[Bubz]

NJPW/AJPW 7/1/12

Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi vs Ryota Hama & Akebono
Another really good match from these two teams. Sekimoto/Okabayashi trying to outpower SMOP was the usual storyline from the match, but it was still very entertaining. ***3/4

Shinsuke Nakamura & Kazuchika Okada vs Suwama & Shuji Kondo
Okada/Nakamura SWAG . Suwama . Oh yeah and Kondo is there as well. We get Suwama and Nakamura trading holds, Suwama takes a cheapshot at Okada, Okada tags in and he is OVER! Good stuff. Suwama and Kondo playing the dominating team was great with a really good control segment, and when Nakamura eventually got the tag in he was even more over than Okada! Basically just breaks down in to the finishing stretch which was loads of fun. Any combination of these guys in singles matches would be awesome. I thought the Okada/Suwama exchanges were great, but then along comes the Nakamura/Suwama exchanges and they were even better! Suwama was a beast in this. The right guy went over the right guy too which was a bonus. This was further comfirmation that Okada is indeed legit. Really fun stuff, just what I wanted from a match with three of my favorite guys in Japan right now. ****

Jun Akiyama vs Taiyo Kea - Triple Crown
I wasn't sure about watching this since I don't care for Kea but I'm a huge Akiyama fan so I watched it. Turned out to be really good. I thought both guys going after the neck worked really well, especially since both guys offense is mostly focussed on that area. A couple of good control/workover segments from both, and then the finishing stretch was really good, helped along by the fact everything was aimed at the necks of each guy. There wasn't much long term selling at all which hurt the match and kept it from being great though. Still a very good match. ***3/4 - ****

I'll probably watch Tana/Makabe tomorrow, or maybe wait until I've seen Tana/Okada from the event before that hasn't been put online yet.

edit: sorry for the double post.

[11rob2k]

Originally Posted by Seabs

purolove.com for results. Our Media section for links.

Cheers for this, I'll have a look around the media section and see what there is.

[JoeRulz]

Also cagematch.net, puroresuspirit.com and puroresufan.com/njpw.

EDIT:

[ZERO1 News] In an odd turn of events the ZERO1 Committee has announced that Daichi Hashimoto will be replacing Shito Ueda in the upcoming Fire Festival tournament.
They mentioned that it took hours of deliberation for them to finally come to this change.

~A BLOCK~
☆ Shinjiro Otani
☆ Ryoji Sai
☆ Tomoaki Honma [free]
☆ Go Shiozaki [NOAH]
☆ Daichi Hashimoto [FF Dedut]

~B BLOCK~
☆ Daisuke Sekimoto [2011 Winner/BJW]
☆ Masato Tanaka
☆ Kohei Sato
☆ KAMIKAZE
☆ Mohammed Yone [NOAH]

[Bubz]

Tana's first title defense against Makabe was really good but it had some selling issues. Never been a big Makabe fan but he was really entertaining in this. Wrote more about it in the MOTYC thread.

I wonder if Tanahashi will continue to get booed through his reign like he did here, he was great at changing up his stuff and playing up to the boo's. Would be an epic heel turn even though that's never going to happen.

[antoniomare007]

They added Daichi?

Well fuck, either Go vs Otani or Daichi vs Otani wont make tape/wont be in Korakuen

[Bubz]

Go vs Otani sounds awesome. Will that definitely not be shown?

[Seabs]

Daichi/Otani already happened this year so I can live with that not being taped but it probably will. Ueda does nothing for me so that's definitely an improvement.

Oh and Ibushi/Omega vs Dino/YOSHIHIKO II signed for Korakuen this month.

Spoiler for reaction:

[11rob2k]

After looking around the media section for a bit yesterday i thought a good way to get started with puro was to watch Kenta so i downloaded a few matches they where:

KENTA vs Takeshi Moreshima (15-08-2001)
KENTA vs Tatsuhito Takaiwa (31-08-2001)
KENTA & Akira Taue vs Jun Akayama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (14-07-2001)
KENTA & Tatsumo Sano vs Jun Akayama & Kotaro Suzuki (26-07-2002)
KENTA & Naomichi Marafuji vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Makoto Hashi (03-01-2003)
KENTA & Naomichi Marafuji vs Juventud Guerrera & Ricky Marvin (11-01-2003)

The four tag matches where all great, KENTA & Tatsumo Sano vs Jun Akayama & Kotaro Suzuki has to be the best matches from the lot that i watched really enjoyed it great match from beginning to end.

Also got Low Ki vs Prince Devitt which i'm watching now, ok match so far nothing great.

I'v been trying to burn the Kenta matches onto a dvd with windows media player, but it keeps failing at 99% , the files in AVI format, i don't know if that has something to do with it, if someone could help me with that it would be great.

[Seabs]

Use ConvertXToDVD. It's much easier to make a custom disc with that. Just drag, drop and then convert and burn.

[MF83]

While we're on the subject, what's a good free program to convert DVD5 .VOB files into .avi files and the like?