Dramatic Dream Team 2/14/2021 Kawasaki Strong 2021

Dramatic Dream Team 2/14/2021 Kawasaki Strong 2021

I skipped the two comedy matches here.

Miyako Matsumoto and Saori Anou vs Maya Yukihi and Saki Akai

Miyako only works sparingly now and gets thrown out hard to start. Akai and Maya double kick Anou. Akai paradise locks Anou then invites Maya in to help pose on her. Miyako tries to break it up but ends up splashing Anou.

Anou takes an STO and hits an enzugiri on Maya. Miyako comes in and tries to dragon screw leg whip Akai but gets caught. Miyako headlock takeovers and headscissors Maya over at the same time.

Maya does a nice roll into a grounded octopus on Miyako. Miyako armbars Maya over the ropes then Anou comes in and missile dropkicks her. Anou hits a nice face kick to Maya then does a great sell for a knee through the ropes. Maya misses a top rope missile dropkick then the Miyako and Anou screw up a double axe kick.

Akai does a crossbody from the top rope onto Anou and Anou bridges out of a pump kick from Akai. Anou german suplexes Akai. Miyako shining wizards Akai then puts her in an octopus stretch. Miyako sits on top and Akai steps on the bottom rope to give her a great face kick. Maya and Akai do double swinging knees to their opponents. Miyako starts slapping around Akai but one slap takes her down. Then she gets high kicked and tries some pin attempts on Akai.

Maya accidentally nails the ref with a shot. Anou tries to hold up Maya for a shot and then Maya ducks...but Miyako nails her anyway. Akai and Maya high kick eac hother on accident then Miyako slams Anou on her opponents. Miyako stacks Anou on her opponents and screws up her pose. Anou fisherman suplexes her own partner and Saki hits Miyako with a tough pump kick to win.

I always hate the storyline of partners attacking partners. The work was pretty good up until they started doing that even though they had some botches.

Toi Kojima & Yusuke Okada vs. Junretsu (Hideki Okatani & Mizuki Watase)

Toi hits a dropkick on Okatani early. Watase slaps Okada hard and Okada returns the favor off of a ropre break. They pull each others hair and exchange forearms. Watase then drops him with one and Okada comes back. Watase and Okada continue to go at it after Watase tags out.

Okatani hits some forearms then gets a big boot from Okada. Toi stomps on Okatani's back. Watase gets tagged in and him and Okada trade more forearms, then he hits a big knee on Okada. Watase facewashes Okada in the corner then brainbusters him. Okada kind of misses a big boot but Watase sells it anyway then Toi comes in and crossbodies Watase from the top. Toi does an enzugiri and Watase takes a 2v1.

Toi hits some chops on Watase and Okatani top rope dropkicks Okada. Watase hits a tiger suplex then boston crabs Toi for the immediate submission.

Pretty good opener with Okada and Watase bringing the hate and nailing each other. They then grab each other's hair after the match.

HARASHIMA & Yuji Okabayashi vs. Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Naya

Yuji and Naya shoulder battle early which Naya wins. Harashima hits Higuchi with some face kicks and is slammed then running dropkicked. Naya and Higuchi double shoulder Harashima. Naya drops Harashima with a forearm. Higuchi continues the beatdown and finally Harashima dropkicks him and tags out. Oka comes in and suplexes Higuchi. He racks him and throws him at Naya in a cool spot.  Naya and Yuji trade chops and forearms and Yuji lariats his leg to sweep him down at 10 minutes. Harashima springboard splashes Naya and eats a black hole slam.

Naya put Harashima in an abdominal stretch and Higuchi put Oka in a claw at the same time. Higuchi and Oka trade chops and when Oka ran the ropes, Higuchi shoved him back. Naya and Higuchi did a dxouble chokeslam to Harashima then Naya did a hard running knee for 2 on him.

Harashima and Naya hit some hard chops then Naya nailed Harashima with a hard knee and backdropped him. Harashima did two flying double knees and won this.

I didn't really like this. Harashima was the odd man out here as he was smaller than everyone else and he didn't really work that angle well. We got very little Okabayashi here and the battle of the hosses never really came to be.

DAMNATION (Daisuke Sasaki, Mad Paulie, Soma Takao & Yuji Hino) vs. ALL OUT (Akito, Konosuke Takeshita, Shunma Katsumata & Yuki Ino)

This is Ino's return after being out for months. Damnation gets attacked before the bell. Konosuke hits his flying lariat early and Sasaki takes a double baseball slide from Damnation. Ino tries to do his haka but Hino lariats him down. Hino sentons Ino and Ino takes a kind of lame beat down for a while. Ino comes back with chest clubs vs Takao's forearms and tags to Shunma, who jumps off of Takao's back and dropkicks a DN member.

