Stardom Queen's Fes: AZM vs. Hazuki
An intense, fast paced sprint w/ good action throughout. Hazuki throws some very nice looking forearms & AZM's arm targeting was pretty solid; that La Mistica was awesome. Good match. ***1/4
Stardom Queen's Fes: Arisa Hoshiki & Mayu Iwatani vs. Momo Watanabe & Utami Hayashishita
Solid, hard hitting, bomb heavy joshi action bell to bell with a good flow. Enjoyed it, but there wasn't much that stood out in the thing. ***
AJPW Excite Series 2019 - Day 10: Kento Miyahara vs. Suwama
Suwama does a number on Kento's neck, and while Kento doesn't sell it too much, a worked over neck is hard to straight up no sell like a knee (shout out to Kento's performance vs. KAI from January), so I thought it was fine throughout. Some good comebacks by him, and that said neck work by Suwama was pretty great. I did think that Kento came off as world's biggest Kenny Omega fan in a few spots though, with his over the top goofy facial expressions before & after his knee strikes. Pretty amusing in my eyes. Good match. ***1/4
WWE NXT UK 02/27/19: Kassius Ohno vs. WALTER
Pretty disappointing, but it wasn't a bad match though, as they told a good narrative of Ohno not letting WALTER strike first, but being the egomaniac that he is, still wanting to strike the big lad himself, which then bit him in the ass. Ideally this would've been a full on great 8-minute slugfest war, but that it wasn't, BUT what we got was still good. ***
WWE NXT 02/27/19: Dominik Dijakovic vs. Keith Lee
Very similar to their EVOLVE WM weekend match from a couple years back. Dijak & Keith did their THING, with hard hits & plenty of freaky athleticism throughout. Enjoyed it very much. ***1/2
WWE NXT 02/27/19: Mia Yim vs. Shayna Baszler
I've known about her for what feels like forever, but this might be the actual first time I am watching a Mia Yim match. Happy to report that her performance was really good, with her selling the ankle Shayna went to work on the whole time through. Really liked that sequence of events where she gets a big comeback, and does quite a bit of her offense w/ that bad foot, and she sells it like it's killing her. Another thing I really liked was her desperation attempts at going after Shayna's hand; made for some good drama down the stretch. Very good match. ***1/2
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