tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62964482011-08-02T10:51:06.445+08:00My views on Pro Wrestling from the East and WestEric Extremehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15011133819763569736noreply@blogger.comBlogger3861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296448.post-1175300905966273652011-05-21T22:57:00.003+08:002011-05-21T23:09:02.519+08:00

One of the all time wrestling greats, Randy "Macho Man" Savage tragically died early Friday morning after suffering a heart attack while driving and crashing his car. He was 52. One of my favorites as a kid, whether he was heel or face. May he rest in peace.

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1. I must have missed the part where they said the winner of the Royal Rumble gets to OPEN WrestleMania and not MAIN EVENT it. There is NO EXCUSE for having a World Title match opening the BIGGEST PPV OF THE YEAR. They say they are making history, I say they are burying their championships.2. This is the 2nd Alberto Del Rio PPV match I’ve seen him in where he just seems to move is slow motion

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All you haters can just deal with it!

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OK, so I decided to give my thoughts on the “groundbreaking Monday night live” edition of TNA impact, and see what they have to offer someone like me who gave up on them years ago and hasn’t watched anything by them in almost 2 years.I have already watched Bret Hart’s return to RAW, and the Hitman looked like he was in great shape, and he didn’t flub any of his lines either. Overall, I thought

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It's being reported that former All Japan Pro Wrestling Triple Crown Champion Dr. Death Steve Williams has passed away on Wednesday, 30th December 2009 after a long battle with cancer. He was 49.No doubt many fans like myself became fans of Dr. Death after watching him almost murder Kenta Kobashi with some of the sickest looking backdrop drivers in the history of the sport in the early 90s. Heck,

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NOAH “Great Voyage in Tokyo ‘09″, 9/27/09 (NTV/G+)Tokyo Nippon Budokan17,000 Fans (Super No Vacancy)0. Tamon Honda & Junji Izumida vs. Kentaro Shiga & Kishin Kawabata went to a draw (10:00) when the time limit expired.1. Genba Hirayanagi beat Akihiko Ito (8:33) via pinfall.2. Atsushi Aoki beat NOSAWA Rongai (6:59) with a reverse cross-armbreaker.3. Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin beat Yoshinobu

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I'm a life long WWE fan, but push has come to shove and I've finally dropped WWE from my viewing schedule. It's not just that RAW has dropped to new levels of horrible, but my cable operator has decided to increase the rates for the sports package channels I watch my WWE RAW and ECW on. Paying to watch crap is one thing, but increasing the rates and expecting me to pay more to watch crap is

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Yesterday morning I went to the US NOAH site to check out the results of the June 13th, 09 Southern Navigation show where Global Tag League winners Mitsuharu Misawa & Go Shiozaki were challenging Akitoshi Saito & Bison Smith for the GHC tag titles. I went there instead of the Green Destiny site cause that site on the puroresufan network rarely gets updated anymore. I clicked on the results and it

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WWE superstars rundown their favorite Wrestlemania moments/matches.Nicole Jersinger of the Pussycat Dolls sings America the Beautiful.Money in the Bank Ladder Match: CM Punk VS Mark Henry VS MVP VS Finlay VS Shelton Benjamin VS Kofi Kingston VS Christian VS Kane- Henry & Kane dominate the smaller guys early till Christian and Shelton take them down with a ladder. Kofi leapfrogs over the ladder

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So this past weekend Jun Akiyama and KENTA dethroned the Kensuke Office and brought the GHC gold back home. My question is, where do they go from here, and what was the point of putting the belts on the KO guys anyway?You had Kensuke beat Morishima, who was riding a wave of momentum, for the title. And Kensuke gets 2 successful defenses against non-contenders Yone and Saito. When he finally gets

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WWE Championship - Elimination Chamber Match: The Undertaker VS The Big Show VS Vladimir Kozlov VS Triple H VS Jeff Hardy VS Edge [C]- Jeff Hardy and Edge start off the match.- Jeff hits the Twist of Fate, but misses the Swanton. Edge charges in for the spear, but Jeff catches him in a small-package to pin him and eliminate him from the match!- Vladimir Kozlov is the 3rd man in.- Kozlov catches

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Not content with having cut the balls off of Chris Jericho a few weeks back, now they had to put Shane McMahon over Legacy this week, as he single handedly fought off all 3 members of the group and Randy Orton was forced to sell some really bad looking punches that mostly just hit air. Most of the RAW roster were on the rampway when all this went down. Wouldn't it have made more sense for them to

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Wow. Off the bat they put Vince McMahon over the entire PPV by saying even if he's out of commission due to Orton's attack on RAW, the show must go on. ECW Championship: Jack Swagger [C] beat Matt Hardy with the gutwrench powerbomb to retain.- Great match with Hardy mostly in control save for a short bit where Swagger worked over his left shoulder which played a big part in the finish. Hardy hit

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It's been in the news about NOAH's recent troubles, losing their NTV deal and having to make cutbacks to save on finances. The fact that their star player in Kenta Kobashi is out due to his health problems and Misawa himself not in best of shape, and that both of them aren't getting any younger doesn't bold too well for the future of the green mat.They seem to be headed in the right direction now

