Wednesday 8 June 2011

More gripes about current puro...

Yuji Nagata vs Ryota Hama, All Japan 4/12

This had some nice continuity, with Nagata going after Hama's leg and Hama trying t go for the KO, both of which played directly off the previous night's results, but I was still kinda boring with this. Some stuff was executed weakly, Hama's lack of mobility is a detriment and Nagata's KO selling was unbelievably goofy.

Jun Kasai/Jaki Numazawa vs Yuko Miyamoto/Isami Kodaka, BJW 5/5
Daisuke Sekimoto/Yuji Okabayashi vs Yoshihito Sasaki/Shinya Ishikawa, BJW 5/5
Ryuji Ito vs Takashi Sasaki, BJW 5/5

Once again I watch a few matches from an interesting looking puro show and come away regretting it. These were all painfully dull and un-exciting. They were better than the last NOAH show I watched, but that's not saying much. Miyamoto and Isami are willing to eat a lot of shit, and the tag had a good final couple minutes but everything before it was boring trash. The Strong BJ tag had an OK section with Ishikawa as FIP but was still massively dissapointing. The main was the best match, as it had the violence is promised and they kept the match moving. Still, the cinderblocks gimmick is a really awkward one, and it lacked the build and dramatic escalation of their 2007 match.

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