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[Guest Suicide King]

Ah, good times, good times.

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Ejiro, I'll get on that match review tomorrow. I've had a bad 4 hours.

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slight edit2: I forgot a line about the Asai... somewhere in there... oh yeah and my actual opinion of the match.

 

Franchisable Review by the guy that was stuck in an emergency room for 4 hours, after yanking a nail out of his foot... damn shots.

 

Ejiro Fasaki vs Dante Crane

 

Collar and elbow to start. Standard crisscross and the face ends up in control. The pace is pretty damn fast so far, and that makes sense with two cruisers. It's going to be spotastic... I can tell. Although, this should be like a Noble vs. Rey match. Flippy flippy and kicky kicky, leads to an Asai to the outside... that misses... uh, never have I seen an Asai miss on the outside. Now maybe it's just me, but, this spot seems to kill suspension of disbelief for me. I mean it could happen, but that'd be one hell of a bump. Now the reasoning behind missing the move is very good, Ejiro has adapted to Wildchild's speed somewhat, but I've just never seen a missed Asai in that situation, so it may seem wonky, when it isn't. I still can't quite get over it, as I type this now. No pin after that too?! Ah well. Fun spot, with the three point stance/Old glory knee drop. The next thing you should have done is have Wildchild give you the American flag and then wave it while doing a cocky pin. I especially like the ONE! TWOOONOOOOOOOOAREYOUKIDDING! You've definitely done well with the cocky heel persona. One of the things that I had to work hard to do while around the M7 was, being different than Tom, while staying true to my own character. You come off, more like old school, super over the top heel than him, with a nice prop. The US title.

 

Taunting Wildchild leads to a crotching, which is a solid, but cheap transition - by cheap I mean good, because it's not like everyone doesn't use it - followed up by a super hurricanrana. Dante takes risks and some pay off some don't. I guess that's why he misses the Asai? They dont call it high risk for nothing. False face comeback was done well, the pacing into it was superfast, which makes it super. But missing another Asai. Well, he needs to hit one during this match, and the real face comeback would be a great time for that, but I digress. Then we slow it down, with a little ground and pound. I don't need to go into detail about it, but nice job with that. I reframe from commenting on the Wildchild stuff for now, but the surprise roll up would have been bought as a near fall, more than likely. This is the real face comeback, which is very nicely done. I'd have liked to see an Asai of somekind come into play, as you countered both of them... it's like Dante learned nothing from earlier in the match. Makes him look stupid. Maybe an Asai fake and then knockdown leading into him hitting the Asai would work in that comeback situation. That's has him learning, adapting and hitting the move. Plus it would have been the most convicing near falls since he's been trying all match to hit one and was foiled at every turn. High profile spots should always come back. The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread Number Two, doesn't get the win... well it puts over Dante and sets up your finish by working the neck, so I'm not complaining. Although I didn't buy it as the finish, a live crowd would have. Maybe a little better spacing of your pin counts would help with that... but thats just ascetics. More than likely, going into a third match with Danny in the tournament, the cobra crossface is the logical finish.

 

Onto the Wildchild stuff. I see where you are coming form with the sportz entertainment questions, but if it's your angle, run with it. It gives the match a personal touch and 'cute' spots that help entertain me as a reader. I think comedy and things such as, Kriss Kross and Quiz/Show antics are a great way to personalize your match, as long as you give your opponent an idea of where your trying to take your angle and if you want Wildchild to do something. I love it. But then again, I like the WWE so I'm an idiot by association.

 

So, from an idiots perspective this was quite the match. You're definitely in a groove. I'm just being overly critcal because it's what you wanted. The only thing that I saw, that could have added more to the match was the Asai stuff, everything else tied up nicely and it was a awesome spotfest, in my opinion.

Edited August 28, 2003 by kelloggs