IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: reDRagon (c) vs. Matt Sydal and Ricochet vs. Roppongi Vice vs. [****½], IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi A year later, for the first time ever, I stood up to watch a New Japan show live; Wrestle Kingdom 10. Not this time around, though. And now, here’s the Best and Worst of NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10. Yes, I know that exceptions prove the rule. Also, with Great Bash Heel winning the championships here, I have to wonder how this plays into the whole Tomoaki Honma domestic-abuse thing. I’ve never really been a huge fan of the Briscoes, but even I know when they’re not being used to their full potential. Bullet Club was doomed from the start here, and not even for wrestling reasons. They sat on their hands when Lethal worked his heat segment, though. This was a very solid show, not as amazing as Wrestle Kingdom 9 but pretty close.

I jerked off about 20 times for the remaining 3 matches. Coming into this, I gave all their matches ****+, with the highest being at KOPW 2013 (*****, a top three match ever) and the lowest being their first at the New Beginning in 2012 (****). The final entrant was New Japan co-booker Jado, which makes you realize just how important creative control is. I didn’t see the Young Bucks victory coming, but it makes a lot of sense. Film data from TMDb. The belts are a good idea, giving some meaning to some of the multi-man tags we get on NJPW shows, but they’ve been booked strangely since their inception. Though the main event lacked, it’s worth a look to check out the entire rivalry between those two. The finishing stretch was a bit overdone, with Okada surviving two High Fly Flows. When two high-profile names meet, you want them to bring out the best of each other, and that’s exactly what we got here. At one point, they dared the other to hit harder, giving free shots. Despite his back issues, Styles delivered in a big way. Also, I’ll never forgive ROH & NJPW for not giving us segments of Yano in Sandy Fork with the Briscoes.
To me, this was a like a great TV series with a series finale that had a lot of great moments and callbacks, but it wasn’t the strongest episode. With Naito clearly riding a huge push, I found myself wondering why this was the right call. The challengers hit a Doomsday Kokeshi, followed by another Kokeshi and King Kong Knee Drop to claim the titles at 12:49.

Despite this, the crowd remained pro-Naito. Please help us serve you better, fill out our survey.Use of this site signifies your agreement to our terms of use. Goto overcame more interference, as he ducked mist and EVIL got sprayed with it. I probably need to re-watch without that atrocious English commentary. [**], ROH World Championship: Jay Lethal (c) w/ Truth Martini vs. Michael Elgin But when you polish something down to a mirror sheen, you start to lose the little intricacies and imperfections that give it personality.

Copyright © 2020 411mania.com, LLC. Too much of the same, which always bring diminishing returns. BUSHI looked like he came straight out of Grim Fandango, and I’m pretty sure EVIL was using his new Laser Fingers to conduct the audience like Yen Sid from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The last three matches (Ishii/Shibata and Nakamura/Styles) were as good as you're gonna see all year and Tanahashi vs Okada has got to be match of the decade so far. No Muffin for Yujiro, so I had no reason to care. I’m confused. When Tanahashi starts spamming dragon screws, he’s sending you a message. Finally, after a 17:19 war, Shibata hit the PK to capture his first singles title. He fights for what’s right, he values friends like Alex Shelley and Jushin Liger, and those friendships have made him a better wrestler AND a better person.

Naito remaining winless at Wrestle Kingdom sucks, but I understand why it happened. Plus, if you need a female in the mix and Great Kabuki is already in the ring, you bring in Command Bolshoi and put her in a nunchuck-fight spot.

At another, Ishii leaned into forearms like they had no effect. This makes total sense, considering he’s the adoptive father of Bullet Club’s very own Tama Tonga.

She’s Yujiro Takahashi’s favorite valet, and you may remember that I blamed his loss at G1 on her absence. The day before the day the business was turned on its head. Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). Sure, he’ll finish the ROH/NJPW tour next month, but after that, I can’t help but imagine that he’s right back to the struggle for identity that plagued him to begin with. Elgin had a great run in the G1 25 and got over, but not enough to carry this match. I’m of the belief that strong style wrestling should occasionally be jarring and hard to watch, you just have to work up to that point for it to be effective.
And yes, I’m aware that I predicted shocking violence to begin with. And this time, Okada forced himself to pump the brakes. When AJ finally got hit with Boma Ye, he only kicked out because Nakamura couldn’t cover in time. You could argue that there’s nothing new under the sun in wrestling. Their work didn’t seem to matter much. I had it at ***, but Omega’s selling was better than I recalled. Throughout the course of Tetsuya Naito’s match with Hirooki Goto, I realized that Los Ingobernables is basically what would have happened if Prince Devitt had never left the Bullet Club to pursue professional Jack The Ripper cosplay.

Double Worst: Luck Be A Lady. She retweeted a bunch of people who lamented that she wasn’t there (myself included). And to hell with what anyone says, I love that he showed grace in defeat. A match should flow like a paragraph, but this match started with about thirty exclamation points written in blood. All rights reserved.Click here for our privacy policy.

As you probably guessed from the name, it worked a lot like the Royal Rumble, but eliminations here were scored not just via ejection over the top rope, but also by pinfall, submission, or disqualification. I guess I just expected a feeling-out process that didn’t involve 12 minutes of macho kick-trading. She’s starting to notice it, though. The Briscoes got the hot tag and did their thing. HONMAMANIA RAN WILD! I’d review this, but it goes over 30 minutes and this show is already long. I’m keeping my rating from when I saw this live. Yano stuff is best kept short, even with guys like the Briscoes involved. Speaking of dorks, Kenny Omega. The year before, we got this same match, except Trent Beretta replaced Alex Kozlov (an upgrade) and Sydal and Ricochet replaced the Time Splitters (downgrade).

Was it ever addressed by the New Japan office? I originally had this at ****, but I lowered it. The definitive wrestling event of the decade. From Karl Anderson’s, “Eight Wrestle Kingdoms in a row, that’s fucking Undertaker style!” to Gallows flat out shouting, “Fuck you Makabe!” With this involving Honma (and Makabe to a lesser extent), the fans were rabid. The first NJPW show I ever watched was Wrestle Kingdom 9. NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10 My biggest gripe with this match came early. They’re carrying on the legacy of the surly, destructive stable that simply doesn’t care about consequence. I did appreciate what Ricochet brought to the table, hitting some aerial stuff that blows my mind, even though I’ve watched him wrestle a ton.

Michael Elgin in Japan has been fun to watch, but I worry about what happens once he sets foot on his next flight across the Pacific. The pre-show saw the annual RAMBO, won by Jado. I had some sort of problem with the pacing of last year’s match, I forget what exactly. He accomplished his goal of getting a huge match in the Tokyo Dome, he made new fans, and he furthered the relationship between ROH and NJPW. They are the Kingdom of No F*cks Given. Nakamura captured the IWGP Intercontinental Title a total of 5 times between 2012 and 2015, and in November 2015, Styles laid down the challenge after Nakamura claimed there was no one else left for him to beat.

We got an awesome moment where AJ did a Bullet Club gunshot taunt, only for Nakamura to catch and eat the imaginary bullet. Yano did Yano antics and took the heat segment. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply.

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