Watched three of the G1 matches from last night.
SANADA/Ospreay was...well, a SANADA/Ospreay match. Some good wrestling, some good counters, all adding up to a relatively fine yet unremarkable match from two flawed wrestlers. Nothing too bad on the whole, but nothing you need to go out of your way to see (for the life of me, I don't get what people see in SANADA. I've been watching him literally since he debuted, and he's always been the weak link or one of the weak links of every tag team or stable he's been in. He has never stood out as anything other than a pretty good worker, which is fine for your midcard, but would you really put him over, say, Goto at his best? I think not).
Okada/ZSJ would have made for a very good RAW match if it had happened in WWE. The type of match where your champion faces an upper midcarder, the madcarder gets to look dangerous and effective against the champion in a 10+ minute match, and the champion goes over strong. Accomplished everything it needed to accomplish without overstaying its welcome.
KENTA/Tanahashi was very good match structured, like his match with Ibushi, around KENTA being a step ahead of his opponent and eventually overwhelming them. They're diminished versions of their best selves, but both guys looked pretty good overall. KENTA especially looked sharper and more crisp than he did in Dallas, which bodes well for him in future matches. Guess they might be doing something with the two in the future after Tana's refusal of the handshake; we'll have to see though.
Probably going to be doing a lot of catch up over the week due to work, but we'll see how many matches I get to watch without my backlog getting crammed.
I guess getting kicked in the ass to sell SANADA's hold wasn't cool enough for him.
at Umino out there with the Mox shirt instead of a generic NJPW shirt like the other Young Lions. Good match.
