| 1 | 14.04.2025 | arkhamoutlaw10 | 3.0 | My god, how is SHO the champion? Five years ago, he was delivering world class performances against Shingo Takagi and now he can't do a simple stomp that looks convincing. Embarrassing display that had very little wrestling, and very poor comedy. Drilla Moloney did little to impress either, despite his talents. |
| 2 | 04.12.2024 | PontiffMJ | 3.0 | |
| 3 | 17.11.2024 | jajt1989 | 7.0 | Actually quite enjoyed this. Big fan of both guys and was not disappointed. 2 heels trying to out heel each other and it was quite fun to watch. The ending was well done as well i thought, with Yujiro throwing Gedo in and then Sho taking out Drilla with the spanner |
| 4 | 02.11.2024 | Paul04 | 3.0 | |
| 5 | 02.08.2024 | shanedouglastheme | 5.0 | |
| 6 | 21.07.2024 | MulXEdgeGJJ | 4.0 | |
| 7 | 19.07.2024 | smokingcrab | 4.0 | |
| 8 | 13.07.2024 | F4br1C34 | 4.0 | |
| 9 | 07.07.2024 | Chriswarrior11 | 3.0 | |
| 10 | 05.07.2024 | RedShow | 5.0 | |
| 11 | 25.06.2024 | Crippler Crossface | 3.0 | |
| 12 | 20.06.2024 | DerHitman | 4.0 | |
| 13 | 02.06.2024 | Rainmaker4196 | 3.0 | |
| 14 | 30.05.2024 | keithmn | 5.0 | |
| 15 | 23.05.2024 | jermanis | 5.0 | |
| 16 | 23.05.2024 | No One | 5.0 | |
| 17 | 21.05.2024 | DagoWithTheCage | 7.0 | This match is not one that I'd rewatch or I'd recommend, BUT, I enjoyed it a lot. It's not always about the workrate, this match was just fun and just two heels trying to outcheat each other, which I enjoyed a lot. A 7/10 because I had a fun time chuckling at SHO and Drilla's antics. |
| 18 | 20.05.2024 | Tarkovsky | 5.0 | |
| 19 | 19.05.2024 | ProGraps2018 | 6.0 | |
| 20 | 18.05.2024 | Edge | 4.0 | |
| 21 | 17.05.2024 | YannisPapiss | 4.0 | |
| 22 | 17.05.2024 | greatchickendoc | 3.0 | |
| 23 | 17.05.2024 | Open The Vault | 3.0 | YIKES! This match is almost as bad as Hayata vs. BUSHI but not there yet. This was not great in any stretch of the imagination. SHO seems washed here and sloppy and the heel vs. heel dynamic fails so hard its laughable. The ending didn't help things either as it doomed the match even more. 3/10 |
| 24 | 16.05.2024 | colinmcev | 6.0 | Not a great match, obviously, but I've got to admit I enjoyed all the silly heel antics from both wrestlers here, from the constant sneaking of weapons to both men getting low-blows (SHO from Gedo, and Moloney from Yujiro). It was also funny how Sho brought to the ring an autographed photo of Moloney that he got at the meet-and-greet before the show... |
| 25 | 16.05.2024 | WAKA Flockanoku | 4.0 | This was just kind of a boring heel vs heel match. SHO can be entertaining enough, but his performance here felt like he was going through the motions. At least the action itself was fine, aside from the disappointing finish. |
| 26 | 16.05.2024 | Taizo | 4.0 | |
| 27 | 15.05.2024 | Libelula RGB | 5.0 | |
| 28 | 15.05.2024 | Kishikaisei37x | 5.0 | |
| 29 | 15.05.2024 | MooGati | 4.0 | |
| 30 | 15.05.2024 | BlackMattKray | 4.0 | |
| 31 | 15.05.2024 | mahsitti | 6.0 | |
| 32 | 15.05.2024 | diarchtct | 3.0 | When a trash gimmick meets a trash gimmick, this is the outcome. There was a bit of comedy fun, then there was maybe 1-2 minutes of good wrestling somewhere in there, and then the rest was bullshit. I'm pretty sure not a lot of people tune in to NJPW to see this type of stuff, you'd really just put two 60 year olds in these spots and the outcome would be the same match, so it's not just a waste of our time but also of their talent resources. |
| 33 | 14.05.2024 | Rangdar | 4.0 | |
| 34 | 14.05.2024 | MediaCritic | 5.0 | |
| 35 | 14.05.2024 | sixxgod | 5.0 | |
| 36 | 14.05.2024 | WhoaIsThatSoup | 5.0 | |
| 37 | 14.05.2024 | VickLooper | 4.0 | |
| 38 | 13.05.2024 | justind4885 | 6.0 | |
| 39 | 13.05.2024 | Joelsonz | 4.0 | |
