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I bet Saito vs. Sekimoto was good too. The indies are infinitely more interesting to me than New Japan at this point.

This fucking guy

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xigj7q_wwe-breakdown-vader-vs-bradshaw-falls-count-anywhere-match_sport I was looking at Vader's 1998 where he was jobbed out to everyone from Val Venis to a young Edge and saw this. It's not anything much, but a solid little brawl. Bradshaw hits a half dozen or so burly fucking lariats. Crowd is dead the whole time. It's the last time Vader would appear on WWF PPV before being relegated to house shows and Sunday Night Heat. He bumps around for Bradshaw who does his second-rate Hansen clone shit. The lariats towards the end are really fucked up. Worth 8 minutes if you're a fan of these guys.

From that time Okabayashi did a barbed wire boards match and it was fucking amazing

Yeah, I kinda forgot about the fact that we lost everything from the old board. It was also kind of a bad year for Japan. I think New Japan brought a lot of new fans in over the last year but still, it might be a lost cause at this point. Besides, the last thing I want is even more NJ-heavy ballots than we had the last couple years.

In the past I've seen him unload about a dozen nominations around the beginning of March. And they're all fucking terrible.

If you don't like this then I don't like you. EDIT: If you don't like this then I fucking hate you.

I watched the 2001 Rumble match a few weeks ago and had totally forgotten Meng showing up. Meng and Rikishi being numbers 29 and 30 in that Rumble should've meant complete destruction of the white man as we know it.

I thought maybe one of them had a tattoo like the Usos, or big fake tits like the Bella Twins. Oh by the way, are you going to be running the Japan Best of 2013 poll this year, or is it going to be Ditch again?

I guess it was only a matter of time until those weird kids who fansub anime finally figured out that they're the target audience for New Japan.

When was the last time you saw a "vat of rubbing alcohol/salt/lemon juice" match? Hell, what promotions even run deathmatches anymore besides Big Japan and CZW and some of those scummy lucha indies? That gif is like five years old. You guys are goofy.

Well, to be fair, Lawler v. Snowman is better than a fucking lot of matches.

Wait, how do you tell them apart?

It's pretty hard to do anything in the most boring juniors division in the company's history, especially when he's only been back five days. I am looking forward to the prospect of Taguchi vs. Desperado happening at some point, maybe in the BOSJ. And then they can job them both out to Devitt and Ibushi some more.

Titán vs. Virus (CMLL 1/28)

I can't seem to find that. Do you have a link? Also, here's some shit I copied from another site. NOMINATION - Daisuke Sekimoto & Alexander Otsuka vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Akitoshi Saito (Dradition 11/19) - This ruled immediately just because Saito comes off like a total hard ass in the pre-match. God I loved this match. The opening matwork and striking by Otsuka and Fujiwara is good stuff, and you want it to just be them for the entire match but Sekimoto and Saito (especially) hold up their ends and the middle portion flows nicely with Saito and Sekimoto looking just as competent in their exchanges as the shoot style bad asses did. Their finishing sequence was especially cool. This was still mostly the Fujiwara show for me. I think sometimes that modern old man Fujiwara might actually be my favorite Fujiwara. What a crazy old fuck. I love him and I will watch him do anything. I watched him wrestle fucking Stalker Ichikawa in a 10 minute comedy match on a fucking Dragon Gate show earlier this month. And it was amazing. Masakatsu Funaki vs. LEONA (Dradition 11/19) - YES - This was pretty fucking cute. LEONA looks hilarious and Funaki is Funaki. It's pretty funny watching him kick the shit out of the kid and then casually sit down into a jujigatame, all while Fujinami watches from way in the back with the best Dad Look on his face. LEONA looked fine, green as shit obviously, but fine, and Funaki led him to (or beat him into) a pretty solid competitive squash. Taka Michinoku vs. Tajiri (WNC 10/31) - YES - God these guys are still so good. Taka doesn't get nearly enough chance to shine like this in New Japan, but Tajiri gives him enough to remind you that Taka is one of the all around most underrated juniors in the world. They don't even do anything much in the way of flashy junior style stuff, this is a really simple and even back and forth battle between two veterans who have been all around the world. Great submission work and excellent momentum building throughout. I didn't like the kinda-no sell of the Buzzsaw Kick but it wasn't so bad since it led directly into an awesome finishing sequence. Excellent. Tajiri vs. Koji Doi (WNC 11/05) - NO - Doesn't it feel like Tajiri gave this clown way too much offense? Especially when we saw him give that Ishikawa with the pretty hair next to nothing in that Dradition match. Still, logic be damned, it's fun to watch Tajiri working from the bottom. He's great at selling the desperation. That said, Doi is fucking worthless; bad strikes, bad matwork, bad timing. He looked lost in between every other sequence, he lacks even the most basic ring skills. Tajiri makes him look somewhat competent at times but even Tajiri can't work a miracle of this magnitude.

