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NJPW WRESTLE KINGDOM II IN TOKYO DOME DVD 1/4/08 Tokyo Dome
-3hr 40min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

THIS IS WAR! ~NONSTOP RISING~: Christian Cage & AJ Styles & Petey Williams vs. Milano Collection AT & Minoru & Prince Devitt 10:25

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Wataru Inoue vs. Christopher Daniels 10:17

Japanese Muscle Monster vs. The American Monster: Manabu Nakanishi vs. Abyss 6:00

NEW JAPAN vs. The Alliance GROUND ZERO: Masato Tanaka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Yutaka Yoshie & Katsushi Takemura vs. Takashi Iizuka & Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi 8:36

GET THE TABLE! GET THE HIGHEST! - Hardcore Match: "Team 3D" Brother Ray & Brother Devon vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano 13:12

ONE NIGHT STAND ~LEGEND vs. VBH~: Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono & Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA beat Jado & Gedo & TARU, Shuji Kondo & "brother" YASSHI 7:18

Generation of Chaos: Great Muta vs. Hirooki Goto 13:04

IWGP Tag Title Match: Giant Bernard & Travis Tomko vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner 12:50

Final Resolution ~REAL vs. Justice~ IWGP 3rd Belt: Kurt Angle vs. Yuji Nagata 18:29

IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 23:08

NJPW WRESTLE KINGDOM II IN TOKYO DOME PPV 1/4/08 Tokyo Dome
-4hr 25min. Q=Near Perfect. 2 DVDs

THIS IS WAR! ~NONSTOP RISING~: Christian Cage & AJ Styles & Petey Williams vs. Milano Collection AT & Minoru & Prince Devitt 10:25

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Wataru Inoue vs. Christopher Daniels 10:17

Japanese Muscle Monster vs. The American Monster: Manabu Nakanishi vs. Abyss 6:00

NEW JAPAN vs. The Alliance GROUND ZERO: Masato Tanaka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Yutaka Yoshie & Katsushi Takemura vs. Takashi Iizuka & Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi 8:36

GET THE TABLE! GET THE HIGHEST! - Hardcore Match: "Team 3D" Brother Ray & Brother Devon vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano 13:12

ONE NIGHT STAND ~LEGEND vs. VBH~: Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono & Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA beat Jado & Gedo & TARU, Shuji Kondo & "brother" YASSHI 7:18

Generation of Chaos: Great Muta vs. Hirooki Goto 13:04

IWGP Tag Title Match: Giant Bernard & Travis Tomko vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner 12:50

Final Resolution ~REAL vs. Justice~ IWGP 3rd Belt: Kurt Angle vs. Yuji Nagata 18:29. In this tragedy of Takada/Muto purportions, the clown prince of cartoon wrestling journeyed to Nagata's house but refused to man up and wrestle the punishing match that should be wrestled. Angle not only made Nagata wrestle an entirely different match than he would against anyone who wasn't a pansy, a match that's totally devoid of his signature kick flurries, but asked him to sell 2/3 of the match then tap to his ridiculously contrived ankle lock to boot. If I had any respect for Angle to begin with, I would have lost it with this typically hokey turd that had no relation to the big match, hell even an unmotivated house show match, everyone has come to expect from Nagata, the best heavyweight wrestler of his generation. Angle's unwarranted positive reputation should be forever stained by this nonsense. If we accept though that Nagata is doing Angle's match, it's still not a good match. It had a clumsy feel to it like Angle often didn't have a sense what Nagata was going to do (I suppose neither did anyone else once he wasn't allowed to kick...), so he wasn't in the proper starting position and they had to awkwardly improvise at the last second resulting not only in a lacked of fluidity, but just a general feeling that you weren't watching a real fight, you were instead watching poor choreography. They did several suplexes that were nice once they got to the point of hoisting the opponent, but there was just too much last second rearranging going on in this match. To add insult to injury, they had to mainly do matwork to make up for the lack of striking, which would have been fine except Angle insisted on working for the infamous Takada killing figure 4 to drive home just how phony all forms of pro wrestling really are. When he luckily couldn't win with that, he was on to his typically implausible transitions to the ankle lock. Granted most of the junior flying I like isn't going to happen in the UFC, but there's about as much chance of someone hitting a standing shooting star press in a shoot as there is of making virtually any transition into an ankle lock that Angle has ever made. *1/2

IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 23:08. Great to see two NJ wrestlers in their prime headlining the Tokyo Dome against one another. Even better that it's two could have been juniors doing a junior style match for the heavyweight title. Nakamura wasn't being a badass here, using lots of suplexes and even a couple of moonsaults rather than a lot of kicks and submissions, as the match was more geared toward the spectacular. The main thing is they were trying to do a match of the year type of match to make the biggest match of the year special, to make it memorable for reasons other than it being their most attended and highest profile match. Tanahashi injured Nakamura's knee early with his Muto techniques, but as Nakamura came into the match with his left shoulder all bandaged, Tanahashi eventually switched to the more obvious focal point. Nakamura's arm was even hurting from Tanahashi blocking a lariat later, and when the doctor tried to check him out when he was down near the ropes, Tanahashi just came over and stomped the shoulder. Nakamura was the youngest to win the IWGP Heavyweight Title when he beat Tenzan on 12/9/03, but had quickly vacated it due to injury, so 4 years and 13 champions later it was nice to see him overcome his health problems enough to come good again. ****

NJPW SXW 2/11/08 35th Anniversary Tour ~Circuit 2008 New Japan ISM #1 taped 1/27/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-1hr 50min. Q=Ex

Manabu Nakanishi & Taichi Ishikari & Tiger Mask vs. Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Takashi Iizuka & Yujiro 12:04

AKIRA & Jushin Thunder Liger & Masahiro Chono & Super Strong Machine vs. Gedo & Jado & Tomoaki Honma & Tomohiro Ishii 8:30

Togi Makabe & Toru Yano vs. Riki Choshu & Shiro Koshinaka 7:16

Ikuto Hidaka & Masato Tanaka vs. Koji Kanemoto & Tetsuya Naito 17:07

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yuji Nagata vs. Hirooki Goto & Shinsuke Nakamura 15:53

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title: Dick Togo & TAKA Michinoku vs. Minoru & Prince Devitt 21:48

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Wataru Inoue vs. Ryusuke Taguchi 18:35

NJPW SXW 2/25/08 Circuit 2008 NEW JAPAN ISM #4 taped 2/8/08 Tokorozawa Citizen Gym #2
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Tomoaki Honma vs. Mitsuhide Hirasawa 10:17

Tetsuya Naito & Yujiro vs. Taichi Ishikari & Tiger Mask 13:02

Minoru & Prince Devitt vs. Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue 12:42

AKIRA & Jushin Thunder Liger & Riki Choshu vs. Gedo & Jado & Toru Yano 10:36

Giant Bernard vs. Togi Makabe 6:10

Manabu Nakanishi & Takashi Iizuka & Yuji Nagata vs. Masahiro Chono & Shiro Koshinaka & Super Strong Machine 14:51

Hirooki Goto & Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi 17:42

NJPW CIRCUIT 2008 NEW JAPAN ISM in RYOGOKU PPV 2/17/08 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
-3hr 20min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

Intensely! Desperately!: Manabu Nakanishi & Takashi Iizuka & Koji Kanamoto & Tiger Mask vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Yujiro & Taichi Ishikari & Tetsuya Naito

Jr. NEW GENERATION: Wataru Inoue vs. Christopher Daniels

Hiroyoshi Tenzan Return Match ~ Tenzan Home Coming!: Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono & Shiro Koshinaka & Super Strong Machine vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Jado & Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Minoru & Prince Devitt vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA

New Japan vs. TNA - The Highflying Star vs. The Phenomenal 2nd: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. A.J. Styles

IWGP Tag Team Title: Giant Bernard & Travis Tomko vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano

IWGP Heavyweight Title 2nd & 3rd Generation Belt Unification Match: Kurt Angle vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

