Kobashi & Akiyama vs Misawa & Taue, 2/3 falls, 8/5/00. Main event on the debut show that sets the table for the rest of the year. Keep watching after the finish. Online.

Kobashi vs Akiyama, 8/6/00. From NOAH's second show ever, this match does a lot to establish that these two are the top guys in the promotion and that Akiyama is no longer in Kobashi's shadow. Good action, interesting middle-point between the kind of match they'd wrestle today and the kind of match they'd wrestle in All Japan. Kobashi isn't completely broken down at this point and it really shows with the amont of *wrestling* he does; probably his last big singles match before he became semi-immoble Chopbashi. Online.

Kobashi vs Omori, 10/11/00. Clipped by a lot. Kobashi does his best to turn Omori into a stain on the mat. Online.

Shiga, Morishima & Kanemaru vs Inoue, Rikio & Sugiura, 12/23/00. Sugiura's debut and a really solid 6-man considering the randomness. 130 MB. Online.

Hashimoto vs Omori, 12/23/00. Hard-hitting, to-the-point. I included some nifty pre-entrance backstage footage. 94 MB. Online.

Misawa vs Vader, 12/23/00. Old guys huckin' bombs at each other. 129 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Akiyama, 12/23/00. Took way too long to post this, finally a kind soul gave it to me. This was the main event of the first big NOAH show, and it was the last big singles match Kobashi would have for two years. He's an absolute wreck but still gives it his all, and tries to put Akiyama on the shelf in the process. 114 MB. Online.

Misawa & Ogawa vs Hashimoto & Otsuka, 1/13/01. Misawa and Hashimoto DESPISE each other. Hashimoto makes Ogawa his woman and it's everything wonderful about Shinya Hashimoto. Pre-debut Zero-One almost starts a riot in NOAH-land. Glorious. Online.

Akiyama & Vader vs Kobashi & Taue, 1/13/01. Kobashi is about to go out for knee surgery. So imagine this as the scene early in a cop movie right after the old veteran says he's retiring in a week. Online.

Akiyama vs Omori, GHC Heavyweight Title Tournament. A year earlier Omori beat Akiyama for the first time in a matter of seconds with an axe bomber flurry. Akiyama wants revenge, but Omori has progressed to the point where he can win in non-fluke form. 169 MB. Online.

Misawa vs Akiyama, GHC Heavyweight Title Tournament. Their first match in NOAH, and it was assumed from the start that one of them would win the tournament. 134 MB. Online.

Misawa vs Takayama, GHC Heavyweight Title Tournament final. Takayama has been pinned just twice in the last year, both times by Kobashi. His German suplex and kneelift have been enough to put down everyone, including Kobashi, and he beat Taue in a singles match with a roundhouse. That said, he's facing Misawa. 213 MB. Online.

Misawa vs Taue, 5/27/01. First-ever GHC title defense. Somewhat low-key but still good. Mega.

Akiyama & Saito vs Omori & Sugiura, 6/16/01. Only the second match for the Akiyama/Saito team. Sugiura is, as usual, most interesting when going against heavyweights. Oogly finish.

Misawa, Ogawa, Ikeda & Marufuji vs Akiyama, Saito, Shiga & Kanemaru, 6/20/01. Wave vs Sternness!

Misawa vs Akiyama, GHC title, 7/27/01. Having split the last two matchups against each other, and with a draw before that, this could go either way. Both debut big moves for the occasion of NOAH's first show at Budokan Hall. Mega.

Akiyama vs Honda, GHC title, 9/5/01. Clipped to the last half. How well can Honda do in his first singles title bout? This is a good preview of what was to come in 2003 from Honda. Online.

Akiyama vs Rikio, 11/30/01. A year earlier, rookie Rikio faced NOAH's best in a series of matches. He lasted longest against Akiyama, but fell to the front neck lock. Now Akiyama is champion, while Rikio has three times as much experience and loads of power. Isn't exactly a match of the year but it has its moments. Online.

Liger & Wataru Inoue vs Kikuchi & Kanemaru, 2/17/02. New Japan invades and it is AWESOME. 162 MB. Online.

Misawa & Kobashi vs Akiyama & Nagata, 2/17/02. Kobashi's return from the big knee injury. The reunion of the Misawa/Kobashi team that dominated All Japan for years. Nagata's first match in NOAH. Akiyama's first chance to show up Kobashi after winning the GHC title. Accordingly, everyone kicks it up a notch. 253 MB. Mega.

Vader vs Morishima, 3/14/02. Online.

Modest, Morgan, Slinger & Superstar Steve vs Honda, Inoue, KENTA & Suzuki, 4/7/02. Fast pace, and the gaijin make it fun. Online.

Liger & Minoru Tanaka vs Kikuchi & Kanemaru, 4/7/02. New Japan juniors heel it up like no tomorrow! Kanemaru fights fire with fire! Kikuchi Comeback 2002 continues! 159 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Kotaro Suzuki vs Inoue & Kanemaru, 7/5/02. Kobashi's Korakuen return during his first comeback. Once again it's all about the Kobashi/Kanemaru interactions. Online.

Ogawa vs Takayama, GHC title, 9/7/02. For some reason, Ogawa saved his best for the end of his title reign. He uses some very nice strategery in contrast with Takayama's full-steam-ahead approach. 177 MB. Online.

Kikuchi & Kanemaru vs El Samurai & Naruse, IWGP junior tag titles, 9/23/02. Big crowd heat as usual for the NOAH vs NJ feud, nice compact match that keeps up the momentum through the hot finish. 129 MB. Online.

Takayama vs Misawa, 9/23/02. Really stiff, to the point where Misawa injured Takayama with elbows. I don't recall any other match where that happened. Mega.

Lion, Marufuji? & Kevin Mask vs BLAZE, Sasakaman & HALIMAO, 10/31/02. Halloween, NOAH-style. I especially love all things having to do with 'Marufuji'. 86 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Taue, #1 contenders match (I think), 11/24/02. Kobashi's first big singles match since returning, and their first singles match in three and a half years. Taue brings out the big guns in a way he hasn't since NOAH began. 102 MB. Online.

Kikuchi & Kanemaru vs Jado & Gedo, IWGP junior tag titles, 12/7/02. You can imagine how this one goes. Really satisfying finish. 154 MB. Online.