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WWE ARMAGEDDON 12/14/2008Vladimir Kozlov beat Matt Hardy with a chokeslamA lot better than Kozlov's match with HHH at Survivor Series. Also helped that the live crowd didn't crap all over Koslov's mat work as he made it more interesting than HHH match too, with a modified arm keylock rather than the headlocks. Koslov's new modified chokeslam/spinebuster finisher is also a big step up from the

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A new world heavyweight champion was crowned on RAW this week when CM Punk cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and defeated Edge to win the title!It all began when JR came out at the beginning of RAW to give his farewell address since he was drafted to Smackdown! last week, and this prompted Edge to come out with Hawkins & Ryder to eject JR from the ring. Edge then went on a rant against RAW

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Kenta Kobashi made his in ring return to puroresu last night after being out for over a year battling and winning a fight against cancer. He teamed with his good friend Yoshihiro Takayama against Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama in a match that was originally booked to be Takayama's return match a year ago, but didn't happen because of Kobashi's illness. Kobashi dropped the fall in his return

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ECW Championship – Triple Threat Match: CM Punk [C] beat The Miz and John Morrison when he pinned Miz after the Go2Sleep to retain.This was a great match! They pulled off a ton of innovative looking maneuvers, including a awesome 3-way spot where Punk Franken-Steinered Morrison off the top rope and Miz caught Morrison in a powerbomb! A spot Punk did in ROH before if I’m not mistaken. The only

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A successful V4 for Misawa, and V3 for the tag champions.KENTA and Taiji Ishimori win the NTV Cup Jr. Tag Tournament by default when when GHC Jr. tag champions Kotaro Suzuki & Ricky Marvin and former champions The Briscoes went to a time limit draw in a match that would have determined the winners.NOAH "Spring Navigation" 7/15/07 (NTV/G+)Tokyo Nippon Budokan14,600 Fans - Super No Vacancy1. Davey

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World Tag Team Titles: Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch [C] beat The Hardys when Cade pinned Jeff with a spinbuster-bomb retain.WWE Cruiserweight Title: Chavo Guerrero [C] beat Jimmy Wang Yang with a frog splash to retain.ECW World Championship – Decision Match: Johnny Nitro beat CM Punk with a hangman’s swinging neckbreaker to win the title. HOLY SH*T!WWE Intercontinental Championship: Santino

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1. Rhino & Senshi beat LAX when Rhino Gored Homicide2. X-Division Title: "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal beat Chris Sabin [C] with the diving elbow drop to become the new champion.3. Jerry Lynn & ex-NFL star Frank Wycheck beat James Storm & Ron Killings when Wycheck used the cradle piledriver on Storm.4. Bob Backlund pinned Alex Shelley with a backslide.5. Voodoo Kin Mafia beat Damaja & Basham when

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Every match to be contested under Extreme Rules, or so they say.Stretcher Match: Rob Van Dam beat Randy OrtonI loved the way RVD started the match doing his usual “RVD” taunt, but surprised Orton with a quick kick to the face at the end of it! The story of the whole match was both guys hitting each other hard in the head to try and concuss each other, RVD’s kicks to Orton’s head looking more

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V3 for Misawa. Who's next?NOAH "Northern Navigation" 6/3/07 (NTV/G+)Hokkaido Sports Center3,800 Fans1. Kentaro Shiga, Kishin Kawabata & Tsutomu Hirayanagi beat Masao Inoue, Masashi Aoyagi & Ippei Ota (14:41) when Shiga used the Shiga Shooter on Ota.2. Akitoshi Saito beat Ted DiBiase Jr. (8:48) with the Death Punish.3. Yoshinari Ogawa & Akira Taue beat Tamon Honda & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (10:51) when

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I missed the first half-hour of the show, but this was a very LONG show going almost 5 hours!"Dynamite!! USA"Saturday, June 2, 2007Los Angeles Coliseum in Los Angeles, CaliforniaPreliminary Bouts:1. Lightweight: J.Z. Calvan def. Nam Phan via TKO - R12. Lightweight: Katsuhiko Nagata def. Isiah Hall via split decision - 3 roundsShowtime Bouts: (9pm ET)3. Heavyweight: Jonathan Wiezorek def. Tim

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A thumbs down PPV effort.- Bobby Lashley beat Vince, Shane and Umaga in about ONE MINUTE, but Vince declared he is still ECW champion since Lashley didn't pin HIM.- Randy Orton attacked Shawn Michaels earlier in the night and gave him a concussion. Shawn was in no condition to wrestle, but did so anyway until he collapsed and the referee stopped the match.- John Cena was able to make Khali tap

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Sting had Christian Cage pinned, but as the referee counted 3, Sting also tapped out to Kurt Angle's ankle-lock! Angle was declared the winner, but due to circumstances surrounding the finish, the title was held up.1. X-Division Title: Chris Sabin [C] beat Sonjay Dutt & Jay Lethal when he pinned Dutt with a roll-up to retain.2. Robert Roode pinned Jeff Jarrett with a fisherman's suplex.3.

