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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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Sugiura/Yone in a 30 minute draw? Oh the horror.
 
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IVP Videos Sale

From now until the end of November you can receive 40% off all purchases by using the coupon code BlackFriday at checkout. This is good on all DVDs and is our way to make the holiday season a bit easier on your bank account. For people who spend over $100 in DVDs you will receive 45 % off with the coupon code BlackFriday100.
 
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Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Shinsuke Nakamura - IWGP Title

The usual ''I'm gonna beat the shit out of you'' stuff from Big Tak. And he did, he whooped Nakamura's ass for like 10 minutes. Nakamura mades a brief comeback, that leads to a surprise finish(at least for me at the time)with some very good moves and solid selling.

***1/2
 
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New Japan Results

NJPW "POWER STRUGGLE", 12.11.2011 (WPW/PPV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
6,000 Fans - Super No Vacancy

1. Jado & Gedo besiegen Tama Tonga & Killer Rabbit (4:32) nach einem Complete Shot von Gedo gegen Rabbit.
2. Wataru Inoue & Tomoaki Honma besiegen Takashi Iizuka & Hideo Saito (3:42) nach einer Lariat von Honma gegen Iizuka.
3. Yuji Nagata besiegt Tomohiro Ishii (9:53) mit einem Backdrop Hold.
4. Special Tag Match: Yoshihiro Takayama & Taichi besiegen Togi Makabe & Ryusuke Taguchi (8:35) nach einem Everest German Suplex Hold Takayama gegen Taguchi.
5. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Davey Richards & Rocky Romero (c) besiegen Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA (14:43) als Richards KUSHIDA nach dem Contract Killer pinnte (1st defense).
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt (c) besiegt TAKA Michinoku (12:13) mit dem Bloody Sunday (1st defense).
7. Special Tag Match: Tetsuya Naito & MVP besiegen Shinsuke Nakamura & Yujiro Takahashi (12:18) nach dem Irreversible Crisis von MVP gegen Takahashi.
8. Special Singles Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan besiegt Satoshi Kojima (15:49) mit einer Moonsault Press.
9. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Masato Tanaka (c) besiegt Hirooki Goto (9:51) mit dem Sliding D (1st defense).
10. IWGP Tag Team Title: Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson (c) besiegen Minoru Suzuki & Lance Archer (17:15) nach dem Gun Stun von Anderson gegen Archer (10th defense).
11. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) besiegt Toru Yano (22:01) mit einem Texas Cloverleaf Hold (9th defense).
 
#2,997 ·
cool thanks. d/l'ed that rematch from july since you mentioned it and know i'd forget since it's not widely pimped. sadly i can't find much more junior stuff from any year but 94. looked for more stuff from owen and ohtani but no luck.
 
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Upcoming New Japan cards

NJPW "NEW JAPAN ALIVE 2011", 04.12.2011 (WPW/PPV)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium

1. Karl Anderson & Killer Rabbit vs. Jado & Gedo
2. Satoshi Kojima, Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi & Tama Tonga vs. Toru Yano, Yujiro Takahashi, Tomohiro Ishii & Rocky Romero
3. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Tomoaki Honma vs. Takashi Iizuka & Hideo Saito
4. Special Tag Match: Hirooki Goto & KUSHIDA vs. Takashi Sugiura & Atsushi Aoki
5. Special Tag Match: Togi Makabe & Wataru Inoue vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Lance Archer
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt (c) vs. Davey Richards
7. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Masato Tanaka (c) vs. MVP
8. Special Singles Match: Giant Bernard vs. Minoru Suzuki
9. Special Singles Match: Tetsuya Naito vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
10. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Yuji Nagata


NJPW "SATOSHI KOJIMA 20TH ANNIVERSARY ~ RUSH!!", 14.12.2011 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Special Tag Match: Great Kosuke (Satoshi Kojima) & Great Sasuke vs. Jado & Gedo
2. Satoshi Kojima 20th Anniversary Match: Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi vs. Tetsuya Naito & FUNAKI
 
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Road to Jumbo Vs Tenryu
As I wanted to unblock the long pile of wrestling I gotta see, I've taken advantage of my early awakening and I've taken over with AJPW 90-95 stuff, but I need a precedent, and what better than one the best matches in history, therefore I'll see the six previous matches and the classic itself.

