Splitting Again

I'm splitting my posts from being too gigantic so I can fit labels and such in. These ar re-posts, bascially.

Kumiko Maekawa v Momoe Nakanishi (AJW 24/10/01)
--Awesome, but not without it flaws. Nakanishi's long term selling could have been better, and it going an hour wasn't the best idea (dragged a bit with all the finishing stuff), but the good > bad. Maekawa seemed to look at Nakanishi like she was a school girl pushing her weight, and tried to blow her off early, and Nakanishi fighting back really well put surprise on Kumiko's face. She had desperation points where she'd try different ways to end the match, from submissions, to suplexes, to trying to kill her with a range of kicks, to using the barricade, green mist, etc. Nakanishi on the other hand almost looked like she had to try different things to make herself survive, using the tables and barricades herself, going for the right leg, using dives, suplexes outside, yeah. Maekawa used that many kicks that looked to borderline concuss Nakanishi, that it was awesome when Nakanishi pretty much shrugged them off later on to be successful and "arrive" no matter what. Last ten minutes I could have done without and the match would have been better without them, but it didn;t "ruin" it at all.

Bryan Danielson v Takeshi Morishima (ROH 3/11/07)
--After watching weeks of Danielson look like a child on Raw, it's surreal to see him make you think he's a giant in serial killer mode. Match itself was awesome, no beating the bushes, just two guys trying to pretty much destroy each other in 12 minutes. Have no idea what was going on during this feud, but they obviously wanted the other to get hurt. I also have no Morishima experience prior to this, and I thought he was great, he wasn't one of those annoying big men who would try to "wow" the crowd with flashy crap, he would just use his size to make Danielson suffer. Bryan's blade job was a thing of beauty too, looked like tribal facepaint or something. Then he has those elbows, the dive, and trying to tear Morishima's eye out. Finish was fitting and leaves you wanting more (anticipating next match up).

Kenta Kobashi v Minoru Suzuki (NOAH 8/1/05)
--First half or so of this I was into it, second half, not so much. Began with Suzuki taking his sweet ass time going into a greco roman knuckle lock and collar and elbow and all that, being a cocky dick. Kobashi gets fed up and keeps him in a four minute headlock (going to the outside as well) and then barraging chops all over his chest and neck. After that they did kind of a "kick it into high-gear" thing that wasnlt bad but didn't really spark my interest. Some heavy damn suplexes though, Suzuki was dropped right on the TOP of his bloody head.

Naomichi Marufuji/Minoru Suzuki v Makato Hashi/Jun Akiyama (NOAH 18/7/05)
--Wanted this to end after the first two minutes. The fact it went like 26 after that didn't help at all. I can see this being a really loved tag match but something about it had me really really uninterested the whole time. Hashi and Akiyama were good, I though, Hash was fighting to not have his bandaged head be over-hit, but Marufuji continues to annoy the hell out of me. Sells like a poor man's Jeff Hardy and insists on obviously slapping his thighs every leg move he does. He and Suzuki were doing some weird unneccessary crap on the ramp that made me want to turn of my DVD player. At least Suzuki played a decent son of a bitch.