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New IWGP junior tag champions and a successful V1 for Nagata. NJPW "CIRCUIT2007~BRAVE NEW WORLD" 5/2/07 (WPW)Tokyo Korakuen Hall2,005 Fans - Super No Vacancy Full House1. 35th Anniversary Match I ~ Young Lion vs. Rikidozan Zenza: Don Arakawa beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa (6:41) with a backslide.2. Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue beat Tiger Mask & Tetsuya Naito (14:42) when Inoue used the Triangle Lancer

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Minoru Suzuki retains the Triple Crown after putting TAJIRI to sleep in a short 13 minutes! He called out Keiji Mutoh after the match, but his call went unanswered. Suzuki is now threatening to sell the belts at a pawn shop to make some money to fly to Mexico!AJPW "PURORESU LOVE in NAGOYA HOLD OUT TOUR FINAL" 4/30/07Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium4,700 Fans1. Ryuji Hijikata & T28 beat Nobukazu Hirai

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World Tag Team Titles: The Hardys [C] beat Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch when Matt pinned Murdoch after Jeff hit the Swanton to retain.Look past the fact that Cade and Murdoch have been jobbing out for the past few months, and you’ll find this was a great tag match and a solid showing for the cowboys, something they really needed to rebuild their credibility in the tag ranks. This was the best Cade

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A new junior heavyweight champion was crowned at the Nippon Budokan as superhero Mushiking Terry defeated Tatsuhito Takaiwa from Zero-One MAX to bring the GHC junior heavyweight title back to NOAH, but the bigger news coming out from the show was the appearance of TAKA Michinoku and KAZMA after the GHC tag title match, where TAKA announced they were reforming RO&D with D-Lo Brown and Buchanan,

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Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh captured the GHC tag team titles over the weekend beating long reigning champions Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone. They already nominated Yoshihiro Takayama and a partner of his choosing as their first defence for the tour ending Budokan show.NOAH "Spring Navigation" 4/1/07 (NTV/G+ Live)Tokyo Korakuen Hall2,100 Fans - Super No Vacancy1. Akihiko Ito Return Match:

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Starts off with a quick look at the history of WrestleMania and how 20 years later we’re back at Ford Field for WrestleMania 23! They even used back the classic footage of Vince McMahon 20-years ago introducing Aretha Franklin to sing the national anthem this year! We than get the “All Grown Up” promo to start off the show and we are LIVE!It should also be noted this arena is HUGE! We’re talking

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Takeshi Morishima brings his newly won ROH World Title to Japan to defend in the Nippon Budokan and makes short work of his long time rival KENTA in his second defense of the belt! NOAH "Navigate for Evolution" 3/4/07 (NTV/G+)Tokyo Nippon Budokan - 13,500 Fans - No Vacancy0. Mitsuo Momota & Taiji Ishimori vs. Tsutomu Hirayanagi & Ippei Ota went to a draw (10:00) when the time limit expired.1.

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Kentaro Shiga and Kishin Kawabata became the first GHC Openweight Hardcore Tag Champions winning a 2-day, 4-team tournament, defeating the youngster team of Go Shiozaki and Shuhei Taniguchi in the finals when Kawabata pinned Taniguchi with a moonsault press.NOAH "Navigate for Evolution" 2/15/07 (NTV/G+ Live)Tokyo Korakuen Hall2,100 Fans - Super No Vacancy1. GHC Hardcore Tag Team Title Decision

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Former ECW world champion Mike Awesome (real name Mike Alfonso) was found dead in his home on Saturday. He was 41.Awesome was an amazingly agile man for his size, and made a name for himself in FMW in Japan as The Gladiator, in a feud with Masato Tanaka that was carried over to the US when both men worked for ECW, putting on some of the most memorable extreme matches ever. The feud even continued

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MVP & MNM VS The Hardys & Chris BenoitSo much for the Hardys/MNM match at the Royal Rumble being the final confrontation of the two teams. Was rather surprised at the time they gave the match, which is a good thing. Though it was a little premature for Mercury to tap out the second Benoit put the Crossface on him, even if he does have a busted face.Match Rating: **WWE Cruiserweight Title

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AJPW "PRO-WRESTLING LOVE in RYOGOKU vol.2", 2/17/07 (PPV/GAORA TV)Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan10,500 Fans - No Vacancy0. Masanobu Fuchi, Nobukazu Hirai & Ryuji Hijikata beat AKIRA, Akira Raijin & Kikutaro (12:17) when Hijikata used a Jumping running high kick on Kikutaro.1. Kaz Hayashi & TAKA Michinoku beat NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA (8:10) when Hayashi used the Final Cut on Rongai.2. AHII World: AHII

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NJPW "Circuit 2007 New Japan ISM" 2/18/07 (WPW/PPV)Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan11,500 Fans1. Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito beat Takashi Uwano & Mitsuhide Hirasawa (12:04) when Yujiro used a German suplex hold on Hirasawa.2. Super Jr. ~ THE CROSSOVER: Tiger Mask, El Samurai, Dick Togo & TAKA Michinoku Kaientai Dojo beat Jushin Thunder Liger, Jado, Gedo & Shuji Kondo (12:42) when Tiger used a Tiger suplex hold

