The beauty of this match is that El Samurai and Ryusuke Taguchi have plenty of familiarity with one another. Still, the two feel each other out a bit before locking up. Samurai pulls ahead in the match first by performing… Read More ›
NJPW
7 Candidates Capable of Making Heath Slater’s Stable a 4 Man Band
Now that the former Nexus punching bag has his own jobberific stable featuring Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal the three could actually go somewhere promising in the WWE. Yet, the name of the group shows one strike that 3MB already… Read More ›
Good Thing He Hit the Moonsault
The 2011 edition of NJPW’s Best of the Super Juniors Tournament saw tournament veterans Prince Devitt and Kenny Omega lock up. Omega starts by hitting a flying elbow on Devitt that sends the latter into the corner. Omega then is… Read More ›
The Technical Wizard Shines
Only a few days ago I posted an unimpressive match featuring Jushin “Thunder” Liger and Yuji Nagata. Yet, I didn’t want to leave readers with the impression that either guy is incapable of having a great match in a short… Read More ›
Bernard in a Battle
One argument that could be made as to why the former-Albert hasn’t been more successful since his return to the WWE is that in Japan a lot of his better work was as a tag wrestler. There is no shame… 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 ›
Ebessan Messes with Liger
I posted an interview with a guy named Lyder this week so I figured today would be as good a time as any to post another Jushin “Thunder” Liger match. You have to respect the rhyme scheme. In half seriousness… Read More ›
A Report on Best of the Super Juniors XIX
As longtime readers of this website (well as long as a few months can be) may recall I posted some videos hyping up NJPW’s Best of the Super Juniors XIX Tournament a while back. Up until now I haven’t posted… Read More ›
Evgeny Lyder Interview
Interviewer’s Note: Evgeny Lyder has wrestled for Israeli wrestling promotions for nearly ten years. He first came to the country in his youth from Ukraine. Lyder became immersed in wrestling through watching WWF programming and becoming a fan of Bret… Read More ›
Post-WCW Scott Norton
One of the more unfortunate parts of WCW’s downfall was that some wrestlers that fans saw every week just disappeared never to be seen on television stateside again. Yes, no longer would Scott Norton torture Ernest Miller every time he… Read More ›
The Johnson Transcript 