Misawa vs Ogawa, GHC title, 12/7/02. Misawa's losses tend to be by knockout after a high-impact finisher. Ogawa clearly isn't going to win by turning the lights out. However, Ogawa tries the rarely-used strategy of trying to *wrestle* Misawa, and it pays dividends because Misawa isn't exactly the mat-wrestlingest guy around. 86 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Taue vs Misawa & Chono, 1/10/03. Kobashi and Chono take it to each other. Big Match Taue delivers the goods as only he can. Misawa willingly dies. 234 MB. Online.

Kobashi & KENTA vs Ohtani & Tanaka, 1/13/03. This was a few months before such a match would be a 25 minute plus main event at Korakuen, but still it's nifty enough. Kyoto KBS Hall sure looks badass. Online.

Kobashi & KENTA vs Misawa & Marufuji, 1/26/03. Mega.

Kikuchi & Kanemaru vs Liger & Kanemoto, IWGP junior tag titles, 1/26/03. JIP. The climactic conclusion to round 1 of the NJ vs NOAH juniors feud. 101 MB. Online.

Hidaka & Orihara vs Takaiwa & Y. Sasaki, Differ Cup '03 round 1. The best match of the first night of the tournament was, somehow, this. Orihara can go when he wants, Hidaka can go under almost any circumstances, and Takaiwa is at his wrecking-ball best. Well worth watching despite the lack of, you know, NOAH. Online.

KENTA & Kotaro Suzuki vs Mikami & KUDO, Differ Cup '03 3rd place match. The tiny DDT juniors go toe-to-toe with the big-shot NOAH guys. Lots of disrespect and stiffness and then a ladder comes into play. 151 MB. Online.

Ultimo Dragon & Yoshino vs Takaiwa & Y. Sasaki, Differ Cup '03 final. Yoshino goes from being a T2P guy who does freaky submissions to Ricky Morton rather well. Takaiwa was born to put pretty-boys in peril. That Ultimo guy, he's okay too. 101 MB. Online.

Takayama vs Masao Inoue, 3/1/03. All kinds of fun. Inoue is completely out of his depth and fights accordingly; Takayama is game to have a good match with anyone. 175 MB because I couldn't find a way to shrink it, but it's in DVD quality. Online.

Kobashi vs Misawa, 3/1/03. Mega.

Morishima, Rikio & Ikeda vs Akiyama, Saito & Izumida, 3/16/03. An unexpected amount of hate and intensity makes this all kinds of entertaining. 148 MB. Online.

Takayama vs Rikio, NWF title, 4/13/03. Really simple, effective superheavyweight match. My favorite singles bout of Rikio's career. 152 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Tamon Honda, 4/13/03. Kobashi's first title defense. Kobashi doesn't do anything you couldn't see in a dozen other of his 'big' matches from the last ten years. But Honda, ah, now he's the story. A jobber in All Japan with a strong amateur background, dumpy ol' Tamon has been quietly on a tear and has developed an extensive set of finishers. He's finished off some very notable NOAH names with techniques ranging from knockout suplexes (the Dead End German) to cradles (fireman's carry pin) to submissions (shoulder hold). He's also quite tenacious on the mat. He also bumps like an absolute maniac for Kobashi's suplexes. This set up everything Honda did since. 222 MB. Online.

Takayama, Ikeda & Sugiura vs Kobashi, Honda & KENTA, 5/9/03. Takayama has just won the IWGP title, which makes Korakuen red-hot for the prospect of him tangling with Kobashi. 244 MB. Online.

Kikuchi, KENTA & Kotaro vs Sugiura, Kanemaru & Hashi, 5/11/03. KENTA is in this the least and it's still really good thanks to Kikuchi being surly and going through walls. 159 MB. Online.

Honda/Kobashi/KENTA/Kikuchi vs Saito/Akiyama/Kanemaru/Hashi, Captain's Fall Elimination, 5/14/03. A team loses if either its captain (in this case Honda and Saito) or 'everyone else' drops a fall. 184 MB. Online.

Marufuji & KENTA vs Kanemaru & Sugiura, 6/6/03. A preview of the junior tag division. Mega.

Misawa vs Sano, 6/6/03. Solid heavyweight match. Mega.

Takayama vs Morishima, 6/6/03. Short but very sweet. And by sweet I of course mean brutal. Online.

Taue vs Nagata, 6/6/03. Taue is ridiculously awesome here, dishing out hell from bell-to-bell to stop recently-deposed IWGP champ Nagata. 179 MB. Online.

Akiyama & Saito vs Kobashi & Honda, tag titles, 6/6/03. Following Honda's career performance against Kobashi on the last tour, he was welcomed into Burning as the #2. Over the course of this tour the Burning vs Sternness feud has been rekindled, and they traded wins in two big stable vs stable tags (with Honda and Saito getting falls on one another in the process). Now, Honda is in his first and only Budokan main event and he has to step up now or likely return to mediocrity for the rest of his career. Akiyama, of course, has no desire to lose the tag titles to Kobashi. Dirty little secret: Honda beat Akiyama seven months before this in a 4 minute singles match. Akiyama isn't about to let that happen either. 230 MB. Mega. Online.

Liger, Murahama & Ricky Marvin vs KENTA, Marufuji & Kotaro Suzuki, 6/29/03. Lead-in to the junior tag tournament. Good as you expect. 82 MB. Online.

Takayama, Makabe & Sugiura vs Akiyama, Saito & Hashi, 7/1/03. Makabe hates NOAH, and Akiyama, and Kobashi, and you. YES YOU! Online.

Takayama, Makabe & Sugiura vs Kobashi, Honda & KENTA, 7/2/03. Lead-in to Takayama & Makabe challenging Kobashi & Honda for the tag titles. Makabe is despised by the NOAH crowd and he feeds off it. Tons of heat, tons of hate, not-so-tons-of-file-size. Online.

KENTA & Marufuji vs Liger & Murahama, 7/16/03. Finals of the junior tag title tournament, which headlined the show ahead of Akiyama vs Nagata and a heavyweight tag title match. Hot crowd, somewhat of a trailblazing match in terms of being the first 'epic' junior tag match in NOAH. Quite the harrowing finishing sequence. 132 MB. Online.

KENTA & Marufuji vs Kanemaru & Hashi, 9/12/03. The first tag title defense for KENTAFuji, and it's a doozy. Tons of action, escalating nearfalls, the works. 120 MB. Online.

KENTA, Marufuji & Kotaro vs Kanemaru, Sugiura & Hashi, 10/5/03. Online.

