June 2017

Very good match at points and a good performance by Suzuki but I thought YH failed to match the intensity of Suzuki with his strikes and he totally wipes out on some things such as a baseball slide. This also had A LOT of Suzuki Gun nonsense. This was better than it was in some matches because you had Okada actually being a main played and cheerleader out there which was neat to see but it got pretty old by the end with the constant restarts. Suzuki ends up winning justifiably so. A good Korakuen main event but YH and the optics of the run ins prevent it from being great. ***1/2

Going into this match, I wasn't thrilled about Suzuki/Kawakami at Sumo Hall but afterwards, I'm really looking forward to it. A hot little build with the exchanges between Suzuki and Kawakami the obvious highlights but Kikuta continues to impress with his ability to take beatings. I really like how Suzuki makes applying the octopus hold look like work, the way he manipulates different parts of Kawakami's body. The elbow exchange was heated and Suzuki cutting off Kikuta's hot tag was awesome. I'm also loving these suplex hold submissions, this time with the dragon suplex hold on Kikuta. Another banger of a K-Hall tag match.

A 10 minute sprint were two "Davids" put enough of a fight against two Goliaths were the beasts have to get serious to avoid a huge upset. Korakuen makes this match even better by being really into the action. Loved Yoshino's crafty ass finding ways to avoid being destroyed, and Nomura keeps showing why he's a big promise for the division. It's not a "show stealer" or legit MOTYC, but you will have soo much fun watching it, highly recommended.

I think it's safe to say that this is a big time contender for the most violent women's match in WWE history. They went all out - amazing action from start to finish w/ no dull moments & dull moments are something that we usually get a ton of in LMS matches. The big spots (trash can, neckbreaker's, the ending..) were all absolutely tremendous & the action in between those was terrific as well w/ some real good selling. ****1/2