[McQueen]

Taue vs Bossman sounds like fun. Well as long as Taue brings his game.

[antoniomare007]

sorry McQueen but the Nakanishi vs Tanahashi match was pretty damn good

[McQueen]

Good to hear but then again Tanahashi is one of the better wrestlers in the world right now so I would hope he could pull something good out of him.

The only Nakanishi match i've ever seen and really liked was vs. Nishimura and that was only because I have a bizarre fascination with Nish's style.

[ROHFan4Life]

Im thinking of buying some stuff from IVP and Im wondering what some of you guys would reccommend. Events, Comps, etc. just name the best that IVP has to offer from NOAH, Dragon Gate, NJPW, AJPW

[McQueen]

Super J Cup '94 & J Crown '96 are freaking awesome if you like 90's junior stuff. And who doesn't?

[Halfnelson]

Detiney and Departure from NOAH are must buys. Legacy of Kobashi,Best of Jumbo,Misawa vs Kawada and I also got a best of NJPW from the nineties comp thats great.

NOAH 01/12/2009
Sasaki/Nakijima vs Akiyama/Aoki ***3/4
Definite highlight of this was Akiyama getting pissed at Nakijima and destroying him around ringside. Aoki took a good beating and the Akiyama/Sasaki exchanges were good.

NOAH 01/26/2009

Taiji Ishimori/Ippei Ota -vs- Ricky Marvin/Kento Miyahara.**
Pretty average opener. I don't know what it is with Marvin,sometimes he looks great and other times he just looks awkward. Ishimori hits a cool 450 for the win.

Yoshinobu Kanemaru/Genba Hirayanagi -vs- Naomichi Marufuji/Akihiko Ito.**1/2
Not a lot going on here either. Mainly to get over the new heel act from Genba and Kanemaru.

Akira Taue/Takeshi Rikio/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi -vs- Akitoshi Saito/Takashi Suguira/Atsushi Aoki**3/4
One of those random six mans NOAH loves. Sug looked good and had some good exchanges with Rikio and Taue is Taue.

Mitsuharu Misawa/Yoshinari Ogawa/Go Shiozaki -vs- Bull Buchanan/Bobby Fish/Keith Walker ***
Good start to this as the Japanese team fights the Americans all over the building. Go was the star here but Fish's constant talking was pretty funny.

Takeshi Morishima/Mohammed Yone -vs- Chris Hero/Claudio Castagnoli. ***1/4
Good to see Hero and Claudio back together and they bust out some impressive tag moves. Suprised by how over Hero is. Afterwards Yone attacks Morishima with help from Rikio. He grabs the mike and says something evil[probably]

Kensuke Sasaki/Katsuhiko Nakajima -vs- Jun Akiyama/Shuhei Taniguchi. ****
Just better than the previous tag match thanks to Taniguchi and Nakijima going at it. Didn't have enough Akiyama beating on Nak,though he does throw him into a wall near the start. More very good sequences between Sasaki and Akiyama before Saski pins Taniguchi with an exploder while looking straight at Jun. Motherfucker.

KENTA -vs- Kotaro Suzuki. ****1/4
Can't really say anymore about this match. Keep me interested the whole time and had a crazy finishing strech.

[Devildude]

Dragon Gate - Dead or Alive PPV (5/5/09):

1. RYOMA, Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson vs Kenshin Chikano, Akira Tozawa & Anthony W. Mori - **3/4

2. 3 Way Match: Syachihoko Machine vs. Jackson Florida vs. "Hollywood" Stalker Ichikawa - N/A

3. Don Fujii & Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Super Shenlong & Naoki Tanizaki - **3/4

4. 4 Way Elimination Match: KAGETORA vs. Cyber Kong vs. Shingo Takagi vs. Masato Yoshino - ***1/4

5. BxB (Killer) Hulk vs. YAMATO - **3/4

6. Open the Twin Gate Tag Title 3 Way Match: Susumu Yokosuka & Gamma (c)vs. Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi vs Yasushi Kanda & Kenichiro Arai - ***1/2

7. Open the Brave Gate Title: CIMA (c) vs. Dragon Kid - ***1/4

8. Open the Dream Gate Title: Naruki Doi (c) vs. Akebono - ***

Solid show without really having a standout match on the card. Hulk vs YAMATO might win end of year honors as the slowest worked match though and Doi vs Akebono was almost like watching a good Japanese version of Cena vs Big Show.

[Maxx Hero]

So since it was ignored when I brought it up earlier, I will rephrase here...

Anyone got any BattlArts suggestions? I know we don't talk about it much on here, but I really don't see anything wrong with the style. I mean it is fairly legit, I like snug wrestling, and the matches are exciting, so I am looking for maybe a best disc from the IVP set maybe?

[antoniomare007]

you should go to DVDVR for more info on Battlearts (or the Bati Bati Cafe site), i've only seen very little - just a few Ishikawa classics - because is not easy to find DVDs and stuff, i'm broke and live in Chile

[erikstans07]

Pre-Ordered PWG Ninety-Nine last night. Will be ordering One-Hundred some other time. Anyone else getting either of them?