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Strong BJ vs Violent Giants - All Japan Tag Titles, BJW 1/13/19
AHHHHHHHHH
!!!! One of those matches were your expectations are sky high and they are fully met and even surpassed. 26 minutes of a fukking war between four dudes that do not care one bit about the other team. This was worked like an interpromotional match should be, with the home team from a smaller promotion having to fight from underneath all night and having to reach deep just to reset the action to a leveled playing field. Suwama and Shuji are perfect as the dominant champs, it's not easy to make Strong BJ look like underdogs, specially on a long match, but they dominated them for 3/4 of the match and not only it made sense, but it was compelling to watch. Daisuke - the man who's celebrating his 20th anniversary on this show - is the face in peril, and as his matches from the previous week against Sato and Hama showed. he's awesome at selling the beating with his facial expressions and body language. With Sekimoto only trying to survive the onslaught, Yuji is left as the savior of the team and boy does he show up, we get EXTRA FIRED UP YUJI
the strikes, the suplexes, the lariats are all done with such passion and intensity that you can't help but love this dude. Still, Violent Giants are not to be fukked with so Okabayashi's hot tag doesn't have a lasting effect, the timing of their cut offs were perfect every single time, to the point Korakuen was booing Suwama every time he was on top because he was spoiling their fun. At some point to whole crowd booes them because they want Strong BJ to comeback so bad but Shuji and Suwama are just too damn good. Strong BJ's struggle to stay in the fight is so well done by both team that when they reach the "double German suplex" spot you are rooting for it like a little kid. The ending is so satisfying you legit feel like
There's excess in this match but I had zero problem with it. The two times there's blatant no selling because of a fighting spirit spot was either still sold (Yuji acting on instinct, barely standing) or was a set up for a comeback (Shuji getting crushed by Daisuke's lariat). And all the nearfalls were fitting for an interpromotional title match, besides almost all of them were credible and well done, Korakuen was going nuts at some of them. And even with all of that, they find the time to do do little things like Suwama's desperate attempt to avoid Yuji to gain momentum on the ropes, or Shuji refusing to get suplexed, and Strong BJ's selling of the beating and moment.
Yes it's only January but this is match of the fukking year by far, and best the thing I've seen in like 7 months and probably more
@3Rivers @Scottie Drippin @MightyHealthy @Makai Club @Ace of the Metropolitan @Beautiful Bobby Eatin @trick @SubZeroDegrees @PlayerNinety_Nine @Legal @WaveMolecules y'all gotta watch this shyt. I'll post the link as soon as there is one
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Takuya Nomura vs Fuminori Abe - BJW 1/13/19
Only 6 of 10 minutes were shown
and in a matchup like this one those 4 minutes are necessary to fully enjoy what they are trying to do. Regardless of that, it was a dope rematch. Great mat exchanges, some brutal strikes and a sense of urgency by both since the bell rang. I hope this makes it in full on BJW Core once it becomes functional again.
At the end of the match, both guys cut a promo saying the want to win all the belts. Abe the Jr title, Nomura the Strong Heavy title and both want...THE ALL ASIA BELTS
Shinjiro Ohtani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs Kazuki Hashimoto & Yuya Aoki - BJW 1/13/19
Like 12 of 19 minutes were shown. Fun tag with Ohtani being Ohtani and the match being built around showcasing Aoki.
