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  1. Jetlag
    I've enjoyed 3 out of these 4 workers in the JWP that I've watched, but this was awful long and didn't exactly deliver in terms of Devil/Chigusa interactions. Match had it's moments, but there was nothing substantial going on and they kept losing the crowd with the constant restholds. It didn't build credibly into it's length, they just went "well, still got another 5 minutes to go, here's a half crab". The sleeper hold spots where a nice touch but after 10 seconds it was clear they were killing time. Then there's that butchered sequence where Devil wants Plum to hit another suplex for whatever reason, and Devil letting go off her pin before Chigusa was kicking out. Whenever Chigusa's involved things gotta be melodramatic so a slew of big moves being thrown out before the finish was to be expected, I guess.
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    Yeah, these two do a better heavyweight epic than current NJPW heavyweights. I don't remember Io Shirai working like a crowbar, but she was just wasting her young opponent here. The match may have peaked early with that and Watanabe kicking her in the face to retaliate. The finishing run was pretty overkilly with Watanabe landing every big move in her book on Shirai, but they pull me back in with a neat Chickenwing -> Suplex spot that felt straight out of 90s AJPW. Same for the hellish uppercut that bloodied Watanabe. Of the 4 matches that I've seen from 2018, this felt like the best.
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    I dunno. This was okay. Lots of cool individual moments, but as a whole this felt like a chore to sit through. Just awfully slow at times "now I'm waiting for you to stand up, now I kick you then wander around a little" and so on, so there was never any real urgency. Some of the spots looked weak, and Zack still moves goofy. I did like Zack's game and his reversals looked ultra slick, and he deserves some credit for making the crowd care about things like twisting the leg (of course Okada no sells all that, so fuck him). Also, what on earth was that transition that lead to Zack doing the Toby Imada spot? Zack eating that sick piledriver followed by the noodle armed lariat was a funny finish. Okada's still an embarassment, don't compare his CHIKARA holds to T2P.
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    I watched my first Not too familiar with Capture. Any details or matches you'd recommend? Sounds like a shoot style promotion? the promotion is not dead Tomohiro Ishii vs Nihao[ from the first show the promotion diid Kaoru Todori vs Yukihiko Koizumi [ctach wrestling festivle] Nobutaka Araya and Nobukazu Hirai vs Koki Kitahara and Daisaku [ show 23 ] 2017.09.06 Minoru Tanaka vs Sanshu Tsubakichi Do Capture release DVDs of some sort? I've found this YouTube channel, where they've uploaded some highlight videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYjaRcDrsX-lHVsZo6FtqtA That being said, I watched my first Tokyo Pro show: Tokyo Pro 8/25/96 TWA World Tag Challenger Team Decision Match: Yoji Anjo & Tiger Mask vs. Takashi Ishikawa & Yoshihiro Takayama Sabu vs. Black Wazuma NWA Light Heavyweight Title Match: El Dandy vs. Masao Orihara TWA Tag Title Match: Abdullah The Butcher & Daikokubo Benkei vs. Yoji Anjo & Tiger Mask This card was a total winner with every match being worth checking out. UWFi dudes and Tiger Mask looked great, Sabu and Scorpio had their best match together that I've seen, Dandy and Orihara delivered a fun WCWSN match and the main event was better than it had any right to be. Blood, stiffness, cool matwork, crazy high spots, this card delivered pretty much everything a japanese sleaze indy aims at.
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    Looking at this matchup taking place in a sleaze indy fed I was expecting a wild brawl but instead they stick to working a WCW Worldwide match. These are two guys with some fun snappy offense though and they trade some big suplexes, powerbombs and dives. They end up working some bullshit non-finish so they can do a restart with a few minutes overtime and then work a time limit draw. Lazy tricksters.
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    Way too fun. This was about the best match you can possibly get out of two dudes as limited as Abby & Benkei. First Anjo and Tiger take turns laying into pudgy old sumowrestler Benkei before Abby comes in for the old stab & chop. Anjo ends up bloodied and playing a really good Ricky Morton for such a natural dipshit heel before coming back by beating the shit out of Abby and bloodying him in return. Undeterred by the potential Hep infection Tiger Mask comes in and beats the shit out of a bloody Abby aswell. Tiger can't really do highspots against these fat dudes so he just throws a bunch of kicks to the face and kneedrops and it's awesome. Abby trapping Anjo with his blob physique was a great spot too. Tiger Mask & Anjo looked super here and Abby selling and coming back with a last ditch throat chop was genuinely exciting stuff.
