shoe Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Jay White Man I thought this was a real good opener. White's strikes are awesome. They worked at a quick pace with big time strikes, and some good looking submissions. They worked it in a way and got me to believe White could win. I thought these really clicked on a lot of levels. Loved Taguchi using his butt strikes to work over White's arm and leg. White's payback spot with the butt strike was tremendous. White seems like a big time star waiting to happen. 3* Tiger Mask vs. Sho Tanaka This match kinda surprised me at how tight they worked the match. The submissions were basic stuff but looked super hurty. The strikes were very good too. The drama was built into the submissions and rope breaks. Tanaka was great at getting TM submission work over with really strong facials. 2 3/4* Jushin Thunder Liger vs. David Finlay I thought Liger was really good finding ways to work over Finlay's back. I bought all of that. It was Finlay's comebacks I couldn't get behind. It seemed to lack an urgency to it. The finish was one of the new breed where it comes out of no where, 2 1/4* Mascara Dorada vs. Yohei Komatsu Dorada looked good here with his high flying. Komatsu just kinda came across as an after thought. 2 1/4* Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Yuji Nagata & Captain New Japan I thought this had some fun moments, but it was a flat match. 2* Tetsuya Naito & Manabu Nakanishi & Kushida vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Kenny Omega Omega and Kushida show good chemistry in the ring. The Nakanishi/Fale exchange is terrible. The heels do stooge well for Nakanishi. .Overall, this was solid. Too much focus on Nakanishi. Though the new Naito could be interesting. 2 1/2* Kazuchika Okada & Rocky Romero & Berreta vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows & Yujiro Takahashi Hopefully Takahashi is hidden well. Loved RPG vice chopping the tree that is Gallows down. Beretta as FIP was solid. Some of Gallow's strikes looked pretty mediocre. Anderson aping Orton on the tease of the Ace Crusher was lame. I wonder if Okada is going to get a hair cut before Dominion. A fun way to get Okada and Takahasi one on one. 2 1/2* Elimination Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Hirooki Goto & Togi Makabe & Katsuyori Shibata & Tomoaki Honma vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano & Kazushi Sakuraba & Yoshi-Hashi The pairing that never ends. Some are hits, some aren't. I like the spin of making it an elimination match. We get our pairings off to start. Everyone feeling out their rival. Yano is in full pussy mode. Eventually Honma is FIP and they all get a shot working him over. Honma's dead lift suplex of Ishii was boss. Now we get our NJPW trope and they're fighting outside while Ishii and Makabe take center stage. Both are counted out. Yano does a sneak attack, but he falls to a count out. A flash pin by Sakaraba ends Tanahasi. Sakaraba and Shibata go over the top. Nakamura and Goto pair off. Nakamura eliminates Goto over the top rope. We have a 2 on 1 now. Honma pins Yoshi-Hashi. Can Honma pull off the ultimate upset. Nope. This was good. Their was a lot of booking protection. that caused the eliminations to be flat. The last 2 eliminations were good. 3 1/4* Overall a good househow with good wrestling up and down the card. The singles matches made it seem different than the usual houseshow. The main event with the eliminations gave it a more special feel. Dominion should be a stacked show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2BTD Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 This was one of my favorite shows of the year and I could not stop thinking or raving about it the next day. The opener was really strong, and then BAM, the Tiger Mask/Tanaka match blew it out of the water. I loved it so much that I nearly went ****. Tiger Mask as a grumpy "take no shit" asshole is like night & day from his uninspired, dry as sand babyface routine. And in this match, he was a grumpy take no shit asshole. TM was great here, as was Tanaka taking the beating. Tanaka's lights being out at the end of the match, with TM telling him to GET UP, made for a great post match. TM then cut a promo, telling Tanaka to show NOAH what NJPW was all about in the NOAH junior league. Just awesome from start to finish, one of the best squashes you'll ever see. Naito took forever to come out, and is doing a cocky tweener routine since coming back from Mexico. This has all sorts of cool possibilities. Nothing on the show was worse than average. Everything had a purpose, from minor angles like the Tanaka deal, to the main event where the rivals eliminated each other. The main event was awesome & FUN, and the type of match they *should* be doing on RAW once every six months or so but never do because they refuse to break from formula. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted July 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 You seem to like it more than I did, but I did enjoy it quite a bit and it may have been the best houseshow they put on this year that has aired on NJ World. I liked the TM match and like you said it was a squash. It was too one sided for me to get it to the near 4 star range. I understand why TM dominated based on positioning and such.I can also see why you liked it more than me. This is a TM that people can enjoy. I liked the 10 man, and having Honma with the numbers game against him is sure fire drama. The 10 man match is stale,to the wrestlers credit they've had some good ones this year. Having it under elimination rules gave it some spark. For people to not like the opener that has just got to be based on hating Taguchi so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2BTD Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 You seem to like it more than I did, but I did enjoy it quite a bit and it may have been the best houseshow they put on this year that has aired on NJ World. I liked the TM match and like you said it was a squash. It was too one sided for me to get it to the near 4 star range. I understand why TM dominated based on positioning and such.I can also see why you liked it more than me. This is a TM that people can enjoy. I liked the 10 man, and having Honma with the numbers game against him is sure fire drama. The 10 man match is stale,to the wrestlers credit they've had some good ones this year. Having it under elimination rules gave it some spark. For people to not like the opener that has just got to be based on hating Taguchi so much. Yeah, aside from the Gedo main event at BOSJ in Korakuen, that was the best Taguchi match in a long time. I know i'm probably on an island with the TM match, but it just connected with me. It was a nice surprise when they changed the ten man to an elimination match, because like you said it added some spark to a match that NOBODY wanted to see because we've seen it a thousand times. Only match that did nothing for me was the BC six man. Even the mediocre TenKoji tag was decent enough, and served a purpose in giving the top babyface team a high profile win to keep them strong. That's much better than booking another six man that nobody cares about. Having four singles matches, even though it was all lions, was also a nice change of pace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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