NJPW Encyclopedia 21 Vol. 13 10/5/15 Karl Anderson & 14 11/2/15 Takaaki Watanabe taped 3/23/08-9/5/13
-1hr 50min. Q=Perfect

#13 Karl Anderson

3/23/08 Amagasaki: Karl Anderson vs. Rhino

6/14/09 Tokyo: Karl Anderson & Shinsuke Nakamura & Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Togi Makabe & Wataru Inoue & Milano Collection AT & Tomoaki Honma

1/22/11 Tokyo IWGP Tag Title: Karl Anderson & Giant Bernard vs. Atlantis & OKUMURA

8/3/12 Tokyo G1 Block A: Karl Anderson vs. Minoru Suzuki

5/22/13 Nagoya: Karl Anderson & Prince Devitt & Tama Tonga & Bad Luck Fale vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Manabu Nakanishi & Ryusuke Taguchi & Captain New Japan

#14 Takaaki Watanabe

5/13/11 Tokyo: Takaaki Watanabe vs. Hiromu Takahashi

2/10/12 Osaka: Takaaki Watanabe vs. YOSHI HASHI

11/15/12 Tokyo: Takaaki Watanabe vs. Sho Tanaka

11/19/12 Tokyo: Takaaki Watanabe vs. Yohei Komatsu

4/20/13 Osaka: Takaaki Watanabe & Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Maximo & Tiger Mask

5/26/13 Shizuoka: Takaaki Watanabe & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tama Tonga & Karl Anderson

9/5/13 Tokyo: Takaaki Watanabe & Yuji Nagata vs. Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI HASHI

NJPW STV 4/19/08 Circuit 2008 New Japan Brave #1 taped 4/12/08 Hasuda Citizen Gym
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Taichi Ishikari vs. Kazuchika Okada 9:00

AKIRA & Jushin Thunder Liger & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Tetsuya Naito & Yujiro 7:36

Hirooki Goto vs. Tomoaki Honma 9:02

Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask & Wataru Inoue vs. Gedo & Jado & Toru Yano 12:30

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka vs. Togi Makabe & Tomohiro Ishii 12:48

Giant Bernard & Milano Collection AT & Minoru & Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Karl Anderson & Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi 17:20

NJPW SXW 4/14/08 NEW JAPAN BRAVE taped 4/13/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Shiro Koshinaka & Super Strong Machine vs. Milano Collection A.T. & Minoru

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka & Kazuchika Okada vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii

Wataru Inoue vs. Jado

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match: Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA vs. Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto & Giant Bernard

NJPW vs. 01 Dead or Alive I: Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa

World Heavyweight Title ~ NJPW vs. 01 Dead or Alive II: Masato Tanaka vs. Koji Kanemoto

NJPW SXW 4/28/08 Circuit 2008 New Japan Brave #3 taped 4/16/08 Kumagaya Citizen Gym
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Karl Anderson & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Kazuchika Okada & Mitsuhide Hirasawa 8:32

Shiro Koshinaka vs. Tomoaki Honma 8:40

Tetsuya Naito & Wataru Inoue vs. AKIRA & Jushin Thunder Liger 11:34

Milano Collection AT & Minoru vs. Taichi Ishikari & Tiger Mask 11:05

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi & Takashi Iizuka vs. Gedo & Jado & Togi Makabe & Toru Yano 12:33

Giant Bernard & Hirooki Goto & Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Manabu Nakanishi & Yujiro 15:40

NJPW Battle Station 4/30/08 NEW JAPAN BRAVE taped 4/25/08 Fukuoka Hakata Starlanes
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Tetsuya Naito vs. Christopher Daniels

Wataru Inoue & Tiger Mask vs. Jado & Gedo

Hirooki Goto & Milano Collection A.T. vs. Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka vs. Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma

NJPW vs. 01 Do or Die III: Manabu Nakanishi & Yujiro vs. Takao Omori & Osamu Namiguchi

NJPW vs. 01 Do or Die IV: Masato Tanaka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi

Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Giant Bernard & Minoru

NJPW CIRCUIT 2008 NEW JAPAN BRAVE PPV 4/27/08 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
-3hr 25min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

