Sunday, January 25, 2015

All Japan 2015/1/2


New Year Wars 2015

(2015/1/2)


1.       Yuma Aoyagi vs. Naoya Nomura

Good rookie match with Nomura finally being on the other side of the punishment fence as he was in clear advantage experience wise, but once again Aoyagi displayed his tremendous endurance and his surviving spirit, the kid’s special, you can tell already.

***1/4


3.       Masanobu Fuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Ryuji Hijikata

Solid match with a hot finishing run, overall it could’ve been really good with less focus on Fuchi and his old man semi-comedy.

**3/4


4.       Keisuke Ishii & Soma Takao vs. Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru Sato

Solid little prelude to Ishii/Aoki Jr. title match, although they didn’t do much here, but it was still decent.

**1/2


5.       Zeus, Ultimo Dragon, SUSHI vs. Akebono, Yutaka Yoshie, Shigehiro Irie

Zeus rules! /review.

**3/4


6.       16-MAN NEW YEAR BATTLE ROYAL: Akebono vs. Atsushi Aoki vs. Hikaru Sato vs. Kotaro Suzuki vs. Masanobu Fuchi vs. Naoya Nomura vs. Ryuji Hijikata vs. Shigehiro Irie vs. Soma Takao vs. SUSHI vs. Takeshi Minamino vs. Ultimo Dragon vs. Yohei Nakajima vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Yuma Aoyagi vs. Zeus

Harmless ~FUN~!

N/A


7.       Go Shiozaki & Kento Miyahara vs. Joe Doering & Suwama

Not their best effort, and not close to their RWTL sprint from a month earlier. This was kind of too mechanic and Korakuen recognized it, some parts felt so colorless. There were still good parts, though, so it’s still a good tag match, Miyahara displayed his tremendous potential once again, dude can go against anyone.

***1/4


8.       AJPW World Tag Team Championship: KENSO & Mitsuya Nagai vs. Burning Wild (Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori) ©

These two duos had a damn good match in July and an amazing brawl at RWTL, but this one was the weakest of the trilogy. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a good tag team match, but I expected more, instead all we got was basics, they didn’t try to do too much.

***

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