KENTA & Marufuji vs Guerrera & Marvin, junior tag titles, 11/1/03. One might go so far as to say the amount of spots in this match is a veritable festival. Mega.

Morishima vs Yone, WLW title, 11/1/03. They go all-out here and not only do you get the usual awesome Morishima stuff but you also get Yone back when he was still pretty good. Very compact match as well. 113 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Yoshinari Ogawa, 11/1/03. I hated this match the first time because I just wanted to see Kobashi dumping Ogawa on the skull, and it never happened. I loved this match the second time because it's good in a different way; they play roles and develop a story. Still could use a skull-dumping or two though. Online.

Kobashi, Honda, KENTA & Kikuchi vs Akiyama, Saito, Kanemaru & Hashi, 11/16/03. How can this possibly not be good? I think I have yet to be let down by a Burning vs Sternness tag. Online.

Takashi Sugiura vs KENTA, 11/30/03. The first title match of the more grown-up KENTA we're familiar with today. Solid, very competitive match with a real 'big match' feel. 106 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Yone, 12/6/03. I just love Yone's reaction to the finish. And the finish itself. Online.

Nagata & Tanahashi vs Rikio & Morishima, tag titles, 12/6/03. Eeeevil Team New Japan has the belts. Can our chunky heroes save the day? 143 MB. Online.

Kobashi, Rikio & Hashi vs Akiyama, Morishima & Kikuchi, 1/10/04. Kobashi vs Morishima rocks. Kobashi vs Akiyama rocks. Morishima vs Rikio rocks. But the real reason why you get this is HASHI, as this marks the first time he's in a big match opposite Akiyama. Plus Kikuchi gives him a skull-puncturing headbutt. Trust me on this one. 139 MB. Online.

KENTA & Marufuji vs El Samurai & Wataru Inoue, junior tag titles, 1/10/04. NOAH vs NJ juniors action is so reliable. Wataru manages to do 2000% better in NOAH than he typically does in NJ. El Samurai, on those occasions when he's on, rules. KENTA and Marufuji at this point are in the middle of their peak as a team. Good match? You betcha. Mega.

Kobashi, Honda & KENTA vs Taue, Sano & Hashi, 2/20/04. Background: Taue vs Rikio is taking place in a few days to determine Kobashi's next challenger. Taue is thus all fired up and out to show that he'll be the guy to dethrone the champ. However the real star of this match is Makoto Hashi, who doesn't hesitate to go toe-to-toe with Kobashi himself and who generally does what he does best. 80 MB. Online.

Morishima, Taue & Sano vs IZU, Takayama & Akiyama, 3/6/04. This match is insanely fun. Izumida and Morishima are the core, with Izu going after the leg and overcoming his own general crappiness with the help of his teammates. Morishima sells like a champ, leading to a rewarding finish. Online.

Kobashi vs Rikio, 3/6/04. Rikio's first shot at Kobashi. Some nice exchanges and clubberin' and so forth. 123 MB. Online.

Morishima vs IZU, WLW title, 3/13/04. Building off the 6-man a week earlier. IZU has a shot at the biggest win of his career, but that's quite a hill to climb. Lots of beef, lots of... psychology?! 131 MB. Mega.

KENTA & Marufuji vs Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki, junior tag titles, 4/3/04. Ogawa slums it in the junior division. Some jumbo nearfalls and a big result. Online.

Misawa & Ogawa vs KENTA & Marufuji, 4/25/04. Lot going on here. You have an all-juniors team making a challenge to the heavyweight tag straps, you have Misawa and Ogawa being total pricks to the young'uns, and you have a spectacular finish. Widely considered one of NOAH's best tag title matches ever. 128 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Takayama, 4/25/04. King-sized heavyweight war with all the hard hits and head drops you expect out of these two. Mega.

Akiyama vs KENTA, 5/14/04. Akiyama mixes it up a bit, with some nasty looking knee strikes and exploders. KENTA = KENTA. 71 MB. Online.

Kobashi & KENTA vs Taue & Sugiura, 5/21/04. Rather evenly matched teams, though Double Kenta has the edge on experience with each other. KENTA and Sugiura match up so well.

KENTA & Marufuji vs Ricky Marvin & Kotaro Suzuki, 6/1/04. That ol' KENTAFuji magic. 160 MB. Online.

KENTA vs IZU, 6/11/04. IZU manages to rip off both Hashimoto and KENTA in hilarious fashion. Online.

Rikio & Morishima vs Takayama & Izumida, 6/23/04. I'm not gonna gush over this, but I liked it. Online.

Kobashi, Rikio & Marvin vs Akiyama, Morishima & Hashi, 6/27/04. Plenty of interesting matchups, and of course this builds to the '04 dome main event. With English commentary due to airing in the UK. Online.

Takayama vs KENTA, 6/27/04. In a word, stiff. In two words, really stiff. Mega.

Modest & Morgan vs Kotaro Suzuki & Ricky Marvin, 7/10/04. Mega.

Taue & Sano vs Ikeda & Yone, 7/10/04. Mega.

Marufuji & KENTA vs Sugiura & Kashin, junior tag titles, 7/10/04. Clipped to the big second half.

Takayama & Suzuki vs Morishima & Rikio, IWGP tag titles, 7/10/04. Mega.

Misawa & Ogawa vs Mutoh & Kea, GHC tag titles, 7/10/04. Fun match thanks to the Misawa vs Mutoh sections and a good effort by Kea. And also Misawa nearly kills Kea a couple times but let's not focus on that. 113 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Akiyama, 7/10/04. Dare I say that this needs no particular explanation? Yep. 179 MB. Online.

Akiyama & Hashi vs Honda & Shiozaki, 7/24/04. Go Shiozaki's debut match, and very interesting to see how well he does right from the get-go. 79 MB. Online.

Kobashi, KENTA & Marvin vs Misawa, Marufuji & Kotaro Suzuki, 7/24/04. Fun match thanks in large part to the juniors switching up from their usual partners. 112 MB. Online.

Takayama vs Sano, 8/1/04. Hard shots, nasty suplexes. This match was so rough that it almost single-handedly put Takayama on the shelf. Online.

Misawa vs Taue, 8/1/04. The two of them are 1-1-1 in their last three matches. Whoever comes out on top is almost certain to be Kobashi's next challenger. 115 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Honda vs Saito & Inoue, 8/20/04. Both teams are gunning for a tag title shot. Can Dark Agents overcome a team far stronger on paper? 99 MB. Online.