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    Really good match which may be the best I've seen between the two. They start slow with a lot of matwork and cool rope running exchanges which added a ton to the build of the match. These two have wrestled each other many times especially on this tour but they did a good job making everything come together organically and not making the match look like an exhibition. Sabu hits a really nice low dropkick into a spin kick transition and I'm wondering when the hell did Sabu turn into a graceful junior wrestler but then he goes for a dive and Scorpio just hurls a chair into him and the match goes awry. They move into the spots and reversals you expect from a Sabu/Scorpio match. All the spots still look cool and everything made sense, the only minor upfuck was Sabu's slightly delayed bump on a headscissor. Sabu using the chair to crotch Scorp when he tried his extra flippy legdrop was a really smart spot to allow himself extra breathing space. I dug them going back to some cool mat stuff for a bit in the middle. Match went the right length. Feels weird how out of style Sabu worship is with the indy wrestlers of the last few years, I enjoyed this a lot.
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    This was a fun match with everyone dishing out stiff shots and Anjoh making jokes. Takayama was wearing biker gloves for some reason, but other than that his exchanges with Anjoh and Tiger Mask were the highlight of the match. Tiger Mask works best against heavyweights because it adds some restraint to his work and Takayama forces him out of his usual spiel by not going along and making him actually hit the mat and work exchanges instead of just hitting his spots.
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    WAR CUTY!!! I don't know what the hell it is about The Scorpion that brings out Cuty's inner asskicker like this, but it sure has produced a memorable match series. Match opens with Cuty posting Scorpion's arm and then just does her best Arn Anderson impression ripping the hell out of that arm and sinking into armbars at awkward angles. I was a little worried about Scorpion selling all that at first but it ended up being fine. Match was unexpectedly really gritty with Scorpion throwing headbutts and savage kicks and Cuty punching her in the mouth like she's Fuchi or something. Really enjoyed the tricked out finishing run once again which left quite a bit on the table for the rematches. Yeah these two rule together, let it be known that once in a while Cuty Suzuki would step up and be a gritty badass.
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    Plum Mariko & Cuty Suzuki vs. Mayumi Ozaki & Rumi Kazama (12/7/90) Mostly back and forth action in this one interespersed with Kazama kicking the living hell out of the prettygirls and some mean stomps and knees from Ozaki. Some good interactions between Kazama and Mariko continueing from their singles match the previous year. Match wasn't bad but the baseline for JWP is a little higher than this by now and I thought the finish was kind of cheap as a bazillion suplexes were thrown before a fluke ending. Perfectly good joshi though and didn't go long. Devil Masami vs. Madusa (JWP 8/8/91) We've had Cuty Suzuki work as Arn Anderson, now get ready for kickpadded shootstylist Madusa, throwing thudding kicks and going for kimuras!! This was quite the awkward mess, altough honestly Masami wasn't exactly pushing the action with her hair pulling and scratching. I imagine this Madusa has a fun match in her, but Masami isn't the one to produce it. Cuty Suzuki vs. The Scorpion (8/11/91) WAR CUTY!!! I don't know what the hell it is about The Scorpion that brings out Cuty's inner asskicker like this, but it sure has produced a memorable match series. Match opens with Cuty posting Scorpion's arm and then just does her best Arn Anderson impression ripping the hell out of that arm and sinking into armbars at awkward angles. I was a little worried about Scorpion selling all that at first but it ended up being fine. Match was unexpectedly really gritty with Scorpion throwing headbutts and savage kicks and Cuty punching her in the mouth like she's Fuchi or something. Really enjoyed the tricked out finishing run once again which left quite a bit on the table for the rematches. Yeah these two rule together, let it be known that once in a while Cuty Suzuki would step up and be a gritty badass.
