January 2013
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People tend to either love or hate death matches. I’ve certainly seen some fantastic ones, and watched others that were just awful. This battle fell in the “good” range for me. I tend to prefer matches of this genre where they build to the weapon use. That really isn’t the formula they follow here, but it worked because of the wicked exchange of strikes near the end. Having a red-hot crowd certainly helped. Ultimately, if you like death match wrestling, you’ll like this. If you don’t like death matches, just skip it. Here's my full review of the match, part of my 365 Wrestling project.
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They start this off hot right away by immediately starting to brawl. That eventually leads to Shibata gaining the advantage, and we get him working on top while Makabe fights from underneath. Shibata is obviously great beating the crap out of Togi, but what surprised me here was Makabe's GREAT performance - loved his selling of Shibata's beatdown, and his hope spot Lariat & his big comeback that lead him to victory were absolutely TREMENDOUS. Overall both guys were excellent & put on, what is the MOTN (in my eyes) of Wrestle Kingdom 7. Great match. ****1/4
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This was touted at the time as a blowoff of their-long running feud, but more than seven years later, these two spent a good part of 2020 throwing forearms and slaps at each other, fighting endlessly like New Japan's version of Peter Griffin and The Chicken. What ensues is a very good (though not quite great) grudge match that is worth going out of your way to see and lives up to the mystique of a big bout in the Tokyo Dome. If you’ve not seen this match, it’s definitely a valuable watch.
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GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima vs KENTA - NOAH 1/27/13 Taking a break from New Japan to see what else is going on in Puroresu around this timeframe. It looks like NOAH finally caved and realized they had to put their top title on their biggest superstar, KENTA, even if he is undersized. Morishima has to go down as one of the if not biggest underachievers in the history of wrestling. He grew up in the red hot NOAH promotion, he has the size and athleticism to be the one to carry the torch. You can say what you will about Kobashi getting sick and Misawa dying, Morishima could not step up and he couldn't step up in 2008 either. Besides a randomly great match…
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