Jado & Gedo & Karl Anderson vs. Yujiro & Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Kazuchika Okada 5:30

Milano Collection AT & Minoru vs. Shiro Koshinaka & AKIRA 6:14

Hirooki Goto & Giant Bernard vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma 8:33

New Japan vs. ZERO1-MAX: Masato Tanaka & Shinjiro Otani vs. Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi 12:56

Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask & Tetsuya Naito 8:52

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match : Wataru Inoue vs. Christopher Daniels 19:28

IWGP Tag Title Match: Togi Makabe & Toru Yano vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka 15:14

IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Shinsuke Nakmura vs. Keiji Muto 22:34

NJPW/AJPW Keiji Muto Debut 25th Anniversary Commemorative DVD Box Set
-15hr 20min. Q=Perfect. 10 DVDs

Note: There's about 178 matches shown in total. Listed matches are the complete ones.

Disc 1

9/18/85: Keiji Muto vs. Tony St. Clair

Disc 2

11/3/86: Keiji Muto & Kengo Kimura vs. Antonio Inoki & Kerry Von Erich

11/9/87: Keiji Muto vs. Dick Murduch

Disc 3

6/30/90: Keiji Muto vs. Brad Rheigans

3/14/91: Keiji Muto vs. Mike Rotunda

5/17/92 IWGP Title: Keiji Muto vs. Riki Choshu

Disc 4

9/26/93: Keiji Muto vs. Hulk Hogan

1/4/95 IWGP Tag Title: Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase vs. Rick & Scott Steiner

5/26/95: Keiji Muto vs. Steve Austin

Disc 5

11/14/95: Keiji Muto & Sting vs. Ric Flair & Arn Anderson

9/23/96 Vale Tudo Rules: Keiji Muto vs. Pedro Otavario

5/3/99 IWGP Title: Keiji Muto vs. Genichiro Tenryu

Disc 6

6/8/01 Triple Crown Title: Keiji Muto vs. Genichiro Tenryu

Disc 7

10/28/01 IWGP & AJPW Tag Titles: Keiji Muto & Taiyo Kea vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Nishimura

10/31/04: Keiji Muto & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasake

Disc 9

12/5/05: Keiji Muto & Akebono vs. Dudley Boyz

Disc 10

4/27/08 IWGP Title: Keiji Muto vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

NJPW Riki Choshu Lock Up STV 6/4/08 taped 5/18/08 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Yusaku Obata vs. Kuniyoshi Wada 7:54

Yujiro vs. Taichi Ishikari 11:59

Tomoaki Honma vs. Tetsuya Naito 12:25

Takashi Sasaki & Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Kazuchika Okada & Riki Choshu 10:05

Kintaro Kanemura & Masao Orihara vs. Atsushi Onita & Shiro Koshinaka 9:31

Gedo & Jado & Tomohiro Ishii vs. GENTARO & Mammoth Sasaki & Dick Togo 16:55

NJPW Battle Station Near Live 5/26/08 NEW JAPAN X ZEPP "SMASH" Tokyo Zepp Tokyo
-1hr 55min. Q=Perfect

Milano Collection AT & Minoru & Prince Devitt vs. Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi 13:47

Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask vs. Jado & Gedo 11:20

Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma & Karl Anderson vs. Riki Choshu & Shiro Koshinaka & Mitsuhide Hirasawa

Kazuchika Okada IMPOSSIBLE SMASH.4: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kazuchika Okada 3:05

NO LIMIT GENERATION SMASH.4: Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto vs. Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito 13:40

Togi Makabe & Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka vs. Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & AKIRA 11:12

NJPW SXW 6/9/08 Best Of The Super Junior XV #1 taped 6/1/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Tomoaki Honma vs. Kazuchika Okada 7:49

Milano Collection AT vs. Taichi Ishikari 6:52

AKIRA & Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Tetsuya Naito & Yujiro & Jimmy Rave 16:07

Takashi Iizuka & Togi Makabe & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Super Strong Machine & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Mitsuhide Hirasawa 10:45

Best Of The Super Junior XV Block A: Wataru Inoue [2] vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa [0] 13:24

