Sunday, September 28, 2014

Destruction '14 in Okayama: Three Great Matches


Destruction 2014 in Okayama

(2014/9/23)


1.      Ryusuke Taguchi, Cpt. New Japan, BUSHI vs. Jushin Liger, Tiger Mask, Maximo

**3/4


2.      Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) vs. Forever Hooligans (Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov)

***1/4


3.      Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka, TAKA Michinoku) vs. Toru Yano, Kazushi Sakuraba, Gedo

***


4.      Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma)

**1/2


5.      IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Taichi & Desperado vs. Time Splitters (KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley) ©

****


6.      Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii

***1/2


7.      NWA World Tag Team Championship: Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi vs. TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) ©

****


8.      NEVER Openweight Championship: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Yujiro Takahashi ©

***3/4


9.      AJ Styles & Doc Gallows vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tetsuya Naito

***


10.  Tokyo Dome Heavyweight Title Shot: Karl Anderson vs. Kazuchika Okada (G1w)

****


Have no idea why no one raved about the show, it was pretty damn good, great even. Two tag title matches and main event rocked, three awesome matches, plus there was the NEVER title match that was so good, the Ishii tag was swell, there were three other good tags, the opener was perfectly solid, and the only letdown was the Shibata tag, but that was short and hurt nobody. The three great matches I mentioned were all equally awesome, but if I really had to choose the MOTN, then I’d pick the Junior tag, although the veteran NWA tag gave them a run for their money. Main event was another smashing Karl/Okada match, those dudes have scary good chemistry. Okada is just a brutal god of pro-graps at this point, he’s been scoring great matches for the third year in a row now, he just can’t go wrong and turns everything into gold, such a supreme wrestler.

If you don’t want to watch the whole thing, then just cherry-pick 5, 7, 8 and main event, you won’t regret it.

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