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  1. Makai Club #1
    Champion has gotta put over the company. Sad but it's comes with the role.
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    Very good match. Moxley definitely proved me wrong. I do think he has something to fix such as the timing of certain holds, the STF which was received with silence for example. But he mostly looked good. His offense looked much better and he did a nice job of beating down Juice as if he wasn't doing that himself. Juice was the star of the match for me though. His selling and bumping were excellent. I loved his willingness to go all out with his attacks too. All the praise will go to Moxley but Juice was the star of the match, in my opinion. The blatant rule breaking made me roll my eyes and the match missed its peak by a few minutes but other than that, this was very good. ****
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    He always had glimpses but he put it all together today. Big step up for him.
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    The crowd was going crazy from the start. Even before the guys started doing anything. And they carry that all the way through. The Midnight Rockers show off their attheectlism, the fans clap like nothing. Rose and Somers speak in the corner, boos ring out. It’s great. Nothing is better than a loud crowd. The crowd gets even more loud once Shawn bleeds. Love Somers going right for the cut once he sees it, opening it up more with Shawn selling every punch like a million bucks - it might just be his best selling performance of his career. The beat down of Michaels is excellent. Aggression and ruthless. The build to the hot tag is amazing. Shawn gets a brief moment of chance but he is so hurt that he doesn’t make it to Marty in time. There is another point in the match where Michaels staggers to the wrong corner because he is so disoriented and it just makes you want the hot tag more and more. And when it comes, the roof is blown off. Jannett comes in like a house on fire and kicks some ass. Somers takes a heck of a beating with his head ramming into the post twice, getting busted open himself. The part where Shawn Michaels gets his payback for the beatdown Rose and Somers gave him earlier in the match was truly fantastic. The finish would normally be a downer but it added to the hatred of the feud and fit the story of the match perfectly. Fantastic match. ****3/4
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    Didn’t seem never ending although it felt long. And a better match layout. But that’s really all. There was some uninspiring leg work by Cole which is inevitably no sold for much longer than it is sold only to come back in the finish for no real reason. Some more awful 50/50 move for move/no sells that don’t add anything and looked bad. Too many false finishes involving moves that are supposed to be killer moves later in the finish like the Panama surprise on the floor. If they wanted to kill the move, they did that but they clearly didn’t. You know, mostly everything that happened in New York. Just better than that match though. Not a compliment. I would compliment the crowd for being super hot but I found them obnoxious like they usually are in the main events.
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    Incredibly strong(pun intended) start to the show. There was a brisk back and forth pace so the match didn’t outstay its welcome. Loved the competitiveness that the match had with both men being able to shine - Roddy w/ his excellent back work and Riddle w/ his explosive comebacks. But I do think that Riddle could’ve sold his back far better than he did, especially when making his comebacks because he kinda blew it off. But it wasn’t all bad as he did sell fairly well besides that. Some of the sequences like Roddy’s running elbows were awesome. Riddle added some of his usual great strikes too. More of this please. ***1/2
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    A classic in every sense of the word. Incredibly heated and violent. Action packed. Well paced. Exciting. And compelling from start to finish. You got Austin and his MVP performance with his unbelievable bumping, whether int was into the cage itself or just in general. He really carried the first half of the match with his Windham section and the double team parts with Rude. Rude excelled at taking all the punishment such as the Sting/gorilla press spot. Arn adds his magic with his impactful offence and good bumps, Larry too. Eaton didn’t do much as the last guy in the ring for the DA. Windham matched Austin in many ways but bumped less. Nevertheless, he was fantastic, as was Dustin with his awesome beat down sots. Ricky was great as the fiery underdog taking the brunt of most of the Alliance’s attacks. Sting and Nikita had their story line stuff. Great performance all round. One thing I do like about the match was the lack of lying around. Everyone was doing something opposed two people doing a spot for the camera and everyone waits for their turn. This was a wild brawl for everyone involved. *****.
