[GOD of CUNT]

@ bigbuxxx - I don't remember that, but it probably wouldn't have bothered me, anyway. I remember enough about it to know that if I were to re-watch it right now, some timing issues at the end wouldn't leave me liking it any less given the fact everything else was so good. I mean, if we're criticising a whole ten seconds worth of stuff that happened AFTER the match had ended, there's a trillion things in pro-wrestling that leaves a lot to be desired.


@ antoniomare - Bullshit nothing. I fucking hate current puro and I've said as much enough times that anybody who knows me will know that. I mean, that last post was me clearly fucking around, but when 90% of the puro that I've watched over the last 4-ish years has left me thinking "that flat out sucked," Wataru fucking Inoue isn't going to motivate me to give it another shot.

[antoniomare007]

Signed for BJW 1/2 (same day as SUWAMA vs Daisuke and it's also in Korakuen Hall)

Daisuke Sekimoto & Yoshihito Sasaki vs. Akebono & Ryota Hama
Yuji Okabayashi vs. Manabu Soya

[TelkEvolon]

Originally Posted by antoniomare007

Daisuke Sekimoto & Yoshihito Sasaki vs. Akebono & Ryota Hama

Oh yay.

[antoniomare007]

don't know if that was sarcastic, but Sekimoto/Okabayashi vs Hama/Akebono was one of the best tag matches of 2011 (specially in Puro), no reason why they couldn't have another entertaining outing with Yoshihito bringing his grumpy self.

[Seabs]

I wish they'd stop booking the BJW guys with Akebono and Hama. Will probably work for that Big Japan tag with Sasaki though but not in All Japan. Really looking forward to Okabayashi getting to work a big singles match.

[Cactus]

NOAH - NOAHful Gift In Kobe 2011

Mikey Nicholls vs Taiji Ishimori
Nicholls once again impresses me with his heel gaijin schtick. Pretty decent opener, especially for NOAH standards.
**¾

Ricky Marvin vs Shane Haste
This is joined in progress and the clip starts with Marvin dominating Haste, which is something I found very hard to buy with the height differences and all. I wouldn't of been so picky about this if they showed us how Marvin got control of Haste like that.
*¼

Mohammed Yone vs Ryuji Hijikata
This match had a Battlarts feel about it, which is always welcomed. Unfortunately, they dropped that very quickly and the rest of the match was just Yone beating down Hijikata. Yawn.
*

Masao Inoue & Takuma Sano vs Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura
It appears that the wrestlers involved weren't taking this too seriously and were more focused than getting a laugh out of the live audience than putting on a good match. Marufuji's flippy gibberish is on hold tonight. Shame.
**

Atsushi Aoki, Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki vs Genba Hirayanagi, Yoshihiro Takayama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
The majority of this is quite uneventful and dull aside from the juniors going at it. The last 5 minutes of the match really are responsible for much of the rating.
**¾

Akitoshi Saito, Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi vs Shuhei Taniguchi, Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie
This match is built around Kobashi than the younger guys. As it seems most of the audience paid to see him, and NOAH booked him as the star of the match. A good match to send the fans home happy.
***

Overall:
With no NOAH Christmas music videos and no noteworthy matches in sight, there's no reason to see this. It felt like a house show and a bad house show at that. Avoid.

[Fighter Daron]

NOAH "GREAT VOYAGE 2011 IN TOKYO VOL. 4", 27.11.2011 (G+)
Tokyo Ariake Colosseum
5,800 Fans

1. Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste Vs Masao Inoue & Kento Miyahara: Funny opener, nothing blowing-up, but the two gaijin seemed better than I remembered, though they don't tell me anything. **1/4

2. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie Vs Akitoshi Saito & Mohammed Yone: Morishima carried the whole match and it wasn't bad for a ramdon undercarder NOAH multiman tag match, Yoshie was good too. ***

3. Kenta Kobashi & Kensuke Sasaki Vs Takuma Sano & Shuhei Taniguchi: The four men(well, except Sasaki) brought their A-Game and we had a very good match, Taniguchi looked so agressive, I liked that, and it's always great to see Kobashi. ***1/4

