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Official Puro Match/DVD Discussion Thread (NO SPOILERS)

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#1 ·
About time we made a Puro thread seeing as there's an Indy one and it deserves a seperate thread. You can use this to discuss any Puro matches or shows, past or present.

I've just finished this awesome set so I may as well get the thread up and running with some ratings for it.


ivp's Top 25 Matches in NOAH History

Disc 1

25. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger & Koji Kanemoto vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi - January 26th 2003 - Kobe World Hall
***1/2

24. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA - April 25th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/2+

23. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger vs. Makoto Hashi - March 6th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
***3/4

Disc 2

22. Kenta Kobashi vs. Minoru Suzuki - January 8th 2005 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
***3/4

21. Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikio vs. Takeshi Morishima & Muhammad Yone - April 1st 2007 - Tokyo Korakuen Hall
****1/4

20. Naomichi Marufuji & Minoru Suzuki vs. Makoto Hashi & Jun Akiyama - July 18th 2005 - Tokyo Dome
****

19. Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikio vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takashi Sugiura - April 28th 2007 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
***3/4

Disc 3

18. Kenta Kobashi & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa - December 2nd 2007 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/4

17. Akira Taue vs. Yuji Nagata - June 6th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
***1/2

16. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Makoto Hashi - September 12th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/4

Disc 4

15. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs. Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda - June 6th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/4

14. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Juventud Guerrera & Ricky Marvin - November 1st 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/4

Disc 5

13. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takashi Sugiura - June 5th 2005 - Sapporo Media Park Spica
****1/2

12. Takeshi Rikio & Takeshi Morishima vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA - July 16th 2006 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/2

11. KENTA vs. SUWA - September 18th 2005 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/4

Disc 6

10. Kenta Kobashi vs. Akira Taue - September 10th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/2

9. Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito - 19th October 2002 - Tokyo Korakuen Hall
****

8. Naomichi Marufuji vs. KENTA - October 29th 2006 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****3/4+

Disc 7

7. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger & Takehiro Muruhama - July 16th 2003 - Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
****1/2

6. Kenta Kobashi vs. Tamon Honda - April 13th 2003 - Tokyo Ariake Colosseum
****1/2

BONUS Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama - December 23rd 2000 - Tokyo Ariake Colosseum
****3/4

Disc 8

5. Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama - April 25th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
****1/2

4. Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama - July 10th 2004 - Tokyo Dome
****3/4

Disc 9

3. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi - March 1st 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
*****

2. Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima - November 5th 2005 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan
*****

1. Kenta Kobashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki - July 18th 2005 - Tokyo Dome
*****

Overall:
Absolutely amazing comp. Perfect for any new NOAH fans with an insane amount of brilliant matches.
 
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#4 ·
I liked Kobashi/Kenskay the firs time, but I was very new to Puro and have only seen very little of both men.

After watching it again, after seeing both men regularly and getting use to their movesets and such, the entire match left me WTF. Kboashi doing lucha threw me into a loop.

Akiyama vs Kobashi during Departure is worse. Just a total bomb throwing no sell fest. Props to Akiyama, though. How he didn't break ANY ribs is beyond me.

Though, I sympathize with how these matches are booked. They want to put on a 'huge' Kobashi match and that's what they did.
 
#8 ·
Good idea making this thread Seabs. I did find it weird posting about Puro in a thread about Indies.

That set looks fantastic, I actually think I have 75% of those matches on my hard drive that I need to get around to watching.



I haven't seen the match since 2006, what was the botch again?
 
#7 ·
I must be the only one who wasn't blown away by that match then. And Seabs i'm pretty dissipointed in your rating for #19 since I felt that was one of if not the best tag match of 2007 but then again it is your rating.

But i'm still calling you out therefore you are wrong because me ego and e-cred is the strongest force in the universe behind Hulkamania and male pattern baldness.

And ironic that someone makes a Puro discussion thread while i'm taking a break from watching it, but fear not the day will come when Andy3000 and I speak at length about our love for Dicks. Dicks we in fact cannot get enough of.

Dick Togo and Dick Murdoch of course.
 
#13 ·
If the spot is good enough and they mess it up I have no problem with them going for it again. I mean if I were in a fight and I thought this move would really hurt the guy I was fighting and I messed up it up the first time I would probably go for it a second time.

Watching ROH Invades Japan from IVP and it's been pretty good so far. The Danielson/Kenta match I'm watching right now is pretty insane. They work really well together and can be so damn stiff at times. I don't know the exact date of the match though as it isn't listed on IVP.
 
#16 ·
Than me makes three, you see.

...

I mean it's my favorite, too.
 
#17 ·
It shouldn't even be debateable that its the greatest match ever. A couple matches come close to that level of greatness but that one single match is the culmination of years of booking and all 4 men were on their A games throughout. Which is even more amazing concidering how hard they all worked and still went for the majority of an hour.

Plus Taue is better than everyone.
 
#27 ·
Taue had the entire Buddokan Hall MELTING for whatever he did. Great match, **** 1/4.

Sad fact is that 25 NOAH set didn't have any TAKEOVER. Shibata can be trash alone, but his tags with KENTA were incredible.

Shibata was a far better pairing for KENTA, much better then Marufuji.
 
#29 ·
Fucking love you, man.

Oh, Bob Sapp and Takayama vs. Naoya Ogawa and Josh "The Pussy" Barnett is BY FAR the worse match of the year. 5 minutes in and I just gave up.

I once believe it was impossible to Takayama to work light. He was hitting so light, I was laughing.
 
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