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    You're crazy, right? Yatsu has all the really awesome offense in this match. This is one of my all time favourite fights. They just kill eachother. Copy and pasting tomk's review on this match because it has some of my all time favourite lines:
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    Great, unique match with tremendous pace and just an electric atmosphere. The opening is like a boxing match with Bryan dancing around Morishima and chopping into his legs with awesome low kicks and Morishima trying to push him into the corners. You wouldn't expect this kind of strategy to go over well with RoH workrate smark fans for several minutes but it totally does. Then Morishima catches himand just pounds the living shit out of Bryan, detaching his retina and not releasing that the eye injury was real for several minutes. I don't wanna go „Hey that dude almost getting blinded was awesome“ but in a way the injury added to the match. Bryan got in a ton of offense but he was also clearly in immense danger. The subsequent leg attacks and Morishima powering out of submission and ground and pound attempts were all great and Morishima may have his finest performance ever in this match as a giant tree who will also fuck you up. I don't remember Bryan doing so many fighting spirit spots though. Besides that the strike based parts of this match were just awesome and Morishima crushing Bryan underneath him is still one of the most god awful spots I've seen ever. This may honestly be my favourite RoH match because it's compact and I love the crowd going apeshit for Morishima simply buckling over as his leg finally gives out.
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    Looking at this matchup I was expecting a wild brawl but instead this starts with Nagasaki and Okumura exchanging knucklelocks. Hm, okay. After about a minute of that this delivers though as all the good guys in this match step in and bring the goods. Some really fun exchanges between Mochizuki and Fujiwara, and once Tenryu steps in Fujiwara goes MAD and goes after him like a pitbull, bloodying him with headbutts and biting. Now Araya is punching a bloody Tenryu while Nagasaki is throwing tables in the background. Match stays in the ring though and it's really good with Tenryu doing his best Terry Funk impression with wobbly selling and wild swinging chops and lariats, and Fujiwara is a mad bugger throughout, going after everyone and trading stiff headbutts with Nagasaki. The finish is between Okumura & Nagasaki which is the least exciting matchup here, but I guess Nagasaki was running the event so he gets to play star at the end. Still, this was a really good little match with Tenryu and Fujiwara as the centerpieces.
  14. Jetlag
    This was an utterly insane, blood drenched spectacle. Orihara looked really great here, taking one of the craziest bumps I've ever seen, and ripping Takeru's mask and kicking him in the face, and generally doing a massive feat holding this together. His selling was fucking crazy too as he was selling the blood in a way that you fought someone was really about to die here. Match also had a bunch of awkward painful high end junior offense, stiff powerbombs and neck compressing suplexes and all that.
  15. Jetlag
    I gave joeg this match which is still waiting for a review: And I received this match, which put me in a bit of a sullen and melancholic state: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/34010-genichiro-tenryu-vs-kazuchika-okada-tenryu-project-1115/
  16. Jetlag
    Well, this was sad indeed. I did get a kick out of Tenryu's disdainful glare and him punking Okada. Still, Tenryu is such an immobile geriatric here he was struggling with things such as walking or clubbing his opponents back. Face punches and dropkicks were spectacular, altough Okada's idea of a comeback consists of "bounce into the ropes and do a move in return". For a guy who is hyped as a charismatic superstar, Okada is kind of dull. His european uppercuts were really weak, and he really should've done a better job selling getting dumped on his neck. Well yeah, it almost feels redundant to critique a match like this. Tenryu hit his spots and the crowd was moved. Skip this and instead watch Hansen and Terry Funk coming out after the match.
  17. Jetlag
    Years after putting over Inoki in a historic match, Johnny Powers returns to japan to face another japanese top gaijin in a much less historic match. Powers is looking somewhat older and sadder, like a Bob Ross gone off the rails here. Powers still has really nice basic offense, mean looking elbows and knees and stomps and what not. He spends what feels like 20 minutes beating on Kimura and this would've been good had Kimura sold any of that and ens gaged powers in some significant form before the poor finish. There's also about 4 or 5 nut shots in this match. Thesz was the ref and him punching Powers in the face for doing the exact same stuff Thesz was doing 20 years earlier was the funniest moment of the match. But yeah, don't watch this.
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    Bock takes on the mysterious and handsome Kintaro Oki! The referee is Lou Thesz (didn't Thesz and Oki have a shoot incident at one point?). Some fine old school grappling in the first fall with Oki looking very game to work fast knucklelocks and cool takedowns. Bockwinkel starts roughing him up with nasty forearm smashes in the second building to Oki's comeback ramming Bock with oodles of headbutts. The 3rd fall is sadly JIP as Bockwinkel is a bloody mess and Oki continues going at him before the inevitable finish. I always enjoy a good Oki match and while this wasn't exactly a genius Bockwinkel performance it was a solid take at this formula with a touring champion coming in roughing up the local guy only to end up on the brink of defeat by the end.
