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Yuji Okabayashi & Okami (Daichi Hashimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani) vs Takuya Nomura & Fuminori Abe & Kohei Sato - BJW 7/30/19
VK LINK of the whole show (match starts at the 1hr02min mark)

I'm still pissed off at not being able to watch the Osaka show, but holy shyt this was fukking AWESOME :blessed: way better than their match a couple of weeks prior - which was mainly a good build up to Nomura vs Okabayashi - as this one had everyone fully involved and doing compelling stuff. For the most part it was the Fuminori Abe show, my dude is just fukking great at being a little c*nt :russ: motherfukker be strutting, interfering, doing sneaky shyt on the apron, kicking and slapping the shyt out of his seniors, he had the most unconventional and compelling face in peril segment I've seen in a long ass time. Give this man a raise and an award. Other stuff to love was Nomura and Yuji still beefing, Nomura's counters and kicking the shyt out of each other with Daichi, Kamitani showing fire for days against Sato, and Nomura & Abe being best buddies till eternity.

This is legit a MOTYC for me (I realize I tend to overhype these matches, but this was sooo much fun), it's 17 minutes of pure action, stiff strikes and disrespect. And when you put that formula with wrestlers like these and in Korakuen Hall, you always strike gold :blessed: @Scottie Drippin @Ace of the Metropolitan @3Rivers @Legal @SubZeroDegrees @Hey_zeus @Makai Club @julesocean


@TrueEpic08 do me a favor and watch it, I think this might get you out of the funk of being "meh" about most of the G-1, go back to Strong BJ even if it's for a bit :salute:
Finally watched this and enjoyed it. Abe is such a fun prick in this picking his shots on Okabayashi. Popping up and firing on everyone in the corner was hilarious as was his mick Jagger strutting/shrugging off should blocks :lolbron:. I gotta get more Strong BJ in my schedule. Looking forward to Sato vs Okabayashi
 

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He should return for the Super J Cup and meet Dragon Lee in the finals and break Lee's neck :demonic:
 

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Yuji Okabayashi vs Takuya Nomura - Strong Heavyweight Title BJW 7/21/19
(uploaded it for the brehs)

A motherfukking war :wow: this goes for 22 minutes and by the end you feel these two have gone through an hour of devastation. So in the weeks leading up to this match these two had close to 9 tag matches against each other were Okabayashi - the more experienced, and more importantly, way stronger wrestler - pinned or submitted Nomura in the first 6 ones, mostly by using the Argentine Backbreaker. Slowly but surely though, the Young Gawd began to find cracks in the champ, after working the left arm for a bunch of matches, he finally did it, he made Okabayashi tap out. From then on they had more matches were things leveled up, and Nomura got other Ws by doing the same shyt: destroy the big man's left arm.

So, the title match finally happens and what do we get? Well, exactly what we should get: Okabayashi fending off the young kid by beating the shyt out of him and Nomura doing everything in his power to work that damn arm. The match takes it's time, it's not a barn burner from the get go, it builds and it builds just like their tag matches. And boy does it pay off. I think the mics were shytty because you could tell the Osaka crowd was more into it than what it sounded once the 2nd half of the match starts kicking in, but I was fine with it to be honest. Another MOTYC for Yuji, who is having a fukking monster 2019. And Takuya? Well, young gawd is young gawd for a reason :myman: @SubZeroDegrees @3Rivers @TheGodling @Legal @Ace of the Metropolitan @Hey_zeus @Makai Club @julesocean


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I agree the finish is kinda bizarre considering what happened all match long but did Yuji failed you because of the the lariat or because of the Golem Splash? To me it's the latter, I was totally fine with that last fighting spirit by him, it was the set up for the splash that felt out of place.
 

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@Jmare007 both big time. Felt like he made a nonsensical move with the lariat and a very big political move with the time killing before the splash.

To me, the lariat was a very "my fighting spirit is the best" type of move, and I think he sold the shyt out of that arm throughout the match for him to get that last big move in without hurting what they did during those 21 minutes. I think it also works to establish how much of a beast Okabayashi is kayfabe wise, Sekimoto used to do that a lot, specially when he was invading other promotions.

The splash I can't defend at all, shyt was :dwillhuh: status. Specially coming from Yuji, who never does that kind of shyt.


It's gonna be interesting to see who gets to challenge for the belt at Sumo Hall (assuming Yuji retains all the way through November).

Kohei challenges on Sunday.

Seems like Hideki will challenge next (holy shyt btw :ohlawd:)

Then it will probably be the tag league.

Then it's Ryogokutan, so...rematch with Daisuke? Rematch with Nomura? Does Elgin challenge after beating Sekimoto this Saturday (and maybe getting into the tag league?)? Another outsider, possibly from All Japan?



This weekend is gonna be fukking interesting :yes:
 
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