Another top notch performance from Mr. Gannosuke in what may be my favorite GUTS World match of the year so far. Great energy and hustle from Gannosuke, awesome old man armwork, and a hot finish. Can't ask for much more. Daisuke was good here, too, with decent selling throughout and a fun callback to his earlier work in the match. But the narrative here was Gannosuke showing off some of that hard-earned wrestling wisdom and experience. Once he took control of Daisuke's arm after banging it around the ringpost, the match really fell into place. He swanks it up with a fireman's carry into the armbar. He wrecks it old school with some grinding elbows and stiff, ole-fashioned wrenching.I could watch this all day long. The way he manipulates Daisuke's fingers while he has him in the armbar. Pulling Daisuke's elbow pad off, tossing it into the crowd and kicking the arm. I loved the running armbreakers. Just relentless work from the veteran.
Daisuke fires back with some elbows using his good arm and gets in some offense, including a cool slingshot corkscrew splash, but Gannosuke turns the lights off on the party, attacking the bad arm to escape a top rope move and superplexing Daisuke. He hits a gutwrench suplex and a tribute Falcon Arrow but Daisuke avoids the Fire Thunder and goes back to the leg he worked in the beginning, hitting a dragon screw legwhip and locking in the figure-four. When he tries for a sliding elbow, Gannosuke counters and hits another pair of running armbreakers before forcing him down with the wakigatame, really putting his weight into it. Daisuke gets a little frog splash crazy there in the end, hitting two back-to-back and trying for a third, clearly exhausted. Gannosuke blocks it, release germans are exchanged, before the vet clobbers Daisuke with a hard lariat. The champ survives a powerbomb and a Fire Thunder Driver but Gannosuke hits him with a second one and it's lights out. A very well-earned victory for Mr. Gannosuke.
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