Sunday, December 9, 2007

Don't think your a puro fan? You know more than you think!

As always, don't forget to vote for match, promotion, and wrestler of the year. It only takes 2 seconds! Please! For those of you who aren't ROH fans, don't let them run away with every category, and if you are an ROH fan, keep voting to ensure your promotions victory!

Okay let's see what we have today.

Impact: Has anyone else never seen a ladder match where the ladder starts in the middle of the ring? This was one of the worst ladder matches i've ever seen. There was no wrestling or anything. It was just everyone trying to climb up and grab the title and someone else knocking them down. Also, wasn't the concept of this match a little stupid? A trios match for the x-division title that it doesn't matter who wins, because the title is still going to belong to Jay Lethal. Why couldn't Cornette just say "Hey, give him his title back or your fired!". The match was pointless.

The 10 man main event I thought was well done, but i'm confused as to where they go from here with the angle/cage storyline. Is Cage going to become a face? If so why did he come out earlier in the show and be an asshole to everyone? I guess we will have to wait and find out....

Smackdown: Not alot happened on Smackdown. That spear on Burke was amazing. I heard he actually had the wind knocked out of him which comes as no surprise. MVP continues to impress with another great segment. It helps that hes out there with the charismatic, passionate Micheal Hayes (and yes, I marked for the moonwalk) but still, a good segment overall.

In NJPW, Nakamura was able to knock off Tobe Makabe last night to guarantee his shot at the IWGP world heavyweight title on the January 4th show.

Also, it looks as though it will be young talented Hirooki Goto to face off against the previously announced Great Muta in his return to NJPW. If Goto is able to make this match last a while and look strong (I don't count on him winning) than that will definitely help his standing in the IWGP title chase.

For those of you who do not watch alot of puro, you may still know some of these faces.

The Great Muta made his name in America in the late 1980's and early 1990's in WCW. He was managed by Gary Hart and had memorable matches with Barry Windham, Ric Flair and Sting, even capturing the NWA television title for a time.

You may remember Hirooki Goto as a member to Team Japan in the World X-Cup for TNA along with Black Tiger, Minoru Tanaka and Jushin Lyger. His most famous match would be the trios cage match he had with Tanaka and Tiger against Alex Shelley, Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal at Lockdown 2006. It was an excellent back and forth match. If I can find a link to it, i'll be sure to put it up for you guys.

Yuji Nagata competed in WCW during 1997 and 1998 under an enforcer type role for Sunny Onoo. Although it was only a short stay he had memorable matches with Dean Malenko and his WCW rival, Ultimo Dragon.

If Giant Bernard doesn't sound familiar to you, how about A-train? or Albert? Yup, thats right, its the same guy, except for he finally found a razor, so no longer are we forced to stare at the hairiest chest on earth!

So your not as foreign to Japanese wrestling as you thought, good. Now get acquainted with these names because your TNA stars will be competing with them on January 4th, 2008.

Next blog, I will give my thoughts on Monday's raw and rundown the card for Armageddon! Until then,

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