NOAH results (3/2/08)
 

1. Genba Hirayanagi vs. Akihiko Ito went to a 15:00 draw.
2. Kishin Kawabata & Kentaro Shiga beat Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Mitsuo Momota in 9:37 when Kawabata pinned Momota with a cradle cutback.
3. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Mohammed Yone & Ippei Ota in 10:26 after Kanemaru used the Touch Out on Ota.
4. Akira Taue & Junji Izumida beat Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli in 10:59 after Taue used the Dynamic Bomb on Castagnoli.
5. Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki beat Doug Williams & Taiji Ishimori in 13:10 after Suzuki used the Blue Destiny on Ishimori.
6. Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikio beat Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue in 16:59 after Rikio used the Muso on Inoue.
7. Kenta Kobashi, Tamon Honda & KENTA beat Yoshihiro Takayama, Takuma Sano & Atsushi Aoki in 29:36 after KENTA used the go 2 sleep on Aoki.
8. GHC Tag Team Title: Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura © beat Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe in 29:47 after Marufuji used the Shiranui Kai on Mark Briscoe. This was their second defense.
9. GHC Heavyweight Title: Takeshi Morishima beat Mitsuharu Misawa © in 20:22 after a Backdrop to become the 12th champion.

Damn, Morishima has finally won the big one in NOAH. I guess this means the chance of Dragon going over Shima in ROH is out the window. I'm still glad to see Morishima end Misawa's year and a half long reign.

I liked how how the storyline arced tremendously during this event. It crossrined reality.

Is this China man wrestling?

:mad:

Good to see Takeshi win the GHC Heavyweight Championship. I never expected Bryan Danielson to go over Morishima in NOAH. I hope that we do get to see Morishima back in ROH, and Danielson can beat him then.

A ROH World Championship vs. GHC Heavyweight Championship match would be a pretty big thing for ROH to do.

Maybe we'll see a GHC Heavyweight Championship match in ROH in the states with Morishima vs Dragon?

Well, I don't think Morishima will job period in ROH anymore now that's he GHC champ.

I'm sorry, I had to do it.

I wish Brent Albright would defeat Go Shiozaki in their upcoming match to qualify for that Four Corner Survival guys are fighting to get into for some reason (I'm not sure if it's for a title shot, or what), but I think Go will be going over.

I'd forgive Shiozaki if he used an Inspector Gadget theme remix as his entrance.

Also, I am pretty high on Doug Williams. I wish he would do some more appearances in ROH.

Marufuji reversed a doomsday device into a shiranui kai. That is fucking amazing....

http://ca.c.yimg.jp/sports/120446958...0080302150.jpg

Jesus christ thats awesome.

Look at the names, stupid. I's obviously the Southern Goergia Wrestling Association.

I like the guy but Doug's past it, he can only do exhibition matches now.

That is truly fucking SICK! I'm glad I made my 500th post on this.

Also I'm glad Shima took the belt of MISAWA, could we see a GHC title defense at the Hammerstein against Dragon? Could be pretty epic.

The idea noid threw out there of a ROH Champ v. GHC Champ would be pretty huge. Also a coming full circle type of story. Nigel is the one who dethrones Shima as champ, Shima goes on to win an even more prestigious title. Then the 2 meet to see who the better champion is.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/68c6dg

Theres that tag match if anyone wants to see it.

Naomichi Marufuji is built of awesome.

WOw... so it looks like buddy was on the shoulders of Bricoe #1... then Bricoe #2 jumped off the top for a clothesline, but buddy on the shoulders reversed it into a quite simular move that Frankie Kazarian does off the top, which is also quite simular to what Paul Birchill does, right?

Bingo... except the Briscoes do their DD as a spring board clothesline, but besides that, exactly.

Also, if anyone wants it, I have the Morishima Vs Misawa match... I have the tag match too, but that's already been covered.

Man, that is a fucking crazy reversal.

The Hero/Claudio tag is worth checking out as well, some good comedy spots. Kinda sad for Claudio as he was basically comedy job boy for the whole tour, but I'm sure he doesn't mind.

A lot of guys cracking their teeth in Japan are put on job duty. It's kind of tradition over there. I'm sure Claudio would have just loved working in Japan, learning a lot, and entertaining a large group of respectful Japanese fans.

It might be a step back for Claudio, but I kind of wish ROH would put him and Chris Hero back together as The Kings of Wrestling. Hero & Claudio were great together, and I think ROH needs to get some real tag teams going, instead of just having random guys from factions holding the belts.

True but initially KOW were scheduled to have had a tag title shot this show, they basically got demoted early on.