Part
of me wishes they would’ve held off on this match until Wrestle Kingdom and made
it Nakanishi’s retirement match because I doubt we’ll get anything this good
out of him again. This was by no means a great match; however, it was a GOOD
Nakanishi match. He gave it everything his increasingly immobile body could muster,
including a plancha, a top rope dropkick and that awesome superplex spot, not
to mention taking a top rope Exploder from Nagata! I liked the narrative early
on, as Nakanishi gets the advantage on Nagata and Nagata resorts to attacking
Nakanishi’s weakness in the knee – great selling in that moment by
Nakanishi. But that storyline is soon
abandoned in favor of Nakanishi getting in his signature spots, which works for
this match and the crowd was really behind him. Nagata pins him after using the
rare wrist-clutch Exploder. Nakanishi’s annual good match was a lot of fun and
I don’t know if we’ll get anything like this out of him again, which is why
this may have worked better on a bigger stage.
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