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  1. A de-bearded Honma addressed the fans before the telecast started this evening. from the pic I saw on Twitter he was looking tanned and ripped and...well...like he used to.
  2. just checked out the fixtures for my boys (Wigan Ath) and the first home game is next Saturday. shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit where has summer gone.
  3. definitely enjoying watching the shows from top to bottom where possible. there's a good mix of light and shade. as i indicated in my first post here, there were 4 matches in contention for MOTT that featured 8 different guys (now up to 6 matches featuring 9 different guys with loads of time left). some of the guys even know how to work 3.5-4 matches without taking months off their career. i have my qualms (restore intermission, maybe spread the G1 bouts over the evening? take yesterday for instance, I'd have had EVIL-Tama on before the tag with Tanahashi and Goto) but yes i agree with that basically. i also have a bootleg of bits of G1 2005 and what i have seen of that is good. Kawada guested and did some great stuff with Nagata and Suzuki.
  4. instant day six reaction, take it with a pinch of salt if you prefer your opinions with a bit more distance and reflection Kojima-Elgin Cozy is killing the opening spot and am not sure why he gets the Nagata job spot (could be a booked slow start), he can obviously put together good matches with this crop of young tyros. MIKE~ is very much in his element here with Baseball Elgin a dot in the rear view mirror. Brought the crowd, who probably needed an intermission after a 5 match opening half, back well. Kojima sold the hell out of all those bombs at the end. ***1/2 Tama-EVIL pet peeve of mine, even in worked contests, is ineffectual officials. This brawl went all over the city of Fukushima, more-or-less, with loads of cheating and the ref getting hit and enough room for 6 count-outs. I'm not saying every match should be a UWF style in-ring classic. I'd just like to see refs call it more like a shoot. Anyway, when they got it back in the ring it was alright. Tama's doing great at getting the change in his character over and I'm ok with them taking tournament matches as character dev. real estate as long as they don't mind me marking them down. End tease and final sequence was good. **3/4 Juice-Suzuki when Juice limped out to the ring I rubbed my hands together as who better to work over a crocked limb than Suzuki? unfortunately instead of being 10-12 mins of grim limbwork this followed the same pattern as the previous match, except it looked rougher and wilder bcs Suzuki. A much-more one-sided contest than we're used to and probably more interesting for it: Juice had some fire spots but Suzuki just soaked up the strikes, ground Juice into paste, and finished him. I know Minoru is old and takes half a G1 off so I cut him some slack. Interesting but not necessarily 'good'. **3/4 Kenny-Yano comedy match that was mostly pretty inventive. best unspoiled but it's one of the matches where Yano has stuff planned out. *** Okada-SANADA strong main event match that had me buying into a couple of the lines it was trying to sell me on. crowd clearly bought into the threat of SANADA too which made for a stronger contest. Sad thing is this was really good but in Okada's year it will be forgotten about. But if they have any plans on this being a long-term feud then I'm sold on its potential. ****1/4
  5. I think NJPW could eventually do with a Dragon Gate style amelioration of all known factions and and cliques. Shake things up a bit. They're good at rebooting things that get a bit tired. A fourth BC leader is a bit overkill if the damn thing is for life. CHAOS hasn't got the same energy without that Nakamura-Okada tension at the top. It was meant to feel like a bunch of guys who actually hung out. Now Goto and Will Ospreay are in there it's just...not that. LIJ are in their salad days right now so I can accept them staying where they are. Suzukigun...I mean I love Minoru but their takeover freelance invader thing nearly flatlined NOAH and isn't getting anywhere here anymore. Whisper it quietly but I enjoy Taguchi Japan more than most actual factions.
  6. loved Juice-EVIL too. the STO tease near the end was great, EVIL's best 30 seconds of pure ringcraft. also just watched the Simpsons episode with The Iron Yuppie in. strange.
  7. bitter inspirational-slogan touting non-rapping rappers is a good look for the Usos.
  8. Long time listener, first time poster here. Up to the start of night five I'd say there was no one single "best match" and instead a lot of contenders that I'd accept arguments for (Ibushi-Naito, Kojima-Juice, Goto-Nagata, Okada-Elgin). DAVE said he thinks this G1 has started the best out of any. Looking over scores I'd give in the past (starting with G1 23) compared to what I was giving this year seems to suggest that there is a little compression between top and bottom - I have nothing from G1 27 above 4.25, but nothing has been below decent - but I think over the years I've become less inclined to say something is great whilst being kinder on flaws. Anyway for me night five continued that journey ZSJr-YOSHIHASHI my Twitter crew, comprising a lot of shoot-style fans, is deep in ZSJr hate. My natural inclination is to like people and when it comes to Zack I can state the following: i. I've seen him work twice before he got to super-indy status and he was always the best on every show ii. we used to chat on Twitter and exchange book recommendations and iii. I enjoyed his run in NOAH with Ogawa as jr tag champs. But in NJPW as a heavyweight working a style that is closer to vaudeville than real? It is difficult to suspend my disbelief that long. What I did here is pretend it was a jr match as Tacos is small. The timing and deployment of that lariat of Tacos is always spectacular, like Okada before he started spamming dropkicks. ***1/2 Nagata-Tanahashi heel Tanahashi is one of my favourite things and grumpy Nagata kicks are another so put them together with a bit of blood and a great bit of professionalism from Nagata going out on his back like this? chef finger kiss **** Fale-Naito this didn't click for me like Fale-Tanahashi did (whoever upthread gave it 4...I agree!) but over the course of some 90 tourney matches there's gonna be some that clunk. I still sort of think Fale could be great. Is that stupid? They're still protecting him... **1/2 Ishii-Ibushi what I liked about this, apart from that they're two of the best itw right now and the bit where Ibushi went all straight-faced and started stepping on Ishii's head, is that it ended in the right spot with a secondary finisher but left you in no doubt they could have ramped it up and taken it to MOTY level. it preserves the integrity of the tournament if you cut some matches off mid-flight. ****1/4 Goto-Makabe i love that Makabe is so over in his home town that he can justifiably headline this show. i'm sure it pissed a lot of people off. Goto worked his ass off but this one wasn't for me really. can't put a finger on it. maybe i was tired and it deserves a rewatch. under time pressures, it won't get one. ***
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