Akitoshi Saito vs. Genba Hirayanagi 10:03
Kotaro Suzuki & SUGI vs. RONIN & Taiji Ishimori 13:01
Takuma Sano vs. Yoshinari Ogawa 2:31
Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Ricky Marvin & Takeshi Morishima 12:55
Go Shiozaki vs. Atsushi Aoki 16:23
Takashi Sugiura vs. Shuhei Taniguchi 17:19
Akira Taue & Naomichi Marufuji vs. KENTA & Masao Inoue 14:01
Ten Man New Years Present Battle Royal: Genba Hirayanagi vs. Go Shiozaki, KENTA, Kotaro Suzuki, Masao Inoue, Ricky Marvin, Shuhei Taniguchi, SUGI, Takeshi Morishima & Takuma Sano 6:43
Akira Taue vs. Kentaro Shiga 6:27
Akitoshi Saito vs. Masao Inoue 10:17
Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru 12:52
Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano vs. KENTA & Shuhei Taniguchi 17:05
Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin 14:31
Lumberjack Match: Go Shiozaki vs. Genba Hirayanagi 9:01
Takashi Sugiura & Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Aoki vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara 22:08. A very acceptable main event that at least gave you a sample of everything you wanted to see. Sugiura vs. Sasaki had bad ass striking, Nakajima took it to Sugiura with his kicks, Sugiura brutalizing Miyahara with some wicked elbows, Aoki was energetic. They didn't stick with any combo that long, and never did anything outstanding, but they kept the pace high and the action quality through quick tags. Miyahara is showing some definite improvement, as he's actually developed something of a moveset to go with his effort, and was definitely more entertaining than Aoki here. Nakajima was pretty clearly the best in the match, but everyone contributed in their own way. Marufuji was the biggest disappointment as he was hardly involved, but it seemed as though they were protecting him, particularly from taking much impact as he avoided pretty much all the strikes that were thrown his way. His initial segment with Nakajima was the counter laden tease it should have been, but Marufuji was never really involved in anything that could be classified as otherwise. ***
Akira Taue & Yutaka Yoshie & Ricky Marvin vs. Masao Inoue & Taiji Ishimori & Masashi Aoyagi 10:40
Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara 11:30
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Next Challenger Decision Match: Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Eddie Edwards & Bobby Fish 16:51
Takeshi Morishima vs. Mohammed Yone 9:00
Takuma Sano vs. Kensuke Sasaki 16:47
Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs. Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi 19:21
Yoshihiro Takayama vs. KENTA 12:11
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Match: Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Aoki vs. Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada 25:31. A really promising match. Quickness, athleticism, and teamwork all the way, all done fluidly with perfect timing. The match built through the use of better and better quick and athletic offense, though never anything amazing. Aoki had one of his better matches here, taking a lot of pressure of Marufuji, and the OPW team did really well, especially Kotoge who was their featured performer. The big spot was Kotoge taking innovator Marufuji out with his shiranui kai (also one of Kotoge's favorite holds) then double teaming Aoki including the thrust kick plus Death Valley bomb. You didn't truly believe the Osaka Pro team would win, but the match was worked so it didn't appear out of the question. ***1/2
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Bison Smith 19:39
Akira Taue & Kentaro Shiga vs. Masao Inoue & Takashi Okita 9:07
Akitoshi Saito & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Ricky Marvin & Bobby Fish 10:26
Takuma Sano vs. Taiji Ishimori 4:43
Go Shiozaki & Yoshinari Ogawa & KENTA vs. Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi 12:30
Takeshi Morishima & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima 17:14
Takashi Sugiura & Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Aoki vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Bison Smith & Jun Akiyama 22:08
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Eddie Edwards 29:40. I watched Kotaro's defenses against Nakajima, Ishimori, and Marvin prior to this, as those opponents sounded more interesting and credible (in NOAH terms) to me. None of the matches surprised me in the least (well, I was surprised at how much worse the Nakajima match was than their '09 draw) or showed me anything to make me expect a match or performance of this caliber. This was like an entirely different Kotaro. He has been channeling Misawa to try to keep his memory alive, but all of a sudden, for one night, Suzuki was capable of delivering a late 90's Misawa Budokan main event against an Edwards who was playing Kobashi or perhaps Akiyama. And not only wasn't it a strict homage, it really didn't even feel derivative or "dated" (apart from the few Misawa moves Suzuki always does). Tonight's match was like a new Budokan main event that had the attitude and effort to deliver a hardcore, technically excellent blow away epic from start to finish, but actually felt modern, fresh, and was genuinely surprising in many ways. It's true it didn't tell a great story and did rely on the moves (in between the sequences where Suzuki tried to pit his elbows against Edwards ruthless chops), but that's the best late 90's All Japan as well. It actually worked better here in that they were pulling off these counters to huge moves for more or less the first time, so you were always on your toes. They came up with some awesome spots such as Edwards die hard suplex on the apron, Edwards codebreaker off the top, Edwards trying to suplex Suzuki to the floor but Suzuki holding on so both went crashing, Edwards turning a Tiger driver off the apron into a Frankensteiner, Edwards hitting a Frankensteiner with Suzuki standing on the top, and so on. They weren't merely blowing through the spots, but rather they either spread them out effectively and/or used them to make it look like the match was about to end only to reset to keep things going for several move minutes. With the fast start and their never slowing down in terms of effort and intensity, this certainly did not give the appearance of a match that was going 30 minutes. They paced it effectively and did a nice job of struggling for and a great job of countering the big spots, including Suzuki landing on top for Edwards die hard off the top. By all means, this is not only Kotaro's best defense, but the best match of his career, and one that's different than any other match I've seen from him. ****1/4
