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Akitoshi Saito


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Best matches? What are the high points/good runs I should seek out. I have seen a lot of his work over the years, but he never stuck out as a guy that was better than pretty good. That said I have been dead wrong before, and don't want to leave stones unturned. Give me some recommendations.

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Him vs. Honda, Kobashi and Marufuji are among my favourite NOAH singles matches. Great tag worker with a nice unique dynamic to Akiyama and Inoue.

 

I'd actually be interested in going back and checking out his 90s work. There's a super intense rookie match vs. Orihara somewhere, and I also remember a good outting from him against Koichiro Kimura in W*ING of all feds during his rookie year.

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Good in WAR as this unseasoned pitdog that just hurls stiff karate strikes at everyone who tries tangling with him, NJPW stuff was similarly the same if a bit less explosive as he mixed into the usual cooking pot of styles around at the time. 

Had a pretty great post-prime career as a NOAH loyalist with definite unrealised potential as a low-key threat to the main players. Kinda got complicit after a while and lost his edge as time and age crept up despite having a really entertaining underdog dynamic with him and Inoue. A lot of his 2010's material in particular just wasn't much to talk about ngl. That sours any prospect of a top 100 run for me.

 

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