[Obfuscation]

Right on. I'll watch it tomorrow if not later tonight granted I'll have downtime. Nakamura better fuck up Inoue later on in the match for that.

I watched Devitt vs Romero last night. I didn't get into it as much as bigbuxxx & Cactus did. Good match, no doubt, but I didn't quite see it as a great one. ***1/2.

[bigbuxxx]

Other notes from 12/24 w/o starz...

Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA vs. Rocky Romero, Jado & Gedo - 7 mins to do their shticks. not the best NJPW 6 man.

Hideo Saito vs. Takashi Iizuka - good story telling in this match. very well booked ending. way above average match for these two.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Karl Anderson - slightly above average match. I'd like to see Anderson break into singles action more. He'd be the perfect guy to hold the I-C belt imo.

Satoshi Kojima vs. Giant Bernard - Borderline great match. First match I've enjoyed of Bernards and that counts tag matches.

Wataru Inoue vs. Shinsuke Nakamura - not only did Inoue walk out of this one he fucked Nakamura up with one shot. better than expected match.

Hirooki Goto vs. Yujiro Takahashi - i'm a huge Y. Taka mark so i really enjoyed this. Taka looked better than usual in a singles match but still has some polishing to do but he's only 21 so no doubt he'll turn into something great. More good (unpredictable) booking here.

Yuji Nagata vs. Toru Yano - despite hating yano's character i found this match good but it has nagata so how can you not?

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe vs. Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama - 15 minutes of watching a MiSu/Takayama tag . good match but nothing special really. obviously advanced more storyline for WK.

[Chismo]

Shit, I got this bad feeling that Bad Intentions' reign is ending on January 4th...

[Scavo]

Misawa vs. Takayama - AJPW 9/4/1999

Stiff! Punch-elbo-punch-forearm-forearm-punch-elbooooo!!! I expected just a little bit better from these, but still awesome stuff.

****

[bigbuxxx]

their NOAH match on 4/15/01 to determine the first (?) champ is much better. meltzer rated it ****, i went a little higher because it is an incredibly enjoyable match.

[McQueen]

Originally Posted by Scavo

Misawa vs. Takayama - AJPW 9/4/1999

Stiff! Punch-elbo-punch-forearm-forearm-punch-elbooooo!!! I expected just a little bit better from these, but still awesome stuff.

****

Takayama didn't really enter "I'M THE FUCKING MAN" mode until the end of 2000 though tbf.

[Obfuscation]

Takayama is probably the only other guy I can imagine seeing in your avatar, Eric, that isn't Double A.

we all got to love a huge badass japanese guy

[antoniomare007]

Don Draper >>>>> Takayama

[Obfuscation]

No fair. I was only speaking in the world of wrestling.

[antoniomare007]

fair enough