Akira Jo & Yusaku Ito vs. White Moriyama & Kyosuke Sasaki, HEAT-UP 12/25/2022
Fun sleazeballs vs. shooters type match. Akira Jo used to be an Inoki guy, but he's really lost his way and become something that crawled out of a Masao Orihara type primordial soup. Lots of Jo/Ito trying to rake eyes and getting punished by stiff kicks and entangled in submissions. They worked had and worked an unusual structure with the outmatched heels being almost the underdogs. Ex-Futen guys were quite good, with Moriyama maybe being the best guy in the match. The main reason I am adding this though is the finish, where Moriyama and Ito were absolutely annihilating each other with FUTEN level headbutts and kicks. Didn't know that schlub Ito had that in him. Maybe the best finish of 2022
CHANGO vs. TORU, TTT 10/15/2022
Surprisingly
good match. CHANGO reminded me a bit of a guy like AKIRA or Eddie
Guerrero, a scuzzy technical heel who was willing to do whatever it
takes to win. This includes lots of clever cheating and use of
foreign objects, faking an injury, some gritty legwork on TORU’s
leg, bailing cowardly, even using the apron to tie up his opponent.
He also had a pretty violent looking diving knee to TORUs head, and
some cool looking jumping axe kicks. Both guys trading stiff shots
while fighting over a superplex reminded me of one of those stubborn
90s NJPW junior title matches, and the culmination was a sick
headbutt that draw hardway blood. CHANGOs big dive was also pretty
spectacular and felt epic due to happening late in the match at a
critical point. The spray was a visually impressive foreign object to
use and looked gnarly in combination with the blood. Toru was a bit
subdued in the first half of the match, but his jaw-cracking elbows
to put down the annoying CHANGO were great, I also loved his big
dropkick which landed flush in CHANGOs face and he carried himself
like Chango was not on his level the whole time and Changos counter
tactics felt desperate in the process. Excellent big match in total.
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