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Pre-ShowSerotonin (Kazarian & Johnny Divine) beat Sonjay Dutt & Jay Lethal when Kazarian pinned Dutt after Matt Bentley hit a superkick.PPV Results1. Little Italy Street Fight: LAX beat Team 3D after Hernandez hit the Border Toss on Devon.2. Senshi beat Austin Starr3. Tuxedo Match: Christy Hemme beat Big Fat Oily Guy4. Lance Hoyt with David Eckstein beat Dale Torborg with AJ Pierzynski with a TKO

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Order of Entry:1. Ric Flair2. Finlay3. Kenny Dystra4. Matt Hardy5. Edge6. Tommy Dreamer7. Sabu8. Gregory Helms9. Shelton Benjamin10. Kane11. CM Punk12. King Booker13. Super Crazy14. Jeff Hardy15. The Sandman16. Randy Orton17. Chris Benoit18. Rob Van Dam19. Viscera20. Johnny Nitro21. Kevin Thorn22. Hardcore Holly23. Shawn Michaels24. Chris Masters25. Chavo Guerrero26. Montell Votamious Porter27.

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MNM VS the HardysI had actually watched the ECW December to Dismember match between these two teams, and that was simply put the best normal tag match WWE had all year since they actually booked it as a competitive tag match. This match had almost as much time as the ECW PPV match, but not as high impact and minus the awesome double team offense from that one. This was still solid though, with

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Ricky Marvin and Kotaro Suzuki became the new GHC junior tag champions defeating the Briscoe Brothers at the Nippon Budokan last night. The main event saw Mitsuharu Misawa make a successful first defense of the GHC Heavyweight Title against Takeshi Morishima, but the big story coming out of the match was that Misawa apparantly injured himself early in the match when Morishima powerbombed him out

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Since I haven't watched all the big Japanese shows of 2006, this will only be limited to North American pro-wrestling, WWE and TNA in particular since I don't watch a lot of the indie stuff and what I do have is also severely backlogged.WWE Wrestler of the Year: John Cena- Let's face it, if the crowds didn't boo him all the time, would he have to force himself on us all the time with those

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Ring of Honor duo Jay & Mark Briscoe defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takashi Sugiura to win the GHC Jr. tag titles on Sunday at NOAH's tour opener Differ Ariake show!NOAH "First Navigation" 1/7/07 (NTV/G+)Tokyo Differ Ariake1,800 Fans - Super No Vacancy1. Mitsuo Momota & Ricky Marvin beat Makoto Hashi & Tsutomu Hirayanagi (12:21) when Marvin used the Pride Lock on Hirayanagi.2. Takuma Sano, Masao

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Intercontinental Title - Steele Cage Match: Jeff Hardy [C] VS Johnny NitroA by the numbers match as expected. Starting off with some mat work, leading to the spot-by-spot off the cage sequence before the climatic finish. There wasn't really much they could do in the cage that hasn't already been done, but they pulled out a great innovative finish where Jeff kicked the door out from under Nitro

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Bit of a surprise at the pre-Christmas SEM show where Zero-One MAX's Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Takashi Sugiura to win his second GHC Jr. heavyweight title!SEM "SEMFul Gift in Differ '06", 12/23/06 (G+)Tokyo Differ Ariake1,300 Fans1. Taiji Ishimori beat Ippei Ota (9:23) via pinfall.2. Kotaro Suzuki beat Atsushi Aoki (12:11) with a modified Tombstone Piledriver.3. SUWA beat Tsutomu Hirayanagi (7:

Eric Extremehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15011133819763569736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296448.post-1166506536102764712006-12-19T13:32:00.000+08:002006-12-19T13:35:36.126+08:00

Five weeks of PPVs in a row, and the best one definitely came last!Inferno Match: MVP VS KaneFunny how the flames only rise when Kane is on offense? I REALLY enjoyed this match! And give credit to MVP for that finish where his lower back was lit on fire! Both men did a good job with the psychology of avoiding the fire as well as pulling of some fun near misses from both men almost getting burned!

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Good God, watching the pre-show, I really hope they DON’T turn Abyss into a babyface, cause the last thing I want to see is Abyss jobbing to Tomko or ANYONE because he goes soft.Ron “the Truth” Killings & Lance Hoyt beat Serotonin (Kazarian, Maverick Matt & Johnny Devine) when Killings pinned Kazarian with the scissors kick.Killings & Hoyt make a good team, as long as Hoyt doesn’t dance. And at

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Mitsuharu Misawa became the 11th GHC champion as well as the first man to hold the title 3 times when he defeated Naomichi Marufuji for the title on Sunday in front of a sold out Budokan Hall! His first defense is expected to be against Takeshi Morishima, who entered the ring and challenged Misawa for the title after his victory.NOAH "Great Voyage '06", 12/10/06 (NTV/G+ Live)Tokyo Nippon

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V2 for Tanahashi, and he now goes on to defend the title against Taiyo Kea at the Tokyo Dome in January.NJPW "CIRCUIT 2006 FINAL ~ NEXT PROGRESS" 12/10/06 (WPW)Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium9,500 Fans - Super No Vacancy1. NEW JAPAN DOJO SPIRIT: Yujiro beat Tetsuya Naito (6:42) with a crab hold.2. New Japan vs. CTU Challenge Singles: Tiger Mask beat Prince Devitt (9:27) with a Tiger suplex hold.3.