4. ANMU vs. No Mercy: Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori Vs Yoshihiro Takayama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi: As every other ANMU Vs NM multiman match, it was very entertaining, and I love to see Takayama killing juniors. Ishimori surprised me here, he was great doing his shit. ***3/4

5. Naomichi Marufuji Return Match: Naomichi Marufuji Vs Takashi Sugiura: I'm glad to see Marufuji coming back, and well, Sugiura is a machine, he can't fail. Well back and forth action, it didn't seem as juniorish as other Marufuji matches, in fact, Takashi managed to make it look like a slugfest. Great match. ****1/4

6. GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship, Decision Match: Katsuhiko Nakajima Vs Ricky Marvin: This is the match where I realized that we were on the muderfucking Ariake Colosseum and the crowd was wide awake .This red hot crowd helped these two great wrestlers to get a fucking epic match, I didn't see it coming, but I'm more than satisfied. Man, I love Nakajima. ****3/4

7. AJPW Triple Crown Championship: Jun Akiyama Vs Taiyo Kea: As I supposed, this served as a break between the two epic matches, but it wasn't bad either, Kea is not my cup of tea and I need someone good to get into an Akiyama's match, so it was good but not great, as it had to be. ***1/2

8. GHC Heavyweight Championship: Go Shiozaki Vs KENTA: And we got to the main event, the crowd wasn't as hot as they were on the junior title match, but they were very loud too. Go made KENTA look like a real risk for the heavyweight division, the GAME OVER is being sold like a killer manouver. Incredible exchanges as expected and a bit of psychology by Go. This was great but not the best match on the card, oddly.****3/4

Rating: ***3/4
Recommendation: Very High.
Final Thoughts: The best card on the NOAH's year was his best show, as logical. 5, 6 and 8 are must-see matches, and the rest of the card is entertaining, so I don't know why you wouldn't be watching this right now.

Also, I saw this afternoon, the Global League Final between Morishima and KENTA it was balls to the wall, it was long enough to be great, but short enough to not drag a bit. Killing lariats by Morishima, and KENTA couldn't much more to look poweful. ****1/2

[Obfuscation]

Shinsuke Nakamura vs Hiroyoshi Tenzan ~ NJPW 8/5/11 ~ ****1/4

YES. Oh how did I miss this one? The string of Nakamura owning continues. Never have I loved a worker from Japan like this since Jushin Liger. This guy is so epic. Was great to see Tenzan in a match that felt big too. Sure, Wrestle Kingdom vs Iizuka was, but it seemed a majority of his work this year were whatever/throwaway matches. To me at least. Loved this crowd. The moment Nakamura's music hit, they went nuts. Then cut to Tenzan's, and man, he was so over. Already had a strong atmosphere. Get to the match and they don't waste much time at all. What a finishing stretch this had too leading into the Anaconda Vice, lift up, SIDE EFFECT BACK DOWN INTO THE VICE. NAKAMURA COUNTERS OUT OF THE VICE AND INTO THE CROSS ARM BREAKER IN THE BEST WAY EVER. Eventually leading up to Nakamura destroying Tenzan with the LEGIT punch followed by that harsh, but totally radical, KNEE TO DA FACE. Oh I had a lot of fun watching this one. Have to mention the LARIAT~! that Tenzan used to slightly kill Nakamura too.

All of this being done in the span of what, 14 minutes? Awesome. Nakamura's punch is probably my 2nd favorite move used in wrestling today behind El Generico's brainbustahhh. Safe to say he has the greatest rolling arm bar too. I was gonna get a hair cut tomorrow. Thinking of getting the Nakamura look to display my appreciation for how awesome he is.

[Bubz]

I know someone who has Nakamuras hair style he doesn't know who Nakamura is though sadly.

[Obfuscation]

Tell him to watch Nakamura or else you'll LEGIT punch him in the face.