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 ›
Ryusuke Taguchi
A Japanese Bathroom Brawl
by Daniel Johnson Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku and Taichi Ishikari This fight from May is supposed to be a three-on-three match, but it opens with some wild brawling and the cameras focus… Read More ›
Honma Gets Caught in the Rain
by Daniel Johnson Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tomoaki Honma and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Kazuchika Okada, Yujiro Takahashi, Yoshi-Hashi and Rocky Romero Tanahashi and Okada have been tearing it up this year and if there is any logic in this world… Read More ›
Experienced Opponents
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 ›
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 ›
The Johnson Transcript 