expected Shibata in a big spot somehow but right now I couldn't guess who gets in. Have to think Cody and Elgin have a chance. Maybe they run with SANADA or EVIL? Or bring in an outsider? It's tantalising. If pressed to guess I'd say something like IWGP: Okada (c) vs. Naito (G1) IC: Tanahashi (c) vs. SANADA Kenny vs. Ibushi NEVER: Suzuki (c) vs. EVIL ROH vs. US: Elgin (US) vs. Cody (ROH) Jr. KUSHIDA (c) vs. Hiromu Tag: War Machine (c) vs. Goto & Ishii Jr. Tag: Young Bucks (c) vs. Rocky & Will Ospreay NEVER 6: Taguchi Japan vs. Bullet Club B-team NJ Rumble
  8. just watched Adonis vs. Blue Panther in the hair match, not a classic wrestling match but fantastic heat. They love to hate the guy. You might say it's purely right time, right place with the Trump gimmick, but how many nationalist gimmicks die in this day and age? Adonis is doing nicely for himself after a long apprenticeship working the British holiday camps.
  9. in rough news, Yoshihiro Takayama is paralysed from the neck down after a "wrestling accident."
  10. Nagata's tend to bend limbs in the way the limb isn't meant to go
  11. CZW is usually so far from what I want in wrestling but I was going to have a speculative look at this PPV, just to see where they're at in the post-Busick/Gulak world. That said I remember one of the worst matches I ever saw was in NOAH a couple of years ago when Onita brought the same two goons (Hosaka & Yaguchi) to fight in a deathmatch with Sugiura and Takayama (though that was terrible because those two are not deathmatch guys). Anyway, how did the rest of it hold up?
  12. well that's as maybe but we all saw the quarterlies lead to cuts. People are not coming on board and consensus is that things are largely stale. I'd rather have a good lunch now than the Network for a whole month.
  13. Thing with Taichi for me is I just don't rate his in-ring. I'm not some post-modern cheer-the-heels and boo-the-faces guy. I'll do what the promotion want me to do if the workers are good. Watching and paying is my way of showing approval. Just with Taichi I get this gigantic desire to skip through his stuff. Not bothered about his extra-curricular life and I enjoyed his stupid mime entrance for a spell. Anyway, instant reaction for day 15 from Hamamatsu Sabre Jr.-Nagata fancy Dan submissions and cocky strutting vs. earthy ne waza and hard strikes? yes please! One of my favourite transitions to Demon Lock ever and also Nagata's Drive Screw brainbuster is one of my favourite moves in the industry. Nagata remains on fire, Sabre continues to improve in good company. ***3/4 YOSHIHASHI-Ibushi we all know Ibushi could work a good match dancing around a broom, a sex doll, or even you or I, but it really helped rise this match above the ordinary when Tacos started bringing the fire. He seems to have adopted HARASHIMA's Somato (diving double knee) to tremendous effect. When this one goes toe-to-toe with Ibushi trying to nail Kamigoye and Tacos frantically trying anything to stop it...it's pretty good! by giving this **** that means that 17 out of 20 wrestlers have had a 4* or better match with only Yano, Tonga, and Suzuki yet to rack one up. Fale-Goto with the loser eliminated you'd hope for a tooth and nail scrap but Goto looks like he just needs a long holiday. To be fair this wasn't terrible but long Fale control portions are never going to be super. But it wasn't really what it needed to be, other than short. **3/4 Makabe-Naito worked kind of like a house show main event between a triumphant champion and a plucky challenger. A better match between these two was had at my favourite night of wrestling (G1 24 Day 7) when there was some kind of focus and lack of inevitability. That said Naito is, whisper it quietly, kind of above this. ***1/2 Ishii-Tanahashi two of my favourites going at it so always going to hope for fireworks. while it wasn't as smooth as their Korakuen masterwork from G1 23 (which was worked as Tanahashi going heel because Ishii is no match) it was interesting to see Ishii take portions of the match and have them work 50/50, with Tanahashi working his main event against a credible threat style of match with multiple Dragon Screws and submissions. They use that not as an end in itself but as a way to build to the final third where I am sure they sort of riff on Bret-Austin for a moment or two and maybe teasing broadway and a couple of lesser-spotted moves before offering a good and decisive finish. Definitely in the mix for MOTT for me but I will freely admit to bias. ****1/2 last few days have been great
  14. I take your point but this kind of stuff devalues PPVs that are already struggling to justify the Network cost for many. The model is really fucking with the way they create meaning in a lot of avenues.
