I
guess this is where the “heat” between Shibata and Shiozaki took root. Shibata
kicks the crap out of Shiozaki to open this match and calls out Misawa like a
badass. Hell of a way to start the match. Similar to the previous KENTA &
Shibata tag match, this was pandering at times but felt more consistent from
bell to bell. Misawa took some major bumps (Jesus, that springboard Doomsday
Device) and the interactions between he and Shibata felt unique but it’s a lot
of Shiozaki getting dominated – those alternating kicks against the kicks
looked painful. Shiozaki doesn’t look
bad in there and he’s always been a good seller. Love Misawa snapping on KENTA
when he comes at him with those disrespectful shit kicks in the corner. The
story here is Shibata REALLY wants to put Misawa to sleep and defeat him. He
dangerously backdrops Misawa on his head after a sleeper hold and slaps it
right back on, tiring him out for the PK. Shiozaki breaks it up and immediately
pays for it. Misawa/Shiozaki rally back with a tiger driver into the German
suplex combo and there’s a great moment where Shibata is fighting against a
German but Shiozaki delivers it anyway. That KENTA save from across the ring after
the moonsault was awesome. In the end, Shiozaki survives the PK but not a few
brutal kicks to the head. Another good to great tag match with plenty of fun
moments.
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