Akira Taue & Junji Izumida vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Kentaro Shiga 7:46
Jun Akiyama & Masao Inoue vs. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie 10:01
Mohammed Yone & KENTA vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara 8:14
Atsushi Aoki vs. Ricky Marvin 3:27
Naomichi Marufuji vs. Yoshinari Ogawa 10:10
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Genba Hirayanagi 19:34
Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi & Taiji Ishimori 19:02
Takashi Sugiura & Akitoshi Saito vs. Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson 14:27
Genba Hirayanagi vs. Kentaro Shiga 12:17
Kotaro Suzuki & Taiji Ishimori vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Satoshi Kajiwara 11:19. Good story match setting up Nakajima's GHC Junior Title shot against Suzuki on 3/5/11. Nakajima hurt Suzuki's neck with a couple big suplexes early, forcing Ishimori to go alone for the majority of the match because every time Suzuki would start to recover, Nakajima would run over and put him right back out of action with a cheap shot. Nakajima injured Suzuki's arm with a sliding kick when Suzuki put it on the ring apron to try to drag himself up, and later kicked him off the apron when he finally got into position to tag. They were thus able to hold off the big Suzuki vs. Nakajima confrontation until the end of the match, and they gave us a nice little taste of things to come before Suzuki predictably pinned Kajiwara. Nakajima stared Suzuki down after the match. Beyond the story, it was a good match because everyone was energetic and wrestling like they cared. It might not have been their best moves, but everyone was active and putting forth an effort at all times. ***
Atsushi Aoki vs. Yoshinari Ogawa 16:22. Good, focused technical wrestling match; one of those matches that's dated, but at the same time a refreshing change of pace. These two sometimes seem to exist outside the flow of your generic spot oriented tag match because they want to work body parts and do submissions, but against each other they can do their thing. In this case, Aoki worked the arm while Ogawa worked the left knee. I liked the start where Aoki jumped Ogawa, but Ogawa fled until he was able to stand his ground and clobber Aoki when Aoki followed him into the ring. The match wasn't stressful, but was generally pretty well thought out and executed, doing a great job of building to a submission finish. The problem is after Aoki's armbar failed, Ogawa did big damage by posting Aoki (but Ogawa is the one with the bad arm) then pinned him in his backdrop hold. So, in the end, while there were some nice counters, you really felt like all this focused body work was a great big nothing. The match was part of a series of singles matches to set up Marufuji & Aoki's GHC Junior Tag Title defense against Ogawa & Marvin on 3/5/11. Ogawa & Marvin won both pairings on 2/16/11, so this win established their dominance regardless of whether Marvin completed the sweep. **1/2
Naomichi Marufuji vs. Ricky Marvin 10:28. Ogawa stayed at ringside, but wasn't the least bit shady. In fact, he even alerted the ref to the fact Marufuji had rope escaped. They started fast, but ultimately did a little bit of everything and a lot of nothing. These two can work together, but it was just so short that they didn't know where to take things. Ultimately, it was quite a nice half a match, but you weren't convinced by it ending, nor by how it ended. I'd bank on these two in a long jr title match for sure, but this was really just a tease. **3/4
Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA vs. Kensuke Okita & Takashi Okita & Kento Miyahara 16:00
Takuma Sano & Masao Inoue vs. Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi 15:37
Takashi Sugiura & Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito 20:56
Akira Taue vs. Genba Hirayanagi 5:02
Ricky Marvin & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Satoshi Kajiwara 9:48
Jun Akiyama vs. Kento Miyahara 9:39
Atsushi Aoki & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Kentaro Shiga & Kotaro Suzuki 13:40
Takuma Sano & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Akitoshi Saito & Shuhei Taniguchi 12:10
Kensuke Sasaki & Takashi Okita vs. Masao Inoue & Takashi Sugiura 16:21
KENTA & Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Taiji Ishimori & Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie 15:18
Takeshi Morishima vs. Makoto Hashi 4:39
Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue vs. Taiji Ishimori & Kentaro Shiga 10:43
Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Takashi Okita & Kento Miyahara & Satoshi Kajiwara 11:41
Jun Akiyama vs. Yutaka Yoshie 10:41
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Match: Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Aoki vs. Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin 23:51
