Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Go Shiozaki vs. Minoru Suzuki (NOAH, 1/31/16)

Welcome back, Go. Yours truly, Minoru. P.S. – This is going to hurt. On paper, I was curious about this match. I like Minoru Suzuki. Go Shiozaki had some pretty good matches in AJPW last year but I’ve yet to see his return work in NOAH. The crowd clear doesn’t care that he’s back. Throughout this match, he tries to get them on his side but they don’t bite. Suzuki is just a DICK and it’s so much fun to watch. Of course, there iares shenanigans in this as its building to Kanemaru’s betrayal but there’s a lot to like here: the Suzuki bitch-style slaps, the screwdriver to the head, the arm work, Shiozaki’s selling. That armbar takedown by Suzuki looks painful as he just wrenches Go to the canvas. Even when Shiozaki manages a little bit of a comeback, Suzuki cuts him off and goes right back to humiliating him. The Go Flasher literally got no reaction but let’s be honest…it’s a pretty lame move to begin with.  In the end, Kanemaru turns, Suzuki defeats Go with the Gotch-style piledriver, and Maybach Taniguchi comes out to make the save, unmasking to become…Shuhei Taniguchi.

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