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    Talk about it here. Ioan's review at PTBN:
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    From PTBN:
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    I liked the gritty struggle of this one with Juice coming in hurt and having to face off with a monster like Suzuki. Juice shows off his toughness and lays in some good strikes too. He tries desperately to get in Pulp Friction, but can't pull it off. The very delayed gotch piledriver really sold the damage (even if it came off a bit odd with Suzuki encouraging the crowd for what seemed too long). ***1/2 Ioan's review at PTBN:
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    Really good main event, with some interesting twists in the closing stretch - particularly SANADA reversing a second tombstone attempt into his own, which is a great lead into the dragon sleeper. I was convinced that was the finish, and we still had the moonsault and then one last tease with Okada not holding the wrist and SANADA ducking the third Rainmaker. Just ticks to **** for me. Ioan review at PTBN:
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    PTBN review by Ioan Morris
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    PTBN review - think I may be skipping this one as I catch up.
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    Very fun, especially the start with the powder and Red shoes going up for the OWA. A world record # of hair pull spots, with the cherry on top being the two of them doing rope-running spots while their legs are taped together. Super flush Vtrigger there in the finish. *** PTBN review by Ioan Morris:
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    I'd recommend consolidating to one thread versus starting one for each post. Thanks.
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    Two grown men wailing away on each other as expected. So all your tough guy spots are here, including chest smacking each other, punching away lariats and a lot of clotheslines. But I didn't feel it overstayed it's welcome and liked the closing stretch fine. ***1/2 PTBN review from Ioan Morris:
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    From Ioan's review at PTBN:
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    This was excellent, hard-hitting and I really liked the layout. When Nagata got on his roll, I really thought he had Goto here. A smart transition into the bulldog gives Goto the advantage and he gets the best of a slug-off before hitting a headbutt into the GTR. Nagata sold this great, I really like that combo finish for Goto. ***3/4 From Ioan's review at PTBN:
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    From Ioan's review at PTBN
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    These guys took the main event slot seriously, thought this was really hard hitting and a great Naito performance carrying YH to a ***3/4 match. From Ioan's review at PTBN:
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    Fantastic encounter - a resourceful Tanahashi working around a hurt arm and playing the smaller guy in a big-man/little-man match. I can't imagine a more entertaining Fale match, he works the arm and looks like a monster, but Tanahashi works in just enough counters to escape and then hits a great HFF to the outside and then the snap slingblade to get the count-out win. ***3/4
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    I watched this match first for day 3, and this was phenomenal. Great ZSJ work with all the scouting and counters. Ibushi really never gets in a groove here, by design obviously, they left a ton on the table for an extended match. Heavy strike-based by Ibushi, which worked in the story of ZSJ keeping him grounded moving from limb to limb. I really wanted more as this was trending towards a MOTYC for me - ****1/2. I liked Naito/Ibushi more, but this was almost there.
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    Reaction show with Kris and Devon is up: http://placetobenation.com/ptbn-reaction-show-battleground-2017/
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    I actually thought Kenny sold *fine* here - yes, he'd have some flurries with the knees (adrenaline, mentally pushing himself through it), but he never stopped going back to selling (and a good cover with the botched reverse rana late). And given some of his selling performances of late, i thought this could have been really bad going in and expected the worst. Enjoyed Fale coming out and dragging out Taka and despy in a headlock. That stuff is always in the middle of the match so it doesn't bother me. Same with the early ref bumps and the chair stuff. Liked how the early knee stuff was off the guardrail moonsault. Slug-outs were good here, Kenny even blocked a couple strikes but Suzuki turned it up a notch later in a good callback. Fight over the piledriver (with Kenny raising his hurt leg to shake it out too) I liked this on par with Okada's Suzuki match this year - ****
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    He didn't, but given Yano's past G-1 upset history (and the US broadcast kept this top of mind), they did have a pretty fun match with some slick Rainmaker counters and roll-ups late which had you biting. Weird Red ink finish out of nowhere, but it kind of played into Okada not being able to really get into any kind of offensive groove against Yano. **3/4
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    Weirdly, even if one wanted to say "well they're stablemates, there won't be hatred", you'd still think things would escalate here and maybe both guys would get fired up as they pounded on each other. This didn't get to that gear for me either. And this is laid out to be all moves - and some certainly innovative, the top rope cutter was a big spot, and some of the counters later were well done - and it did come off pretty choppy.Thought Evil's selling was particularly good also down the stretch. ***1/4
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    I was right at the high end of ***1/2 here, I liked a lot of the smaller touches they build in: the lariat to juice's leg to crotch him. The punching of forearms to block lariats, only to have Kojima switch arms. Kojima is just great, they never lose the crowd even if there isn't a big story told throughout.
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    I wondered if I was high man at *** after watching and reflecting. I liked a bunch of Tama's comeback, but the beginning half was pretty pedestrian. Pretty slick finish on replay.
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    I had read he was auto-enrolled into the drug testing pool *because* the one year suspension just ended. But the TalkMMA piece is pretty solid - interesting.
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    This is a terrific match. ZSJ un-wisely opts to have a slug-off to start and takes the worst of it. But his escape and transition is good - he finally grabs the arm and does his flip kick, which is a nice segue taking over on a bigger guy. Some real nice counters back into the arm work, everything made a lot of sense - even the lighter head taps by Ishii - playing off the earlier heavier strikes there. ZSJ was real creative too with a couple of his grabs - out of the shining wizard for sure. Loved the sequence near the ropes with ishii rolling them both over to use his legs to break. His selling was top notch - on offense, everywhere. I liked the toughness check late with ZSJ throwing kicks at his arm while Ishii bats them away holding his injured limb. Much better than returning to a strike/chop content. PK connects but Ishii stones him out of the corner with what looks like a shoot clothesline/shoulder block. Brainbuster finish - I liked that finish a good bit with the pacing. Tremendous stuff ****1/4
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    This is the exact podcast I've been looking for the last couple of days as I finally got around to playing with my sets. Was pretty excited at the coincidence also that just last night they announced a CWF/Nova/PWX combo set coming this summer. Trevor Lee!
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