[2000-08-08-NJPW-G1 Climax] Yuji Nagata vs Tatsumi Fujinami

[soup23]

To no ones surprise, it looks like this was predominantly a mat based match which intrigues me and makes me wish it was available in full. Nagata opens things up at the finish but is really wild and hits a seated Thesz Press, spinning back kick and jumping front kick that completely whiffs. He needed to reign it in a bit there. Nagata picks up the win with back suplex. The mat work looked good, the finishing sequence did not. NR

[AstroBoy]

I liked Nagata's intensity in this and on paper this looks like a good matchup. I like to see Fujinami grappling here and the crowd seems really amped to see Nagata put him away with a suplex for the big win.