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    Fujinami with a mustache!!! I believe that this match has a strong reputation for being super stiff and sometimes uncooperative. I can certainly see that in some cases. Iizuka getting a bruised/closed up eye is a perfect example. But it doesn’t really lead to the match falling apart. They do everything like normal, only super, super stiff. Some of the big spots of the match were crazy. Very intense and brutal looking which I loved. Iizuka took it all like a champ, not that he had a choice and even gave some back. Fujinami ruled in this match. The Steiners have that presence that glues you to the screen. The downside was that there wasn’t much structure to the match but with that being said, this was still a highly compelling, violent match. ****1/2
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    Main event was not my cup of tea. Definitely something I should should skip for the foreseeable future as far as Cole (or Gargano) is concerned. But the rest was fun. Really good show, like Takeovers usually are. Everything from start to Baszler/Io was either very good or at least fun in its own way. The show had good pacing, had the matches in the correct spots and didn't feel like a total drag to watch. The crowd was loud in a good way for the most part too. Nothing I'd consider great on this show which is the only downside for the show overall but make no mistake, watch most of these matches. Some of the winners were a bit suspect, such as Baszler vs Shirai but I'm down with another match between the two, as far as it leads to a good pay off.
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    Umaga finally away from Santino Marella and Vince! Umaga ragdolling Hardy sounds like a recipe for huge success to me as Umaga is excellent as a monster. He knows how to use his size and speed to his advantage as well as how to get the best out of his opponent. Umaga uses the most basic moves early on, including an Irish Whip and makes it look so great. Hardy's willingness to go all in on that stuff certainly helps. Jerry offers some excellent commentary in the match too, explaining why the Nerve grip that Umaga does is so effective which is simple yet great insight. Jeff is so good when being killed by someone. He sells Umaga's offence well, bumps his butt off and is incredibly sympathetic which creates tons of heat for the match. Another thing that's good about the match is how most of Hardy? s offence comes from Umaga's mistakes. Whether it's taking too much time to do something or a missed move, Hardy capitalised as it's the only way you can beat him. The near fall with the missed corner splash into a swanton bomb was excellent. The crowd and I totally bought it. Hardy sold the impact of his landing just enough to allow Umaga enough time to recuperate and stay alive. The way it lead to the finish was good too. Overall, this was a great match. Hardy is in his eliminate as the defensive wrestler and Umaga does an Umaga. ****1/4
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    Never been a big KUDO fan. He doesn’t have the charisma of HARASHIMA but I do think that he is still a good wrestler because of his intensity and good offence, and he very much delivered here. Some of his comebacks were extremely well timed and thus allowed all the babyface heat he gained in the match to shine through most effectively. The fire he showed in his offence was so awesome. HARASHIMA was fantastic in this. And whilst KUDO did great fighting from beneath, HARASHIMA stood out with his outstanding heel work. Closed fists for some of the strike exchanges, smiling in such a dickish manner whilst brutalising KUDO’s ribs, being an absolute bully. The peaked at the absolute right time with no over dramatic near falls, keeping it to a minimum. There was tons of struggle in the match, allowing the tension of a switches of momentum to happen. The crowd bought into what the story was telling. Great match held up by two fantastic performances. ****1/2
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    This was fantastic. The selling by Rude was unbelievable. His selling of the arm when posing and on offence was so consistent which is key when you are doing limb work. In addition to that, Ricky’s selling of the neck was good too but Rude’s was god tier. The work on the arm (Steamboat) and the neck (Rude) was also great. The match had a really good tempo to it as well. ****1/2
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    Really enjoyed this match. The Dangerous Alliance being great heels with both vicious and chicken shit heel tendencies, something that Austin does perfectly and Larry isn’t too shabby at that stuff either.. Windham and Rhodes had great chemistry too. ***3/4
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    The fans didn't know how to react to Liger at first but they sure caught along quick. Some great displays of counter wrestling and showing off early on, Liger looked great and the crowd started to response to him. The middle portion was a ton of downtime. But the finish was hot. Good stuff.
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    Considering this is the blow off to a long built feud that began in 1996, this was very, very heatless. Zero hatred or intensity behind the match. Very shallow brawling in that sense. There was a few neat suplexes by Taz and Sabu added his certain ways of doing things but without that depth, it doesn't amount to much. **1/2
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    Not a bad match. For one, I enjoyed the start of the match. Some of the counters were pretty slick, well, the ones with the chair anyway. The action was well paced and was allowed time to breath, for the most part. However, some of the transition from spot to spot were poorly done. Not creativity to it; one spot, break, another spot, break. So it was a let down from that point. Also, everything after the chair spots lost me. Just got boring from that point on. The crowd didn't seem that into it either, although they chanted "five more minutes" after the time limit expired. I'll be generous and give it **3/4.
