GAORA has a wealth of Muto era All Japan that they're sitting on. They release one match a week for the last five years. I'm not sure if it had to do with COVID restrictions and the lack of live wrestling to broadcast. Anyhow, I'm very glad that they have kept up with it! It's really helped me get to see this period of All Japan. It's definitely different than the Four Pillars, King's Road era BUT is very similar to New Japan's style with a cozier feel. That's to say it doesn't have the big presence that NJPW has but there's quality wrestling. 

Keeping with the Video Daze format, I'll be collecting some matches that interest me but just aren't able to watch at the moment. This will help remind me as well as steer you in a direction you might not known about. 

This time GAORA has collected a series of matches from the summer of 2005. These feature the dastardly Voodoo Murders stable versus Kensuke Office. I had a best of 2005 comp DVD that features a VM match and man, was it different from the 90's AJPW that I had been watching. It turned me off of this era of the company. I was mistaken though. It wasn't what I wanted at the time. This period, especially VM stuff is closer to American wrestling angles & shenanigans than you'd see in AJPW or maybe even New Japan. I honestly love this type of stuff though. It's really melodramatic. What draws me about it in puro is that they can back it up in the ring. Now...that said the VM stable did have some muscle bound Western wrestlers that were fresh out of Stamford, CT and they aren't my cup of tea. In fact, they're a big reason why I stopped watching wrestling on TV in the early 2000's.

What drew me to this angle was the inclusion of joshi queen & Mrs. Kensuke, Akira Hokuto! She's one of my all time faves & I recommend her matches in GAEA in case you think she ran out of juice in the 90's. Anyhow, this looks like a great angle where TARU and his crew go after Hokuto in order to get in the head of Kensuke & his protege Nakajima. Tomoaki Honma becomes an honorary member of Kensuke's clan in order to fight them. I'm becoming more of a fan of his from watching late 90's Big Japan so this was right up my alley.

I did my best dating these using Quebrada & Cagematch. 

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2005
The evil hand of VOODOO ...
Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Shuji Kondo/"brother" YASSHI (06/03)

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Katsuhiko Nakajima & Tomoaki Honma (Kensuke Family) vs Shuji Kondo & "brother" YASSHI (06/19)

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Akira Hokuto K.O. in front of Kensuke Sasaki...
Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Tomoaki Honma vs Shuji Kondo, "brother" YASSHI & TARU (07/15)

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Akira Hokuto rejoices!! 
Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Shuji Kondo & "brother" YASSHI (07/26)

This looks like an easy four-pack of matches to watch. I'm looking forward to these! Thanks for reading!