Week two of the Crusierweight Classic
comes to a close in another really
great night of wrestling action. I can’t
rave enough about Mauro and Bryan
on commentary either. Those two
work so well together and it is nice to
hear commentators that actually do
research on guys they are calling
matches for. Even when DB screws up
(like when he called a “dab” another
goofy dance move name) he manages
to play it off by making fun of himself
as being a nerd. He really impressed
me when talking about Kenneth
Johnson and talking about how he
overcame the speech impediment and
how that shows how much work ethic
he has. Just great stuff from those
two.
I think all of the matches were pretty
good for the most part but I don’t think
either of them was as good as Ibushi’s
match last week. Tajiri-Slater was
pretty good and was really hard hitting
but Tajiri has pretty obviously slowed
down enormously in recent years. The
Tajiri-Gran Metalik match will give us
some nice Tajiri-Super Crazy
flashbacks but I highly doubt it will be
able to live up to that.
Perkins looked great in his match but I
didn’t care for Da Mack at all. I don’t
like the dancer gimmicks as it just
makes the guy look goofy as hell.
Especially in a tournament like this
which is being presented as much
more realistic and like a MMA
tournament.
Lince Dorado and Mustafa Ali was
easily the best match of the night and
it was a high flying wrestling fans wet
dream. Both guys just flew all over the
place and I was so impressed with
Mustafa. I had since Lince several
times in person, and even more times
on DVD/video, so I knew what he could
bring to the table but I had never seen
Mustafa Ali before. He was incredible
himself and when you have two high
flyers like that in the ring together it is
seriously like poetry in the ring. I loved
every minute of it.
I think Kenneth Johnson has a good
story and obviously stories like that
Daniel Bryan is going to grab onto
because he was an underdog himself,
but he was pretty sloppy and just not
in the same league as Tozawa and it
was very glaring. They tried to do a
match where Johnson could go hold
for hold with Tozawa but it just came
off as Tozawa looking like he was
having an off night or something.
Johnson’s missed Phoenix Splash was
awful as he would have missed
Tozawa by about three feet at Tozawa
not even moved, but Tozawa’s
suplexes were a thing of beauty. When
he gets a chance to get in the ring with
other guys in this tournament he
should be better.
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