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 24:09. Nakajima has rarely ever let me down, but I was left scratching my head here. I really liked their 10/15/09 draw, which was a methodical match, but one that had a very strong storyline. This was just methodical. I never really had the sense that the match had any direction, or that it was flowing. Nakajima had a new look with ugly baggy workout pants, and was playing more of a heel role. Suzuki tried doing Nakajima's match, but Nakajima himself never seemed truly comfortable because he wasn't really doing Nakajima's match. The results were more miss than hit, but they have enough pure ability to overcome a lot. Nakajima dominated early, but Suzuki finally caught a kick and turned it into a Dragon screw. The knee never became a theme this time, in fact there really was no theme. It was more a Kensuke match where they just loaded up on hard hitting. There was a great very audible elbow exchange and an impressive duel of Kotaro's elbows against Nakajima's kicks. Nakajima hit some damn impressive thrust kicks to Kotaro's jaw, and Kotaro's elbows were great when they connected. The sequences weren't anything special though, and the timing or execution was capable of going off. I enjoyed the match, but I kept waiting for it to approach their capability, and for my money it never did. ***1/4
GHC Tag Title Match: Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano vs. Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi 19:22
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Giant Bernard 20:32
Masao Inoue vs. Shane Haste 7:55
Takuma Sano & Akitoshi Saito vs. Kento Miyahara & Brian Breaker 9:12
Atsushi Aoki vs. Bobby Fish 10:54
Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin vs. KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi 7:56
Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Yutaka Yoshie & Yuto Aijima 14:55
Mohammed Yone vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru 5:50
Jun Akiyama & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima 18:10
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Taiji Ishimori 19:18. Really erratic and inconsistent match. They have some great spots that led to intermittent brilliance, but neither has any idea of how to utilize their moves and the match stagnated between their showing off. It started great with a damn fine Lucha opening including Kotaro turning a corbata into a headspring, but then they did lame WWE style weardown. Ishimori tried to exchange elbows, but Suzuki's were clearly better so he didn't try to strike with Suzuki anymore. The match was better anyway when Ishimori was turning a Tigerdriver into a huracanrana or hitting a reverse Frankensteiner or a "no touch" tope con giro over the post, or any number of his spectacular signature moves. Suzuki's offense couldn't compare to Ishimori's highspots, but Ishimori's secondary offense isn't impressive at all. He either does something truly amazing or ridiculously pedestrian. Still, I feel like he provided most of the entertainment value. Suzuki is the more well rounded wrestler, but the problem is he's not solid and can't carry a match, so it was all pretty random and unfocused. I can't say it was better than the 3/5/11 Kotaro vs. Nakajima match, but probably the entire top 10 most impressive moments would be from this one. ***
Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Takeshi Morishima 11:39
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Trevor Murdoch 18:23
Akira Taue vs. Takashi Okita 7:02
Masao Inoue & Ricky Marvin vs. Taiji Ishimori & Kentaro Shiga 11:18
Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara vs. Bobby Fish & Shane Haste 13:30
Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayangi 13:03
Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs. Trevor Murdoch & Brian Breaker 13:23
Mohammed Yone vs. KENTA 12:21
Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Aoki vs. Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi 18:53
Takashi Sugiura & Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano & Minoru Suzuki 24:33
Ricky Marvin vs. Shane Haste 8:08
Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Takashi Okita 13:14
Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori vs. KENTA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi 14:16
Global Tag League: Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi [2] vs. Bison Smith & Masao Inoue [0] 21:43
Global Tag League: Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito [0] vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara [2] 3:08
Global Tag League: Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone [2] vs. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie [0] 15:46
Global Tag League: Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano [0] vs. Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli [2] 14:15
Taiji Ishimori vs. Shane Haste 9:35
Atsushi Aoki vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 11:26
Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin vs. KENTA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi 18:56
Global Tag League: Bison Smith & Masao Inoue [3] vs. Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli [2] 14:19
Global Tag League: Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone [7] vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara [2] 14:05
Global Tag League: Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano [5] vs. Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi [5] 30:00
Global Tag League: Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito [4] vs. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie [6] 16:27
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 15:00
Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori & Shane Haste vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi 9:10
Kotaro Suzuki vs. Ricky Marvin 8:35
Global Tag League: Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara [2] vs. Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli [4] 17:48
Global Tag League: Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie [6] vs. Bison Smith & Masao Inoue [5] 17:20
Global Tag League: Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone [8] vs. Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi [6] 30:00
Global Tag League: Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano [5] vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito [6] 13:35
Mickey Nicholls vs. Shane Haste 6:35
Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Takashi Okita 12:08
Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori vs. KENTA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi 10:07
Global Tag League: Bison Smith & Masao Inoue [5] vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara [4] 18:45
Global Tag League: Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi [8] vs. Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli [4] 18:45
Global Tag League: Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano [9] vs. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie [8] 14:37
Global Tag League: Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone [8] vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito [10] 20:45
4/27/11 Niigata-shi Higashi Sogo Sports Center
Global Tag League: Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara vs. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie 15:13
Global Tag League: Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito 16:13
Global Tag League: Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano vs. Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone 25:56
Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori & Mickey Nicholls vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara & Satoshi Kajiwara 9:30
Masao Inoue & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Akira Taue & Kentaro Shiga 11:39
Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Takashi Okita 11:11
Go Shiozaki vs. Shuhei Taniguchi 20:28
1vs3 Handicap Match: Mohammed Yone vs. Genba Hirayanagi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA 16:55 [2:42 & 11:00 & 3:13]
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Ricky Marvin 21:34. Finally a Kotaro title match where there's actually something going on. Marvin has always been considered a tag wrestler, and has been almost completely overlooked as a singles title challenger (he's been with NOAH since 2003 and this is just his 3rd challenge). He had a lot to prove here, and really delivered. The match was consistently good from start to finish, which none of the previous matches in this Kotaro reign can come close to saying, but what's more impressive is this occured more because Marvin was thinking than because he's work was excellent (though it was). The match was actually well structured and showed that Marvin can carry a singles match. They started off with some nice Lucha, but where the Ishimori defense then degenerated into lazy rest holds, Marvin immediately shifted the match to the body, attacking Kotaro's knee. The knee attack included a kneebreaker off the apron and wrapping Kotaro's knee in the guard rail and hitting a dropkick to it off the apron. Marvin was able to move in and out of the knee attack, really move on, without it feeling false or being a detriment to the match. He told a second story where he was able to remain in control by countering all the favorite moves of his former GHC Junior Tag Title holding partner. Suzuki tried his bit blaster, but Marvin hit a sliding dropkick. Suzuki tried a 619, but Marvin again dropkicked him. Suzuki got a measure of revenge stopping Marvin's tope with his shotei, but his advantage was short lived and Marvin hit a spectacular super quebrada over the guard rail. Suzuki almost came back countering Marvin's superplex, but reinjured his knee on the landing. There were some pretty sweet spots from the top rope in this one, including Marvin stopping an avalanche style move and hitting a reverse Frankensteiner off the 2nd and Marvin hitting an avalanche style Liger bomb. The match was nearly excellent, but I really disliked the whole lazy Misawa bend where Kotaro takes the entire match then hits a couple big elbows and the Tigerdriver for the win. I was really wishing that Marvin would have won by the end, but in any case he showed me a lot that I didn't know he was capable of. ***3/4
GHC Tag Title Match: Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito 19:11
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Minoru Suzuki 28:15
5/13/11
Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Atsushi Aoki & Takeshi Morishima 16:52
Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Bobby Fish & KENTA 18:49
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Dave Mastiff 20:10
5/14/11
Go Shiozaki vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 20:00
KENTA vs. Zack Sabre Jr. 19:11
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Kotaro Suzuki 19:34
IPW:UK Sittingbourne Spectacular 2011 Sittingbourne Swallows Leisure Centre
Kotaro Suzuki vs. Marty Scurll 18:15
Atsushi Aoki vs. Joel Redman 14:59
IPW:UK British Heavyweight Title Three Way Elimination Match: Dave Mastiff vs. Sha Samuels vs. Takeshi Morishima 11:58
wXw/NOAH Genesis In Germany Oberhausen
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Taiji Ishimori 9:51
wXw Unified World Wrestling Title Match: Big Van Walter vs. Shuhei Taniguchi 11:52
Go Shiozaki vs. Bad Bones 22:02
KENTA vs. Chris Hero 22:20
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Claudio Castagnoli 21:42
Genba Hirayanagi vs. Kento Miyahara 8:34
Takuma Sano & Mohammed Yone vs. Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin 8:20
Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie & Akira Taue vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Takashi Okita 14:12
Jun Akiyama vs. Taiji Ishimori 3:30
Takashi Sugiura vs. Masao Inoue 12:13
Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Shuhei Taniguchi 13:09
Go Shiozaki vs. Akitoshi Saito 18:44
14th GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Decision Match: Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA 28:13. These guys wrestled like they meant it from fron start to finish. An intense start pitting KENTA's kicks against Kotaro's elbows slowly segued into neckwork after Kotaro withstood a series of DDT's highlighted by Kanemaru diving off the top to deposit Suzuki's head on the apron. Though Aoki tried numerous armbars after making the hot tag, the pace not only managed to increase from here, but to continue to escalate for the remaining 2/3 of the match. Aoki, who certainly shows he belongs here, and Kanemaru are surely quite good when given the opportunity, including an impressive finishing run, but it's Kotaro who has ascended to the pinnacle of his craft this year with Marufuji constantly broken, and his ability to take up that mantle and shape KENTA's brutality and aggression into flowing wrestling sequences that makes not only this featured pairing, but even the match as a whole, rise well above the standard all out junior moves exhibition. ****
