[seancarleton77]

This Carnival has fireworks written all over it!!!

"40th Anniversary Year GAORA SPECIAL 2012 Champion Carnival" Participants

Suwama (2008 Winner)- Excellent choice! Has to be the favourite.

Taiyo Kea (2006 Winner)- You had to have someone fill this spot, credible enough.

Takao Omori - As long as he's not going 20 minutes or more he should do great.

KENSO - Zero percent chance of good wrestling matches with KENSO involved.

Masayuki Kono - Kono will break out here, he's really coming into his own (that does not sound right).

Seiya Sanada - Natural selection.

Manabu Soya - Her comes the beast!

Ryota Hama - Good choice!

Yuji Nagata (2011 Winner)- Excellent! Nagata is always great in tournaments.

Akebono - The fucking mammoth, watch him tear shit up!

Yutaka Yoshie - Let's hope it's the serious bad as Yoshie ala Mark Henry 2011 and not Yoshie that resembles Mark Henry in 2010.

Daisuke Sekimoto - This should make for a lot of interesting matches!

Yuji Okabayashi - Okabayashi is possibly the best wrestler in Big Japan, and he can prove it here. Expect the unexpected!

Winner of Yasufumi Nakanoueno vs. Takumi Soya - Let's go Takumi!! Soya vs. Soya would be outstanding.

[JoeRulz]

That's an excellent lineup, but I wanted to see MiSu again. Anyway, I have a feeling Daiskay will win this one.

[Bubz]

Wow, some of the matches that could come from that sound amazing.

[smitlick]

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FMW - 5/5/93 - No Rope Explosive Barbed Wire Time Bomb Death Match
Terry Funk vs Atsushi Onita
****1/4

[Rah]

Originally Posted by smitlick

FMW - 5/5/93 - No Rope Explosive Barbed Wire Time Bomb Death Match
Terry Funk vs Atsushi Onita
****1/4

That match was great stuff. Saw it ages back.

Now, normally I'm a fan of Dragon Gate but what they've been putting out this year (or, rather, what I've been watching) has been middle-of-the-road at best. Maybe I'm just getting jaded with the style, but I saw this pimped by two people in the 2012 MotYC thread a while back and decided to give it a go:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp1...gon-gate_sport

I'm glad it wasn't the whole match as I'm sure I would have found it even more of an epic clusterfuck. The interference at the 30 minute mark was somewhat surreal but my suspension of disbelief only goes so far. Ugh.

[Bubz]

Talking of DG, I watched the Shingo/Tozawa and Hulk/Yamato no rope matches from this year and thought they were really awful.

[Rah]

The stipulation was fine, great even, until it seemed to get overboard (or maybe I'm just blind to its usage?) in the past few months.

Shingo/Tozawa was another clusterfuck, but that at least had some good/entertaining moments to justify me wasting my time on it.

[JoeRulz]

Didn't see those Japan matches, but Hulk/YAMATO No Rope/No DQ match from DGUSA Revolt! was really awesome.

[Bubz]

Yeah I really like the stipulation, but the matches were just bad. I haven't seen the DGUSA ones from last year though, might give them a download later on.

[antoniomare007]

just went you thought NOAH couldn't be in worse shape...

Pro Wrestling NOAH just announced that General Manager Ryu Nakata and Counselor Haruka Eigen had ties to the Yakuza from 2003 to 2010, working with them to sell tickets to the company's live events.

All of the major Japanese media covered the story, which will give the promotion a bad public image. Virtually every promotion in sports and entertainment in Japan has Yakuza tie-ins, but it's probably best analogized like the steroid issue in sports in the U.S. It's commonplace in every major sport, deep down everyone knows it, but if it comes out that somebody used it publicly, it's a black mark against them. Pride went down largely because of these revelations.

Exactly how this will fall out is unknown, but expect fall out very quickly.

NOAH was, at least among Japanese sports fans, the most popular promotion in the country for much of the last decade, but fell on hard times in recent years once losing its network television outlet. A financially-strapped NTV, due to the recession, canceled pro wrestling, one of the longest lasting shows in the history of television in any country, dating back more than 50 years. The death of president Mitsuharu Misawa was another gigantic blow. Without strong television, the company was unable to create new stars who could sell tickets like Misawa and the frequently injured and physically destroyed Kenta Kobashi.

Source: F4WONLine