I'm having to do this thing where I nominate random matches from my top 20 list because this was such a weird year for me and puro and I didn't like hardly any of the things that you guys liked. Anyways. Here's this. NOMINATION - Ishii & Nakamura vs. Davey Boy Jr. & Vance Archer (NJ 4/05) - This was your typical New Japan tag title match, and I'm assuming the typical Killer Elite Squad match (what a name) but with the two best guys in the company as the challengers. The champs are good in this playing what I can only describe as gaijin cosplay since they're just aping the greats for the most part. But Nakamura is a king, and Ishii is a fucking king. Ishii. Ishii is the best worker in Japan. He will fuck anyone and anything up and he's like 5 feet tall. I want to see footage of him chopping down trees and drinking American beer. Ishii.

I've never seen a match of his and since someone pointed out he looks like a fat baby i doubt i could watch one with a straight face This is such a bad post.

Nominating these two. (EDIT: I copied this straight from WKO so bits of this might sound odd out of context.) Rush vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (NJ 1/18) Nice. I was pretty interested in checking this out. As much as I like Nakamura (more than most here probably) I gotta admit all I wanted was to see him take that corner dropkick up against those stiff New Japan turnbuckle pads. And it was glorious. That and his sell of that gigantic dropkick off the apron both were really satisfying moments. It's always nice to have a heated Nakamura singles that doesn't end in a million nearfalls. That said, I probably would've preferred this as a three falls match. Rush & Tetsuya Naito vs. Rey Escorpion & Tomohiro Ishii (NJ 1/19) This was the best match that I watched from these shows. Rush and Escorpion are two of my favorites, and Ishii is the best guy in New Japan. We got one little taste of Ishii/Rush and now I really want a singles match between them in Korakuen. They should have Rush in the G1. There's lots of Ishii/Naito buildup here and Ishii is a fucking hard ass and Naito doesn't look half bad in his struggle for survival. This is The Rush Show though, as he is all about murdering Escorpion with chops and slaps and that horrifying dropkick. The finish was especially brutal looking from that angle too. Yeah, you should check this one out.

I'm really digging this manzk guy and all his long ass opinions.

They've been running this match on other shows over and over with the same finish and it hasn't been great. One of them's on DailyMotion or YouTube, I'm sure.

Yeah, that was my one big problem with it. I just really like Kana kicking people though, whether they sell or not. By the way, the dates on some of these are incorrect in the original post. TAJIRI vs. Koji Doi was from November 5 and Fujiwara vs Mochizuki was from December 4.

Aaand triple post. Sweet jesus EDIT: Maybe I can redeem one of these extra posts with a YES vote for Mochizuki vs. Fujiwara YES - Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Masaaki Mochizuki (Gurentai 12/04) - Oh yes. Mochizuki is good in tags and sprints, and this might be his best match in five years. Fujiwara, well, he's one of the best as being a fucking mean old man and here he plays maestro very well. Excellent, hard strikes and some intense struggling for holds, and this is about as good as 5 minute matches get. Up there with Ono/Ikeda; not quite as intense but just as entertaining.

Double Post.