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16. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (18.04.1991)

A step up to the defences for the last while. Misawa brings a great energy to this match, his high flying is a great new aspect to one of these defences. The dynamic of the young up-comer, trying to stay ahead, while Jumbo uses his veteran prowace to keep his titles, and gets a great reaction for it. ****¼.

17. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) vs. Steve Williams (20.07.1991)

Pretty good. Slow going, but enjoyable enough. The big power moves is as the most enjoyable part for me. The injury to Williams did hurt the match though. ***½

18. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) vs. Toshiaki Kawada (24.10.1991)

A really good match, Kawada's first Triple Crown Championship match, interesting to see him as an underdog face than the top heel, or ace of the promotion, still, he does still work well in the role. A really good King's Road match, being very sympathetic in his role, while Tsuruta is great at being the old angry ace. ****

19. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) vs. Stan Hansen (28.01.1992)

A fairly good defence, some nice big moves, another pretty good one, but nothing special. Pretty good, though I am getting bored of this match, and its not improving. ***½

20. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen (c) (04.03.1992)

Better then the previous few matches in the Triple Crown's history, but not by too much. Misawa brings much needed energy into these matches - still bridging his more energetic Tiger Mask II days to his current persona and this progression is cool to see. There is a lot more high flying and attempts to go after Hansen in this. Hansen is pretty good, is offence looked great, and the crowd made a difference. But, these two have limited chemistry. ***¾

21. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen (17.04.1992) (CC)

Okay, but I am sick of seeing Stan Hansen in Triple Crown Title matches, or in Champion Carnival finals. His work is rarely too bad, but always similar, to varying degrees of success, with this being slightly better than average. Again these two don't really work together, especially as Misawa gets more into the typical heavyweight style, one would guess him going into a harder hitting style would be better for these two, but really it just makes it less interesting. ***

22. Stan Hansen (c) vs. Toshiaki Kawada (05.06.1992)

This is a massive upgrade to the last few Triple Crown and CC final matches. Stan Hansen proves he still has it in this match, his stuff actually looks good in this. Kawada looked great, he really brings it, hes quite aggressive, but his inexperience keeps him from winning. Despite Kawada never having a chance, the hope spots are great, young Kawada is really good as a rough underdog youth. **** 1/4

23. Akira Taue vs. Stan Hansen (c) (31.07.1992)

Alright, I think Taue is great, and deserves more respect, and I know by this point he was good (his match with Kawada on 15/01/1991 was better then a large majority of the matches I have reviewed so far). However, the match doesn't reflect that, and is rather dull and even botchy, luckily it is realtively short for a Triple Crown defence. ***

24. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen (c) (22.08.1992)

Better then some of their other matches. But that is largely down to the crowd, this were servicable, and it is cool to see Misawa finally become the champion, and show that his Super Generation Army can succeed, when Taue and Kawada failed. So historically interesting, and adds to the storyline, on the other hand, this translates to an interesting title win from a weak match. There is still some young fire in Misawa that adds to the story and match, but not enough really. ***1/4

25. Mitsuharu Misawa (c) vs. Toshiaki Kawada (21.10.1992)

Quite good, a lot more fun then previous Triple Crown Championship matches (especially during the Hansen reigns). These two are friends and tag team partners in Super Generation Army, so that makes for a cool story, as you can tell Kawada is a bit jealous but not ready to go against Misawa, and depends on the team for his success - being tag champs earlier and later in the reign, which is on par with the Triple Crown. Outside of the storyline, the actual wrestling is pretty good, espcially the end, but it was nothing special in my opinion, they showed chemistry, but I am guessing they need some experience to get to the highs everyone says they get to. ***¾

26. Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (c) (28.02.1993)

Quite an exciting match. Despite there being little tension over the result (in retrospect especially, but likely at the time as well). Taue performed well here, he dominated Misawa for a bit, but eventually Misawa over came the giant and retained, I slightly prefered this to the Kawada match, which was a bit surprising, but welcome, even if the story is slightly less interesting then the previous defence - it still was great. Taue split from SGA (Super Generation Army) to join Tsuruta, to learn from him, and an upgrade in postioning. and was tag champs with Tsuruta going into Real World Tag League 1992, but lost to Kawada & Misawa in the finals - also losing the titles, so he was looking to get revenge, and be the top guy, but was not ready, and would not be for a while. ***¾

27. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen (21.04.1993) (CC)

This took too long to get going, and I am so damn sick of this feud, easily the most Hansen is easily is the most fustrating performer in All Japan in my watch since I know he can do better, and has done better, but is generally the worst performer in the series. But this was better then the usual offering between and helped by a great crowd. Some really like it though so check it out, just not after having a series watch like me, becuase then you will care a fuck ton less. ***¾

28. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen (21.05.1993)

Fucking hell, this again. I know the All Japan roster is not deep at this point, and they slowly built up the pillars, but still, give a junior a challenge - like the Can-Am, or Masanobu Fuchi (not after the CC as they would have to win that, but mix it around still). Started pretty good, got dull in the middle, picked a bit at the end, same as usual. *** (would be higher if I wasn't bored to tears of these two wrestling all time - tho maybe not lol)

29. Mitsuharu Misawa (c) vs. Toshiaki Kawada (29.07.1993)

By this point Kawada headed the Holy Demon Army and became a top heel since Jumbo Tsuruta is basically done now. This was quite good throughout and the ending half did take it up a level, but I just did not feel it too much. The big moves were done well, but I have seen them be done better too. Plus the arm work did not lead to much. ***3/4

30. Mitsuharu Misawa (c) vs. Steve Williams (03.09.1993)

Only just four stars for me, its partially because I am feeling generous. The start was fine and while the ending was not super hot, so i thought the crowd was kinda poor - a fairly weak reaction for the huge powerslam which was a really cool spot. Everything looked better executed then usual, I really liked one of Misawa's elbows more then usual as well, so a good performance all round. ****

31. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen (23.10.1993)

This match sucks, I was bored of these two before, but this another level horrible. Just dull, a few nice strikes that you will always get from these two but not much. luckly the crowd got a classic before this match, they would be better of just leaving after the semi main. Surprisingly most seem to agree with me, and I would not be surprised if it was the lowest rated Triple Crown Title match. *

#wrestling #alljapan #all japan #all japan pro wrestling #triple crown #champion carnival

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Watching every Triple Crown Championship and Champion Carnival match. If you want to watch these matches (there are playlists of each defence per year on Dailymotion on 'Sugar J's channel. Below I will give a description of my history watching All Japan Pro Wrestling.

This is from my Threads, (also on my Bluesky, and originally written on my Cagematch)

I have had a fascination with AJPW for a long time, hearing about it was about its supposed peak in the 90s, and how it is supposed to be the best period for in ring wrestling ever. I found it especially interesting given how in 2000 all but two of their native talent stayed with the company, as everyone else had gone into an exodus, forming Pro Wrestling NOAH lead my Mitsuharu Misawa, their ace at the time, and how it survived into modern day despite this. I have mostly watched the current product, which is very good, but have only watched off and on, overall I am a fan. The stuff I have seen of the older stuff is good, but never best of all time (the only five star match I have given prior to modern stuff is Holy Demon Army vs No Fear.

1. Stan Hansen vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (18.4.1989)

A pretty good match, there was some nice brawling, on the slow side and the climax isn't massive, but good. Highlighting Hansen's lariat as his best weapon, but his overreliance makes it hard for him to go for anything else, and Tsuruta would capitalise. Tsuruta was a worthy first champion, being AJPW's ace, he was a good choice. ***½

2. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) vs. Genichiro Tenryu (20.4.89)

There was a lot of heat at the start of the match, but then it went into some grappling, and not the most inspired grappling either. It got hotter over time, especially when Tenryu began taking it to Tsuruta, diving to him on the outside, and trying to keep the higher ground, and make sure Tsuruta stayed out of the ring. The match ended with with a wicked power bomb from Tsuruta, it clearly knocked out Tenryu, so the match seemingly ended early. ***¾

3. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) vs. Genichiro Tenryu (05.06.1989)

Excellent match, the best Triple Crown Championship match at the time by far, and deserving of its praise, a great audience reaction really made it a lot better. The constant action is clearly a way to retreave Tenryu's cred. They succeeded, especially as he got the titles and it feels big. ****1/2

4. Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu (c) (18.07.1989)

Yatsu using his tricks to keep in the match against the much stronger and resileant Tenryu was cool to watch. Tenryu is used to fighting opponents similar to him, pitting strength against strength. Yatsu's plan keeps him ahead for a bit, but Tenryu just could not be denied. ****

5. Genichiro Tenryu (c) vs. Terry Gordy (2.09.1989)

Exciting is the key word here. Terry Gordy is young, strong, and energetic. He wants to prove himself by taking it to Tenryu, Gordy wants to gain the respect of Tenryu, and posibly the fans by beating Tenryu for the belts, and uses the simple plan of beat him, until he is done. Although he loses he gains the respect of Tenryu in an excellent effort. (****¼)

6. Genichiro Tenryu (c) vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (11.10.1989)

Really fun, a suprising amount of weapon usage, but that was fine. They went hard against each other. Also, a lot of great near falls. Well worth watching, and caps of an amazing reign for Tenryu. (****½)

7. Barry Windham vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) (06.03.1990)

The worst Triple Crown defence so far. Barry Windham is quite a good wrestler, but they did not jive together particuarly well. This is clearly a lesser priority, as the Tag Titles were defended in the main event. This was clipped as well. (***)

8. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) (19.04.1990)

Disappointing, it was pretty good, but not to the the standard. The focus over the attack by Stan Hansen weakened it a fair bit. I really enjoyed his Triple Crown matches, so it is disappointing it wasn't to the same standard of his other matches. ***1/2

This is the last Tenryu Triple Crown Championship match until 2000, as he left for SWS

9. Jumbo Tsuruta (c) vs. Terry Gordy (05.06.1990)

Decent enough, a bit of a step down, but it had the factor of a suprise result unlike the previous match, and a few good big spots. ***1/4

10. Stan Hansen vs. Terry Gordy (c) (08.06.1990)

So far the worst of the Triple Crown matches so far. It just made the Terry Gordy reign pointless, and is worse then if he just lost at the defence. Even worse was that it wasn't the main event, its not for the first time, but the main, even if legendary had nothing on the line, this should have happened later, as a rematch happens anyway. **3/4

11. Stan Hansen (c) vs. Terry Gordy (17.07.1990)

I found this match to be dreadfully dull. Why book Gordy to lose to Hansen only to win it again, with no sucessful defences since Gordy first won it. Very pointless on all levels. (**)

Gordy would have to vacate it as he had an overdose, and would never wrestle well again (not that he was a good champion).

12. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen (27.07.1990)

Pretty good, a big step compared to the rest of 1990's defences (barring Tenryu vs Tsuruta which was good, but not there best effort - with no 1990 Triple Crown match getting a four star rating) They don't jell to well against one another, but both fought hard which kept it together, unlike the rest of Triple Crown stuff. *** ½

13. Stan Hansen (c) vs. Steve Williams (01.09.1990)

Hansen and Williams had a fairly good match, but it was JIP, one of the better 1990 Triple Crown Championship matches, but that is a low bar. There battle was somewhat heated, but not to the level where I did not feel riped off on it being JIP. ***¼

14. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Stan Hansen (c) (19.01.1991)

Stan Hansen continues to be a good, but never great wrestler on this watch, he was apparently having great tag matches at the time, but it doesn't show up, at least not at this point. I am desperately missing Tenryu on this watch, as he is the guy who made the title feel as important and bring it, as much as people praise 90s AJPW. Good, not great, strong strikes, but nothing blow away. (***¾)

15. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Stan Hansen (16.04.1991) (CC)

Pretty good, but I am getting bored of Stan Hansen in this watch of Triple Crown matches and CC finals, his results are good a fair bit of the time, but not as good as Tsuruta, or near Tenryu. Just another match between the two ***½.

