[2017-02-26-NJPW/ROH-Honor Rising: Night One] Jay Lethal & Katsuyori Shibata vs Cody & Hangman Page

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The aura of Shibata in this match is something as he's on Cody's "list" and this is their first face to face. They start against each other and it's a pretty tepid feeling out, exchanging some holds and a quick tag out. Lethal also wants Cody and his over-aggressiveness lends to Page getting the best of him. Lethal works in peril and it's fine, I actually think Page had maybe the best performance here. Rocky Romero being surprised at Page doing a shooting star off the apron shows he doesn't watch the ROH shows he's on, which made me laugh. Hot tag Shibata time and after a big missile dropkick by Rhodes, Shibata just sits up and it is ON. Cody isn't too bad with the forearms and then Shibata just smashes him as he is want to do. That's really the payoff here, and they work in a decent ending with Shibata penalty kicking Cody, setting up Lethal to then hit the Lethal Injection on Page. **3/4