shoe Posted May 22, 2015 Report Posted May 22, 2015 This is the line up tonight that will be airing live. Their are some matches that look pretty interesting. Jushin Liger vs. Yohei Komatsu Alex Shelley vs. David Finlay III Cavernario Barbaro vs Chase Owens Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe & Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata & Tomoaki Honma vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano & Kazushi Sakuraba & Yoshi-Hashi Rocky Romero vs. Bobby Fish Trent Baretta vs. Kyle O'Reilly Mascara Dorada vs. Kushida Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Gedo
shoe Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Posted May 22, 2015 We open with Liger vs Komatsu I miss a lot of this but the crowd is super hot. I'll watch it later.
stomperspc Posted May 22, 2015 Report Posted May 22, 2015 I thought Liger/Komatsu started out really well. Komatsu had to wheel out more offense than usual. He's got a lot of solid offense. Liger gave him a ton. I thought the kick outs towards the end and Komatsu's knocked-loopy selling were a bit much but still good match overall.
shoe Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Posted May 22, 2015 Nick Jackson vs Tiger Mask The big spot was Jackson missing a superkick into the ring post. Tiger Mask went after the leg for a bit of the match. Pretty average.
shoe Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Posted May 22, 2015 Alex Shelley vs Finlay I've never seen Young Dave so I'm curious. Another pretty basic match.
stomperspc Posted May 22, 2015 Report Posted May 22, 2015 That was the best I've seen Finlay looked. Far less green than he had looked in the past and wrestled more like you'd expect Finlay's son to wrestle. Straight forward match.
shoe Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Posted May 22, 2015 Owens vs Cavernario Barbario So excited for Cavernario. This was fun. Owens fore arm was nasty.
stomperspc Posted May 22, 2015 Report Posted May 22, 2015 Cavernario had a good first showing. Hit the top rope splash to the floor of course. Owens had his moments. The little bit of mat work they did was good, I liked Owens' tope, and the slingshot backbreaker of his is a good move. Other than that though, Owens wasn't very good. Cavernario spent the majority of the match selling which sort of worked since he was over, but Owens just doesn't have the quality offense to control for that long.
shoe Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Posted May 22, 2015 Nakamura/Yoshi-Hashi/Yano/Ishii/Sakuraba vs Goto/Shibata/Tanahashi/Honma/Makabe We get the Lucha pairings to start, Honma gets worked over on the floor. We get a Honma FIP sequence, then the lucha pairings continued. Overall this was pretty fun and built to Dominion.
stomperspc Posted May 22, 2015 Report Posted May 22, 2015 I thought Mascara Dorada/KUSHIDA was the best match of the night. In general, I don't mind matches going short (much rather that than have them go several minutes too long) but this was one match that definitely could have used a few more minutes. They went less than 10, but everything they did was well thought out and was carried out smoothly. Very fun match with a lot of cools little spots stuffed into a sub-10 minute match. Main event was fun since Gedo controlled most of it. Crowd was really hot for the finish and reacted big time when Gedo got the win. I'm thinking Gedo wins tomorrow versus Komatsu (though it wouldn't be shocking if Komatsu got his first big win there) but then losses out the rest of the way. Pretty good show. The reDRgaon/RPG matches were longer than they needed to be, particularly given that the KUSHIDA/Dorada match could have used a couple of extra minutes.
pol Posted May 22, 2015 Report Posted May 22, 2015 I missed most of the first half of the show. Thought the 10 man tag was really good, just lots of hot sequences. Honma is great as a FIP because the Kokeshi works as both as a great hope spot and the transition to the hot tag. Fish/Romero felt like a total nothing match. Just couldn't get into anything they did. It's odd that with the whole MMA gimmick reDragon have they don't really seem to work like that outside of a few select spots. O'Reilly/Barretta was enjoyable enough, but O'Reilly hamming it up big time was pretty annoying. Agreed that KUSHIDA/Dorada could've used more time. KUSHIDA has to be the smartest young worker they have - he was great setting up Dorada's offense, including the least ridiculous looking set up to the corner rope walk dropkick I've seen. I thought Dorada was pretty good selling the arm, which was a bit surprising since extended limb psychology isn't too much of a thing in lucha from what I've seen. Gedo looked like one of the best workers in the company in his match. Funny that he was nothing special during his prime and has found himself as this almost southern heel style worker that gets huge babyface reactions. Loved the Terry Funk punches and his working of holds. Taguchi was a perfectly fine warm body, but I hope the VOW guys are wrong about him being the one to make it out of his block - he's just so vanilla despite his comedy offense. I thought it was between this and KUSHIDA/Dorada for MOTN. Was amused by the mention of Wild Pegasus on commentary, I guess in Japan they don't care about that stuff.
RazorbladeKiss87 Posted May 22, 2015 Report Posted May 22, 2015 This is the line up tonight that will be airing live. Their are some matches that look pretty interesting. Jushin Liger vs. Yohei Komatsu Alex Shelley vs. David Finlay III Cavernario Barbaro vs Chase Owens Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe & Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata & Tomoaki Honma vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano & Kazushi Sakuraba & Yoshi-Hashi Rocky Romero vs. Bobby Fish Trent Baretta vs. Kyle O'Reilly Mascara Dorada vs. Kushida Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Gedo The ten man was lots of fun. I love multi-man tags and this ticked all my boxes for an enjoyable match.
shoe Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Posted May 22, 2015 I thought this was a fun show. I liked the 10 man the most, followed by Dorada/Kushida. O'Reilly/Barretta was really good too, but was hurt a lot in my eyes by O'Reilly's goofy selling, and that convoluted sell job with the chair to set up a spot. Liger/Komatsu was real good too. Those were the stand out matches. The drawback to the show was it felt rushed.
pol Posted May 22, 2015 Report Posted May 22, 2015 Oh yeah, the 10 man was probably the MOTN. Forgot about that since it wasn't a tournament match. I don't think time was used very effectively on this show.
CodySave Posted May 27, 2015 Report Posted May 27, 2015 Only had a chance to watch the first three matches, but I loved Liger vs Komatsu. Great story of historic veteran on the downswing vs youngster realizing the monumental opportunity presented to him, trying to pull off a shocking win and gain immediate momentum on day 1. Loved Komatsu attacking before the bell but the match gradually turning into Liger being the frustrated grouchy old man. I'm a sucker for wild outside brawling and the early portions of this had some really unexpected moves around the arena. Not very familiar with Komatsu, but incredibly interested to see more of him as he progresses. Great selling and has a real chip on his shoulder. Could be an outstanding cocky heel in a few years time.
shoe Posted May 27, 2015 Author Report Posted May 27, 2015 Of all the Young Lions Komatsu really impresses me. Jay White is right on his tail though.
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