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Post by fallenhero on Dec 2, 2007 6:05:33 GMT -5
12/2 Pro Wrestling Noah, Nippon Budokan
17,000 Fans (Sold Out)
1. Kishin Kawabata & Mitsuo Momota beat Junji Izumida & Tsutomu Hirayanagi in 11:29 after Kawabata used a diving senton on Hirayanagi.
2. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Atsushi Aoki beat Kotaro Suzuki & Ippei Ota in 11:47 after Aoki made Ota submit to a jujigatame.
3. Doug Williams & Bull Buchanan beat Takuma Sano & Masao Inoue in 12:51 after Buchanan used an avalanche Iron Bomb on Inoue.
4. Tamon Honda, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, & Go Shiozaki beat Takashi Sugiura, Mohammed Yone and Akihiko Ito in 14:47 after Shiozaki used the Go Flasher on Ito.
5. Yoshinari Ogawa & Eddie Edwards beat KENTA & Taiji Ishimori in 16:09 after Edwards used a modified fisherman buster on Ishimori.
6. Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito beat Akira Taue & Kentaro Shiga in 17:32 after Saito used the Sickle of Death on Shiga.
7. Takeshi Morishima beat Naomichi Marufuji in 23:28 after a backdrop.
8. Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama beat Kenta Kobashi & Yoshihiro Takayama in 27:07 after Misawa used an avalanche Emerald Frosion on Kobashi.
Credit: SSS boards. I'm actually shocked that Kobashi lost...but get ready, Misawa..the GHC belt is coming home in 2008....we hope.
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Post by James Hetfield on Dec 2, 2007 6:14:23 GMT -5
HAHAHAHAHA. The same way the other match ended.
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Post by fallenhero on Dec 2, 2007 8:21:05 GMT -5
HAHAHAHAHA. The same way the other match ended. Takayama's return? If so, you're mistaken. That match ended with a normal Emerald Frosion.  |
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Post by James Hetfield on Dec 2, 2007 9:32:44 GMT -5
No, it didn't. It ended with an exploder. What I meant was that the "same thing" happened with the returning guy jobbing.
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Post by Nirvana is Happiness on Dec 2, 2007 11:14:37 GMT -5
KOBASHI IS BACK!!! Finally, this is some amazing news. Thank you for posting it man.
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Post by the franchise on Dec 2, 2007 13:03:49 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised to hear Kobashi lost. I would have thought he would have pinned Misawa which would set up the title match in 08.
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Post by PdW2kX on Dec 2, 2007 14:02:29 GMT -5
I don't think this is too unusual.
Kobashi got to celebrate his return to the ring, but Misawa cut short the celebration. This leads to a rekindling of the Kobashi/Misawa wars and, in a perfect world, puts Kobashi on the comeback trail that ends with one more Kobashi/Misawa match, maybe at the Tokyo Dome, that sees Kobashi win back the GHC.
That, I would love.
Aside from the match length and result, does anyone know if Kobashi looked good?
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Post by fallenhero on Dec 2, 2007 14:48:04 GMT -5
No, it didn't. It ended with an exploder. What I meant was that the "same thing" happened with the returning guy jobbing. Really? I could have sworn Misawa hit Takayama with the Frosion and that was it. |
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Post by fallenhero on Dec 2, 2007 14:57:26 GMT -5
I don't think this is too unusual. Kobashi got to celebrate his return to the ring, but Misawa cut short the celebration. This leads to a rekindling of the Kobashi/Misawa wars and, in a perfect world, puts Kobashi on the comeback trail that ends with one more Kobashi/Misawa match, maybe at the Tokyo Dome, that sees Kobashi win back the GHC. That, I would love. Aside from the match length and result, does anyone know if Kobashi looked good? Kobashi/Misawa won't be at the dome, Budokan is most likely. It's said Kobashi looked good for someone who hasn't wrestled in a year and a half, and that it was an awesome match. |
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Post by James Hetfield on Dec 2, 2007 16:48:18 GMT -5
My favorite picture from the match:  This was also NOAH's largest crowd for the Budokan. 17,000 strong. |
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Post by fallenhero on Dec 2, 2007 17:18:54 GMT -5
My favorite picture from the match: This was also NOAH's largest crowd for the Budokan. 17,000 strong. I didn't notice that pic on the Japanese site. |
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Post by HHH316 on Dec 2, 2007 17:30:58 GMT -5
Great to see Kobashi back. I'll look out for this show when it gets released
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Post by James Hetfield on Dec 2, 2007 17:35:04 GMT -5
Just watched the match. VERY solid. All guys brought their A-Game. Let me tell you, both teams work great together. Takayama and Kobashi should be a permanent team. Akiyama and Misawa as well. They all work great. Kobashi seems to not have lost a beat.
