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[2016-09-19-AJPW] Suwama vs Kendo Kashin


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I heard this was a horrible trainwreck so I was hyped beyond words for this. But actually it was just a really good match. What I loathed about Suwama is his tendency to venture into dumb as fuck modern puro nonsense, his matches vs. Sekimoto a few years ago were some of the most disappointing pimped matches I've ever watched, they'd have like 15 yes votes on the DVDVR voting threads but weren't any good at all, just two guys standing in the middle of the ring making dumb faces, exchangis weak chops with some bad looking long boston crab spots thrown in there. Kashin kind of negates all of that and brings actual psychology into the match. Before the match even starts he's acting like the awesome goofy heel he is, offering handshakes to the ref, stealing and breaking Suwama's banner and so on. The match builds logically, starting with lock-ups and basic spots before Kashin picks apart Suwama's ankle/heel/whatever that he injured in January. Suwama's comebacks/hope spots/control segments are him overpowing Kashin with strikes and slams. Simple, logical, effective, and Kashin sells it well. Kashin does this really cool selling of Suwama's Ankle Lock where he he convincingly teases tapping and then looses his laces so his shoe would fall off next time Suwama tries an Ankle Lock. Kashin incorporates that spot into the match smartly and desperately attacks Suwama with cradles after catching him off guard. Suwama, being the stronger and better wrestler, survies that, cuts him off and goes over with the dreaded Ankle Lock after really letting the evil Kashin feel the pain. I don't get it. What's bad about this? Psychologically and philosophically it's pretty much a shorter and less ambitious version of Kobashi-Ogawa. Are modern puro fans incapable of enjoying matches that aren't worked evenly with twenty minutes of stupid strike exchanges and no selling German Suplexes? It was refreshing to see this type of match worked in Japan in 2016 and it's stuff like this that keeps me going back to japanese wrestling and wrestling in general. ***-***1/4

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