Yoshinari Ogawa is the perfect grimy ring tech, who, in addition to looking like the Chairman from the original Iron Chef, reminds me of Daisuke Sasaki, or rather, Sasaki reminds me of Ogawa with a “bad boy” edge. He plays the sneaky pants David to Takayama’s blonde Goliath, and Takayama’s Goliath is a real brute, body pressing Ogawa off the pin attempt, punishing him with kicks and knees, ragdolling him with suplexes, grinding his boot into Ogawa’s face. At one point, Takayama bodyslams him and yells “come on, champion”…because Ogawa is champ. It says so on his trucks… “GHC Champ”, in case people couldn’t quite believe Ogawa was champ. When Takayama gets hung up on the ropes, Ogawa puts him in the TREE OF WOE and pummels the hell out of him with punches and stomps before going to work fulltime on the arm. Takayama powers Ogawa up out of an armbar and sets him up top…but Ogawa’s able to take him back down to the mat with the arm in tow. Ogawa’s a jerk to Takayama on the ropes with his stomps and Takayama can’t seem to catch a break, his momentum hitting shitty brick walls built by Ogawa. Ogawa hits a total of four backdrops on Takayama, holding onto the fourth for a two count before going right back into the armbar, kicking Tayama’s hand away to cinch it in. Takayama finally breaks the wall doooooown with a big knee and follows up with a big German suplex hold for a nearfall. Loved Ogawa’s final desperate flash pin attempts at hanging onto his title with Takayama countering the last small package, brutalizing Ogawa with the knee strike and putting him away with the big German to capture the title.
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