AJPW: 1/28/89: Jumbo, Yatsu & Fuchi Vs Tenryu, Kawada & Fuyuki:
It's gonna be the first time ever I watch Yatsu and Fuyuki, of who I've not heard much, but as I know well the other four, this has to be good. The match starts in media res because is rather clipped. It's hard to recognize Kawada with that appearance, it seems that he was teaming with Fuyuki by that time because both wear the same tights. Tsuruta performs a precious Butterfly Suplex, I think it's the best performance of any I've ever seen. The segments in which are Tenryu and Jumbo are unbelievable, anticipating the CLASSIC they'd have this same year. Toshiaki, though young, was pretty good and also anticipated what he will be, one of the betters wrestlers in history. The segments in which him and Tenryu team up leave you curious thinking about the great team they would be.

At the end, is Yatsu who win the match for his team by pinning Fuyuki after a Powerslam. Truthfully, it's a very good match, though skippable, but so entertaining, it lacks the first half of the match, but I don't think it hurt the match too much. Like Ditch says, this is the first great 6-Man of AJPW in many years, and it'll be the beginning of the better peak of the company, as well of other great multiman matches. This company may had the best roster in history by that time, a little few could compare to it. Yatsu didn't impress me big, he doesn't seem to be bad, but not great, and Fuyuki is pretty agile and a blast of fresh air in this matches reigned by heavyweights, but it wasn't great either.

Rating: ***3/4

AJPW: 2/23/89: AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship: Jumbo & Yatsu Vs Tenryu & Kawada:
During the 6-Man seemed pretty clear that this will happen, and like I said, a team with Tenryu and Kawada only could be great. Tsuruta and Yatsu defeated Road Warriors to unify NWA & PWF tag team championships the prior year, they loose the titles and this very month they regained them by beating Hansen & Gordy. Kawada and Yatsu start it, and Toshiaki begins to punish him with his kicks. Very good segment when Tenryu catches Yatsu and chops him, then Yoshiaki gets mad and Jumbo has to enter the ring to relax him, then he tags in, Tsuruta is a real giant beside Kawada, who was not at his top physical condition, but had a worked body.

Tenryu comes in to confront the champion, and as the crowd as the commentators as myself get crazy. Then, the tag champions deliver a Spike Piledriver to Genichiro like it's nothing. The first chop by Tenryu to Jumbo is BRUTAL, one of the best I've ever seen. Tsuruta's dropkicks leave you stunned, considering his size and age. The champs dominated Kawada by punishing his legs for a while, during that punishment, the crowd was going nuts with the younger, till he finally tagged in Tenryu, who returned to his own personal war against Jumbo. After a ringside brawl, Kawada and Tsuruta come back to the ring and Toshiaki starts to kick him in the head till he busts his head open, what a lack of respect.

Tenryu manages to do the Folding Powerbomb to Tsuruta, but Yatsu quickly enters to cut the count, and is the same Yoshiaki who delivers one of his own to Genichiro, though it's not enough to achieve the victory. Of course, they are Tenyu and Jumbo who starts the finishing stretch heating it up, Kawada and Yatsu continue it and Tsuruta ends it with his Backdrop to Toshiaki. This was a helluva match, fast-paced, great crowd and great wrestlers, Kawada was like a fish in the water there with the older guys though he was the weak player in the game, and Tenryu and Jumbo continue anticipating their classic.

