[2007-04-01-NOAH-Spring Navigation] Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikio vs Mohammed Yone & Takeshi Morishima

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[dawho5]

Rikio and Morishima going after each other early was really good. Akiyama being at the mercy of Morishima and Yone and the crowd buying into nearfalls 15 minutes in was weird. Had he really fallen that far? Rikio gasses right about halfway through and it's obvious. He kind of recovers during the finishing run, but it hurts the match. Early on, the match seemed centered around Rikio and Morishima making a beeline for each other. Don't know if Rikio gassing killed that and they called an audible on the Akiyama heat segment or what. Either way, match doesn't really fit together well and ends up just being your run of the mill NOAH bomb-fest by the end.

 

Edit: And as a bonus, we get treated to some leading through the arena by the neck. They may have the fighting spirit to fight through being hit in the face over and over and dropped on their heads. But even if a wrestler has fighting spirit, once you grab them by the back of the neck they are helpless to fight back.