A LOT MORE TO COME.

#wrestling #triple crown #ajpw #all japan pro wrestling #all japan #Champion Carnival

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Last year I started to get into more lucha. I have enjoyed a lot of it. CMLL was the best of the promotions, its production is good there is no nosense, like in AAA. There were many enjoyable matches, no 5 star ones from me, but they were rare for me anyways. Atlantis Jr. vs Stuka Jr. was my fave lucha match and in my top ten matches of the year. It was a fun promotion and is worth watching.

I watched Big Lucha and they are decent company, it is ran by Bandido and he is the top face, with Demonic Flamita as the top heel and together they had the promotion's best match. The company mainly consists of younger wrestlers who are training there, and ones newer to Mexico City based on how it is set up, the shows are usually decent and get some good foreign talent in.

AAA was pretty bad, a lot of it is quite garbage, the production is bad, the sound mix feels wrong, and the camera cuts were way too numerous. Most of their best wrestlers are part timers like Bandido, Lucha Bros, Young Bucks, Taurus and more, those wrestlers have better matches elsewhere so it feels pointless watching.

#cmll #wrestling #lucha libre #AAA Lucha Libre #Big Lucha

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RevPro Uprising 2022 was the worst RevPro York Hall show, but it was still quite good.

Dan Moloney vs. Luke Jacobs (c) vs. Robbie X vs. Will Kaven - British Cruiserweight Championship.

It was decent and explosive, however it had too many shenanigans, which hurt the end of Luke Jacob's reign and the start of Robbie X's, he was good, as was everyone else, but it was never super high level. ***¼

Dani Luna vs. Kanji (c) - Southside Queen of the Ring

Dani Luna is a good addition to the RevPro women's roster, she has a good power game, and I am excited for her match with Alex Windsor, Kanji is good as she usually is. ***¼.

Sunshine Machine vs. Greedy Souls (c) - British Tag Team Championship

It was a street fight and not a very good one, there was decent brawling, but on the other hand, there was sloppy stuff as well as a lack of good tag stuff, quite disappointing, as I like both teams a lot, but the build was not good, and this was not as good as it should have been.

Leon Slater vs. Zack Sabre Jr.

This was very good stuff, of course ZSJ was great at his technical stuff, however, Leon Slater also proved to be good at it as well, along with his amazing high flying, so he is proving to have a great amount of upside, and is just great already. I am happy ZSJ is back at RevPro as he was great here (like he is in NJPW) and he has many new people to face. ****

Great-O-Khan vs. Zak Knight (replacing RKJ (c)) - British Heavyweight Championship.

It was alright, but very uninteresting, I think O-Khan is fairly good and charismatic, but he is not too amazing in the ring. Also, Zak Knight is pretty dull, at Royal Quest II, Zak was a terrible replacement for JONAH, he bad cheap gear and was boring in ring, he skipped out on his Sheffield date, and here, he looked a bit better, but still not worthy of being on York Hall, he should have been squashed. ***.

Connor Mills vs. Michael Oku.

I enjoyed this a lot, the build was very good, if a bit much post break up, there was good violence, and nice action, I did not find it to be as good as there previous match at Epic Encounter, but I think it was still good. ****

Will Ospreay vs. Tomohiro Ishii

A great match, fun strong style action from both, while Ospreay also bring his athletic stuff to the table, however, it did suffer for a lack of build amd did not feel as big as it could have done, but still, it was the match of the show. ****¼.

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I finished my watch of the 2021 Ribbon Mania show, overall decent but not great, as expected but still suprising given it was their biggest show.

Also I have been watching the JPW invasion of All Japan and it has so far been fun, I heard it was when the King's Road style was truly born, so I thought to probably give the 90s AJPW a fair go I should watch this, my favourite All Japan match I have seen was No Fear vs Holy Demon Army, ***** for me, but the rest of the stuff was really good, but not particularly special like ****-****½ even for the most popular stuff, but I still want to give it a proper go.