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The Hardy Boyz beat MNM after Jeff Hardy hit the Swanton Bomb on both MNM membersBalls Mahoney beat Matt Stryker with the Ball Breaker.Sylvester Turkay & Elijah Burke beat the FBI when Turkay pinned Mamaluke with a muscle buster.Daivari beat Tommy Dreamer with a roll-up hooking the tights.Kevin Thorn & Ariel beat Mike Knox & Kelly Kelly when Ariel pinned Kelly with an STO.ECW World Title -

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Ric Flair, Sgt. Slaughter, Dusty Rhodes & Ron Simmons VS the Spirit Squad- Ron Simmons was counted out.- Nicky pinned Sgt. Slaughter after a spin kick from Johnny.- Dusty Rhodes pinned Nicky with a Bionic Elbow Drop.- Kenny pinned Rhodes with a school-boy.- Flair pinned Mikey with his foot on the ropes.- Flair pinned Kenny with an inside-cradle.- Flair beat Johnny with the figure-four leglock.I

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Handicap Match: The Voodoo Kin Mafia (BG James & Kip James) beat Kazarian, Maverick Matt & Johnny Devine when Kip pinned Devine with the cobra-clutch slam.Yeah, let’s squash the cool looking cruiserweight team and mention the competition at the same time to get yourselves over, or is that to get noticed by the competition?Match Rating: DUDUgh. As much as I like seeing Raven in the obvious mentor

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Umaga beat Kane with the Samoan Spike Kane – 49%Chris Benoit – 23%Sandman – 28%This was a really physical match, and one of the best match between the two yet, but could it have hurt WWE to let Kane actually get a few moves in other than punches and kicks? One back suplex was all Kane got in whereas Umaga had a belly-to-belly, a Samoan Drop, a diving headbutt, and others. Umaga technically won

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Successfull second defense for Marufuji on what was essentially a one match show at the Budokan. But the one match received instant match of the year nods, and Misawa looks likely to be the next challenger for Marufuji due to overwhelming fan response to wanting to see the match happen.NOAH "Autumn Navigation~European Catch" 10/29/06 (NTV/G+)Tokyo Nippon Budokan15,000 Fans - Super No Vacancy1.

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Minoru Suzuki and Shuji Kondo both successfully defended their titles, with the dream tag match getting much praise as the match of the night.AJPW "Shining Series" 10/29/06 (GAORA TV)Fukuoka International Center3,300 Fans1. MAZADA beat Akira Raijin (12:15) used the Shoda Drop.2. Masanobu Fuchi & Nobukazu Hirai beat Nobutaka Araya & Kikutaro (11:52) when Hirai used the Hirai End on Kikutaro.3.

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Tenzan pulls out a miracle beating 4-to-1 odds in the main event when he managed to pin team captain Chono to instantly win the match.NJPW "CIRCUIT 2006 EXPLOSION SPECIAL", 10/29/06 (WPW)Kobe World Hall7,000 Fans - No Vacancy1. Tetsuya Naito beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa (7:43) with a jumping elbow attack.2. Super Jr. Singles Match I: Wataru Inoue beat Yujiro (11:05) with the Triangle Lancer.3. Super

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PRE-SHOWStarts off with Mike Tenay & Don West sending us outside with Jeremy Borash who’s with Samoa Joe, and the Samoan Submission Machine is sitting in the middle of street waiting for the arrival of Kurt Angle, wanting to extract revenge for Angle busting him open with a headbutt on Impact this past week, giving Jarrett the chance to claim back his (literally?) NWA World Title. Joe sits silent

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My bi-monthly dose of WWE Smackdown! as I don't follow the weekly TV episodes other than reading reports on the internet.Matt Hardy beat Gregory Helms with the Twist of FateJBL might have just called it right, as this was an EXCELLENT singles match! Probably the best I’ve seen that didn’t involve any gimmicks! Like JBL said, despite being the opener, this match could have closed the PPV as well!

