Ryogoku
Peter Pan 2014
(2014/8/17)
2. 14-MAN/DOLL
BATTLE ROYAL for Ironman
Heavymetalweight Championship
YOSHIHIKO’s
got a tag team partner, may gods have mercy on us all.
GOLD
4. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship:
Team Drift (Shigehiro Irie, Keisuke Ishii, Soma Takao) vs. Shuten-doji (KUDO,
Yukio Sakaguchi, Masa Takanashi) ©
Takao
changed his colors into blue, but I still don’t dig him. The match was good,
although with a more colorful first half, could’ve been borderline great.
***1/4
5. IMPORTANT
SOMETHING TIMED BLAST DEATHMATCH for DDT
Extreme Championship: Muscle Sakai vs. Danshoku Dino ©
The
Goldberg entrance, stolen identities, trivia quiz, rape and ass explosions.
Yep, Sumo Hall will never be the same again.
GOLD
6. STREET WRESTLING: Sanshiro Takagi & Jun Kasai vs. Minoru Suzuki & Michael Nakazawa
Only
DDT can book a 23 minute long “hardcore” match and get a free pass. Oh, and I
want to see Suzuki/Kasai right fucking NOW!
***1/2
7. Kota
Ibushi vs. Shuji Kondo
Bloody
excellent until the last chapter, before that you got Kondo almost decapitating
Ibushi with everything he’s got, including some surly lariats, and it was
rather great. Sure, it was a spotfest, but it was a great f’n spotfest full of
rough stuff. Then the last five minutes happened, Ibushi made his crappy and inconclusive
comeback, didn’t like it at all, it hurt the match. Still very good, but could’ve
been brilliant.
***1/2
8. Konosuke
Takeshita vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
There’s
something about Tanahashi, his grand presence gave the show some kind of big
feel legitimacy. This was the match I was looking forward the most, and it didn’t
disappoint. The story wrote itself, you got Tanahashi taking Takeshita to
school, outsmarting him whenever he can, while Takeshita is way quicker and not
afraid to roll, which naturally pisses Tanahashi off, just great stuff all
around. There’s also the Generico callback, so there you go.
****
9. 3-WAY
ELIMINATION MATCH for KO-D Openweight
Championship: Kenny Omega vs. Isami Kodaka vs. HARASHIMA ©
Loved
this, one of the best 3-ways ever, to be perfectly honest, and definitely the
best one since Styles/Daniels/Joe from Turning Point 2009, a culmination of
HARASHIMA’s ongoing arc of being the ultimate ace of Dramatic Dream Team, here
he clashes against the King of DDT ’14, and against the guy with whom he fought
to a draw at the last Korakuen show. Especially great thing about the match was
the clear and defined roles: Omega is the muscle and powerhouse of the match,
Kodaka is a skinny underdog whose body went to many gruesome deathmatch wars,
and is still on his way of becoming an accomplished regular wrestling guy,
while HARASHIMA is the invincible superman. The match had all you wanted from a
3-way, there were your typical moments where one guys sells while the other two
are wrestling, there were moments with each guy selling struggle, and there
were some visually nice action sequences with each guy participating. I totally
loved everything about this match, it had excellent timing, rhythm, pacing,
execution, drama, we got an awesome chapter closure, etc. Long live DDT!
****1/2
Superb
event.
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