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#364 ·
Anyone else think it's kinda stupid that when ROH does the scroll on the bottom of the screen showing their upcoming dates that they're showing dates that already happened? What good would it do me if I'm watching a DVD and it shows me dates and it says a town near me, but then I see the date and it's already happened? How bout showing dates that will happen after the release of the DVD?
 
#369 ·
Slowly finishing off the most recent ROH stuff, just DFII to go before the wait for the latest two DVDs.

ROH Take No Prisoners PPV:

1. Ace Steel vs Colt Cabana - **

2. Chris Hero, Incognito & The American Wolves vs Magno, Jay Briscoe & Steenerico - ***

3. Jimmy Jacobs vs Necro Butcher (Fight Without Honor) - ***1/2

4. Blue Demon Jr. vs Claudio Castagnoli vs Brent Albright - **1/4

5. Alex Koslov vs Roderick Strong - ***

6. Erick Stevens vs D'Lo Brown vs Bryan Danielson vs Jerry Lynn (4 Corner Survival - ROH World Title Match) - ***1/4

7. Austin Aries & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Tyler Black & KENTA - ****1/4

Average to solid undercard with an excellent brawl in the middle, but really this is all about the excellent ME. Hunt down the ME as it's a must-watch and then pick up the DVD in a sale down the line.
 
#376 ·
"New Horizons, Black vs. Dragon and Claudio vs. Nigel are the shit."

"But Rising Above 08 has the FANTASTIC Danielson/Nigel match, not to mention Aries/Jacobs which is a terrific feud-ender. Tough call."

"I'd go with Rising Above 08. 2 fantastic matches and a very solid undercard."

Alright Im down to New Horizons and Rising Above 08. Both have two great main events and solid undercards. Need some more help.
 
#378 ·
I felt the top 2 matches on Rising Above were better than the top 2 on New Horizons. I'd also throw in both were the culmination of the best feud in ROH that year in Jacobs/Aries and the best rivalry in the company's history in Nigel/Dragon. And oh yeah, Samoa Fucking Joe's return match is on RA and the best extra NH has to offer is the Honor Rumble. Easy choice for me as to which is superior, but I have both so whatevvvvvvvvvvvvvs.

Also, Benjo said so and Benjo is homies with Kobashi so that should more than be enough.
 
#379 · (Edited)
I've been catching up on a lot of stuff from Japan lately, here's what I've seen.


NJPW Wrestle Kingdom III (1/4/09)

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Yujiro & Naito (c) vs. Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin ***3/4

Manabu Nakanishi vs. Jun Akiyama ***1/2

Hardcore Match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
Togi Makabe & Toru Yano (c) vs. Brother Ray & Brother Devon **

Riki Choshu, Masahiro Chono, Kurt Angle & Kevin Nash vs. Giant Bernard, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson **1/2

Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Takashi Sugiura ****1/4
Currently number 29 on my MOTYC list.

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Keiji Mutoh (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi **3/4
Wow this one really bored me. My rating is probably being generous, but they went so long, and had some cool stuff in there. Mostly, though, it was just a bunch of the same stuff over and over again, especially by Mutoh. I'll leave it up to you to decide if you wanna watch it.


NOAH (1/12/09)

Takeshi Rikio, Mohammed Yone & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Shuhei Taniguchi **3/4

KENTA & Taiji Ishimori vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Genba Hirayanagi ***3/4

Takuma Sano vs. Go Shiozaki ****

Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Jun Akiyama & Atsushi Aoki ****


NOAH (2/15/09)

Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Kotaro Suzuki & Genba Hirayanagi vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Atsushi Aoki & Akihiro Ito ****

KENTA & Ippei Ota vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara ****

Takeshi Morishima & Makoto Hashi vs. Takeshi Rikio & Mohammed Yone **

Jun Akiyama & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Takashi Sugiura & Go Shiozaki ***3/4


NJPW (2/15/09)

Yuji Nagata vs. Hirooki Goto ****1/4
Currently number 28 on my MOTYC list.

Kurt Angle vs. Giant Bernard ***1/4

Hardcore Match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
Brother Ray & Brother Devon (c) vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano ***3/4

CMLL World Welterweight Championship
Mistico (c) vs. Mephisto **3/4
I don't watch these guys often, but they seemed to either be very sloppy or just off their game. Decent match, but skippable.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Tiger Mask IV (c) vs. Jushin Thunder Liger ***1/4

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura ****
 
#380 ·
CZW Best of the best 7

Ruckus vs. Human Tornado - **1/4
Chuck Taylor vs. Ricochet - **3/4
Cheech vs. B-Boy - **3/4
Jigsaw vs. Grim Reefer - **1/2
Sal Thomaselli vs. Ricky Reyes - *1/2
Cloudy vs. Scotty Vortekz - **3/4
Vito Thomaselli vs. Brandon Thomaselli - ***
Joker vs. Drake Younger - ***
Ruckus vs. Justice Pain - ***1/4
Joker vs. Rickey Reyes vs. Human Tornado vs. Scotty Vortekz - ***1/4
B-Boy vs. Brandon Thomaselli vs. Ricochet vs. Jigsaw - ***3/4
CJ O'Doyle vs. Jon Dahmer - 1/2
Team AnDrew vs. Javi-Air & Ryan McBride - *1/2
Hardcore Match - Necro Butcher, Toby Klein & Danny Havoc vs. Mitch Ryder, Brain Damage & DJ Hyde - **3/4
Joker vs. B-Boy - **3/4

Certainly not the best BOTB, but this show flowed really well. The second 4 way match was far and away the best match of the show one of the better 4 way elimination matches I've seen. Also, Ruckus Vs. Justice Pain (in Pain's last CZW match,) was really good.

