Real
World Tag League 2014
(2014/11/16)
3. Ryuji
Hijikata & Masayuki Mitomi vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Yohei Nakajima
Good
prelude to Hijikata/Kotaro for the TV Title. Hijikata’s been growing on me
lately with his natural intensity and fire.
***1/4
4. RWTL 2014: KENSO & Mitsuya Nagai
vs. Kengo Mashimo & Tank Nagai
Some
moments were good/great, but overall I wasn’t feeling this, I didn’t connect
with the rhythm. Decent match, nothing more.
**3/4
5. RWTL 2014: Big Guns (Zeus & The
Bodyguard) vs. Akebono & Yutaka Yoshie
Two
big jacked dudes and two big fat dudes smacking each other and measuring their
dicks, that’s some top notch entertainment. Akebono was in a particular beast
mode and Zeus is just incredibly strong.
***1/2
6. RWTL 2014: Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru
Sato vs. Go Shiozaki & Kento Miyahara
Ouch,
this hurts. On paper the match sounded truly incredible, two great teams from
different weight classes, the story writes itself, but unfortunately the
execution was off here. I don’t mean it in the technical manner, but in the
narrative one, because rare were the parts where you could feel you’re watching
a HW/Junior match, dynamics were all wrong, they were practically booked as the
equals, and in traditional AJPW puroresu universe, it’s kind of wrong. It
wouldn’t be wrong in DDT, Dragon Gate and W-1 universes, but here – it’s
definitely wrong. Instead of Juniors digging very fucking deep to survive the
heavyweight hawks, we got the parity wrestling, Baba is rolling over in his
grave.
**3/4
7. RWTL 2014: Burning Wild (Jun Akiyama
& Takao Omori) vs. Suwama & Joe Doering
Grumpy
bastards Akiyama and Omori ambush the Evolution muscles during their in-ring
ritual and shit is on – we got intense and heated brawling so it was clear right
off the bat the match would be short, and it was, they wrapped it up after 6
minutes, in a totally compelling fashion too. It was a good and understandable decision
considering the semi-main lasted 30 minutes.
***1/4
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