[2017-03-17-NJPW-New Japan Cup] SANADA vs Tomohiro Ishii

[bradhindsight]

I dug this a whole lot - their opening sequence of trading counters looked better than a lot of junior choreographed moves. SANADA looks like a boss the entire match, he gets a lot of offense here. Ishii blocks punches in the corner with headbutts because why not? Couple minor timing things, but otherwise this is big power move trading, and then even a pretty convincing roll-up exchange. SANADA is a tremendous bumper too. Comfortably at ***3/4 here.

[ShittyLittleBoots]

Very strong match. Ishii's comebacks were marvelous & SANADA was really good at cutting those off + his work on top in general was good. ***1/2