Misawa vs KENTA, 8/28/04. This one is almost entirely about KENTA, between throwing everything he has out there and doing his best Misawa impression. Online.

Sano & Izumida vs Yone & Trevor Rhodes (Trevor Murdoch), 9/10/04. Trevor in NOAH equals fun. Plus IZU~. Online.

Akiyama & Shiozaki vs Rikio & Hashi, 9/10/04. Works off the strength of Go and Hashi in the underdog role. 72 MB. Online.

Low Ki vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru, 9/10/04. One of the better juniors singles matches from Japan in recent years, because it manages to mesh big moves with logical selling and psychology. They don't go overboard with finishers but manage to keep it entertaining. 101 MB. Online.

Misawa & Ogawa vs Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue, 9/10/04. You know the big heavyweight names: Misawa, Kobashi, Taue, Akiyama. They go back to All Japan. But what about the guys you don't hear about? Masao Inoue is one of those. He debuted in the early '90s and hardly ever made a commercial tape or a TV airing. Not much to look at, no particular physical gift, not much in the psychology department... Masao was most notable for being on the floor and watching great matches rather than being in them. But not this night, oh no. This night Masao Inoue gets his chance to shine. He fights his little heart out and says "I'm not doing a routine job tonight! You have to beat me!" while Saito urges him on. Granted he's still Masao Inoue during the match, but damned if it isn't the performance of his career by a factor of ten. 136 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Taue, 9/10/04. Taue goes after Kobashi's title with a vengeance, bringing as many bombs as he can along with some new mid-range offense. Taue's annual great performance, and Kobashi is Kobashi. Nasty finish. 104 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs KENTA, 10/9/04. Kobashi gives his boy a lot of punishment but also lets him look like he belongs. 74 MB. Online.

KENTA & Marufuji vs SUWA & Ricky Marvin, 10/22/04. SUWA's first big match in NOAH as he becomes Marvin's third partner within a year to take a shot at the straps. Really lays out the groundwork for the KENTA vs SUWA match eleven months later. 135 MB. Online.

Akitoshi Saito, Yoshinari Ogawa & Haruka Eigen vs KENTA, Kishin Kawabata & Kikuchi, NOAHFUL GIFT IN DIFFER 12/24/04. A match not so much memorable for its wrestling as... well, you'll just have to see. 132 MB. Online.

Marufuji vs Eigen, Openweight title, 1/23/05. Eigen wins if he can take it to a 10 minute draw OR by countout in addition to pins and submissions. Match is like 95% about Eigen and that's why it works. Online.

Kobashi vs Shiozaki, 1/23/05. End of Shiozaki's singles match 'trial series' on the first tour of '05. Kobashi, the champ, gives Go the most time of anyone. And I'm assuming the most chops. 65 MB. Online.

Kobashi, Yone & Shiozaki vs Rikio, Morishima & Marufuji, 2/20/05. Grudges! Suplexes! Tauntings! Online!

SUWA, Kanemaru & Sugiura vs KENTA, Low Ki & Marvin, 3/5/05. Online.

Misawa & Kotaro Suzuki vs Ohtani & Takaiwa, 3/5/05. Zero-One in NOAH means two things. One, a fabulous Misawa vs Ohtani section. Two, a fabulous 'Kotaro dies' section. 80 MB. Online.

Kobashi, Misawa & Akiyama vs KENTA, Marufuji & Hashi, 4/2/05. The old guard versus the new. Grumpy vets versus spunky upstarts. You know the drill. Drags a bit during the middle, but there's plenty of fire and stiffness and hope spots to make up for that. 129 MB. Online.

Scorpio vs Shiozaki, 4/3/05. My favorite Scorp-in-NOAH match, as he has to be focused in order to guide young Go. Online.

Akiyama vs Hashi, 4/3/05. The Akiyama/Hashi relationship continues. Online.

Kobashi, KENTA & Marvin vs Misawa, Sugiura & Kanemaru, 4/3/05. As near as I can tell, KENTA and Sugiura have both come to the conclusion that the other must die. The result is a stepped-up, super-hot 6-man. 88 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Shiozaki vs Misawa & Yone, 4/17/05. GoBashi = reliable goodness. Misawa & Yone work out pretty good for a totally random one-shot. 90 MB. Online.

Tenryu & Akiyama vs Kobashi & Shiozaki, 4/24/05. Tenryu and Akiyama beat the crap out of Go, and Kobashi beats the crap out of them. It's the circle of NOAH. Mega.

KENTA & Marufuji vs KUDO & Kota Ibushi, Differ Cup '05 round 1. Similar to the 2003 third-place match in that KUDO and KENTA have interpromotional hate. Different in that Kota has a real breakthrough performance, busting out some great highspots. 157 MB. Online.

KENTA & Marufuji vs Kaz Hayashi & Spanky, Differ Cup '05 round 2. Here, KENTAFuji must deal with a 'peer' team that's very capable of putting the match away. 89 MB. Online.

KENTA & Marufuji vs Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita, Differ Cup '05 final. Top junior teams face off. KENTAFuji go mostly heel despite being in NOAH's home building and somehow it works. 159 MB. Online.

Kikuchi vs Hashi, 5/13/05. Oh the headbutts. Dear lord the headbutts. Online.

Akiyama, Tenryu & Shiozaki vs Rikio, Yone & KENTA, 5/17/05. Tenryu and KENTA utterly despise each other and go at it. And it's awesome. 111 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Honda vs Minoru Suzuki & Marufuji, 5/17/05. Honda gets targeted as the weak link on Burning, but he damn sure isn't going to be anybody's victim. 90 MB. Online.

Minoru Suzuki & Marufuji vs Akiyama & Hashi, 7/18/05. The biggest match of Hashi's career, as he goes after the tag titles at NOAH's biggest show ever. Match is great in its Hashi-ness, and it adds to the also-great 8/19/05 Korakuen main event. 261 MB. Mega.

Kobashi vs Sasaki. Epic slugfest to end all epic slugfests, including the endless chop battle to end all endless chop battles. Mega.

Misawa vs Kawada, 7/18/05. Their first meeting in 5 years, quite possibly their last. Watch for the Kawada post-match promo, which because it was unscheduled during a live broadcast caused he and NOAH to have a falling-out. Mega.

