I Want to Clone YOSHI-HASHI for Nefarious Purposes

Road to Destruction 2014

(2014/9/5)

1.      Taichi & El Desperado vs. Alex Shelley & Sho Tanaka

Fun little opener with an obvious fallman. Gotta feeling Taichi and Desperado might become my favorite thing in wrestling soon.

**3/4

2.      Maximo & BUSHI vs. Jushin Liger & Tiger Mask

Another fun little match, especially with Maximo in the ring.

**3/4

3.      Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, Cpt. New Japan vs. TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) & Yohei Komatsu

Same story here, fun little 6-man tag with Komatsu getting some exposure, which means Captain is finally not the obvious fallman.

**3/4

4.      Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka, TAKA Michinoku) vs. CHAOS (Toru Yano, Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov)

Good match, and for some reason, I didn’t expect one, to be frank, don’t know why.

***

5.      Hirooki Goto & Kota Ibushi vs. Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma)

Although the result did not please me because Ibushi did not need the win over poor Honma, at all, this was a good match with the super sweet finishing stretch. The post-match Goto/Makabe brawl was well done.

***1/4

6.      Tetsuya Naito & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & KUSHIDA

Good shit, Taguchi/KUSHIDA chemistry looks promising for their upcoming title match.

***1/4

7.      5-on-5 ELIMINATION MATCH: CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Gedo) vs. Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, Yujiro Takahashi, Tama Tonga)

Weeeell, here we go, you can’t go wrong with CHAOS/BC multi-man tags, this has to be the rivalry of the year. This match was all about YOSHI-HASHI, and might go down as the defining moment of his career, he was the sole survivor here, he scored the victory for his group. Korakuen adores underdogs, this was a perfect place and moment for the first big YOSHI-HASHI victory. Salud!

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