  15. still think it's going to come down to Omega beating Okada on the final block night for a match with Naito. but they've set up - Kenny-Juice presumably in ROH for US title - EVIL for IWGP shot on B show - Elgin for NEVER title I also think Ibushi will have a go for the IC title. Somehow I think it will come down to Ibushi-Kenny at the Dome but I don't know whether for title or just as a grudge. I think other people might need the belt more but I'm happy with nearly every permutation.
  16. DAY 14 FROM O!-SA!-KA! Tonga-Yano I quite like the matches where people try to out-cheat/comedy Yano even though they clearly have a ceiling where star ratingszz are concerned. When Yano's matches are at their best there's a quite balletic nature to the farce and this had elements here. Short and sweet. **1/2 Kojima-SANADA another fine installment of G127's tale of old men fight decrepitude. a really good stylistic fit as the slick young man tries to outwit the unsophisticated lovable clubber. watch this, you'll like it. **** Elgin-Suzuki couple of things raised this above a rote Suzuki lackluster around-arena brawl with SZKG cheating including Elgin seeming to stiff Suzuki really early on and a couple of good in-ring moments. reckon there's probably a belting singles match between the two down the line but this wasn't it. **3/4 Omega-Juice can't fault Juice's longform selling. it's turned him from a guy I didn't like to one I actually do and look forward to. Kenny has been up and down this tourney for me, though I'd never doubt that on his day he could be one of the best. this isn't the greatest match ever but for a couple of reasons it is worth seeing. ***3/4 Okada-EVIL showing no ill-effects of his roasting the other day, EVIL had a really good main event with Okada. He looks like he belongs out there and with a year or so and a gimmick tweak (it's a bit midcard guy atm, and also people just like him too much). Okada focused on the head and neck, EVIL battled through with bursts of fire. crowd bought everything all night but here they were rapt. check this. ****1/4 another dinger.
  17. watched Tozawa v Daivari. really good TV match, both fellas looked good, shame that 75% of the crowd just do not want this in front of them.
  18. I still hope that they can get Fale to something approaching Taue-level now he's going past Giant Bernard-level. They protect him and they like him. He seems like a genuinely decent guy + he considers Japan his home and speaks the language. He brings something else to the shows. His timing is often good, his execution perhaps not always so, but the main thing missing is just that little edge of nastiness that all the GREAT big men have.
  19. I mean I get it, I just wanna see someone act like a killer without them being a cheaty heel. Cena's always giving it 'if you wanna be the man you gotta come thru me', well, to me that includes not being unctuous and respectful (on-screen!). personal peeve.
  20. just been reading through some of these, amazing work
  21. I'm a Tanahashi mark, what can I say?
  22. instareaction on the G1 matches from day 13 in Ehime Nagata-Ibushi not the ultramatch you might hope for from two of the tournament's leading workers but a very good match all the same. the translation of Ibushi's new finisher is great (Kamigoye - Greater Than God) and the match revolves around his desire to hit it. does he? ***3/4 Fale-Ishii think Ishii has been reading this thread because he broke out about 4 things that I have seen him use once or less. really good stuff here between both of them. played up the size difference in interesting ways, mainly with Ishii working as battling babyface. **** Goto-YOSHIHASHI one for the Goto naysayers as he trundled about looking miffed. Fortunately Tacos had his working boots on and got this to above mere respectability. ***1/4 Naito-Sabre Jr. favourite Sabre match thus far for me, Naito in his element, approaching his run at the top, this is a pleasure to see. **** Tanahashi-Makabe good and smooth house show main event between one of the GOAT and a guy whose only real problem is that he's in a company with a lot of much better workers. ***1/2 one of the most outright enjoyable across the board. possible reasons? well, Block A is better, but there was hardly any - if any at all! - brawling around the ring.
  23. read this entire thread on a long train journey recently. gold tier stuff. reminds me how much WWE i do not remember at all. even on shows i watched. recall seeing Punk/Rey/Swagger in a 3-way on a house show before this event. Swagger was champ but it was mostly Punk and Rey so it was quality.
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