Finally! A Bull Nakano match where she works like Bull Nakano. This was her working as a monster. Yamada can't lift her etc. Nakano is great at putting over Yamada's kicks and offensive flurries. When she's on offense, she's just beating the shit out of Yamada. I wish these matches had transitions that felt a little less random, but what do ya want. Not all of Yamada's stuff landed clean, but it didn't really matter as she was just throwing the kitchen sink at Bull.

They got off to a strong start with hard strikes being exchanged. Bull probably wanted to no sell to put over her monster status, but Yamada wasn't giving her a choice with those kicks. Some wrestlers had credibility problems against the champ. That wasn't a problem here. The following Nakano control segment was fairly dull. Yamada fought back and survived a fair bit in a well constructed stretch. A technically good match that never caught fire. The whole was less than the sum of its parts.