Happy New Year

ZERO1 Happy New Year - 01.01.2015

Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Yoshikazu Yokoyama

3 minutes of K-HASH stifffness! YEAH!

ZERO1 International Junior Heavyweight Title / ZERO1 World Junior Heavyweight Title Three Way Match
Jason Lee (c) vs. Atsushi Maruyama vs. Mineo Fujita

A bunch of comedic low blows and Mineo Fujita gorgeous hair make a fine little affair.

Daemon-gun (Daemon Ueda & KAMIKAZE), Kengo & VM Mask #15 vs. Dangan Yankees (Fujita Hayato, Ikuto Hidaka, Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto)

Half the match is clipped so I won't rate it but decent action. The Dangan Yankees 4 men are a pretty cool team.

Atsushi Onita, Dump Matsumoto & Ichiro Yaguchi vs. Voodoo Murders (TARU & YASSHI) & Voodoo Mask

Once again the match is too clipped. Good enough for what it was, look at the name, you know you won't get high workrate here.

Five vs. Five Tournament Match
Akebono, Daisuke Sekimoto, Ryouji Sai, Takashi Sugiura & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Hideki Suzuki, Kohei Sato, Masato Tanaka, Shinjiro Otani & Yusaku Obata

This is clearly a one match show so all of the previous matches were heavily clipped because of the Main Event. It's a gauntlet match, it needed time and it got 1 hour.

I didn't care for the Tanaka vs Sugiura match up and this is the one who got the most time. Hideki Suzuki was a bit disappointing, he looked really good in AJPW but I don't know something was off here, he didn't adapt well to short matches. Ryouji Sai was bad.

However, I liked the Royal Rumble countdown and loved Takayama starting. He's not really agile anymore but his elbows are still fucking STIFF. Sekimoto was good as always. Obata part was really enjoyable. Otani did a couple of great things like refusing to go down on some chops by helping himself with the ropes. And the more I see them the more I love Akebono big slaps.

It was not a bad match but I don't really recommend it. If you don't know what to watch it's an ok hour of wrestling. If you don't know any of those men tho, just don't watch it, it's not a must see at all. Now that I think about it I really liked the first 3 matches of that gauntlet. An enjoyable show overall, just nothing to remember.