Akira Taue vs. Yoshinari Ogawa 6:29
Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi vs. Taiji Ishimori & Atsushi Aoki 12:35
Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima 13:31
Kotaro Suzuki & Ricky Marvin vs. Roderick Strong & Bobby Fish 19:58
Mohammed Yone vs. KENTA 14:10
Takashi Sugiura & Bison Smith & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano & Jun Akiyama 22:19
GHC Heavyweight Title Next Challenger Decision Match: Takeshi Morishima vs. Go Shiozaki 23:06. Although Morishima has toiled since his GHC Heavyweight Title run in 2008, Go beating him to earn his title shot was meaningful because he'd never done it before. Morishima had defeated Go in their first three meetings, and the last 2 had been draws. Unfortunately, this was wrestled like a draw. Morishima was kind of sluggish and seemed winded halfway through despite it being less than half the pace you'd associate with him, with Go was selling long the whole way while Morishima stood around. The offense was impressive for heavyweights, but it lacked the fire and emotion that should go along with such an important match. Everything was well done, but it wasn't really pulling me in. Morishima countered a few things early then Go hit them later, but the match wasn't really building, and the finish was a bit silly with Morishima kicking out of a surprising emerald flowsion only to immediately succumb to a lariat. ***
Shuhei Taniguchi vs Bobby Fish 7:51
Ricky Marvin vs Roderick Strong 8:19
Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie vs Mohammed Yone & Masao Inoue 10:52
Yoshihiro Takayama, Takuma Sano & Akira Taue vs Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara 13:19
Takashi Sugiura, Taiji Ishimori & Atsushi Aoki vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi 16:31
Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial Match: Akitoshi Saito vs Kotaro Suzuki 17:24
Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial Match: Jun Akiyama vs Yoshinari Ogawa 17:16
Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial Match: Go Shiozaki vs Bison Smith 25:07
Yoshinari Ogawa vs Atsushi Aoki 9:37
Takeshi Morishima vs Ricky Marvin 1:42
Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs Kotaro Suzuki & Taiji Ishimori 16:09
Masao Inoue vs Katsuhiko Nakajima 12:59
Yutaka Yoshie vs Kento Miyahara 8:36
Kensuke Sasaki vs Yuto Aijima 11:12
Yoshinobu Kanemaru, KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi vs Bison Smith, Roderick Strong & Bobby Fish 20:55
Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone vs Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi 25:36
Atsushi Aoki vs. Osamu Namiguchi 2:44
Yoshinari Ogawa & Bobby Fish vs. Masao Inoue & Genba Hirayanagi 13:41
Akitoshi Saito & Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara & Satoshi Kajiwara 12:05
Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA 11:31
Takeshi Morishima vs. Shuhei Taniguchi 10:38
Kensuke Sasaki vs. Bison Smith 19:15
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Roderick Strong 22:56. Though not quite as excellent as Kotaro's 1/29/11 defense against Eddie Edwards, the ROH wrestlers have clearly been Kotaro's best opponents during this reign, perhaps because they have the most to prove in Japan. Strong & Suzuki really developed the match, countering each other back and forth from the opening exchange of pinning predicaments until the finish. They worked really hard, wasting no time and were focused and consistent in their story telling. It was a brutal match with Kotaro really laying in with stomach elbows then working his offense around the injury including a gutbuster off the middle rope. Meanwhile, The Master/Messiah of the Backbreaker injured Suzuki's back with a side suplex on the apron and unleashed everything in his sizeable arsenal arsenal including a side suplex on the top turnbuckle. The match was fast and intense, just going back and forth with nifty evasions and brutal shots and breakers. If there was a flaw, it's that it was so good so fast that they kind of didn't have anything better for the climax so it felt as though it just ended. ****
Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone vs. Go Shiozaki & Jun Akiyama 17:55
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kentaro Shiga 12:40
Masao Inoue vs. Ricky Marvin 10:25
Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs. Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone 12:57
Go Shiozaki vs. Takuma Sano 18:30
Takashi Sugiura vs. Kento Miyahara 11:03
Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi 20:54. I know this is a small warehouse, but this didn't feel like a main event. They meandered through the first half doing slow paced and methodical wrestling that wasn't exactly junior style. It was worthwhile when they worked over Kotaro's back, which was bandaged from his excellent title defense against Roderick Strong on 6/26/11. Kotaro vs. Kanemaru was the strongest and most consistent pairing, setting up their junior title match on 7/10/11, but as much of it happened early on with Kotaro getting to be the main seller for his team, it didn't exactly reach the heights they are capable of. KENTA was quality, but was basically going through the motions and getting by on talent alone. Ishimori (and Marvin), you can always count on for an effort, but Ishimori logged the least ring time for his team, although it was pretty much all in the 2nd half when they realized they were juniors, and his offense went along way toward making the match. Aoki was a total non factor, and the less said about Genba, whose big offense was the kiss, the better. **3/4
