[2015-12-27-Pro Wrestling Wallabee-Luchas Wallabee Order] KEITA In The HOUSE & Mr 704 vs. Kenichiro Arai & Shota

[Ma Stump Puller]

Naoshi Sano (704 here) and Keita have combined their sleazy powers as the new LWO to handle one half of the 2023 MOTY and Shota. Arai/Keita seems like a dream match in the making (despite them having a frankly underwhelming 2011 singles before) and their encounters definitely had a lot of enjoyable to be had as Keita would just run through the pair with random cool submissions and counters for the beginning sequences. Him and Arai have a nice little bit where they actually utilise proper pummelling technique between each other until Keita takes the arms for the cool underhook sumo spot where they throw them while said arms are trapped, always mark out for Taue spots like that so this was already a great watch. Was also very good to see that even this match with no ring/ropes still had elements of tag psychology; Arai and Shota tagging out mid-counter so they could blindside Keita repeatedly while he was busy escaping their headlocks was something you'd see out of some old ass 80's NWA tapings.

Their extended attack on the arm of Keita was quite fun as well as they mixed in some old technical working holds while also just biting and stomping on it whenever the opportunity came. I'm a sucker for grindy limb work AND biting the limb so this was right up my alley. You might as well not even had Sano/704 because he does barely anything in this match until he gets the big tag after Keita got worked for the middle half. His hot tag comes about 13 minutes (this only went 15, btw) into the thing and it's mostly goofy spots (including him using a punching bag as a weapon by using it as a pendulum to bonk someone's head with). Not awful but not that amazing either by comparison. The lead in for the finish is entertaining enough as Arai does diving headbutts off the floor and window alongside Keita taking some actual impactful wrestling moves onto the mats under him. 

Him and Sano do the Eliminators double-team spot on Arai and Keita's able to catch him in a roll-up....only to not notice Arai tagging in his partner beforehand, letting Shota drop in and catch the guy the out with a slippery small package to get the upset win. More of a entertaining match than a good one, though that's not to say that this was bad or anything. There's some fairly good grindy hold work and the creativity of this despite the conditions is definitely to be admired. Keita also works the grand majority so we get more cool and exciting submissions rather than Sano doing dodgy dropkicks with no height to them. Arai here sadly isn't the methodical Mutoha grappler of relative wrestling indies fame; instead being his more goofy self; and as such this isn't the match that potentially could've been the contentious grappling epic that he could do with Keita. All in all a fairly low-level outing with some fun sequences and elements to admire.