[1997-07-02 NJPW] Koji Kanemoto vs Tatsuhito Takaiwa

[dawho5]

So I LOVE Koji Kanemoto.  Once I've said that, he wouldn't come close to sniffing a top 200 pro wrestlers list.  As an explanation:

 

This is a clipped match.  We come in with Koji slamming Takaiwa down and doing his second turnbuckle tumbleweed and missing.  Selling is not his strong point.  He pops back up and does it again.  Misses again.  Didn't hurt a second time.  Works to two of them (because I guess since he missed two before, he needs to hit two).  Then misses a top turnbuckle version.  That one he gets up fast, but Takaiwa has had enough.  He gets in some offense, then Koji goes to the moonsault, because that has won him so many matches and high flying has proven to be so helpful in the last few minutes.  He is 2 for 5 at this point.  The point of all of that is that Koji is going to get his shit in.  However he has to.  Fuck you if you don't like it.  A part of me wants to love him for that, but another part of me likes common sense in my wrestling.

Then the part that really makes me love him.  Takaiwa and Koji are boys .  When they fight, they are going to bring it 100%, but once it is done it's all done and they are friends again.  To prove this, Koji helps Takaiwa up after the finish, they slap each other full force once each and then hug.  How can you possibly not love that?