[2000-09-16-NOAH-Exceeding Our Dreams] Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs Takao Omori & Satoru Asako

[soup23]

Omori is coming off an upset loss to Izumida so his stock is currently plummeting in the eyes of NOAH brass. This was an important match for him and he gave possibly his best performance of the year besides the Carnival final. His kicks had a lot of purpose and he bumped really well off of the big Misawa elbow in the finishing stretch. They tease some dissension between Asako and Omori in the waning moments of the match and the camera actually misses the finishing move of Misawa doing a running forearm smash to Asako. ***1/4 (6.7)

[AstroBoy]

This just felt so stuck in the mud. The execution and general layout of the match was fine but there was nothing that stood out here at all, save for the dissension between Omori and Asako. The hot tag of Omori was really awesome come to think of it, with Ogawa and Misawa cutting off his fiery comeback with some clever spots. Asako didn't exactly add much here either.

 

**3/4