Rating: ****1/2

AJPW: 3/8/89: NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship: Road Warriors & Tenryu Vs Jumbo, Yatsu & Takano:
It will sound weird, but I think this is the first time I see the Road Warriors, I didn't expect to that in AJPW, let's see if their fame is deserved. Also, we have two of the best in history in the likes of Tenryu and Jumbo, we have Yatsu, who seems solider each match, and Takano, who I've never seen. The crowd literally explodes when Road Warriors make their way to the ring, good omen. Animal & Jumbo start it, the japanese has a face like "I can handle this", but just after the shoulder tackling, Animal lifts him up and performs a picture-perfect Military Press, but Tsuruta answers him with a great Lariat, this starts incredible. Then Hawk, who looks like the madder of the two, enters. Turn for Tenryu, but Tsuruta seems scared and tags in Yatsu. Now it's time for Takano, who looks pretty agile considering his magnitude.

After Hawk's entry, Takano tags in Yatsu, but Tsuruta wants to fight, though he gets out of the ring quickly by Hawk. The three japanese wrestlers are clearly who get the heel reaction in this match, and is odd that the japanese crowd boo someone, doesn't matter how heel he is, therefore the Road Warriors are over as hell. The finishing stretch is a little dirty, but the champions retained after the Doomsday Device over Nakano, who didn't tell me anything during the match. Great match, but nothing to be remembered, it was better by the grace of the crowd and Jumbo's attitude than for the inring action itself, the Warriors are spectacular, but they really just do the same sequence of moves once and again, I'm not disappointed either.

Rating: ****

AJPW: 3/28/89: Jumbo & Yatsu Vs Kawada & Fuyuki:
And now we have the other posibility that the Six Man offered, clearly less balanced, but not worse for this. This match is clipped, which pains me because has a great looking. Well, when the clip begins, we see Tsuruta carrying a bloody-face Kawada through ringside, DAMN IT! Toshiaki achieves a little bit of offensive with a Lariat, but doesn't give the tag, he wants to get revenge out of Tsuruta. Fuyuki goes to help Kawada, but leaves with the head busted open too. Yatsu dominates Kawada in the ring while Jumbo DESTROYS Fuyuki in ringside, today they are more heels than ever. Fuyuaki finally enters to the ring and takes care of Tsuruta, who tags in Yatsu, but him becomes another victim of the rage of the little man.

But the two veterans manage to relax the younger in ringside. Fuyuki withstands every bomb they throw to him obtaining a good reaction as the face in peril while Kawada couldn't stop coming to break the counts. But then Jumbo and his Backdrop came and it's all over. Very good match, considering the nine minutes I saw, but it had the looks of a great match, Jumbo and Kawada kept ruling.

Rating: ***1/2

AJPW: 4/18/89: Triple Crown Championship Formation: Jumbo Tsuruta Vs Stan Hansen:
Last stop before the Tenryu/Jumbo series and it's non other than the formation of the Triple Crown Championship. Jumbo was the NWA International Champion, and Hansen the NWA National Champion and PWF Champion, therefore they put every title on the line in this match and the title will stay this way forever as the maximum prize in All Japan, this can't be bad. The match starts rather slow, because they go to the mat, which I didn't expect knowing both of them and the crowd don't help much either, what I think is criminal knowing the importance of the match, but ok. With the first Jumping Knee by Tsuruta, the crowd notices that it's not dead. Hansen seems to be tired of the match and goes out of the ring, but is dogged by Jumbo to keep punishing the yankee.

Back in the ring, Tsuruta keeps the yankee under control, until Hansen delivers a quite good Backdrop, to which the crowd seems to react, now the commentator is not the only one interested in the match. After some elbows and knee drops, Hansen busted Jumbo's head open, Stan is now comfortable in the ring and makes it clear doing a Jumping Knee to his own creator, then he goes for the Western Lariat, under the biggest pop till the moment(já!), Tsuruta avoids it and rolls him up to win every single title, that end caught me unaware. After the match, Hansen does a beatdown on the champion. Very good match, but a little bit disappointing given the the importance of the very one, nothing bad either, though they were moments in which Hansen only punched Tsuruta, good punches, but between that and the mat work, they killed the crowd, fuck 'em up.

