Hiroshi Tanahashi & Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi) vs. Davey Richards & No Limit (Tetsuya Naitō & Yujiro Takahashi) from NJPW 2010

  By TJ Hawke | November 27, 2010 - 5:10 pm |

 

Recap from TJ Hawke:

Naito and Tanahashi started the match. Not much of significance happened.  Davey and Taguchi tagged in.  Yujiro tagged in and worked over Taguchi for a bit.  Apollo 55 managed to isolate Yujiro, and he got his arm wrung several dozen times (slight exaggeration). Apollo 55 sent No Limit to the floor. They did a feint dive and then posed. They are awesome. Davey attacked them from behind. Davey dropped Devitt on a barricade.  No Limit and Davey worked over Devitt for a good while. Taguchi managed to tag in, and he made a big comeback. He hit Davey with the three amigos: 1…2…NO!  Davey came back with a handspring enzuigiri.  Taguchi hit Naito with a springboard back elbow. Tanahashi tagged in an ran through everyone. Because he is Tanahashi.  Naito came back on Tanahashi with an elevated neckbreaker and a missile dropkick.  Tanahashi came back with a Dragon Sleeper. Davey made the save.  Yujiro got a nearfall on Tanahashi with a lariat.  Tanahashi came back with a dragon screw legwhip. Apollo 55 hit Yujiro with a kick combo. Yujiro then hit Tanahashi with a brainbuster. Tanahashi came back with a Jeff Hardy lariat. Tanahashi then hit the Frog Splash: 1…2…3!

 

Davey and Devitt got into a brawl after the match. Davey was challenging Devitt for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship soon, so I guess that’s where the tension was coming from.

 

This match was actually a lot of fun. Most small NJPW house show matches leave me unsatisfied, but everyone put in a good effort to make up for the lack of atmosphere.

Match Rating: ***1/4

About TJ Hawke

TJ was a fan of wrestling as a kid (starting around 1999), and his first concrete wrestling memory is some kid bringing Hulk Hogan his old yellow and red gear backstage during an episode of Nitro. Hogan needed the gear to defeat Kevin Nash in a title vs. career match at the next WCW PPV. Nash lost the match and his career, which sadly resulted in the world losing out on seeing Kevin Nash matches for the last 13 years. Like almost all young kids, TJ’s interest in wrestling fluctuated over the years until an episode of Raw on July 3, 2006. TJ was curious and excited to see his beloved RVD show up with the WWE Title belt and what he thought was the revitalized European title. TJ decided he must turn to the the internet to figure out what was going on. Almost 6 years later, TJ is still searching the internet every day to find out what is going on in wrestling. Now though, he writes for the pop culture site (411mania.com), has his own blog (The Best of Chikara), and is the creator of the very site you are reading now.
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