TAPE 960

Quality: EX (*MASTER*)

Length: 3.9 hrs (2 DVD)

NOAH - 12/2/07 (Historic show that sees Kenta Kobashi return from an over-one-year absence due to cancer. There's nothing really spectacular here, just a solid show with a must-see main event. I've got a master so quality is EX.)
Mitsuo Momota & Kishin Kawabata vs Jun Izumida & Tsutomu Hirayanagi Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Atsushi Aoki vs Kotaro Suzuki & Ippei Otawhen Doug Williams & Buchanan vs Naoki Sano & Masao Inoue Tamon Honda, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Go Shiosaki vs Takashi Sugiura, Mohammed Yone & Akihiko Ito KENTA & Taiji Ishimori vs Yoshinari Ogawa & Eddie Edwards Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito vs Akira Taue & Kentaro Shiga Takeshi Morishima vs Naomichi Marafuji Kenta Kobashi & Yoshihiro Takayama vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama (Kobashi's return from cancer after more than a year off. This is an emotionally-charged event - so much so that Tamon Honda cries on commentary. The match itself is good but not great. Kobashi appears to be in good shape but has lost a ton of mobility and spends much of the match just throwing chops. Still, he's the best worker in the match and drags something good out of the other three. This is a must-see but for the atmosphere not the match. For some odd reason, they show the match twice...)