[1998-04-04-NJPW-Inoki Retirement Show] Shinjiro Ohtani vs Yuji Yasuraoka

[Microstatistics]

Truly amazing Ohtani performance as the dismissive prick higher ranked junior vs. an indie nobody. Great offense, top notch facial expressions and acting ranging self-satisfied smirking to pure panic and worry as he almost gets caught out a bunch of times. Yasuraoka was good as the resilient underdog but this was the Ohtani show. Excellent stuff overall. ****

[MrMoonlight]

Really nice « little » Jr match, Otani does a really good job on areas he’s always good at, like all the character work, looking like an overconfident prick. Yasuraoka is very cool as well in his underdog brave and proud WAR champion, his selling in that respect showing off his tôkon is really good and works even better with this side of Otani. Not an overly ambitious match, which ends up being much better than most overdone Jr stuff we got sometimes. 3.75*