| 40 | 13.05.2024 | CenturionMAC | 4.0 | A good match that gets points deducted for the flat finish. Sho and Drilla were having a pretty good heel vs heel fight, but there were a variety of different finishes they could have done to make this compelling and they didn't do any of them. |
| 41 | 13.05.2024 | MMGoose | 6.0 | |
| 42 | 13.05.2024 | VINCEoWrestling | 3.0 | |
| 43 | 13.05.2024 | NikoKillbain | 5.0 | Drilla showed his versatility with this comedy performance. The HoT/WD drama won't amount to anything, it never does. |
| 44 | 13.05.2024 | BurningHammerKC | 6.0 | |
| 45 | 13.05.2024 | DammitChrist | 5.0 | |
| 46 | 13.05.2024 | BlakeFR37 | 4.0 | |
| 47 | 13.05.2024 | AJSilver22 | 4.0 | |
| 48 | 12.05.2024 | boymeetsworld | 5.0 | |
| 49 | 12.05.2024 | KingChook | 3.0 | |
| 50 | 12.05.2024 | Contrasoma | 3.0 | |
| 51 | 12.05.2024 | Fenix | 5.0 | |
| 52 | 12.05.2024 | cal9099 | 3.0 | Sigh. A total waste of both guys talent. HoT is just the worst thing to happen to this company in a long time. I consider myself a pretty hardcore fan but have struggled this year in large part due to HoT and matches like this continue to make it hard to be engaged. *3/4 |
| 53 | 12.05.2024 | RyanKras16 | 4.0 | |
| 54 | 12.05.2024 | GOK4E | 5.0 | |
| 55 | 12.05.2024 | 6ix9ahim | 7.0 | Champion vs champion match so i had fairly high expectations, definitely could be better but in my opinion it wasn't as bad as it seems from other comments here |
| 56 | 12.05.2024 | fantoy | 6.0 | |
| 57 | 12.05.2024 | King of Strong Style | 5.0 | |
| 58 | 12.05.2024 | DOUKI4CHAMP | 3.0 | This was the exact BS that made me stop watching NJPW earlier in the year. There isn't anybody that wants to see SHO work like this for an entire tournament. There was crowd brawling, eye rakes, low blow interference everything that if fine in moderation, but unwatchable when overdone. Its been overdone for 3 years now! Aside from that there was about 60 seconds of decent wrestling where the two of them were doing an exchange of reversals. *1/2 |
| 59 | 12.05.2024 | Rasmus Eriksen | 6.0 | |
| 60 | 12.05.2024 | AfRotaker | 2.0 | Das Match war wieder mal der reinste Unsinn. am Anfang gibts noch einen Handshake und so pseudo-Respekts-Spots, am Ende bescheißen sie sich gegenseitig wie in jedem anderen House of Pancakes Match auch. Dann greifen Leute ein und es gibt Low Blows für beide. Finish vollkommener Blödsinn. Das bisschen Wrestling, das es gab, war ok. Reine Zeitverschwendung |
| 61 | 12.05.2024 | SoundwaveAU | 5.0 | |
| 62 | 12.05.2024 | Rayshawn00 | 5.0 | |
| 63 | 12.05.2024 | patyis | 5.0 | |
| 64 | 12.05.2024 | MaveDeltzer | 5.0 | |
| 65 | 12.05.2024 | Spider5786 | 3.0 | This was everything I can't stand about modern New Japan a promotion that was once far and away the best wrestling promotion in the world. Two annoying no good heels making a mockery of pro wrestling with constant cheating and an interference finish. This rubbish is a scourge on wrestling and needs to stop if NJPW are going to rise up to where the promotion once was. It's also a complete waste of the talent involved. |
| 66 | 12.05.2024 | LecramFalcao | 3.0 | |
| 67 | 12.05.2024 | Kyle from TheMatchGuide | 3.0 | Yeah, pretty boring overall. Having your junior champion wrestle in a T-shirt for half the match and put all his efforts into having crazy facial expressions is infuriating, but at least Drilla put in some effort. The double low blow spot was fun, finish was predictable but fine. 1.5 Stars. |
| 68 | 12.05.2024 | BongStroman | 5.0 | |
| 69 | 12.05.2024 | King97 | 5.0 | |
| 70 | 12.05.2024 | Rainy-12 | 5.0 | |
| 71 | 12.05.2024 | HammerTG | 5.0 | |
| 72 | 12.05.2024 | Kennel | 5.0 | |
| 73 | 12.05.2024 | thebigmilkman | 3.0 | |
| 74 | 12.05.2024 | jendenrenlen | 6.0 | |
| 75 | 12.05.2024 | BigPeanutGuy | 6.0 | Okay, right. This match is barely a match, SHO isn't a particularly deep wrestler and Maloney is impressive as much as he is unfocused but for some reason I can't quite pinpoint, I had a lot of fun. It's dumb, it's a bad faction vs bad faction matchup, with both antics being shown thoroughly. Heel vs heel shouldn't help either, but for some reason, it's just so funny. My enjoyment of SHO felt ironic at first but now, y'know what? I think I kinda love him. |