Best Of The Super Junior XV Block A: Minoru [2] vs. Jushin Thunder Liger [0] 13:32

Best Of The Super Junior XV Block B: Tiger Mask [4] vs. Prince Devitt [0] 1:40

Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata vs. Hirooki Goto & Shinsuke Nakamura 16:57

NJPW Riki Choshu Lock Up STV taped 7/12/08 Tokyo Shinjuku FACE
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Kuniyoshi Wada & Tetsuya Naito vs. GENTARO & Yusaku Obata 14:58

Daisuke Sekimoto & Takashi Sasaki vs. Kazuchika Okada & Yujiro 12:09

Tomoaki Honma vs. Hisamaru Tajima 10:34

Gedo & Jado vs. Arashi & Mitsuya Nagai 12:13

Kintaro Kanemura & Masao Orihara & Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Atsushi Onita & Legend Riki Choshu & Shiro Koshinaka 7:19

WEW Heavyweight Title: Mammoth Sasaki vs. Tomohiro Ishii 18:38

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 2008 ~HEROES OF SUPREMECY~ DVD-Box 8/9/08-8/17/08
-7hr. Q=Perfect. 4 DVDs

Disc 1 8/9/08 Aichi Prefectural Gym

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi [2] vs. Wataru Inoue [0] 14:07

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Yutaka Yoshie [2] vs. Toru Yano [0] 11:38

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Shinjiro Otani [2] vs. Manabu Nakanishi [0] 12:21

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Giant Bernard [2] vs. Satoshi Kojima [0] 13:27

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] vs. Toshiaki Kawada [0] 19:24

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Shinsuke Nakamura [2] vs. Yuji Nagata [0] 15:52

8/11/08 Yokohama Bunka Gym

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Shinjiro Otani [4] vs. Wataru Inoue [0] 9:56

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Toru Yano [2] vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] 11:50

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Satoshi Kojima [2] vs. Manabu Nakanishi [0] 15:15

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Shinsuke Nakamura [4] vs. Yutaka Yoshie [2] 15:20

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Toshiaki Kawada [2] vs. Hirooki Goto [0] 13:24

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Togi Makabe [2] vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi [2] 20:14

Disc 2 8/13/08 Korakuen Hall

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Togi Makabe [4] vs. Wataru Inoue [0] 12:59

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Hirooki Goto [2] vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] 13:43

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Giant Bernard [2] vs. Shinjiro Otani [4] 14:12

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Yuji Nagata [2] vs. Yutaka Yoshie [2] 15:38

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Toru Yano [4] vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 12:53

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Manabu Nakanishi [2] vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi [2] 17:33

8/14/08 Osaka Prefectural Gym

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Manabu Nakanishi [4] vs. Giant Bernard [4] 13:17

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Yuji Nagata [4] vs. Toru Yano [4] 13:10

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Yutaka Yoshie [4] vs. Hirooki Goto [2] 14:28

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Shinjiro Otani [6] vs. Togi Makabe [4] 12:11

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Satoshi Kojima [4] vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi [2] 16:57

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Shinsuke Nakamura [6] vs. Toshiaki Kawada [2] 14:36

Disc 3 8/15/08 Osaka Prefectural Gym

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Satoshi Kojima [6] vs. Wataru Inoue [0] 12:39

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Toshiaki Kawada [4] vs. Toru Yano [4] 8:38

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Manabu Nakanishi [6] vs. Togi Makabe [4] 9:31

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Yuji Nagata [6] vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] 11:34

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Giant Bernard [6] vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi [2] 13:51

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Hirooki Goto [4] vs. Shinsuke Nakamura [6] 14:22

8/16/08 Ryogoku Kokugikan

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Wataru Inoue [2] vs. Manabu Nakanishi [6] 8:38

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Hirooki Goto [6] vs. Toru Yano [4] 9:11

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Yutaka Yoshie [6] vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] 15:09

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Togi Makabe [6] vs. Giant Bernard [6] 10:56

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Satoshi Kojima [7] vs. Shinjiro Otani [7] 30:00

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Toshiaki Kawada [6] vs. Yuji Nagata [6] 16:38