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Hiroshi Tanahashi made a successful 1st defense of the IWGP heavyweight title against Tenzan today, beating him with his new High Fly Flow finisher. Koji Kanemoto also made a successful 1st defense of his IWGP jr. title in a marathon 30+ minute battle with former champion Minoru.The big dissapointment of the night seemed to be the return of Shinsuke Nakamura, who didn't show much in his return

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Pre-show ResultsBobby Roode beat Von Doring with the Pay Off.“Jobber” chants throughout this one. If Bobby Roode is the “hottest free agent” in pro-wrestling, TNA really is an indy league. Doring looks like a better prospect than Roode, since he’s got a bit of a Brock Lesner look going for him. But no, we have Roode using 1970s like offense, and finishing off the guy with the rather overused

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WWE Intercontinental Championship: Johnny Nitro [C] with Melina VS Jeff HardyLOL, so Jeff Hardy had an “un-discussed” three year absence from WWE?Surprisingly, this was a really good match up until the lame finish. How many times can you say Jeff Hardy carried someone to a good match? Cause other than a missed corkscrew moonsault, he did NOTHING other than working on Hardy’s leg throughout the

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Naomichi Marufuji pulled off a huge shocker at the Nippon Budokan last night, defeating Jun Akiyama to capture the GHC heavyweight championship! Marufuji seems to have elected NOAH president and former 2-time GHC champion Mitsuharu Misawa as his first defense of the title, which could take place next month. And due to the loss, Akiyama is considering going back to the bottom of the card working

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Kentaro Shiga beat Scorpio last night to become the new GHC Hardcore Openweight champion. Should be fun to see how Shiga gets pushed now since his win/loss record has been less than stellar since his return from injury. But his new Yakuza look has boosted his popularity even more in recent weeks, so it should be interesting to see how things go from here.One also has to wonder about Scorpio's

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Just one week after making his first defense of the Triple Crown against Toshiaki Kawada at Hiroshi Hase's retirement show, Taiyo Kea lost the Triple Crown tonight to Minoru Suzuki in the main event of All Japan's Sapporo show!AJPW "Summer Impact Series" 9/3/06 (GAORA TV)Sapporo Media Park Spica1. Nobutaka Araya beat Kikutaro (10:14) with a lariat.2. Masanobu Fuchi beat Akira Raijin (12:06) with

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Better late than never.AJPW "PRO-WRESTLING LOVE IN RYOGOKU", 8/27/2006 (PPV/TV)Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan12,300 Fans - Super No Vacancy1. AHII beat Voodoo Mask (3:53) with a hurricanrana.2. Masanobu Fuchi, AKIRA & Ryuji Hijikata beat Nobutaka Araya, Nobukazu Hirai & Kikutaro (9:08) when Fuchi used an inside cradle on Kikutaro.3. RO'Z beat Akira Raijin (2:36) with the Arabian Press.4. D-Lo Brown,

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Rey Mysterio VS Chavo GuerreroWow. Considering the bad blood that’s supposed to be between these two, you’d think it would be a little higher up the card? Than again considering the really bad build-up...This was actually a really good back and forth cruiserweight match, with a mixed reaction for both men. Vickie Guerrero actually gets booed when she comes out to try to stop them from going at it

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The event will most probably be remembered for what happened outside the ring, as pyro from the opening of the PPV cause a small fire in the Impact Zone, causing the PPV to be stopped after the first match to temporarilly evacuate the building! The show was able to resume after the fire marshall declared it safe to continue, but the 4-way no.1 contender's tag match had to be cancelled.Full show

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The latest Hiroyoshi Tenzan revival has begun as he won his third G1 CLIMAX tournament in 4 years last night, beating his ex-TenKoji partner and former AJPW Triple Crown champion Satoshi Kojima in the finals. Tenzan's win marks one of his most dominant performances ever as he also became the second person ever since Riki Choshu in 1996 to win the G1 undefeated without dropping any points in the

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Takashi Sugiura & Yoshinobu Kanemaru won back the GHC Jr. Tag Titles last night from the team that originally beat them for the titles back in March at the Nippon Budokan, with Kanemaru scoring the pin on Hidaka with the Touching Out. Sugiura & Kanemaru become the 4th champions and you have to wonder since it was an all ace team that hold the titles again, just who does NOAH plan have take the

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Masato Tanaka became the winner of the annual Fire Festival tournament, defeating Ryouji Sai in the finals today. Due to a 4-way tie in his block, Tanaka first had to overcome Shinjiro Ohtani, Yutaka Yoshie and Kazunari Murakami in a 4-way decision match before taking on the young rising star Sai in the finals. This is Tanaka's first ever Fire Festival win, and is definately much deserved.Full

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WWE Tag Team Titles: Paul London & Brian Kendrick beat The Pitbulls when Kendrick pinned Kash with a sunset flip after London hit a dropsault to retain the titles.- A solid tag match and these two teams work really well together. WWE seriously need to book more tag matches like these.Match Rating: ***1/2GM Teddy Long comes out to announce that Bobby Lashley would not be able to compete tonight

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Hiroshi Tanahashi finally rose to the top of New Japan Pro Wrestling yesterday winning a 1 night 6-man tournament to become the 45th IWGP heavyweight champion! Tanahashi was originally scheduled to face champion Brock Lesner for the title, but due to "visa problems", Brock was unable to make it and was stripped of the title leading to the last minute card change and the tournament. NJPW "CIRCUIT

