Jmare007
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Yup, this tourney is living up to expectations so far. More notables matches from the first 2 days.
-Kento vs Shingo was really good. Miyahara's flash offense doesn't bode well with leg selling but he did better than most in that regard all things considered - you could argue he should change his formula when the story of the match is his leg getting worked on, but made the effort to sell as much as possible - and Shingo was awesome working on top. The Wada fukkery at the beginning made this fun from the get go too. Strong main event for Day 1
-Shuji vs Hino
Shuji Ishikawa vs. Yuji Hino (AJPW - Champion Carnival 2018 - Day 1)
Give me this Shuji this whole tournament please. I love dude but it seems every match of his these days ends up with a bunch of excess that's not needed, in this match he never went full retard which I really appreciated. His early work on Yuji's mid section was pretty good too. Haven't seen Hino in like 3 or 4 years and he's pretty much wrestling the same as always, which works in this match and will work throughout this tourney. Fun match, worth a watch.
-Shuji vs Joe Doering
Joe Doering vs. Shuji Ishikawa (AJPW - Champion Carnival 2018 - Day 2)
This was shaping up to be fukking great but it kinda fell apart during Ishikawa's comeback. First 10 minutes is Joe demolishing Shuji - can't even remember a match were he was manhandled like this - and then they kinda just rushed it to the finish. It's still good but could've been so much better, these two have great chemistry though, they can have dope sprints and this kind of more methodical match.
-Kento vs N. Nomura
https://vk.com/video289484704_456244790
The current Ace against the young prodigy, y'all know I love both of these guys and this delivered almost everything I wanted
From the get go Kento is annoyed by the young kid that the crowd has really grown into in the last year, at first he tries to establish his dominance and act cocky, more corncerned about Wada not letting him do what he wants that really treating Nomura as a threat. But Naoya is no slouch and he's in it for a fight, he MAKES Miyahara give a damn by hitting him with elbows and getting up every single time Kento hit him hard. Loved the countout tease and Nomura's comeback afterwards, that spear to roll up pin combination was dope as fukk and had me fooled. Same with Naoya fighting with everything he got so Kento wouldn't hit the straight jacket German because he knew that was death for him. This had some down times but I was compelled throughout by Miyahara's antics, Wada being Wada and Nomura's resilience. The final 5-6 minutes were great, whole match was awesome. MOTYC @Don Ibiza Ibrahimovic @3Rivers @SubZeroDegrees @Ace of the Metropolitan Naoya got noticed of Takuya's performance at the Strong Climb tournament and wants to leave a mark in the CC 
Will do my best to catch up with days 3 and 4 on the weekend.
-Kento vs Shingo was really good. Miyahara's flash offense doesn't bode well with leg selling but he did better than most in that regard all things considered - you could argue he should change his formula when the story of the match is his leg getting worked on, but made the effort to sell as much as possible - and Shingo was awesome working on top. The Wada fukkery at the beginning made this fun from the get go too. Strong main event for Day 1
-Shuji vs Hino
Shuji Ishikawa vs. Yuji Hino (AJPW - Champion Carnival 2018 - Day 1)
Give me this Shuji this whole tournament please. I love dude but it seems every match of his these days ends up with a bunch of excess that's not needed, in this match he never went full retard which I really appreciated. His early work on Yuji's mid section was pretty good too. Haven't seen Hino in like 3 or 4 years and he's pretty much wrestling the same as always, which works in this match and will work throughout this tourney. Fun match, worth a watch.
-Shuji vs Joe Doering
Joe Doering vs. Shuji Ishikawa (AJPW - Champion Carnival 2018 - Day 2)
This was shaping up to be fukking great but it kinda fell apart during Ishikawa's comeback. First 10 minutes is Joe demolishing Shuji - can't even remember a match were he was manhandled like this - and then they kinda just rushed it to the finish. It's still good but could've been so much better, these two have great chemistry though, they can have dope sprints and this kind of more methodical match.
-Kento vs N. Nomura
https://vk.com/video289484704_456244790
The current Ace against the young prodigy, y'all know I love both of these guys and this delivered almost everything I wanted
From the get go Kento is annoyed by the young kid that the crowd has really grown into in the last year, at first he tries to establish his dominance and act cocky, more corncerned about Wada not letting him do what he wants that really treating Nomura as a threat. But Naoya is no slouch and he's in it for a fight, he MAKES Miyahara give a damn by hitting him with elbows and getting up every single time Kento hit him hard. Loved the countout tease and Nomura's comeback afterwards, that spear to roll up pin combination was dope as fukk and had me fooled. Same with Naoya fighting with everything he got so Kento wouldn't hit the straight jacket German because he knew that was death for him. This had some down times but I was compelled throughout by Miyahara's antics, Wada being Wada and Nomura's resilience. The final 5-6 minutes were great, whole match was awesome. MOTYC @Don Ibiza Ibrahimovic @3Rivers @SubZeroDegrees @Ace of the Metropolitan Naoya got noticed of Takuya's performance at the Strong Climb tournament and wants to leave a mark in the CC Will do my best to catch up with days 3 and 4 on the weekend.
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Big ole hoss battle
it's fun for what it was but it's not the style I'm most fond of. As I said, I'm sure the majority will think it's better than I did.
til the finish. I felt Kento/Shuji or Joe would be better decider pairing.
