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Welcome to the Bryan Danielson show! I am confident in saying that this is very much a carryjob from him; Kanemaru is super generic w/ everything he does, but Danielson's terrific work over him & the selling of his offense makes the best out of the situation & it results in a GREAT match. Loved the early stuff with them looking for control by trying to go for each other's arms - that resulted in Bryan getting the advantage, which then resulted in Kanemaru getting frustrated and taking the match to outside & unleashing the first strikes of the thing. Kanemaru on control could've been very meh, but as I said, Danielson was so good selling his work. I've never seen Bryan give less than great effort in his matches, so it didn't really surprise me, but it was so cool to see him be so into this one; it's very clear that winning his first singles championship from a Japanese promotion meant a lot for him. ****