I guess we'll give this a try for the various puro feds out there. I'll hold off on the NOAH one for a few days for the sake of not killing the thread I just started.

Interesting idea to do this for the Dome Show but I don't feel like All Japan brings enough to the table anymore. Though out of this I'm looking forward to Suzuki/Nagata, Tanahashi/Kea and Muto/Chono vs. Tenzan/Kojima. I guess Nakamura/Kawada works too.

That actually looks like a pretty damn competent card. Other than what you mentioned that 10-man jr. tag looks pretty fun as well.

The only match that's eye rolling on there is Gedo/Jado vs. NOSAWA/MAZADA. Yuck will that be a really awful match.

Damn. I'm so behind in Puro that it honestly hurts my feelings. I have no idea what is what anymore over there.

FUCK I hate time consuming stuff. Even though I've been busy and enjoying it, I really do miss watching Puro.

It's been pretty uneventful other than Tanahashi winning the belt over the summer. I think they're heading in the right direction and could rebound in 2007 barring his injury or Antonio Inoki finding a way to regain control.

Only a few more days until the show. I for one am excited for the show. Hopefully it's a good one.

So MD, has there been more progression with Tanahashi or is about the same these days???

I'm not so sure how much the fans buy into him. The DVDVR people claim the crowds are booing him during his defenses but then those guys tend to hear what they want to hear. Plus his first 2 defenses were against Nakamura and Tenzan so even if they did I wouldn't read much into it.

Here's the cards for the 1/7 and 1/8 shows. I must say New Japan Pro Wrestling is starting to slowly climb out of the funk they were in.

Some up coming stuff:

Kurt Angle has signed a deal with New Japan and will make his debut at the 2/18 show. Great move for them.

Most if not all of 1/4 is up over at DVDVR. Suzuki/Nagata and Kawada/Nakamura are especially fun.

Hmm, I thought there was a reason why I still went to DVDVR...

Huge lineup of shows here. Some fun looking stuff here:

Kurt Angle's New Japan debut match is announced for what's looking like a great show:

What a fucking waste of Angle. They could have pulled off some sick shit with him working with a guy in a singles match.

Yeah, that's bad. I was looking forward to Angle/Nagata or at least Angle/Tanahashi.

More results:

Nothing really interesting. What's with all the tag main events?

Just the usual for non-big shows.

So judging from the results, Angle was a prop in the match?

It sounds like it. I guess we'll just have to wait until the match comes out.

I'm hoping this leads to Tanahashi vs. Nagata for the IWGP Title.

Well, I just watched the Angle and Kondo matches. The angle match is very disapointing. Tomko and Bernard are good but Angle blows an olympic slam badly. The Kondo match was awesome. He turns on his partners at the end. VOODOO MURDERS ARE BACK!!!

In a match featuring Tomko and Bernard, and Angle is the weak link in the match? Oh, how times have changed.

Timmy, have you seen Kondo/Nakajima from AJPW yet?

Even reading the results that I did, I got the impression that Angle was more of a prop in the match than anything else.

No I haven't seen it yet. I might later this weekend. It's up on DVDVR in the matches section.

Yep, and it's fucking awesome.

My opinion on the Angle tag match is that he was not very prepared for what was expected of him, but it was ok because they didn't give him much. I still don't see anything great about Tomko, but Bernard is fucking awesome. Bernard and Nagata made the match very good to me, while Tomko was his usual self and Angle looked to be trying to get used to what they were going for. I think this was testing the waters for the eventual Nagata vs Angle one on one match which they've already strongly hinted at. Angle, while he is obviously a shell of what he was, is usually better in singles matches to me. So I look forward to Angle vs Nagata in a few months.

And say what you will about Angle, he put in way more effort here than Lesnar.

The next series of shows are coming up starting Saturday I think. Some of the big matches on this tour are a tournament for Tanahashi's next title defense and Bernard/Tomko challenge for the tag titles and I expect them to win.

I so called that too.

I would consider this to be good news. It is great to see how Bernard and Tomko have turned their careers around since leaving WWE.

All I have to say is I'm going to be fucking pissed if Tanahashi has to defend the belt against Togi Makabe.