ShittyLittleBoots Posted March 14, 2020 Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 Jay Lethal defends the ROH World Title. AJ's coming into this with some well known back problems, and that ends up being the big story of the match. Lethal first goes to it as he drops AJ on the apron, and after that the target is clear. Lethal's work over the back is really good, and AJ's selling is just faaantastic. During this time period, this was a very different type of a match for Styles, with him being the Bullet Club leader & top heel in NJPW; but here he was the babyface who was forced to fight from underneath because the champ took an advantage of his injury. It created for such a great struggle for AJ throughout; he was so good at gaining that sympathy from everyone, selling that damn back like the legend that he is. Really can't praise it enough. He got some really great counter hope-spots too, some examples of those would be the forearm smash to Lethal as he went for that 3rd dive, evading Lethal Injection & giving Lethal a good ol' Pele Kick, etc, etc. AJ's performance was just absolutely top tier in every way, I thought. I also love how just when it looked like he created somewhat of a 2nd gear flurry for himself & he went for the Clash, Lethal just DUMPS him outside the ring through that table. What a brilliant spot, and what a brilliant match. ****1/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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