Rating: ***3/4

AJPW: 4/20/89: AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship: Jumbo Tsuruta Vs Genichiro Tenryu:
There we go, the first championship bout between these two, it's said that it's not as good as the one they will have two months forward, and I believe it because it's impossible, but being these two it'll be a great match for sure. We are in Yokohama, let's see how is this crowd. They make a shoulder tackled and Tenryu put Tsuruta against the ropes, what annoys Jumbo, that seems to be excited this night. Ok, after a Gamengiri, a chop and a lariat by Tenryu, I clearly see that this is a good crowd, perfect. Then again, we are in the same position as before, Jumbo is against the ropes, Tenryu set the champion free behind a great Woooooo from the crowd, they exchange looks, and the tension could be cut with a knife, then Genichiro slaps Tsuruta to hell and I loose my shit.

Jumbo, at last, could tame the beast with a Sleeper Hold, but I don't know if that would be enough to stop Tenryu from his killing attempts. Tsuruta manages to do a backdrop to him in some way, but that doesn't give him the victory, you gotta do more than this, giant. Finally, Tenryu could do a chop and the crowd answeres with a good pop. Then, Genichiro delivers a Suicide Dive, so weird. Then the final sequence comes and Jumbo retains after the Folding Powerbomb, but completely botched, Tenryu landed right on his head, in the same fashion as the Ganso Bomb. The botch was that clear that the crowd couldn't react to the finish. Great match, shorter and with less drama than the other, but it's impossible to miss it with these two, what a pair of cracks, this time the crowd reacted and I noticed they leave a lot of things to do in their following match.

Rating: ****1/4

AJPW: 6/5/89: AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship: Jumbo Tsuruta Vs Genichiro Tenryu:
Finally, we have come where I wanted, you can see this match and think it's fantastic(Like I did), but after seeing all the build-up, it can't be more hyped. Like I reviewed this the first time I watched it, I'll only make a few notes. Now I understands what Hansen was doing in ringside in this match, first time I saw it, it seemed very bizarre to me. Tsuruta is more stiff than usual, what it's so logical. Tenryu did a dive to ringside once again, and it seems like a regular move in his arsenal for the great matches now. The crowd being behind Tsuruta here is at odds with me, because he was being the heel for their entire feud. Jumbo goes for the Folding Powerbomb again, but Tenryu fights for his life(literally) and avoids it. Then, Tsuruta starts to be booed, this is more usual to me. Now I understand the pop after Tenryu avoided the Thesz Press and made Jumbo fall against the ropes, because the very champion did the same thing to win the unify the championships. The final sequence is PRICELESS.

Rating: All-time Classic.

After these seven matches, I have only one thing to say:

Tenyu > Kawada > Jumbo > You.
 
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NOAH "GREAT VOYAGE 2011 IN TOKYO VOL. 4", 27.11.2011 (G+)
Tokyo Ariake Colosseum

1. Masao Inoue & Mikey Nicholls vs. Kento Miyahara & Shane Haste
2. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Akitoshi Saito & Mohammed Yone
3. Kenta Kobashi & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Takuma Sano & Shuhei Taniguchi
4. ANMU vs. No Mercy: Kotaro Suzuki, Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori vs. Yoshihiro Takayama, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi
5. Naomichi Marufuji Return Match: Naomichi Marufuji vs. Takashi Sugiura
6. GHC Jr. Heavyweight Title, Decision Match: Ricky Marvin vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima
7. Triple Crown: Jun Akiyama (c) vs. Taiyo Kea
8. GHC Heavyweight Title: Go Shiozaki (c) vs. KENTA
 
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Oh my at a 2nd Kanemaru time limit draw that gets televised. The matches that I'm interested in all got good time though so I'm happy.

Morishima/KENTA final is great. Either guy winning works with both of them having title matches upcoming (you'd think). I imagine the match could be awesome too. I think KENTA would be the best pick long term as he needs a big achievement for people to buy him as a heavyweight in the long run, not just for his match with Go.
 
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