Shuhei Taniguchi & Masao Inoue vs. Kentaro Shiga & Takashi Okita 11:00
Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin vs. Kento Miyahara & Satoshi Kajiwara 13:32
Akitoshi Saito vs. Mohammed Yone 10:40
Takuma Sano & Taiji Ishimori & Atsushi Aoki vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi 13:40
Jun Akiyama vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 10:35. If you are excited by one of the best workers of the past half decade playing jobber to a guy who has had sporadic moments of interest, effort, and enthusiams since 1998 then this is the match for you. I didn't expect a ton from this match, but given Nakajima lasted close to 20 minutes in their previous outing on 7/5/08, I expected him to have progressed to something beyond 10 minutes and never even being competitive after the first by 2011. Nakajima blitzed Akiyama while he was entering and had a big run of his blistering kicks until Akiyama turned the match, essentially for good, by stopping a pescado with something that was supposed to be a kick or a knee but may not have connected. Nakajima got 3 or 4 moves in the rest of the one-sided sprint. For some reason the fans were actually into it. Granted, the quality of the work was pretty high, and it was somewhat exciting if you were under the impression Nakajima was going to withstand Akiyama's lengthy assault and actually, um, do something, but ultimately it was just a waste of talent. **1/4
Takeshi Morishima vs. Kensuke Sasaki 14:32. The lifetime series was tied at 1-1-1 with Morishima winning the previous contest, so you knew Sasaki was going over here. Sasaki gave one of his better and more considerate performances of the year though, making sure Morishima was at least in his comfort zone and looked good throughout this offense oriented sprint. There was some of Sasaki's brutality, but both were more focused on emptying their arsenal. It was a brutal and exciting heavyweight match that was impressively fought at more of a junior pace despite their size. There wasn't much in the way of selling, but it was excellent spectacle. It wasn't nearly as long as their previous best match, 9/6/08 where Sasaki wins the title at Budokan, so it lost something. However, it was the same style and somehow more successful because Sasaki executed his high spots in a lot more coordinated manner, so they were truly able to impress with their combination of power and pace. ***1/2
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru 18:32. A more mature match that looked and felt different than their previous ones. It had a strong storyline of Kanemaru working the back, cutting off Suzuki's comebacks by abusing the back, which ultimately forced Kotaro to counter a back move to get his offense in. They showed good patience here, not that it wasn't an exciting match but the match never felt forced or formuliac, it didn't have that we are just getting our moves in feel. It was mainly Kanemaru making the match, but both men were quite good. Kanemaru was dominant, but it didn't feel like that was because NOAH spent the 2000's inexplicably booking him as if he were 1990's Jushin Thunder Liger minus the losses, or because he was the challenger who was jobbing, it was all about the back because they established the back right away with Kanemaru taking it to the floor and whipping Kotaro into the guard rail, suplexing him on the concrete then slamming him off the apron. From there he'd cut Suzuki off with a superplex or turn a dropkick into a Boston crab, and it wasn't until Suzuki shifted his weight on a superplex that he got it going. Suzuki didn't have quantity on offense, and generally the match was less spectacular than expected, but he had enough quality that it didn't seem like they went home too soon. ***3/4
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Go Shiozaki 29:48. This was pretty sick. You don't want to wrestling Sugiura when he's in the mood to make Kensuke Sasaki look like a pansy. They did an insanely brutal, fiercely intense match from start to finish. Sugiura was thriving on the barbarity, pretty much wanted Shiozaki to fire back harder so he could hit him even harder than that. Shiozaki may be a chop master, but eventually he had to concede that standing toe to toe with Sugiura was a losing battle. Changing the style wasn't as easy as it sounded, but he faired a lot better when he used his suplexes and bombs and used his quickness and athleticism. Sugiura stopped his early tope with a wicked elbow to the mouth, but Go finally turned the match by suplexing Sugiura over the top rope onto the apron. Still, Sugiura was just a bull, and when Sugiura wasn't standing there beating him down, he threw his body around pretty well, just charging and burying a knee or shoulder. It was generally a pretty big beatdown for Shiozaki even though the entire match was built around exchanges (which finally ended when he went down), and it was pretty much willpower alone that allowed him to not only survive but somehow regain the title. ****
Akira Taue vs. Yoshinari Ogawa 4:22
Eddie Edwards & Delirious & Zach Sabre Jr vs. Jack Evans & Aero Star & Genba Hirayanagi 6:21
Mohammed Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi & Masao Inoue vs. Takuma Sano & Masashi Aoyagi & Ryuji Hijikata 9:28
5th NTV G+ Cup B Block: Ricky Marvin & Rocky Marvin vs. Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada 13:45. Rocky was a nice addition. He heeled it up more than Ricky, but was certainly skilled and motivated, which is exactly what NOAH needs more of. The match was mainly a showcase for Kotoge & Harada, so the Marvins took a back seat offensively and concentrated on setting them up. It got off to a big start with dives, intense striking, and as it was short continued at a high level throughout. The teamwork of both teams was excellent, with everything being nicely choreographed and well timed. Kotoge is more athletic and showy than Harada, so he was most at home in this faster paced and highlight oriented match. He may be the first guy I've seen finish a tope con giro by sitting on the guard rail and more or less posing. ***1/2
5th NTV G+ Cup A Block: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Osamu Namiguchi 15:09. I couldn't believe how one-sided this was. I mean, you knew Namiguchi wasn't going to be allowed to do much and was doing the job, but even Takaiwa wasn't competitive. That pretty much killed the match because Kanemaru & KENTA didn't have to work with Takaiwa & Namiguchi since they weren't getting any offense in, and they didn't have to work hard because they weren't really in a match. So basically you had Kanemaru & KENTA on cruise control going through their strikes and high spots. It wasn't poorly done, but there's a certain laziness to this sort of match, and certainly a lack of drama. **1/2
5th NTV G+ Cup B Block: Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Satoshi Kajiwara 18:50. A little better than expected due to Kajiwara improving to the point he could carry the early portion. The first half was pretty much Aoki taking Kajiwara's junior style offense. Aoki ran around or whipped Kajiwara into the ropes to facilitate the action, but had no real offense of his own beyond striking. Nakajima made some nice contributions, and the timing was on with neat little spots such as Nakajima leapfrogging Aoki's kneecap dropkick. The second half eventually featured the pairing everyone wanted to see, Nakajima vs. Suzuki, and it was the same sort of spectacle they displayed in their title match on 3/5/11. Suzuki had taken the first half off almost entirely, but had all the offense for his team, using some of his biggest moves on Nakajima, who came right back with his powerful kicks. Beyond the effort, what this match had that the Kanemaru & KENTA win didn't was a sense of urgency, a meaningfulness to the victory, especially with Suzuki vs. Nakajima because scoring the win over your rival meant that much more. ***1/4
Takashi Sugiura vs. Kensuke Sasaki 19:17
GHC Tag Title Match: Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson vs. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie 16:27
Kenta Kobashi Return Match: Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiozaki vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito 28:09
Genba Hirayangi vs. Osamu Namiguchi 5:39
Ricky Marvin & Rocky Marvin vs. Jack Evans & Aero Star 12:12
Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Masao Inoue & Delirious 12:23
Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Eddie Edwards 12:39
Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara 14:26
5th NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League Special 8 Man Tag Match: Katsuhiko Nakajima & Satoshi Kajiwara & Keno & Kenbai vs. Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada & Taishi Takizawa & Zach Sabre Jr 16:13
Go Shiozaki & Takeshi Morishima & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito & Takuma Sano 19:11
5th NTV G+ Cup Final: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki 30:03
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Zach Sabre Jr 9:44
Akira Taue & Kentaro Shiga vs. Masao Inoue & Ricky Marvin 11:51
Takuma Sano vs. Ryuji Hijikata 10:49
Takeshi Morishima vs. Akitoshi Saito 11:18
Kenta Kobashi & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone 28:34
Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi 16:27
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Go Shiozaki vs. Jun Akiyama 33:06
8/17/11
Two Day's Tag Tournament Semifinal: Atsushi Aoki & Takashi Sugiura vs. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa
Two Day's Tag Tournament Semifinal: KENTA & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki
8/18/11
Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki vs. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa
Two Day's Tag Tournament Final: KENTA & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Atsushi Aoki & Takashi Sugiura
Ricky Marvin vs. Satoshi Kajiwara
Taiji Ishimori vs. Zack Sabre Jr
Akitoshi Saito vs. Takuma Sano
Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga vs. Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa & Masao Inoue
Takashi Suguira & Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara
Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Genba Hirayanagi
GHC Junior Tag Title Match: KENTA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki 31:29
ALL TOGETHER Opening Match ~ SUNRISE OF J: Kota Ibushi & Taiji Ishimori & BUSHI & Hiroshi Yamato vs. Tiger Mask IV & Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo & Ricky Marvin 10:05
JUNIOR ONE NIGHT CARNIVAL: Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi & Kotaro Suzuki & Katsuhiko Nakajima & KAI vs. Koji Kanemoto & Minoru & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA & Genba Hirayanagi 15:07
ONE NIGHT REUNION: Jushin Thunder Liger & Masakatsu Funaki & Takuma Sano vs. Minoru Suzuki & Taichi & Atsushi Aoki 12:47
NO FEAR! GO AHEAD!: Kensuke Sasaki & Jun Akiyama vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori 15:44
BELIEVE THE POWER OF "Prowrestling!": Keiji Muto & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka 14:58
FIGHTING FOR FUTURE: Tetsuya Naito & Seiya Sanada & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Mohammed Yone & Manabu Soya & Yujiro Takahashi 11:10
OVER THE BORDER: Akitoshi Saito & Togi Makabe vs. Taiyo Kea & Hirooki Goto 9:55
Destroyer Cup Battle Royal: Hideo Saito & Tomohiro Ishii & Gedo & Takaaki Watanabe & Hiromu Takahashi & KUSHIDA & Tomoaki Honma & Super Strong Machine & Jun Nishikawa & Satoshi Kajiwara & Kento Miyahara & Lee Che Gyong & Takumi Soya & So Shun & Yasufumi Nakanoueno & MAZADA & Masanobu Fuchi & Rene Dupree & Joe Doering & Zack Sabre Jr & Masao Inoue & Yoshinari Ogawa & Akira Taue & Kentaro Shiga & BLACK BUSHI & King Fale 11:54
MIDSUMMER ENCOUNTER IN BUDOKAN: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Yuji Nagata & Osamu Nishimura & Wataru Inoue vs. Akebono & Ryota Hama & Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie 11:20
