Captain Lou’s Review: AJPW Champion Carnival – Day 1 (4/4/2019)
I’ve been slowly getting back into All Japan ever since catching one of their Korakuen Hall shows live in October...
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Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW New Japan Cup – Round 2 (3/13 to 3/17/2019)
YOSHI-HASHI vs. Chase Owens – New Japan Cup (Round 2) Look. This certainly was a wrestling match between YOSHI-HASHI and...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW New Japan Cup (3/11/2019)
Toru Yano vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr. – New Japan Cup (Round 1) On a scale of 1 to 10,...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW New Japan Cup (3/10/2019)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Ryusuke Taguchi – New Japan Cup (Round 1) As solid as it’s gonna get for a wrestling...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW New Japan Cup (3/9/2019)
Only the tournament matches because life’s too short, baby. Toa Henare vs. Lance Archer – New Japan Cup (Round 1)...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW New Japan Cup (3/8/2019)
Will Ospreay, Mikey Nichols & Rocky Romero vs. Bad Luck Fale, Hikuleo & Taiji Ishimori Korakuen was distractingly dead for...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW Anniversary Show (3/6/2019)
Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Chase Owens & Hikuleo vs. Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Ayato Yoshida, Shota Umina...
Captain Lou’s Review: Giant Baba Memorial Show (2/19/2019)
The show started like how every wrestling show should start: with ANTONIO INOKI coming out to fire up the crowd....
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka (2/11/2019)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka & TAKA Michinoku Tenzan’s attempt at rehabilitating...
Captain Lou’s Review : NJPW Road to The New Beginning (1/29/2019)
Ren Narita vs. Yuya Uemura Look at these two fine young men subverting the tropes of young lion pro-wrestling before...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling (10/8/2018)
I hopped back on the Pure-O-Resew reviewing bandwagon exactly a year ago with a review of KOPW 2017 for HWL,...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW Destruction in Beppu (9/17/2018)
Hirooki Goto © vs. Taichi – NEVER Openweight Title TAICHI NEW HERO! Big fan of this result, but sadly the...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima (9/15/2018)
Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA vs. Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH None of these guys were on the...
Captain Lou’s Review : NJPW Road to Destruction (9/8/2018)
Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura vs. Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji Yota Tsuji went from looking like Yoshihiro Takayama’s bastard...
Captain Lou’s Review : NJPW Road to Destruction (9/7/2018)
Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens vs. Shota Umino & Ren Narita Umino and Narita as the young lion Rock n’...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW G1 Climax 28 – Day 19 (8/12/2018)
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kota Ibushi – G1 Climax (Finals) As I watched this live for the first time, the big...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW G1 Climax 28 – Day 18 (8/11/2018)
Toru Yano vs. Tama Tonga – G1 Climax (Block B) Tama Tonga cutting a promo on Meltzer and star ratings...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW G1 Climax 28 – Day 17 (8/10/2018)
Togi Makabe vs. Michael Elgin – G1 Climax (Block A) When you have all of those brightly-lit All Japan/NOAH classic...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW G1 Climax 28 – Day 16 (8/8/2018)
Juice Robinson vs. Tomohiro Ishii – G1 Climax (Block B) This was Juice working the Tomohiro Ishii slug-fest template match...
Captain Lou’s Review: NJPW G1 Climax 28 – Day 15 (8/5/2018)
YOSHI-HASHI vs. Bad Luck Fale – G1 Climax (Block A) Is it just me or YOSHI-HASHI’s theme would feel right...