NOAH 1/20/08 “The First Navigation Tour”
NOAH, 1/20/08
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
2,100 Fans - Super No Vacancy
1. Mohammed Yone & Ippei Ota vs. Taiji Ishimori & Akihiko Ito **1/2
2. Kishin Kawabata & Kentaro Shiga vs. Junji Izumida & Mitsuo Momota *3/4
3. Takuma Sano & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Tamon Honda & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi ***1/4
4. Yoshinari Ogawa, Doug Williams & Masao Inoue vs. Bison Smith, Rocky Romero & Davey Richards ***
5. Akitoshi Saito & KENTA vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Atsushi Aoki ***3/4
6. Shuhei Taniguchi Ten Match Trial Series - Match One: Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Kensuke Sasaki **
7. ROH World Title: Nigel McGuinnes (c) vs. Go Shiosaki ***3/4
8. Akira Taue 20th Anniversary Match: Akira Taue, Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Morishima vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, Naomichi Marufuji & Kotaro Suzuki ***
Feeding my head more NOAH with this show, I have the same bone to pick with the booking. The random trios and tag team matches bore me and take away any story or reasoning to the match. If NOAH used a point system of something that determined rank I wouldn’t care about angles and feuds, but they just seem to float along and have matches for no rhyme or reason. I am enjoying the KENTA even more as he’s on this kick to disprespect every veteran to get in his way. So far I have seen him against Ogawa twice and this time with Takayama and their exchanges were all fantastic.
Nigel McGuinness vs Go Shiozaki was my match of the night. NOAH singles matches tend to always be very good. Rocky Romero looks tiny next to everyone. Davey Richards did a great job in the six man tag. For me, Yone, Marufuji, KENTA, Morishima, Kanemura, and Suzuki are my favorites to watch.
