Monday, March 9, 2015

Goodbye, Uhaa

Dragon Gate 2015/2/28

Open the Brave Gate Championship: Akira Tozawa vs. Kzy ©

Good shit, Kzy worked over Tozawas’ arm in the beginning and it was a nice subplot for the first half, the climax was dramatic with fine struggle to survive and few very exciting nearfalls, all in all I enjoyed the match even with Tozawa playing a godawful character.

***1/2


Dragon Gate 2015/2/28

Open the Triangle Gate: Mad Blankey (Naruki Doi, Cyber Kong, CIMA) vs. Dia.HEARTS (Masaaki Mochizuki, Dragon Kid, Big R Shimizu) ©

Oh man, I gave up on this 8-9 minutes into the match, life IS short after all, garbage wrestling 101.

didn’t finish


Dragon Gate 2015/3/1

Open the Dream Gate Championship: Uhaa Nation vs. BxB Hulk ©

Well, fuck me sideways, this was so amazing, reminded me a lot on Uhaa/Ricochet from the last year, truly incredible title match. Uhaa should open a school of selling after this marvelous performance, my god he sold that leg perfectly, Hulk went after it early in the match as an answer to Hulk’s nasty powerhouse moves and it turned into a major plot point that eventually slowed Uhaa down during key sequences in the closing stretch, the legwork paid off big time for Hulk. Uhaa’s selling was really amazing and elevated the match to great heights, but Hulk deserves tons of credit as well, especially considering this match came after his horrendous performance in the Susumu title match where he flat out refused to sell any leg damage, here it was the opposite, he was constantly attacking Uhaa’s leg and was relentless in doing so, very Tanahashiesque I’d say. Not only that, he also sold his back very well after Uhaa’s brief work over it at the beginning.

So yeah, all things considered the match was basically flawless, and everything clicked and was executed perfectly. This was Uhaa’s last match for Dragon Gate and he went out in such a style, with the ageless performance, now he’s the owner of two arguably the greatest matches in company history.

*****

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