| 76 | 12.05.2024 | felyaron | 5.0 | |
| 77 | 12.05.2024 | PakaB | 5.0 | |
| 78 | 12.05.2024 | Dragon Master Adam | 3.0 | |
| 79 | 11.05.2024 | bigsubwoofer | 3.0 | |
| 80 | 11.05.2024 | Cosmo | 3.0 | |
| 81 | 11.05.2024 | Chris | 4.0 | |
| 82 | 11.05.2024 | AZDOM | 5.0 | Pretty boring match with a predictable HoT esq finish. Like the other matches, this was on the shorter side so it's not like they could even properly build to the finish either |
| 83 | 11.05.2024 | ImperialUno | 5.0 | This was neither a bad nor good match but an average one. They teased a clean fight but this isn't in dna of SHO anymore so what he did was cheating like always while Drilla Moloney started cleanly until Gedo interfered to hit a low blow on SHO when Moloney was distracting the referee but Yujiro Takahashi interfered to do the same thing that Gedo has done to SHO, it was fun and the best thing of the match - **1/2 |
| 84 | 11.05.2024 | DB1091 | 4.0 | |
| 85 | 11.05.2024 | DamienGde | 4.0 | |
| 86 | 11.05.2024 | Oswuold | 2.0 | A messy fusion of pointless wrestling and your usual BC stuff by both wrestlers that gave birth to what I hope 'll be the worst match of the tournament at the end of it. Will this lead to this faction to split? Of course not, there are literally 2 factions right now but they are all acting like it's okay to use shenigans on your faction-mates. Gedo should book their civile war soon. * |
| 87 | 11.05.2024 | Aliiadwana | 4.0 | |
| 88 | 11.05.2024 | Dcarter1153 | 6.0 | I still thought this was a fun match and I actually liked the double low blow. This definitely could have been worse |
| 89 | 11.05.2024 | screwokada | 3.0 | Pretty boring stuff, very typical house of torture. Brief moments of quality wrestling from Drilla. 1.5 stars |
| 90 | 11.05.2024 | cataclysm | 4.0 | This match was pretty close to working for me, but the ending really dragged it down. SHO and Drilla begin the match with them teasing it would be a clean fight only for both to charge at each other with the belts. SHO immediately begins to cheat and go for an eye rake. Drilla proceeds to out muscle SHO and SHO seeing this decides he is not even going to bother using legal wrestling moves for the first 5 minutes of this match. He cheats using a wide array of tactics including using the ring bell hammer. The match really only falls apart once we get to the table spot. We have outside nonsense for a while which culminates in both the heel's getting low blows Yujiro gets Drilla and Gedo gets SHO. This part just felt largely unnecessary and ruined my overall opinion of the match. Ultimately SHO ends up the victor. |
| 91 | 11.05.2024 | somerandommark | 4.0 | I feel a bit bad for Moloney here, as in the (limited) wrestling portions of this match, his offence looked really good. Unfortunately, House of Torture bullshit has been pervasive throughout NJPW in 2024, and this is a prime example. I don't think SHO has figured out how to balance nonsense interference with a good match, and indeed he was shown up here by Kanemaru in just the match before. I've not much more to say... given this was champion vs champion, I was disappointed |
| 92 | 11.05.2024 | Codebreaker | 4.0 | Die House of Torture Nummer geht auch hier weiter. Die Nummer mit dem Tiefschlägen war aber ganz lustig. |
| 93 | 11.05.2024 | DENDY | 3.0 | Firstly, SHO dying his hair is a travesty. Secondly, this is an interesting pairing; there was a fair bit of comedy to start which I quite enjoyed, but it was a slow matchup overall, far slower than what had come before. These two didnt have the best in ring chemistry and SHO got the expected win after some interference and a wrench shot. |
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