Akito hits a real nice dropkick on Takao out of nowhere then lifts him up for a high pedigree which Shunma assists on. Shunma does a top rope double stomp on Takao. A little later, Takeshita flips Sasaki with a lariat and hits a nice blue thunder bomb. Sasaki comes back with a hurricanrana then pedigrees and superkicks him. Hino and Ino go at it and trade chops. Hino takes off his shirt during it so he can get chopped harder I guess and dares him to chop more. Ino gets german suplexed but doesn't sell it then is hit with a lariat. Ino takes a double stomp to the back and a Paulie splash. Everyone splashes on Paulie and Ino in the middle of the ring and we get a dogpile. Both teams do double german suplexes to partners and opponents in a dumb spot.

Takeshita no sells a release Hino german then pumping knee's him. Thre's a 5v5 forearm battle and Sasaki bridges a ladder between the ring and a table. Shunma crossbodies Hino from the top and gets caught then Hino fallaway slams him onto the bridged ladder, though Shunma misses a lot of it. Sasaki gets hit in the head with a chair by Sasaki but isn't too affected by it then he samoan drops Hino. Takeshita does a coast to coast dropkick on two opponents. Paulie is lariated then german suplexed and speared by Ino for 1. Ino then runs the ropes and spears him to win.

The beginning was boring, there were some goofy spots and there was a lot of no-selling. Without some of these issues, it would have been fine to good.

DDT Universal Title Match - Yuki Ueno (c) vs. Yukio Sakaguchi

Endo takes him down early and triangles him. Ueno is supposed to double stomp his shoulder from inside to out but misses then they miss on Yukio getting his arm put into the post. Yukio hits a nice jumping knee and some chest kicks. Endo mounts him and then forearms him, then puts him into something like a camel clutch.

Ueno gets a nice diving knee in on the ropes then tornillo's Yukio on the outside. Ueno pulls Yuki's arm over the top then missile dropkicks it. Ueno then armdrags him into a double reverse armbar. Endo gets out though and rolls into a triangle. Ueno tries to powerbomb him out of it but Yukio keeps it on and he hits the ropes to break it.

Yukio gets release german suplexed but doesn't sell it nor does he sell a running shining wizard, then he slaps on a king crab hold. Ueno powers out of it and hits an exploder suplex, then he does a far frog splash. Yukio hits a great pumping knee and the flurry chest kicks him. He does it again and hits a hard penalty kick to the chest. Yukio hits left and right high kicks for 2. Yuiko charges at him in the corner and takes a big dropkick.

They held each others hand and forearmed each other then Ueno hit a stiff pumphandle slam. Ueno hits a great standing dropkick then a forward rolling ddt. Yukio doesn't sell it much though and slaps on a sleeper. Ueno then wins with a sleeper in a dumb finish. How's Ueno gonna choke out an MMA tough guy like Yukio? The match could have been good had they just had Yukio dominate Ueno with kicks and stuff until he made his comeback but they didn't do that here. They did a lot of no selling though and it just wasn't that good.

KO-D Openweight Title Match - Tetsuya Endo (c) vs. Jun Akiyama

They get off to a slow start with not much happening. They trade forearms and Jun wins the exchange with a headbutt. They go outside and come back in and Endo's buddy Mad Pualie holds Jun so Endo can dropkick him in the knee. Endo works on his knee on the outside and does a unique roll into a figure four. Endo continues to work his leg as they come in. Endo ties up his leg in the ropes and dropkicks it then dragon screw leg whips him.

Jun his a quick piledrive on Endo then does it again. Jun hangs Endos head off the apron and drops a knee on it but it bothers his hurt knee. Endo gets a neckbreaker and Jun hooks him behind the neck but Endo hits the ropes. Jun hits some headbutts and a big knee to the chest. Endo evaded a backdrop and flipped out of a dropkick. Endo hits a flying space tiger driver to the outside but barely gets Jun.

Endo sunset flips Jun then pulls him out of it to hit the moss covered 3 handed family gradunza. Endo cranks his neck a little then Jun comes back and makes him flip on a lariat. June hit some knees to the chest then hit a big one for a 2 count. Jun lifts him up and somewhat alley oop's hs throat onto the ropes then backdrops him and knees him. Jun then puts him in the king crab lock. They trad some forearms then Endo superkicks and german's him. Jun doesn't sell it though and exploders him right after, then Endo doesn't really sell that. Endo does a spinning torture rack bomb for 2. Endo remembers he was supposed to work the knee again then puts Jun in a leg lock, which Jun rope breaks for.

They go up top and Jun hits some headbutts. Jun then top rope exploder suplexes him. Jun exploder suplexes him again for a nearfall. Endo headbutts him then does a pele kick, then he handsprings into the ropes and does a twisting kick. Endo then spinning torture rack bombs him for another 2 count. Endo misses an SSP and Jun pounds him with knees. Endo takes another exploder for 2. They grab each other by the face and Jun exploder suplexes him for another 2. Endo does a sitout fisherman's buster and wins it.

I wasn't too into this. They started off slow. Endo never really followed up on the knee work and they kicked out of too much. Then it ended up going on too long.

Overall thoughts: Disappointing show in my opinion. 3 of the big 4 matches weren't that good with people just doing big moves and big spots without much thought behind them.