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Post by elliott on May 17, 2021 23:39:53 GMT -5
Well this was awesome. Miss A is Dynamite Kansai fyi. Kansai isn't as great as she would become, but she's pretty damn awesome here diving out of the ring, throwing kicks to the face and dropping bombs. She was better earlier than I realized. Kandori is her usual awesome self. This isn't as good as the Masami match, but might actually be more impressive because Kandori is in there against a younger wrestler instead of an all time great.
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Post by jetlag on May 19, 2021 1:55:30 GMT -5
What I wrote back in 2018: So you look at this matchup and you go „Hm. That can't be that great. They're still babies and not close to their true form.“ But the opening of this match is a house of fire and exactly what an ideal Kansai/Kandori match would look like: Kansai trying to murder the judo woman with thunderous kicks and Kandori going mad grabbing submissions. Kansai hits a huge piledriver and then brains Kandori in the back of the head with a massive kick, leaving her stunned on the floor. One of the more harrowing openings to a match I've seen. What follows is just great – lack of cooperation, disdain, more MURDER and KILLING, but soon things break down and they start fumbling to fill time. It's really hard to do a Super Badass vs. Super Badass going long. At 10 minutes this probably would've been great, but they go 19 and they fill that extra time up with lots of half crabs. I wanna blame Kansai because they lost the crowd when she took control, but Kandori also no-sold a bunch of legwork and she really liked that half crab too. Match picks up near the end again with a big bump that plays of the opening and some fat lariats and Kandori busting out her judo again. Worth checking out for that fiery opening alone, but I couldn't help but be sour at the squandered potential with this matchup.
I could see myself going to back to check this match out and I find that I was an idiot. Or maybe be disappointed again. Eitherway, all pre-split JWP is worth exploring and seeing kandori and Kansai match up is one of its coolest moments.
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Post by mvz on May 21, 2021 3:59:03 GMT -5
I have a soft spot for pre-match brawls, injuries, and finishers so I dug the start of this match. And then the kicks to Kandori’s head and neck at the start of the match looked great, I was very impressed with Kandori’s selling at points in the match. The dueling half crab stuff was not as engaging but I did like the counters that led to the holds. A lot of the counter wrestling in this match felt smooth without seeming contrived. Some big moves and close nearfalls made for a hot finishing stretch. This was a good match with a really good Kandori performance.
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Post by Cap on May 24, 2021 16:58:41 GMT -5
Solid match. Great early look at both wrestlers. I agree that it isn't nearly as good as the Masami match, but is a probably more impressive accomplishment on the whole. Dynamite looks quite good here though. You can tell why she is going to become what she did.
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