ALL TOGETHER NOW!: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Suwama & Go Shiozaki vs. Takashi Sugiura & KENSO & Shinsuke Nakamura 22:50
Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin vs. Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls
Mohammed Yone & Taiji Ishimori vs. Takuma Sano & Kentaro Shiga
Kotaro Suzuki vs. Genba Hirayanagi
Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue
Go Shiozaki vs. Shuhei Taniguchi
Atsushi Aoki vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru
GHC Heavyweight Title Next Challenger Decision Match: KENTA vs. Takashi Suguira
Genba Hirayanagi vs. Shane Haste 3:51
Yutaka Yoshie vs. Mikey Nicholls 2:21
Mohammed Yone & Taiji Ishimori vs. Yoshinari Ogawa & Masao Inoue 8:15
Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara 11:34
Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Kenta Kobashi & Takuma Sano 17:58
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Decision Match: Ricky Marvin vs. Satoshi Kajiwara 11:06
Takashi Sugiura vs. Takeshi Morishima 17:25
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Match: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & KENTA vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki 28:30
11/19/07 Niigata, GHC Hardcore Title Match: Kishin Kawabata vs. Kentaro Shiga
Taiji Ishimori vs. Mikey Nicholls 8:44
Masao Inoue & Kentaro Shiga vs. Yutaka Yoshie & Masashi Aoyagi 12:10
Takuma Sano vs. Shane Haste 10:40
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Genba Hirayanagi 7:29
KENTA & Yoshihiro Takayama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Takashi Sugiura & Mohammed Yone & Rick Marvin 16:59
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki vs. Keno & Kenbai 23:23
Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi & Takeshi Morishima vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito 23:43
5/2/10 Budokan, Global League Match: Jun Akiyama vs. Takashi Sugiura
5/2/10 Budokan, Global League Final: Jun Akiyama vs. Yoshihiro Takayama
Atsushi Aoki & Yoshinari Ogawa & Taiji Ishimori vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi & Mikey Nicholls 10:33
Global League 2011 A Block: Yutaka Yoshie vs. Kento Miyahara 9:28
Global League 2011 B Block: Takashi Sugiura vs. Mohammed Yone 30:00
Kenta Kobashi & Takeshi Morishima & Ricky Marvin vs. Bison Smith & Trevor Murdoch & Masao Inoue 14:58
Global League 2011 B Block: Takuma Sano vs. Bobby Fish 9:12
Global League 2011 B Block: Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Kensuke Sasaki 11:27
Global League 2011 B Block: KENTA vs. Akitoshi Saito 16:12
Global League 2011 A Block: Go Shiozaki vs. Kotaro Suzuki 15:06
Global League 2011 A Block: Jun Akiyama vs. Yoshihiro Takayama 15:33
ANMU (Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori) vs. Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste 6:52
Kenta Kobashi & Ricky Marvin & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Masao Inoue & Mohammed Yone & Takeshi Morishima 15:59
Bison Smith & Kento Miyahara vs. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa 8:01
Global League 2011 Block B Match: Bobby Fish vs. Akitoshi Saito 7:25
Global League 2011 Block A Match: Trevor Murdoch vs. Yoshihiro Takayama 9:04
Global League 2011 Block B Match: KENTA vs. Takuma Sano 4:03
Global League 2011 Block A Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru 30:00
Global League 2011 Block A Match: Go Shiozaki vs. Yutaka Yoshie 16:01
Global League 2011 Block B Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Kensuke Sasaki 19:05
Ricky Marvin vs. Mikey Nicholls 9:54
Kenta Kobashi & Atsushi Aoki & Taiji Ishimori vs. Masao Inoue & Genba Hirayanagi & Masashi Aoyagi 16:33
Jun Akiyama & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Bison Smith & Shuhei Taniguchi 13:31
Takuma Sano & Bobby Fish vs. Yutaka Yoshie & Kento Miyahara 14:10
Kensuke Sasaki & Akitoshi Saito vs. Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki 17:33
Takashi Sugiura vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru 13:43
Mohammed Yone vs. Trevor Murdoch 10:40
Global League Final: Takeshi Morishima vs. KENTA 16:43
11/3/11 Sendai, Global League 2011 Matches
A Block: Takeshi Morishima vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru 3:57
B Block: KENTA vs. Shuhei Taniguchi 11:51
11/13/11 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan 2, Global League 2011 Matches
A Block: Takeshi Morishima vs. Kento Miyahara 6:22
B Block: KENTA vs. Takashi Sugiura 2:08
11/19/11 Sapporo Teisen Hall, Global League 2011 Matches
B Block: KENTA vs. Bison Smith 12:18
A Block: Takeshi Morishima vs. Jun Akiyama 12:56
GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Ricky Marvin vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 18:07
Triple Crown Heavyweight Title Match: Jun Akiyama vs. Taiyo Kea 23:08
GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Go Shiozaki vs. KENTA 27:37
Ricky Marvin vs. Genba Hirayanagi
Takuma Sano & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Yutaka Yoshie & Kentaro Shiga
Kenta Kobashi & Masao Inoue & Taiji Ishimori vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara & Satoshi Kajiwara
Akitoshi Saito vs. Mohammed Yone
Takashi Sugiura & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki vs. Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste
GHC Heavyweight Title Skirmish - Special Tag Match: Kensuke Sasaki & Takeshi Morishima vs. Jun Akiyama & Go Shiozaki
Mr. Christmas (Jun Akiyama) vs. Kevin Mask (Kotaro Suzuki) 9:58
Mohammed Yone vs. Naomichi Marufuji 11:59
Taiji Ishimori vs. Kikutaro 11:22
Kenta Kobashi & Takuma Sano & Ricky Marvin vs. Masao Inoue & Akitoshi Saito & Yoshinobu Kanemaru 21:59
Takeshi Morishima & Kentaro Shiga vs. Takashi Sugiura & Genba Hirayanagi 16:32
Go Shiozaki vs. Atsushi Aoki 17:20
1/29/11 Tokyo Korakuen Hall, GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Eddie Edwards
7/10/11 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum, GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Takashi Sugiura vs. Go Shiozaki