Summer Explosion 2015
(2015/08/29)
3. Shuji
Ishikawa & Ryuji Hijikata vs. Akebono & Yutaka Yoshie
Slightly
clipped, but not too much. All the hoss parts with Bono and Shuji going HAM at
each other are there, also Yoshine being a dick to Hijikata. Needless to say,
Bono/Shuji is the way to go, and Korakuen recognizes it.
***
4. Yoshinobu
Kanemaru & Yohei Nakajima vs. Masanobu Fuchi & Coconuts Saburo
Haha, I
don’t know who’s the guy behind Saburo’s mask, but he’s damn good at the role.
This was DDT levels of pure fun.
***1/2
5. Zeus,
The Bodyguard, Shigehiro Irie vs. Evolution (Suwama, Atsushi Aoki, Hikaru Sato)
Clipped as
well, but what they showed us was good enough. Suwama/Zeus is happening down
the road, life is great.
***
6. AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Championship:
Ultimo Dragon vs. Kotaro Suzuki ©
This was
mostly flashy and “cute” until the pretty unique closing stretch that was so
crazy with all the pin attempts via endless roll-ups, cradles, school boys,
etc. Seriously, we got like 3-4 straight minutes of those, it was awesome and
Korakuen ate it up.
***1/2
7. AJPW World Tag Team Championship:
Wild Burning (Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori) vs. Go Shiozaki & Kento
Miyahara ©
Loved every
second of this, such a high-end tag slugfest, on par with their RWTL 2014
masterpiece, this was simply marvelous. It helps if you know a little bit of
history (Akiyama/Kento, Akiyama/Go, RWTL ’14, etc.) due to all the callbacks
and incredible intensity that was displayed here, but ultimately this should be
enjoyable to everyone, no matter how much of All Japan they followed. Perfect
mixture of Baba’s King’s Road and Korakuen brawling style here, and the crowd
ate it up.
Every guy
delivered big time, but Akiyama was something else. He’s the god of angry old
men, he was demon-possessed here, the way he manhandled Shiozaki early on with
all the slams and headdrops on the floor… Greatness! Like, he’d work over Kento
in the middle of the ring, then he’d leave and beat Go (who was selling
ringside) some more just in case! Glorious! Omori was the fourth best man in
the match, but that’s only because the bar was set so fucking high. He was a
suitable sidekick. Kento’s FIP segment was brutal, he took one helluva beating,
and his selling was insane. But guess what, Go’s selling was somehow even
better, and when he and Jun were left alone to call it a day, it made for a
fucking amazing, red hot finishing stretch that was a proper mini-payoff,
classic Baba style.
This match
is unbelievable.
*****
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