#AJPW #All Japan #all japan pro wrestling #ice ribbon #Joshi #Puro #Riki Choshu #JPW #Ishin Gundan

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This is the America I like.

#patriotic

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I will continue to document my Ice Ribbon watch, I started at 1157, as I wanted to start watching the start of the year, to see a lot of the best stuff from the start of the year, but there were a few things from the end of the year the peaked my interest and were great, I already wrote my thoughts on the 1157 show.

Here are my thoughts on the top rated matches on the: Ice Ribbon New Ice Ribbon #1161 ~ Sweet November show.

International Ribbon Tag Team Championship:

Azure Revolution (Maya Yukihi & Risa Sera) (c) vs. Lovely Butchers (Hamuko Hoshi & Mochi Miyagi) (my rating - ***½)

I thought it was a good tag team match, I found it to be quite enjoyable, I thought it was a good enough for its positioning, I especially enjoyed the champions in the match - Azure Revolution.

ICE x Infinity Championship Match

Tsukushi Haruka (c) vs. Suzu Suzuki (my rating - ****)

Very action packed from the get go, including great german suplex at the very start, this match was worthy of the main event. I was suprised to see blood, but it made it feel more intense, and it also had some very good roll ups as well.

#ice ribbon #joshi #wrestling

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It was my birthday today and I got this lovely gift made by my four year old sister and my dad.

#DHMIS #don't hug me i'm scared #dhmis fanart #Red Guy

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I am starting to watch Ice Ribbon, after seeing a lot of praise on it, on Twitter, and finding how to watch it thanks to Abid5706.

I will be starting with the #1157 show, quite a bit back, but I like to watch back at a promotion a bit, and will be watching the higher rated match, if it has a 7.0 or higher overall on Cagematch, I will be watching, even if there was only 1 voter. I will post my thoughts after finishing it.

Update: Watched the top two matches.

International Ribbon Tag Team Title Match: Azure Revolution - Maya Yukihi & Risa Sera (c) vs. Saori Anou & Suzu Suzuki

It was a fun tag match, cool seeing Risa Sera and Suzu Suzuki in their original promotion, before going freelance, and doing their deathmatch promotion and Stardom apperances. This was a nice enough match that I enjoyed. ***¾

ICExInfinity Title Match: Tsukasa Fujimoto (c) vs. Tsukushi Haruka.

A great match, constantly exciting and both appeared very passionate in this match, some enjoyable spots include: a great chair shot by Haruka to prevent Fujimoto diving (Ice Ribbon wrestlers tend to enjoy hardcore stuff, even though its not a deathmatch company, maybe its Mr Gonusuke's training), and those kicks Fujimoto gave to Haruka, and Haruka kept getting up. Top stuff. ****½

#ice ribbon #joshi #wrestling

[lovelyluna9001]

Here are my opinions about wrestling.

The best wrestler going is Will Ospreay, he has an amazing presense, especially when I see him at RevPro, he constantly tries extemely hard, and has performed in some of the best wrestling I have ever seen, including live, having my current MOTY against Michael Oku.

The best tag team is Aussie Open, their tandem offence is incredible, and had my MOTY last year with Destination Everywhere and my second fave match this year, again with Destination Everywhere.

My top promotion is Stardom, it is the one that has most kept me interested, with a lot of great matches and excellent stories, and wrestlers who keep me invested. My second favourite is RevPro, they have similar strengths, with overall better matches, but less volume, and most of my top stuff from them was live, I find them to be heavily underrated.

One wrestler who needs more attention is Luke Jacobs, who improved massively this year as a singles star becoming much more charismatic, as well as in ring, I can't wait for Ethan Allen to comeback.

I find AEW to be overrated, they are good but they lack focus, and keep me from being fully interested in watching their weekly product, but their PPVs are amazing.

I also watch a lot of Impact, they are a solid promotion, a lot of stupid stuff, and there are people they should have push more (and some less) but they also do a lot of cool stuff.

#britwres #AEW #wrestling #impact wrestling #revpro #stardom #world wonder ring stardom