Daichi Hashimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani (Okami) vs Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi - All Japan Real World Tag League Final day 12/12/17

Well I'll be damned this was awesome! A young guys matchup - Big Japan's team are 25 year old each while All Japan's is 22 each - for a shot at the tournament finals. It was weird but dope watching Okami having to work as the imposing, invader team and they pretty much worked Strong BJ formula match and it fucking works, with them mostly working over Yuma and trying to keep Nomura at bay. This was 14 minutes long but felt longer (in a good way) with a jam packed Korakuen Hall growing more and more invested in Aoyagi and his battle to get the home team the W. Even though he was mostly limited to hot tags and leveling the playing field, you can tell Nomura is gonna be special and that the Sumo Hall performance/showcase was not a fluke, crowd was solidly behind him and you could feel the young breh being a force that the BJW team didn't want much do with. A couple of cool nearfalls and spots that didn't rely on excess and over doing stuff. This was such a joy to watch, I was happy as fuck watching such young dudes delivering like this.

Yeah, this was a lot of fun. Daichi Hashimoto in All Japan is like night and day compared to Big Japan. He's so much more motivated and over with the fans. I really liked the simple opening between he and Aoyagi, who has also had quite the breakout year along with Nomura. Loved Daichi repeatedly kicking Nomura on the outside, forcing him to take a seat. You had Nomura and Kamitani throwing their big boy weight around, really solid action building to the finish, a hot crowd who really bit onto Aoyagi's German suplex hold nearfall. Good, simple, tag team wrestling.