[2015-05-10-Dreamin' Project-Let's Do What We Dream] Kazuhiro Tamura vs Keita Yano

[Ma Stump Puller]

Basically just 14 minutes of very clean, very good catch-wrestling. Both of these guys are already quite solid at that so not that shocking. As per most Keita matches he really doesn't give much of a inch anywhere, dominating most of the early sections with slick matwork, aiming for the legs and feet mostly with the occasional extra bit here and there. We get the good old "rolling off the apron in a leg-lock" spot to mix things up, as well as Keita fucking around by trying to Irish Whip in a UWF match and Tamura just absolutely not playing with that at all, but then Tamura plays along by going for it himself before the two do some goofy lucha bits. Keita gets a bit too cocky after a Albright-lite deadlift gutwrench suplex as he gets caught with a reverse kneebar setup and kicks, getting rocked with a big knee when he tries to rush in for a single-leg to take back control.

Yano throws out a couple more funky tricks in his bag like a desperation Fujiwara armbar out of a suplex and a lariat, but his mistake is going to the well one too many times with strikes and lariats, allowing Tamura to time and counter with a cool knee block, jumping kick, and then rolling into a slick cross armbreaker into modified Fujiwara when Yano tries to roll out to make the guy tap out. Not as good as the 2008 match but still pretty solid, even if the strikes are a bit lacking here. There's never a sense of the match going into super full gear either despite the two's best attempts by amping up the impact of their shots; the pacing kept at a decent if unexciting rate, always building to something that never comes. It's a good outing, just not the best these two could do. Hardly a insult though, this still was really cool.