art_vandelay Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 Is anyone watching this? People are talking about it in an ROH thread but I felt it deserved its own. Right now they're showing matches from a Navigation w/ Breeze 2004 show. KENTA vs. Jun in his singles trial series...
RavishingRickRudo Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 I watched a lil bit. I found difficult to get past the commentary, and the shitty 6 man. Mauro was ok on PBP, actually better than the vast majority of commentators, but Lovranski bit it. One, his voice isn't suited for commentary, and two, he didn't know his role and kept stepping on Mauros toes doing PBP. This basically is my problem with Tenay and West, where they are essentially the same person saying the same thing from the same POV, which leads to the question - why are there two of them when they do the job of one man?
RavishingRickRudo Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 Did I mention that I can't stand Dan Lovranski on any level?
Guest stylz Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 Edit...here's my guess for what the next 4 shows will be, starting with next week... NOAH, 5/21/04 (NTV/G+ LIVE) Miyagi Sports Center 3,000 Fans Kenta Kobashi & KENTA vs Akira Taue & Takashi Sugiura Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki vs Bison Smith, Doug Williams & Ace Steel GHC Jr. Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger © vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi NOAH, 6/1/04 (NTV/G+) Tsukisamu Green Dome 4,000 Fans Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda vs Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito WLW Heavyweight Title: Takeshi Morishima © vs Daisuke Ikeda GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA © vs Kotaro Suzuki & Ricky Marvin NOAH "WE ARE THE CHAMPION", 6/11/04 (NTV/G+) Tokyo Korakuen Hall 2,100 Fans - Super No Vacancy Takeshi Morishima vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi Takeshi Rikio vs Masao Inoue Ricky Marvin vs. Takashi Sugiura KENTA vs Jun Izumida Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Jun Akiyama Tamon Honda vs Naomichi Marufuji NOAH, 6/27/04 (NTV/G+ LIVE) Tokyo Korakuen Hall 2,100 Fans - Super No Vacancy Tamon Honda & Donovan Morgan vs Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue Mitsuharu Misawa, Shiro Koshinaka & Mitsuo Momota vs Daisuke Ikeda, Jun Izumida & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi KENTA Single Match Trial 4th: Yoshihiro Takayama vs KENTA Kenta Kobashi, Takeshi Rikio & Ricky Marvin vs Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Morishima & Makoto Hashi Looks good from here...hopefully that 6th show full be the full Dome show. Thanks to Green Destiny for the matchlists. J
World's Worst Man Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 Saw the show today. It was actually pretty solid. The opening 6 man was wrestled like it was 1979 for a bit, but it ended up being passable. Akiyama vs. KENTA was simply "good", but it was tremendously entertaining. The final 6 man was kind of just a throw away. I like Inoue/Izumida COMEDY~!, so it was kind of amusing, but I'd imagine anyone not familiar with NOAH would not be into it. Not a good match at all though. Commentary was kind of bleh. A lot of moves being mixed up (although they did make a few good calls), some stuttering during fast paced moments. It wasn't awful like the FMW Tokyo Pop commentary, and I could live with it, but it was by no stretch of the imagination any good. The commercial breaks are going to hurt the shows though. When they show Kobashi-Akiyama, it'll probably be broken up with 3 or 4 breaks, considering it was a 35 minute match. They have to do something about that.
Guest CWMwasmurdered Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 I really need to get the Fight Network.
CheesalaIsGood Posted March 15, 2006 Report Posted March 15, 2006 And um, Dan Lovranski sucks. I agree. I made this mistake of buying a couple of those FMW dvds that are always floating around and he just kills them. Hmmm, does comcast offer the fight network?
Guest stylz Posted March 15, 2006 Report Posted March 15, 2006 I'm pretty sure The Fight Network is only available on Canadian cable and satellite systems. J
CheesalaIsGood Posted March 15, 2006 Report Posted March 15, 2006 I'm pretty sure The Fight Network is only available on Canadian cable and satellite systems. J crap.
RavishingRickRudo Posted March 15, 2006 Report Posted March 15, 2006 I recall the prez of the fight network saying their signal can be carried to the US, it's just a matter of cable companies carrying them. They are looking to be shown in the US, but they are still trying to get all of Canada right now.
Guest stylz Posted March 21, 2006 Report Posted March 21, 2006 NOAH, 5/21/04 (NTV/G+ LIVE) Miyagi Sports Center 3,000 Fans Kenta Kobashi & KENTA vs Akira Taue & Takashi Sugiura Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki vs Bison Smith, Doug Williams & Ace Steel GHC Jr. Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger © vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi I was almost spot on this week, they actually included Akiyama/Saito/Kanemaru vs Izu/Inoue/Kawabata. GREAT hour of wrestling. And next week's looks KILLER (although the tag title match goes 30+ mins, it probably gets clipped to a certain extent). J
World's Worst Man Posted March 21, 2006 Report Posted March 21, 2006 That's going to be a big problem me thinks. Clipped matches = suck. TFN should somehow pace their commercial breaks in order to show full matches, but I guess they aren't doing that.
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