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Post by the franchise on Dec 2, 2007 19:13:16 GMT -5
The match was much better than I expected. The crowd seemed generally disappointed when Misawa pinned Kobashi.
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Post by James Hetfield on Dec 2, 2007 21:18:15 GMT -5
The crowd was also exited every time Kobashi was tagged in, hahaha.
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Post by Swarm on Dec 2, 2007 23:45:52 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised to hear Kobashi lost. I would have thought he would have pinned Misawa which would set up the title match in 08. That's not really how Japan works, to be honest. Japan, at least NOAH at this poiint anyway, present wrestling as a realistic sport. You think about it, Kobashi's been gone for over a year now, does it make sense that he'd come back and beat their World Champion? I actually like it. I think they should slow build the match, with Kobashi getting a few wins, then jobs for Misawa in a tag. Few more wins, jobs in tag. Few more wins, etc.. until say, four-six months down the line they do a tag and Kobashi goes over Misawa, run the big marquee match and Kobashi goes over for the GHC. Though more likely than not he'll get it sometime real early next year. |
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Post by PdW2kX on Dec 3, 2007 1:15:40 GMT -5
IMO, if Kobashi/Akiyama could main-event a Tokyo Dome show, the first one-on-one Misawa/Kobashi match in five years (taking into account that their last singles match against each other was in '03 and Misawa/Kobashi would build up for months, leading us into '08) could do so as well, especially considering that, like Misawa/Kawada at Destiny, it's one of those matches where you thought it wouldn't happen again.
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Post by fallenhero on Dec 3, 2007 7:04:40 GMT -5
IMO, if Kobashi/Akiyama could main-event a Tokyo Dome show, the first one-on-one Misawa/Kobashi match in five years (taking into account that their last singles match against each other was in '03 and Misawa/Kobashi would build up for months, leading us into '08) could do so as well, especially considering that, like Misawa/Kawada at Destiny, it's one of those matches where you thought it wouldn't happen again. It took both NJPW and AJPW to *barely* fill the Dome this year with a main event of Chono and Muto vs. Tenzan and Kojima, and a HUGE interpromotional card. What makes you think NOAH can do it on their own next year? |
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Post by James Hetfield on Dec 3, 2007 7:25:21 GMT -5
Well if you think about it, NJPW has always sold out the Dome before because they gave out a huge amount of free tickets. And in the past couple years, free tickets haven't been given out.
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Post by rohreddevil on Dec 3, 2007 9:35:14 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised to hear Kobashi lost. I would have thought he would have pinned Misawa which would set up the title match in 08. That's not really how Japan works, to be honest. Japan, at least NOAH at this poiint anyway, present wrestling as a realistic sport. You think about it, Kobashi's been gone for over a year now, does it make sense that he'd come back and beat their World Champion? I actually like it. I think they should slow build the match, with Kobashi getting a few wins, then jobs for Misawa in a tag. Few more wins, jobs in tag. Few more wins, etc.. until say, four-six months down the line they do a tag and Kobashi goes over Misawa, run the big marquee match and Kobashi goes over for the GHC. Though more likely than not he'll get it sometime real early next year. Well then why was he is in the main event against the Champion if he didn't have a realistic shot at beating him? NOAH does try to be more realistic, but it's impossible in wrestling for everything to be completely logical. |
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