Akitoshi Saito, Takashi Sugiura, Kishin Kawabata & Mushiking Joker vs Yoshinari Ogawa, Low Ki, Richard Slinger & Mushiking Terry, 8/19/05. This match blows on paper, like numerous throwaway NOAH undercard matches. Yet somehow, some way, they make it work. Dark Agents do an effective beatdown on Terry for the body, the pace is kept up, and the Slinger vs Kawabata finishing stretch fails to suck despite all logic. I was amazed to see that this holds up on tape. 93 MB. Online.

A block of TV from the 8/19/05 Korakuen show. Featuring:
-SUWA vs Morishima. SUWA practices being a dick for his shot at KENTA, while Morishima practices killing people.
-Rikio vs Masao Inoue. Was going to be Rikio vs Awesome, but Awesome got hurt. Rikio is very very generous in how much he lets Inoue survive.
-Izumida & Kikuchi vs Scorpio & Bison. Scorpio is masked, Kikuchi hates it. Lots o' comedy.
-Yone vs BJ Whitmer. BJ got brought in for the tour to replace Awesome.
184 MB for the lot. Online.

Minoru Suzuki & Marufuji vs Honda & KENTA, 8/19/05. This was such a great show, and this here is a fine semi-main match. From what I can tell, Suzuki ran over KENTA's mother and fed her to a wood chipper, based on KENTA's seething hatred. Oh and some old lady in the crowd tries to cause a rift between the tag champs. I love Korakuen. 90 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Hashi vs Akiyama & Kanemaru, 8/19/05. This was an amazing match live and it sure does hold up on film. Hashi and Akiyama had just lost a tag title shot so Akiyama ended his long tough-love partnership with Hashi. Hashi, however, hasn't given up on proving himself. Red-hot Korakuen Hall gets behind him and everyone plays their role perfectly. 233 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Taue vs Akiyama & Tenryu, 9/18/05. Another one of those 'Taue is awesome' matches, plus 'Kobashi and Tenryu hate each other' and 'Akiyama is also in the match'. 93 MB. Online.

KENTA vs SUWA, 9/18/05. I can't think of a match in recent years that was loved so universally and unconditionally. Everything just clicks, with a great batch of old-fashioned heel work from SUWA to focus a GHC junior title match. Mega.

Tenryu vs KENTA, 10/8/05. Online.

Minoru Suzuki & Marufuji vs Akiyama & Koshinaka, 11/5/05. Lots of cheap shots and Koshinaka-flavored fun and then Marufuji is spiked. Online.

Sasaki & Nakajima vs Kobashi & Go Shiozaki, 11/5/05. Kobashi and Sasaki come off their chop war for the ages, while the young guns had both impressed in the first ten months of '05. The result here is my current match of the year, one that I think will hold up better than a number of bouts getting hype as 'five star'. Great action, as every single pairing brings a lot to the table and everyone clicks and the crowd is hot and... geeez. Honestly I can't think of a wrestling fan who couldn't enjoy this. 245 MB. Mega.

KENTA & Shibata vs Morishima & Yone, 11/5/05. Great match with a bunch of hatred and stiffness and huge bumps, plus it's paced well. Everyone does what they're best at. 115 MB, so worth the download. Online.

Rikio vs Taue, 11/5/05. Can Taue, aided by a rabid Budokan crowd, end the tyranny of the Takeshi Rikio title reign? Well, can he? More 'emotional' than 'good' due to Taue's physical limitations (and Rikio's for that matter), but Taue really does go all-out. 106 MB. Online.

KENTA & Kikuchi vs SUWA & Kanemaru, 11/18/05. Stemming from KENTA vs SUWA. And, accordingly, 'tis good. Online.

Akiyama & Koshinaka vs Kobashi & Shiga, 11/18/05. Another fun match much in the same vein as other Koshinaka matches. 81 MB. Online.

Akiyama vs Sugiura, 11/27/05. Sugiura tries to hit above his weight class and does quite well for himself, as Akiyama has to throw out just as much offense here as he did two months later against Taue. Online.

Taue, Kobashi & Misawa vs KENTA, Marufuji & Mushiking Terry, 11/27/05. Similar to the old vs young 6-man in April, only this is a bit more on the 'fun' end of things. Taue, having just won the title, is a good sport not to murder Terry about a minute into this. 103 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Izumida vs Tenryu & Koshinaka, 12/4/05. As soon as I saw the 12/4 card I knew I'd like it. Nothing was out-of-this-world great, but it had matches like this that to me are just enjoyable. Witness Koshinaka's ass-power going against Kobashi's chops. Witness Tenryu being his usual grumpy self. Witness IZU taking his lumps like a man and doing his best. 71 MB. Online.

Sasaki & Nakajima vs Akiyama & Kikuchi, 12/4/05. Not blowaway-great like the tag from 11/5, but still nifty because each matchup brings something to the table. Good ol' Kikuchi. 72 MB. Online.

Shibata & KENTA vs Misawa & Shiozaki, 12/4/05. Once again, not anything to make you go gaga over, but plenty good thanks to the matchups. Sadly this was Shibata's last match in NOAH and Shiozaki got his jaw busted a month later... by KENTA. 78 MB. Online.

Taue vs Morishima, 12/4/05. A decidedly better match than Taue vs Rikio, since Morishima is a decidedly better wrestler. Morishima's first big chance and he makes the most of it, while Taue is forced to debut a new finisher in the hopes of fending off his chunky challenger. 111 MB. Online.

KENTA & Ricky Marvin vs Marufuji & Kotaro Suzuki, 1/8/06. Regular partners split against each other. Some interesting spots. 87 MB. Online.

Taue, Izumida & Kikuchi vs Akiyama, Kanemaru & Shiga, 1/8/06. Lead-in to the Taue vs Akiyama title match. I'm of the mind that the value of this match is almost entirely derived from Taue's team, but then I'm an IZU mark. Online.

Kobashi & Izumida vs Akebono & Rikio, 1/22/06. Fun match with the most ungodly finish in the history of wrestling. Mega.

KENTA vs Marufuji, junior title, 1/22/06. JIP. Mega.

Taue vs Akiyama, GHC title, 1/22/06. Rather than throwing bombs, which Taue showed a remarkable ability to take, Akiyama focuses on knocking him out. Taue is his usual loveable self. They make sure to work in the 9/18/05 tag finish as well. Mega..