Disc 4 8/17/08 Ryogoku Kokugikan

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Shinsuke Nakamura [8] vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] 12:16

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Toshiaki Kawada [7] vs. Yutaka Yoshie [7] 30:00

G1 Climax 2008 Block B: Hirooki Goto [8] vs. Yuji Nagata [6] 12:12

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Wataru Inoue [4] vs. Giant Bernard [6] 7:32

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi [4] vs. Shinjiro Otani [7] 12:44

G1 Climax 2008 Block A: Togi Makabe [8] vs. Satoshi Kojima [7] 12:26

G1 Climax 2008 Final: Hirooki Goto vs. Togi Makabe 22:25

NJPW Battle Station Near Live 8/11/08 G1 CLIMAX 2008 ~HEROES OF SUPREMECY~ Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan
-2hr 55min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

G1 Climax A Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Wataru Inoue

G1 Climax B Block: Toru Yano vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

G1 Climax A Block: Satoshi Kojima vs. Manabu Nakanishi

G1 Climax Special Eight Man Tag Match: Jado & Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma vs. Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono & Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito

G1 Climax Special Eight Man Tag Match: Yuji Nagata & Tiger Mask & Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA vs. Giant Bernard & Milano Collection A.T. & Minoru & Prince Devitt

G1 Climax B Block: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Yutaka Yoshie

G1 Climax B Block: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Hirooki Goto

G1 Climax A Block: Togi Makabe vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

NJPW Battle Station Near Live 8/13/08 G1 CLIMAX 2008 ~HEROES OF SUPREMECY~ Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-2hr 45min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

G1 Climax Special Tag Match: Satoshi Kojima & Milano Collection A.T. vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma

G1 Climax A Block: Togi Makabe vs. Wataru Inoue

G1 Climax B Block: Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

G1 Climax A Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Giant Bernard

G1 Climax Special Tag Match: Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Taichi Ishikari

G1 Climax B Block: Yuji Nagata vs. Yutaka Yoshie

G1 Climax B Block: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Toru Yano

G1 Climax A Block: Manabu Nakanishi vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

NJPW SXW Live 8/14/08 G1 CLIMAX 2008 ~HEROES OF SUPREMECY~ Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
-2hr 55min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

G1 Climax Special Tag Match: Wataru Inoue & Tiger Mask vs. Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito

G1 Climax A Block: Manabu Nakanishi vs. Giant Bernard

G1 Climax B Block: Yuji Nagata vs. Toru Yano

G1 Climax B Block: Yutaka Yoshie vs. Hirooki Goto

G1 Climax Special Six Man Tag Match: Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Takashi Iizuka & Jado & Gedo

G1 Climax A Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Togi Makabe

G1 Climax A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Satoshi Kojima 16:57. Kojima style energetic, all action, stiff match with excellent work but questionable, at best, selling. Wasn't the most solid match, but they lit each other up. Match actually had better strike exchanges than Kawada/Nakamura, as Tanahashi's elbows and uppercut variations were looking really good today. Kojima's machine gun chops came off more as comedy though, and kind of ruin the mood due to his stupid expressions. The back and forth no selling of the sling blade and Koji cutter leading into a double sell spot was pretty contrived. ***3/4

G1 Climax B Block: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Toshiaki Kawada 14:36. Vintage Kawada match - stiff, realistic, excellent selling, and a lot of nice touches. Kawada took Nakamura apart with his kicks, but Nakamura worked arm submissions to injure Kawada. Kawada was doing too much damage to himself to win the elbow exchange, so he tried for an armbar of his own, as it was obviously doing the job for Nakamura. Kawada didn't have his A level stiffness today, and the match was 5 minutes too short, ending rather unconvincingly to boot. ***1/2

NJPW Battle Station 8/15/08 G1 CLIMAX 2008 ~HEROES OF SUPREMECY~ Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
-2hr 45min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

Yutaka Yoshie & Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito vs. Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuchika Okada

G1 Climax A Block: Satoshi Kojima vs. Wataru Inoue

G1 Climax B Block: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Toru Yano

G1 Climax A Block: Manabu Nakanishi vs. Togi Makabe

G1 Climax B Block: Yuji Nagata vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

