Thursday, July 9, 2009

CHIKARA The Bobliographon (4/26/09)

Shadow Phoenix vs. Claudio Castagnoli **1/2

2.0 vs. Cheech & Cloudy vs. The Super Smash Brothers vs. The UnStable **1/2

UltraMantis Black vs. Create-A-Wrestler *1/2

The Roughnecks vs. Incoherence ***3/4

Shark Girl vs. Sara Del Rey *1/2

The Future Is Now vs. The Osirian Portal ***3/4

Vin Gerard vs. Glacier 1/2
Wow, what a terrible match. Someone tell Glacier this isn't WCW Saturday Night.

F.I.S.T. & Buck Hawke vs. Mike Quackenbush, Jigsaw & The Colony ****1/4
Currently number 32 on my MOTYC list. Tremendous match, IMO.

Pretty good show, 3 awesome matches. Rest was meh.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

NJPW Best of the Super Juniors XVI (5/30/09)

Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Nobuo Yoshihashi *

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Togi Makabe, Wataru Inoue & Tomoaki Honma vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii **3/4

Manabu Nakanishi, Yuji Nagata & Mitsuhide Hirasawa vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada ***1/2

Block A
Prince Devitt vs. Milano Collection AT ***3/4

Block B
Ryusuke Taguchi vs. YAMATO ***1/4

Block A
Tiger Mask IV vs. Atsushi Aoki **3/4

Block B
Kota Ibushi vs. Koji Kanemoto ***3/4

I watched it all out of order, but seems like a pretty good show. Worth checking it out.

CHIKARA Behind the 8-Ball (4/25/09)

.0 vs. Incoherence ***1/4

Nevaeh vs. Shark Girl **1/2

Escorpion Egipcio vs. Helios **3/4

Player Uno, Hydra, Vin Gerard & Buck Hawke vs. Player Dos, Tim Donst, STIGMA & Brodie Lee *1/4

Gran Akuma vs. Shadow Phoenix ***1/4
Oh the sloppiness. That hurt the match badly. It could have been so much better.

F.I.S.T. vs. The Colony ***1/2

Young Lions Cup Championship
Equinox (c) vs. Colin Delaney ***

2 out of 3 Falls Match for the CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas
The Osirian Portal (c) vs. Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw ***1/4
I think the flow to this match did not work too well. I think there wasn't enough Quack and that's bad, because it was such a long match and the other three seemed to have problems working so long. The psychology was a little off.

Overall, a solid show that's worth getting.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

PWG Based on a True Story (1/13/07)

Frankie Kazarian vs. Scorpio Sky ***1/2

Colt Cabana vs. Rocky Romero **

Karl Anderson, Bino Gambino & Scott Lost vs. Nemesis, TJ Perkins & Disco Machine ***

Kevin Steen vs. Chris Bosh ***3/4
Some cool spots in this one. It was pretty brutal, especially the finisher Steen used.

Super Dragon vs. Ronin ***1/4
This one kinda surprised me. Pretty good match.

PWG World Tag Team Championship
El Generico & Quicksilver (c) vs. Phoenix Star & Zokre ****

Guerrilla Warfare Match for the PWG World Championship
Joey Ryan (c) vs. Human Tornado ****1/4
This was pretty awesome. There were some pretty sick spots also. It was really good. Though, at the beginning, it was pretty hard to get into. It got a lot better though.

Overall, it was a pretty great show. One of the best overall shows that I have, to be honest. Worth picking up.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Pro-Wrestling NOAH (1/12/09)

Takeshi Rikio, Mohammed Yone & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Shuhei Taniguchi **3/4

KENTA & Taiji Ishimori vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Genba Hirayanagi ***3/4

Takuma Sano vs. Go Shiozaki ****

Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Jun Akiyama & Atsushi Aoki ****

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom III (1/4/09)

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Yujiro & Naito (c) vs. Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin ***3/4

Manabu Nakanishi vs. Jun Akiyama ***1/2

Hardcore Match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
Togi Makabe & Toru Yano (c) vs. Brother Ray & Brother Devon **

Riki Choshu, Masahiro Chono, Kurt Angle & Kevin Nash vs. Giant Bernard, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson **1/2

Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Takashi Sugiura ****1/4
Currently number 29 on my MOTYC list.

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Keiji Mutoh (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi **3/4
Wow this one really bored me. My rating is probably being generous, but they went so long, and had some cool stuff in there. Mostly, though, it was just a bunch of the same stuff over and over again, especially by Mutoh. I'll leave it up to you to decide if you wanna watch it.

Pro-Wrestling NOAH (2/15/09)

Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Kotaro Suzuki & Genba Hirayanagi vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Atsushi Aoki & Akihiro Ito ****

KENTA & Ippei Ota vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara ****

Takeshi Morishima & Makoto Hashi vs. Takeshi Rikio & Mohammed Yone **

Jun Akiyama & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Takashi Sugiura & Go Shiozaki ***3/4

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2/15/09)

Yuji Nagata vs. Hirooki Goto ****1/4
Currently number 28 on my MOTYC list.

Kurt Angle vs. Giant Bernard ***1/4

Hardcore Match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
Brother Ray & Brother Devon (c) vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano ***3/4

CMLL World Welterweight Championship
Mistico (c) vs. Mephisto **3/4
I don't watch these guys often, but they seemed to either be very sloppy or just off their game. Decent match, but skippable.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Tiger Mask IV (c) vs. Jushin Thunder Liger ***1/4

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura ****