by Daniel Johnson Ryusukue Taguchi vs. Minoru The 2008 Best of the Super Juniors allowed another great showing by some of the best light heavyweights NJPW could get together. Among some of the top level participants was Ryusuke Taguchi, but… Read More ›
Koji Kanemoto
Kenny Omega Interview
by Daniel Johnson Interviewer’s Note: Kenny Omega is one of the rare wrestlers who has had a tremendous amount of success in today’s North American wrestling scene and in Japan. In the United States he wrestled for some of the… Read More ›
Kanemoto Wrecks Yamato
by Daniel Johnson Koji Kanemoto vs. Hiroshi Yamato From the moment Hiroshi Yamato flips in the ring he feels the wrath of Koji Kanemoto. Kanemoto assaults him with a variety of stiff kicks and punches. Yamato gets in little offense… Read More ›
6 Great Matches You’ve Never Seen: Part VI
by Jeremy Cundiff Thank you for your bandwidth. I’m Madman Szalinski, and I’m just about done with this shit. By shit, of course, I mean this six-part series on great matches that might be a bit obscure. First, I’d like… Read More ›
6 Great Matches You’ve Never Seen: Part V
by Jeremy Cundiff 5. Bas Rutten vs. Koji Kanemoto from NJPW, October 26, 2002 Thank you for your bandwidth. I’m Madman Szalinski, wishing you all a Merry Chr-what? Oh yeah, that’s right. Christmas already happened. I’ll put videos of… Read More ›
A Quality Match from the Dark Days of NJPW
Katsuyori Shibata comes into this match fired up and starts laying into Koji Kanemoto before Koji even has the chance to take off his ring jacket. Shibata explodes with some of the flashier moves possible in professional wrestling that you… Read More ›
Tiger Masks Battle for the Best of the Super Juniors’ Top Prize
NJPW’s Best of the Super Juniors has produced a ton of great matches since the inaugural event was held in 1988, but few tournament finals had the intrigue that the 2004 edition had. Kojo Kanemoto was a former winner of… Read More ›
Best of the Super Juniors Lives Up To The Name
As good as some of the matches that NJPW have produced have been they have only put on four, 5 star matches according to Dave Meltzer. While some may argue that more NJPW matches are worthy of this ranking, I… Read More ›
The Johnson Transcript 