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[1999-09-14-Toryumon] Susumu Yokosuka vs Genki Horiguchi


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This was rough around the edges and their lack of experience shows, but I still thought this was a good match and I enjoyed watch it, partially because you could see two young guys figuring some things out. To their credit, they do all of their daredevil stuff, but also do quite a bit to engage the crowd and mix in plenty of matwork, including some really cool pinning combos I haven't seen before or since, especially whatever that thing was the finish. Nothing that will change the world, but still good and worth seeing.

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Good and fundamentally solid and better as it went along, to the point where I was biting on the near-falls and getting into the closing stretch. Despite some good matwork and one of the better, least-cooperative fish-out-of-water pinning sequences you'll see, this wasn't all that high on psychology as a lot of the body part work was blown off and came off as filling time (except for when Horiguchi couldn't follow up after hitting the Beach Break due to his knee). Horiguchi seemed farther along than Yokosuka, who came off as a generic heel when it came to his presence and mannerisms, and not the polished heel that guys like CIMA were already. Genki on the other hand got the crowd into his goofy but effective surfing spots and comebacks.

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