[2019-11-24-NOAH-RATEL Produce SHOWTIME] YO-HEY vs Yoshinari Ogawa

[Ma Stump Puller]

Solid little match here. YO-HEY is another of NOAH's random Jr heavyweight guys that showed up around this time and he's pretty solid for what he's always been mostly, a tag specialist. That being said, he had a pretty decent outing. They work like this like you'd expect: Yo has the advantage when it comes to just straight up wrestling due to his atheticism and youth which lets him land spots and movez all over the place, but his cockiness early on costs him the advantage as him gloating allows Ogawa the time to dodge a outside dive and cause Yo to land right on his knee, badly hurting it. Ogawa smelling blood goes for the leg with his usual nasty control spots, using a chair, stomps, and tons of tricky holds to work it over as much as possible, really showcasing why he's one of the best when it comes to limb control sequences as he just methodically breaks down it with a whole staple of stuff. Yo's selling is decent and is able to get the crowd really invested in the holds being used despite that kind of slower wrestling generally being frowned upon. Even when he manages to make a comeback, he sells the leg buckling and not being able to give him any leeway to catch up with Ogawa in terms of damage, always being forced to slow down and get caught out again.

Ogawa also mixes things up a bit, throwing out some pretty sick leg locks to try to break the guy. Unlike many matches where Yo would eventually get his big break, that just never came here. Ogawa kept cranking on the leg, upping the intensity, and trying to break him with backdrops into figure-fours and the like, Yo didn't give up, but he wasn't in any position to do much else either. Eventually his buddy HAYATA is forced to throw in the towel for him as there was nothing else he could do. As a match it's not amazing or anything, but as a Ogawa showcase of him just working slick technical stuff it's pretty sharp; Ogawa knows how to get simple wrestling over and in doing so really gets them invested in a potential comeback that  never comes. It's pretty strong stuff for a random undercard all things considered.