Ishii knows that Taichi is a good competitor, and goes into the match wanting Taichi to prove it

> Ishii knows that Taichi is a good competitor, and goes into the match wanting Taichi to prove it.

> He doesn't allow Taichi to do his usual cowardly tactics, antagonizing and brutalizing him until Taichi finally decides to stand up for himself and really fight.

> Ishii realizes he poked the bear, and now he has to fight twice as hard to get the honorable victory. Meanwhile, even though he lost, Taichi showed again that he has heart and could be very successful if he wasn't so cowardly.

Is this the most kino match so far of 2019?

Watch it here, while the video is still up: dailymotion.com/video/x745dil

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Great match. I will forever love Taichi for keeping the Malice Mizer vibe alive with his entrance.

Yeah it was pure kino

>Taichi grabs the mic while Ishii yells at him to he a man

Pure Kino

it's truly staggering how people can seriously claim NJPW has no storytelling when a random tournament match between two midcarders does it better than the main events of most companies

Based.

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Some of the crowd were giving Taichi a standing ovation

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> flippy weeb shit
> OMG YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND THE STORY

cringe

Not 1 flip happen ya seething virgin

Based spot that really turned the match up a few notches. Ishii has a pretty good formula for big singles matches but he's also tremendous at introducing new things to really spice things up (e.g. biting the ropes to block Kenny Omega's Dragon Suplex, his rather uncharacteristic miming of the belt around his waist when challenging for Omega's IWGP heavyweight championship, the way he sold Shibata's sleeper in their 2013 match). Show, don't tell.