2015 MOTY list

1. Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Kota Ibushi (IWGP Intercontinental Title Match - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 In Tokyo Dome - 04.01.2015)
2. El Hijo de Fishman, Flamita & Sky Man vs. El Hijo del Fantasma, Fenix & Pentagon Jr. (Promociones Cara Lucha - 01.01.2015)
3. Shuji Ishikawa (c) vs. Yuji Okabayashi (BJW Strong World Heavyweight Title Match - BJW - 02.02.2015)
4. Go Shiozaki (c) vs. Zeus (Triple Crown Title Match - AJPW Excite Series 2015 - Tag 1 - 07.02.2015)
5. Tomoaki Honma vs. Tomohiro Ishii (NEVER Openweight Title Match (vakant) - NJPW The New Beginning In Sendai - 14.02.2015)
6. Fenix vs. Mil Muertes (Grave Consequences Casket Match - Lucha Underground #1.19 - 18.03.2015)
7. Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada (IWGP Heavyweight Title Match - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 In Tokyo Dome - 04.01.2015)
8. La Resistencia (Kilvan, Rey Lobo Jr., Shadow & Yoruba) vs. Los Tortugas Ninja (Leo, Mike, Rafy & Teelo) (Promociones Cara Lucha - 07.03.2015)
9. Hideki Suzuki vs. Masakatsu Funaki (ZERO1_FOURTEEN - 01.03.2015)
10. Mascara Dorada vs. Negro Casas (CMLL World Welterweight Title Tournament Final Match (vakant) - CMLL - 02.01.2015)
11. Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns (WWE World Heavyweight Title Triple Threat Match - WWE WrestleMania 31 - 29.03.2015)
12. El Barbaro Cavernario vs. Rey Cometa (NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2015 - Tag 6 - 19.01.2015)
13. Chris Hero vs. Drew Gulak (PWG From Out Of Nowhere - 27.02.2015)
14. Happy Motel (Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo) & HARASHIMA vs. Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) & Kota Ibushi (DDT Sweet Dreams 2015 - 25.01.2015)
15. Ethan Carter III vs. Rockstar Spud (Hair Vs. Hair Match - IMPACT Wrestling #556 - 13.03.2015)
16. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata (c) vs. BULLET CLUB (Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson) (IWGP Tag Team Title Match - NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka - 11.02.2015)
17. Joe Doering (c) vs. Go Shiozaki (Triple Crown Title Match - AJPW New Year Wars 2015 - Tag 2 - 03.01.2015)
18. Monster Express (Masato Yoshino & Syachihoko BOY) (c) vs. Jimmyz (Jimmy Kagetora & Jimmy Susumu) (Open The Twin Gate Title Match - Dragon Gate The Gate Of Passion 2015 - Tag 4 - 09.04.2015)
19. Brock Lesnar (c) vs. John Cena vs. Seth Rollins (WWE World Heavyweight Title Triple Threat Match - WWE Royal Rumble 2015 - 25.01.2015)
20. Akito (c) vs. Makoto Oishi (DDT Extreme Title No Rope Escape Match - DDT Sweet Dreams 2015 - 25.01.2015)
21. Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) vs. Twin Towers (Kohei Sato & Shuji Ishikawa) (BJW - 02.01.2015)
22. Chris Hero vs. Drew Gulak (EVOLVE 38 - 08.03.2015)
23. Delta, Dragon Lee & Guerrero Maya Jr. vs. El Sagrado, Kamaitachi & Misterioso II (CMLL Super Viernes - 06.03.2015)
24. La Sombra vs. Mascara Dorada (NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2015 - Tag 6 - 19.01.2015)
25. Star Jr. vs. Virus (CMLL Sabados De Coliseo - 17.01.2015) 
26. AJ Styles vs. Tetsuya Naito (NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 In Tokyo Dome - 04.01.2015)
27. The Monster Mafia (Ethan Page & Josh Alexander) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) (PWG From Out Of Nowhere - 27.02.2015)
28. BULLET CLUB (Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson) (c) vs. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata (IWGP Tag Team Title Match - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 In Tokyo Dome - 04.01.2015)
29. Kota Ibushi vs. Tomoaki Honma (NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka - 11.02.2015)
30. Bobby Roode vs. Eric Young (Last Man Standing Match - IMPACT Wrestling #556 - 13.03.2015)
31. Kamaitachi vs. Valiente (Lightning Match - CMLL - 23.01.2015)
32. Happy Motel (Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo) (c) vs. Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) (KO-D Tag Team Title Match - DDT Saitama Super DDT 2015 - 15.02.2015)
33. Drew Galloway vs. Roderick Strong (EVOLVE 36 - 09.01.2015)
34. Big R Shimizu vs. T-Hawk (Dragon Gate The Gate Of Passion 2015 - Tag 4 - 09.04.2015)
35. Blue Panther, Triton & Valiente vs. Bobby Zavala, Hechicero & Luciferno (CMLL Martes Arena Mexico - 24.03.2015)
36. Daisuke Harada vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (16 Carat Gold Tournament 2015 Quarter Final Match - wXw 16 Carat Gold 2015 - Tag 2 - 07.03.2015)
37. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) (c) vs. Roppongi Vice (Beretta & Rocky Romero) (IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match - NJPW Invasion Attack 2015 - 05.04.2015)
38. Maximo, Valiente, Marco Corleone vs. Ephesto, Mephisto, Cavernario (CMLL - 08.02.2015)
39. Rob Conway (c) vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan (NWA World Heavyweight Title Match - NJPW The New Beginning In Sendai - 14.02.2015)
40. Sho Tanaka & Yuji Nagata vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yohei Komatsu (NJPW New Japan Cup 2015 - Tag 3 - 08.03.2015)
41. Kankuro Hoshino vs. Masashi Takeda (Ikkitousen Death Match Survivor 2015 Block A G-Shock Death Match - BJW Ikkitousen Death Match Survivor 2015 - Tag 1 - 10.03.2015)
42. Act Yasukawa, Koguma & Nanae Takahashi vs. Mayu Iwatani, Reo Hazuki & Yoshiko (Stardom New Year Stars 2015 - 11.01.2015)
43. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Shinsuke Nakamura) & Polvora vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Mistico & Stigma (NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2015 - Tag 6 - 19.01.2015)