IWA: Texas "The Realization of Mortality"

Miss Diss Lexia" Alexia Amberglen vs. Alektra Blue - *1/2
Rexx Reed vs. Shawn Vexx - **
Mike Dell vs. Andy Dalton - **
Arik Cannon vs. Skylar Skelly - ***3/4
Jerry Lynn vs. Spiro - **3/4
Shark Girl vs. "The Strong Style Diva" Rachel Summerlyn - **3/4
Darin Childs vs. Steve Amos - ***
The Garza Brothers vs. The Halloween Crew - **3/4
JT Lamotta vs. Tyler Black - ***1/2
Sicodelico Jr vs. "Mr. Showtime" Scot Summers - **3/4

Pretty fun show live. Not the best ACW show, but pretty good nevertheless, with Canon vs. Skelly tearing the house down on this night. Tyler Black Vs. Lamotta was pretty good as well.

IWA: Texas "Distrust, Dismay & Anti-Social Behavior"

Pierre Abernathy & JC Bravo & Berry Breeze vs. The Garza Bros & Gary Jay - **3/4
Laz vs. Jacob Ladder - squash
Massive vs. Sicodelico Jr. - ***
JT Lamotta vs. Awesome Andy - ****
Arik Cannon vs. Brett Thunder - ***1/2
Problems vs. Drew Lucid - **1/2
Andy Dalton vs. Shawn Vexx vs. Spiro vs. Skylar Skelly - **3/4
Rexx Reed vs. Mike Dell - **1/2
Portia Perez vs. Alektra Blue vs. Rachel Summerlyn - ***
Jimmy Jacobs vs. "Mr. Showtime" Scot Summers - ***1/2

This was a great show overall, with the first half having some really great matches. The second half had a great women's contest (I LOVE PORTIA PEREZ !) and a solid main event.
 
#383 ·
I have a predicament here. Haven't gotten an indy show in a few months and I'm debating if I want something from ROH, PWG, Chikara(like I normally get) or actually get something a bit more different such as SHIMMER, FIP or any of the Canadian indies like Interspecies Wrestling & IWS. Any thoughts on what I should pick up? I know I kinda leave the field wide open, but if there are any like MUST OWN SHOWS, regardless from the year, then let me know. I'm stuck in such a pickle that I'm kinda leaving my decision up to anyone who feels like throwing a suggestion out. And if it helps, yes, I enjoy all the promotions.

Help, or if you don't care, then don't. Just trying to figured this out as there is so much wrestling, but so little money. I hate this. Never gets easy.
 
#384 ·
Whatever you do, grab PWG Ninety-Nine. Very good show overall, and if you're short on money, you can leave One Hundred for a later order. *cough* Sabin's there too.

Nothing much to add really. I still haven't got King of Trios or the Aniversario weekend. It sickens me.
 
#386 ·
I did ponder getting something new from PWG. My collection is lacking so much. I do have the MCMG/Young Bucks match downloaded(haven't watched) but I could just go one better and purchase the show. Can't go wrong with Generico/Black on there as well.

My Chikara collection only has 1 08 show in it and no 09 so far. That doesn't sit well with me either. Chikara or PWG, at least I got it settled down to only two promotions other than 6+ now. Thx.
 
#387 ·
Well if you want comps you could get the Chikara best of 08 or PWG Sells Out. From last year the best PWG shows are probably Life During Wartime, BOLA 08 and All-Star Weekend 7. Definitely get Anniversario Yang and look into Revelation X with the great Colony/Portal match and the good Gerand/Olson ladder match.

ROH you should probably go with Supercard of Honor IV and there's always the 2 volume Mike Quackenbush comps you could go with.
 
#389 ·
I saw the two great matches from Revelation X, but how's the rest of the show? Usual Chikara goodness? Recall lots of tag team bouts on that show.
Well, I wouldn't call anything memorable, but the opener FIST/Helios & Lince and ONST/Jigsaw & Quack are the one's I dug the most. Still a good show.
 
#390 ·
Most of the tag matches are fine except for the Ice Creams/Ryder & Sweeney. I think this was the beginning of the end for Larry and Ryder was awful. And if you can only get one Aniversario show, get Yang. It has of course Colony/FIST but it also has Kingston/Claudio, a surprisingly fun D-Lo & Glacier/UnStable matchup and an 8-man tag with Incoherence/Fake Incoherence vs. QuackSaw & TFIN.
 
#391 ·
Sounds like the usual Chikara MO. If it's not memorable, at least it's fun and entertaining. I would like to own The Colony vs Osirian Portal. What a match.

PWG 99, Life During Wartime, Chikara Best of 2008, or Aniversario Yang. That's what I am leaning towards now. Pondered Supercard of Honor IV, but eh, I got a birthday coming up, I'll get cash then.
 
#392 ·
Now that this thread is actually on the 'DVD helping' gear, I'd like to ask what The Bobliographon was like. The card looks kinda generic, but you can never really make a Chikara purchase only by looking at the match list. My next SMV order will definitely be both Aniversario Yin & Yang, but should I just save more and get Bobli with them? Still pushing KOT... but it's worth it!
 
#393 ·
The Bobliographon was an okay show. The main event with FIST/Hawke vs. QuackSaw/Colony was as expected and the four way elimination was good (Cheech & Cloudy for tag champs please) but the Gerard/Glacier match was boring and most everything else was average.

Except for Brodie's step-up rana mocking Hallowicked. Awesome.
 
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