MiSu/Harada and TAKA/Marufuji

NOAH 2015/2/11

Minoru Suzuki vs. Daisuke Harada

Damn, MiSu’s in a tremendous shape! Harada sucker-punches the malicious invader from New Japan and it works in his favor for awhile, but the goblin is too much for him to handle eventually, Harada take helluva beating outside the ring. He gets his ass kicked and it’s all good and simple pro-wrestling. Harada still manages to sneak in a nearfall or two but no one’s buying that he could shock us all. One of the many insanely cool things about Suzuki is how he uses simple things such as SLAPS to turn things around, in this particular instance poor Harada could Usain Bolt the ropes all day long but to little or no avail.

***1/2

NOAH 2015/2/11

TAKA Michinoku vs. Naomichi Marufuji

Fun TAKA carryjob. Cool thing about Suzuki-gun invading NOAH is that we get all these short ‘n’ sweet TAKA matches that are totally cute and a great reminder of his huge wrestling IQ. He was great here in cheating and working over Marufuji’s leg, but it takes two to tango, and of course Marufuji didn’t bother to sell any real damage. That useless sack of penises! With a better seller (or a seller of any kind), this would’ve been a borderline great match.

***1/4 (credit: TAKA)