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I'd like to talk about it tonight if possible. It was pretty meh all around.
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click link for more. STAR RATINGS insideIt wasn’t going to last forever.
New Japan’s historic run of amazing shows came to an end with last week’s ‘Wrestling Dontaku’, the yearly big show offering from Fukuoka.
In contrast to the last New Japan iPPV, ‘Invasion Attack’, which was held helped by a rabid American style crowd at Sumo Hall, this show suffered from not only a slate of underwhelming matches, but also a tepid (albeit sellout) crowd of 6800 fans. Fukuoka crowds have never been known to be the hottest on the New Japan circuit, but the matches themselves didn’t help matters.
The show wasn’t bad. This was a perfectly average iPPV, but when you are dealing with a bar that has been set to historical highs due to a nearly 15-month run of flat out incredible big shows, “perfectly average” is chalked up as a major disappointment. It’s all about perspective. Had this been a NOAH or TNA show, the tone of this article would be quite different, and i’d likely be praising it as the best offering in recent memory...Comment
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I nitpicked this thing...
I liked the main event, I liked the Tanahashi-Anderson match and liked the turn.
Haven't watched the rest yet, but, I am guessing its not worth it according to your review.Comment
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Honestly, once you read what angles went down, it's definitely skippable.
Nakamura/Benjamin is worth a watch more than anything to see how botching the finish can completely destroy a match.
The rest is meh. The tag title match was one of the worst NJPW matches I can recall seeing. Total clusterfuck.Comment
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