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Quick results for the PPV:1. The Naturals with Shane Douglas beat The Diamonds in the Rough with Simon Diamond when scored the pin after a powerbomb/missile dropkick combination.2. "The War Machine" Rhino VS "The Alpha Male" Monty Brown went to a No Contest.3. LAX (Homicide & Hernandez) with Konnan beat Ron "The Truth" Killings & Sonjay Dutt when Hernandez pinned Dutt after a crucifix powerbomb (

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NO FEAR is back! Yoshihiro Takayama made his pro-wrestling return last night at the Nippon Budokan after being on the shelf for almost 2 years! The former GHC & IWGP champion was given the 5-star return treatment entering the ring last (even after GHC champion Akiyama) to a thunderous pop from the crowd. Despite having the spotlight shown on him, the big man still came up short in his return,

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I really should have reported this earlier, but Arashi was fired from AJPW earlier this week after he was arrested for being in possesion of 2.9 grams of marijuana. This incident only coming a week after Rob Van Dam and Sabu were also arrested in the United States for smoking marijuana while travelling to the next ECW show.AJPW president Keiji Mutoh and Masanobu Fuchi immediately called an

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Live from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, it’s time to settle some scores in the UFC!Our hosts are Mike Goldberg and UFC Hall of Famer Randy “The Natural” Couture, and after a quick look at the main bouts of tonight’s telecast, it’s on to the first fight!Lightweight Fight: Joe “Daddy” Stevenson VS Yves EdwardsJoe Stevenson is the Ultimate Fighter 2 Welterweight winner, and has since moved down

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Kenta Kobashi underwent successful surgery on Friday (7/07/06) to remove a right kidney tumor. The doctors performing the surgery stated that they did not see the tumor spread to any other organs in the body, which is a very good sign. The surgery took 5 1/2 hours and was a success.Definately good news and hopefully he makes a speedy recovery and can get back in the ring soon.In other NOAH news,

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Taiyo Kea, the last true disciple of the late Giant Baba in All Japan Pro Wrestling, finally won the big one yesterday as he dethroned long running rival Satoshi Kojima to capture the Triple Crown. He than made the shocking announcement that he would like his first challenger to be none other than former champion Toshiaki Kawada!Also on the show, Kaz Hayashi won the finals of the Crossover Tour

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Dragon Gate ran it's annual Kobe World Hall anniversary show on Sunday and received good reviews from those in attendance, with more plusses than minuses.Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling Festival 7/2/2006 Hyogo, Kobe World Hall, 8500 Attendance1. Shisa Family First Meeting: Ryo Saito{W}, Genki Horiguchi, The Turboman (14:47 Dragon Suplex Hold) Super Shisa, Shisa Boy{L}, King Shisa2. K-ness Return Match:

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Shocking news yesterday as Pro Wrestling NOAH ace Kenta Kobashi was announced as being diagnosed with a tumor in his kidney and will undergo an operation soon to try and have it removed. The announcement was made by NOAH president Mitsuharu Misawa at the Differ Ariake office. Kobashi will not be able to work the entire Summer Navigation tour, including the announced Yoshihiro Takayama return

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Randy Orton beat Kurt Angle with the RKOThe match was rather similar to their ECW match, only without the atmosphere of the ECW crowd to liven things up. Heck, the crowd was even dead silent at some points despite there actually being Orton supporters in the crowd. The highlight was definitely Angle hitting 8 consecutive rolling German suplexes on Orton. The finish was well done with Orton

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Live from the Impact Zone (Where else?), it's TNA's 4th Anniversary show!Bingo Hall Brawl: Team 3D beat The James Gang when Brother D-Von pinned Kip James after 3D through a table.I usually like a good garbage match, but I KNEW this was just so Team 3D could take a stab at the new ECW that they are not a part of. And Brother Ray proved it when he said that’s how it’s done after winning the match.

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THE RISEThe hype behind the revival of ECW was really low up until the WWE VS ECW Head to Head special. The way the show was handled gave many hope that WWE's version of ECW actually had a chance of making it.The second One Night Stand PPV could not and should not be compared to last year's nostalgic event. This year's event was to kick off the launch of the new ECW brand, and was a success if

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It’s the same set as last year’s PPV, but we have a new white ring mat wit a red ECW logo on it.Paul Heyman comes out to thank the fans and announce the revival of the new Era of Extreme. THANK YOU PAUL E!Sign in the crowd: If Cena wins, We RIOT!Tazz VS Jerry “The King” LawlerTazz comes out to his old War Machine theme! King gets a “You suck d*ck” chant, and he goes over to the announce table and

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Interesting kick off with Taz & Lawler almost going at it from the start since we have 2 announce teams calling the action at once. Rey Mysterio VS Rob Van DamThis is the kind of matches Rey Mysterio should be put in to defend his title instead of getting the snot beaten out of him by bigger guys! Van Dam even looked his best since his return, and the two really worked well together here being

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John "Earthquake" Tenta, 1964 - 2006Big John Tenta, who most wrestling fans remember as Earthquake in WWF/E, passed away this morning after a long battle with bladder cancer. He was just 42.There have been a lot of big men in wrestling, and Tenta definately had to be rated up there as one of the best of them. He had size, power and surprisingly could move very well in the ring. The highlight of

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Big shocker at NOAH's tour closer today as there were two big title changes on the show! First, former champion Takashi Sugiura defeated KENTA to win the GHC Jr. title in a match whre everyone expected KENTA to retain and avenge his loss to Sugiura from 2 years ago when Sugiura successfully defened the title against KENTA, and last June when Sugiura pinned KENTA to win the GHC Jr. tag titles.

