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Csonka’s NJPW on AXS TV Review 12.02.16 (Ep. 2)

December 3, 2016 | Posted by Larry Csonka
NJPW Guerrillas of Destiny

Csonka’s NJPW on AXS TV Review 12.02.16 (Ep. 2)

– This week’s matches come from the NJPW Invasion Attack (4.10.16) event.

IWGP Tag Championship Match: Guerrillas of Destiny (Tonga & Loa) defeated Champions Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma @ 16:54 via pin [*] : Guerrillas of Destiny (Tonga & Loa) defeated Champions Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma: This was not good. They worked nearly 17-minutes and Tonga & Loa did a great job of killing the act on night one. Loa/Camacho/Micha is a guy I keep hearing “just needs a chance.” Well this is his third shot with me, in a new gimmick again, and he failed on the big stage, just as he failed on the smaller stage in TNA. He has nothing to offer, and pulled Tonga down to his level, which sucks because I dig Tonga’s work. I felt that after Doc and Karl left, Honma and Makabe did a nice job with the tag titles, but now are working a team here I have no interest in watching. They made Honma boring to me, that’s hard to do. This was easily the worst thing on the show; it went way to long, it felt way to long and the wrong team won. This was no good.

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NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Championship Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin & Yoshitatsu defeated Champions The ELITE @ 14:46 via pin [***]: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin & Yoshitatsu defeated Champions The ELITE: This was a good, but not great match. This was Tanahashi and friends vs. Bullet Club, with the added story of Yoshitatsu making his return. Omega teased using the Styles Clash on Yoshitatsu (the move that took him out of action for 18 months) and that got great heat as his teammates continually saved him. Scary point where Cody Hall got carted out after a catch spot on the floor, but thankfully the Young bucks posted on Twitter that he’s ok. The Bucks did their trademark stuff; Elgin did all of his power spots and it all got really good reactions. Elgin picked up the win for his team with the super Elgin bomb, and we have new champions. This was also used to set up the next IC Title program, which will be Elgin and Omega; Fale then returned to take out Tanahashi, because he ain’t got time for this shit. Another program successfully transitioned too.

– In the final interview, Yoshitatsu was happy and hoped hey could come together to destroy Bullet Club. How’s that working out for you dude? Elgin and Tanahashi blew him off, Captain New Japan arrived to offer his support. Again, how’s that working out for you? He then runs down Captain New Japan, saying he wants nothing to do with him and that Captain New Japan is a goof in a costume. No wonder he tuned on you, asshole.

– End scene.

– Thanks for reading.

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