Kobashi, Tamon Honda & Kanemaru vs KENTA, Morishima & Yone, 2/17/06. Kobashi and KENTA have a match upcoming on March 5th so they decide to attempt to soften each other up. By that I mean they maul each other every chance they get. Morishima is awful surly as well, including post-match violence. Honda spikes Yone on his noggin a couple times to round things out. 70 MB. Online.

Taue vs Marufuji, 3/5/06. Marufuji really steps up here, perhaps being reeled in by Taue. Smart, fun match; one of the best of '06. Online.

Misawa vs Morishima, 3/5/06. Morishima rocks and Misawa actually makes a good effort himself. Also Morishima kills Misawa with his backdrop a bunch. 213 MB. Mega.

Kobashi vs KENTA, 3/5/06. Mega.

Rikio & KENTA vs Morishima & Sugiura, SEM 3/21/06. About the match you'd expect out of them. You need more Morishima. We *all* need more Morishima. 67 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Kikuchi vs KENTA & Marufuji, 4/2/06. Not quite the epic inter-generational dream match this would have been a few years earlier, but yet at the same time it IS a dream match. 112 MB. Online.

Akiyama & Kanemaru vs Kobashi & Honda, 4/16/06. Kanemaru is in way over his head but fights admirably, and creates some fun interactions with Kobashi. Plus a decent amount of Kobashi vs Akiyama is to be had herein. 83 MB. Online.

Kobashi vs Marufuji, 4/23/06. Marufuji makes with the high-spotting and the actual wrestling. Kobashi makes with the Kobashi-ing. Mega.

Akiyama vs Inoue, GHC title, 4/23/06. Masao gives MAXIMUM EFFORT~ and the crowd rallies behind him, with sometimes funny and sometimes awesome results. Godawful booking behind this match but it's so much better than it has any right to be. Mega.

KENTA & Kikutaro vs Scorpio & Marvin, SEM 5/7/06. It's a Kikutaro match. You know what you're getting. 70 MB. Online.

SUWA, Kanemaru & Low Ki vs KENTA, Marufuji & Ishimori, 5/19/06.

KENTA vs Sugiura, 6/4/06. Stiff exchanges, some nifty spots, and a rarely-seen finish (at least in NOAH). Mega.

Morishima & Yone vs Kobashi & Honda, tag titles, 6/4/06. This is allllllll about Morishima. Somewhat plays off what they did in the six-man earlier in the year too. But mostly it plays off of Morishima being awesome. Mega.

Rikio, Morishima, Yone & Shiozaki vs Kanemaru, Sugiura, KENTA & Marufuji, 6/9/06. A Captain's Fall elimination match with over-the-top also causing elimination. Match ends when Rikio or Kanemaru is eliminated. This is more of a 'fun' match than a typical big-moves-and-stiffness NOAH main event. Note that Sugiura vs KENTA for the junior title took place just before this. 297 MB. Mega.

SUWA vs Momota, 7/16/06. All that is right about professional wrestling. Plus post-match antics! Online.

Taue & Nakajima vs Ogawa & Ippei Ota, 7/16/06. The young lions are pretty good in this, but Taue is so completely king-sized and awesome that he's veritably Jumbo-esque (albeit a gangly, awkward Jumbo). Trust me, you'll enjoy this. Online.

Morishima & Rikio vs KENTA & Marufuji, 7/16/06. You've just gotta love Morishima. 95 MB. Online.

Akiyama & Misawa vs Takayama & Sasaki, 7/16/06. He's BACK, baby. 80 MB. Online.

KENTA & Shibata vs Taue & Shiozaki, 9/9/06. KENTA, Shibata and Go are all bright young stars with good-looking offense and crowd support. But this is the Taue show, and everyone else is along for the ride. 98 MB. Online.

Morishima & Rikio vs Takayama & Sugiura, 9/9/06. Junior double-champ Sugiura shows NO FEAR amidst Japanese giants, and when you start to realize just how much of a very physical match he wrestles he comes off that much better. 140 MB. Online.

Akiyama vs Marufuji, 9/9/06. Marufuji is only there because Kobashi got struck with cancer. Akiyama has never been pinned by one of the NOAH juniors. Yet somehow, some way, Marufuji hangs with Akiyama and evades big moves long enough to actually have a real chance of winning. The last ten seconds are something else. Mega.

Misawa, Sugiura & Ota vs Murakami, Usuda & Hara, 10/6/06. Hate and a bit of un-cooperativeness on display in this one as the shoot-stylists INVADE. 129 MB. Online.

Akiyama vs Kikuchi, 10/13/06. After Akiyama's title loss to a mere junior, old grumpy Kikuchi told him to MAN UP. Well, not in those words. They smack each other pretty freaking hard with elbows because Kikuchi is there to force Akiyama to ratchet up the stiffness. Online.

Takayama & Sano vs KENTA & Saito, 10/13/06. So there's just A LITTLE stiffness in this. A tad. A wee bit. 156 MB. Online.

Marufuji vs KENTA, 10/29/06. It's what you expect. 261 MB. Mega.

Shiozaki, Nakajima & Sugawara vs Sai, HARASHIMA & KAZMA, GPWA, 11/14/06. GPWA is essentially run by NOAH so I'm putting it here. I was glad to see lots of hate and fire and stiffness in this rather than just a trillion overwrought spots. 189 MB. Online.

Morishima & Yone vs Rikio & Sugiura, 11/17/06. Second half of the match, which is good in that Morishima-y kinda way. 99 MB. Online.

Akiyama, Hashi & Kanemaru vs Ohtani, Murakami & Takaiwa, 12/2/06. Plenty of hate and plenty of Hashi goodness and even hardway blood. 169 MB. Online.

KENTA vs American Dragon, 12/2/06. Two points against this match: slow start and lethargic crowd. Two points for this match: hot finish and its participants. 128 MB. Online.

Morishima & Yone vs Takayama & Sano, 12/2/06. Even Yone ratchets up the stiffness in this one, so there's plenty of brutal shots and exchanges to go around. 150 MB. Mega.

Morishima vs Go Shiozaki, 12/10/06. Go is ambitious, taking it to the big man and trying to end the match quickly. Morishima isn't interested in losing in five minutes, but does share the desire to go home early. Online.

Akiyama & Hashi vs Saito & Taniguchi, 12/10/06. In addition to the usual Hashi fun, Taniguchi shows a lot of heart and spirit and so forth. The Akiyama/Hashi interaction is especially good. 105 MB. Online.

