Revisionist NOAH History?

A response to HonorHammer26 focussing on some areas of clarification regarding NOAH's history. Also a brief run-down of a possible NOAH split!!!

His original videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94liZYYccvI (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTeAcsHS7I8 (part 2)

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• HonorHammer26
• Pro-Wrestling
• NOAH
• Misawa
• Baba
• Giant
• AJPW
• split
• death
• Saito
• Shiozaki
• gaikokujin

[dinosauravenger1989]

You cunt. I was going to make a video about the rumors of the NOAH split... i TOLD YOU ABOUT IT! *rages*

[IchibanPuroresu]

@dinosauravenger1989 hahah go ahead and do one... i spoke about it for what... 10 seconds? In fairness you did tell me first... you beat every single other source of my wrestling news by a few mins. good old DVDVR forums however has essentially exhausted by interest in it however until more info comes out.

[IchibanPuroresu]

@IchibanPuroresu *my interest*

[amcn1]

How readily accepted were the gaikokujin in the 80s/90s (by crowd, management and fellow workers) at a time when technology didn’t allow easy familiarity with difference countries/cultures? It seems to me that with the high standards of top guys that AJPW ran with for long stretches of time, the only guys left to put in main event slots that were satisfactorily over were gaikokujin who could get over by being promoted as outsiders from strange faraway lands. Any truth to that theory?

[IchibanPuroresu]

@amcn1 The crowd loved the foreigners particularly in the 90s when the influence of Johnny Ace behind the scenes enabled some of the imports to play face roles rather than just big evil guy from far away. The management of course supported all this, but I have no idea how the other wrestlers reacted to guys like Gordy, Hansen, Williams and co being right at the tippy-top of the hierarchy. The foreigners did often play foil to the more popular natives (Kikuchi's a great eg) to keep things fresh.

[eddydeez]

I told him Saito was still doing the back drop, he insisted he uses a different version of it...

[IchibanPuroresu]

@KDaltonIrish We <3 Ring! Marcelo Garcia is just about my favourite BJJ guy. Mostly because he's actually quite catch in the way he goes about the no-gi stuff. Lots of foot control and he's less keen to just pull guard.

[IchibanPuroresu]

@MattMystrieo I dont think anyone really knows the ratings of Japanese TV shows. I certainly don't! You can get a good idea by it's time-slot. Anything on a midnight slot (like wrestling) is probably doing less than 5.0

[IchibanPuroresu]

@seancarletonzero I think it's fair to say that regardless of who is better between Danielson and KENTA, that the great Inoue Masao is better than both of them put together. O the glory of Inoue shtick.

[seancarletonzero]

Great video, Ichiban!

I don't think KENTA is the best in the world, Danielson was better.

All Japan Pro Wrestling in the 90's = Best wrestling promotion ever.

I believe that Shiozaki is now by far the best Heavy in NOAH, and top 5 in Japan.