[2006-12-10-NOAH-Great Voyage] Akira Taue & Atsushi Aoki & Mushiking Terry & Taiji Ishimori vs Shuji Kondo & SUWA & TARU & YASSHI

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[dawho5]

TARU is wearing a shirt that reads HEEL. And he likes to throw water bottles at the crowd after dumping the water on his opponents, so I guess it's appropriate. SUWA makes it his mission in life to piss off Akira Taue while Mushiking Terry is being beaten to a pulp. Taue finally has enough, but the heel team is all over him and four on one gets to him. Justice has been denied, but the match isn't over. Chaos leads to Taue tagged in against....TARU??? Well, he's got some payback coming too, so let's watch the fun. More chaos after a bit of fun and then Taue is in the ring against...SUWA!!! SUWA gets some shots and a nearfall in, but you know taue isn't going down to a chump like SUWA. Especially not after all the antagonizing that's been going on. Crowd blows the roof off of the building when SUWA gets his comeuppance. Fun 8 man that ends when it should and plays out like it ought to. It may get a vote near the very bottom, but it's definitely a worthwhile watch.

[soup23]

Taue running down at the entrance was amazing and got a great reaction from Budokan. Yasshi talking shit on the mic and the fight is on. Taue stares down SUWA and gives him the finger for another great reaction. This is peak Taue here just daring the opponents to cross him. Cheapshots are thrown Taue’s way as Ishimori gets worked over. He escapes and tags in Terry and then the real beating commences. Taue has had enough and he comes firing in on all of the Voodoo Murders before the numbers game catches up to him and SUWA headbutts him right in the balls. Back to Terry they go. Terry works hard to escape TARU and the hot tag is made to Taue. Taue just standing there while all his young boys do big dives to TARU is fantastic and the crowd laughs uproariously when he just pins TARU after all of that. The VM are pissed off now and plan another big gang style attack on Taue with some cool unit moves of their own culminating in a SUWA elbow drop. Terry and Ishimori are fighting back and they clear the ring with stereo dives leaving SUWA and Taue to duke it out. Taue does the John Woo dropkick. LOL. Elevated Nodowa is broken up by yasshi. Some more crazy action and Taue gives SUWA another Nodowa and a Dynamic Bomb for a close two count. That was cool they gave SUWA the kickout from all of that. One more Nodowa gets the duke for Taue. This was a blast. It was one part Toryumon multi-man, one part current Don Fujii with youngsters, and one part WAR vs NJPW feud with the hate mixed in between the highspots and comedy elements. It is refreshing to see a match like this in the NOAH ring because I think like ROH, NOAH is projected in general as a real serious promotion overall. This was fun, fun, fun. ****