August 2020

This felt like a chance for Fujimoto to showcase her more technical/shooty side. The match is held back a bit by the exhibition-like feel, but it’s very good for what it is. Syuri is perfectly cast in this role as the travelling real shooter. ***3/4

Jon Moxley defends his AEW World Championship. A bit of too much melodramatic TALKING by Moxley for my liking, but other than that, this was a pretty darn awesome underdog bout. The opening of the match with Moxley making Darby bleed with the very first punch delivered was badass, Moxley's control section was solid - of course made all the better by Darby's great bumping & good selling, as well as his always lovely, explosive comebacks. The finishing stretch after the MJF interference was real good too, with nice urgency by Darby & great selling by Mox. ***1/2

23 year old Dominik teams with his father for the first time. Talk about it here

Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr) defend the IWGP Tag Team Titles against Golden Ace (Tanahashi & Ibushi). Talk about it here

Hiromu Takahashi defends the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. Talk about it here

Shingo Takagi defends the NEVER Openweight Title. Talk about it here

EVIL defends the IWGP Heavyweight and the IWGP Intercontinental Title.. Talk about it here

Deonna Purrazzo defends the Impact Knockouts Title in an Iron Man match. Talk about it here

23 year old Dominik Mysterio makes his debut in a street fight. Talk about it here

Drew McIntyre defends the WWE Title. Talk about it here

Taped on 8/13/20. The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt & Nick Jackson) face members of the Dark Order (Three, Four & Five). Talk about it here

57 year old legend, Keiji Muto faces the 24 year old Kitamiya. Talk about it here

GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki faces the GHC National Champion Kenou, with both titles on the line. Talk about it here

Go Shiozaki defends the GHC Heavyweight Title. Talk about it here

Katsuhiko Nakajima defends the GHC National Title. Talk about it here

WWE Smackdown Women's Champion faces Asuka in a Non Title match. Talk about it here

Naruki Doi defends the Open The Dream Gate Title. Talk about it here

The story here is MiSu absolutely knows he's above Big Japan and certainly above Takuya da Young Gawd. So it's on Nomura to make this worth your time, and he quickly does. Kicking MiSu in the face and establishing he's here to fight. And fight they do. Loved MiSu laughing, having a good time and beating the shit out of Takuya. It was basically "oh so you wanna fight, aight then". The difference in elbows was massive, really liked how that played a big part in MiSu never really losing control of the match. At the end of the day, the kid is not ready to go toe to toe with Satan himself...yet. But he sure will try to make the most of it: he actually won the slap exchange …

Daisuke Sekimoto & Kohei Sato vs Astronauts (Takuya Nomura & Fuminori Abe) - BJW Tag Title match 08/10/20 For a crowd of 300 that couldn't chant because of Covid, you ain't getting much better than this. And when it comes to the in ring acting, this is not for the faint of heart, as Abe and Sato do EXACTLY the type of sick shit they did to each other last year: shoot headbutts, full force heatbutts and a whole bunch of closed fists to the forehead I loved how this time it felt like Astronauts were ready for the occasion, they are still the underdogs but this time around they aren't treated like the two disrespectful young kids. They are a legit threat and…

Minoru Tanaka vs. Shunma Katsumata A brilliant match built around Minoru Tanaka attacking the leg of Shunma and working it over the whole match. Tanaka was superb I thought. His initial assault on the leg and the following kicks to the knee joint were great. There were tons of extra snap in his dropkicks and his submissions were pretty snug. Shunma proved his versatility once again by working really well on defence. His Brock Lock submissions were great hope spots and allowed Shunma time to make a comeback. I loved the selling of the leg as well. Shunma is very audible in his screams and the intimate atmosphere increases it tenfold. The finish to the match was an exc…