Taue, Mushiking Terry, Ishimori & Aoki vs SUWA, TARU, Kondo & Yasshi, 12/10/06. Voodoo Murders Max can heel it up like nobody's business, and the NOAH team makes it clear that they are not welcome. Taue has not stopped being Taue. 107 MB. Online.

Rikio, KENTA & Yone vs Minoru Suzuki, Takayama & Sano, 12/10/06. Not quite wall-to-wall awesome, but still plenty of hard-hitting action. 136 MB. Online.

NOAH Christmas Fun-Time Special Compilation. This... this is two hours of GOLD, spanning 2000 through 2006. And superb quality for the length and size (228 MB). Stick with it through the slow parts because the hits just keep on coming. Online.

Akiyama vs Go Shiozaki, 1/21/07. Akiyama shows that he respects Go's strength after their initial exchange by focusing on ripping apart the right arm, which sets the base of the match. Online.

SUWA, Takayama & Minoru Suzuki vs Marufuji, KENTA & Rikio, 1/21/07. SUWA's last match in NOAH. Lots of hate and stiffness and then SUWA decides he wants the spotlight all to himself. 135 MB. Online.

Shiozaki, Honda & Kikuchi vs Kawabata, Inoue & Aoki, 3/4/07. Closing minutes. Probably the best minutes of wrestling in Kawabata's career. Online.

Bison Smith, Chris Hero & Bobby Fish vs Rikio, Saito & Ricky Marvin, 3/4/07. Really fun 6-man thanks to Bison and Marvin. Online.

Takayama & Sano vs Taue & Marufuji, 3/4/07. Can't go too wrong with this combination. Online.

Akiyama vs Yone, 3/4/07. It's a sprint! Just the match these two should have. 76 MB. Online.

Morishima vs KENTA, 3/4/07. So first they work the headlock, then they do a nice series of headscissors spots, and... oh who am I kidding, you know what happens here. Online.

KENTA, Saito & Ota vs Danielson, Joe Legend & Ted DiBiase Jr, 4/1/07. Ah the fun Korakuen 6-man, how I've missed you. Ted junior looks great and is a fine tribute to his father. Just Joe is no slouch. Ota is a good underdog, especially after taking a certain bump a bit too hard. Danielson returns and doesn't seem to have missed a step. That KENTA guy is in this one, too. 161 MB. Online.

Morishima & Yone vs Akiyama & Rikio, 4/1/07, tag titles. First time a NOAH heavyweight title gets defended in Korakuen, and the crowd is accordingly hot. What might be a lifeless affair elsewhere is good as a result. 210 MB. Online.

Kotaro Suzuki vs Tsutomu Hirayanagi, SEM 4/4/07. Hirayanagi totally makes the match, heeling it up like crazy and getting actual fire out of the uber-bland Kotaro. Good match to fill a few minutes with. Online.

Danielson & Ishimori vs Marufuji & Aoki, SEM 4/4/07. It's all about Danielson vs Aoki. Mega.

KENTA, Saito & Aoki vs Danielson, Bison Smith & Ricky Marvin, 4/14/07. Very slightly clipped. Some good stuff in here. 137 MB. Online.

Takayama & Sugiura vs Akiyama & Shiozaki, 4/14/07. Takayama and Sugiura bring the pain, Akiyama is awesome in selling the damage, and they keep up the pace rather than go longer just because it's the main event. Big finish. 122 MB. Online.

KENTA, Yone & Ishimori vs Danielson, Ted DiBiase Jr & Daniel Cross, 4/28/07. 127 MB. Online.

CIMA, Yokosuka & Dragon Kid vs Marufuji, Marvin & Ota, 4/28/07. Dragon Gate invades! CIMA targets the new guy! Crowd is stoked! Why is it that the Dragon Gate guys do so much better outside their home promotion lately? 147 MB. Online.

Akiyama & Rikio vs Takayama & Sugiura, tag titles, 4/28/07. The best tag title match NOAH has turned out in quite some time, another great showing for Sugiura, and (until December) the runaway leader for NOAH's best of the year. 216 MB. Online.

KENTA vs Tsutomu Hirayanagi, SEM 5/5/07. Hirayanagi once again brings the goods as a heelish young lion. KENTA beats the crap out of him every chance he gets. Very enjoyable. 103 MB. Online.

HARASHIMA & Kota Ibushi vs Hara & Usuda, Differ Cup '07. All kinds of stiffness. Just gobs of it. 145 MB. Online.

HARASHIMA & Kota Ibushi vs Kagetora & Hercules Senga, Differ Cup '07. Senga doesn't look like a 'Hercules' and takes the beating you expect. More towards the 'cool stuff' end of the spectrum. 95 MB. Online.

Hidaka & Namiguchi vs Kengo Mashimo & Makoda, Differ Cup '07. I've been lukewarm about Mashimo, who is the current ace of K-Dojo. However he wins me over here with his selling, and Hidaka helps make him want to sell. Makoda busts out a must-see move. 153 MB. Online.

KENTA vs Go Shiozaki, 6/3/07. An action-packed second-half of the match as you'd expect from these two. Online.

Murakami vs Marufuji, 6/8/07. Short and intense with action before and after the bell. Online.

Saito vs Shiozaki, 6/8/07. Go had his arm picked apart earlier this year, and thus relishes attacking Saito's cast. The core appeal, however, is that they really lay it in throughout. 122 MB. Online.

Nigel McGuinness vs Kotaro Suzuki, 7/1/07. Nigel has what it takes to drag Kotaro to the best singles match of his (Kotaro's) career. 120 MB. Online.

Morishima, Yone & Hashi vs Sano, KENTA & Ishimori, 7/1/07. This could have been rather bland, but everyone is on-point and there's enough fire to make it special. 147 MB. Online.

Danielson & Richards vs Romero & Aoki, junior tag league, 7/1/07. Not only is it good, it also manages to do so without being a total Danielson carry-job. 157 MB. Online.

The Briscoe Brothers vs Marufuji & Ibushi, junior tag league, 7/1/07. More quality junior-heavyweight action! 139 MB. Online.

Marvin & Suzuki vs Romero & Aoki, junior tag league, 7/6/07. Really good! 153 MB. Online.

The Briscoe Brothers vs KENTA & Ishimori, junior tag league, 7/6/07. I clipped the first 2/3rds or so, and what's left is the exciting conclusion. Online.

