Monday, November 10, 2014

All Japan 10/22: Watch This Damn Fed, Everyone!


Revival! Giant Series 2014

(2014/10/22)


1.       Naoya Nomura vs. Masayuki Mitomi

**1/4


2.       Jr. Tag Battle of Glory 2014 – Playoff Match: Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru Sato vs. Keisuke Ishii & Soma Takao

***3/4


3.       Masanobu Fuchi & Chikara vs. Osamu Nishimura & Masao Inoue

***1/2


4.       Ryuji Hijikata, Soma Takao, Yohei Nakajima vs. Kotaro Suzuki, Keisuke Ishii, SUSHI

****


5.       KENSO vs. Kengo Mashimo

Shame, what a damn shame. What would normally be a totally fine brawl was ruined in those 20 seconds when Mashimo piled up a bunch of chairs on the totally conscious KENSO’s hand/arm and kept bashing it with another chair. Shit man, at least punch him in the face few times, make a setup more compelling and less super fake and contrived. The match jumped the shark right there, and like I said, it’s a damn shame because the rest was mostly good, even great in moments, and without that ultra stupid moment I’d probably have it around ***-***1/4. It might seem like I’m nitpicking, but trust me, that’s not the case here because that one spot is a major dealbreaker.

bad


6.       Go Shiozaki, Kento Miyahara, Shigehiro Irie vs. Joe Doering, Suwama, Zeus

***3/4


7.       Jr. Tag Battle of Glory 2014 – FINAL: Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru Sato vs. Ultimo Dragon & Yoshinobu Kanemaru

****


8.       AJPW World Tag Team Championship: Akebono & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Burning Wild (Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori) ©

****


Tremendous show, but I was in a rush so I wasn’t really able to write a quasi-proper lazy ass review, and then few days later I forgot what to write about each match so it’s futile now, I’ll just leave you with shurikens. Basically, every match but KENSO/Kengo is very much worth of watching, believe me. KENSO/Kengo is the only match I wrote about immediately after it happened, but fuck me if I know why. Probably because it was bad, I dunno…

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