G1 Climax A Block: Giant Bernard vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

G1 Climax Special Tag Match: A.J. Styles & Shinjiro Otani vs. Kurt Angle & Masahiro Chono

G1 Climax B Block: Hirooki Goto vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

NJPW SXW Live 8/16/08 G1 CLIMAX 2008 ~HEROES OF SUPREMECY~ Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
-3hr 15min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

G1 Climax A Block: Wataru Inoue vs. Manabu Nakanishi

G1 Climax B Block: Hirooki Goto vs. Toru Yano

G1 Climax B Block: Yutaka Yoshie vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

G1 Climax A Block: Togi Makabe vs. Giant Bernard

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Match: Minoru & Prince Devitt vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA

G1 Climax A Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Satoshi Kojima

G1 Climax B Block: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Yuji Nagata

G1 WORLD WAR II "DOMINANCE AND INTENSITY": Kurt Angle & Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & A.J. Styles

NJPW PPV 8/17/08 G1 CLIMAX 2008 ~HEROES OF SUPREMECY~ Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
-3hr 55min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

G1 Climax B Block: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

G1 Climax B Block: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Yutaka Yoshie

G1 Climax B Block: Hirooki Goto vs.Yuji Nagata

G1 Climax A Block: Wataru Inoue vs. Giant Bernard

G1 Climax A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinjiro Otani

G1 Climax A Block: Togi Makabe vs. Satoshi Kojima

Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka & Jado & Gedo & Karl Anderson vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi & Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito

G1 Climax Final: Hirooki Goto vs. Togi Makabe

NJPW PREMIUM Battle Station 9/15/08 PREMIUM 3 Dog day afternoon taped 8/30/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-2hr. Q=Perfect

PREMIUM.SUPER-J Ranbu: Ikuto Hidaka & MIKAMI & Makoto Oishi vs. Minoru & GENTARO & Mineo Fujita

PREMIUM Special Singles Match: Kohei Sato vs. Tomoaki Honma

PREMIUM.SUPER-J Ranmyaku: Tiger Mask & El Samurai & Great Sasuke vs. NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA & TAKEMURA

PREMIUM SYMMETRY: Riki Choshu & Masato Tanaka vs. Yuji Nagata & Mitsuhide Hirasawa

PREMIUM.SUPER-J Sohran: Jushin Thunder Liger & Shuji Kondo vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Magnitude Kishiwada

PREMIUM Special Singles Match: Masahiro Chono vs. Takao Omori

PREMIUM BIG.4 SUBLIMATION: Shinjiro Otani & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Manabu Nakanishi

NJPW WPW Complete #1 CIRCUIT 2008 NEW JAPAN GENERATION Final taped 9/21/08 Kobe World Kinen Hall
-3hr 15min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

Kazuchika Okada vs. Nobuo Yoshihashi 5:07

GREATEST Jr. BATTLE in KOBE: Koji Kanemoto vs. Jushin Thunder Liger 8:12

Milano Collection AT vs. Taichi Ishikari 8:27

Yuji Nagata & Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt 11:06

Jado & Gedo & Tomoaki Honma vs. Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono & Mitsuhide Hirasawa 7:29

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto & Wataru Inoue vs. Toru Yano & Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller & Karl Anderson 16:16

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Tiger Mask vs. Low Ki 15:17

TENKOJI vs. GBH "Crimson WARS": Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii 12:23

IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Keiji Muto vs. Togi Makabe 19:16

NJPW PREMIUM Battle Station 10/18/08 taped 10/2/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-2hr. Q=Perfect

ROAD to SUPER J-CUP "J-unction": NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai

ROAD to SUPER J-CUP "J-ustice": Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Tetsuya Naito

ROAD to SUPER J-CUP "J-udgement": Tiger Mask vs. TAKEMURA

PREMIUM CAPITAL: Riki Choshu & Masato Tanaka vs. Masahiro Chono & Kohei Sato

PREMIUM CONTRACT: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Koji Kanemoto