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WWE Tag Team Titles: MNM with Melina VS Paul London & Brian KendrickWow, London & Kendrick have been MNM FIVE times in a row, and only get a title shot NOW?London & Nitro start off and London easily gets knocked down by Nitro with a shoulder block twice in a row. London trips up Nitro and hits an armdrag and an arm-bar and Kendrick & London do quick tags targeting Nitro’s arm before taking him

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No pre-show on the replay I’m watching, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing in my book.World X-Cup Match: Jushin Thunder Liger VS Petey WilliamsBlack heel Liger VS the biggest heel in the X-Division. This should be interesting.CTU actually get booed for beating up Williams on the outside after all the times Team Canada has done it to everyone else? The match itself was ok, but nothing really

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No Joey Styles? WTF? On Heat he said he’d be doing the play-by-play of the PPV. Guess I’ll just have to bare with good ol’ stutterin’ JR & King.“The Masterpiece” Chris Masters VS CarlitoThey start off arguing and Carlito slaps Masters. Masters pounds Carlito and chokes him with his shirt. Masters misses a clothesline and Carlito hits a low dropkick followed by a bulldog. Masters reverses an Irish

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Giant Bernard won the second ever New Japan Cup tournament, beating Yuji Nagata in the finals last night. Bernard now goes on to face Brock Lesner for the IWGP title on 5/06/06 at Fukuoka.Full tournament show results:NJPW New Japan Cup 4/30/06 (Samurai! TV)Amagasaki Memorial Park Gymnasium5,200 Fans - No Vacancy1. Yujiro beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa (7:36) with a kakaekomi crab hold.2. Togi Makabe

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I'm just going to make this short and simple.Once again TNA did an awesome job with the video intro to the PPV.Hirooki Goto, Minoru & Black Tiger VS Sonjay Dutt, Alex Shelley & Jay LethalNow this was a GREAT match to kick off the PPV. Lots of fast paced back and forth action, and I was rather surprised it seemed like Team USA was actually cheating here. But it was good that they finally gave NJPW

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I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but current NJPW junior heavyweight Masahito Kakihara announced his retirement from the world of pro-wrestling on 4/19/06 at the New Japan office, ending his 17 year career.He never won any IWGP title belts while with NJPW, but he did win the 2003 Best of Super Juniors tournament, beating Koji Kanemoto in the finals and being the biggest highlight of

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The Cinderella Story of Masao Inoue came to end last night at the famed Nippon Budokan as he failed in his quest to capture the GHC heavyweight title from Jun Akiyama. Inoue's friends and family were in attendance and there was a lot of support for the underdog and Akiyama received a lot of heat from the crowd.KENTA made a successfull 5th defense of the GHC Jr. title against Taiji Ishimori,

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BOO-YAH! RO&D leader Taiyo Kea won the All Japan Champion Carnival tournament last night, beating Voodoo Murders member super rookie Kohei Suwama in the finals! Kea had a tough road to the finals, with many doubting he'd even make it since Minoru Suzuki was also involved in the Carnival and many thought he'd win it to face Kojima next for the Triple Crown.Could the slump Kea has been in lately

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Over the past few weeks, Pro Wrestling NOAH has been holding a 8-man single elimination tournament to crown a no.1 contender for the GHC heavyweight title, with the title match scheduled to take place at the famed Nippon Budokan Hall next week on the 23rd. When it was first announced, everyone pointed the finger at Akitoshi Saito winning the shot since he was the biggest name in the tournament,

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Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child sings “America the Beautiful” to kick off the show, accompanied by clips of the WWE superstars visiting the troops. She didn’t look to happy to be there, but she got into it towards the end.I like the setup for the arena with giant posters of all the superstars participating tonight hung all around the arena.Cue a really cool montage of great WrestleMania

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NOAH "Haruka Eigen Sayonara Tour" 3/23/06Tokyo Korakuen Hall2,100 Fans - Super No Vacancy1. Dakota beat Atsushi Aoki (11:47) with the Badland DDT.2. Tamon Honda & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Junji Izumida & Yoshinori Ota (14:24) when Honda submitted Ota.3. Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue beat Takuma Sano & SUWA (17:22) when Inoue used an Argentine Backbreaker on SUWA.4. KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji beat

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Former GHC Jr. tag team champions KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji returned to America over the weekend and defeated the ROH ace team of ROH world champion Bryan Danielson & Samoa Joe in a great main event. The show also continued the ongoing war between ROH & CZW, with the shocking turn of Claudio Castagnoli against his CZW team mates Chris Hero & Necro Butcher.ROH "The Best in the World" 3/25/

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