JUST ORDERED:
CHIKARA Pro: Young Lions Cup V (2007) Night 3 (24/6/07)
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I'm gonna watch both Aniveratio (?!) events and that, when it arrives.
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NJPW Super Juniors Cup 1994
Disc 1
1. Dean Malenko vs. Gedo -
*** (Why the fuck did Gedo advance? Malenko carried this, thus it was pretty good)
2. Shinjiro Ohtani vs. Super Delfin -
**1/2 (Decent match, nothing special)
3. Black Tiger (Eddy Guerrero) vs. TAKA Michinoku -
**3/4 (TAKA was pretty off here. Match was decent)
4. El Samurai vs. Motegi -
** (To be honest, I don't remember A THING from this match. That's why it gets the low rating)
5. Negro Casas vs. Ricky Fuji -
DUD (Why were these 2 guys even booked?
6. Jushin Liger vs. Hayabusa -
***_***1/4 (Good match, would have gotten higher without the botches in the finishing sequence.
Overall: Disc 1 sucked. Nothing to go out of your way for at all.
Disc 2
7. Gedo vs. Super Delfin -
*** (Again, why did Gedo advance? Delfin was pretty good, so was the match)
8. Black Tiger vs. Chris Benoit -
***3/4_**** (FINALLY the tourny picks up. Awesome juniors match)
9. El Samurai vs. Great Sasuke -
**** (AWESOME match, Sasuke PWNs)
10. Jushin Liger vs. Ricky Fuji -
*1/2 (sucked because of Fuji)
11. Chris Benoit vs. Gedo -
*** (More good talent being wasted on Gedo, but again, the match wasn't bad)
12. Jushin Liger vs. Great Sasuke -
****1/2_****3/4 (AWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOME match, I didn't mind the botched finish, they recovered well from the original botch)
13. Chris Benoit vs. Great Sasuke -
****3/4 (AWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOME match, Great Sasuke is so damn good)
Overall thoughts: Considering this recieves praise like "easily the best tournamnet in wrestling history" this really dissapointed me. There are definately some great matches (the last 2, for example), but there's loads of bad stuff, and lots of stuff was dissapointing considering the talent.
Overall score: 7/10. Worth the buy for the last 2 matches.