Mistico is the smoothest dude ever.

It's a good thing they have no storylines?

Most matches tell stories that aren't hard to pick up on. You watch nearly any wrestlig match it's clear it's got a set story to it. Wether it be a heel working over an injured body part and a face trying to overcome it, that's a story. I watch wrestling to be entertained by tecnical ability of wrestlers, the risks they take and how they've perfected moves that are so hard to master. Also how they keep a fan hooked. If I wanted to read some huge complex story which seems to be what attracts everyone to NOAH, yet nobody every describes what they mean. NOAH just tell 'stories' apparently, I'd read a book. Every match tells a story in someway unless they're pretty crap wrestlers. A match needs to flow so it always follows a story somehow. Wether it be something simple like a heel picking apart an injured bodypart and the face trying to overcome it by being cut off, then eventually coming back only to be cheated of victory. That's still a story.

In my opinion, I prefer the rosters of many U.S promotions.

Meltzer. Seriously, I hate that guy so much. Not personally. Because of how people see him as a messiah. He's just a fan with an opinion. Like you or me.

Taz:

- You know I know that man. NOAH is very similar to 90's AJPW in their approach at booking. While it may not be as good, I know they aren't the exclusive promotion to ever do such things. That's why I said "one of the few". And by fancy angles and storylines, I mean no Jimmy Loves Lacey, no Special K raves, that stuff. Not a promotion completely devoid of issues.

- Ah, but come on. Ogawa is a role-player, Aoyagi is never there, Inoue I'll give you, same with Shiga, Saito is not that bad, Koshinaka doesn't wrestle there anymore, I'll give you Kawabata, and Izumida. So that, what, 5 guys that REALLY suck and are on every show? Every promotion has those guys you just don't like. Some may have fewer, but it isn't like a negative for NOAH.

- I think one of the best stories of 2007 is the Takayama & Sugiura vs. Akiayama & Rikio match. Pretty much, the small Sugiura is trying to show he can hang with the biggest of the best havyweights. So he takes it right to Akiyama and Rikio. Eventually, Akiyama gets fed up with things and, in essence, tells Sugi to "ing stop" with a running knee on the ramp. Sugiura won't stop, and takes it right back to Akiyama and Rikio, showing nothing but heart. Some other stuff goes down, as I haven't seen the match in like a month, but that's the basic idea behind a lot of matches: telling a story that goes past "babyface in peril" or "heel focuses on injury" that we've seen in 100,764,456 matches over the years. NOAH goes with character or situation specific stories that really make sense. I got to go to work, more on this later.

Jesus ing christ. I don't post here much, but I think I need to say something. I'm not trying to start a flame war or whatever it's called, but Dean needs to shut up, and accept other people's opinions. Some people don't like it, get over it. I think it is pretty damn boring, even some of the Junior's make me want to turn it off. And stop acting as if you've found a hidden gem in Mistico. He's so last year.

Mistico is soo 2006. El Blazer is whats in.

But on the topic of lucha, cause that's what this was originally about and somehow everyone started arguing about Taue, Akiyama and happy Whitmer.

Check out some Rey Bucenero, or Chessman, much better wrestlers as a whole than Mistico.

Chessman is probably my favourite wrestler in AAA right now. I've never really got into Rey Bucanero. However, I reccomend highly the Gran Apache/Billy Boy feud. It is probably the greatest feud all year, no joke. It's really starting to heat up now, what with Billy Boy pretending to be a trainee, and learning all Apache's secrets. Great stuff. This promo shows just how awesome a rudo Apache is...

Well I got confused. My bad.

Love Machine is the best lucha wrestler, RIP

And I've always believed that alot of 'smarks' like Japanese wrestling just because it's Japanese.

EDIT: Ok, I just finished watching that video. While alot of the moves were really cool, some of the stuff - and this is what annoys me about wrestling, particularly lucha - is REALLY unnecessary. For example, at 1:08 when Averno cartwheels over Mistico and then backflips - is that really necessary? The fact that he is backflipping for no reason whatsoever during an actual FIGHT really takes away the realism aspect for me. I mean, I can see Mistico doing headscissors and crapand I know that would never happen in a real fight too, but I can suspend my disbelief for something like that. When someone busts out a backflip for no reason at all, it really annoys me.

Yeah, the 6/9/95 tag match is really great. Second best tag match ever IMO, right behind Kawada/Taue VS Misawa/Akiyama from 12/6/96.

But still, 90s AJPW isn't for everyone. I tried watching it when I first got into puro a little over two years ago, and didn't care much for it. Now I think it's the best period of sustained greatness a company has ever had *shrug*

But Dean isn't Pac one of your favourites? He usually does a handspring off the ropes then backflips for no reason. No offense I mean I <3 Pac too I just noticed that.

AWE SATURDAY <3