Captain Lou’s Review: AJPW Champion Carnival 2020 – Day 2 (9/13/2020)
Jake Lee & Fuminori Abe vs. Baliyan Akki & Yusuke Okada The Yoshitatsu Kingdom is collapsing before our very eyes:...
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Captain Lou’s Review: AJPW Champion Carnival 2020 – Day 1 (9/12/2020)
Koji Iwamoto & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. TAJIRI & Francesco Akira The only thing holding this back slightly was TAJIRI’s chinlock...
Captain Lou’s Review: NOAH The Spirit (9/6/2020)
Daisuke Harada vs. Kinya Okada I was looking forward to seeing what Harada could pull out of the rookie and...
Captain Lou’s Review: Dragon Gate Storm Gate 2020 (9/9/2020)
Masaaki Mochizuki & Gamma vs. Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito Genki’s LED mask and furry entrance jacket was a look....
Captain Lou’s Review: DDT Get Alive 2020 (9/7/2020)
Makoto Oishi & Mizuki Watase vs. Akito & Yukio Naya Is there a more chill dude in wrestling than Akito?...
Captain Lou’s Top 10 – August 2020
Promotions Watched : AJPW, DDT, NOAH, Dragon Gate, Ganbare Pro Here’s a potentially-fun new feature to kick off autumn. I made...
Captain Lou’s Review: NOAH Kawasaki, Go! 2020 (8/30/2020)
Mohammed Yone vs. Yuko Miyamoto The randomly thrown-together opening match draw is the worst booking trend in NOAH at the...
Captain Lou’s Review: DDT Damnation Illegal Assembly Returns (8/29/2020)
Nobuhiro Shimatani vs. Chikara Chikara using the Sephiroth theme for his entrance is the most enlightened decision any man has...
Captain Lou’s Review: AJPW Summer Action Series II (8/30/2020)
Yuma Aoyagi & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Francesco Akira & Rising HAYATO A mighty effort from All Japan’s Korakuen opening match...
Captain Lou’s Review: Ganbare Pro Heaven’s Door 2020 (8/22/2020)
Tomoya Hirata vs. Washi Sakurai An appropriate serving of meat and potatoes to kick off the show. Hirata’s a chunky...
Captain Lou’s Review: AJPW Summer Action Series II (8/23/2020)
Francesco Akira vs. Baliyan Akki All Japan’s willingness to embrace the indie sleaze never ceases to amaze me. Akki hails...
Captain Lou’s Review: DDT King of DDT – Finals (8/23/2020)
Tetsuya Endo vs. Kazusada Higuchi – King of DDT (Semi-Finals) The ‘Guch losing here was a bummer, but otherwise they...
Captain Lou’s Review: NOAH The Spirit – Evening Show (8/22/2020)
Manabu Soya vs. Kinya Okada What’s with the weird grey mat for this show? If we’re not gonna have the...
Captain Lou’s Review: Dragon Gate The Gate of Adventure (8/15/2020)
Masato Yoshino, Dragon Kid & Ryo Saito vs. Jason Lee, Keisuke Okuda & Strong Machine J Only the Dragon Gate...
Captain Lou’s Review: DDT Bon Demone, Atasha Kamisamada Yo 2020 (8/15/2020)
Sanshiro Takagi & Jun Akiyama vs. Keigo Nakamura & Hideki Okatani Why do I feel like Chris Brookes is behind...
Captain Lou’s Review: AJPW Atsushi Aoki Memorial – AA Forever (8/15/2020)
Yuma Aoyagi & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Kuma Arashi & Hokuto Omori STOP THE PRESSES: Hokuto Omori is growing some chin...
Captain Lou’s Review: Dragon Gate The Gate of Adventure (8/12/2020)
Don Fujii, Susumu Yokosuka & Yasushi Kanda vs. Keisuke Okuda, Mondai Ryu & Ho Ho Lun Susumu and Kanda teaming...
Captain Lou’s Review: NOAH 20th Anniversary – The Chronicle Vol. 3 (8/10/2020)
Tadasuke & YO-HEY vs. Haoh & Nioh The Shakespearean odyssey that is the Stinger/RATELS saga continues. Betrayal, heartbreak and decent...
Captain Lou’s Review: DDT King of DDT 2020 – Round 3 (8/10/2020)
Mizuki Watase & Hideki Okatani vs. Yukio Naya & Keigo Nakamura This might’ve been the best I’ve seen these four...
Captain Lou’s Review: DDT King of DDT 2020 – Round 2 (8/9/2020)
Dramatic Chance Loser Revival Battle Royal Shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but DDT really know how to do...