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    One of the most intense, hate driven matches I've seen, and it has a whole side of awesomeness to it as well. There is basically two parts to the match. The first part was the back and forth between Saito and Inoki. Saito keeps going for the Prison Lock (when it's locked on, it looks great - really tight) and using his power to keep Inoki at bay, while Inoki keeps on the defensive and relies on his fury and superior wrestling skills. Th second part is when Inoki has enough of Saito using the ropes to his advantage and has them taken down. That's when this match reaches a whole new level as Saito gets busted open and Inoki punches the life right out of him. It was great. The heat was off the charts, along with the crowd's reaction to it all. The post match angle was done extremity well. All round excellent match with a huge big fight feel to it. Blood and a whole lot of fire. ****1/2
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    This was wrestling at its absolute best. Call me crazy, but I thought this was top 5 WWE match of all time. The heat, the drama, the fire. Everything was electric. Watching it made me feel euphoric. They made me totally hate Patera, who did a sensational job at beating down Backlund with brutality, and root for Backlund, who sells his butt off, makes incredible comebacks and sends the crowd into a frenzy. This was exciting from start from finish. The brawling was heated, like none other before it. This was excellent. *****
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    This was tremendous wrestling. At first, I wasn’t fully engaged in what they were doing. Not that I thought this was bad at the start, just lacking but the work was perfectly good in its own way. The match got interesting pretty quickly after a short while. They built to the big tremendously well such as Backlund suplexes Hogan. The crowd was great too. The audio quality wasn’t the best so it’s quite a feat that they came through as well as they did. Another highlight of the match has to be Backlund doing his signature stretch spot that always gets me to pop huge and Backlund changing course after failing to knock down Hogan with a shoulder block which puts over Hogan’s size and stretch as well as his adaptability and wrestling smarts. Great match. Big contender for Hogan’s best match, in my opinion. ****1/4
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    Good stuff. I think Hogan’s heel work was rather bland but Tito had tons of babyface fire and his punches were pretty great. The match wasn’t outstanding but I liked it to a certain extent and I’d like to see more of it. ***
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    It takes a lot for me to not being interested in a match involving Bob Backlund, so this was something special. This was so dull and unengaging. Backlund worked on the arm for a long time. Sika held the stomach for ages. None of it with any intensity or heat from the crowd. Backlund made a few brief comebacks and it was really nothing worth remembering. Not a match that I’ll recommended when people ask for Backlund matches, that’s for sure. *
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    Boring main event and The Bucks match went over my head too but other than that, the show delivered on a big scale. Cody vs Dustin MOTN
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    Kenny Omega vs Michael Nakazawa - DDT KO-D Openweight Title One Match Box Office [KO-D Openweight Title Match/Last Man Standing Match] Superb overall match. Great underdog performance by Nakazawa, who gives a career performance in the match, in my opinion. And it’s matched by a ruthless and aggressive, dominant champion, Kenny Omega. In the small, intimate building like Shin-Kiba 1st Ring, everything is suddenly intensified, including the stiff chair shots towards the end of the match. The endless barrage of Omega offence Nakazawa received felt even more impactful. And he sold it accordingly. His brief hope spots were tremendously done well too. The pacing was really good for the most part with no much dragging the match which is a hard thing to do given the stipulation but the drama held it together. ****1/2
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    Matt Hardy gets a big pop from his hometown crowd. Very headlocks heavy early on but what made it different from the usual headlock start was the smugness of the holds applied, from Finlay especially and the struggle to get out of them, even resorting to pulling the nose. The intensity of the match increased gradually with Finlay adding a few vicious slams and strikes to the mix. The crowd, at first wasn't much into Finlay working over Hardy, started to really get invested for their hometown boy. Hardy really shows how good he is with his selling after Finlay works on his injured knee. Not only does his sell the holds, he sells the fatigue of being in pain for a prolonged period of time. Really compelling stuff on his part. The finish was iffy to say the least. Hornswoggle comes in (aw, he has lost his “Little Bastard” name) and distracts Hardy and Finlay nails him in the injured knee with his shillelagh but Hardy gets up and nails for the Twist of Fate for the win. I mean, he sells it well too, but it kinda made the shillelagh shot pointless and the interference too. Great match (great performance yet again by Matt Hardy) but bad finish. ****
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    If you want a hot crowd and heated/hate brawling then this is for you. They do an excellent job at getting heat for the feud. Larry is a great heel who can’t back up what he started and Bruno is super frustrated and just wants to pound on Zbyszko. ***
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