Kizuna Road '14: KUSHIDA vs. Ibushi in Korakuen!

Kizuna Road 2014

(2014/7/4)


1. BUSHI, Sho Tanaka, Fuego vs. Jushin Liger, Tiger Mask, Mascara Dorada

***


2. Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma), Cpt. New Japan, Ryusuke Taguchi vs. TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima), Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi

**1/2


3. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka, TAKA Michinoku) vs. Toru Yano, Kazushi Sakuraba, YOSHI-HASHI

Bad video.

N/A


4. Alex Shelley vs. El Desperado

***1/2


5. CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov) vs. Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, Yujiro Takahashi, Tama Tonga)

***3/4


6. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tetsuya Naito

****


7. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: KUSHIDA vs. Kota Ibushi ©

Damn shame Kota got KTFOed early in the match, this could’ve been a classic, a la the BOSJ Finale. Despite the concussion, Kota continued, even performing most of his spots and bumping really hard for a man with smashed brains. Kudos there, big fucking kudos, that’s toughness 101. KUSH deserves a lot of credit for saving the match too, he put it on the ground to slow things down and save Kota’s life. But he still kicked him in the head few times, though, lel. Despite all of it, good match, which is pretty damn remarkable, IMO.

***1/2


At this point, I’m not sure it’s possible for New Japan to have anything less than a good show in Korakuen. Good opener, solid 8-man tag, very good Shelley/Desperado match, yet another awesome CHAOS/BC multi-man tag, TaNaito/Friends fucking rocked (seriously, watch it), and main event was not only good, but newsworthy as well.