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Ogawa has become my pal lately. In the late 90s, he starts to emerge as this opportunistic and constantly desperate little fuckhead who's out to do everything he can to stop this losing streak that has been plaguing his career for years. Sometimes, it works and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you feel his struggle and sometimes he's a total asshole and you wish he'd back off. But he's always true to himself. I think his case starts around the time of the issue with Akiyama in '98. The six-man on 8/23/98 where he pins Akiyama is an excellent match where their issue takes center stage, and the 9/11/98 match against Akiyama at Budokan is his coming out party. He has a whopper of a match with Masahito Kakihara in January and then continues as Misawa's unlikely tag team partner throughout '99. From what the threads in the 2000s tell me, this continues into the next decade as well. I think he had a label on him as a midcarder, plus he was smaller than any of the All Japan top guys and wrestled in a different way. For that reason, he probably didn't get the credit he deserved when his ascension started, although I have enjoyed everything I have seen him in from 1998 on. I can't see him not making my list in some fashion. The question is where to rank him. He's a guy where I worry about going off of match rep because I think there was resentment everywhere except DVDVR at the time he was made GHC champ because he was everything your typical world champion in the Japanese feds was not. For those who were watching and didn't like him at the time, he probably deserves a revisit.
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