The main event for New Japan's anniversary show is Jay White vs Will Ospray
That show historically has had special attraction matches as the main event but two gaijin? is this a first?
This. Outside of Tana and Okada it seems like Gedo doesn't believe that Japanese wrestlers are a draw in his Japanese wrestling company.
throw him in the main event scene right now and it would be fukking lit Ibushi Shibata in the dome for the culture If D Bry can come back so can Shibata right brehs
this was just retarded violence. Basically 12 minutes of these two trying to concuss each other with punches and headbutts, as well as kicking the shyt out of each other. Loved Abe as the feisty underdog, him getting busted open added to his fiery counters - which continue to be dope as fukk no matter how many times I see them - and the overall story. Wasn't that big of a fan of Sato just shrugging every bit of offense he took but he made it up by being a sadistic a$$hole and destroying Abe every chance he got. Watch for the sake of 
@Ace of the Metropolitan @trick @Scottie Drippin @3Rivers
Futen BackSpeaking of self destructing piff...
Kohei Sato vs Fuminori Abe - Zero1 2/2/19
Fuminori Abe vs. Kohei Sato
@TrueEpic08 what did you think of Daisuke vs Hino?
Didn't watch yet but I wish these dudes would chill with those legit headbutts. A worked headbutt? Cool. Those legit, sound like two coconuts colliding headbutts?Speaking of self destructing piff...
Kohei Sato vs Fuminori Abe - Zero1 2/2/19
Fuminori Abe vs. Kohei Sato
@TrueEpic08 what did you think of Daisuke vs Hino?
Speaking of self destructing piff...
Kohei Sato vs Fuminori Abe - Zero1 2/2/19
Fuminori Abe vs. Kohei Sato
@TrueEpic08 what did you think of Daisuke vs Hino?
I liked it on the whole, but I didn't necessarily think it was a MOTYC or anything.
A part of it was the crowd, who were so silent at times I had to check and make sure they weren't in Differ Ariake or something. For all that Daisuke and Hino were doing, it was kind of annoying to have a crowd react to it as if they were watching moderately good theatre instead of being invested in one of these dudes winning (or at least knocking their opponent's head into the stands). I feel that I'd be a lot more into the match if it were in front of a hot Korakuen crowd, or just a bigger and hotter crowd in general.
On the other hand, the match felt at times like I was watching two guys who were fans of these types of manliness/toughness/dikk-waving contest matches put together one of their own, but not quite get that the main objective was to win as opposed to making your opponent submit to your awesomeness and strength (to be fair though, if they had just not gone for pins and turned it into a tacit Last Man Standing match that ended in a time limit draw, THEN I'd have thought it was a MOTYC). Everything is executed very well for the most part (could have shaved that weird portion off where Hino finally took the advantage only for Daisuke to go back onto the offensive 3 minutes later, but the little stuff such as Hino trying to slap his way out of chinlocks and torture racks was great), basically everything they did has a point and a good amount of thought put into it as you said, but the first 20 minutes or so felt like it was just missing a little something to me. Might be because I've seen this type of thing from these two before and seen them do better (much better, at times) with more emotion behind it, but that might just be me having seen enough of these matches that I need more than "pretty great execution" to call it MOTYC great.
I want to emphasize though: really good stuff, last 5 minutes or so really did pull me in, and I wouldn't hesitate to show this to someone as a way to gauge their interest in this type of match, but I feel like I've seen better of this type style (but as I said, a better crowd would have made me forgive a good 70-80% of what I said in that paragraph above).
at the end of the day "MOTYC" is whatever as long as you liked the match. Not sure why you would want/expect them to not go for pins, that's just not realistic My main disagreement would be them "do this type of thing" much better before. Both Hino and Sekimoto we never very good at longer matches up until not long ago, and them being able to sustain something for 30 minutes against each other was a dope breath of fresh air. If you watch Sekimoto vs Bodyguard from 2/23, that's the type of match Daisuke used to have all the time no matter the time length, and Hino would follow right up, and that's not something that lends itself for 30 minutes, much less a draw. So the 2/2 match being "minimalistic" was 
for me.
Speaking of Hino, it seemed he signed with Zero1. A freelance no more
What happened with naitoThis. Outside of Tana and Okada it seems like Gedo doesn't believe that Japanese wrestlers are a draw in his Japanese wrestling company.
