General Puro Discussion Thread

[Roadster]

Bruv, I just went though web archives to prove my case.

 

[Stopspot]

bruv that link you posted is 404.

But as I said. If you're sure then I'm walking off.

 

[Stopspot]

Daichi Sasaki is now a double crown champion in DDT. Holding both the tag titles (with Shuji Sihikawa) and the Ko-D openweight belt after cashing in on Harashima.

He also debuted a new pet, Mad Pauly (Masato Shibata, Ishikawa's old tag partner from Union) at yesterday's show

 

[Stopspot]

Managed to catch the Twin Gate Title match and the Six man cage escape match from Dragon Gate's Dead or Alive show this morning. The other matches aren't as important so I have no qualms about catching them on the rebound.

The main event cage match delivered as always. This is probably the best match Dragon Gate puts out every year and it always delivers.

All in on the new babyface unit as well.

 

[Prince Bálor]

I guess I'll put this here. Akebono's Ōdō company presents: Pentagón Jr. vs Fénix. Good stuff.

 

[Stopspot]

BJW's Endless Survivor show from yesterday was main evented by a deathmatch so violent Samurai TV cut the feed

 

[Roadster]

Haven't been able to catch Dead or Alive, but the overall card feels like a can't miss.

 

[Roadster]

These NOAH tours are so freaking bad. lol.

 

[Not Awesomenrh]

Okabayashi/Jake Lee from D-RIZE was fantastic, definitely recommend it. AJPW 5/7 was good, MOTN was the Junior Title match, Mashimo/Ishikawa vs Zeus/Miyahara was also great, and I assume that Miyahara's next challenger after Sekimoto is Mashimo.

 

[Stopspot]

Okabayashi/Jake Lee from D-RIZE was fantastic, definitely recommend it. AJPW 5/7 was good, MOTN was the Junior Title match, Mashimo/Ishikawa vs Zeus/Miyahara was also great, and I assume that Miyahara's next challenger after Sekimoto is Mashimo.

Plz try and keep AJPW stuff to the AJPW thread.

Just a heads up. BJW stuff can go in here tho. Just so we can avoid cluttering multiple threads with the same/similar discussions going forward.

 

[Roadster]

Dead or Alive was a great show, imo. Ryo vs. Santa Maria was good. CIMA vs. Gamma might've been my favorite delegate match overall. The main event fulfilled it's potential, I guess.

Also, Mondai Ryu's theme is seizure inducing, holy shit.

 

[Roadster]

DDT 5/15 was a pretty lame show for a DDT show. Only thing worth watching KO-D Six Man title match.

 

[Stopspot]

NOAH drew 1923 people to today's show in the Osaka Edion Arena#1 with no competition. Edion Arena#1 holds about 5-7000 people.
This is down from last September's show in the same venue which drew 2800. The crowd was absolutely dead for most of the show as well. The main event saw Takeshi Sugiura defend the GHC heavyweight belt against Go Shiozaki (And lose it btw). So it wasn't a weak main event on paper either.

Ouch.

 

[Roadster]

The crowd is always dead at NOAH shows unless it's a major show like Destiny or Great Voyage. And the crowds for their Breeze tour have been relatively low. So the fact that they almost reach 2000 is a glimmer of hope for NOAH, nothing too much.

Honestly, this tour has been pretty good. Sure the tag champs are looking like chumps against 50 year old grandpas, and the younger guys are fiddling in tag matches that serve no purpose, since they are usually in the ring for like 3 minutes overall. But the matches have been good, and Sugiura has been a great champ so far. He reminds me of Ishii, extremely stiff and one of the few older guys that I actually want to stay around. Glad Shiozaki is getting his push back, and it's good to see someone below 40 win the title, and he is a NOAH breed, just the icing on the cake.

The push to the title was actually pretty horrendous now that I think about it. They've been having tag matches for the past month, and they weren't the main event. Kind of sweet and sour with this one.

 

[Stopspot]

The crowd is always dead at NOAH shows unless it's a major show like Destiny or Great Voyage. And the crowds for their Breeze tour have been relatively low. So the fact that they almost reach 2000 is a glimmer of hope for NOAH, nothing too much.

Honestly, this tour has been pretty good. Sure the tag champs are looking like chumps against 50 year old grandpas, and the younger guys are fiddling in tag matches that serve no purpose, since they are usually in the ring for like 3 minutes overall. But the matches have been good, and Sugiura has been a great champ so far. He reminds me of Ishii, extremely stiff and one of the few older guys that I actually want to stay around. Glad Shiozaki is getting his push back, and it's good to see someone below 40 win the title, and he is a NOAH breed, just the icing on the cake.

The push to the title was actually pretty horrendous now that I think about it. They've been having tag matches for the past month, and they weren't the main event. Kind of sweet and sour with this one.

This was a Great Voyage tho. Should have been much bigger. The last time they ran this same building they packed it with almost 3000 people. And the 19 hundred number is the combine of tickets sold and comps. And not to be doom and gloom, but they had horrendous numbers of tickets sold to this show just two days before.

NOAH needs to elevate someone new. Something needs to happen to spark the fans interest. They've been burned with the Marufuji and Sugiura reigns and are not taking to Go out of pure weariness.