Taso the Greek’s “Bumpin’ Heads 2008″

12/03/07

PEPE Michinoku & Seiya Sanada Vs Osamu Nishimura & Manabu Soya **

Real World Tag League: Taiyo Kea & Hawaiian Lion Vs Nobutaka Araya & Touru Owashi ***

Real World Tag League: Abdullah The Butcher & Minoru Suzuki Vs Satoshi Kojima & Suwama *1/2

Real World Tag League: Kensuke Sasaki & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Satoshi Kojima & Suwama ***

12/9/07

Real World Tag League: Keiji Muto & Joe Doering Vs Kensuke Sasaki & Toshiaki Kawada ***

Champion Carnival
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1. Kaz Hayashi/Masa Fuchi/Ryuji Hijikata vs. Nobutaka Araya/Kikutaro/Nobukazo Hirai
Fun match with Kikutaro (Ebessan, almost 100% positive)*1/2
2. Arashi vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima
A good test for young Katsuhiko. I didn’t care for it though, hard for him to wrestle a big guy like Arashi. **
3. Kensuke Sasaki/Tomoaki Honma/Brute Issei vs. NOSAWA/MAZADA/AKIRA
My first look at Brute. Team CAPS had fun, worked Brute’s arm, but again this was all routine stuff. And not enough Tomoaki Honma. You can never get enough Honma, but maybe that’s my BJPW mark talking. And, of course, everyone ran away from Kensuke the whole match, so it wa pretty par for the course. *3/4
4. Taiyo Kea/D-Lo Brown/Bull Buchanan/Matt Morgan vs. Yoshikazu Taru/Judo Suwa/Shuji Kondo/brother Yasshi This match could have been very good. They missed a bunch of spot and D-Lo should have gotten more time. The corner splash dosey-doe spot gets repetetive if it happens 6 times in a match. Matt Morgan is a monster, WOW. *3/4
5. Satoshi Kojima vs. Minoru Suzuki [A]
I thought this was a hell of a match that showed just how dynamic Suzuki can be, just how much influence his personality and his character can have in a match. Kojima is either a great actor or I dunno, he looked half scared and half confused during this match, trying to figure out what to do with Suzuki. ***3/4
6. Keiji Mutoh vs. Yutaka Yoshie
Fat man offense followed by Mutoh come back. Dropkicks to the legs, shining wizard, dragon screw, figure four leg lock, etc. Yoshie makes a comeback with an avalanche and a STINYFACE-UH! Dramatic events began to play out in a good way with blocked finishers and such, but I haven’t EVER seen this many shining wizards EVER! One match, more shining wizards then I have seen Mutoh, Hurricane, Arik Cannon, and Shane Storm combined attempt. fans enjoyed it. Novelty to me. **

2006/01/08 AJPW: Kensuke Sasaki/Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Arashi/Kaz Hayashi Felt like a paint by numbers match 12 minutes in. I like the visual of Kensuke Family as a tag team. Most impressed with Nakajima is his age. Otherwise he is not so distinguishable, maybe in size, to the better wrestlers in Japan. By 15 minutes they start working it, Kaz flying and hitting nice moves, then Kensuke starts bringing the stiffness. Solid match.
2006-02-10 HUSTLE: Taichi Ishikari/Shinjiro Ohtani vs Toshiaki Kawada/Kohei SatoKawada kicks Ishikari’s ass around the outside for a bit of fun. If you threw a wrestler into the crowd at a WWE show you are looking at a law suit. In Japan, people laugh and try not to die. Konei over Ishikari with the german.