All Japan Pro Wrestling 12/13/2020 - AJP Prime Night
TAJIRI vs Akira Francesco
They do a lot of basic stuff to start. Tajiri rolls Akira while in the side headlock and turns it into a leglock. Tajiri puts him in a standing nudo. Tajiri does a cool reverse surfboard that I've seen either Skayde or Negro Navarro do and then does another version of it. The ref gets put in front of Tajiri and he has to leapfrog over Akira. Tajiri then rolled him up with the tights. It was what it was with being the opener and all. I liked Tajiri busting out the wild submissions. After the match, Tajiri raises the ref's hand while Akira gets mad. Tajiri then raises Akira's hand.
Purple Haze - Zeus, UTAMARO and Izanagi vs Koji Iwamoto, Masanobu Fuchi and Ryuki Honda
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| The finish |
Fuchi sneaks more closed fists onto Iza's head. Fuchi delay slams Iza and closed fists Utamaro in the head as everyone protests it. Iza kicks the bottom rope in anger and hurts his foot. He is then delay slammed again. Uta hits a great dropkick on Honda and Honda does a roll through on a spear on him. Uta comes back with a high backdrop. Zeus chokeslams Honda and PH clears house. Zeus goes for a chinlock on Honda and wins it in unusual fashion. This wasn't bad for a throwaway comedic match but kind of a waste of Purple Haze.
Jake Lee vs Atsuki Aoyagi
Atsuki starts it with a tornado kick to the face then dropkicks him from the 2nd rope. He then does a handspring into a face kick and tornillo's Lee. Aoyagi hits a moonsault from the top for 2 and goes back up, but gets thrown off onto his back. Lee hits a Lion Tamer and tramps right on his head at a high angle but Aoyagi makes the ropes. Lee gets almost rolled-up for the win but gets out. He hits a big backdrop and kicks Aoyagi in the chest. Lee then wins it with a backdrop suplex in a short but fun match.
Shotaro Ashino vs Dan Tamura
They grapple to start and Ashino rides Dan before smacking him in the back of the head. Dan hits some forearms on Ashino and sits on the top rope but goes down hard. Ashino tries to put him in a tree of woe but he slips out. Ashino wraps his leg around the barricade and kicks the barricade. Ashino further punishes the leg as he gets in with a gorilla clutch.
Dan tries to throw strikes at Ashino, but can't hit good ones and he falls over as he gets irish whipped due to the injured leg. Dan gets a comeback and Karelin lift's Ashino and samoan drops him for 2. Dan fires up a bit and flurry clubs Ashino in the back but gets launched on a belly to belly and then takes a Karelin's lift himself. Dan takes another overhead belly to belly and another Karelin's lift for another 2.
Dan knocks over Ashino with a big clothesline and diving shoulder's him from the top. Dan does a weird double leg grapevine on Ashino but Ashino rolls it into an ankle lock. Ashino hits a high german for 2 and taps out Dan with the ankle lock. The first half wasn't the most interesting but Dan did okay firing up some and turned it around.
AJPW TV Six Man Tag Titles - Black Menso-re, Carbell Ito and Takao Omori vs Daimonji So, Revlon and Ryouji Sai
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Ito and So trade shots early. Carbell Ito sounds like a name of some dude who might look like Tomohiro Ishii but instead its a tanned hairless guy in a Tiger Mask mask. So powerbombs Ito early. Ito hits a spinkick and a big knee on Revlon. Ito airplane spins Revlon.
Sai kicks Menso hard in the back. He gorilla presses him and throws him into his own corner looking like a boss. Menso tries some chops on big So, but gets nowhere and gets a fallaway slam. Menso takes a bumch of punishment and tags out to Omori, who hits a spinning heel kick to Sai. Omori and Sai trade shots and Sai delay brainbuster's him.
Revlon gets slammed on Suwama but it doesn't get him anywhere. Revlon hits Omori in the gut with a cane and tries to forearm him as he is held up, but just nails his partner and gets a big boot to the face. Ito hurricanrana's So off the top rope and Revlon gets triple teamed. Ito crossbodies a bunch of people off the top onto the outside and Omori misses a lariat to win. No, really. He didn't hit anything and they sold it like he did. Not a good way to introduce trios titles here as it had a bunch of midcarders in there making it look less prestigous and the match wasn't anything special with the finish being bad.
Kohei Sato vs. Hokuto Omori
Omori rushes Sato and throws something at him to start. Omori tries to trade elbows but gets drilled hard twice. More forearms from Omori but down he goes again and again. Omori pounds on Sato hard with forearms on the ground and when they stand up, he gets rekt again with a headbutt and another forearm. He then bounces off of a piledriver and Sato wins it in a total squash. A shame too since Omori looked good here and a loss wouldn't have killed Sato. Omori slaps away his handshake after and gives him the finger.
Chikara, Yoshitatsu & Yusuke Okada vs. UNCHAIN (Jun Kasai, Kenji Fukimoto & Masashi Takeda)
Man, I dunno about this one. This all the makings of being awful.
We waste no time in getting started here with the BJW team jumping their opponents at the bell. Yoshi does a facewash on Kasai. Takeda tries to put scissors into Okada's head and the ref blocks it with the crowd not wanting to see Okada get stabbed. Kenji tries to stab Okada and gets stopped. Okada got beaten up by the Freedoms team after made the hot tag after a dropkick. Chikara got in and killed all the momentum and Takeda John Woo dropkicked him. Yoshi got in, keeping his jacket on this whole time, and hit kicks on Takeda. Takeda got the advantage back though.
Yoshi got double chokeslammed and Jun waved a butcher's knife around. Yoshi teased using it but let Okada back in. He hit a perfectplex for 2 on Jun. Okada did a long diving headbutt and barely hit Jun. Takeda held up the ref and Kasai put sticks in Okada's head. Takeda then hit a high angle pedigree with the sticks in Okada's head for 2. Kasai hit his top rope splash for 2 then won it with a double underhook piledriver on Okada.
This wasn't any good. The All Japan team here was like a special education team and the deathmatch guys didn't do this one right. What the deathmatch guys needed to do was cheat all match with weapons, then have the faces finally return fire.
CIMA, Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi vs. Evolution (Hikaru Sato & Suwama) & Shuji Ishikawa
Why is CIMA here? Cima tries to trade shoulders with Suwama and gets run over. Kento hits some step kicks on Shuji and everyone brawls outside. Kento gets his neck dropped over the rail by Shuji.
Suwama and Yuma hit some shots on each other to try and drag some life into this thing. Kento stomps on Sato's exposed feet since he doesn't wear shoes. Suwama gets tagged in by Sato and belly to belly's Kento. Then Yuma gets in and takes a short arm Suwama lariat. Shuji double footstomps Yuma off the middle rope. Cima gets in and gets some offense before taking a John Woo dropkick from Shuji.
Sato poses and looks at Suwama only to get backcrackered from behind by Cima. Kento then does the same thing and Sato stops him. Kento gets triple teamed and Sato armbars him. Yuma breaks it up and takes out both Suwama and Shuji. Shuji takes a double team Kento knee and Yuma superkick.
Cima drops double knees off the top onto Sato and probably hurts himself more than Sato and Kento beats Sato with a delayed straightjacket suplex. This wasn't any good. It really had no direction with everyone tagging in and out before they could get anything going and it didn't really flow at all until the end.
Yuma and Suwama go at it after the bell.
Overall thoughts: This was an unusual night of All Japan with juniors and heavies going at it and various outsiders coming in. This was more of a house show than a major show and this isn't anything I would go watch.
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