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I love me some AZM. This match is intriguing to me for various reasons. One being this will be Mercedes's first match in Japan so the pressure will be on for her to have a great match. Secondly because of the smoothness and high speed style that AZM wrestles. Mercedes is going have to up her conditioning and work on her move transitions. KAIRI was willing to meet her half way. I'm not so sure AZM is willing to do that. Looking forward to it though.

 
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About right. The match had fantastic storytelling and an electric crowd but the actual in ring stuff was basic/average. 4.75 stars is plenty generous.



I've had a personal gripe about Roman for a long time with how they book his matches. The drama is there. The character work is there. The overall atmosphere is there when it's match time. But it's just brawling and then finisher spamming and close pin falls. And not to mention spamming of the Superman punch and the Spear. But this the Paul Heyman philosophy. Accentuate the positives and hide the negatives.
 
Forgot this guy existed. What is his gimmick really? He looks like an extra from that horrible Battlefield Earth film. A mid forties CAC with cornrows? That'll put butts in seats....
 
I've had a personal gripe about Roman for a long time with how they book his matches. The drama is there. The character work is there. The overall atmosphere is there when it's match time. But it's just brawling and then finisher spamming and close pin falls. And not to mention spamming of the Superman punch and the Spear. But this the Paul Heyman philosophy. Accentuate the positives and hide the negatives.
When your character is over and the storyline is over, like both Roman and Sami are and this Bloodline storyline is, you don't have to do a bunch of "Meltzer drivers blah blah blah", dives and other nonsensical gymnastic-looking moves to get the audience engaged.
That match with Roman and Sami deserved to be a 5-star match based on the story being told, characters and crowd atmosphere alone.
They went almost 5 minutes at the beginning of the match without even touching and the crowd was still hot.
 
I've had a personal gripe about Roman for a long time with how they book his matches. The drama is there. The character work is there. The overall atmosphere is there when it's match time. But it's just brawling and then finisher spamming and close pin falls. And not to mention spamming of the Superman punch and the Spear. But this the Paul Heyman philosophy. Accentuate the positives and hide the negatives.

Exactly and that's why when it's all set and done Roman's matches won't be remembered in the same way like Undertaker, Bret Hart, Stone Cold, HBK, Mick Foley etc. People will remember he had a long ass title reign but what memorable matches came out of it? It would NEVER happen but I would be intrigued to see what Roman could do in the ring outside of the WWE bubble. Is Heyman really holding him back? A question to ponder.
 
That's it? If true this New Japan experiment is a fail.
You can't make a impression on Japanese wrestling fans with just two matches in Japan. Grand opening, grand closing.

 
That's it? If true this New Japan experiment is a fail.
You can't make a impression on Japanese wrestling fans with just two matches in Japan. Grand opening, grand closing.


I think the Japanese wrestling is just an itch she wanted to scratch. She was never planning to be there long-term.
She'll probably make a couple of indy runs (maybe AEW), before finally coming back to WWE eventually.
 
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