Ryouji Sai vs Yuji Okabayashi
Oka lifts Sai up from the ground early in a deadlift, puts him on the top rope then suplexes him. Oka then puts him in a boston crab for a bit. Sai trips him in a shoulder choke. I really didn't watch this to see them work submissions. Oka steamrolls him with 2 lariats for 2. Sai teases a top rope backdrop the floor, and the announcer tries to sell it, but we know it won't happen, and it didn't. Sai hits a superplex, misses a top rope footstomp then takes lariats front and back, before taking a brainbuster. Oka goes for the splash up top and eats double knees. Sai then hits a gorilla press into double knees for 2. Sai hits a running knee into the corner and wins it. Very low effort match from both guys. Both guys clearly took the night off here and this was super disappointing.
Dylan James vs Shuji Ishikawa
The finish |
Gianni Valletta vs Atsushi Aoki
BFF's! |
GV extends the hand and shakes with Aoki to start. Gianni then gives this hilarious smirk. He then bites Aoki and slams him. GV then stretches Aoki's mouth open. GV uses the chair on Aoki on the outside then threatens the ref with it. Aoki fights back with chest slaps, but gets eye raked. GV's yells get over with the crowd who yells "OHHHHHH" back at him. GV cannonballs Aoki in the corner. GV and Aoki play games with the ref and the ref takes the worst bump ever, then GV low blows Aoki and chokes him with the chain. Aoki gets no air on a dropkick that sends GV's chain flying, then they do this awful finish where GV is choking Aoki with the chain from the camel clutch position, thne Aoki rolls back and pins him. This was bad. Really bad.
Daichi Hashimoto vs Yoshitatsu
They exchange some shoulders to start out. Yoshi puts Hash in the single leg crab. Nothing much comes of it as you'd expect and Yoshi facewashes Hash. Yoshi stretches out both arms from behind Hash's back. Hash comes back and hits a DDT. Hash then hits some kicks and sends Yoshi down. They fight over a suplex with Yoshi winning it. Yoshi hits some bad Yazkua kicks, with one totally missing. Hash then falls during a Yoshi tornado ddt. Yoshi hits kicks and a perfect plex for 2. Hash hits some kicks, then counters Yoshi's STO > Koji Clutch combo. He hits a falcon arrow for 2. He then hits front and back shining wizards for the win. This wasn't anything special and I didn't really expect it to be when both guys are pretty much just average workers. But because the rest of the show was so low effort or bad, this was maybe the best thing on the show.
Overall thoughts: A bad night for the CC. Everyone gave half effort and no one really cared that much.
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