PREMIUM SURPLUS: Shinjiro Otani & Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Yutaka Yoshie

NJPW DESTRUCTION '08 PPV 10/13/08 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
-3hr 40min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Match: Minoru & Prince Devitt vs. Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito 11:34

Jushin Thunder Liger & Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask vs. Low Ki & Jado & Gedo 7:46

Satoshi Kojima & KAI & Hiroshi Yamato vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii 10:06

Manabu Nakanishi & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Masahiro Chono & Hiroshi Tanahashi 10:24

Hirooki Goto vs. Giant Bernard 13:44

Chain Death Match ~ Tenzan vs. GBH 2nd Conviction: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Takashi Iizuka 21:24

01 World Heavyweight Title Match: Masato Tanaka vs. Yuji Nagata 18:06. These two went all out from bell to bell, delivering a brutal sprint. Their styles, though very different on paper, came together beautifully. The pace was all Tanaka's, but the offense was more toward Nagata's, with Tanaka focusing on his stiff side rather than his brawling side. Both men were on fire and gave electric performances. They threw some awesome elbows, with the striking getting so intense than Nagata was actually cut between the nose and eye from the sliding D. It was all quite bruising, but done in a rapidfire style that made everything seem extra desperate and intense. Despite the speed, the execution was right on, with every blow seeming blistering. It wasn't their most diverse match, but I felt like that was a plus, as they put everything they had into knocking each other out, focusing on impact rather than say Tanaka pulling out wild out of the ring moves because he can. It still felt like Tanaka's match because it was so high paced, but it absolutely felt like the war Nagata gives us when he's at his best. There was, of course, some compromise on both parts, but those matches that feel so true to both men are really the best sort of matches because they don't seem routine. They instead have that organic feel, the idea that this particular opponent just took them in a certain direction for this particular match, that it was the right one for today, or so they thought. ****

IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Keiji Muto vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 21:39

NJPW SXW 10/20/08 NEW JAPAN TRUTH G1 TAG LEAGUE Taped 10/18/08 Kuki Shi Sogo Taiikukan
-2hr. Q=Perfect

Milano Collection A.T. & Prince Devitt & Taichi Ishikari vs. Negro Casas & Rocky Romero & Nobuo Yoshihashi

Jushin Thunder Liger & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Minoru & Kazuchika Okada

Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller & Karl Anderson vs. Masahiro Chono & Manabu Nakanishi & Super Strong Machine

G1 Tag League B Block: Jado & Gedo vs. Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito

G1 Tag League B Block: Togi Makabe & Toru Yano vs. Yuji Nagata & Mitsuhide Hirasawa

G1 Tag League A Block: Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima

G1 Tag League A Block: Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto vs. Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto

NJPW SXW 11/10/08 NEW JAPAN TRUTH G1 TAG LEAGUE Taped 11/4/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-1hr 55min. Q=Perfect

Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito vs. Milano Collection A.T. & Taichi Ishikari

Tiger Mask & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Minoru

Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishi vs. Yuji Nagata & Mitsuhide Hirasawa

G1 Tag League B Block: Negro Casas & Rocky Romero vs. Jado & Gedo

G1 Tag League A Block: Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller vs. Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto

G1 Tag League B Block: Manabu Nakanishi & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano

G1 Tag League A Block: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto

NJPW Battle Station 1/9/09 NEW JAPAN NEXT ~Catch the Victory III~ taped 12/22/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-1hr 55min. Q=Perfect

AKIRA vs. Tomoaki Honma 8:10

Jushin Thunder Liger & Ryusuke Taguchi & Wataru Inoue vs. Milano Collection AT & Minoru & Taichi Ishikari 10:56

Masato Tanaka vs. Mitsuhide Hirasawa 8:42

Tiger Mask vs. Nobuo Yoshihashi 5:56

Hirooki Goto vs. Yujiro 10:24

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kazuchika Okada 6:00

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito 13:13

Falls Count Anywhere Street Fight: Kantaro Hoshino vs. Gedo 12:38

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Koji Kanemoto & Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata vs. Jado & Takashi Iizuka & Togi Makabe & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano 28:07

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