>>13463426You probably don't want to watch a NOAH ppv from start to finish. They offer a mixed bag of styles from lucha and lightweights to more grapple-fucky and choppa-u styles.
You should stick to individual matches or wrestlers. If you can tolerate undersized guys dropping each other their heads you might like Sugiura, Kitamiya, Fujita (yes, the poster boy for Inokiism), or Soya. Kitamiya recently had a match against Ishii that was a nice midcard battle. Kitamiya was trained by Masa Saito and Kensuke Sasaki for context on his style. Ishii was obviously trained by Tenryu and Choshu, so it's very much a throwback to 80's/90's japanese hoss fights, albeit with a bit less size.
The aforementioned Sugiura has some great older bouts with Suzuki, Takayama, and Masato Tanaka but also impressive brawls with homegrown talent like Shiozaki, and Kenoh.
Kazuyuki Fujita wrestles on occasion, he's a barely motivated shitter that likes to potato everybody... but it kinda works. I don't know, I just like to see him toss around other wrestlers with little concern for their health. It's funny.
If you like seeing guys kick the shit out of each other try Kenoh, Nakajima (recently left NOAH for AJPW but his past few years with NOAH are consistently great), and Mochizuki. Kenoh is their modern Ace but the booking consistently undermines him, so don't get too hung up on wins/losses. Nakajima was/is the adopted son of Kensuke Sasaki, so if you're familiar with Sasaki's training you'll understand what kind of psychopath he created with Nakajima.
If you like some more old school grappling then maybe try Hideki Suzuki or Sakuraba. Hideki is the last trainee of Bill Robinson and lives the gimmick, particularly the lack of respect for non-shooters. He can be very unmotivated in matches where he has to sell for flippy boys, so... be aware.
There's always a few old cranky grandpa's lurking in NOAH. Your mileage may vary but they can sometimes be entertaining with talent like Nagata