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    This was a fun defensive, cagey bout where neither guy was willing to get thrown easily. This builds really nice into the second half where both guys have enough and start throwing stiff slaps and headbutts. Go was chasing Hara here, hitting a mean dropkick and dropping him on a table for a spot that was pretty crazy by 1980 standards. Match had good heat and tension and the uncooperativeness made this a cool encounter.
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    Pretty much a 1980s MOVEZ~! match as this was basically all 4 guys running in to hit their stuff, tag out, and repeat. I liked the stiff dropkicks, nasty piledriver and graceful arm whips so I'll take it over today's thigh slap happy MOVEZ~! Matches. There was a cool moment where Mighty and Kimura slapped the shit out of eachother and then Kimura annihilates Hamaguchi with a ruthless dive. Animal is down and out and I was thinking this match actually had some drama going now but seconds later a lousy DQ happens. Well, this had awesome heat and I now wanna see more Haruka Eigen matches lurking amidst the the sea of IWE, so a rematch may be somewhere down there.
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    I'll always enjoy watching these two tear into eachother. Hashimoto is always such a beastly lumbering giant, landing huge swinging chops and kicks into Choshu. Choshu punches him in the face to comeback and keeps using his head as a punching ball. Both guys have a devastating move they can always land, the DDT and the lariat, so that was a cool dynamic. Hash blitzes Choshu and keeps softening him up with fat elbow drops, but Choshu drops him out of nowhere. Choshu then puts a massive beating on Hash, landing several lariats and a big suplex on the floor. Choshu is really throwing the kitchen sink and Hash seems done until he catches the surprise powerslam and huge spin kick for the last ditch win. Epic moment and borderline great match.
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    I can't decide which I like more: him being a genuine japanese wrestling superfan who has gone to hundreds of wrestling shows and also happens to be an anarchist with an interest in the IRA and old communist anthems who types like no other person in his country or the planet. Or him being an equal wrestling superfan masquerading as a japanese person for whatever reason who has gone through the trouble of looking up NOW houseshow results to pad up his best of lists and posted in this gimmick style for several years already before coming to this board. Eitherways I am mystified.
  23. Jetlag
    Some finnish pro wrestling from 1968 involving a former gold medalist:
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    Mayumi Ozaki vs. Devil Masami (6/16/1990) This as okay. Houseshow stuff. Devil almost resembled Andre the Giant in how she would work big/small spots with Ozaki here. Some silly buggers begin near the end with a bunch of interference spots like an attitude era match. This is for the completists only. Shinobu Kandori vs. Sachiko Koganei (3/25/1990) Koganei blitzes Kandori but quickly falls victim to the submission godess. Harley Saito vs. Rumi Kazama (5/12/1990) This was bordering on being listworthy. I could see other people digging this, and myself going back and adding it anyways. Really brutal match with barrages of stiff kicks being dished out, a missed dive spot and Saito dumping her opponent on her head with ganso bombs. Some cool spots included a nice Fujiwara armbar from Kazama which twisted Harley around aswell as a nasty spinkick. Still some of the action felt inconsequential, e.g. there was a double kick spot which Harley sold for a splitsecond and then just moved on, and Kazama wasn't really able to sell the punishment she was withstanding. Fun match but a little too flawed for me to endores fully right now.
  25. Jetlag
    This actually got **** from Meltzer. This had the kind of bell to bell action you expect from a Meltzer approved match, as there's no feeling out process, it opens with Aoyagi landing a huge punch to the sternum and then pretty much just putting a major ass stomping on Koshinaka. Koshinaka when challenged can bring the asskicking when it counts and he does here, he is probably the only guy who can make a butt attack feel violent, and really dug his desperation sweeping lariats, dropkicks etc. a lot. Match was a lot like Lawler/Mantell as both guys just exchange back and forth and it builds into guys trading punches on their knees, trading punches while standing, one guy throwing punches from his knees and the other kicking him in the face etc. There is some fun stuff built around Koshinaka trying submissions and Aoyagi finding violent ways to fight out of them, and the match has really good pacing. I thought Koshinaka seemed to be no selling Aoyagi a little, but Aoyagi's selling was strong. I'm not sure how much part he played in it but the neck dumping suplexes were spectacular aswell. Great match, Aoyagi rules so much at this kind of nasty streetfight.
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