[2005-04-03-NOAH-Encountering Navigation] Jun Akiyama vs Makoto Hashi

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[dawho5]

I love underdog matches. But this wasn't all that good. The best parts of this kind of match are the anticipation of the underdog's comeback while they are getting beta down and the actual comeback. The anticipation is there, because Akiyama lays it in good with some bad ECW leading by the head mixed in. Then Hashi gets his offense and...things fall apart. Eh, had to give it a try.

[BillThompson]

I pretty much hated this match, mainly because I didn't buy a single thing Hashi was doing.

[Graham Crackers]

In some ways Hashi in these Akiyama matches is the inversion of Hashimoto in those Tanaka matches. Hashimoto was still compelling to me when he's just mauling somebody and Hashi was complelling when he's getting mauled. I liked this and I'm generally a fan of the Hashi/Akiyama story even if it never gave us a great match.