Recent content by Gibby

For me, it's not a massive deal. The caveat I would add is that if you are going to be small (let's say any cruiserweight) then you have to have something extra in some department: be it unbelievable speed and agility like Rey or Kalisto, a big ability to take punishment like ECW prime-era Spike...

Back to Nakamura, one thing I think is really interesting is that he figured out his current act all by himself from pretty much hitting the skids. He arrived on the scene with a good basic look, relative size in his favour and top amateur credentials and NJPW pushed him to the moon. Usually you...

Funnily enough - not that it would have made one iota of difference - in the first Royal Rambo, Ventura on commentary says verbatim "it doesn't matter where your feet hit" and that simply going over the top rope was enough to constitute elimination. On later editions, before the Michaels/Bulldog...

Young Bucks are great. I didn't vote them #1 (Dangan Yankees got the nod) but they're a lot of fun. They do what the booker asks them to do. Their match against Time Splitters from Dominion was slower and far less "spotty" than usual and was probably the best match they put together. I do enjoy...

It's a good question and there's no real answer out there. Having now seen every defence of the title (only been four champs: Masato Tanaka, Tetsuya Naito, Tomohiro Ishii (x2) and Yujiro Takahashi) it seems to be a lower card title in the vein of the ECW TV title, though some people think of it...

Wrestle Kingdom 9 on January 4th looks absolutely amazing so far. On PPV in North America too, you lucky lucky devils. These matches appear to be locked-in IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada IWGP INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Kota...

Great news isn't it? Well, not for DDT I guess. But Kenny is great. New Japan has need a crop of juniors for a while.

I sort of know who helped him out on this one, weirdly. Not at liberty to say. It wasn't me. A guy in the UK scene. It's pronounced BAY-lorr, like the college, if you're wondering. Finn has connotations with aerodynamics, sharks, a mythical strongman and endings. Balor is a king and a college...

I think New Japan announced that the winners of the AJ-Tana match and the Okada-Naito match is going to be the WK9 headliner. So no Nakamura. I quite like the NEVER belt, or at least I liked it when Ishii had it. Seemed to act as a kind of 'strong style' title. Then Yujiro took it and it went...

Destruction double header was fine in case you missed it. Best match was the Tanahashi-Shibata rematch. Here is the card for Kings of Pro Wrestling from Sumo Hall, probably the #3 show now behind Wrestle Kingdom and the G1 Final. IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT AJ Styles (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi IWGP...

It's legit. Yottsume has opened up http://www.puroresushop.com to import a wider range inc. DVDs. Pro Wrestling Tees do NJPW tshirts too. All in the last few weeks. DVDs still criminally priced though.

Yeah I was having the same thought actually. Booking does indicate Fale will get his win back here. If it's clean it won't kill Nakamura (Fale did beat Tanahashi and Shibata, after all) but it will be a let down for me personally.

It was a pleasure, just glad someone is reading. My working theory is that it's a storyline way to have those US workers become the top guys in GFW - not necessarily as a faction. People will know Styles and I am sure that the average fan will be impressed by Anderson. I generally agreed...

I'd be happy with that. Would hope it's between an ROH guy and a NJPW guy. O'Reilly got himself over well on Sunday and could see him being ROH champ too.

Watch Steen vs Shinsuke Nakamura from the ROH/NJPW crossover. Gives you a good range of what he can do from comedy to clobbering.