- Yusuke Okada’s Debut Match: Yuma Aoyagi vs. Yusuke Okada
Considering its his debut, they really try and make a decent match out of it. They did a nice spot where Yuma whips Okada into the ropes and instead of letting him run he just slaps his back so he falls down. Okada does a terrible senton though, it looked just like a flimsy forward roll. The application of the Boston Crab looked good and as Aoyagi kept applying it, it looked like it was done with gradually more force. When Okada tapped out his feet were nearly touching his head. OK match, always interesting to catch debuts and to see their progression over the next few years. [OK]
~ The new rookie makes his debut, though in the standard welcome fashion. As for his future he aims to become the World Junior Champion first and foremost.
- Masanobu Fuchi, Isami Kodaka (BASARA) & Fuminori Abe (Sportiva) vs. Yohei Nakajima, SUSHI & Minoru Tanaka (FREE)
Altham Fuchi is like a million years old, he still moves quite well. He does his stuff and then gets out of the ring. Tanaka is 44 and can do those rolling kip ups with his head, which is unreal.
This is your typical six man comedy match which just seemed to work around getting some laughs for Fuchi. By the time it tried to get serious I'd zoned out. Yohei pins Abe after Tobiushiro Mawashigeri. [OK]
- Ice Ribbon Offer Match: Tsukasa Fujimoto & Tequila Saya vs. Tsukushi & Maruko Nagasaki
Not sure if offer is just another way to say exhibition or whether they need to impress to get more Ice Ribbon matches on future All Japan cards.
Judging by this, they should definitely have more matches. This was really good, fast paced tag match. You could see the effort they were putting in, contrasting with the half assed tag beforehand. They don't hold back. The kicks and drop kicks gave me flashbacks to the Gaea documentary. Particularly nasty one where Saya is sitting against the bottom rope and Tsukushi just dropkicks her through the ropes and decapitates her.
Ends when Tsukushi hits a nasty looking Diving Foot Stomp on Saya. Really good match, recommended viewing [Good]
- Super Tiger (RJPW) & Hikaru Sato (Pancrase MISSION) vs. Great Tiger & 5th Generation Black Tiger (both FREE)
Super fringe is back! And we get Tiger overload. There's another Tiger on the ringside for the Great Tiger team. 5th generation Black Tiger doesn't really roll off the tongue. Tiger spat into the crowd, which was a bit grim. This is a hard hitting, kick heavy, not quite shoot, but inspired by it match. I really like this style so I'm biased. The Tiger guy on the outside hits Sato with a chair (boo) which lets Great Tiger gets the pin after a Diving Headbutt on Hikaru.
After the match Sato gets his bloody stupid fringe chopped off. That's not really a bad thing. He sells it by leaving with a towel over his head! You're haircut is shit mate. [Good]
~ DARK NIGHTMARE asserted themselves over the Evolution team as BT VII went after Hikaru’s hair.
- Suwama, Joe Doering & Atsushi Aoki vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani, Daichi Hashimoto & Kazumi Kikuta (all BJW)
Big Japan boys are in town. Hashimoto looks like a low level gangster with his bandana over his face, and his towel round his waist. Not sure if he'll kick your face off or sell you weed. Starts straight away with everyone brawling until they end up in their corners. This was a good, dependable tag match. Nothing to go crazy about but it didn't drag. Kikuta gets pinned by Suwama after eating a Lariat. [OK]
~ Doering will be heading back home after a mini-welcome back tour. He stated that he will be back and even better.
- Takao Omori vs. Koji Iwamoto
This could only be described as a serviceable match. Omori has pedigree so you'll never look down at him, but at this stage of his career, you're not really looking out for his matches. I spent most of my time during this bout reading about his match with Hashimoto which got him into Misawas bad books and ended up with him going to North America for a while.
Ends when Omori hits his Axe Bomber. [OK]
- Kento Miyahara, Jake Lee & Naoya Nomura vs. Jun Akiyama, Zeus & Yutaka Yoshie (FREE)
Zeus has two belts with him which he's got crossed on his chest diagonally (if that makes sense). He looks like such a bad ass doing it. If only he was a little but taller. Haven't seen too much of Miyahara but he looks like an ace should look. He looks like a prime Tanahashi.
Starts off with in the ring and goes through the motions until Akyiama gets tagged in and everyone starts brawling outside, which gets the crowd really into it. Akyiama slams Lee to the floor. Zeus does this simple but cool thing where he chops Nomura to the mat, but keeps hold of his wrist. Pulls him to his feet, chops him again, rinse and repeat. Nomura suplexes Yoshie which is pretty impressive as he's a big lad. Builds to a finish with a lot of pin attempts and it ends when Yoshie does a Diving Body Press onto Nomura. By diving, he gets on the top rope and slips off to squash Nomura. By having it end that way it was definitely one to send the crowd home happy. [OK]
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