Marufuji & Ibushi vs KENTA & Ishimori, junior tag league, 7/15/07. Better than any GHC junior tag title match in a looooong time. 190 MB. Mega.

Misawa vs Taue, GHC title, 7/15/07. Compact match with Taue dishing out his biggest shots and Misawa dishing out something especially nasty. 133 MB. Online.

KENTA vs Aoki, SEM 8/10/07. Decent enough match, but it's must-see because of the super-cool location just outside the Tokyo HQ of the TV network. 113 MB. Online.

Marvin & Suzuki & Ota vs KENTA, Ishimori & Romero, 8/19/07. Been a while since the NOAH juniors really clicked in a 6-man. The junior tag league seems to have given the division a kick in the pants, and if this becomes the norm we're in for good times. 159 MB. Online.

Morishima vs Shiozaki, 8/19/07. The big guy sorta goes through the motions. This match is all about Go, as he does a great job of hanging with Morishima in striking, putting together a great strategy, and thinking on his feet. Shiozaki in this match looks very close to being a main event caliber talent. 180 MB. Online.

Takayama, Morishima & Yone vs Misawa, Taue & KENTA, 9/2/07. Clipped to the last half of the match or so. Finish is especially fun. 89 MB. Online.

KENTA & Ishimori vs Kanemaru & Aoki, 9/9/07. Kanemaru carries this. Wait, KANEMARU carries this?! 132 MB. Online.

Akiyama vs Morishima, #1 contendership semifinal, 9/9/07. Morishima has done a fair amount in his career, but he's never pinned any of NOAH's top 5 (Misawa/Kobashi/Akiyama/Taue/Takayama). If he can't do it now, with the biggest win streak of his career, he never will. 162 MB. Online.

Marufuji vs (winner of Akiyama/Morishima), #1 contendership final, 9/9/07. Marufuji would normally be a big underdog, having gone through Saito earlier, but he comes in RIGHT after the finish and clearly got some time to rest. This sets the table for the match, as Marufuji's speed and energy tries to wear down his tougher, stronger opponent. 105 MB. Online.

Misawa, Takayama & Akiyama vs Marufuji, KENTA & Shiozaki, 11/24/07. Dig that old vs young rivalry! Takayama/KENTA is always great, Shiozaki looks like a young Kobashi and gets some respect, I think you'll want to give this a look. 100 MB. Online.

Honda, Shiozaki & Kikuchi vs Sugiura, Yone & Ito, 12/2/07. Burning is back, and Shiozaki looks as good as he ever has. Kikuchi gets surly, Ito goes all-out for the sold-out Budokan crowd, this is good. 127 MB. Online.

Kanemaru & Aoki vs Suzuki & Ota, 12/2/07. I wasn't expecting much, but thanks in large part to the youngins this is a heck of a match. 95 MB. Online.

Kobashi & Takayama vs Misawa & Akiyama, 12/2/07. A match that should need no introduction. Includes full pre and post-match. 309 MB. Mega.

Morishima, Izumida the Butt-Biting Bug & Taniguchi vs KENTA, Ota & Fake Ota, 12/24/07. NOAHFUL GIFT IN DIFFER delivers thanks to Fake Ota. Online.

NOAH Christmas Carols '07. Online.

Morishima, Marufuji & Yone vs Misawa, Shiozaki & Ota, 1/6/08. Morishima vs Misawa buildup! Go's chops are absurdly hard! Ota is a loveable screwup, and Yone kicks his head off! 93 MB. Online.

Kobashi, Honda & Shiozaki vs Akiyama, Shiga & Kanemaru, 1/13/08. Kobashi and Shiozaki dish out some chops that are just plain nasty. Kanemaru interacting with Kobashi once again brings out the best in both of them. And Akiyama, well, his neck can't be glad Kobashi is back. Mega.

Takayama & Aoki vs KENTA & Saito, 1/20/08. Really any match with Takayama vs KENTA is going to be good. 107 MB. Online.

Sugiura, Marufuji & Shiozaki vs Takayama, Sano & Ota, 2/15/08. Lots of nasty, nasty stuff dished out in this one. 150 MB. Online.

Kobashi, Honda & Taniguchi vs Morishima, Sugiura & Marufuji, 2/21/08. Like I need to hype this. 270 MB. Mega.

Taue & Izumida vs Hero & Castagnoli, 3/2/08. I'm actually *not* a fan of Chris and Claudio as a team, but this is just way too fun. 108 MB. Online.

Kobashi, Honda & KENTA vs Takayama, Sano & Aoki, 3/2/08. Kobashi and Takayama go AT IT. Aoki shows NO FEAR. And Takayama/KENTA is as awesome as ever. 320 MB. Mega.

Misawa vs Morishima, GHC title, 3/2/08. Misawa is the master of coming back from big deficits. Morishima over the last year has learned how to get ahead and stay ahead in the title match. With Misawa's experience and elbows fell the monster one more time, or has Morishima finally become more than the old man can handle? 194 MB. Mega.

Taue, Marvin & Taniguchi vs Inoue, Izumida & Ota, 3/29/08. Enjoyable enough thanks to Ricky and IZU. Mega.

Sasaki & Nakajima vs Taue & Shiozaki, 4/4/08. Worth it for Sasaki vs Shiozaki, the rest is icing. Mega.

Kobashi, KENTA & Taniguchi vs Sasaki, Nakajima & Yamaguchi, 4/14/08. Now complete!

Kobashi, Honda & KENTA vs Takayama, Sano & Shiozaki, 4/27/08. Progressing from the March 6-man, Takayama's team gets a big upgrade. If you know anything about Shiozaki, you know why his addition makes this must-see. 183 MB. Mega.

Akiyama & Rikio vs Sasaki & Nakajima, 4/27/08. Akiyama/Rikio delivers quality heavyweight action in the clutch yet again. 177 MB. Online.

Danielson vs Aoki, Aoki trial series, 5/15/08. Not awe-inspiringly great as is common with Danielson, but still quite good. 125 MB. Mega.

Kobashi & Kikuchi vs KENTA & Marufuji, 5/24/08. Better than the '06 version. A match that, if this matchup interests you, will hit the spot. 289 MB. Mega.

Kobashi & KENTA vs Sasaki & Nakajima, 6/14/08. Great video and audio helps to make the stiffness that much more real. Mega.